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Cut the Green Ribbon: CCAP Cohort Celebrates Climate Action Planning
This May, members from Boston’s cultural institutions, commercial real estate community, and nonprofit sectors celebrated the completion of a nine-month journey towards institutional climate resilience. The participants in the Green Ribbon Commission’s 2024/2025 Collaborative Climate Action Planning (CCAP) cohort celebrated their graduation from the program in a ceremony complete with awards and a triumphant ribbon
What it takes for net-zero buildings: Hano Homes Deep Energy Retrofit Tour
The Green Ribbon Commission invited members of its Cultural Institutions and Commercial Real Estate Working Group to join the Mayor’s Office of Housing for a tour of a Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) project at the Hano Homes affordable housing development in Allston to understand the elements required to reduce energy usage and achieve a net-zero
Collaborative Climate Action Planning (2025/2026)
The Boston Green Ribbon Commission’s successful Collaborative Climate Action Planning approach reduces barriers to taking organizational climate action and will result in a Climate Action Plan framework, an essential roadmap for your organization. This process creates a peer learning community in which to comfortably expand and deepen education around mitigation, resiliency, and climate justice work.
In the face of rising sea levels, art efforts are rising to the challenge (The Bay State Banner)
Installations explore human impacts on the environment
Facing unique climate challenges, Boston’s cultural centerpieces take key steps toward sustainability (The Boston Globe)
A city mandate requires Boston’s largest buildings to slash their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. A nonprofit (the Boston Green Ribbon Commission) is helping cultural institutions take the first big steps.
2024/25 Collaborative Climate Action Planning Cohort
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