Blog Profile / The Green Blog
| URL : | http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Lifestyle / Green Living | |
| Posts on Regator: | 628 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.7 | |
| Archived Since: | December 20, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The root of Boston's tree planting problems
By Doug StruckGlobe Correspondent Boston will become cool and green by planting 100,000 trees before 2020, Mayor Thomas M. Menino promised in April 2007. He said it ?will make people feel better about where they live.? So, halfway to the...
New Spaulding hospital learns haunting lessons from Katrina
By Doug Struck Globe Correspondent Hurricane Katrina had finally spent its fury and died, when I stepped cautiously through the broken doorway of a brick building in New Orleans called the Lafon Nursing Home of the Holy Family. Inside was...
Who is afraid of Sea Level rise?
By Doug Struck Globe Correspondent The scenes of Hurricane Sandy rampaging through New York City last October stunned city planners on the East Coast, posing a question of whether to withdraw from the waterfront. ?It was, oh my god,...
What would Thoreau do? A closed dump, a proposed bus depot and a dream of protected land
By Doug Struck Globe Correspondent CONCORD -- Henry David Thoreau took walks. He called it ?sauntering? around Walden Pond, where he wrote about living in the wilderness between regular strolls into nearby Concord to deliver his dirty laundry to his...
Ending the nightmare on elm-lined streets: scientists using survivors to breed tougher generation
(Christian Marks/TNC) Majestic American elm trees in New England that have survived decades of a ravaging disease are being called upon to help create a genetic armor to help future generations resist the disease?s devastation. Scientists from The Nature...
Tracking right whales: Aquarium talk March 28
One of the hardest things about protecting endangered whales is finding them ? as I recently found out when reporting a story on North Atlantic right whales. But now, the New England Aquarium is using GIS to track the leviathans...
Mass. League of Environmental Voters welcomes new chairman, directors
The Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters, a non-partisan, non-profit advocacy group, has a new chairman and four new directors on its governing board. Board member Chuck Anastas, of Westborough, was elected Chairman of the Board. Chuck replaces Tom McShane, a...
Markey introduces revamped bill to fight fish fraud
U.S. Rep. and Senate candidate Ed Markey Wednesday introduced a new version of bill to combat seafood fraud by tracking fish from a boat to a diner?s plate. Markey amended earlier legislation he filed in July to reflect input...
Narwhals: New book unlocks the secret of the sea unicorn
(photo by Todd McLeish) Some people still question if narwhals ? the world?s most northernmost whale with its seven-foot long spiral tusk - still exist. They do ? although the mysterious creatures are facing an uncertain future as their icy...
Mass. rebates for wood pellet boilers
This press release just in from the state: Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO Alicia Barton and Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources Commissioner Mark Sylvia today announced the launch of a new $475,000 incentive program to help residents install high-efficiency wood...
2020 Action asks for 20 minutes a month for change
For a quarter century, what is now a project of the non-profit EarthAction called 2020 Action based in Amherst has carried out a big mission: Helping force change on US environmental and peace-related issues. For $20 a year, the group...
Butterflies fluttering earlier in warm years
As climate change takes root in New England, butterflies are taking wing earlier, new research led by a Boston University researcher shows. By looking at ten short-lived butterfly species known as elfins and hairstreaks, the researchers found that the...
Environmental groups plan to sue state over expired air pollution permit
Two environmental groups are planning to sue the state Department of Environmental Protection for failing to renew an expired air pollution permit in a timely fashion for a Springfield coal burning plant that they say is likely violating air quality...
Nemo lobs thousands of clams onto Revere Beach
(Photo by Dung A. Doan) When Gordon Burns glanced out of his window onto Revere Beach Sunday morning, he saw what looked like thousands of black shimmering rocks on the beach stretching for miles in either direction. But he...
Pilgrim nuclear shuts down in storm
Pilgrim Station nuclear plant automatically shut down in the thick of the storm Friday night after losing power, according to a statement by Entergy, the plant's owner. Authorities said there is no danger and backup diesel generators are powering...
Northeast pact to dramatically lower greenhouse emissions for power plants
By Beth Daley GLOBE STAFF Massachusetts and eight other Northeast states are nearly halving the amount of carbon dioxide power plants are allowed to emit ?- a dramatic reduction that is expected to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars...
Mass. to announce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants
Massachusetts and eight other states will announce significant cuts Thursday in allowable carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, according to a press advisory released by Massachusetts officials. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative announcement comes four years after the nine-state...
Local green blogger helps lead fight to get chemical out of Tide
Lori Alper, a Boston-area based blogger and founder of Groovy Green Livin had a significant role in a recent California court agreement by Procter & Gamble to substantially reduce the levels of a chemical linked to cancer found in.....
Ipad and Kindle cases made from old fleece jackets
Jennifer Feller and Sam Palmer met in 1995 working at Patagonia on Newbury Street, and now their lives have come full circle- running a business together that repurposes old Patagonia fleeces into hip, protective Kindle and iPad cases. Their company,...
Conservation group calls for complete closure of cod fishery
On Wednesday, New England fishermen suffered devastating cuts in how much cod they can catch. Now, a prominent environmental group is calling for the complete closure of the region?s cod fishery to avoid what it says could be the commercial...