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The location of the picture representing Land Conservation / Management in Section 8.2.
What is World's End?
The appointee of this committee to the CAPC never got around to finishing the December 1, 2022 minutes.
What is the Conservation Commission?
According to Hingham residents, the top area they would like to see covered in the CAP.
What is renewable energy analysis and assessment?
Global investment in decarbonization passed this threshold number in the year 2022.
What is US$1 trillion?
The number of participants at the first CAPC Public Engagement Meeting.
What is 39?
The Sankey Diagram in the Climate Action Plan describes this in Appendix B.
What is the Town of Hingham Sources and Sinks for Carbon Emissions?
For warmest years on record, the year 2022 ranked at this number.
What is the sixth warmest year on record?
According to Hingham residents, the top climate concern facing Hingham.
What are heatwaves and droughts?
While not included in the CAP, a plan of this type is necessary to prepare for climate change.
What is a vulnerability and resiliency plan?
The most uttered address at CAPC meetings.
What is 53 Lafayette Avenue?
The owner of the Solar Panels pictured at the Conclusion of the Climate Action Plan.
Who is Michael Reive?
According to a survey of current Tesla owners, the biggest reason for not wanting to drive a Tesla.
Who is Elon Musk?
The part of their carbon footprint that Hingham residents are most willing to change.
What is waste management?
The largest known lithium deposit on the planet is located here.
What is Nevada?
This company met with the CAPC to propose solar-powered podways in Hingham.
What is Transit-X?
This former famous Washington, D.C. resident is briefly featured in the Buildings section for having completed a photo documentary with Hingham resident Frances Cooke Macgregor.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
First this item was good, then it was bad, and then it was relegated to a brief mention in footnote 31 in the Waste component.
What is a septic system?
According to Hingham residents, the biggest barrier to addressing climate change in Hingham.
What is the cost of implementation?
The predicted average U.S. temperature in 2100, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
What is 12 degrees Fahrenheit? [An increase of 3 degrees over today.]
The age of the youngest unchaperoned Hingham resident who actively participated in one of the CAPC Public Engagement Sessions.
What is 12?
The four things referenced in the outer ring of the Town Seal in the CAPC logo.
What are Church, School, Train-Band, and Town-Meeting?
The difference between the metric tons of carbon produced per person in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the average produced by a resident of Hingham.
What is 5.57 metric tons? [Hingham averaged 12.97 tons per resident in 2021 and the average per person in the Commonwealth was 7.4 tons in 2020.]
The number of online survey responses the CAPC received.
What is 362?
This CAP component has the most long-term action items.
What is Electricity Supply?
The total number of CAPC meetings, engagement sessions, presentations, and events, from September 22, 2021 (first meeting) through July 25, 2023 (Select Board meeting post-CAP approval).
What is 53? [54 if you count filming of our video!]