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  Join Sustainable Middleborough for 2 events this week: 1     Monday, August 3, 7 pm. Kearsarge Energy will be on the Select Board agenda to answer the board’s questions about safety of a proposed 4.99 MW storage battery on Jericho Road. Some of our members spoke at the last meeting during a long and at-times heated discussion and were quoted in the Nemasket Week’s reporting . Please join us at Town Hall Monday night if you can. Sustainable Middleborough has been advocating for a large-scale storage battery since 2019. Battery storage is a key piece of managing our town’s energy supply, costs, reliability, as well as the emissions produced by the energy we use. To learn more, see our letter to the Select Board, attached. Tuesday, August 4, 6-7 pm. Our Weatherization Navigator Hayden Kane and entomologist Juli Gould will present an evening of storytime, crafts, and native-seed planting at the children’s library, 102 North Main Street . Bring your children and gr...

  If you've been concerned about costs for heating and at the pump lately...and if you want a fun day out, with free activities for all ages... Come see us at the  Cooler Middleborough Fair, 11am-2pm, Saturday, 3/21,  at the high school, 71 E. Grove St. At the free, fun, educational fair, we'll have...  a 20-foot-high hand-painted inflatable Earth globe and a life-size inflatable humpback whale you can walk inside... loads of free games and crafts, Bug Hole, Jenga, face painting... local contractors and organizations who can tell you about insulation, heat pumps, solar panels, and electric vehicles and ways to save energy and money... our local utility to talk about rebates and free energy assessments... student projects and a concession table. Check out  and share  this Nemasket Week article  and  social media posts on our page . But most of all, just come and be cool in school!  To view this discussion visit  https://groups.google.com/...

  This is another moment when a 1-minute call to your state representative could make a big difference:  Call your state rep and tell them you oppose huge cuts to the state's energy-efficiency program TODAY, before this afternoon's vote. BACKGROUND:   Many of you called back in November to help stop the Climate Rollback Bill (H.4744) that would have eliminated the state's 2030 climate and environment goals.   The bill has been redrafted and rushed through as the Energy Omnibus Bill ( H. 5151 ). Our partners from Mass Power Forward, the coalition of 250 groups throughout the state that we're part of, will be at the State House all day. Support them by calling your state representative now. The bill has many improvements, including ones we fought for, such as keeping 2030 climate goals and eliminating subsidies for biomass. But there's a giant poison pill: it would cut  $1 billion of the $1.5B MassSave budget.   If this cut goes through, it would gut energy e...

  Thank you to more than a dozen of you who showed up at the Select Board meeting last night!  Your presence makes a difference. The board unanimously approved the resolution to procure certified PFAS-free products whenever available, proposed by Sustainable Middleborough and Citizens for a Healthy Middleboro. Read the  story in the Nemasket Week . Educating ourselves and resolving not to bring products with PFAS into our homes and into our town is a big step toward keeping PFAS out of our landfill, soil, and groundwater. Come to our free workshop “How to Reduce PFAS in Your Home and Our Town” on Wednesday, April 2, at 7 pm, Select Board Room, Town Hall, with Dr. Laurel Schaider of Silent Spring Institute and Laura Spark of Clean Water Action. We’ve attached our flyer again, and here’s our  Facebook event . Help us by posting, sharing, & spreading the word. Email:  sustainablem...@gmail.com Phone:  (774)-419-5250 Web:  www.sustainablemiddleborough....