The Children’s Department at the Concord Free Public Library is excited to host Going Green in Your Backyard on Wednesday, September 29 from 2:00—3:00 PM on the front lawn of the Main Library. Help us celebrate Climate Preparedness Week and also learn about local wildlife and what you can do to help the environment beginning […]
Want to help accelerate the fight against climate change? Join the Concord Chapter at our next virtual meeting to find ways to get involved with local and state campaigns to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect a livable climate for all children. This month, we’ll be talking town-wide sustainability with Concord’s new Sustainability Director, Amanda […]
Join Mass Climate Action Network (MCAN) Executive Director Sarah Dooling to learn about how buildings can be a core part of equitable decarbonization. Come hear updates on the net zero stretch code currently being developed by the state and the value that home rule petitions are bringing to this process. Clean Energy Director Logan Malik […]
In his new book — The Flag, The Cross, and The Station Wagon — award-winning author, activist, and educator, Bill McKibben looks back at his adolescent years growing up in Lexington where he cheerfully led tours of revolutionary battle sites and examines why we find ourselves living in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak […]
In Climate Lyricism, Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how climate is present in most literature. Song shows how literature, poetry, and essays by Tommy Pico, Solmaz Sharif, Frank O’Hara, Ilya Kaminsky, Claudia Rankine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Richard Powers, and others, and others help us to better grapple with […]
ConcordCAN is looking forward to gathering again in person, enjoying coffee, local goodies and conversation with like-minded neighbors about how we can strengthen our local response to the climate crisis. Following brief updates from the ConcordCAN Steering Committee and other groups, the session will be a community conversation. We invite you to bring your ideas […]
Author and activist Bill McKibben will speak in person in the Concord-Carlisle High School auditorim. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, is a leader of the climate campaign group 350.org, and the founder of the Third Act. He has authored a dozen books about the state of the environmental challenges facing […]
