Given the current social and economic challenges facing local businesses and non-profits, in the next phase of Brookline’s Climate is Everybody’s Business the project’s emphasis will shift slightly. While environmental issues will remain at the project’s forefront, the refocus to “Save money. Save energy. Save the planet.” will emphasize how sustainability efforts can provide economic benefits during this challenging time. While the project’s focus remains on fighting climate change, its leaders are committed to building not only a sustainable future, but one that is also racially, socially, and environmentally just and equitable.
The next phase of Climate is Everybody’s Business will be supported in part by a new grant from the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund, a non-profit dedicated to building an inclusive movement by shifting power at the community level and across environmental justice and philanthropy.
In addition, the project will now be an initiative of Climate Action Brookline, structured as a continued collaboration between Climate Action Brookline, Mothers Out Front, Boyer Sudduth Environmental Consultants and the Brookline Chamber of Commerce with direction from the Brookline Ad Hoc Committee for Climate Action Business Outreach.
If you are interested in signing up and learning how to make your business or organization more sustainable, please visit http://bit.ly/CIEB2020. A report on the results of the pilot project is available for review at https://gogreen.brooklinechamber.com/report/.
Brookline’s Climate is Everybody’s Business pilot is a collaboration between Climate Action Brookline, Mothers Out Front, the Brookline Chamber of Commerce, the Ad Hoc Committee on Climate Action Business Outreach, and Boyer Sudduth Environmental Consultants and is generously sponsored by The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation, Eversource, Brookline Bank, Climate Action Brookline, Chestnut Hill Realty and the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund.
By Maryana Dumalska, intern at Boyer Sudduth Environmental Consultants and recent graduate of Boston College with a degree in Environmental Geoscience.
