To bend the curve of climate change takes more than the goodwill of Cantabrigians. In the case of waste escaping into the Alewife Brook and overdevelopment in Cambridge Highlands, the City Council, Planning Board and city manager must work together to ensure all new construction is part of a solution.

Although I made this decision for my own business and strongly encourage others to do the same, businesses should have the freedom to make their own decisions. Creative approaches such as incentive programs encourage participation without forcing their hand.

I may not be willing to dine indoors during Covid, but am more than happy to support my local restaurants via takeout orders. If only the resulting plastic trash heaps didn’t leave me wracked with guilt. I am begging Cambridge restaurants: Please stop packaging takeout food with so much plastic!

Only investment in new affordable housing, particularly social housing, can provide a long-term solution to our housing crisis, but a bill enabling municipalities to consider rent control and rent stabilization could provide short- and medium-term solutions. There’s a hearing on it Tuesday.

Three residents write to urge support of the 100 Percent Clean Act to transition Massachusetts to 100 percent clean electricity by 2035 and 100 percent clean heating and transportation by 2045. The House version was filed by state Reps. Marjorie Decker and Sean Garballey.

Contact city councillors and ask that parking along North Massachusetts Avenue be restored as a true gift of kindness during this holiday season.

The daily trash cleanup that the Central Square Business Improvement District ambassadors conduct has Central Square looking cleaner than it has in 30-plus years.

We are grateful to Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and the Cambridge City Council for unanimously passing a policy order in support of the Votes Act pending in the Massachusetts Legislature.

A recent update from the Water Department on contamination in our water supply raises grave concerns for our health and safety. The city has repeatedly refused to switch our supply to the MWRA system based on unfounded claims it would be more expensive.

Struggling families face an extreme benefit “cliff”: Federal waivers enabling schools to serve meals to all students dissolve at the end of the 2021-2022 school year.