Green Needham is a community-based group bringing together people and organizations to build a more sustainable community through collaborative efforts on energy and the environment. You can help by:
Upcoming Events
MCAN Steering Committee Meeting
The Massachusetts Climate Action Network's next Steering Committee meeting will be held in Melrose on Tuesday evening, September 14th...Read more on our blog September 2010 Green Needham Meeting - solar in the home
Learn more about solar energy for the home at our first Green Needham meeting of the season on Monday evening, September 20th...Read more on our blog Visit Green Needham at the Needham Harvest Fair
Green Needham will have a booth at the 2010 Needham Harvest Fair, Saturday, October 2, 2010 from 10 am to 3 pm at the Needham High School Memorial Field...Read more on our blog MCAN Annual Conference
The Massachusetts Climate Action Network's 2010 Annual Conference, "Act Locally or Sink Globally", will be held at Clark University in Worcester on October 24th, 2010...Read more on our blog From our blog...
Part 3: 10% Challenge Success StoriesNeedham family begins with mouse problem, ends with big savings and a neighborhood garden. Read this and our other "10% Challenge Success Stories". ...Read more on our blog
Posted: Aug 20th
News
Collaborative effort nets Needham schools EPA grant for EcoExplorers ProjectA collaborative effort involving multiple organizations has resulted in an EPA Environmental Education grant to the Needham Science Center. The two-year grant, totaling $44,500 plus in-kind grants of about $15,000, will be used to implement a collaborative environmental education program called the Eco-Explorers Project that fundamentally transforms the way our K-5 students and classroom teachers interact with the environment. Led by Science Center Director Mary Rizzuto and the SC staff, the project utilizes an Environmental Education Leadership Team (EELT) that functions as a professional learning community. The collaboration that made the proposal possible will not only continue, but expand, as the project will use the resources of over 11 community partners including Needham Community Farm, the Needham Public Schools Food Service, 5 Parent Teacher Councils (PTCs), Green Needham, Needham Department of Public Works, Friends of Woods and Waters, and the Conservation Commission. Eco-Explorers focuses on the environmental issue of Sustainability through hands-on, mind-on exploration, inquiry process skills, and authentic science-based learning. The project is designed to institutionalize an approach that will bring students from awareness to knowledge/skills, to problem-solving/decision-making, and to action/stewardship as 4th and 5th grade Eco-Rangers. Most importantly, teachers and students will experience environmental education embedded within the social framework of sustainability and multidisciplinary content rather than as a stand-alone subject. Read a two-page summary of the planned Eco-Explorers project here....See this item on our blog
Posted: Jun 17th
Town Meeting approves zoning for Met TowerEvaluation of the potential for wind power at Needham's RTS took an important step forward when Town Meeting approved two zoning articles permitting the erection of a temporary Met Tower ("Meteorological Tower") to measure the wind at the RTS. On the first night of this year's Annual Town Meeting, articles 3 and 4 were approved, creating a Temporary Meteorological Tower Overlay District at the Recycling and Transfer Station on Central Avenue. This change clears the way for the erection of the tower as envisioned in the Wind Power Feasibility Study that Green Needham and the Town have been working on for the last several years. The next step is the acquisition and erection of the Met Tower itself. The DPW and Public Facilities Departments will solicit and evaluate bids this summer, with a target of having the tower installed and taking measurements by early fall. For additional details and updates, see the Wind Turbine Feasibility pages on our wiki. ...See this item on our blog
Posted: May 15th
2010 EPA Environmental Merit Award presented at Faneuil Hall Ceremony
Green Needham is honored to be recognized with a 2010 award for its work to help make Needham a more sustainable community. The award citation noted that Green Needham has in just three years "dramatically increased public awareness and participation in the need to reduce energy use and carbon dioxide emissions". The EPA highlighted the "collaborative" in citing our work with "Needham residents, municipal government, schools, local businesses, churches and civic organizations to promote energy efficiency, energy conservation and clean energy as a way of cutting carbon emissions and saving money". Also playing a prominent role was the 2009 debut of the 10% Energy Challenge, with 464 households participating and committing to actions keeping almost 4 million pounds of CO2 out of the atmosphere. The a
Posted: Apr 23rd
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