MOVING TOWARDS A GREENER COMMUNITY
Striving for Sustainability is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to empowering our community in Rowley, Massachusetts to adopt sustainable lifestyle practices that protect and preserve the environment for our current and future generations.
We strive to reduce pressure on our environment and natural resources through conversation, conservation, and education.
We will move towards a greener community by providing informational resources, offering educational workshops, and working with schools, businesses, and town leaders to take advantage of grant opportunities at the local and state level. We encourage participation, curiosity, and conversation from all voices and perspectives as we green our community together.
What do you think our community needs to strive towards sustainability? What is your sustainability vision? Reach out to us here!
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Striving for Sustainability is a 501(c)(3) that relies on volunteer and financial support from our community. Every dollar of your contribution goes towards our mission of empowering our community in Rowley, Massachusetts to live more sustainable lives. All donations are tax-deductible.
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
-Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Sustainability Snippets:
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New England states win $450 million to launch heat pump adoption program
A recent NPR article shared the following news: Massachusetts and four other New England states received a $450 million federal grant Monday to “supercharge” efforts to get residents to ditch natural gas or oil heating systems and install electric heat pumps. To date, the five states have tried on their own to get residents to make the…
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Upcycled material plant (UBQ) may be coming to Massachusetts
Founded in 2012, the Israel-based climate tech startup UBQ Materials is converting household waste (including food scraps and hard-to-recycle materials) into UBQ, a sustainable substitute for fossil-based plastics. UBQ diverts waste headed for landfills and pulls out metal and glass, which can be repurposed with traditional recyclers. UBQ takes the remaining waste (food scraps, mixed…
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Using mushrooms to clean up pollution
The BBC recently featured an article about Redhouse’s Biocycler program, which aims to reduce pollution and combat climate change using one of nature’s oldest: fungi. This is the emerging field called mycoremediation, and I am jazzed to learn more about it. An excerpt from the article reads: “As primary decomposers in the environment, many species…