26 February 2007
A Green challenge from Cambridge City Councilors
After last night’s Academy Awards ceremony, going green is all the rage (I just hope that all the confetti dropped at the end was either recycled or hemp paper). Now some Cambridge City Councilors want in on the action.
Councilors Henrietta Davis, Michael Sullivan and Brian Murphy are challenging Cambridge households to donate money to the New England Wind Fund in order to score some sweet solar panels for a yet-to-be-named Cambridge school or municipal building:
Please help us support wind energy and get solar panels for Cambridge. We need 150 Cambridge households or businesses to donate $5/month for one year (online) or make a one-time donation of at least $100 to the New England Wind Fund by March 31 to get a free 2kW solar installation worth
$25,000 for a Cambridge school or municipal building.
This is not just an altruistic endeavor for rich, feel-good Cambridge liberals. While they may be the only ones that can participate in such a program, a donation to the fund will net some tangible, positive benefits for the City:
The state’s Massachusetts’s Technology Collaborative (MTC) is sponsoring this program to encourage wind development in New England and solar installations for the city of Cambridge. Here’s what your contribution
will do:
* Earn solar panels for the city
* Support Mass Energy’s New England Wind Fund
* Create a dollar-for-dollar match for state projects benefiting low-income residents
* Give you a 100% tax deduction.
Please make your donation soon to help promote renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We need your help by March 31 to earn the free solar panels. Let’s make this happen!
To participate, send your $100 check to Mass Energy Consumers Alliance, and send to Mass Energy Consumers Alliance, 670 Centre Street, Boston, MA 02130 or contact Adam Briggs at adam@massenergy.com or 617-524-3950.
To be clear my cute opener about Cambridge Councilors getting in on the action may be a little misleading. None of the Councilors who signed on to the effort (Davis, Murphy and Sullivan) are newcomers to this game and have all been leaders on the Council in exploring how to green Cambridge. I believe Sullivan is even the one who once toyed with the notion of converting the “windmill” at Porter Square in to a real power-generating turbine.
