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Charlestown Lower Mystic Open House

Share your ideas about what kind of waterfront access, parks and open spaces, and walking/biking improvements you want to see in your neighborhood. Join us for drinks, snacks, and lively conversation dockside!

Date: June 14, 2018
Location: Schrafft’s Center and Docks
More Information: facebook.com/events/255263028546921/

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Boston Harbor For All Summit – Advancing Collaborative Action

Join Boston Harbor Now and public, private, and nonprofit partners for a two-event, interactive series addressing our harbor’s opportunities and most urgent challenges, with a focus on how we can work together to move key policies and projects from planning to action.

Date: May 30, 2018
Location: BSA Space, Downtown
More Information: bostonharbornow.org/bostonharborforall

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Capital Improvement: Trustees in Boston – Then and Now

Rapid urban development back in Eliot’s day sparked the young conservationist’s desire to create an organization [The Trustees] that could preserve swaths of nature. And now, as Boston’s building boom continues, particularly along the waterfront, The Trustees feels the same imperative to foster healthy refreshment, recreation, and a connection with the land through preservation within the capital.

→Source: The Trustees
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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 Journal
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First the Greenway, Now the Waterway

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh wants to transform Fort Point Channel into a waterway lined with parks that would serve almost as levees during periods of storm surge.

→Source: CommonWealth Magazine
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This 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 Globe
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