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Battery Power and Your Future EV Range

By Mark Sandeen Let’s take a look at the trends and forecasts for lithium-ion batteries.  There are a number of trends that are relevant. Cost first, followed by weight (aka energy density measured in Wh/kg), followed by size (aka volumetric […]

By LexCAN on Jun 3 2025

Maximize Solar at the New LHS

Dear Permanent Buildings Committee and the SBC committee, Solar saves and makes money for the Town! Solar is the one component of the building that will actually create a return on investment in the very first year. A full build-out of […]

By admin on May 28 2025

Lexington’s 250th: It’s time for a New Revolution

In 1775, our brave Minuteman gathered in Lexington to begin a revolution to become independent of British rule by demanding representation and self-governance. In an escalating climate crisis whose impacts are increasingly impossible to ignore, it is time to unequivocally […]

By LexCAN on Apr 18 2025

LPS Green Team Food Rescue Journey: Taking Action to Rescue Food Waste from Our School Cafeterias

Natalie Cohen and Tina McBride, dedicated volunteers with the LPS Green Team and Lexington school community parents, began their inspiring journey with a troubling realization: perfectly good, unopened food was regularly discarded and composted at local schools, despite the known […]

By LexCAN on Mar 26 2025

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 […]

By Ricki Pappo on Mar 11 2025

Converting Lawns to 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 biodiversity, water systems, pollution and more. Do you have lawn you can convert to a pocket […]

By LexCAN on Jan 24 2025

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 […]

By admin on Oct 5 2023

New England’s Climate Future: City, Land and Sea

Llink to a recording of WGBH’s event featuring Dr. Katherine Hayhoe, esteemed climate scientist, Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, Chief of Environment, Energy & Open Space at City of Boston, and Melissa Hoffer, Climate Chief of MA, in a conversation on New […]

By admin on Oct 3 2023

Some Good News! Lexington HeatSmart Assists 200 Lexington Households

With the summer news cycle dominated by floods and record-breaking heat, it can be hard to feel anything but discouraged about the future of our planet. And while the evidence of climate change is impossible to ignore, taking a moment […]

By admin on Aug 1 2023

Green the Grid, Drive Electric, Improve Health

Imagine being able to save 90,000 lives! Switching to EVs and cleaning up our electricity grid can do that. Wow! In June 2023, the American Lung Association released a report that called “Driving to Clean Air: Health Benefits of Zero […]

By admin on Jul 3 2023

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