Last year, Green Newton donated funds to purchase a lighted bus shelter to commemorate its 25 years of environmental activism. The bus shelter has now been installed and is in use! It serves the MBTA route 59 bus-stop at Walnut … Read More
Category Archives: Urban Development
In celebration of Earth Day 2016, Green Newton is donating funds to the Newton Tree Conservancy to cover the cost of planting seven trees on Saturday, April 23rd at 8:30 a.m. along the street/park at Richardson Field on Beethoven Avenue … Read More
Please tell Governor Baker to take the next step to support a market-based strategy in Massachusetts to reduce the impact of climate change by placing a price on carbon. Prices for fossil fuels do not reflect the true costs, including the health … Read More
Governor Baker’s MBTA Control Board recently presented two proposals, including one that would raise some T fares by over 10%. The administration also declared that passes were separate than fares and could be raised by any amount… at any time. Here’s what you … Read More
Professor Richard Primack of the Boston University Biology Department (also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Conservation and advisor to the Newton Conservators) is soliciting observations from volunteers for an article he is writing for the Newton Tab on the effects of the warm … Read More
“Urbanization.” That word has taken on special meaning in this season’s Aldermanic election. It raises the specter of The Garden City slowly becoming The Bronx. Apart from its use as a slogan, it adds nothing to a legitimate debate about … Read More
The following is an interview of Boston University Professor Nathan Phillips by Green Newton interns Lal Senyurt & Wendy Zhang. During our summer internship with Green Newton, we had the opportunity to interview Boston University Prof. Nathan Phillips, who teaches … Read More
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