Monday, October 21 from 7-8pm. Online. Meat production and commercial fishing consume lots of natural resources while generating significant amounts of pollution. Learn how to minimize your environmental impact, and benefit your health, with a plant-based diet. Led by Sara … Read More
Fall is the best time to start transitioning lawns to organic. The key to a healthy lawn is healthy soil and good mowing, watering, and fertilizing practices. Healthy soil contains high organic content and is teeming with biological life. Healthy … Read More
Wednesday, September 18 at 1pm. Online. Artificial turf poses a number of health and environmental concerns, including chemicals in artificial turf materials, plastic pollution in the environment, habitat loss, and excess heat. Recent research has shed additional light on the … Read More
During a talk by Douglas W. Tallamy, an entomologist at the University of Delaware, he suggested controlling mosquitos at the larval stage instead of the adult stage. Spraying adult stage mosquitos requires spraying at such high concentration that it kills … Read More
High temperatures increase risks of heat stress during physical education, sports, and other outdoor activities such as marching bands and cheerleading practice. And the danger increases as temperatures and humidity rise, especially on artificial turf fields that get significantly hotter … Read More
Thursday, July 25, from 7-8pm. Online. Join a virtual screening of a documentary about PFAS called “The Poison In Us All” with a discussion following the film on how to take action on a bill in the Massachusetts legislature that … Read More
Newton replaced the artificial turf fields at Newton South High School last year and is in the process of replacing the field at Newton North High School. The City has promised that the old material would be recycled and reused … Read More
In the July 11, 2024 opinion piece “Massachusetts Residents’ Health Depends on Fossil Fuel-Free Buildings” on the non-profit news site Energy News Network, authors Lisa Cunningham and Dr. Wynne Armand equate the persistent residential use of fossil fuels to the … Read More
The Slotes made climate-friendly updates to their home, adding insulation, heat pumps, solar panels, and more. Jon Slote of Newton, Massachusetts, is a proud grandfather. And he’s concerned about how climate change will affect his three grandchildren. Slote: “They didn’t … Read More
There is a heat dome projected to come to the Northeast this week with temperatures in the low to high 90’s from Tuesday through Friday. Please prepare for the heat wave by making yourself aware of nearby cooling centers, installing … Read More
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