Present your new idea, concept, theory or experiment that pertains to one of these categories:
Healthy Oceans/Rivers:
Eco-Art:
Eco-Solution: Present a sustainable solution to an issue of your choice!
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Additional resources on the Healthy Oceans/Rivers theme:
[forthcoming]
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Guidelines:
To register, please fill out the Google Form with your student's name, grade, school, and project category. (Form forthcoming)
Saturday, April 7th through Saturday, April 14th.
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
As we experience floods, droughts, fires, fierce storms, and sea level rise resulting from Green-House-Gas emissions and the warming of the earth, citizen recognition and action continues to be essential and grows in urgency. Brookline Climate Week is an opportunity created to encourage collaboration amongst all in discovering the truths about global warming and the consequences of climate change. Working together we find solutions for a healthier world. Bring family, friends, and neighbors to maximize the impact of the 8th annual Climate Week.
National Public Health Week and Climate Week Collaboration
In 2018, National Public Health Week runs April 2 to April 8, the week before Climate Week. The Brookline Dept. of Public Health, under the leadership of Dir, Dr. Swannie Jett, has teamed up with Climate Action Brookline to create two events that highlight the connection between health and climate. These two events are listed at the top of the program. Not only is the connection between health and climate a truth and a consequence, the need for collaboration is another urgent truth and consequence, as exemplified in the National Public Health week mantra, “Changing Our Future Together.”
What Is Climate Week?
Now in its 8th year, Climate Week is a series of events focused on climate education and action. Climate Week is produced by Climate Action Brookline with community partners, organizations, businesses and individuals. We invite citizens of all ages to learn and engage in personal, local, state, national, and global actions.
Website and Contact
The link for this page is www.brooklineclimateweek.org. Check here for general Climate Week background. Click the footprint icon in the upper right hand corner of this page to go directly to a separate page that lists all Climate Week 2018 events in detail. The latter event detail page for 2018 is inn the process of being created and populated at this very moment, so check agan in the future for full and current detail. For contact with Climate Action Brookline in general via email, click the following link info@climateactionbrookline.org.
Details
FREE: All events are free and open to the public. WEATHER: Events are held rain or shine unless the town declares a weather emergency or cancellation by event organizer.
About Climate Action Brookline (CAB)
CAB is a 501c3 that advocates for drawing down carbon emissions, breaking free from fossil fuels and growing clean energy. We partner with citizens and advocacy groups to build the climate movement all year long. CAB is a member of Massachusetts Climate Action Network and MA Power Forward, a statewide climate coalition. Sign up for our newsletter and see our meetings and events schedules at www.climateactionbrookline.org
Related Events During and Following Climate Week
For ideas on how to take action, download this handout.
Local Physicist, contributor to the IPCC Climate process, Dr. Rich Rosen, will meet with Brookline High Schoolers to address the science of climate change and discuss the challenges they face as a new generation moving forward.
Thanks to Climate Week 2018 Organizational Friends
All Saints’ Parish
Brookline Bikes Not Bombs
Brookline Arts Center
Brookline Bank
Brookline Booksmith
Brookline Bicycle Advisory Committee
Brookline Select Board
Brookline Select Board Climate Action Committee
Brookline Building Department
Brookline Department of Public Health
Brookline Dept. of Public Works
Brookline Parks and Open Space
Brookline Public Library
Brookline Recreation
Brookline Schools
Chobee Hoy Associates
Climate Action Brookline
Environment Massachusetts
Friends of the Muddy River
Korean Church
League of Women Voters
MA Power Forward
Mass Climate Action Network
Mass Energy
Consumers Alliance
Massachusetts State Representative Frank Smizik’s Office
Mothers Out Front
Sierra Club Massachusetts
United Parish Church Brookline
And special thanks to dozens of dedicated individuals, organizers and volunteers for your planning and skills
Climate Action Brookline and our Climate Week Steering Committee:
David Pantalone, Pat Maher, Michael Berger, Judy Narosny, John Harris, Lynne Karsten
Monday, March 27th through Sunday, April 2nd.
FREE: All events are free and open to the public. WEATHER: events are held rain or shine unless the town declares a weather emergency or cancellation by event organizer. CLIMATE WEEK is produced by Climate Action Brookline with community partners, organizations, businesses and individuals.
Web:www.climateweek2017.org Contact: info@climateactionbrookline.org
Twitter: #climateweek2017
Facebook: Climate Brookline
For ideas on how to take action, download this handout.
As a designer and urbanist since 1999 and contributor to Tactical Urbanism guides, Russell Preston will discuss the book, Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action for Long-Term Change by Michael Lydon and Tony Garcia. Tactical urbanism is an approach whereby quick, low-cost, creative community-based projects can to lead to public and government support for permanent inspiring projects that improve urban living and promotes action from the bottom up when strategies and policies from the top move too slowly. How this and other urban approaches can be applied to climate change will be compared.
