Environment
Citizens Disconnect: And They Call John Kerry Environmental
With the Citizens Connect app and website, Boston allows its residents to take a picture of a problem, send it to the city along with their precise location, […]
Cape Cod’s Seal Problem
The population of gray seals on the Cape has exploded in recent years. Is it time to cull the herd?
Climate Change in The Boston Phoenix’s Final Issue
The Boston Phoenix uploads its final issue (online only) this week, leading with a piece by climate change activist Bill McKibben explaining why he’s pushing […]
Boston In the Year 2100 Looks Really … Wet
Had Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge hit Boston during high tide five and a half hours earlier, large portions of these neighborhoods would’ve been flooded with […]
Curse You, Yellowpages
Few things fill me with as much yuppie rage as the sight of a brand new stack of phonebooks sitting on my front porch. Sure, […]
Spring is Arriving Nearly a Month Early
The marsh marigold, appearing at a brook near you, soon! (Photo via Flickr/wackybadger) Dear children and elementary school science teachers: Your rhyme is dead. In […]
Styrofoam Banned in Boston?
Is the city about to make the polystyrene foam containers illegal?
Brookline Banned Plastic Bags, But Why Not Tax Them Instead?
“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?” – Katy Perry, queen of similes. (Photo credit: Kate Ter Haar via Flickr) Brookline’s Town Meeting voted […]
Wen Stephenson: It's Time for Journalists To Cover Climate Change Like a Crisis
Wen Stephenson: It’s Time for Journalists To Cover Climate Change Like a Crisis. Stephenson, a former editor at the Globe, editor at The Atlantic, senior […]
Five Reasons to Leave the House This Weekend
The Great Pumpkin Float (Photo via Flickr/AnubisAbyss) Festival First Annual Faneuil Hall Marketplace Street Theater Festival Finally! An opportunity to spend the weekend with the […]
Nothing Makes Us Embrace Autumn Like Finding 20 Foot Great White Shark in Chatham
Officials just closed a Chatham beach after hunters found and tagged a 20-foot great white shark. To put that in perspective, the largest great white […]
Brookline Could Ban Foam Plastic
Styrofoam container photo via Shutterstock The march against the single-use lifestyle continues. Last week, the Attorney General certified that Concord’s ban on the sale […]
Concord's Ban of Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles Is a Go
Water bottle photo via Shutterstock So begins a great experiment to rid the Commonwealth of plastic water bottles. The Attorney General recently certified Concord's bottle […]
Concord's Ban of Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles Is a Go
Water bottle photo via Shutterstock So begins a great experiment to rid the Commonwealth of plastic water bottles. The Attorney General recently certified Concord’s bottle […]
What Mitt Romney and Honey Boo Boo Have in Common
the single most gob-smacking attack on reality was the contempt Mitt Romney showed for science.