350Mass Berkshire Climate Action: Bringing Climate Action Home

12:42PM / Thursday, April 02, 2026Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — 350Mass Berkshire Climate Action, is presenting Bringing Climate Action Home, on April 7, 2026, at Wander, 34 Depot St. Suite 101, Pittsfield, MA.

Doors open at 5:30 to provide time for attendees to meet with and learn more about participating community organizations. Speakers begin at 6:00. This event is free and open to the public.

This program will provide resources for anyone considering home renovations, new construction, and upgrading to energy-efficient electrical appliances. It will include information for homeowners, landlords, and renters.

Wendy Brown, AIA, CPHD, Owner/Architect at Terra Design-Build will address critical energy-efficient design issues for new and existing homes, Mass Save, and how climate disruption impacts us locally.

Joe Carry, Decumanus Green Design-Build, will offer sustainable building insight based on his local home building experience which includes net zero design/construction.

Amanda Parker, Green Energy Consumers Alliance, will discuss the adoption of residential battery storage, window heat pumps, plug-in balcony solar, and more with a focus on the needs of renters and low-income households. In addition Amanda will outline current available financial incentives including rebates for implementing energy efficient measures.

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Letter: Time to retire Maryland's third senator

09:30AM / Tuesday, August 04, 2026

To the Editor:

Time to retire Maryland's third senator

Sen. Chuck Grassley visits all 99 Iowa counties every year (not every six years) as does his colleague Sen. Joni Ernst. The media has dubbed this tour "The Full Grassley."

Sen. Amy Klobuchar goes to all 87 Minnesota counties annually and Sen. Chuck Schumer shows up in all 62 New York counties each year.

Our junior senators from Ed Brooke to Paul Tsongas to John Kerry all made it a point to get to each and every part of the Commonwealth.

We have 14 counties (one of which – Nantucket - is a single town) and yet there are dozens of communities from the hilltowns of western Mass to North Quabbin and the Blackstone Valley that Sen. Ed Markey can't be bothered to set foot in. Since joining the US Senate in 2013, he's never visited almost all of the rural towns in the five western counties. This is unacceptable.

The fact that he spends more time in his Chevy Chase mansion rather than in Cheshire, Chesterfield and Charlton is why he's earned the disparaging moniker as Maryland's third senator.

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