Affordability, steep lots and cohabitation changes could bolster housing construction in Somerville
Three changes to housing in Somerville were passed by the City Council last month, including two that could add to the number of available homes.
Great horned owls are worth turning to see, which is how these birds have to do it too
The crushing power of a great horned owl’s talons is 200 to 500 pounds per square inch to our 70; it can sits on eggs through temperatures of 25 below; and if our eyes were as proportional to our bodies as an owl’s, they would be the size of grapefruits.
Attend meetings in Cambridge from Dec. 1-8 about street cleaning test and charter review (corrected)
Public meetings this week look at the outcome of a street-cleaning test and proposed changes to Cambridge Street and Massachusetts Avenue, ways to get gas cars off city streets and a proposed rooftop garden for the high school.
Small body with a big, puffy, buffalolike head? You’ve met the elusive bufflehead diving duck
North America’s smallest diving duck – weighing about a pound – are small, energetic and found here during the winter. That is, if you can find them at all.
Attend Cambridge meetings from Nov. 24-Dec. 1 about leaf blowers and a change at Laundrytown
Public meetings this week look at eliminating leaf blowers, ending more net-zero exemptions on buildings, open data, its licensing and artificial intelligence, changes on Cambridge Street and a switch from Laundrytown to eatery near Alewife low-income housing.
Alewife Floaters, and what you can do about them
Rainfall-driven eruptions of raw sewage into the Charles River, the Mystic River and especially the Alewife Brook take place on a regular basis. There are things we could do beyond waiting for the installation of municipal infrastructure.
Let’s make new large buildings in Cambridge fossil-free by 2030
A proposed Beudo amendment would have a significant impact on cutting the city’s greenhouse gas emissions, and its provisions are reasonable and doable.
At a time the turkey can become a target, celebrate fowl that’s back from extinction
Turkeys roamed North America 10 million years ago. The subspecies we are most familiar with, the Eastern wild turkey, descended from these ancient birds – and so did the Mexican turkey, the grandparent of what we eat for Thanksgiving.
Attend Cambridge meetings between Nov. 17-24 about bicycle lane data, Vassal Lane school name
Public meetings this week look at assessing the city manager, hiring a fire chief and automated parking enforcement, bicycle and bike lane use data, expanding the power grid, fast, switching to a “strong mayor” form of government and a Vassal Lane school name change.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Thanksgiving to a ‘Neo & Nubia’ reading
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, including ThanksLIVING, Cranksgiving, THANGsgiving, the Gobble, Gobble, Gobble run, Falcons vs. Highlanders football, Brickbottom’s open studios, “Something Strange” and David Boobie and the Onyeagoros and their “Neo & Nubia.”
