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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — With the recent installation of new heat pumps in their downtown building, the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence has capped off an ambitious 10-year effort to decarbonize the Main Street church.The heat pumps, which began...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A UMass Amherst graduate who holds a master’s degree in sustainable development and has served as Greenfield’s energy and sustainability director since 2014 has been chosen to run Northampton’s new Climate Action & Project Administration...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city’s new building code can’t come a moment too soon for city councilor Alex Jarrett.“As our daily life goes along, world climate crises happened, local climate crises happened this summer,” said Jarrett at Thursday’s City Council...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A day after announcing the creation of a new state Youth Climate Council during a visit to Mass Audubon’s Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary in Easthampton on Sunday, the state’s new climate czar held court with activists from across...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — Despite being among the youngest in the room, a group of teenage environmentalists were turned to for guidance during a climate action panel at the Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew. Their generation, after all, will be most...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city has taken a major step toward its ambitious goal of making city operations carbon neutral in seven years with the creation of a new climate action department that will include a soon-to-be hired climate chief to lead the effort....