by Our Readers | May 20, 2010 | News
What Is a Green Building? Christine MacDonald began her editorial Who Decides What’s Sustainable? [May 13, 2010] reflecting on the expectation that many buildings nationally will be qualified as “green” in two years. Then she rhetorically asks,...
by Tom Sturm | May 20, 2010 | News
If eagles are the rulers of the sky and sharks the lords of the sea, the Pedal People are the busy bees of the Valley’s bike trails, bringing to the system the lifeblood of commerce and the virtue of conservation. An early pioneering effort that has since been...
by Maureen Turner | May 20, 2010 | News
State Rep. Ellen Story was knocked out by a nasty respiratory flu last week. But that didn’t stop her from celebrating encouraging signs that her bill to support new mothers, several years in the making, finally appears headed to become a law. Story, an Amherst...
by Tom Vannah | May 20, 2010 | News
Until the fall of last year, the biomass industry seemed to be on a fast track in Massachusetts. The Patrick administration was bullish on biomass, promoting it as one of a number of promising alternative energy sources, encouraging the development of biomass plants...
by Maureen Turner | May 20, 2010 | News
When the Patrick administration earlier this year called for a state ban on the use of the controversial chemical bisphenol-A (or BPA) in certain products, environmental activists reacted with guarded praise. In early March, the governor announced that he was ordering...
