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Read the full article by The Local News here. ROWLEY — Let’s be honest… convincing people to spend a sunny Saturday afternoon on the Rowley Town Common learning about the environmental benefits of composting and recycling is a bit of a tough sell. But this past weekend at Striving for Sustainability’s Community Green Fest, the Common felt…

Did you know? It is no longer advised to participate in No Mow May. It promotes non-native dandelions and invasive weeds to go to seed and spread. Instead, consider Mow Less Summer! You can mow in May, but only once or twice. Throughout the spring and summer, try to stick with mowing every 2 to…

A recent NPR article shared the following news: Massachusetts and four other New England states received a $450 million federal grant Monday to “supercharge” efforts to get residents to ditch natural gas or oil heating systems and install electric heat pumps. To date, the five states have tried on their own to get residents to make the…

Founded in 2012, the Israel-based climate tech startup UBQ Materials is converting household waste (including food scraps and hard-to-recycle materials) into UBQ, a sustainable substitute for fossil-based plastics. UBQ diverts waste headed for landfills and pulls out metal and glass, which can be repurposed with traditional recyclers. UBQ takes the remaining waste (food scraps, mixed…

The BBC recently featured an article about Redhouse’s Biocycler program, which aims to reduce pollution and combat climate change using one of nature’s oldest: fungi. This is the emerging field called mycoremediation, and I am jazzed to learn more about it. An excerpt from the article reads: “As primary decomposers in the environment, many species…