Newton’s Earth Day Festival will take place on Sunday, April 23 (12-4PM) at Newton City Hall, rain or shine. There will be fun activities for the whole family, including: This special event is full of opportunities to learn how to go green, live more sustainably, and save energy in your…
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The Swap Shop will reopen April 27, 2023. Hours: Thursday, Friday and Saturday 7:30AM – 1:30PM, April 27 through October 28. Clear out clutter without adding to the waste stream! Newton’s Swap Shop is located at the Newton Resource Recovery Center (115 Rumford Avenue). Drop off clean, usable, working unwanted items for reuse,…
Next in the series of webinars by the Newton Democratic City Committee’s Climate Crisis Subcommittee is a new program on April 27 at 7PM, called Getting Real About Getting Off Gas. (Register here.) The webinar seeks to provide a public forum about this dilemma: a relative abundance of natural gas and its…
Newton Community Farm (303 Nahanton Street) will hold an Open House on Saturday, May 6, 4PM-6PM. The event includes a dedication of the Dr. Eugene Rubin Greenhouse and a ribbon cutting for the solar array. In addition, City Energy Coach Liora Silkes, environmental organizations such as the Newton Conservators and…
Newton churches will ring their bells for 11 minutes at 11 AM on Earth Day, April 22, to signal that humans are deep within the eleventh hour of time remaining to address environmental issues, as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported only a few weeks ago in…
“We have a right to know. We have a right to be safe,” says Ellie Goldberg, a member of Campaign for A Future WithOut Gas, following a manhole explosion that occurred on April 6 at the intersection of Walnut Street and Lakewood Road in Newton Highlands. The explosion resulted in…
The Newton Conservators invite you and your kids to explore how early spring affects Cold Spring Park. We will let what catches participants’ eyes guide our walk! Early flowers and plants will be making themselves visible this time of year. Together, we will explore the trails along the swamp, woods,…
For over 400 years, the Charles River has been altered, controlled, and dammed to bend to the will of industry and profit. The river we know today is not free — but instead, a river radically changed by the long history of human intervention. We dammed its waters to power…
The Newton Conservators invite you to join a five-mile hike through woods, meadows, and fields along the Newton sections of the Sudbury and Cochituate aqueducts. This is a steady but not fast hike. Participants should be in sufficiently good shape to keep up with the group (there are cutoffs for…
Walk any street, sidewalk or park and you will find littered plastic waste, including bottles, packaging and even floss sticks. Plastic is truly everywhere, even in our bodies, in the fish we eat and in the stomachs of marine mammals. It is poisoning seabirds, the marine environment and ourselves. The…