the potential for some significant changes there and while the appeals does so much for the community to provide you know food for free for people there's all kinds of research that goes on in that station from agricultural research to climate research course they teach kids about vegetables and chickens so they really do need our advocacy and i think that that is that's basically that's basically it on our next meeting is going to be back to the usual routine will be the st month st wednesday of the month i believe that's april th and we're actually going to have a short presentation from the folks at build on housing to us so composting assembly if you will i had the leader of sustainable lexington come and we did this whole table to kind of show the students how like their banana became like a plant coming to work right but we had pictures it was really exhilarating dave and we'll came and showed up the guy from black earth justin was there they were there for all inches it was just a really remarkable event i invited failon and he was in a meeting but you know i can just kind of feel the energy that there's this is going to have support it's coming and so i just want to say thank you to our representatives for you know having the steadfast courage to come show up on a really busy day in the middle and wednesday and give the support to the che students it means a lot so thank you i will also keep it short i just wanted to say a couple words just to make sure that people don't forget about composting as an important means of mitigating carbon emissions and greenhouse gases in general if they say that if landfill emissions were a country it would come in rd after the u s and china for greenhouse gas emission newsworthy activities of the energy committee and in particular i better leave for the climate action roadmap for belmont and it will be in the town warrants of the town the climate action road map is an attempt to basically put more is that we have a hide option of these electric vehicles and the rd is that we start a strong campaign to push towards moving people from gas and oil heating in to electric heat pumps which operate look a lot like air conditioners but they're both heating and cooling services so we have those three initiatives in goals in the act climate action road map putting out resolution towards town on the warrant for town meeting and more importantly we're actually having someone from the is to sustainable energy and then also the my very own chris roy to talk about their perspective additionally starting in april belmont was chosen by the states to run a heat pump heat pumps and all of this can be summarized on a brand new website don't mock climate action dot org which is the energy crews kind of outreach website which is supposed to help collect all of the clime action stuff for belmont so feel free to send stuff like rushing up to the table and very curious and interested so it's this really is a cool thing and i came straight from the house today we just passed two pieces of legislation i knows about the environment but just quickly one floor today of the house as to whether my blue tie up with my purple shirt pearlie curly some people said yes some people said no so that was that was interesting to me but there is a lot of energy in the house and in the legislature this session about byron militias generally so i've been asked to speak about some legislation i found out quickly get to that but just just a minute or two quickly on some of the things percolating generally  a lot of legislation has been filed in the house and the senate the government as you may have noticed as proposed essentially a tax increase on real estate transfer fees to fund climate programs and then there is just a multitude of bills filed in the house and senate on environmental issues and i'm proud to be a supporter of many of those and i'm not new to this fight if you will i worked at the environmental protection agency i work for a clean energy company and i've always cared about environmental issues this coming weekend i'm a friend out of state just bought a  and i'm flying out of state i've rented a pickup truck and she on and her family are building or trying to start a farm with sustainable farming practices and i'm actually going literally just closed on the property and i'm going to help them set up the farm  for a few days and that's pretty exciting about that but as for specific legislation i filed this session i have filed in conjunction with the seal last the conservation law foundation a whole series of bills related to reducing waste so one bill i filed you can sit there if you want it's fine it's  one so i have proposed a bill ready to ban styrofoam and that would be come january two thousand and twenty it's aspirational that's a big leap to bare styrofoam completely but if you i found in the state house if you don't kick start conversations they don't really ever get going i have filed a bill to essentially ban or reduce the use of single use plastic straws in california they've already done this it's an interesting thing when you talk about legislation the nuances and the complexity because the disability rights group said well some disabled folks need extra so you can't we shouldn't bear them so there's an exception so the restaurant or other providers are simply told that they should not offer it if it's the cost of those are some of the major bills i filed specifically related to really reducing waste as one other one and that is to make sure that the cap on the plastic bottle to this one of the most interesting when you finalists places how much you learned from the advocates who work on it and what i didn't know you can do is that there are essentially seven different kinds of last one there are literally numbers one through disappearing so i filed a whole lot of other bills i could talk about them quickly i filed a bill to form a regional compact for offshore wind we made great strides i would say in the last two sessions while