Taking Local Climate Action – SAU 70’s Climate Action Plan 2025
On Thursday, May 22, the Montshire Museum of Science and Hanover High School (HHS) Environmental Club co-hosted a “Taking Local Climate Action” event where student leaders of the Environmental Club presented their district-wide Climate Action Plan (CAP) recently adopted by SAU 70. In addition, students from Marion Cross Elementary School described steps they have been taking to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions (GHG). They also treated attendees to a dinner of locally sourced soup and salad that they had prepared and served!
Hanover Kicks Off Shared Streets Vision Planning
On May 12th, Hanover kicked off Shared Streets Vision Planning to design a multimodal network for all ages and abilities. How we design our streets, intersections and paths determines who can get where they need to go and how. And our choices have a massive impact on our community’s carbon footprint...
But how do our choices in street design impact the community’s emissions and health? What does it mean to envision Hanover streets that are inviting and accessible to people of all ages and abilities? How can we do it?
Sustainable Hanover Retreat
Twenty-five Sustainable Hanover volunteers gathered at the home of Robin Kaiser and Peter Gish on Wed, October 18th to learn more about Hanover’s Sustainability Master Plan and share ideas as to how Sustainable Hanover can support that plan moving forward. Ably facilitated by our good friend, Sarah Brock of Vital Communities, this group included volunteers from the official Sustainable Hanover Town Committee as well as representatives from its several initiatives (energy, waste reduction/recycling, sustainable landscaping, energy, transportation, communications, 3C). Chris Kennedy who serves on both Sustainable Hanover and the Master Plan Advisory Committee introduced the main points in the draft of the Master Plan which was being released for community input that same day. Volunteers then broke up into subgroups to discuss first five year, then one year priorities for Sustainable Hanover moving forward.