Sponsored by: Energy and Telecommunications
Committee, Air Quality & Climate Change Committee, and Real Estate
Section
The Green Communities Act and
Municipalities: Exploring Municipal Trends in All Things
Green
Mark Sylvia, Department of Energy Resources, Green Communities Division,
and Deborah Donovan, Energy Markets - Cambridge Energy
Alliance, will be joining us at this brown bag lunch.
The Green
Communities Act, most notably through provisions creating the Green Communities
Division at the Department of Energy Resources, encourages municipalities to
maximize opportunities to save energy, to generate renewable energy, and to make
other decisions that reduce their environmental impact and carbon footprint in
order to help the Commonwealth become a hub of the 21st century clean energy
economy.
This brown bag
will:
- highlight
current initiatives of the Green Communities Division,
- feature
“on-the-ground” stories from the Cambridge Energy Alliance, which illustrate
some of the creative initiatives implemented and challenges confronted by
municipalities that go green, and
- discuss
municipal trends generally in relation to all things green.
Energy &
Telecommunications Law Committee co-chairs: Jed
M. Nosal and Mike J.
Koehler
Air Quality & Climate
Change Committee co-chairs: Timothy J.
Roskelley and Margaret R. Stolfa
Real Estate
Section co-chairs: Geoffrey A.
Howell and Katharine E.
Bachman