Local steps to prevent climate change

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Susan Altman of the Medford Climate Action Network and Tufts graduate student Dallase Scott spoke at this past Wednesday’s City Committee meeting. The topic was educating Medford residents about how they can help prevent climate change.

Click to download the PowerPoint slides that accompanied the presentation or a document with home energy saving tips. Another resource is the book The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Finally, here are two more documents with ways to save energy.

Reminder: Civic engagement event Thursday

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Just a reminder that the event Civic Engagement in Medford: How to Make a Difference in Your Community will be held this Thursday, April 30, at the Medford Public Library. Light refreshments will be served at 6:30 and the program will begin at 7:00 p.m. See here for additional details.

May City Committee meeting

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The Medford Democratic City Committee will hold its May meeting on Wednesday, May 13, in the Alden Chambers of Medford City Hall. There will be a social period with light refreshments at 6:30, followed by the business meeting at 7:00. The guest speaker will be Susan Altman, who will speak on the topic of energy consumption.

Public event: Civic engagement in Medford

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The Medford Ward 8 Democratic Committee invites the public to a free program entitled Civic Engagement in Medford: How to Make a Difference in Your Community. The event will be held Thursday, April 30 at the Medford Public Library. Light refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. and the program will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Speaking at the event will be:

  • City Councilor Paul Camuso
  • School Committee Members Robert E. Skerry, Jr. and Ann Marie Cugno
  • Medford Sq. Revitalization Committee Chair Rick Orlando

Please feel free to print out this poster (PDF) advertising the event, either as a reminder for your own use or to distribute around the city.

Ward caucuses

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The ward caucuses to elect delegates to this spring’s Massachusetts Democratic Party Convention will be held Saturday, February 7, at 10 a.m. sharp at Medford City Hall. Anyone registered in Medford as a Democrat as of December 31, 2008 is eligible to vote for delegates and/or be nominated as a candidate for delegate. There are no absentee votes, and individuals who are not present may only be nominated as candidates if a seat has no in-person nominees.

Upcoming Democratic City Committee meeting

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There will be a Democratic City Committee meeting on Wednesday, December 10, at 7 p.m. at the South Medford Fire Station. The location has been changed due to an event at City Hall that evening.

December 10 Meeting Agenda

Help Obama win – Medford-area opportunities

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From Sarah Compton, Massachusetts Field Director for the Obama campaign:

Please come to a phone bank this week, and/or head up to canvass in New Hampshire this weekend. And, most important of all, PLEASE sign up to help during GOTV (Friday, October 31 through Election Day, Nov. 4). We need thousands of volunteers on those days, to canvass in New Hampshire and to make calls from MA to NH. PLEASE commit to help in the final days of this campaign! You can sign up at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ar4ll8F0putNrH4sYOhHXQ_3d_3d,
by sending an e-mail to obamagotv@gmail.com, or by contacting your local coordinator. We all need to stay focused  and continue our work in these final days. Polls will not decide this election, but what you do over the next two weeks CAN.

Carpools to New Hampshire – Parking Lot of Outback Steakhouse (Fellsway)

Sat. 11/1 10AM http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpr9mp

Sun. 11/2 11AM http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpryv4

Team Markey Canvass to NH – Parking Lot of Medford City Hall

Sat. 11/1 11AM http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gshmdl

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