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Open Space, Green Infrastructure Could Protect Us From the Next ‘Bomb Cyclone’
As Winter Storm Grayson roared into the Northeast this past week, it wasn’t snow or freezing temperatures that brought our coastal cities to a state of emergency. It was water—too much of it, and in the wrong places.
→Source: Boston Business JournalAs Construction And Tides Rise, Group Aims To Make Eastie ‘More Resilient’ Against Climate Change
Harborkeepers recently conducted a survey in East Boston to gauge where the community is at on climate resiliency. More than three quarters of respondents said they did not know the locations of the evacuation routes out of the neighborhood.
→Source: WBURClimate Ready Boston Leaders Talk Resiliency in Boston Neighborhoods this Summer
This isn’t about just battening down the hatches and holding on; instead, people in East Boston and across the city have started figuring out how to turn the urgent need for climate change preparation, resiliency and adaptation into opportunities to improve community services, boost economic development, increase access to open space, and unite diverse communities.
→Source: East Boston TimesThis Defunct Dry Dock Could be the City’s Next Great Park
Few Bostonians—except maybe some sea gulls—get to revel in the views from Dry Dock No. 4. What a shame.
→Source: The Boston GlobeRecurring events
- Friends of the East Boston Greenway: →Monthly Meeting
- Friends of the Boston HarborWalk: →Monthly Meeting