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.
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New England needs more housing — especially affordable housing. But what happens when the land picked for that housing is also valuable in the fight to slow climate change?
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Te compartimos cinco consejos para inquilinos y propietarios para reducir sus emisiones y combatir el cambio climático.
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Across New England, developers are looking for new ways to increase affordable housing inventory, and some are using a building method known as mass timber, to inflict less environmental damage.
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Salt marshes play an outsized role in fighting climate change — and they’re an important part of New England’s ecosystem. To survive, they’ll have to adapt to warmer temperatures and higher sea levels.
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One of agriculture’s top climate change solutions is not a new idea, but it’s starting to gain momentum in New England, a region that in recent years dealt with extreme rainfall and periods of extended drought.
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Dozens of cemeteries across New England have started offering green burials. That’s where bodies can decompose underground, without the use of embalming fluids or concrete vaults.
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Fourteen communities in New Hampshire are launching programs this spring that aim to bring cheaper, greener power to residents.
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A project in Beverly, Massachusetts offers an alternative on-demand power source in the summer: the school district uses their electric school buses’ giant batteries as mini power plants to send energy back to the grid.
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Construction waste clogs landfills, worsens climate change. Two women's solution: salvage it insteadIn 2017, Ann Jarosiewicz and Liz Prete left their jobs as developers and started WasteNot, a building materials recycling company on Cape Cod. Since then, they’ve diverted over an acre of hardwood flooring, roughly 570 kitchen cabinets, and 500 windows from landfills.