Do you think about working for climate service and justice but want to know how to get started or continue to engage given what we now face? Climate leaders Anne Goodwin and Ben Hellerstein present TED talk style presentations about their own personal journeys into the climate movement. Following the presentations we will break into small groups and explore ways to deepen our commitment to address climate change personally and in society.
Refreshments 6:30-7pm Program 7-8:30pm
Local climate initiatives are the roots of broader political action. Gas pipeline leaks are mobilizing active citizens at the town level across the Commonwealth. Hear about about what is being done to identify and mitigate the worst gas leaks. Learn about townwide net zero goals being applied to schools and individual buildings. Find out how Somerville incorporated climate change into urban planning. Discover how these efforts came to be and what level of success has been achieved. Discuss in group sessions how you can contribute to that effort.
Join for refreshments 5:30-6 pm. Program starts promptly at 6 pm.
NOTE: Enter through the main Beacon Street entrance (Hooker Entrance). Door closes at 7pm.
We can affect our state’s energy outcomes for years to come and work for an impactful 2017. Find out how statehouse legislative leaders, staff, and citizen groups are fighting for this year's climate bills. What are the bills? What has worked so far and why? What can we do right now? Learn how to apply tools to power Massachusetts and the nation forward. Help keep our state in the forefront of climate action.
Co-hosted by the office of Representative Frank Smizik and Climate Action Brookline.
In Where To Invade Next, Michael Moore goes on a European invasion, looking for ideas that he can steal and bring back home. He finds social norms in foreign cultures that would seem bizarre to many Americans but which have American roots. The contrasts are entertaining, but they also raise moral questions and challenge U. S. social convention. Time to Choose, on the other hand, points to the role of technology in stopping climate change. But is a transformation in American life style, western values, and sense of community not also required? We will discuss the messages of these two films with Dave Pantalone of Climate Action Brookline and the Green UP Team of United Parish in Brookline.
Want to make bicycling part of your daily routine? Brookline is improving safety for bicyclists. Join our tour of recent and planned bicycle infrastructure improvements. Riders high school age and older. About 8 miles. NOTE: Due to inclement weather, this tour has been rescheduled for Saturday, April 8, same time and meet up location.
LEARN ABOUT: the new Pay as You Throw trash program, bike safely in Brookline, progress in fixing gas leaks, emergency preparedness and more.
SHARE: recycle your cell phones, eyeglasses, soda pull tabs. PICK UP: used sports gear at the Annual Sports Gear Exchange. You can drop off your gently-used sports gear with the Brookline Recreation Department through March 28th. Check this flyer for details.
LISTEN: The library’s Book Bike and story hours.
MAKE ART: Brookline Arts Center recycled materials event
EAT: at the Carbon Cafe and learn about the hidden environmental costs of your food.
TRY OUT: drive an electric car (bring your driver’s license). Unfortunately, electric cars not available due to impending inclement weather.
DONATE: old bicycles to Bikes Not Bombs.
BRING: paper for shredding $5/box.
Unfortunately, no styrofoam collection this year.
Join budding scientists, artists, and performers as they step up to the challenges brought about by climate change using nature inspired innovation in art and science. Brookline students from K-12 crank up their creativity to address problems of our changing climate using biomimicry, eco-art, and more. You be the judge!
Young people have been advocating for climate change action and getting standing ovations all over the country. A short video of work from many corners of the United States will be followed by a lively discussion with a panel of local youth activists who describe their path to activism and current work. The discussion will include audience participation and will end with concrete suggestions for taking action today! Suggested audience ages ages 8-25
A walk led by Fran Gershwin, chair, Muddy River Restoration Project Maintenance and Management Oversight Committee (MMOC), will start at the Longwood T Station, and follow the Brookline side of the Riverway to Leverett Pond in Olmsted Park. The focus will be on the Brookline features of Phase 2 of the Project and current project status. The event will end with refreshments in the lobby of the Brook House, 33 Pond Avenue.
Join Brookline Park Ranger Alex Cassie for a guided walk through D Blakely Hoar Sanctuary, one of three nature sanctuaries in Brookline. The sanctuary showcases a wetland environment and unique rock formations and is home to a diverse population of plants and animals. This easy-pace walk through a picturesque New England ecosystem offers some insight into how climate change can affect our local natural areas. Walk will be held rain, snow or shine, so please dress accordingly.
Human behavior has so impacted our global ecology and climate that scientists have declared we are in a new era of planet history. What do we know about this new era? What can we do given the politics our nation faces? This forum highlights essential actions to direct the zeitgeist. Break out into small group discussions following the presentations.
Come for refreshments 2pm Program 2:30-4PM
Want to make bicycling part of your daily routine? Brookline is improving safety for bicyclists. Join our tour of recent and planned bicycle infrastructure improvements. Riders high school age and older. About 8 miles.