Ninety-five percent of Acton’s households get their water from the Acton Water District. This water comes entirely from shallow water wells from within the boundaries of the Town. Only certain geological settings are suitable for extracting water, and most of the good sites in Acton have been drilled already, or are unavailable for drilling. Conscientious… Continue reading →
Black Lives Matter statements of October 2016
The Green Acton Board of Directors just issued two statements through our social media accounts:
Materials Committee
Mission: The Green Acton Materials Committee monitors material goods in Acton to reduce the use of hazardous substances, promote recycling of materials, and encourage alternative, more environmentally friendly products, production methods, and activities. The Committee engages on these issues with residents, representatives of Town government, and businesses.
Projects
Individual development projects, proposed by the Town or by developers, are the circumstances in which sustainability priorities can run most strongly counter to the pressures of the profit motive or notions that more growth is helpful to Acton.
Complete Streets
Acton created a Complete Streets policy that was adopted by the Board of Selectmen in 2014. Here it is as a PDF file.
Background: Water in Acton
Water flows into Acton from rain and groundwater, and from a few small streams that flow into Acton.
Acton Water District
The Acton Water District (AWD) is a state-chartered governmental entity, separate from the Town of Acton, responsible for providing adequate amounts of safe clean water to the District’s business, residential, and municipal customers. They have a lot of useful educational and technical material on their website about Acton’s water supply. Documents AWD web site AWD… Continue reading →
Franny Osman, local transportation advocate
Actonian Franny Osman was awarded an ‘unsung heroine’ award by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women in June of 2016. Franny fought with patience and persistence to extend Acton’s public transportation options. Here’s the Beacon article on Franny’s award.
Regional Food and Agriculture
Attention to our local and regional “foodsheds” has never been more widespread or more important, given impacts of climate disruption, loss of farmland to development, pollution of aquifers, degradation of soils from decades of chemical farming, and increasing periods of drought experienced by areas of the country we once regarded as our national and endlessly productive larders. Massachusetts… Continue reading →
Acton Power Choice
Acton Power Choice (APC), which launched in Fall 2017, is Acton’s bulk purchasing program for electricity.UPDATE: the second contract period for Acton Power Choice began in September 2019, with a new supplier, Constellation. See ActonPowerChoice.com for details.