<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Sierra Cape Cod Hosts Zoom Talk on 2023’s Cape-Wide Plastic Reduction Campaign</span></b></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">7 pm, Tuesday, February 2023 via Zoom</span></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="">Sierra Cape Cod’s monthly speaker series continues Tuesday,
February 21 at 7 pm with a Zoom update from Madhavi Venkatesan, PhD, on plastic
reduction bylaws proposed by citizens organized through
Sustainable Practices Ltd., a local nonprofit. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The talk is free and open to the public. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="">This year’s campaign focuses on foodware container and utensil bylaws, b</span><span class="">uilding on </span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsustainablepracticesltd.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7CSEMCO%40whoi.edu%7Cf91b0de609bc4c7f511f08db1411bc34%7Cd44c5cc6d18c46cc8abd4fdf5b6e5944%7C0%7C0%7C638125838618906703%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=M4KlGkYpIc1tq0gKrctz8xLEcYKrHfth%2FOg5eDWZBcg%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://sustainablepracticesltd.org/" shash="X9ftkatY+n5krxTtUFa8a8HkYXRBNuh3B6ZpAV/w41cYCoGFMVHSmopK3J2LFcYkgMRrNhRgEgvReNveZi8a+QD5ZyoaRB3u6Dl1t1FUJb6zgkrS0VkErIL4hNi2ZWK2f1NgOmpnxdYFRjwQxiNSvUVpuWOVhlmWfDrjqtqebTw=" class="">previous successes with single-use water bottle bans</a>. </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Town Meeting bylaw petitions have been submitted or are
planned by citizens in Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Eastham, Falmouth, Harwich,
Mashpee, Sandwich, Orleans, and Provincetown. Sustainable Practices also is pursuing
bans on commercial sale of single-use plastic water bottles in Sandwich,
Mashpee, Dennis, and Yarmouth. </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">In addition to being the nonprofit</span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">’</span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">s founder and executive director, Dr. Venkatesan is editor-in-chief of the journal </span><i class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Sustainability and Climate Change</i><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> and an associate teaching professor of economics at Northeastern University. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="">At the February 21 Sierra meeting, d</span>iscussion and Q&A will center around getting out the vote and countering opposition at upcoming Town Meetings. Please join us using the following link: <a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F89176128525%3Fpwd%3DV2R3QS9QaEF5cXhZY2xBRm1hQXJRdz09&data=05%7C01%7CSEMCO%40whoi.edu%7Cf91b0de609bc4c7f511f08db1411bc34%7Cd44c5cc6d18c46cc8abd4fdf5b6e5944%7C0%7C0%7C638125838618906703%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3sWez%2FkiXmYrDVCXNrMHXmo3H4IjTxGwz2YrvL1kuRA%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89176128525?pwd=V2R3QS9QaEF5cXhZY2xBRm1hQXJRdz09" shash="MpPpgklKisqoktJ/IiymgkeTaDBdcnzeEVtpPYOhMzUYTUuAhsSwJxWUghV1JY1rMsNwtLaonGO/+SFTTLqCnrHjzv+OkMe/Z8XhEoN88ENrZ7KWEBePJWR+j1xqeXa2kOzSpqdhmzSAwV1OvEM7eAiA6hjCgzeSjdCID9KxjPo=" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89176128525?pwd=V2R3QS9QaEF5cXhZY2xBRm1hQXJRdz09</a></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Best, </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Chris Powicki</span></div></div><div class=""><div><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Chair, Sierra Club’s Cape Cod & Islands Group</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">774.487.4614</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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