Get Involved

Stop the Eversource Pipeline

Get connected with your local group working to stop Eversource’s proposed natural gas pipeline expansion in Springfield and Longmeadow! Please contact Naia Tenerowicz (rovingrabbit@protonmail.com) for the Springfield working group.

Click HERE for the Stop the Toxic Pipeline website, the dedicated website for both Springfield and Longmeadow’s fight against the Eversource pipeline.

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Call on the U.S. to pay its fair share of a just transition to renewable energy and for climate disasters in the Global South.

Please sign this petition with 350.org to urge U.S. special climate envoy, John Podesta, to commit the U.S. to funding a just transition and climate mitigation at COP 29 at the levels the climate crisis demands.

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Contribute to “Valley to Valley”

Connecting the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts to the Intag River Valley in Ecuador to build a sustainable future for us all.  Taking a small step toward climate justice reparations.

We are working with a group of Ecuadorian residents who have formed a cooperative to generate renewable energy as part of an alternative, sustainable economy. They need $200,000 to build a micro-hydro plant that will provide energy for farmers, craftspeople, and ecotourism projects. Please visit the project website and donate generously.

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Join Our Campaign to Protect Wildlands in Massachusetts!

If you find solace in woods and other wild places, why not join a positive, collaborative campaign that will protect wildlife areas where you live and across the Commonwealth.

Climate Action Now welcomes individuals and organizations to contribute to our new campaign to dentify and protect priority Wildlands. Learn about the campaign here, and sign up for our first campaign planning meeting on December 11 at 6:30pm here.

Climate Action Now’s Regenerative Farming, Forests and Food Systems group (RF3) launched this campaign in response to the report Wildlands in New England: Past, Present, and Future and because we understand that: healthy forests are key for carbon storage, biodiversity, regulating planetary systems, the water cycle and our own well-being. Forests are strengthened when natural processes are allowed to prevail.Our state is 60% forested but only 2% has been preserved as Wildlands — much of which lacks permanent protection.In a time when our ecosystem is under assault, protecting nature is an act of love and a defense of life itself. Find out more…

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Miyawaki Forest Collaboration with Grow Food Northampton!

Climate Action Now is partnering with Grow Food Northampton to plant a Miyawaki Forest on their land in the spring of 2025. This project emerged from CAN’s RF3. It promises to be family-friendly and fulfilling activity, with community-building days of planting and caring for the mini forest in its initial phase. 

Miyawaki Forests have been springing up all over the world. Tiny forests of native trees and understory plants that grow faster, and remove more carbon than trees planted in traditional ways, this method was first developed by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki in the 1970s and 80s. In recent years, communities and schools worldwide have planted these fast-growing little forests. 

Miyawaki forests are planted densely with a diversity of native plants of varying heights. Before planting, soil is enriched with locally-available organic matter. The forests are weeded and watered for only the first three years. Planted as “pocket forests” in cities, they cool overheated neighborhoods and support the ecosystem while drawing down carbon.

No Biomass

The No Biomass campaign has a dedicated website, run by the Springfield Climate Justice Coalition! Go to NoToxicBiomass.org to find the most up-to-date info about the campaign!

Burning woody biomass to generate electricity is even more polluting than burning most forms of coal. So electricity generated by burning woody biomass should not be eligible for rate payer subsidies meant for “clean” energy. Provisions ending this “biomass loophole” were stripped from the final climate bill. This means that Municipal Light Plants (town- and city-owned electric companies known as MLP’s) still qualify for rate payer funded subsidies when purchasing electricity from biomass plants. Until we close this loophole, incentives for wood-burning power plants in Massachusetts and neighboring states remain.

The active MLP loophole means that the proposed biomass plant for Springfield remains a threat as Palmer Renewable continues to appeal their permit denials in the Massachusetts court system. And polluting biomass facilities from neighboring states including CT, VT, and NH, are still eligible to receive Massachusetts ratepayer clean energy dollars.