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| Master Plan Subcommittees: Sustainability & OSR & NCHR Subcommittees meeting scheduled for Mon, Dec 30 |
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| Master Plan Update: Implementation Program: Strategies and Actions - Land Use; Natural, Cultural, & Historical Resources; & Sustainability |
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| Master Plan Update Committee meetings for week of Aug 19 |
1. Approval of Minutes2. Discuss potential implementation measures for goals and objectives
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| Sustainability Subcommittee Meeting - July 22 at 5:30 PM (virtual only) |
Via the Boston Globe:
"In three years, when the Bennett-Hemenway Elementary School in Natick is outfitted with air conditioning and staff and students will no longer wilt on the hottest days, it will be thanks to two things: a $2 million grant from the US Department of Energy, and Jillian Wilson Martin.Continue reading the Boston Globe article -> https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/08/science/sustainability-officers-help-deliver-federal-funding/
Wilson Martin is the sustainability director for Natick, one of dozens employed by cities and towns across the state. They don’t always do the most exciting work. Increasingly, the job description includes hours of writing grant applications, trying to get a piece of the billions of federal dollars for climate and infrastructure projects pushed by the Biden administration.
But the payoff can be huge.
“You guys. I literally almost passed out when I found out,” Wilson Martin wrote last summer in a joy-filled newsletter announcing the Energy Department grant, as well as a separate $250,000 grant from the state aimed at helping communities adapt to climate impacts. “Those hand cramps paid off!”
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| "There’s a secret for Mass. cities and towns to win big bucks from Washington: Invest in sustainability" |
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| Sustainability Subcommittee scheduled to meet virtually June 5 at 5 PM |
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| Sustainability Subcommittee schedules discussion with Conservation & Storm Water - April 30 - 5:30 PM |
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| Master Plan Update Committee & Sustainability Subcmte Meetings Apr 16 & Apr 17 |
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| Master Plan Update Cmte: Sustainability Subcommittee Agenda for April 16, 2024 |
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| Master Plan Subcommittee meetings scheduled for April 1 & April 2 |
Come meet with the Sustainability and Land Use Subcommittees on March 2nd! From 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM.
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| Land Use Master Plan Subcmte |
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| Sustainability Master Plan Subcmte |
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| 2 Master Plan subcommittees meet before the full Committee meets on Wednesday |
Those of us who have been meeting in Franklin have enjoyed the chance to come together. Join us!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81930304274?pwd=Tm9VdGxYcDFaVTVDUkwyT3YvUnlFdz09
Meeting ID: 819 3030 4274 Passcode: 350ma
Dial-in +1 646 876 9923
ATTENTION Franklin residents! In addition to our regular agenda, we will hear about and discuss sustainability plans for the Town of Franklin. We will be joined in-person by Gino Carlucci, chair of the Sustainability Subcommittee of the Franklin Master Plan Update Committee, from 7:15-7:35. It will be primarily an introductory discussion to one or more public meetings scheduled over the next 2-3 months, at which everyone interested will have the opportunity to provide input to the master plan in general as well as the sustainability elements in particular. We look forward to our discussion with Gino.
The remainder of the Node meeting will focus on the two major 350 Mass campaigns: Emissions Free Buildings and Make Polluters Pay. Read about them here.
The Emissions Free Buildings (EFB) campaign works at municipal and statewide levels to replace building systems with proven renewable energy technologies to make our buildings and homes emissions free, in alignment with the Commonwealth's emission goals.
Along with statewide legislation, the 350 Mass EFB campaign promotes local action to accelerate the transition with five Local Projects that can be undertaken by single communities. We'll discuss the choices for towns within the node:
Here is your opportunity to promote climate action in your town and get guidance to make that happen! The Greater Franklin Node encompasses 20 towns. We want to identify potential Local Projects for towns. Which projects make sense for your town? Who are the key players? How to engage local citizens? This is your chance to make a difference in 2024 and take on the challenges that we face in climate and energy. Join us!
Please sign up for the Climate Weekly email.
Check out upcoming events on our website.
Please try to join us for Thursday's meeting. We will maintain our schedule of meetings on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month.
Note: We typically will hold a hybrid meeting on the 1st Thursday and a Zoom-only meeting on the 3rd Thursday, but this week's meeting is a hybrid event so we can welcome Gino Carlucci and residents of Franklin for an in-person discussion.
If you have questions or items for the agenda, you can contact the Node coordinators, carolyncbarthel@gmail.com and/or ralph.halpern@comcast.net. We will send a reminder on Thursday.
Thank you.
Node Co-coordinators,
Carolyn Barthel
Ralph Halpern
Ralph Halpern
ralph.halpern@comcast.net
781-784-3839 (h)
339-203-5017
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| Sustainability Subcommittee schedules their meeting at the Winter Farmers Market - Dec 16 |
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| Master Plan Update Committee & Subcommittee meetings 9/18 to 9/27 |
a. Goals and Policiesb. Review progress since 2013c. Begin to organize potential goals and policies
i. Mitigation and resiliencyii. Sustainability element and other elements
a. Topics not addressed in 2013b. Data gathering needsc. Upcoming meetings
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| Master Plan Update: Sustainability Subcommittee Meeting - Sep 18 at 7 PM |
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| Master Plan Housing, Sustainability, & full committee agendas |
"It’s strong, plentiful and fireproof, as well as beautiful, yet stone has long been supplanted in the building industry by energy-consuming steel, concrete and brick. A trio of advocates for this age-old material say it’s time for a rethinkImagine a building material that is beautiful, strong, plentiful, durable and fireproof, whose use requires low levels of energy and low emissions of greenhouse gases. It is one of the most ancient known to humanity, the stuff of dolmens and temples and cathedrals and Cotswolds cottages, but also one whose sustainability makes it well-suited to the future. Such a material, according to a growing body of opinion in the world of construction, is among us. It’s called stone.Last week I sat in the roof garden of a hefty pile of masonry in central London, talking to three advocates of this magnificent substance: engineer Steve Webb, Pierre Bidaud of the Rutland-based Stonemasonry Company and architect Amin Taha. My initial request, driven by a journalistic preference for highlighting individuals, had been to meet Taha alone, but he pointed out that their work is a collaboration of different disciplines. The building on top of which we met is their joint creation: the six-storey, five-year-old Clerkenwell block where Taha has his office and his home."
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| Everyday luxury: affordable housing near Palma, Mallorca, built by Balearic social housing institute Ibavi, constructed from load‑bearing stone quarried locally. Photograph: José Hevia |
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| Going forward from FY 2024, what is sustainable? (audio) |
"We're doing our part here locally, and we're here really to call on the Federal Government to join us" regarding offshore wind.
- @CobiFrongillo, Councilmember Franklin, Massachusetts
Please watch the entire press conference on this YouTube link: https://t.co/VyMqDi0yj3
"We're doing our part here locally, and we're here really to call on the Federal Government to join us" regarding offshore wind.
— Elected Officials to Protect America (@EOPAmerica) October 14, 2022
- @CobiFrongillo, Councilmember Franklin, Massachusetts
Please watch the entire press conference on this YouTube link: https://t.co/VyMqDi0yj3 pic.twitter.com/dmCRCp3Qv2
