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By JULIAN MENDOZA
GREENFIELD — Despite being among the youngest in the room, a group of teenage environmentalists were turned to for guidance during a climate action panel at the Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew. Their generation, after all, will be most...
By PAM KELLY
To understand the plight that we human beings are in, you have to understand what causes climate change, rising temperatures and weather instability. To sum it up, the cause is increasing greenhouse gases. There are about six families of greenhouse...
By JULIAN MENDOZA
MONTAGUE — Red Fire Farm’s Ryan and Sarah Voiland joined hundreds of farmers from across the U.S. for a climate rally in Washington D.C. last week, marching to the Capitol before meeting with legislators to ask for climate change policy to be a...
By CHRIS LARABEE
With last month marking the warmest January on record for Massachusetts and New England, updated data from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is also putting the region on pace for one of its warmest winters ever.The average temperature in...
By BELLA LEVAVI
When members of the all-volunteer Shelburne Energy Committee found out that the Cowell Gymnasium was the biggest municipal energy user in the town, they worked together to make a change. The group obtained a Green Communities grant of about $120,000...
By CHRIS LARABEE
While campaigning, one of Gov. Maura Healey’s climate priorities was to place a moratorium on commercial logging on state-owned forest land, a move that foresters and environmental advocates say would be detrimental to forest health, the state’s...
By BELLA LEVAVI
CONWAY — Shelburne Falls resident Karina Lutz, a facilitator with the Work That Reconnects Network, says anxiety found in your body is often your mind’s attempt to make change. This can be true when it comes to interpersonal relationships, difficult...
By RUSS VERNON-JONES
Sometime on Nov. 15, 2022, according to demographers, a baby was born somewhere in the world who brought the number of humans living on the planet to eight billion. That’s a lot of us!How does population growth relate to our efforts to solve the...
By JULIAN MENDOZA
WHATELY — While winter’s warmest days remind us that our climate’s future could be bleak, the future generation reminds us that it may not have to be.Stephanie Apanell’s fourth grade class at Whately Elementary School joined forces with Amherst’s...
By CHRIS LARABEE
WHATELY — As the town examines land around Exit 35 on Interstate 91, it is partnering with a local sustainable design school to take inventory of the environmental resources available.Members of Whately’s new Climate Resilience Planning Committee will...
By CHRIS LARABEE
If you felt last year was historically warm, new data from the University of Massachusetts Amherst confirms that feeling as 2022 marked the sixth-warmest year and second-warmest summer on record in the state.With statewide temperatures averaging 50.3...
By DANIEL A. BROWN
I collect old LIFE magazines and was recently surprised to see a two-page advertisement in a February 1962 issue by Esso (Later Exxon) boasting that each day, they “Supply enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier!” Those were the exact words...
By CHRIS LARABEE
When it comes to producers of greenhouse gas emissions, the usual suspects are the airplanes flying over our heads or fossil fuels being burned to generate electricity, but the waste we generate every day contributes a significant amount of methane to...
By MARY BYRNE
On her fourth day in office on Wednesday, Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer joined legislators and climate activists from across the state, including many from western Massachusetts, who gathered to celebrate the efforts of the new administration and...
By CHRIS LARABEE
The cooperation of Bernardston and Leyden has historically run deep, as the neighboring towns share a school district, a transfer station and, most recently, a shared-policing agreement. Now, the two towns are coming together again, this time for an...
By CHRIS LARABEE
CONWAY — In an effort to help people process their anxiety over the environment and climate change, a Conway artist is forming an eco-grief support group.Hannah Harvester’s weekly community support group is designed to help people process their...
By CHRIS LARABEE
DEERFIELD — Just a few years after Deerfield became the first community in the state to be approved for the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program (MVP), the town is again at the front lines of climate resiliency with an award-winning soil...
By JACOB NELSON
With Agric Organics, Hameed Bello and his wife, Ayo, are intent on building an urban farm that can be a multi-faceted resource for their community in Wilbraham, supplying farm-fresh food, health and education while withstanding the challenges of...
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