Thursday, October 12 from 4:30-5:30pm. Online. Green Newton School Connections will meet online this month. Come and meet other parents, teachers, and other NPS community members who want to make our schools more sustainable. (See agenda) Green Newton School Connections … Read More
Here are some practical tips on how to be more sustainable this Halloween: Beg, borrow, swap or make your costume. Connect with your friends and neighbors and see if they have any costumes from previous Halloweens. Organize a fun costume … Read More
Join students from around the world in celebrating International Walk-Ride-Roll Day on Wednesday, October 4 by ditching the car and walking or biking to school (and work). Newton Safe Routes to School and Massachusetts Safe Routes to School are great … Read More
Tuesday, October 3 at 7pm. Online. Endocrine disruptors in plastics are associated with a 50% decline in adult male sperm counts over the past five decades and are implicated in the enormous leap in rates of autism and ADHD among … Read More
All released balloons return to Earth as ugly litter – including those marketed as “biodegradable latex”. Balloons kill countless animals and cause dangerous power outages. They can travel thousands of miles and pollute the most remote and pristine places. Balloons … Read More
Thursday, September 14 from 4:30-5:30pm. Burr School garden (171 Pine St., Auburndale). Green Newton School Connections will meet for its first meeting of the school year. Come and meet other parents, teachers, and other NPS community members who want to … Read More
Saturday, September 9 from 9 am – 11 am. Wellington Park, West Newton (entrances on Kilburn Rd. and Princess Rd.). Come and learn about local efforts to help the endangered Monarch butterfly at the Third Annual Newton Monarch Festival. which will … Read More
My name is Coral Lin, and I am a current junior at Duke University studying public policy and economics and minoring in environmental science and policy. From 2017 to 2021, I was a youth volunteer with Green Newton, where I … Read More
PFAS are a class of over 12,000 chemicals that are toxic at low levels. Despite their toxicity, PFAS are used in many everyday items, like clothing, dental floss, food packaging, cookware, personal care products, and more. PFAS is also especially … Read More
Cash register receipts use 3,680,000 trees and 10 billion gallons of water every year in the US. Production and disposal of receipt paper generates unnecessary waste and emits the carbon equivalent of over 471,000 cars on the road. An estimated … Read More
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