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Tree Walks and Green Events
Spring Calendar 2000 for Green Activities: Arbor Days, Tree Walks, Greenspace Alliance, and Cambridge Climate Action.
Please send updates to Karen Carmean. This will be posted on a new website: cambridgegreen.org in a few days.
Friday and Saturday Feb. 25 and 26: Water Sensitive Ecological Planning and Design Conference at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Pre-registration was required but website has wonderful information: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/events/frame.cgi?file=conferences/list.pl
Monday February 28, 5:30 p.m. City Council: goals and objectives for the City Council and the City administration. No votes taken. Not recorded. No audience participation expected. Ackerman Room on 2nd floor of City Hall in Central Square
Tuesday February 29 6-7 p.m. Open Public Meeting on Community Needs. Offer your views on how the City of Cambridge can address your community needs. The City is in the process of developing a 5 year Plan to address Housing, Homeless, Open Space and other community issues and needs your input. Ackerman Room on 2nd floor of City Hall in Central Square For More information, call Janet or Elsa at 349-4600.
Tuesday, February 29 6-8 p.m. Architects for Social Responsibility: Massachusetts Environmental Policy & The Built Environment. Speaker: Sonia Hamel, Director of Air Policy, Mass. Office of Environmental Affairs . 52 Broad St., 5th floor, Boston.
March 1 Registration ends for "Global Warming XI -The Year 2000 Kyoto Compliance Review" - Global Warming International Conference will be held April 25-28 in Cambridge at Hyatt Regency. http://www.globalwarming.net/gw11.html Green Ribbon Committee: http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~CDD/commplan/greenribbon/index.html
Thursday, March 2 7 p.m. Open Space planning for Squirrel Brand Properties at Broadway and Boardman streets. Organized by Cambridge Community Development Department. Fletcher School, 89 Elm St.
March 4 or March 5 9-11 a.m. "Sugaring Off." Celebration for preschool to grade 3 with adult. Includes pancake breakfast. How a tree is built. for 2, + per additional family member. at Habitat in Belmont Mass. Audubon Society: 617-489-5050
Wednesday March 8, 15 and 22: "Forests of Fun: Trees!" Ages 5-7 are invited to head outdoors for a tree safari and then conduct fun, sensory investigations. Instructor: Christine Muth, at Peabody Museum and Harvard Museum of Natural History. 3:40-5 p.m. .
Sat. March 11 9 a.m. - noon. "Evergreens" Instructor: Bruce Wenning. at Habitat in Belmont Mass. Audubon Society: 617-489-5050
Sunday, March 10:30-12 noon. Kingsley Park Hill in Fresh Pond. Walk about with Ranger Jean Rogers at Fresh Pond. RSVP 349-4793 by Friday.
Tuesday, March 14, Greenspace Alliance Meeting. Contact Debbie Kershner. dkershner@mindspring.com
Wednesday, March 15 1:-2:30 p.m. "Snug as a Bud: How to know the Trees in Winter." Dave Barnett, Director of Horticulture, Mount Auburn Cemetery, . 547-7105
Thursday, March 16 7-9 p.m. Cambridge Climate Action. Contact Michael Charney. MCha6677@aol.com
Saturday, March 18. Trees at Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Elisha and Elizabeth Atkins. 10-11:30 a.m. with Mass. Audubon Society. . 617-489-6060
Saturdays March 18 and 25: Backyard Organics: a Short Course. . Ryder Hall Bldg. Rm 159, Northeastern Universtiy. 617-287-7287
March 24 (Workshop on the "CLIMB" Project at Tufts University on infrastructure impacts in the metropolitan Boston region. See http://www.tufts.edu/tie/CLIMB
Saturday March 25. Tree Identification of newly planted trees in Cambridge by People Make a Difference.Organized by Cambridge Tree Project with help from Summerbridge students, Arborist Larry Acosta and Chris Dewart 10:30-3:30.
Saturday, March 25 2:00- 3:30 p.m. "Trees with Stories" a walking tour with Dennis Collins, Curator of Plant Collections, Mount Auburn Cemetery. . 547-7105
Saturday, March 25. Project Learning Tree Teacher Workshop. 8:30-3 p.m. Habitat in Belmont. Mass. Audubon Society. . . 617-489-6060 Themes: diversity, interrelationships, systems, structure, patterns of change. An award-winning, interdisciplinary environmental education program.
Saturday, March 25th noon - 5:00 GARDENERS GATHERING. Northeastern University, Curry Student Center. Workshops on Composting, Gardening with children, High yield in Small plots, etc. Garden Futures: 369-1996
Biodevastation conference at Northeastern Univ. March 24-25; rally Sunday March 26 at 1 pm. in Copley Square. These events are to educate about genetic engineering, especially of food. They parallel a huge national conference of biotech companies and advocates at Hynes Auditorium. jon@cqs.com or bio4actions@yahoo.com.
