Environment

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Citizens Disconnect: And They Call John Kerry Environmental

With the Citizens Connect app and website, Boston allows its residents to take a picture of a problem, send it to the city along with their precise location, […]

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Cape Cod’s Seal Problem

The population of gray seals on the Cape has exploded in recent years. Is it time to cull the herd?

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Climate Change in The Boston Phoenix’s Final Issue

The Boston Phoenix uploads its final issue (online only) this week, leading with a piece by climate change activist Bill McKibben explaining why he’s pushing […]

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Boston In the Year 2100 Looks Really … Wet

Had Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge hit Boston during high tide five and a half hours earlier, large portions of these neighborhoods would’ve been flooded with […]

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Curse You, Yellowpages

Few things fill me with as much yuppie rage as the sight of a brand new stack of phonebooks sitting on my front porch. Sure, […]

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Spring is Arriving Nearly a Month Early

The marsh marigold, appearing at a brook near you, soon! (Photo via Flickr/wackybadger) Dear children and elementary school science teachers: Your rhyme is dead. In […]

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Styrofoam Banned in Boston?

Is the city about to make the polystyrene foam containers illegal?

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Brookline Banned Plastic Bags, But Why Not Tax Them Instead?

“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?” – Katy Perry, queen of similes. (Photo credit: Kate Ter Haar via Flickr) Brookline’s Town Meeting voted […]

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Wen Stephenson: It's Time for Journalists To Cover Climate Change Like a Crisis

Wen Stephenson: It’s Time for Journalists To Cover Climate Change Like a Crisis. Stephenson, a former editor at the Globe, editor at The Atlantic, senior […]

Arts & Entertainment

Five Reasons to Leave the House This Weekend

The Great Pumpkin Float (Photo via Flickr/AnubisAbyss) Festival First Annual Faneuil Hall Marketplace Street Theater Festival Finally! An opportunity to spend the weekend with the […]

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Nothing Makes Us Embrace Autumn Like Finding 20 Foot Great White Shark in Chatham

Officials just closed a Chatham beach after hunters found and tagged a 20-foot great white shark. To put that in perspective, the largest great white […]

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Brookline Could Ban Foam Plastic

Styrofoam container photo via Shutterstock   The march against the single-use lifestyle continues. Last week, the Attorney General certified that Concord’s ban on the sale […]

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Concord's Ban of Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles Is a Go

Water bottle photo via Shutterstock So begins a great experiment to rid the Commonwealth of plastic water bottles. The Attorney General recently certified Concord’s bottle […]

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Concord's Ban of Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles Is a Go

Water bottle photo via Shutterstock So begins a great experiment to rid the Commonwealth of plastic water bottles. The Attorney General recently certified Concord's bottle […]

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What Mitt Romney and Honey Boo Boo Have in Common

the single most gob-smacking attack on reality was the contempt Mitt Romney showed for science.