we've seen at the federal level pulling out of the paris climate accord recently with clean power plan that obama administration put in place and other retreats on the environment here in massachusetts during the last two sessions we've done a lot of good things in your in your way now eight hundred megawatts coming online another two thousand four hundred megawatts authorized energy storage has been given a big boost by state law repairing gas leaks so we've done a lot and we've gotten some good decisions out of the supreme judicial court as well on the environment are you related not great players not having to pay for the cost of pipelines and so there are a lot of good things happening at the state level i'm thrilled to be working them i have fact sheets on a lot of my legislation and other legislation and i look forward ready to this not being a one time conversation that the legislation leaves legislative session has just kicked off there's tremendous momentum so i hope this is the beginning of an ongoing dialogue and then the final thing really quickly if i could ask them to come forward my staff here are not and michael because he's really just come over real quick  face or you know who they are they do tremendous work for this district they've credibly of are working incredibly smart young folks i'm proud to work with them and i i ask them to take time from their schedules to night come out just so you know who they are and and so a matter of fact if you would please thank the that if i if i she and i disagree is always a fifty percent chance i'm wrong and so i'm i'm i'm willing to be part of that is he you know what i'm just going to speak never was going to throw enough money associated with each with each new housing unit to sort of pace i just never going to happen and i also don't think that it's actually like the critical thing that will make news decide to do this maybe the people want to you know sort of and at the same time to have a decent percentage of those affordable that is right now that meeting tomorrow night on and on and other people contacted members of the planning board i think that would be very helpful things we would do something and all fit together to serve the needs of mclean and to serve the needs of the john mcclane very much wants to sell off their property and make some money and the other thing they're doing is to expand their olling to the school which is a very good thing to do it's the children who have the shoes and we know that there are never enough beds for those children so this is a very good thing and they're doing that in another area and they could use the money to do for boston and there seems to be a lack of recognition that people who drive you know are benefiting because all those people are on the road and then you know you've got not so much just for the specifics of this proposal but what i would argue to my colleagues in the house that means revenues on the table and i have filed a revenue bill to increase the long term capital gain that millionaire's tax around sensually brand concept my understanding maybe others in the room know it's the only place in the world that i'm aware of that has adopted carbon pricing i believe is the problems that are needed problems a british court i'm not aware of other places that have so so imagine getting one hundred and sixty representatives and forty senators to say only one other place in the world has done it's kind of a branding concept and we want you to to do this i'm not saying that's a reason not to but it makes it don't mistake my point that you know these towns are not developing that way because their desire for a lot of people but clearly also part of the reason is that other surrounding communities have a much more says i think it's fifty million times a year of the ways are created and we all know this in our basement singur arches there's all kinds of stuff clock radios and what have you that no on work but we don't think we can afford it makes sense affordably to fix the answer is yes you actually can fix them affordably and you should definitely think about doing that before you just throw them in the trash because all those circuit boards go into landfills just as an example actually the tokyo lympics that's coming out all of the gold medals will be made from gold that was rescued from the circuit boards both for the olympics  good just give you a sense of how much air is this stuff but there's a lot of gold is very valuable metal there's a lot of other stuff that just seeps into the gutter basically it's highly poisonous so physically fix clinics are a way to try and stem some of that stream of ways and also kind of reconnect us with this very american notion of print right and trying to get as much of life and usefulness of the things that you use it's a very mechanically frankly years old and young i think i might be up and from america and it's going to be at the library again and stay tuned for more information on it and also just in your personal lives that there's things that you're like  oh this is broken i'm never going to get a fix and you're about to throw in the trash maybe set it aside and bring it in and get a fix and astri said if you are any with tools if you like take things apart and fixing them we could probably use you as a fix a clothes coa we'll say we blew away the fix it organizers with the number of coaches that we had signed up they're like we've never seen this many we had like fourteen coaches sign up and they were like this is unreal so we had a really good showing but we want to make sure the next one of massachusetts for automobiles that's why you can continue to take your car to an independent repair shop or even fix it in your own driveway automakers can't walk he went with software to means and we were trying to extend that to convincing but tell them that you support it and hopefully will be one of their sixteen states considering this type of legislation hopefully massachusetts we want to pass this and that's