• 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” to find out about the relationships that heat, air quality, and urban trees have to illness and mortality rates. Learn how these are public health...

  • 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 are usually sent back to their closed-loop partners to clean and reuse, but this time around they are holding on to them for global buckets...

  • 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,  legislators will have just 50 days to pass climate legislation to help make energy clean and affordable. Join the rally in Boston and make your...

  • 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 check in, volunteers will confirm the number of plants/supplies you've brought, provide you with tickets for that number of items, and help bring your plants...

  • The Approaching MA Climate Bill Showdown

    Massachusetts Climate Action Network
    Virtual Event

    The State Senate will imminently take up this session’s major climate bill. Despite many positive provisions, Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) has concerns; the largest is that the House version includes a devastating $1 billion cut to Mass Save. Climate advocates must mobilize now to ensure that the bill that ends up on the Governor’s...

  • ‘The Problem With Plastic’ Book Talk with Author Judith Enck

    Brookline Booksmith 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA

    Join Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics and David Abel, award-winning Boston Globe reporter, for a free talk about the new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late.

  • Waterfest at the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

    Metropolitan Waterworks Museum 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, MA

    Come learn more about local and global water conservation and technology, all while enjoying fun, family-friendly games, crafts, and other activities. Mothers Out Front and ProtectNewtonTrees will present demonstrations on how to measure and calculate the climate benefits of trees, especially their significant role in regulating the water cycle and the quality and quantity of...