Past Events
Green Home Heating
Learn how, as a homeowner, you can reduce your carbon footprint by installing minisplits, or air source heat pumps, and what incentives are available to help with financing. Presented by: Stephen Shinopoulos of HomeWorks Energy and Mike Cappucio of NETR, with a case study by Sustainable Marblehead member Mark Adams.
5/11/22, 11:00 PM
Ask Chip: Green Lawncare
Learn how to move turf and landscapes from conventional management practices to a natural approach. Presented by: Chip Osborne, President, Osborne Organics & Past Chairman, Marblehead Recreation and Parks Commission.
5/3/22, 10:00 PM
Ask Chip: Pesticides 101
Why you can no longer wait to provide a safer and healthier landscape from both an environmental and human health perspective.
4/5/22, 10:00 PM
Coastal Communities Talk Water
An evening of community connection, music, and action-oriented education. Local experts, including Sustainable Marblehead's Steve Wolf, give Ted Talk-style presentations on what we can do to support sustainable freshwater and marine ecosystems, critical to the long-term health and climate resilience of our region.
3/10/22, 11:00 PM
Ecobricks and Their Uses
Want to give your single-use plastic bottles and thin film plastic a useful purpose? Then learn how to make an ecobrick. How do you make them? What can they be used for? Join us to get the latest updates on how ecobricks are keeping plastic out of landfills from Nathan Gray, Project lead at EcoBrick US.
3/8/22, 9:30 PM
Pollinator Corridor Presentation
Sustainable Marblehead has been working for the past five years to make our town more beautiful, sustainable and resilient for us and for future generations. In this presentation we discuss efforts to create a pollinator corridor in Marblehead and to seek funding to develop an urban forestry plan for the town.
2/4/22, 12:00 AM
Compost, Recycle, Trash? 2021
In honor of America Recycles Day on November 15, Sustainable Marblehead invites you to join us online to find out how to create less holiday waste and what to compost. Hear from Andrew Petty, Marblehead Director of Public Health, and Justin Sandler, Co-Owner BlackEarth Compost, how to “green” your holiday season.
11/15/21, 9:00 PM
Net Zero Workshop
Marblehead aims to get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. At this community forum residents voice their opinions about what our town needs to do to achieve that goal.
10/5/21, 11:00 PM
The Indispensables, Author Presentation
Patrick O’Donnell, best-selling author of the recently published book "The Indispensables," tells how Marblehead patriots and Glover’s Regiment saved the Continental Army multiple times during the Revolution, and in so doing enabled the birth of a new nation
9/30/21, 11:30 PM
Plastic Free July: How to use Less Plastic!
Join Sustainable Marblehead at MacRae’s Sustainable Goods. We will discuss: • How is plastic waste is affecting our lives • Sustainable options to everyday plastic products • How to advocate for change
7/7/21, 10:00 PM
Plastic Free July Challenge
Daily Tips to Reduce or Repurpose Single Use Plastics
7/1/21, 4:00 AM
Permaculture in Action
Engaging Young Minds in Ecological Landscape Design — This spring,Tower School 6th grade students
applied their knowledge of ecological concepts to develop landscape design projects to improve outdoor spaces on campus.
6/21/21, 8:30 PM