As the Boston begins implementing recommendations in the Climate Ready Boston report, Greenovate is making sure want to make sure the community is up-to-date with our progress.
Reverend Mariama White-Hammond, a Class of 2009 Barr Fellow, shares three lessons and a new video documenting a novel collaboration of three churches committed to action on climate change and equity.
We have seen that banning plastic bags provides a gateway to making people mindful of other environmentally sound decisions. Bag laws serve as a daily reminder that our everyday choices affect the planet; they help us to live more deliberately and more sustainably, and that makes banning them the right thing to do.
Executive Director, Julia Dundorf, travels back from the People's Climate March on April 30th. She shares her reflections from the March on the RootTalk blog!
For the past several years students at NAE Academy (Nokomis Alternative Education) have been growing both fish and vegetables using the technology of aquaponics in a formerly vacant classroom.
For the third year in a row, the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) is working with Food Solutions New England to design and facilitate the 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge (April 9-29) as an extension of our mutual commitment to racial justice. The challenge is a virtual and networked remix of an exercise created by Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. and Debby Irving, offered as a way of spreading and deepening commitment to learn about, talk about and take action to solve racial injustices in the food and other related systems.
The Keney Park Sustainability Project (KPSP) is a program of the Family Day Foundation, a locally-based organization that engages the community around Keney Park in a variety of areas including: health and nutrition education, landscaping, forest management, waste stream reduction, building and design, and urban agriculture.
Get to know the Keynote Speaker, Jacqueline Maisonpierre! Learn how we can all can promote social and environmental justice in our communities, and hear Jacqueline live at the Grassroots Fund's April 29th RootSkills In-Person Training.
Garden Time operates gardens at three facilities at Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions providing over 1,800 inmates with fresh produce while offering men and women who have had limited success in their lives the chance to gain confidence, acquire important life skills, and experience hope.
