LexCAN's Community Newsletter for a

Sustainable Lexington

In This Issue – January 2025

CURRENT EVENTS & CAMPAIGNS

• Starting January 1: Sale of Single-use Plastic Bottles in Lexington Prohibited
• Lexington Field and Garden Club Event: January 8
• Sierra Club - Sustainable Aviation Fuels: January 8
• LexCAN Annual Meeting: January 14
• LexFarm Winter Market: Beginning January 4
• Transportation: MBTA Updates & Boston MPO Survey
• Lexpress Limitless Passes & Charlie Cards
• Lexington Tree Commitee: Free Trees this Spring

CURRENT EVENTS & CAMPAIGNS

Lexington Climate Action Network

LexCAN Annual Meeting featuring speaker

Sen. Mike Barrett

Tuesday, January 14th 7:00pm - 8:30 pm

In person, Place: TBD

Join us for our annual meeting featuring Senator Mike Barett as our speaker. We will send you another announcement once we have more details.

Lexington Department of Sustainability and Resilience

Lexington Field and Garden Club

“What’s Wrong with my House Plant” with Bonnie Power

Location: Follen Church, 755 Mass Avenue, Lexington

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

9:30 AM Refreshments, 10 AM Meeting 

During her talk Bonnie will discuss the many things that can go wrong when plants are grown indoors. We will learn the factors that make for happy houseplants, including light, water, and soil and how to provide them. Common houseplants pest and diseases are also on the agenda as well as how to treat them.

Massachusetts Sierra Club

Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Can They Meet 2050 Climate Goals?

Join the Institute for Policy Studies, Sierra Club Mass, SPJE Coalition, and others for a free, virtual webinar covering sustainable aviation fuels. Much of the research and policy conversation about the future of “sustainable aviation fuels” has been funded by the aviation industry. This webinar features independent researchers who receive no aviation industry support.

Lexington Farmers' Market

Small Yet Mighty Winter Markets

Every other Saturday beginning January 4, 11:00am- 2:00pm

Waldorf School Gymnasium 739 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington

The Lexington Farmers' Market is holding its Small Yet Mighty Winter Market for the tenth year, bringing healthy local food, locally grown, crafted and produced back to the Waldorf School in Lexington! Starting January 4 from 11-2 pm, the biweekly winter market hosts up to ten of your favorite LFM farmers and vendors on-site, offering items for breakfast to dinner and everything in between. The LFM is a producer-only market, ensuring that what you find at our market is fresh and local, sustainably raised and carefully made.

To find out more about those attending, visit the link below, and mark the following biweekly market dates on your calendar: January 4 & 18; February 1 & 15; March 1, 8 & 15; and April 12. Support local farms and food producers by following the balloons to the back entrance of the Waldorf School for winter market goodness. We look forward to seeing you there! 

Lexington Transportation Services

MBTA Track Improvements Complete

If you have given up on riding the T due to the “slow zones,” try out the T now! The MBTA General Manager, Phil Eng, delivered on his promise to remove all slow zones by the end of the year and all work was complete on 12/20. This is the first time in 20 years that all slow zones have been removed. While there is still more to be done to enhance the MBTA, especially after decades of deferred maintenance, completing this critical track improvement program was a huge lift and riders are appreciating the zippier speeds!

Boston MPO Vision Zero Survey

The Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is a regional planning entity that 97 cities and towns, including Lexington, belong to. Take their Vision Zero Survey to offer input on streets or intersections you think would benefit from slower speeds, better signage, better lighting, pedestrian facilities, bike infrastructure, greater accessibility and more.

Start the New Year with a Lexpress Pass

You can purchase a Lexpress Pass for only $20 and get unlimited rides through the end of June 2025. Lexpress is Lexington’s municipal public bus service open to people of all ages and abilities. Not sure how to ride? Check out this how-to video. You can also learn more at www.lexpress.us

Lexington Tree Commitee

Free Trees this Spring in Lexington!

Certainly, the most beautiful way to fight climate change is to plant and cultivate trees. Now, you have a chance to do this, free of charge!

As part of Lexington’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Famous Shot, the Lexington Tree Committee is sponsoring the giving away of 250 young, native trees. 

These trees have already been ordered and will be delivered to us right after Patriot’s Day. They will be 2-3 feet tall, with multiple branches, and ready to leaf out.

The Tree Committee will organize several distribution days, some from the DPW grounds.

Information about signing up and claiming your tree(s) to come in future newsletters and through the town’s information officer.

ONGOING

EVENTS & CAMPAIGNS

Would you like to get involved in one or more of these campaigns?

Help is always needed and welcomed!

Please email: info@lexcan.org

LexElectrify Campaign

LexElectrify is a community-wide campaign to empower homeowners, renters, and businesses to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from the building and transportation sectors. 

Town of Lexington Department of Sustainability and Resilience

Sign Up for FREE Curbside Composting

Explore Lexington's Climate Data with the Resilient Lexington Dashboard

Noise Bylaw Restrictions on Gas Leaf Blowers

Go Solar! Free Solar Coaching!

Networked Geothermal in Lexington

On June 4th, the Town hosted an information session to introduce the concept of networked geothermal heating and cooling systems and provide an overview of what the Town is exploring through an initial feasibility study funded by a Kickstart Massachusetts grant. 

Both the slides and recording are now available!

Opt Up to New England Green Electricity

Energy and Water Data for Lexington's Largest Buildings

Lexington's Fossil Free Bylaw

Climate Action and Resilience Plan: Resilient Lexington

Lexington Community Farm

Farm Store Hours

Wednesdays and Fridays 12:00- 6:00pm 

Thursdays: 12:00- 7:00pm

Saturdays 10:00am- 4:00pm 

52 Lowell Street Lexington

Stop Private Jet Expansion

Tuesday Morning Standout to Spread the Word

Join us to spread the word: Stop Expansion of Private Jets! 

Tuesdays: 8:30am at Emery Park/Depot Square

Questions?: Email Jeanne Krieger jkriegerjk44@gmail.com, 

Margaret Coppe mecoppe@gmail.com 

Tom Wanderer  thomas.wanderer49@gmail.com

LPS Green Teams

Cleaning Closets? Support Our Schools & the Environment

95% of unwanted textiles can be reused or recycled. Baystate Textiles accepts "the good, the bad and the ugly" as long as they're clean and dry. You can drop off in the white bin by the parking lot at each of our schools. Baystate Textiles pays our schools $120/ton of material collected!

LexZeroWaste

Lexington Tree Warden and Tree Committee

Get Free Trees; Grow Public Shade: Lexington Tree Setback Program

Would you like to submit an environmental event or activity?

Email us at info@lexcan.org

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