Baltimore Student Leader Receives Goldman Environmental Prize

On Monday, Watford will receive the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her successful grassroots effort to stall the construction of what would have been the nation’s largest trash incinerator in the Curtis Bay neighborhood of southern Baltimore.

In 2012, the then-17-year-old Watson first learned that the developer Energy Answers had secured legal approval to build a solid-waste-to-energy power plant—PR speak for a trash incinerator—one mile from her high school. “When the incinerator was proposed, it was proposed as the solution to both the energy crisis and the waste crisis,” Watford told Sierra in a recent interview. “It sounded like a wonderful solution, but it's not—it was a false alternative.”  http://sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-2-march-april/green-life/baltimore-student-leader-receives-goldman-environmental-prize

Article courtesy of Sierraclub.org by Catherine Schuknecht

MassDOT announced the first activation of the Commonwealth’s Real-Time Traffic Information System (Go-Time) set to expand statewide by the end of the year.

Three new Real-Time Traffic displays were launched in the area of Rt. 140 in Taunton. These displays include travel times from Rt. 140 to Interstate 195, Rt. 140 to Interstate 195, and Rt. 140 to Rt. 6. The signs will provide drivers with information about how long their commute will be and will assist drivers in making informed travel decisions.  http://blog.mass.gov/transportation/massdot-highway/massdot-launches-go-time-real-time-traffic-information/
Article courtesy of MassDot by Klark Jessen

MBTA: Worcester-Boston Nonstop Service Begins May 23

For the first time ever, the MBTA will offer nonstop service between Worcester and Boston in less than an hour. The HeartToHub will operate twice daily—morning and evening—every weekday starting May 23, 2016.  http://blog.mass.gov/transportation/mbta/mbta-worcester-boston-nonstop-service-begins-may-23-2/
Article courtesy of MassDOT by Klark Jessen

Solar plane takes off from California for Arizona

In this April 23, 2016 file photo, Solar Impulse 2 flies over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco at the end of its journey from Hawaii, part of its attempt to circumnavigate the globe. The next leg of the solar-powered around-the-world flight is scheduled to start from Mountain View, Calif., Monday, May 2, 2016, at 5 a.m. PDT, bound for Phoenix.  http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/science/article/Solar-plane-prepares-to-leave-California-for-7387227.php
Article courtesy of The San Francisco Chronicle

Another study says warming may be worse than experts think

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most computer simulations of climate change are underestimating by at least one degree how warm the world will get this century, a new study suggests.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Another-study-says-warming-may-be-worse-than-7234552.php
Article courtesy of San Francisco News -Associated Press by Seth Borenstein

Stethoscope pill developed by MIT and Mass General researchers picks up invention award

A swallowable, pill-sized stethoscope developed by researchers at MIT and Mass General to monitor your body’s vital signs, has won one of Popular Science’s 2016 Invention Awards.  http://www.boston.com/news/science/2016/04/30/stethoscope-pill-developed-by-mit-and-mass-general-researchers-picks-up-invention-award
Article courtesy of The Boston Globe by Dialynn Dwyer

Boston’s free sunscreen program is expanding nationally

The program that brought free sunscreen to Boston last year is back. But this year, 11 other states will get in on the sun protection action.
Starting in May, the Melanoma Foundation of New England will issue free sunscreen dispensers to 54 locations across 12 states, for a total of 190 dispensers. Massachusetts alone will get 29.
http://www.boston.com/news/health/2016/04/30/bostons-free-sunscreen-program-expanding-nationally
Article courtesy of the Boston Globe by Dialynn Dwyer