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Welcome to the web space for ACAT: the Acton Climate Action Team.
The Acton Climate Action Team is Acton residents working to reduce local
greenhouse gas emissions. We work with the town, schools, residents and businesses to help
slow climate change.
We have no budget, no formal organization, no bylaws. A varied set of people meet about
once a month to consider what we can do to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in (or
caused by) Acton and its residents.
Reducing trash by a few hundred tons a year would be a big win, so a couple of us
started focusing in on Pay-As-You-Throw a few months ago.
Folks who regularly show up at ACAT meetings include
Tom Michelman
Steve Long
Jim Snyder-Grant
Dana Snyder-Grant
Matt Liebman
Adam Parker
Warren Leon
How about you, too?
Top ACAT News
- We are focused on the Acton Solar Challenge now!
- Our last big project was researching and advocating for a
Pay As You Throw system for Acton trash disposal.
- ACAT meetings are the first Monday of the month, unless we reschedule for a holiday
(directions)
- This web site is live! - Use the links on top to navigate to the different parts of
the site.
- We have had initial meetings with the Selectmen & the School Superintendent
about a variety of possible greenhouse gas reduction projects.
- We helped get our state rep (Jamie Eldridge) to write a letter in support of Cape
Wind.
- Another current project is to find a school and a set of students and teachers to
work with on energy efficiency and greenhouse-gas reduction topics. Goals: reduce GHG
emissions at one school, get some education done, create a model to build on, and get a
larger number of ACAT members involved to coalesce the organization.
ACAT is loosely affiliated with the Massachusetts Climate Action Network
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