climate
Cape Cod environmental crime drama has local flavor, minimal thrills
“The Scallop Plot” by former Boston Globe health columnist Judy Foreman seems like an ideal choice for a Cape Cod guest house bookshelf, a thriller to flip through idly on a rainy day. It’s full of immersive descriptions of Provincetown and vicinity, with plenty of local landmarks and restaurants namechecked. And it leaves the reader […]
Five Cambridge and Somerville climate tech companies receive state tax incentive
Somerville’s Form Energy received the majority of a $6 million tax incentive for job creation granted to five climate tech innovation companies in Cambridge and Somerville. Read more MIT will reopen Building 18 Form, which produces high-capacity batteries used for storing renewable energy at utility scale, earlier this year was identified as the recipient of […]
Cambridge, Somerville climate tech incubators receive state grants
Four Cambridge and Somerville climate technology incubators received over $1.3 million in Innovation Ecosystem Program grants to support initiatives that advance climate tech startups through commercialization. Read more Cambridge honors saxophonist Johnny Hodges Cambridge-based incubators Activate Global and The Engine as well as Somerville’s FORGE and Greentown Labs each received $120,000. Activate and Greentown also […]
Regional politics will make climate change impact worse for Cambridge, Boston
As Cambridge and nearby communities brace for extreme heat and flooding, researcher and journalist Courtney Humphries argues that the region’s patchwork political landscape is a major obstacle to climate action. Her new book, “Climate Change and the Future of Boston” (Anthem Press), looks at the city’s 400-year-old history of development, and how that shapes the […]
Somerville, Cambridge incubators receive climate tech grants
Two startup accelerators in Cambridge and Somerville received close to $7 million in Mass Leads Act grants to expand their technology base, in a bid to provide more support to entrepreneurs working on mitigating climate change. Read more On the ballot 2026: Ewen-Campen and Gilligan-Corsetti vie for 27th Middlesex Greentown Labs, which bills itself as […]