Thursday, February 9 at 7pm. Online. With better awareness of BPA, PFAS, micro-plastic, and other hazards in our environment and in our bodies, concern over plastics pollution has been growing. Over the last 10 years, Newton has successfully eliminated the … Read More
At the next Newton Public Facilities Committee meeting on February 8 (agenda), city councilors will present a resolution supporting the creation of a city-wide plan to equitably achieve efficiencies, reduce emissions and risks of gas infrastructure and expediting electrification. Resolution … Read More
Thursday, February 9 from 7:30 -9:00pm. Online. Join the Newton chapter of Mothers Out Front as Lisa Cunningham from MOF Brookline and ZeroCarbonMa talk about their Brookline Climate Empowerment Plan and the success that they have had.
BOSTON – A broad coalition of public health, consumer, academic, environmental and community organizations praised the filing of a new bill to ban toxic PFAS. This group further urged lawmakers to cosponsor the bill and called for its swift passage. … Read More
When data analysts in Cambridge, MA saw through satellite imagery that the urban tree canopy of the city had precipitously shrunken, the City Council called it an emergency; a moratorium on removing healthy trees was put in place and the … Read More
Pollution Inequality Must Stop; Enforce Roadmap Law Projects In East Boston, Peabody, And Weymouth Are Forms Of Racism By Brita Lundberg and Adrienne Allen Jan 23, 2023 Massachusetts is home to some of the greatest inequalities in pollution in the … Read More
The Village Bank and the City of Newton have awarded the first two grants under their new Climate Change Microgrant Project. Launched in October, the project is designed to support local advocates undertaking initiatives to address climate change by reducing … Read More
Senator Cindy Creem has filed several climate bills in the new Massachusetts legislative session. We are excited to share the following summaries that are focused on mitigating and adapting to climate change. SD2330, An Act relative to the future of … Read More
Wednesday, February 1 at 7-8:30pm. Online. Scary headlines about the decline of the natural world that serves as our life support have spurred people across the country to take action by planting natives to help reverse this trend. No plant … Read More
All About Plastic We get a LOT of questions about plastics here at Recycle Smart MA, and we understand why. There’s a lot of confusion about which plastics can go in the recycling and which can’t. There’s also a fair … Read More
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