Swamp Things: Waban neighborhood inundated with water, rats, raccoons and snakes
Editor's note: An earlier version said the sewer relining has been going on "for months" but it's been going on for several years. A neighborhood [...]
Cooper Center wins $30K award for clean energy, innovative construction
The Cooper Active Living Center isn't even built yet and it's already winning awards. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center recently named the currently-in-construction senior community [...]
Electrification ordinance has passed: What does that mean?
Newton’s City Council last week voted to approve a new ordinance that requires all new construction and major renovations in the city to run on [...]
Candidates talk climate policy in second debate
Newton's candidates for state representative debated climate change and environmental policy Thursday evening at Newton City Hall. Amy Sangiolo and Alex Jablon are competing for [...]
Letter to the Editor: Electrification needed to fight catastrophic climate change
To the editor, My response to a letter by Jeffrey Pontiff: Unchecked global warming will be catastrophic as the earth will become too hot and [...]
Letter to the Editor: Elected officials and hypocrisy with electrification
Elected Officials to Newton: “Do as I say, not what I do.” The council is moving forward with a fiat that prevents all new development [...]
Electrification mandate? Not so fast, says Carolyn Kraft
As an energy overhaul proposal moves forward that would require all new construction and major renovations to run on electricity and not fossil fuels, that [...]
Letter to the Editor: We’ve fought fake grass for two decades
Twenty years ago we, the concerned citizens of Newton, collected signatures under a petition to stop the use of artificial turf. We presented scientific proofs [...]
Photos, Videos: Newton’s Earth Day Festival 2024
Newton held its third annual Earth Day Festival on Sunday at Newton North High School. There were games, climate change informational displays, a petting zoo, [...]
Athletic field improvements to start this summer
The city will soon turn plans for improvements to the athletic fields at Albemarle Park, McGrath Park and the Burr School into reality. The goal [...]
With landfills closing, composting could significantly reduce waste
Trash isn’t typically front-of-mind for most residents, except when it's time to haul the bins to the street the night before pickup. But here’s the [...]
Newton program looks to ‘contain’ plastics pollution problem
Plastic is a problem for the environment. And Newton North High School has become part of the solution, with a new pilot program offering reusable [...]
City Council sends electrification ordinance back to committee
The Zoning and Planning Committee recently voted for approval of an ordinance that would require all new construction and major renovations in the city to [...]
Newton adds three more food waste drop-off sites
Composting in Newton just got a little more convenient. On Feb. 19, the city announced it was making more food waste drop-off sites available around [...]
Green Spring: New environmental ordinances take effect in March
March brings with it longer days, the start of spring and some madness over college basketball. In Newton this year, March also brings a few [...]