Join Mothers Out Front Newton (MOF/N) will host an online meeting, Ratepayer Ripoff?, on Monday, December 8, 7:30PM-8:30PM to discuss reshaping energy future. MOF/N aims to stop National Grid’s costly and wasteful gas pipe replacements and plan for a faster, fairer transition from fossil gas. Learn how to expand access…
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Newton will install solar panels on three additional City buildings, bringing its total solar projects to 27, as part of an effort to make the city carbon neutral by 2050. The new rooftop installations at Peirce Elementary School, Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School, and the Cooper Center for Active Living will contribute…
Are there empty spaces on the berms — the stretch of grass between street and sidewalk — around your neighborhood, where street trees once provided shade and beauty? Would you like to work with your neighbors and the Newton Tree Conservancy (NTC) to plant new trees? The Newton Tree Conservancy…
Follow outdoor enthusiast and naturalist Jeff Adams on Saturday, October 11, from 10AM to 12:30PM, for a guided nature walk at Newton’s Kennard Park sponsored by the Newton Conservators. This walk is mostly the same as the Kennard Park #1 guided walk. Walk participants will learn how to identify a…
Nahanton Park offers one of the best birding spots in Newton for fall migrants and resident species. On Sunday, October 12, from 8AM to 10:30AM, lifelong birder Haynes Miller will lead new and experienced birders on a search for fall sparrows—timed for their peak migration—and other avians in this gently…
Join Newton Cemetery & Arboretum (791 Walnut Streer) on Sunday, October 19 at 10AM for a fall tour through the winding roads of Newton Cemetery & Arboretum, led by staff arborists. Come see their new bare root tree plantings, thriving gardens, and hopefully a pop of fall color. The tour…
There will be a Fix-It Clinic at the Newton Free Library (330 Homer Street, Newton Centre) on Saturday, Oct. 19, 1:15PM-4PM, in the Druker Auditorium. If you have a broken household item in your home that you know you could fix with the right guidance, bring it to the clinic.…
The Newton Conservators will host an easy fall foliage ramble in Webster Woods on Saturday, October 25, from 10AM to 12 noon. Barbara Bates, a Newton Conservators director and retired Mass Audubon teacher/naturalist, will discuss the plants and natural histories of Webster Woods’s vernal pool, upland forest and other habitats.…
On Sunday, October 26, from 2PM to 4:30PM, Henry Finch, a Newton Conservators director and avid hiker, will lead a four-mile trek through Newton’s sections of the Sudbury and Cochituate aqueducts. Sponsored by the Newton Conservators, the walk is steady but not fast. Participants should be in sufficiently good shape…
Green Newton is running an Online Auction as part of it’s 35th anniversary celebration. This is a chance to bid on exciting items while supporting local climate action. Every bid you place helps cut greenhouse gas emissions and build a healthier future for Newton. The auction runs until 10PM on…