Learn ways to green your organization and celebrate your success. Open to all Brookline businesses, non-profits, and faith organizations. 

The meeting and self-assessment are part of a larger program designed to engage and celebrate businesses, nonprofits, and faith organizations for their important role in Brookline's transition to carbon neutrality by 2050. THIS MEETING MAY BE POSTPONED. More information is available under the "Go Green" tab on the Brookline Chamber of Commerce website gogreen.brooklinechamber.com

Brookline’s Climate is Everybody’s Business pilot is a collaboration between Climate Action Brookline, Mothers Out Front, the Brookline Chamber of Commerce, the Ad Hoc Committee on Climate Action Business Outreach, and Boyer Sudduth Environmental Consultants and is generously sponsored by The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation, Eversource, Brookline Bank, Climate Action Brookline, and Chestnut Hill Realty.

Students of Brookline! Register today at bit.ly/YCC-registration

Present your new idea, concept, theory or experiment that pertains to one of these categories: 

Healthy Oceans/Rivers: What solution do you have to alkalize or restore oxygen in the ocean? Or,What solution do you have to remove or reduce plastics/micro-plastics in the ocean? Or,What solution do you have to reduce the impact of melting glaciers on the ocean ecosystem? Or,What solution do you have to protect ocean and river ecosystems from waste or to reduce impact from salt run-off in the winter?  

Eco-Art: Share an artistic expression regarding climate change, adaptation or restoration (music, dance, poem, song/rap, drawings or other);  

Eco-Solution: Present a sustainable solution to an issue of your choice!

Additional resources on the Healthy Oceans/Rivers theme forthcoming.

Plastic is Forever, is a short film made by a talented 13-year-old film maker. http://www.kidscansavetheplanet.com/plasticisforever.html The film explores what happens when you throw plastic away. Dylan D'Haeze, from the San Juan Islands, decides to find out by following plastic trash to its end source which is the ocean. As the "downhill to everything", that great blue expanse serves as an unintentional dumping ground and a transportation system as countless pieces of plastic debris wash up on shores around the world. Marine life often ingest plastic debris which ends up affecting human health as those creatures end up on dinner plates. The film also explores the history of plastics and how they came into wider use due to World War 2 as well as the science of plastics which breaks down the fact that they simply do not break down in nature.

The film will be shown after this year's Youth Climate Adaptation Challenge which has the theme of Healthy Oceans and Rivers, so some of the student science and art projects will reflect themes in the film. Students and adults are invited to attend anf take part of an after film discussion with local actvists and Brookline citizens instrumental in Brookline's sustainability efforts. We look forward to a great event!