After another successful year, One Book One Belmont is wrapping up its season with a string of events through October 8, including a film screening, a day at Belmont' Farmers' Market with special guest chefs and another community reading of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, written by best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver...
A study suggests switching to single stream recycling (all your recyclables in one container) increases household participation and can save towns money, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley.
A contest from inhabitat.com and dwell asks folks to imagine ways to transform suburban space. The contest is down to 20 finalists, from 400 entries. Some ideas are zany...some are pretty darned cool!
An interesting article in yesterday's New York Times on changes coming to a classroom near you: digital textbooks. The article, by Tamar Lewin, talks about pilot projects in school districts in Arizona, Louisiana and California that are replacing traditional printed textbooks with online, digital equivalents, or even "open source" texts compiled from materials...
What change should be promoted to encourage a more pedestrian friendly environment in Waverley Square?
I got the chance to head over to the Larz Anderson Car Museum in Brookline for their annual Micro Mini Car Day -- a gathering of some of the tiniest vehicles you've ever seen. Detroit was nowhere to be seen.
The planned bike path construction between Brighton Street and Alewife Station is set to move ahead, along with other, more extensive bike and pedestrian access projects. Now about that extension into Belmont Center...!
An interesting article in the Sunday Globe presents some ideas on making cities (and suburbs?) greeener by "retrofitting" existing infrastructure. Check it out.
Curious about going solar? CNET pays a visit to Arlington resident (and green tech reporter) Martin Lamonica's home to check out the pros and cons.
Ready for Belmont 2.0? Mapping Belmont's Renewal is a forum on Wed, April 16th. Sponsored by the Planning Committee and Office of Community Development, it will solicit residents' input on important development considerations such as the need for economic development, building sustainable neighborhoods, quality of life issues, as well as parking, transportation, land use...
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