While President Donald Trump has enacted mass rollbacks on climate policy at the federal level, Boston University’s climate research programs and sustainability groups have continued to educate and advocate.
Boston City Councilors Kenzie Bok and Michelle Wu are proposing a city-level “Conservation Corps” to support Boston’s climate and sustainability goals.
Modeled after the Civilian Conservation...
This discussion was part of a series of sessions to be held each semester by Residence Life until the center opens, as a way of keeping students who live near the site informed about the project.
The City of Boston has taken the final steps toward implementing its Community Choice Electricity program, a plan aimed at offering businesses and residents more stable and affordable electricity from renewable sources.
In a BU lecture Wednesday, presenter Meir Alkon discussed how China’s international energy investments relate to the country’s goal of carbon neutrality, and said the country’s polluting practices could prevent it from reaching its goal.
Those trees were planted in 1977 — the same year the gas lamps were installed. Roughly more than two-thirds of the trees have since died, while the remaining five are in bad health, according to the letter.
The program is expected to launch before the end of the year, said Susan Buchan, director of energy projects at E4TheFuture. The grant covers four cars, and E4TheFuture hopes to add three or four more.
With this new plan, the city will take steps to drastically lower the carbon footprint of all the city's large buildings, while also working to make all new municipally owned buildings meet zero net carbon standards.
