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Updates from Greening Greenfield

October 2, 2025 | Edie Heinemann | Updates

Wilson’s project gets $300K in tax credits

Co-op says new site would increase space, add new jobs By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI, Staff Writer, THE RECORDER newspaper, October 1, 2025 GREENFIELD — The Massachusetts Economic Assistance Coordinating Cou…

September 20, 2025 | Edie Heinemann | Updates

Housing Greenfield Meeting Notes – 09/08/2025

Present: Susan Worgaftik, Peg Hall, Pamela Goodwin, Wisty Rorabacher, Nancy Hazard, Carol Letson, Dorothy McIver, Amy Cahillane, Edie Heinemann, Mike Mullin, Brace Rennels, Louise Amyot, Rachel…

September 5, 2025 | Edie Heinemann | Updates

Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards Nearly $11 Million in Funding for Dams, Levees, and Coastal Infrastructure

Great news! Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) got a grant that we, Greening Greenfield, helped them get! Last year we wrote a Community support letter for a grant that would enable CRC to take the…

August 31, 2025 | Edie Heinemann | Updates

MA New Electricity Rates for Heat Pump Users

What to know about Massachusetts’ new electricity rates for heat pump users. WBUR/Updated August 25, 2025 Miriam Wasser Using an electric heat pump in Massachusetts is about to become more affordable…

August 27, 2025 | Edie Heinemann | Updates

Europe built a battery that stores summer heat underground and heats whole cities in winter, fossil-free

In northern Europe, engineers have built a thermal energy storage system that works like a seasonal battery — but instead of storing electricity, it stores heat from the summer sun. The system captu…

August 27, 2025 | Edie Heinemann | Updates

Can the Rise in Solar Power Balance Out Clean Energy Cuts?

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/solar-power-rise-clean-energy/

August 13, 2025 | Peg Hall | Updates

City Hall Gardens in August

At City Hall we installed native-plant pollinator gardens in 2023. The gardens serve to attract pollinators and birds and to provide a spot of visual relief from all the pavement on Court Square. M…

August 11, 2025 | Edie Heinemann | Updates

Beautifying John Zon Community Center and Saving Shrubs

Greening Greenfield is working with Ardi Klein and Genevieve Lawler, of Regenerative Design Group, to beautify the John Zon Community Center by saving the native shrubs that were planted in 2017. On…

August 7, 2025 | Edie Heinemann | Updates

Franklin County Food Coop Expansion update

In the Last Two Months Dear Member-Owners, Meaningful progress has occurred since our expansion communication in mid-February. Existing Business Importantly, the financial results from our existing s…

July 24, 2025 | Edie Heinemann | Updates

EPR program for paint recommended to Legislature

The EPR Commission recommends that the Massachusetts Legislature enact legislation on or before July 31, 2026 establishing an Extended Producer Responsibility program for paint. The Commission recom…

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