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Neighbor spotlight: Going with the Technology Frontier

Neighbor spotlight: Going with the Technology Frontier

This “Neighbor Spotlight” is one of a series about ordinary people in Needham doing extraordinary things to be a better neighbor to planet Earth. Please be inspired! In the last post, I wrote about Sharon, the woman who plants trees.

Babette Wils August 7, 2018August 3, 2018 Neighbor Spotlight Read more

Neighbor Spotlight: Heating and cooling courtesy of Earth

Neighbor Spotlight: Heating and cooling courtesy of Earth

Imagine a house that uses the steady warmth of the earth – approximately 60 degrees — to heat in the winter and cool in the summer.  Geothermal systems in New England do just that.   Also known as Ground Source Heat

Babette Wils July 15, 2018July 15, 2018 Home, Neighbor Spotlight Read more

Neighbor Spotlight: The woman who plants trees

Neighbor Spotlight: The woman who plants trees

Around the world, people who plant trees are celebrated. In the US there is Johnny Appleseed. The French have a (fictional) story called “The man who planted trees” about a shepherd who single­handedly replants a clear­cut alpine valley over the

Babette Wils June 23, 2018July 7, 2018 Neighbor Spotlight Read more

Neighbor spotlight: Moe and the Tesla

Neighbor spotlight: Moe and the Tesla

Some people know how to live a good life and be a good neighbor.  Moe Handel is one of them.  He and his wife, Elizabeth — who is a physician in town — moved to Needham in 1987, and raised

Babette Wils May 14, 2018September 11, 2019 Electric Vehicles, Living Green, Neighbor Spotlight, Transportation Read more

Neighbor Spotlight: Community

Neighbor Spotlight: Community

Susan is one of those people who is consistently present when something is going on around town.  Be it a Zero Waste session at the library, the Charlottesville Solidarity Vigil on the common, a Green Homes tour, or many other

Babette Wils April 28, 2018April 30, 2018 Home, Living Green, Neighbor Spotlight, Outdoors Read more

Neighbor Spotlight: Small is Beautiful

Neighbor Spotlight: Small is Beautiful

This Spotlight is about Caroline (changed name), who did a project with me for Green Needham.  We had a couple of work lunches at her house and she started telling me about what she and her husband had done, and

Babette Wils April 15, 2018April 9, 2018 Neighbor Spotlight Read more

Neighbor Spotlights: from lawn mowing to activism

Neighbor Spotlights: from lawn mowing to activism

I met Stephen at a Green Needham planning meeting for a town event coming up next fall (keep an eye out for further notice).  He impressed me with his upbeat, calm presence, and with how he packaged our ideas in

Babette Wils March 28, 2018March 21, 2018 Neighbor Spotlight Read more

Neighbor spotlights: From the prairie to the East

Neighbor spotlights: From the prairie to the East

When Eleanor and Jay moved to Needham in 2001 with their two teenagers, they were surprised.   They were coming from West Lafayette, Indiana (home of Purdue University), where Eleanor in particular, had been part of a very active environmental community

Babette Wils March 14, 2018April 30, 2018 Neighbor Spotlight Read more

Neighbor Spotlight: The Trash Game

Neighbor Spotlight: The Trash Game

Over the years, but particularly in the past year, I have met a lot of people who are making changes in their lives to be a better neighbor to planet Earth.  They are pretty ordinary people doing extraordinary things.  They

Babette Wils February 15, 2018 Home, Living Green, Neighbor Spotlight Read more

Neighbor Spotlight: One Thing Leads to Another

Neighbor Spotlight: One Thing Leads to Another

Over the years, but particularly in the past year, I have met a lot of people who are making changes in their lives to be a better neighbor to planet Earth.  They are pretty ordinary people doing extraordinary things.  They

Babette Wils January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 Home, Neighbor Spotlight Read more
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