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Green New Deal town hall with Senator Ed Markey in Framingham

Green New Deal town hall with Senator Ed Markey in Framingham

Long before the Green New Deal, then-representative Ed Markey led the charge in the US House of Representatives for climate change legislation. In the summer of 2010, the United States was as close as it has ever been to addressing

Michael Greis August 16, 2019 Climate Change, Legislation, Legislation and Policy Read more

Learn About Pending Massachusetts Environmental and Energy Legislation and How to Engage with Legislators

Learn About Pending Massachusetts Environmental and Energy Legislation and How to Engage with Legislators

A full slate of environmental and energy legislation has been filed on Beacon Hill. There is a sense of urgency among legislators to take stronger action to meet Massachusetts’ climate change and clean energy economy goals. Leaders in both the

Michael Greis April 18, 2019May 7, 2019 Advocacy, Legislation, State Read more

GO GREEN Needham Expo Spotlight: Mass Climate Action Network

GO GREEN Needham Expo Spotlight: Mass Climate Action Network

To gear up for National Recycling Week, GO GREEN Needham is holding a family-friendly expo event on Saturday, November 10 from 10am to 4pm at Needham Town Hall. Over the next 7 weeks, we will be spotlighting participants. To see

Stephen Frail September 24, 2018October 13, 2018 Advocacy, Expo, Legislation, State Read more

Make the Climate your Valentine: three powerful things you can do this week

Make the Climate your Valentine: three powerful things you can do this week

There are three things you can do this week to make a powerful difference to climate change legislature in Massachusetts.  Please consider doing at least one. We know that climate change and the continued use of fossil fuels are already endangering

Babette Wils February 10, 2018February 10, 2018 Advocacy, Legislation, State Read more

Why We Should All Care About the Renewable Portfolio Standard

It is easy to advocate for more renewable energy and more green jobs. But increasing the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS)? Although that may sound complicated and technical, it’s actually a crucial issue which is not hard to understand. Mass Energy

Eleanor Rosellini October 9, 2017 Renewable Energy, State Read more

Momentum Growing on Carbon Pricing

Momentum Growing on Carbon Pricing

Is putting a price on carbon pollution an idea whose time has come in Massachusetts? The hundreds of constituents who poured into the State House during June to support this policy certainly think so. Advocates of carbon pricing, including many

Eleanor Rosellini July 9, 2017July 10, 2017 Carbon Price, State Read more

LWV Needham Meet Your Legislators

LWV Needham Meet Your Legislators

Take advantage of an opportunity to talk with our state legislators this Friday morning. The League of Women Voters Needham welcomes all three Needham legislators to Needham. The League has asked them to update us on their work this session,

Michael Greis March 23, 2017 Advocacy, State Read more

Call Your Legislator? Yes, It Makes a Difference!

Call Your Legislator?  Yes, It Makes a Difference!

What about all those “calls to action” that flood our emails? Do they make a difference? As the Massachusetts legislature considered the many issues that will determine our State’s energy future, a huge effort was launched to support clean energy

Eleanor Rosellini August 21, 2016August 26, 2017 Advocacy, State Read more

House Members Support Solar

Thank you, Denise! Green Needham is pleased to see that Representative Denise Garlick was among those House members who signed a crucial letter in support of the Massachusetts solar industry. Initiated by Representatives Cory Atkins and James O’Day, the letter

Eleanor Rosellini March 29, 2016 Advocacy, Energy at Home-LG, Legislation, Renewable Energy, State Read more

Houses of Worship Take Climate Action

Faith communities in Massachusetts are intensifying their efforts to respond to the climate crisis. Locally, members of First Parish in Needham Unitarian Universalist voted on November 8, with a resounding and unanimous “yes,” to endorse an initiative responding to climate

Maureen Commane December 1, 2015December 1, 2015 Advocacy, Climate Change, Houses of Worship, Legislation Read more
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