Green Berkshires

10/27/2016

NORTH ADAMS - When John Savage looks out from his Yale Street home, a new clearing on the hillside across the valley below grabs his eye.

09/15/2016

What a surprise: Goldman Sachs leads a group of investors that owns nearly a fifth of D**g Energy, which has been busy lobbying Massachusetts legislators to offer ratepayer-funded incentives for the development of offshore wind.

Denmark’s National Audit Office has been asked to investigate D**g Energy A/S after members of the country’s parliament voiced concerns that shares in the utility were sold too cheaply to a group of investors led by Goldman Sachs two years before an initial public offering.

07/15/2016

In a deal with Maori groups, Parliament has agreed on a way to protect natural features without them being owned by anyone, including the state.

06/11/2016

06/02/2016

This is an excellent summary of the recent history and ecological value of the Housatonic River by Gige Darey, board chair of the state's Division of Fisheries & Wildlife and a board member of Green Berkshires.

LENOX >> Recent publicity has portrayed the Housatonic River in a negative light, but there are many positives we should recognize.

05/11/2016

An EdgeCast exclusive: State Rep. William Smitty Pignatelli and arborist Tom Ingersoll visit Otis State Forest where pipeline giant Kinder Morgan intends to construct a new gas pipeline.

04/21/2016

Congratulations to Stockbridge resident Denny Alsop for attracting Boston Globe's attention to his canoe trip across Massachusetts in support of demands that GE clean up the Housatonic River.

A Stockbridge canoeist paddled 10 rivers in Massachusetts to highlight the need to finish cleaning up the Housatonic River.

04/19/2016

Women whose homes are surrounded by trees and other vegetation have lower rates of mortality (excluding accidents), particularly from cancer and respiratory illnesses, and this holds true for those in urban as well as rural environments.

Background: Green, natural environments may ameliorate adverse environmental exposures (e.g. air pollution, noise, and extreme heat), increase physical activity and social engagement, and lower stress.

04/19/2016

Fungiphiles rejoice. It’s morel mushroom season in much of the United States, meaning it’s time to hunt down these tasty treasures.

04/16/2016

The same liquid we drink and that fills the oceans may be millions of years older than the solar system itself.

04/15/2016

This has nothing to do with Green Berkshires or any of its areas of interest, but it is such a wow. Thank you Gini Irvine for alerting us to this amazing creature!!!

You think chameleons are good at camouflage? They ain't got nothing on our underwater friends. From Nova.

04/15/2016

After a judge told the town of Falmouth MA that it had erred in not obtaining a special permit before building the first of its two wind turbines, and must now do so, the town's zoning board of appeals tonight rejected the special permit application. The town select board can now appeal the decision in either superior court or land court. There are now nine pending lawsuits related to the Falmouth turbines.

FALMOUTH — The Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals denied a special-permit application for one of the town's twin wind turbines Thursday night,