http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/ en-us Copyright 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:12:20 -0500 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:06:57 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=1.53 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By Beth Daley After months of speculating, Curt Spalding, the longtime executive director of Save the Bay in Rhode Island, has just been named New England’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief. Curt Spalding (Save The Bay photo) Spalding was considered... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/11/ris_spalding_named_new_england.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/11/ris_spalding_named_new_england.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:12:20 -0500 A draft report from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Environmental Protection calls for cutting annual phosphorous levels by 49 percent along the 70-mile upper and middle stretches of the Charles River. The state agency is... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/11/report_urges_big_cuts_in_phosp.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/11/report_urges_big_cuts_in_phosp.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:52:13 -0500 By Beth Daley GLOBE STAFF Governor Deval Patrick announced a truce with environmental groups late today in a battle over how to protect the state's 11,000 miles of rivers and streams from being drawn down too low by mounting development... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/11/gov_patrick_and_environment_gr.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/11/gov_patrick_and_environment_gr.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:39:51 -0500 I’ve written about a naturally occurring arsenic belt in New England that may be putting thousands of families’ private drinking water supplies at risk from central Maine to central Massachusetts. The Dartmouth students with their household arsenic filter (photo/Douglas Fraser)... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/11/dartmouth_students_design_filt_1.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/11/dartmouth_students_design_filt_1.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:31:43 -0500 By Beth Daley Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs secretary Ian Bowles today required far more information and study from Framingham before they can go forward with a plan to reactivate old drinking water wells - and questioned the overall wisdom... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/state_environmental_chief_dema.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/state_environmental_chief_dema.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:20:09 -0500 We all know by now energy efficiency is incredibly important. It’s going to help us dramatically stabilize greenhouse gases. Slow the building of new power plants. Keep us warmer. Save us money. But let’s face it. Getting – and keeping... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/energy_efficiency_the_musical_1.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/energy_efficiency_the_musical_1.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:44:54 -0500 By Beth Daley m GLOBE STAFF In August, I wrote a story about how Framingham was racing to secure federal stimulus money for a public works project that environmentalists said could significantly harm the Sudbury River and a popular lake.... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/federal_and_state_agencies_sla.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/federal_and_state_agencies_sla.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:51:37 -0500 By Beth Daley, Globe Staff Anyone who has been on Mt. Washington’s Tuckerman Ravine Trail in August may feel like it’s a superhighway of hikers, but research shows that there is a decline in strenuous nature recreation – read that... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/fewer_hikers_may_mean_less_sup_1.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/fewer_hikers_may_mean_less_sup_1.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:56:04 -0500 All eight Boston city council candidates told more than 200 people Thursday night of their green space intentions as part of a debate hosted by Boston Park Advocates, a citywide network of organizers and individuals championing urban parks. Looking for... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/boston_councilor_candidates_ta_2.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/boston_councilor_candidates_ta_2.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:42:11 -0500 If you see people with snorkels, life vests and scuba gear in Boston’s Christopher Columbus Park tomorrow afternoon, it’s not because of the expected heavy downpours. It’s to highlight that critical parts of Boston could be submerged as sea... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/the_local_spin_on_the_internat_1.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/the_local_spin_on_the_internat_1.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:20:01 -0500 Obama's MIT speech today on clean energy is coinciding with tomorrow's International Day of Climate Action, billed as the largest day of political action in the world about climate. Ad taken out by 350.org in MIT student newspaper Some 4,000... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/post_6.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/post_6.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:50:45 -0500 By Beth Daley If you are of a certain age - or lean toward the trees - you’ve no doubt read Rachel Carson’s 1962 book "Silent Spring," which alerted the US public to the devastation wrought by DDT and other... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/_by_beth_daley_if.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/_by_beth_daley_if.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:47:58 -0500 Biomass power plants, in the state’s eyes, is as renewable as solar or wind. That’s because officials say the heat-trapping gases emitted from the burning of wood can be quickly reabsorbed by planting new trees. But a group of... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/group_tries_to_curb_biomass_gr_1.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/group_tries_to_curb_biomass_gr_1.html Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:41:55 -0500 As international climate talks approach in December to hammer out a post-Kyoto plan, business voices are becoming louder in support of U.S. climate legislation - and a meaningful international agreement. We caught up with Timberland President & CEO Jeffrey Swartz,... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/post_4.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/post_4.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:16:25 -0500 By Beth Daley Globe Staff Members of four environmental groups have resigned from a state water advisory panel because they say the Patrick administration has gutted a safeguard designed to protect rivers' wildlife from excessive water withdrawals. The Conservation Law... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/environmental_groups_quit_stat.html http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/10/environmental_groups_quit_stat.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:08:25 -0500