Will the Massachusetts legislature act with boldness to address climate change? As the two-year legislative session comes to a close on July 31st, we will soon find out.
Posts tagged as “Climate Change”

Six people locked themselves together at 9:50 a.m. Saturday to block two construction sites of Spectra Energy’s West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline (WRL), which would bring fracked gas into Boston. Bound at the waist and ankles using chains and superglue, they aim to stop the project from endangering the community and disrupting the climate.
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— Mayor Marty Walsh (@marty_walsh) April 22, 2015
Do you have a question for Mayor Marty Walsh about the city’s response to climate change? Want to quiz the city’s chief of environment, energy and open space about sustainability?
Tagging by JP’s chapter of Mothers Out Front, a climate change action group. Credit: Courtesy of Viki Bok
The JP chapter of the climate-change action group Mothers Out Front has been writing messages on the neighborhood’s snowbanks.
Here’s a rare not-in-JP Photo of the Day. Hundreds of JP residents, including photographer and real estate agent William Brokhof, traveled to New York City over the weekend to be among the estimated 400,000 participants in the People’s Climate March. Here, marchers dance in the streets. Brokhof shared this and other shots in a Flickr album documenting his family’s experience.
Dear Neighbors,
Some of you may know me through my house, JP Green House. My family and I built one of the first “carbon neutral” houses in Jamaica Plain—rehabbing a hundred-year-old corner store in the Woodbourne neighborhood. With the addition of solar panels this year, we are now “energy positive”—the house creates more energy than it uses. We also grow all our own produce in our backyard organic garden. (You’re welcome to get the whole story on our website at JPGH.org.)