Cool Winchester Program

PAST Events Listing
Updated July 14, 2010

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June 15th

"Safe & Enjoyable Bicycle Commuting with Marilyn Hartman"

Place:

Winchester Public Library - Large Meeting Room

Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm

High gas prices. Expensive car payments. Traffic delays. Road rage. Expanding waistlines. There are many great reasons to consider traveling to work by bicycle. It's an effective, healthy, inexpensive, and fun alternative that is attracting more and more commuters all over the world. It's good exercise, it's good for the environment, and it's a good way to save money.

Join Marilyn Hartman in a discussion about the ways you can start safety using a bicycle to get to work, to do errands, and to exercise. Marilyn Hartman is an avid cyclist, has 4 bikes, and rides year round in all weather conditions. She uses her car only to keep it from falling apart. She will share her learning experience as she went from putting 12,000 miles/ year on her car down to 2,000 when began cycling. Ready to roll ? Don't set your wheels in motion without learning how to stay safe.

Questions to: coolwinchester@gmail.com

May 10th

Eco Team Leader Process Training

Place: Second Congregational Church
485 Washington Street
Time: 7:00 - 9:00pm

Eco Team Leaders and Eco Team Coordinators will learn best practices for running and supporting the eco teams, getting large carbon reductions, and ensuring the team's results get counted towards Winchester's carbon reduction goals!

Please RSVP to: coolwinchester@gmail.com

April, 13th

“The Path to Zero Energy Homes” Presenters: Stephanie Horowitz, AIA, Principal
Jordan Goldman, LEED AP, Principal ZeroEnergy Design

Place: Winchester Public Library - Large Meeting Room
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM

Come and learn about deep energy retrofits, low and zero energy homes. If you are about to build a new home or renovate your existing home, this presentation will address major options to significantly reduce your energy consumption.
The discussion will include an explanation of how home energy performance is measured, an overview of deep energy retrofits for existing homes, and an overview of how high performance is achieved in new construction of homes (low energy or zero energy homes).
ZeroEnergy Design (ZED) is an architecture and energy consulting firm, specializing in new construction and major renovations, and offers innovative and ecologically sensible design. The firm is committed to designing homes and buildings that use at least 50% less energy than building code requires, in pursuit of energy independence.
ZeroEnergy Design has been recognized for excellent architecture and mechanical engineering by some of the industry's most prestigious associations and organizations, including: Boston Society of Architects - Citation for Sustainability, PRISM Gold Award for Most Innovative Single Family Green Design, 2008-09 Kitchen Design Award sponsored by appliance manufacturers Sub-Zero and Wolf. Recently, the Managing Director of ZED, Stephanie Horowitz, AIA was awarded with the 5 Under 40 Award by New England Home Magazine, which spotlights the hottest emerging talent in residential design in New England.

Open to Public

March 22nd

Best Practice & Support Session - EcoTeam Leaders and Coordinators welcome

Place: Town Hall, desk by Town Clerk
Time: 7:00 - 8:00pm

Place for attendees to:

- Learn what's working well for organizations

- Come with challenges and find solutions.

Eco team coordinators, if you are unhappy with how the organization is doing against their EcoTeam goals, then this is the place to come get help!

EcoTeam leaders, if you are unhappy with how your eco team is going, then this is the place to come get help!

March 9th

Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy For Transforming Our Consumer Culture

Place: Winchester Public Library - Large Meeting Room
Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm

Join Dr. Ehrenfeld, local author, global thinker, and former Director of the MIT Program on Technology, Business and Environment as he presents a new definition of Sustainability as the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on the Earth forever. In his most recent book, Sustainability by Design, Dr. Ehrenfeld posits that reducing unsustainability, although critical, will not create sustainability. The book is founded upon this new definition: sustainability is the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on Earth forever. There are obstacles to this hopeful vision, however, and overcoming them will require us to transform our behavior, both individually and collectively. The book has been heralded as "one of the most important books of the 21st century."

Open to Public

March 8th

Eco Team Leader Process Training

Place: Second Congregational Church
485 Washington Street
Time: 7:00 - 9:00pm

Eco Team Leaders and Eco Team Coordinators will learn best practices for running and supporting the eco teams, getting large carbon reductions, and ensuring the team's results get counted towards Winchester's carbon reduction goals

February 25th

Film: "Food Inc."
Screening followed by a Q&A with Charlotte Vallaeys, Farm and Food Policy Analyst at the Cornucopia Institute

Entertaining and eye-opening way to spend an evening! In "Food, Inc.," filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

This is a Fundraiser for the Cool Winchester project. Suggested donation: $5 - $10

February 24th

Eco Team Leader Process Training

Place: Second Congregational Church
485 Washington Street
Time: 7:00 - 9:00pm

Eco Team Leaders and Eco Team Coordinators will learn best practices for running and supporting the eco teams, getting large carbon reductions, and ensuring the team's results get counted towards Winchester's carbon reduction goals

February 9

"Mid Winter Home Energy Check Up: 5 myths debunked/the real savings payback" - Discussion and Q&A with Energy Consultant George (Woody) Wood, Winchester Energy Conservation Coordinator Susan McPhee, and Energy Consultant Scott Veggeberg.

Place: Winchester Room, Town Hall
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Myths Debunked and The Real Savings Payback:

• Energy Check Up – five practical and cheap ideas for savings right away
• Home Energy Savings – five myths debunked
• Home Energy Savings Payback – what is the biggest return on smallest investment – real ideas
• Home Carbon Footprint and Renewable Energy Analysis – what is the payback from solar, wind and geothermal

Open to Public

January 20th

Strategy Training

Place: Parish of Epiphany at 70 Church St.
Time: 7:00 - 9:00pm

Eco Team Coordinators will learn best practices on how to recruit team leaders and households and will leave the training with a strategy and plan in hand for how their organization is going to reach its 2010 eco team goal.

January 13th

Eco Team Process Training

Place: Parish of Epiphany at 70 Church St.
Time: 7:00 - 9:00pm

Eco Team Leaders and Eco Team Coordinators will learn best practices for running and supporting the eco teams, getting large carbon reductions, and ensuring the team's results get counted towards Winchester's carbon reduction goals

2010