• MA Senate Discusses the Value of the Mass Save Program

    Virtual Event

    The Senate Committee on Climate Change and Global Warming will host a hearing discussing the value of the Mass Save program. The hearing will focus on the program’s cost effectiveness,...

  • The High Cost of Nuclear Power

    Virtual Event

    Nuclear power has significant economic, health, and environmental costs and poses safety hazards that far exceed those of any other type of energy. We'll discuss why "new nuclear" is a...

  • Studio HPDC Barn Tour

    Studio HPDC Barn 942 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA

    Join Studio for High Performance Design and Construction (Studio HPDC) for a project tour of their "High-Performance Barn Raising" renovation. Some highlights: Original barn boards incorporated into the finished carpentry...

  • Wilderness and Roadless Forests for Watershed Health

    Virtual Event

    Mike Anderson of the Wilderness Society will present data about forests and watershed health, discuss threats to forest and watershed research due to the current federal administration’s dismantling of the...

  • How Heat, Air Quality & Trees Affect Our Health

    Newton Dems Environmental Committee
    Virtual Event

    As climate change heats up our world, how does that affect our health? Come to the latest webinar in the Newton Dems’ series “What Voters Should Know This Election Year”...

  • Workshop: Build Your Own Self-Watering Veggie Planter

    Fulfilled Goods 1280 Centre St # 6, Newton, MA

    Fulfilled Goods is all about reusing and repurposing existing materials vs. tossing them in a landfill. Many of the products in the refillery come in 5 gallon buckets. The empties...

  • People Over Utility Profits: Boston Rally

    Eversource Headquarters 800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA

    Mass Power Forward is holding a statewide rally asking legislators to cut their ties to utilities and pass a climate bill that puts people over utility profits. By rally day,...

  • Historic Newton Plant Swap

    Durant Kendrick House 286 Waverley Ave, Newton, MA

    Bring surplus plants, tools, seeds, gardening supplies, or gardening books to the Historic Newton's annual Plant Swap and take home new ones. How does the plant swap work? As you...