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…
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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…
According to the MassDEP, New England is facing a landfill crisis. We are running out of space in existing landfills, and very soon we will have to ship our trash to other regions (whose residents are poorer and need the revenue). Even though Newton incinerates its trash, there is still…
On March 22, the Newton City Council’s Programs and Services Committee will begin discussing a proposal that would ban the sale or distribution of more than one dozen plastic items and limiting the availability of many other items. Among other things, the ordinance would forbid the sale of plastic water…
On the agenda at a recent meeting of the Newton Highlands Neighborhood Area Council were updates on the Levingston Cove and Crystal Lake projects. Luis Demorizi, Open Space Coordinator for Newton Parks, Recreation & Culture, reported that work on Levingston Cove is projected for completion in June, weather permitting. Newton…
Gas is not safe, not clean, not green. With our own eyes we see how the climate crisis is increasing the social and financial costs of increasingly extreme weather. The answer is to stop burning fossil fuels while transitioning to a rapid, equitable transition to carbon-free energy sources. On March…