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Greeting cards seed Small Victories at Thornes shop
01-09-2025 1:51 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Small Victories, a retail shop that has taken root downtown, began in the same way the business’s seed paper stationary does: start with dirt, add water and soon something will sprout.

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Double Edge Theatre eyes eco-friendly housing, new Community Design Center
12-18-2024 1:50 PM

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ASHFIELD — Combining creativity and community, Double Edge Theatre is working to create a sustainable future by providing eco-friendly housing and renovating old buildings into new apartments, while also constructing a Community Design Center. Between...


Will local control be lost? State climate bill likely to usurp authority over siting of clean energy infrastructure
06-16-2024 1:01 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

Regional planning groups and local municipalities remain wary of the looming implications on municipal jurisdiction should the state’s massive climate bill move ahead in the coming weeks with promises to reform the slow process of siting and...


Unitarians in Northampton put final touches on fossil fuel-free church
12-09-2023 5:00 PM

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...


Greenfield’s sustainability chief will lead Northampton’s new climate action department
09-15-2023 5:40 PM

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...


New building code puts Northampton in vanguard
09-11-2023 2:15 PM

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...


State’s new climate czar holds court with WMass activists, announces new Youth Climate Council
04-25-2023 3:39 PM

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...


Teens at climate panel speak to need for collective action to combat climate change
03-21-2023 9:50 AM

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...


Historic moment: Northampton creates climate action department
02-21-2023 11:32 AM

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....

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