This week, two heartening events occurred. The Boston City Council approved a plan for the city to buy its power under a ‘community aggregation’ model that will allow the use of green energy. Also, auto behemoth General Motors has committed to an all electric future. Listen in!

The reading list:

• What is Community Choice Aggregation?
• BCAN's push for aggregation
• BCAN: A powerful argument for aggregation
• Boston approves Community Aggregation
• ThinkProgress on GM's all electric future
• WaPo on GM's decision to go all electric

Events

• HOW TO CONTACT YOUR LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES

Because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist that the United States put a price on carbon.

Thanks for listening.

…Ted McIntyre