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2024 NENC Earth Day Series

2024 NENC Earth Day Series

An illustrated Earth with a ribbon around it that reads Earth Day 2024, above the logo for the New England News Collaborative
Sara Plourde / NHPR

Every year for Earth Day, the New England News Collaborative stations produce a series of stories about climate change in our region.

In New England, homes and buildings are the second highest source of global warming emissions, after transportation. Much of our housing is old, inefficient and dependent on fossil fuels. And there’s just not enough of it.

For our 2024 Earth Day series, journalists from the New England News Collaborative looked into efforts to build new housing - and improve the housing we have - to make it less dependent on fossil fuels, and more resilient to the impacts of climate change.