All neighborhoods have secrets but some are stranger than others. Just in time for Halloween, The Emerald Necklace Conservancy will explore Jamaica Plain in Boston. Participants will stop at sites of anarchist robberies, stuffed elephants, and a nervine asylum and hear tales of trainwrecks and things that lurk beneath the surface of Jamaica Pond. The tour is hosted in collaboration with the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Jamaica Plain Historical Society.

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Dr. Les Kaufman, Professor of Biology, CAS, BU

Handmaiden to Extinction: Climate Change and Massive Loss of Ecosystem Services in Coral Reefs, Tropical Great Lakes, and Global Fisheries

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Join us for a Renew Boston Workshop with presentations in English and in Spanish. (Presentación en español a las 6:30pm.) 

You can learn ways to make your home more comfortable, enhance your property, and reduce your costs with:
– No-cost Home Energy Assessments
– 75% – 90% Discounts on Insulation
– Heating & Cooling Rebates
– 0% Interest HEAT Loan
– Grants for qualified wiring upgrades and asbestos removal from attics and boilers

The Workshop will include:
– Informative presentation
– Question and answer session
– Raffle for energy-saving prizes.

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The Boston Public Market opens its doors as the first all-local, permanent, year-round market in the country. Stop by the market to find fresh, locally sourced food brought directly to and from the diverse people that make up Massachusetts and New England.

The Boston Public Market houses over 35 farmers, fishermen, and food producers from Massachusetts and throughout New England, selling produce, meat, dairy, seafood, baked goods, beverages, and prepared and specialty foods. Everything sold at the Market is produced or originates in New England.

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Can’t remember the last time you were on a bike? Or never learned to ride? Come to a free learn-to-ride class for women, taught by women, at Bunker Hill Community College.

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Organized by the Association of Climate Change Officers, this is an in-depth training on climate preparedness, from introductory boot camps to best practices. Use promotional code Partners-Discount-BostonHarbor for a 20% discount.

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Organized By: Sierra Club and MCAN

Location: Fort Point Room, Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02210
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On Thursday, July 14, 2016 from 6:00-8:00 PM Sierra Club and Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) are hosting an environmental movie night.

We will be screening two short films by children’s book author Lynne Cherry and then Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Ferguson’s new film Time to Choose featuring Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune.

Please join us for a night of action and discussion during this time of crucial negotiations regarding clean energy in Massachusetts.

The event is free but please bring your checkbooks to support the great work MCAN and the Sierra Club do!

Kids vs. Global Warming is a 5-minute documentary on the work of Alec Loorz, a young climate activist who at age 12 created a SLAP (Sea Level Awareness Posts) on the beach in Ventura, California and at age 15 presented his Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels to California Senator Barbara Boxer in Washington.

Save Tomorrow is about three 9-year-old girls from Lexington, Massachusetts who team up to change their town law to allow solar panels on public buildings. Their passion and experience working through local government gave them the experience to petition the Lexington Conservation Commission to protect a local forest in their neighborhood.

Our Featured Presentation Time to Choose by Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Ferguson addresses the impact of climate change challenges and the inspiring ways people have worked together to discover and implement sustainable solutions. The power of the film is that it won’t let us forget that it is within our power to avoid the worst consequences of climate change – we need only choose to do so.

Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman says of the film: Ferguson’s biggest news flash — and he provides a truckload of evidence for it — is that renewable energy sources like wind and solar, which have been mocked for years as well-meaning but minor hippie-dippy solutions, have become a ruthlessly competitive economic alternative. They are now cheaper than fossil fuels, and the film makes a potent case that the reason we aren’t using more of them is that big oil simply doesn’t want it that way. The fossil-fuel companies, whether in the United States or China (a nation so hooked on coal that it is poisoning itself), control the government, the propaganda, thethinking. It’s their way or no way. “Time to Choose” says: There is another way. Like “An Inconvenient Truth,” the movie provides its audience with impassioned dollops of information, but more than that it simply asks us to open our eyes. You can view the trailer here and read the entire Variety review

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The 2nd Annual Green Arts Network Artist Showcase will be held on October 14, 2016 from 12pm-6pm.

Come celebrate sustainability with artwork, local grassroots organizations, and open discussion on climate politics!

Help MassArt’s Clay for Change ceramics group raise funds for RESIST THE PIPELINE (http://www.resistthepipeline.org/), the movement against the West Roxbury lateral pipeline!

More local organizations and student groups will be present:
Boston Climate Action Network (BCAN)
350Mass For A Better Future
JP Green House
The Restore
MassAction: For the Planet
MassArt Garden Collective

FREE art supply samples, refreshments, and more!

Take the “E” train on the green line to Longwood Medical!

Questions? Email: greenartsnetwork@gmail.com

Updates and more details: facebook.com/thegreenartsnetwork

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