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350 ppm (CO2)!

The Way Life Should Be!

LexCANers come out to change the countdown clock to 350 as 350 ppm is when the climate was stable. Let's work to get back there!

The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Address Climate Change:

Talk About It! (Click to learn more)

Switch Your Electric Plan

to New England Green!

Opting up to New England Green cuts emissions while boosting local clean energy, reducing reliance on distant sources and strengthening our regional grid.

Call your reps

Fight for the EPA

5calls.org makes it easy with suggestions for talking points. Do it today! (photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Join us on March 22

Sustainability Fair

Come and meet electrification vendors, enjoy family friendly activities, get some tips & new ideas, and meet local activists. Bring your ideas and questions!

Take Action

Transition to Clean Heat Technologies: HeatSmart

Coming Up

Sustainability Fair 2025

March 22nd 2025 | 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Reflecting on our Roots….Growing a Resilient Future

The fair will highlight topics from clean energy options and applications, electric vehicles, composting and more! You will hear speakers, be educated on sustainability practices from composting to heat pumps, and support local organizations. Local vendors will showcase solar panels to heat pumps, and you will get a chance to connect with town committees. Come and enjoy a community speakers panel, family friendly activities, arts and crafts, E bike demos and an EV car showcase.

 

Don’t miss out on this special community event! Better yet, join us as a volunteer!

Schedule of Events

  • 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
    EV Showcase and Test Drives – Worthen Rd Parking Lot
    Vendor & Organization Tabling – Commons I & Front Hallway
    Maker Space for Kids, Advocacy Postcarding, Solar Bugs, Snap Circuits – Commons I
  • 10:30 AM
    “Songs for the Planet” performed by Clarke and Diamond Middle School Green Teams – Commons II
  • 11:00 AM
    Featured Speakers: Senator Mike Barrett & Maggie Peard, Town of Lexington Sustainability and Resilience OfficerCommons II
  • 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
    EV Powered Pancakes – Worthen Road Entryway
  • 12:15 PM
    Community Voices Panel – Commons II
  • 1:15 PM
    Electric Landscaping Demo – Worthen Road Entryway
  • 1:30 PM
    E-Bike Demo – Worthen Road Entryway

Outside / Worthen Rd Parking Lot:

  • Test drive an EV – sign up for time slots with Polestar, VW and Lucid
  • EV-Powered Pancakes!
  • Resident EV “Petting Zoo” / Q&A
  • Electric lawncare equipment demo station

Commons I Cafeteria & Front Hallway

  • Vendor & Organization showcase
  • Visit various tables to learn more
  • EV resident owner Q&A
  • Assorted kids’ activities

Commons 2 Cafeteria

  • “Main Stage” Events
  • Middle School Green Teams Climate Singalong
  • Featured speakers: Senator Mike Barrett & Maggie Peard, Town of Lexington Sustainability and Resilience Officer
  • Citizen Panel Q&A
  • Makerspace for families / kids
  • Snap Circuits construction zone
  • Snacks & Coffee

Who Will Be There?

Home Heating/Cooling and Solar

Waste and Recycling

Food & Local Retailers

Electric Cars and E-Bikes

Financing

Landscape and Garden

Town Departments and Committees

Community and School Volunteer Groups

Speakers

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Upcoming Events
From Wasteland to Wonder – Easy Ways We Can Care for Trees and Help Heal Earth in the Sub/Urban Landscape

Mar 20th @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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Sustainability Fair 2025

Mar 22nd @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

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Pollinator Pathway Information Session

Mar 25th @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

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Climate Conversations

Chair’s Report at the Annual Meeting 2025

 In an escalating climate crisis whose impacts are increasingly impossible to ignore, LexCAN dedicated its time and resources in 2024 to educating and rallying the Lexington community to proactively meet the climate challenge head-on – both in their private lives […]

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Pocket forests!

Pocket – or mini, or Miyawaki – Forests offer us a unique, low-tech, low-cost approach to help rebuild our damaged ecosystems, sequester carbon, support water systems and more. Check this out! Pocket Forests – In Brief by Rachel Noack Summers

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LexElectrify!

On September 21, LexCAN and the town of Lexington introduced a new campaign to help Lexington residents contribute to the goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Featured speakers were Lexington’s Sustainability and Resilience Officer, Maggie Peard, and CleanHeat […]

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Learn & Educate

Impacts of Climate Change: Oceans

Just as a heart circulates blood and regulates the body’s temperature, the ocean controls the circulation of heat and moisture throughout the climate system. When we burn fossil fuels, we put a lot of stress on the ocean, damaging its […]

Learn & Educate

The Science of Climate Change

When we burn fossil fuels for energy to heat and cool our homes, run our vehicles, and power our electronics and appliances, we emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This adds to the blanket of heat-trapping gases that has kept […]

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