The City of Boston's Environment Department and Parks and Recreation Department are organizing a cleanup at the Condor Street Urban Wild in East Boston.

A major component of the cleanup will be the picking up and disposing of trash in the surrounding area. Another component will involve the physical removal and disposal of invasive species.

Invasive species are a group of organisms that are not native to a specific area and are harmful to the native organisms. This is due to the competition for resources that they create among the native organisms.

The Parks and Recreation Department will lead the education and removal of invasive species portion of the event. They will help volunteers identify and remove the invasive species that are affecting the Condor Street Urban Wild.

Please remember to bring:

1. Water
2. Jacket
3. A hat
4. Sunglasses
5. Bug Spray
6. Close-toed shoes
7. Pants or sweatpants
8. Tools and gloves, if you have them.

You can learn more about Urban Wilds online, and view Hyde Park's Urban Wilds. If you have any questions, please email Greenovate Boston at greenovate@boston.gov.

The New Year is here and our climate aspirations for this year are high. With the amazing achievements of 2019, we want to make sure that the momentum continues to propel us even closer to our climate goals. To do this, Greenovate Boston will be hosting the 1st of this year's Greenovation Hub.

The Greenovation Hub is a space to help inspire communication and collaboration within the climate, energy, and environment sectors by focusing conversations on key words. This Greenovation Hub key word is EmergencX. As we enter into 2020, there is an emergence into what the year will be from where we start from. Along with that, there is a question of what are we being emerged in, such as images and stories of climate disasters. With each of these notions, we must ask ourselves where our city is at the beginning of 2020 and where we want it to be in 2021 and beyond.

Join us on January 30th to brainstorm, discuss, network, and action plan with members of the Boston community and beyond. Please join us to lend your passion and expertise to this innovative celebration. We want leaders from all sectors to join in this conversation to ensure thorough considerations are being integrated into this important conversation. Whether this is racial equity, gender equity, housing, economic development, workforce development, or emergency preparedness, all need to be considered.

Food and beverages will be provided. If you have any dietary restrictions, please indicate below. If you have any questions, please email David Corbie at David.Corbie@Boston.Gov.

The celebration takes place on December 19, 2019, from 5 - 8 p.m. at the Bruce C. Bolling Building in Roxbury:

RSVP for the event

2019 was an incredible year for Boston in terms of climate, energy, and environment. Goals were met and many action plans were released. These achievements were due in large part to our partner community organizations and passionate community members that contributed and supported the work. To honor these accomplishments, Greenovate Boston will be hosting the first ever Greenovation Celebration!

The purpose of the Greenovation Celebration is to:

• inspire intersectional dialogue on climate and equity
• encourage networking among leaders from various climate, energy, and environmental sectors
• host brainstorming sessions among various leaders to create innovative initiatives to further Boston's climate work, and
• ultimately leave with our Greenovation Action Plan for 2020.

Please join us to lend your passion and expertise to this innovative celebration. We want leaders from all sectors to join in this conversation to ensure thorough considerations are being integrated into this important conversation. Whether this is racial equity, gender equity, housing, economic development, workforce development, or emergency preparedness, all need to be considered.

We will go over what the City has done, highlight community organizations doing amazing things, have a networking session, and lead into our Greenovation Hub session to brainstorm innovative, collaborative actions that we will all take together.

• 5:00 - 5:15 p.m.: Arrival/Sign-in
• 5:15 - 5:25 p.m.: Introductions
• 5:25 - 6 p.m.: Vision Areas Presentations
• 6:00 - 6:15 p.m.: Break
• 6:15 - 7:45 p.m.: Greenovation Hub
• 7:45 - 8 p.m.: Next Steps/Finals Thoughts

Food and beverages will be provided. If you have any dietary restrictions, please indicate in the RSVP form. If you have any questions, please email David Corbie at David.Corbie@Boston.Gov.

The Gender Equity and Climate Roundtable is meant to encourage conversation around the connection between climate change and gender equity. Though climate change will affect all Bostonians, many Bostonians are more vulnerable to climate change. Climate change will have a greater negative effect on these groups. The Equity Dialogues focus on the most climate vulnerable populations to encourage greater dialogue on the importance of social equity in addressing climate change. This is with the goal of utilizing the conversations to foster greater social resilience among Boston communities.

• older adults
• youth
• people of color
• women
• people with disabilities (mobility, cognitive, sensory), and
• citizens experiencing homelessness.

The conversation will go over the impacts the City is expecting, connect how existing social structures disparately impact women, and how that will impact preparation against climate change. We will then end with a roundtable conversation having communal dialogue around the connection and what we can all do to address the disparities.

If you have any questions or are interested in learning more about the Equity Dialogues, please email David Corbie at David.Corbie@Boston.Gov.

The Racial Equity and Climate Roundtable is meant to encourage conversation around the connection between climate change and racial equity. Though climate change will affect all Bostonians, many Bostonians are more vulnerable to climate change. Climate change will have a greater negative effect on these groups. The Equity Dialogues focus on the most climate vulnerable populations to encourage greater dialogue on the importance of social equity in addressing climate change. This is with the goal of utilizing the conversations to foster greater social resilience for Boston communities.

• older Adults
• youth
• people of color
• women
• people with disabilities (mobility, cognitive, sensory), and
• citizens experiencing homelessness.

The conversation will go over the impacts the City is expecting, connect how existing social structures disparately impact communities of color, and how that will impact preparation against climate change. We will then end with a roundtable conversation having communal dialogue around the connection and what we can all do to address the disparities.

If you have any questions or are interested in learning more about the Equity Dialogues, please email David Corbie at David.Corbie@Boston.Gov.

Come explore family-friendly STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities! Find out if you are taller than a whale rib! Learn about the ocean, the animals that live there, and join us in protecting the blue planet!

Come explore family-friendly STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities! Find out if you are taller than a whale rib! Learn about the ocean, the animals that live there, and join us in protecting the blue planet!

Come explore family-friendly STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities! Find out if you are taller than a whale rib! Learn about the ocean, the animals that live there, and join us in protecting the blue planet!