Planet Awareness

Planet Awareness – Gardner MA

The City of Gardner Massachusetts has accomplished successes in Planet Awareness, including, but not limited to:

GardnerMagazine.com spoke with Gardner MA Mayor Michael Nicholson about what specifically falls in to the “Accomplished” category with respect to Gardner and Planet Awareness. Here’s what he had to say:

Mayor Nicholson: One of the things that we’ve been trying to do lately is really help reduce our carbon footprint and be more green in the actions we’ve been doing. We’ve applied for a couple of grants and we’ve gotten a few for new electric vehicle charging stations. With the latest being installed at the department of Public Works building at 50 Manca Drive this past week. That was funded through a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. At the same time, one of the things that were currently looking on is increased solar capacity in the city. Placing solar on the roofs of our public buildings. A potential solar canopy over the Knowlton Street parking lot. What that does is allow us to drop our energy uses on our city side, Not only saving us money, but also being more environmentally friendly. Working with the Keep Gardner Beautiful organization we’ve done our cleanup events, but they do a lot more than just pick up nips every now and then. But working on them now on creating a pollinator garden at some location in the city, that’s still to be determined. To really help not only diversify the plant life that we have here in Gardiner, but also make it more sustainable for the different bee pollinators and the different other pollinator insects in the area. It’s something that just helps us be more environmentally friendly and aware that Gardner doesn’t live in a Silo. While we’re here in Massachusetts, we’re also here as part of a greater picture that we have to do our part in.