This session of the radio show shares the output of The Climate Minute podcast episode hosted by Ted McIntyre, Franklin resident and climate activist, where he and I talked with Town Councilor Cobi Frongillo. We met to record via the Zoom conference bridge on Thursday, December 28, 2023.  

The key topic for this session is Cobi’s advocacy for Franklin to be part of the Climate  Leader Community program established by the State of MA. 

Our conversation covers the six criteria for this program:

• Be a Green Community in good standing 
• Have a local body (sustainability committee, energy committee, etc.) that advises the municipality on clean energy/climate initiatives 
• Commit to eliminate on-site fossil fuel use by 2050 (municipal buildings/operations) 
• Create a municipal decarbonization roadmap 
• Adopt a Zero-Emission Vehicle first policy 
• Adopt the Specialized Opt-In building code

This discussion continues our journey understanding the MA roadmap toward net zero and while it helps me “make sense of climate”, we hope it helps with your understanding as well. 

If you have climate questions or Franklin specific climate questions, send them in and we’ll try to answer them in a future session.  

The conversation runs about 53 minutes. Let’s listen to my conversation with Ted and Cobi. 

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Link to the MA page on Climate Leader Communities -> https://www.mass.gov/info-details/climate-leader-communities 

Links to other places you can find The Climate Minute

https://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/what-does-it-take-to-become-a-climateleader-community/ 

You can listen to the #ClimateMinute on ApplePodcasts

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-climate-minute/id589025783 

You can listen to the #ClimateMinute on Google

https://podcasts.google.com/search/the%20climate%20minute 

You can listen to the #ClimateMinute on Podbean

https://massclimateaction.podbean.com/ 

You can listen to the #ClimateMinute on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/3UIZfLRoUQVLXUY2jMAsCk 

** See the page that collects all the “Making Sense of Climate” episodes -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/02/making-sense-of-climate-collection.html 

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If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com

The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana"  c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.

I hope you enjoy!

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