On October 24th, Needham residents and town community gathered at Olin College for a community conversation on energy and the environment. Anthony Brooks, veteran NPR reporter and co-host of WBUR’s Radio Boston, opened the session by leading a discussion with Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources Commissioner Mark Sylvia and Green Needham Chair Michael Greis on [...]
This past Thursday, October 20th, Anthony Brooks and Meghna Chakrabarti talked with Green Needham Chair Michael Greis and Massachusetts Energy Undersecretary Barbara Kates-Garnick about the green economy, the 2020 clean energy plan, energy efficiency & “green living” at the local level and the upcoming Needham Summit on Energy and the Environment. With the backdrop of [...]
Local collaboration on sustainability, as practiced by the Green Needham Collaborative, is a model that can work for businesses as well. I made that connection in this article about Green Needham that was published in the June, 2010 issue of InBusiness, the monthly publication of the Newton Chamber of Commerce. The Green Needham Collaborative is [...]
It is at the local level – where people live, work, and learn – that the behavioral change driving a more sustainable society and economy ultimately takes place. That work is going on across the United States and around the world where community organizations are harnessing the power of community to make change. The US [...]
