Climate Solutions: Make it tight, build it right!
We have 17,500 houses on the Island now. Some that were seasonal are now being used year-round. We have 1,100 nonresidential buildings.
Many of these buildings will still be around in 2050. If we are...
Climate Solutions: We need to switch to electricity for ALL our building energy needs
Currently, one-third of our buildings are heated with oil, and two-thirds with propane. All our buildings use electricity.
How does that fuel and electricity get here?
Our propane and oil come over on the boats or on...
Climate Solutions: The easiest switch to make … get your electricity from a renewable...
One of the simplest ways to help with the goal of a 100% Renewable MV by 2040 is to join the Cape Light Compact's Local Green.
You may not be ready to install solar at...
Climate Solutions: Now is the time for us to address climate change!
“ The decade ahead will be one of the most crucial breakdown or breakthrough moments in the history of our species.”
– Terry Tempest Williams, environmental thinker & advocate
RIGHT NOW, HERE IS HOW WE USE...
Climate Solutions: Our moonshot moment
Thomas Friedman, NY Times columnist, says "… as bad as this pandemic is, it’s just training wheels for the big, irreversible atmospheric pandemic: climate change."
We were not prepared for the pandemic but we can...