What is lurking in your cellar? Broken appliances? Wobbly chairs? Lamps that don’t work? On Saturday, October 14, the Wellesley Rotary Club held a “Repair Café” and put many damaged or broken items back into service. They are helping to add
by Lauren Mock Saturday Oct. 14th is Needham’s Annual “Household Hazardous Waste Day” & the last Paint Collection Day in 2017 Household Hazardous Waste Day: Household Hazardous Waste Day (HHW) gives all Needham residents with proof of residency the opportunity
Learn about the four R’s – reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink – to address problems of waste. You can make a difference – by reducing your consumption of “stuff,” repairing and/or re-purposing items instead of throwing them away, participating in
A collaborative effort is increasing food waste composting in Needham. After an introduction from Green Needham, Jeff Dinneen (Facility Manager at Roche Bros) and Jon Butler (worker owner at CERO Cooperative) met to customize composting services for the local supermarkets.
By Anne Hayek Why is street lighting quality important ? It makes green energy not just efficient but also healthy AND ecological! A recent Green Needham article provided information about Needham’s May to July LED street light pilot and encouraged residents to
Green Needham Collaborative is partnering with HomeWorks Energy, Inc. to encourage residents to participate in the State’s Mass Save program, which offers no-cost home energy assessments and discounted weatherization improvements to increase energy efficiency. All residents are already paying for
How can we, as individuals, address the climate crisis? On Sunday February 12, at 3 p.m., the powerful 90-minute climate change film, Time to Choose will be shown at First Parish Church in Needham, 23 Dedham Ave. “With footage from five continents, Time to Choose explores the scope of
Needham has an opportunity to join about 30 other Massachusetts communities, including our neighbors Newton and Wellesley, in implementing a ban on single-use plastic bags. This effort was initiated by a team of seniors last year as a capstone project
by Melanie Morgon Can composting be part of the green economy? Let me introduce you to CERO, a bilingual, multicultural, worker-owned cooperative founded by low-income entrepreneurs. Their mission? To keep food waste out of landfills, save money for their clients,
by Melanie Morgon Recycling and composting is great, but is it possible to get a first grader to separate lunchtime waste into four different categories? The answer at Needham’s Hillside School is a resounding “Yes”! Last April, Hillside school students
Mass Energy, a non-profit with a mission to make energy more affordable and environmentally sustainable, has launched a new limited-time program which enables people to buy an electric vehicle at a discount. Drive Green with Mass Energy is the first
Webster defines “gleaning” as “to gather grain or other material that is left after the main crop has been gathered.” Did you know that there’s an activity which provides fresh produce for those who cannot easily afford it, reduces food waste, and
“Do you really need a gas-powered lawn mower?” That’s the question that a recent Boston Globe article posed, and with summer upon us it’s a timely question. The article traces the experience of a city dweller who moves to a
June 2016 workshop
As three Green Needham members stepped into the massive 19th century “castle” full of quirky niches and rumored secret passages, we could scarcely believe that we were on our way to see a state-of-the-art cafeteria. Our research into creative local
Where does all of that cafeteria lunch trash go? That was the question the Radioactive Hamburgers, a team of fifth grade students at Hillside Elementary School, asked when they began work on their FIRST Lego League (FLL) project last fall
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
For those Needham residents who have had a no-cost Mass Save home energy assessment, contractor Next Step Living is a familiar name. Recently, however, Next Step Living unexpectedly announced that it has ceased business operations as of March 18, 2016.
Help Beautify and Sustain Needham On the Park and Rec’s Clean-Up Day! On the morning of Saturday, April 2, 2016 you can be part of a town-wide effort to keep Needham clean and beautiful. That’s the day of the Needham
A free showing of “Just Eat It,” the award-winning film about food waste, will take place at 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 10 at First Parish in Needham, Unitarian Universalist, 23 Dedham Ave. The 75-minute documentary was inspired by the
