Boston Green Action members frequently author articles on a range of issues pertaining to climate action. We proudly present some of our notable perspectives, along with research findings that we champion.
Boston University researchers are partnering with the City of Boston to replace gas stoves with electric induction alternatives and determine the impact on air quality.
International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its updated Methane Tracker: “Around the world, many countries have made reductions in methane emissions a policy priority as part of their efforts to limit near-term global warming, enhance energy security, and improve air quality. The energy sector—including oil, natural gas, coal and bioenergy—accounts for around 40% of methane emissions from human activity and has some of the best opportunities to cut these emissions.”
An ENREAST report from last April highlights the progress that Massachusetts and New York are making in allowing regulated utilities to develop geothermal energy network pilot projects. The goal: “utility-scale clean energy delivery.”
GBH News Reporter Liz Neisloss had long wondered why, in an era of crippling housing shortages, we can’t turn office spaces into living spaces. When Boston launched its office conversion program, she followed the progress over a year and a half and filed this report.
Boston University’s School of Public Health and the Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) have released a new study that reveals the “sprawling energy infrastructure network that’s largely hidden from view and in close proximity to millions of Americans. They found that 46.6 million people in the contiguous United States, many in cities, live within about a mile of at least one piece of fossil fuel infrastructure—and that it could be putting their health at risk.
Writing for The River, Brian K. Mahoney reviews a new book by former EPA official Judith Enck entitled The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and the Planet Before It’s Too Late. Enck makes the case that plastic pollution isn’t just a matter of personal responsibility. We haven’t all failed to recycle, reuse, and reduce. This narrative, she writes, has been developed to allow the plastics industry—fossil fuel and chemical—to perpetrate environmental injustice.