Sat. April 1:Poetry Contest: Entries by 5,6,7, and 8th graders due at Central Square Library. Co-sponsored with Little Women's Club and Cambridge Tree Project. Special prize for poems on trees. People of all ages may submit trees poems to 1657 Cambridge St. #3, Cambridge MA 02138
Sunday April 2 2-4 "The Intimate Life of Trees" An exhibit by Cambridge Artist Karen Klein at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster MA. Show runs March 10-April 7. Call Museum at 508-896-3867 for directions.
Sunday April 9 10:30-12 noon. Ranger Walk about beginning at Black's Nook in Fresh Pond Reservoir. Ranger Jean Rogers at Fresh Pond. RSVP 349-4793 by Friday.
April 13 (Eco-tour as Cambridge's Earth Day event).
April 15 Alewife cleanup And many cleanups around Boston
April 15 at Episcopal Divinity School: "Beginning Earth Week with a Prayer"--focuses on various enviro issues. www.theregenerationproject.org.
April 16 (Commute-a-Better-Way event).
Sat. April 22 Earthday in Boston
April 22 8:30-5 Earthday 2000 Conference. Cape Cod Community College Tilden Arts Center. Contact: Carolyn Ettinger, Matt Patrick Phone: 508-457-7679 mpatrick@reliance.org. Expert presenters include George Woodwell of the Woods Hole Research Center, Barnstable County Commissioner Dr. Robert O'Leary, Dr. Anna Manatis-Lornell from Cape Clean Air, Pace University School of Law Professor Edward Smeloff, and Greg Watson of the Massachusetts Technology Council. Interactive exhibits, demos, solar homes, fuel cells, etc. http://www.reliance.org/
April 25 6-7 Poetry Party grades 5-8. Special prize for poetry on trees. Central Square Library.
Sat. April 29 Tree Walk Agassiz and Harvard Natural History Museum 26 Oxford St. 9:30-12 noon
Monday, May 1:
Arbor Day at High School
Tuesday, May 2
Arbor Day In East Cambridge: Kennedy School 8:15-9a.m..
Harrington School 9:30-10:15 a.m.
Wednesday, May 3: Arbor Day in Area 4: Fletcher School 8:45-9:30a.m.;
Sennott Park and Fitzgerald School 9:45-10:30
Thursday, May 4 Arbor Day at Longfellow School 8:45-9:30 a.m. and
King School 10-10:45 a.m. and Science Fair exhibit at King School including exhibit on trees
Friday, May 5 Arbor Day at Strawberry Hill and Haggerty School 8:15-9:00 a.m. Tobin School 9:30-10:15 a.m.
Saturday, May 6 9-11 a.m. Tree Walk in Mid Cambridge leading to Columbia Park for Arbor Day Celebration led by Bill Shutkin
Saturday, May 6 Arbor Day and City Tree Millennium Project at Columbia Park near Central Sq. 10-1 p.m.
Saturday, May 6 Earthday in Cambridge: self guided tour of environmental events at various places in Cambridge.
Sunday, May 7 Tree Walk of Fresh Pond. Meet Ranger Jean Rogers at Tobin School 4 p.m. Walk 4:30-6 p.m. RSVP 349-4793 by Friday.
Monday, May 8 Arbor Day at Agassiz School and Neighborhood. 1-1:45 p.m. Arbor Day at Peabody School and Neighborhood 9. 2- 2:45 p.m.
Tuesday, May 9
Arbor Day in Cambridgeport: Graham and Parks School 8:50-9:30.
Cambridgeport School or Morse School 9:45-10:30
Saturday, May 13 Tree Walk in North Cambridge. Meet at Jerry's Pond on Rindge Ave. near Rt. 2 9:30-12 noon. NOCA art exhibits 11-5 Sat. and Sunday
Saturday, May 13 Earthday in Cambridge: self guided tour of environmental events at various places in Cambridge
Sunday May 14 10:30-12 noon.Little Fresh Pond walk in Fresh Pond Reservoir with Ranger Jean Rogers. RSVP 349-4793 by Friday.
Saturday, May 20 Tree Walk in Cambridgeport. Morse School 9:30 Walk at 10:00- 12 noon.
Sunday June 11 10:30 - 12 noon Kingsley Park Hill in Fresh Pond Reservoir. Ranger Jean Rogers at Fresh Pond. RSVP 349-4793 by Friday.
Saturday, September 13 Tree Walk for Area 4 Sennott Park on Harvard St. 9:30-12 noon
Saturday, September 23 Tree Walk for Neighborhood 9: Peabody School to Danehy Park
Saturday, October 14 Tree Walk for Mid Cambridge. Cambridge Hospital 9:30- 12 noon.