D2E - Changents

Welcome to D2E's Pitch the City contest online.

To show your support, "Back" the D2E Change Agent with the best plan for a more sustainable Boston. Join us for D2E the weekend of April 3-5 at the Hynes Convention Center – and see the winning idea announced on Sunday!

Environmentalist, recent grad of Boston College, interested in urban ecology and environmental justice.

Katherine Walsh

Grow Boston Greener: Let us improve community involvement, efficiency, and success rate of Grow Boston Greener

Cause Areas: Environment: Air, Global Warming, Land; Violence: Crime, Youth

12,204 Story Views

4 Action Requests

I invite you to warm-up your math attitude by reading about math in a style of "Sex and the City" - hip, entertaining and non-intimidating. Join my Puzzle Marathon. If you consider a relocation - check out my Green Family Relocation Tool: www.OptimalHomeLocation.com It takes into account your specific commute pattern and suggests a minimal commute location for your home. It saves time, reduces transportation expenses, lowers your carbon footprint and improves your well being.

Maria Lando

Presenting mathematics as cool, fun, non-intimidating and hip. Math that can improve your well-being and help save our planet.

Cause Areas: Education; Environment

2,109 Story Views

3 Action Requests

I propose a pedestrian-orientated “citizen’s passport” to make walking, biking, and other forms of alternative transportation more fun, educational, and rewarding. Local street-level businesses and institutions would be integrated as partners in the passport program and help to fund it.

Eran Segev

Leave the Car at Home People!

Cause Area: Environment

7,178 Story Views

5 Action Requests
Hi my name is John McCavanagh. I live and work in the city of Boston and I started a campaign to reduce the amount of plastic water bottles being used in our city.

John McCavanagh

Reducing Disposable Water Bottle Waste

Cause Area: Environment

4,137 Story Views

2 Action Requests

I am on a mission to eliminate gardening tools/methods that do damage to the environment. I am starting with an attempt to have the city of Boston eliminate the use of gas powered (two stroke engine) leaf blowers and restrict the use of gas powered lawn mowers to only large scale green spaces.

Mary Beth Vogel

eliminate gas powered leaf blowers and reduce use of gas powered lawn mowers

Cause Area: Environment

1,407 Story Views

Thomas is working to reduce the number of plastic bags being used in America!

Thomas Allison

Reducing the Number of Plastic Bags in the U.S.

Cause Area: Environment

891 Story Views

1 Action Request
The Mug Project ® is a community of individuals and organizations that advocate the use of mugs to reduce waste caused by single serve beverage containers.

Joseph Porcelli

The Mug Project: Use a mug. Reduce Waste. Get a discount! ®

Cause Areas: Environment: Conservation; Corporate Responsibility; Energy

6,926 Story Views

5 Action Requests

Murals related to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle that would be painted at Boston Public Schools and T stops, and on electrical boxes, with Recycling Bins next to the murals. The murals would engage Boston residents, workers, and visitors to reduce, reuse and recycle.

Alexandra Reilinger & Mimi Colson Leaning

WINNER: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Mural Project

Cause Area: Environment

6,202 Story Views

1 Action Request

Promote the use of better laundry practices in residential and commercial settings.

Alexander Lee

FINALIST: Get more people to hang out

Cause Areas: Environment: Air, Conservation, Endangered; Energy: Alternative, Fossil

6,051 Story Views

4 Action Requests
My name is Jess, and I run Green on the Inside, a green living consulting business in Boston. My idea for this city to get greener: make thinking and acting green easy! An awareness campaign directed at the public and making it simple for everyone.

Jess Lerner

WINNER: Get a Little Greener! Boston's public awareness and action campaign

Cause Areas: Environment: Air, Conservation, Endangered, Global Warming, Land; Health

8,680 Story Views

3 Action Requests

Environmentalist, recent grad of Boston College, interested in urban ecology and environmental justice.

Katherine Walsh

Grow Boston Greener: Let us improve community involvement, efficiency, and success rate of Grow Boston Greener

Cause Areas: Environment: Air, Global Warming, Land; Violence: Crime, Youth

12,204 Story Views

4 Action Requests

I invite you to warm-up your math attitude by reading about math in a style of "Sex and the City" - hip, entertaining and non-intimidating. Join my Puzzle Marathon. If you consider a relocation - check out my Green Family Relocation Tool: www.OptimalHomeLocation.com It takes into account your specific commute pattern and suggests a minimal commute location for your home. It saves time, reduces transportation expenses, lowers your carbon footprint and improves your well being.

Maria Lando

Presenting mathematics as cool, fun, non-intimidating and hip. Math that can improve your well-being and help save our planet.

Cause Areas: Education; Environment

2,109 Story Views

3 Action Requests

Action Requests

Katherine Walsh: Get Involved with GBG
Alexander Lee: Think About Dirty Laundry
Eran Segev: Walk/Ride Day: Friday, March 27
Alexander Lee: Send us your clotheslines
Joseph Porcelli: Give yourself a hug for me

Field Report Blogs

Alexander Lee Pennsylvania Mom trying to do the right thing for my kids

March 19, 2010

My husband and I moved to our Skippack, Pennsylvania home in 2001 with our 2 year old daughter, choosing this neighborhood because of it scenic views and a great school district. We knew this community had a Home Owners Association (HOA) but were told the only existing rules were to prohibit stockade fencing and to keep the grass cut. Unfortunately... Continue reading Pennsylvania Mom trying to do the right thing for my kids

Alexander Lee i've got the sags!

March 16, 2010

i'm looking for some advice from an expert on clotheslines.two years ago i replaced the clothesline in my backyard with a line i purchased at the hardware store - i think it's a natural fiber like woven cotten or something like that. when i hang my heavy wet clothes on it, it stretches and sags so the clothes nearly touch the ground. i untie it fro... Continue reading i've got the sags!

Alexander Lee Thermodynamics of Laundry Part 1 (Washing)

March 12, 2010

How much energy does doing the laundry take? The Washing MachineEnergy is used in the manufacturing process to produce the various steel and plastic parts of a washing machine. Wattzon estimates the amount of energy required to manufacture, transport, and dispose of a washing machine at just under 6 billion joules which equals 1,600 kilowatt-hours.... Continue reading Thermodynamics of Laundry Part 1 (Washing)

Alexander Lee Thermodynamics of Laundry, Part II (Drying)

March 11, 2010

Laundry laboratory, Margaret M. Carnegie School, Pittsburgh, PA, around 1910- 20.Last week we wrote about how much energy is needed to wash a load of laundry. Between 0.5 kilowatt-hours and 4.25 kilowatt-hours, depending on how much hot or warm water you use. Most of the energy is needed to heat the water, so by using cold water only we can reduce ... Continue reading Thermodynamics of Laundry, Part II (Drying)

Alexander Lee Granny D Stops at 100, Her Legacy Is Eternal

March 9, 2010

Project Laundry List mourns the loss of an American hero. Joining our Board of Advisors over a year ago and pledging to help make wrinkles cool again, Doris "Granny D" Haddock was a classy Victorian and frugal Yankee with the wit of Mark Twain and the bravery of a civil rights activist. Her accumulated wisdom and enduring common sense, her great ch... Continue reading Granny D Stops at 100, Her Legacy Is Eternal