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Greening Greenfield

Concerned citizens building a more resilient Greenfield by advancing sustainable practices

EVENTS: Upcoming & Past

Video from “What Can We Learn from Beavers?” available NOW. Click HERE

Feb – April “Trees” exhibit at The LAVA Center runs Thursday, Feb. 5th through Closing Reception Thursday, April 30th, 5-8pm. READ MORE

03/19/2026 How to embrace Water in our Landscape and Support Biodiversity. 6:30pm at 2nd Congregational Church, Church Square, Greenfield. READ MORE

04/01/2026 Greening Greenfield April zoom meeting

Latest News UPDATES (click, or scroll to bottom of screen).

GG Oral Histories

GG Email Sign-up

Tom Murphy

Dorothy McIver

Peter and Carol Letson

Susan Worgaftik

Sandra Boston

Louise Amyot

Nancy Hazard

Becca King

Our Focus Areas

Climate & Biodiversity Restoration

Resources for the climate and biodiversity crisis

Energy

Greening Greenfield works to help us all move away from fossil fuels toward more sustainable types of energy, e.g. solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal power.

Nature

We work with nature to increase native habitat, water infiltration, and carbon sequestration, in order to stabilize our climate and nurture all life on earth.

Materials

It is time we all started learning a phrase that is still not in common usage: “materials management”. Not “waste” management, which pres…

Community Building

Housing

As concerned residents and organizations we aim to find and advocate for creative, affordable solutions to meet the housing needs of people of different incomes, abilities and stages of life.

Youth

We work with Greenfield’s schools to inspire and support teachers and students to learn about our planet, the concept of sustainability, and what we can do to be better stewards.

Initiatives we’re working on…

Each program has a number of projects on which Greening Greenfield works. These change as the needs of the community change. Our current projects, referred to as initatives can be found here.

Take action at home or in your community. Our winter speakers and videos will give you ideas.

Learning About Nature from Experts

All Greenfield students should have access to composting at school. GG advocates to make this happen.

GPS Composting

Greenfield needs more housing. Housing Greenfield tracks and supports many of these units under consideration, design or construction.

Supporting Property Development

Obtain accurate data and make all housing safe and healthy for our neighbors

Improving Local Rental Policies

Join us as we add and maintain native plants in a variety of locations to beautify our community and increase biodiversity.

Occasional Planting (and more!) Parties

Decarbonization calls us to use less, be more efficient, and stop using fossil fuels by switching to electricity that is made from zero-carbon renewable sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, water and more.

Stop Using Fossil Fuels in homes and cars

Help remove invasive plants to make space for native plants.

Removing Invasives

Taking a flood prone area on the Green River, the former Wedgewood Gardens Trailer Park, and creating a forest and pollinator meadow for improved biodiversity and flood resilience.

Transforming Millers Meadow

We are working to create a pollinator corridor throughout Greenfield

Building a Pollinator Corridor in Greenfield

Make every day Earth Day. Blue bags always available for litter pick up.

Greenfield Litter Picking

Seeking free and convenient paint recycling for Massachusetts residents.

Paint Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation

What is being done? What can I do?

Reusable Bags

Help Greening Greenfield make sure that FirstLight Power does not operate Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage and other hydroelectric facilities on the CT River for another 50 years as they have been operated for the last 50.

CT River Hydro Relicensing

Help students become stewards of clean water in our rivers, marshes, lakes and oceans..

GMS Water Unit

Supporting teachers and students to learn about our planet, the concept of sustainability, and what we can do to be better stewards.

GMS Garden Club

Our Programs

Latest News Updates

March 5, 2026 | Updates

Give your input to Hope Street lot plans

On 7/16/25 the City Council voted 10-1 to allow the City to sell the Hope Street lot for the purpose of building housing there. This vote allowed the City to request proposals for housing (an RFP) from developers. Some residents signed a petition seeking to overrule the Council vote. That effort…

Housing Greenfield Meeting notes — 02/19/2026

Present: Susan Worgaftik, Peg Hall, Nancy Hazard, Amy Cahillane, Edie Heinemann, Brace Rennels, Lexi Turner, Garth Shan…

With final Environmental Impact Statement complete, FirstLight facilities clear relicensing hurdle

With final Environmental Impact Statement complete, FirstLight facilities clear relicensing hurdle Stakeholders say rul…

Regional Transit Partnership introduces the Link413 Pilot Bus Service

Link413 bus service pilot introduced among Franklin, Berkshire, Hampshire counties.

Going After Corporate Homebuyers is Good Politics but Ineffective Policy

When it comes to the housing crisis, the simple villain narrative is appealing, but will it help us actually see a way…

My Turn: A perfect storm in housing

Greenfield Recorder, Thursday morning, Jan. 08, 2026 By JIM GEISMAN We need more housing, whether it is affordable hous…

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