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