It’s hard to grasp the numbers. The juice box, the broken table lamp, the paper coffee cup, the moldy orange — every item tossed out becomes part of a stream of municipal waste that, together with materials such as demolition/construction
Trees are a climate solution: they mitigate flooding, provide clean air, and cool our neighborhoods. Yet the Charles River watershed is losing tree canopy at an alarming rate (an average of 6.9% across the watershed from 2008 to 2021). Join
Every home in Needham has “that drawer” – the one heaping full of plastic utensils, soy sauce and ketchup packets. On January 1, 2026, Needham implemented Skip the Stuff, a bylaw aimed at reducing unnecessary waste from single-use food service items.
Every year we hear that familiar soundtrack of the “fall cleanup,” as an army of leaf blowers descends on the newly fallen leaves. But before you haul those piles away, consider this: those leaves are one of the best free
Do you have a heat pump installed in your home that you use for heating? If so, heating with a heat pump is about to get much cheaper. The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Utilities has ordered Massachusetts electric utilities to create
Sun Day, September 21, is a national day of celebration and support for clean energy. As Green Needham investigated the extent of local solar arrays, we quickly realized that we have much to celebrate in Needham! Come see our display
Now that school is back in session, the mornings are crisp, and the smell of pumpkin spice is in the air, many Needhamites are thinking about green electricity. Seriously, we wish that were the case. Actually, most of us don’t
The federal tax credits for various energy-related technologies that were part of the Biden 2022 IRA Legislation have been eliminated by federal legislation signed into law this month. 2025 is now the last year to claim a variety of federal
For solar array owners who participated in the SREC program — What happens when your 10-year SREC payments expire? In this situation, your net metering credits from Eversource will continue, and in addition, you can consider transitioning to the Class
Two Town Committees – the Tree Preservation Planning Committee (TPPC) and the Large House Review Committee (LHRC) – are hosting public listening sessions next week on topics with very visible and substantive impacts on our community’s sustainability. You can read
