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The City of Cambridge has signed a new, 36-month electricity supply contract with Direct Energy for the Cambridge Community Electricity Program. With this contract, the City reaffirms its commitment both to creating more local renewable electricity and to providing Cambridge residents and businesses with competitive pricing and access to cost-effective, clean electricity.

Learn the legal basics of running your business online, including Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, data privacy laws, copyright concerns and customer/web user communications.

Beginning November 1, 2022, commercial generators that produce more than 1,000 lbs of food waste per week will be required to reduce or divert their food waste going into the trash. To assist small businesses in Cambridge with this state regulation, the service and carts will be provided by the city at no cost to the participating businesses. Weekly collection is anticipated to start on October 24, 2022.

Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Nina Guilbeault, PhD—sociologist, author, educator, and cofounder of the nonprofit Plant Futures—for a discussion of her new book The Good Eater: A Vegan’s Search for the Future of Food. She will be joined in conversation by Michael Pollan—Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction at Harvard and author of nine books, including This is Your Mind on Plants. Registration is required.

Through this program, Electrify Cambridge will provide no-cost advising by technical specialists on all measures that can electrify a home or residential building. Those measures include heat pumps, solar panels, weatherization, water heaters, induction stoves, electric vehicle chargers, and more. Electrify Cambridge specialists will also help residents tap into all available state and federal incentives.

“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” is in order of importance. It is better to reduce than reuse; better to reuse than recycle. Reducing and reusing prevent the environmental impact of making new items. All disposal has financial costs to the city. Recycling and composting cost the City less than trash. Still, preventing waste in the first place is best for Cambridge and the environment. It is one of the key recommendations in the Cambridge Zero Waste Master Plan.

The Cambridge Multifamily Retrofit Program is a City initiative designed to help 5-49 unit apartment and condo buildings save money on utility bills, improve comfort, and make your building more efficient. Attend this webinar to hear from City staff, the Retrofit Advisor, and the Solar Advisor to learn how you can access no-cost advisor services to identify opportunities and incentives for your building.

The Cambridge Multifamily Retrofit Program is a City initiative designed to help 5-49 unit apartment and condo buildings save money on utility bills, improve comfort, and make your building more efficient. Attend this webinar to hear from City staff, the Retrofit Advisor, and the Solar Advisor to learn how you can access no-cost advisor services to identify opportunities and incentives for your building.

Learn about a free program that helps adults go to college. Some sessions are online and others are in-person. Look below and click on the link to sign up!

Learn about a free program that helps adults go to college. Some sessions are online and others are in-person. Look below and click on the link to sign up!