18 Berkshire Communities Receive Recycling Grants| 12:26PM / Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | |
 BOSTON — To mark America Recycles Day, the Baker-Polito Administration announced $3.1 million in grant funding to 268 municipalities and regional solid waste districts across the Commonwealth. The grants, made available through the Sustainable Materials Recovery Program (SMRP), will help municipalities and solid waste districts maximize recycling, composting, and waste reduction programs. "Communities across the Commonwealth are committed to recycling as a way to protect our environment and the public health," said Governor Charlie Baker. "Funding from the Sustainable Materials Recovery Program will aid municipalities' efforts to implement 16 Comments
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December is the Start of Bird Feeding Season| 04:14PM / Monday, November 15, 2021 | |
 The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department recommends that people wait to put up bird feeders until Dec. 1 to avoid attracting bears. "This may be a particularly good winter for attracting winter birds arriving from Canada, including Evening Grosbeaks and Purple Finches," Doug Morin, Vermont Fish and Wildlife's bird project leader said. "Black oil sunflower is a good seed choice that will attract a variety of birds, and folks may want to try other seeds or suet to attract certain species. Thistle, for example, attracts many of the finches. Gardeners will find leaving late-blooming flowers uncut provides seeds which can also attract 0 Comments
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House of Correction's Aquaponics Lab Feeding Needy, Imparting SkillsBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
06:44PM / Wednesday, October 27, 2021 | |
Sam Fleming, whose nonprofit organization 100 Gardens inspired the project, checks out the roots growing in the nutrient rich water. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire County House of Correction has had something fishy going on for awhile now. Community leaders and others got a chance on Wednesday to tour an inmate-run greenhouse that takes hydroponics — growing plants in a nutrient solution — to another level of sustainability by using fish waste as fertilizer. While producing both fish and produce, the facility also provides inmates with valuable skills that can be transferred to life outside of the jail. Each of the 30 towns and both 0 Comments
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Dulye Leadership Experience Spearheads Pittsfield Mum Planting Project | 08:16AM / Wednesday, September 29, 2021 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Dulye Leadership Experience (DLE) is joining with Pittsfield Beautiful and Pittsfield Commissioner of Public Services Ricardo Morales for a third round of floral planting on North Street on Saturday, Oct. 2 starting at 9:00 a.m. DLE President Linda Dulye has rallied dozens of volunteers from the Berkshire-based professional development organization, and a local greenhouse will deliver 150 mums for planting in garden beds in the North Street business district between Mellville and Bradford Streets, just a few blocks from the DLE headquarters. This is the DLE's fourth community service project in 2021 to support 0 Comments
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Invasive Spotted Lanternfly Found in Worcester County| 04:03PM / Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | |
 FITCHBURG, Mass. — The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) announced Tuesday that a small population of the invasive spotted lanternfly has been found in the City of Fitchburg, close to where a lanternfly nymph was reported earlier this summer. Agricultural inspectors are in the middle of performing surveys in the area, but currently the infestation is limited to a single cluster of three trees. While MDAR has not been able to determine the origin of the infestation, spotted lanternflies have been known to travel out of infested states on cars, trucks, and trains, during shipments of produce, sheds, and gazebos, trees and shrubs for landscaping, and 0 Comments
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Lever Launches Second Mohawk Trail Entrepreneurship Challenge| 04:12PM / Wednesday, September 22, 2021 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Lever will launch a second Mohawk Trail Entrepreneurship Challenge (MTEC) this month focusing on wood product enterprises, thanks to a $60,000 grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA). Lever's MTEC seeks to attract forestry-based and wood-using startups, excluding businesses focused on wood-based fuels. "Our Challenge programs have allowed us to support more than 80 entrepreneurs, whose companies have created hundreds of jobs," said Lever Executive Director Jeffrey Thomas. "I'm looking forward to meeting our Mohawk Trail Entrepreneur Challenge finalists and working 0 Comments
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Injured Hummingbird Heals at Warm LampBy Tor Hansen, iBerkshires columnist
05:19PM / Sunday, August 08, 2021 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — When I lived at Marshside house adjacent to a fresh water cattail marsh on Pond Road in North Truro, Cape Cod, an unfortunate event shaped my response to an injured hummingbird. For the next day and a half, I provided care at a table lamp, to eventually see it fly away. As sunlight filled my living room that Sept. 12, 2012, I prepared for Sunday service at my local church, and thought nothing about leaving a window open to usher in the fresh air to such a promising day. Little did I know that when I returned from church and jubilant choir singing, I would be greeted with a lively hummingbird that somehow had entered the window left 671 Comments
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New Funding Opportunity to Support Air Quality Sensors in Communities| 04:08PM / Wednesday, July 21, 2021 | |
 BOSTON — The Baker-Polito Administration announced that $200,000 in grants is now available to communities to place 10 air quality sensors on homes, schools or businesses to measure fine particle pollution (PM2.5) throughout local neighborhoods. These small sensors produce data that will be displayed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's AirNow Fire and Smoke Map online, along with data from PM2.5 monitoring stations operated by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). "Massachusetts is committed to helping communities affected by air pollution, especially those with Environmental Justice populations," said Energy 0 Comments
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Never Thought You'd See a Bear? Think AgainBy MassWildlife,
04:28PM / Thursday, July 01, 2021 | |
 It's summertime in Massachusetts, which means more people will be spending time outdoors. With the increasing number of black bears found in many areas of Massachusetts, it is important for all residents to know how to prevent problems. While people living in Western Massachusetts have been coexisting with bears for years, others in the eastern part of the state may be surprised to learn that black bears likely live nearby as well. This summer, a young bear made headlines as it traveled throughout southeastern Mass, and over the last few years, MassWildlife has also confirmed reports of bears in Newton, Chelmsford, North Andover, Amesbury, and even Provincetown! In the mid-1970s,
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Pittsfield Launches Recycling Awareness CampaignBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
04:09AM / Friday, June 25, 2021 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Pittsfield is upping its recycling game. The city has launched a new campaign to educate residents on the "dos" and "don'ts" of recycling.
"Pittsfield Recycles — The Right Way" reminds people that food or liquid does not belong in recycling, recyclables cannot be bagged, and clothes don't go in the bin.
The campaign kickstarted with a video starring Commissioner of Public Services and Utilities Ricardo Morales and will promote good recycling habits through early August. It will also feature three billboards throughout the city, an ad on a Berkshire Regional Transit Authority bus, and local public service announcements
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