Environment
Bringing Environmental Accountability to the Cleaning Industry
Drink Responsibly — By Choosing Eco-Friendly Brews
Greentown Labs All Stars: C16 Biosciences
Greentown Labs All Stars: Embr Labs
Raise the Green Roof
Greentown Labs All Stars: Autonomous Marine Systems
‘No Ph.D. Needed’: How Regular Citizens Can Help Prevent Biodiversity Loss
Greentown Labs All Stars: Biobot Analytics
Groundwork Somerville Taps into New England Heritage
The sap was flowing on Tufts University’s campus in late January, where more than a hundred people gathered for Groundwork Somerville’s first tree tapping of the year. Children took turns slowly drilling into the trees, hammering small spiles into the bark, and tasting droplets of sap, while program leaders explained how to identify and tap […]
Tufts to Research Air Quality in City’s Affordable Housing
Researchers from Tufts University will spend the next three years studying the air quality inside affordable housing built near busy roads in Somerville. The study will focus on Route 28, Route 38, and McGrath Highway, according to John Durant, the project’s principal investigator and an associate professor in civil and environmental engineering at Tufts. The […]
City Announces Wide-sweeping Climate Action Plan
The city has released Somerville Climate Forward, a broad-reaching plan to reduce its contributions to climate change and prepare for the effects of global warming. The plan’s goals are lofty: “We have to turn transportation and heating and cooling into electricity, and then that electricity needs to be 100 percent renewable,” says Oliver Sellers-Garcia, director […]