2023 Summer Internship

Daily Agendas and Resources

Week 5
Monday, July 24
Tuesday, July 25
Wednesday, July 26
Thursday, July 27
Friday, July 28

Week 4
Monday, July 17
Tuesday, July 18
Wednesday, July 19
Thursday, July 20

Week 3
Monday, July 10
Tuesday, July 11
Wednesday, July 12
Thursday, July 13

Week 2
Wednesday, July 5
Thursday, July 6

Week 1
Monday, June 26
Tuesday, June 27
Wednesday, June 28
Thursday, June 29

2023 Spring Session Resources

April 1 Resources - Session 4 Google Folder

• Jim Newman from Linnean Solutions

• Final Presentation Guidelines

• Project’s Guiding Principles

• Green & Solar Image Inspiration PowerPoint

• Awareness Campaign Activity Outline

• Instagram Awareness Campaign Template

• Poster Awareness Campaign Template

• Presentation Norms

• Images of April 1’s Final Maps

March 11 Resources - Session 3 Google Folder

• Angie Alberto Escobar - Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) - Slides

• Phase 1: Green Infrastructure

• Phase 2: Solar Infrastructure

• Phase 3: Combined Final Design

• Phase 4: Prepare for Sharing

• Images of March 11's Final Maps

February 11 Resources - Session 2 Google Folder

• Clover Model Strengths

• Plan A Party JamBoard

• Norms of Collaboration

• Session 1 Recap PowerPoint

• WHY ARE CITIES HOTTER THAN THE COUNTRYSIDE? - The Urban Heat Island (7:20)

• Visualizing System Thinking

• Health PowerPoint by Chloe

• Gardens and Green Space PowerPoint by Kylee

• Solar PowerPoint by Ross

• Introduction to Session 2 Challenges PowerPoint

January 21 Resources - Session 1 Google Folder

• Presentation by Shawn Luz & Barry Keppard

• Urban Heat Island: Improving Data for Sustainable Cities (5:21)

• Learn about Heat Islands

• Heat Islands and Equity

• MetroWest Climate Equity Project

• Feedback Loops: How Nature Gets Its Rhythms (5:10)

• What is System Thinking? (3:55)

• S.M.A.R.T.-E.J. Goal

General Resources

• What are Heat Islands?

• Impacts of Heat Islands

• Climate Change and Heat Islands

• Heat Islands and Equity

• Heat Islands Compendium - UHI Basics

• Heat Islands Compendium - Green Roofs

• Heat Islands Compendium - Trees and Vegetation

• Heat Islands Compendium - Cool Roofs

• WHY ARE CITIES HOTTER THAN THE COUNTRYSIDE? - The Urban Heat Island (7:20)

• MetroWest Climate Equity Project

• Home Owner’s Guide to Going Solar

• Solar Photovoltaic System Design Basics

• Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET)

• Geothermal Heating and Cooling Technologies

• Geothermal Heat Pumps

• Networked Geothermal

• Environmental Impacts of Food Production

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Different Kinds of Foods

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Different Kinds of Milks

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Food Waste and Article about Food Waste

• Water Use of Different Kinds of Foods (especially look at the figure: “How much water does it take?”)

• Framingham Transportation Master Plan

• Massachusetts Environmental Justice Populations Interactive Map