Statewide sleepouts aim to raise environmental awareness

Valley climate change activists have been staging sleep-out protests on campuses and town commons over the past few weeks and on Sunday were joined in Boston by environmental author and advocate Bill McKibben.

Amherst Common sleepouts aim to awaken efforts on environment for climate change

Valley climate change activists have been staging sleep-out protests on campuses and town commons over the past few weeks and on Sunday will be joined in Boston by environmental author and advocate Bill McKibben.

Towns consider Sunderland site as water source

SUNDERLAND - Sugarbush Meadows, the 150-unit apartment complex proposed for Plumtree Road and Route 116, might not be built after all.

Instead, talks this week will continue on whether the land could be conserved as a water resource for the towns of Amherst, Hadley and Sunderland.

Future of the Valley's agriculture

By Peter Westover Gazette Contributing Writer

Suppose your family has owned a maple sugar business for five generations or run an apple orchard or struggled to keep a dairy going. Then imagine learning that, within less than a generation, the climate of western Massachusetts will become something like South Carolina's today. Is that good or bad news for you?

Three-town land buy may spell end of Sugarbush Meadows in Sunderland

SUNDERLAND - Sugarbush Meadows, the 150-unit apartment complex proposed for Plumtree Road and Route 116, may not be built after all. Instead, it could be conserved as a water resource for the towns of Amherst, Hadley and Sunderland.

Water may alter Sunderland development idea

SUNDERLAND - Sugarbush Meadows, the 150-unit apartment complex proposed for Plumtree Road and Route 116, may not be built after all.

Instead, it could be conserved as a water resource for the towns of Amherst, Hadley and Sunderland.

Earth Talk: Geothermal energy is harnessed from Earth's very core

Dear EarthTalk: How are heating, cooling and electricity produced by geothermal energy? I don't understand how it works.

- Delano Stewart, Wyandanch, N.Y.