I bought a Chevy Bolt Battery EV in 2017, when they first became available in Massachusetts.  It's my favorite car of the six I have owned over 50 years.  It is quiet, zippy, stable, and low-maintenance.  Its maximum range is about 260 miles in summer, 200 in winter.  All my driving is local, so I recharge in the garage and never need to look for a public charger.

In 2021 my wife needed a "compromise" EV that could run on battery for local trips, but could make an occasional long trip on gas without the delays of finding and using public chargers.  We bought her a used Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV). Her favorite feature is not having to pump gas.  The Clarity's battery range is 30-40 miles, so charging in the garage is sufficient for most errands.  If the battery runs low during a longer trip, the gas engine kicks in automatically and can provide an additional 250 miles.  During the first year we filled up the tank only twice.  This summer, on an 1800 mile trip using gas only, we got about 38 MPG.

We just got a new bin to hold our compost which is one of my new favorite things.  It has a cover w/ a filter and the compostable bag is shut (somewhat) when you shut the top.  Now we just need to be sure and keep up with our fruits and veg so we eat them before they compost themselves 🙂  

Since we are on a private septic system, the BOH won't allow a garbage disposal. So we just have a small aluminum pail to hold our kitchen scraps, and a couple of times a week, one of us carries it to the compost bin. We rinse out the pail, and the process repeats. We use a large, heavy-duty, purpose-built compost bin rather than an open compost pile to frustrate any animals that might be tempted by food scraps. The bin has a trap door down at the bottom, and by the time stuff makes it to the bottom of the bin, it is turned back into soil. Easy, simple, effective. If there is a downside, it would be that you need to take out the garbage even in the winter, and sometimes the lid gets a little frozen. It doesn't take much sun to warm it up and free it, and banging it with a fist also releases the frost. All in all, it just works.

We were thrilled to take the jump back in 2007 and be one of the original investors in the Harvard Community Solar Garden.  It was a great opportunity for us since our house was deemed too shady to qualify for other programs.  We enjoyed the initial years of rebate checks and now love the monthly credits against our electricy bill.

I've loved our electric lawnmower and weedwacker for several years and highly recommend. 
Last year I was gifted an electric pole saw to help manage our heavily tree-covered property and the ongoing need to steward the branch entanglement. Soon after I had the opportunity to use a full-sized electric chainsaw, a Husquvarna, and loved it. So much cleaner than a gas-powered, but the model was corded and I often need to access more remote spaces. Fortunately, Husquvarna's current electric chainsaw models are all cordless, battery powered. They're pricier than gas-powered models, but I bit-the-bullet and ordered one. It was a long wait-time and I hope the company's commitment to high-volume production, transition from gas-powered, improves. But the battery-powered chainsaw arrived earlier this summer and it's great so far. Easy to operate and maintain, equally powerful - if not moreso given the immediate full torque available with electric motors - and as portable as I need. The battery life has been sufficient for my needs to-date and the cadence of my approach on projects, but I think having 2 batteries would make longer project chunks easier. 

Advocacy on climate can occur at so many levels: global, federal, state, town, friends, and family. Over the years I've had the opportunity to engage in each and then some... advocating for academic programs to incorporate climate into public health curriculums, build courses on scope 3 emissions, and more. The first intentional climate advocacy I participated in was as part of Power Shift in DC in 2009. It was the first ever national youth conference to solve the climate crisis and we marched from the conference center to the coal power plant powering the halls of Congress, engaging in civil disobedience to convey the importance of leaders taking action on climate. That's one way to get started... dive on in. When the US's Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022, I reflected the ten-thousand peers who joined that conference and the tens and hundrers of millions of people who have been fighting for decades to see that mitigation and adaptation strategies are implemented and implemented equitably. Advocacy pays off, even if the results aren't linear.