The City of Newton’s Five-Year Climate Action Plan, adopted in 2019, set forth ambitious goals to enable the City, its businesses, and residents, to reach the goal of Net Zero Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions by 2050. The Newton Citizens Commission on Energy (NCCE) has now set forth its recommendations…
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Three recent high-magnitude earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria have caused people to lose their lives as building after building fell. Many others have been seriously injured and in need of medical care. Some few have been rescued, not for want of trying. The death toll is now over 45,000 people.…
Large green and blue barrels dot the curbs all over Newton. If it alarms you as to how much trash and recyclables you and your family generate each and every week of the year, you are not alone. Newton’s Sustainable Management Commission has completed a report “Setting the Path to…
If you are thinking of getting an electric vehicle, now might be the best time. As Leslie Zebrowitz, co-chair of the Newton EV Task Force, explained in an op-ed in Fig City News last week, certain electric cars are eligible for a federal tax credit up to $7500 during January…
On December 22, Dr. Nathan Phillips, a Newton resident and climate activist, confronted the damage being done by the Merrimack Station coal-fired energy plant in Bow, New Hampshire, by chaining himself, along with another activist, to a train track, delaying the arrival of about 100 cars filled with coal to…
Going to the doctor’s? …to the grocery store? …to visit a friend in a long-term care facility? Newton’s seniors have many choices for how to get where they want to go. The City’s website has a new transportation page that sets out many options and provides details about MBTA bus…
Have you heard of “the Freedge,” a source of free food for anyone and everyone? Freedges are springing up in many communities. Our Newton Community Freedge is located at 420 Watertown Street on the property of Central Drapery and Dry Cleaning, which allows use of its parking lot for the Freedge shed…
For the past two years, the Charles River Regional Chamber has received and distributed state funds to pay for meals made by local restaurants and delivered to local food pantries by Newton Rotary volunteers, in a program called Nourishing Newton. Now, thanks to Senator Cynthia Creem, the program has been…