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Category Archives: Environment
Take it easy on the water, Wellesley
The town of Wellesley is asking residents to stop outdoor watering until we get some rain, though to date has stopped short of implementing an outright ban on watering. Automatic sprinkler systems are causing a good amount of the water spike. If only there had been a way to contain the flood waters from March [...]
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Keeping cool in Wellesley
Wellesley’s Health Department is doling out common sense advice about staying cool during the current weather hot streak, and directing those in need to several “cooling centers” in town, including the libraries (the main one was packed Tuesday morning), Council on Aging (8:30am-4:30pm weekdays) and malls/movie theaters/pools. You can see from the town’s energy usage [...]
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Timber! There goes another Wellesley tree
I’m sure new trees are being planted in Wellesley, which is good, because it seems like an awful lot of them have been going down of late. This non-so-healthy one is on Forrest Street in front of Babson College. Wellesley’s DPW was hard at work chopping it up when we went by.
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Town Hall closing early Friday to save energy
The town has issued the following notice on its website: Be advised that Wellesley Town Hall will be closing at 1pm on Friday June 4, 2010 in order to conduct an inter-departmental energy assessment of the building. Stay tuned to see our results! I proposed the same at my office today but it didn’t fly. [...]
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Wellesley trees whacked
Wellesley Townsman reported on more than 90 trees being illegally cut down at Wellesley’s Boulder Brook Reservation Trail at the direction of a property manager for Weston’s Steve Belkin, owner of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks (who once had a player named Tree Rollins who was involved in a classic basketball game fight with current Wellesley [...]
Babson College grads to don “green” caps and gowns
Babson College’s school colors are green and white, and 2010 grads will emphasize the green when they wear caps and gowns made from recycled bottles. Babson says the fabric is spun from molten plastic pellets and that each gown is made from about 23 bottles. Biodegradable dishes and cups, as well as recycled paper for [...]
EPA's pay day comes years after Morses Pond cleanup
The Environmental Protection Agency has been awarded $2.9 million plus interest from an insurance company that inherited a lawsuit filed against Boston & Albany Railroad in 2005 related to contamination of the area between Morses Pond and Paintshop Pond in Wellesley. The EPA removed 3,000 tons (!) of chromium-contaminated soil and sediment between 2000 and [...]
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Going green in Wellesley
The Wellesley Green Ribbon Study Commitee and Wellesley Municipal Light Plant tonight are sponsoring a free program about going green at the Wellesley Free Library from 7:30-9pm. Learn about renewable energy programs underway in town and how you can join in. More info here.
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Earth Day special
We try not to get too starstruck/carried away with Saturday Night Live’s Michaela Watkins being from Wellesley, but did get this new ad that she stars in pitched to us as an Earth Day item.
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How to really farm out work to a Wellesley design firm
Valerie Gates, creative director for Gates Studio in Wellesley, has come up with a novel way to help local farms better get the word out about themselves while also seeing to it that her family eats more healthy food. Here’s how it works: For the first 5 farms that respond to the offer, made public [...]
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Wellesley College cited for greenness
Earthfirst, a blog about environmental issues, puts its spotlight on Wellesley College’s green efforts. The blog recognizes Wellesley’s efforts in waste management and dining services and for attempting to instill awareness of green issues in students so they’ll be a positive influence on the environment once they graduate. The blog also lauds a student-led group [...]
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So much for Wellesley’s mandatory water ban….