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Volunteer Invasive Water Chestnut Removal Project
Submitted by Susan on Jul 18 2010 - 3:02pm The 2010 water chestnut removal season has begun! Water chestnuts were spotted in the Lakes District of the Charles in late May, and we are gearing up to get volunteers out on the water to remove them! We have several public volunteer events scheduled, which take place at Charles River Canoe and Kayak in Newton: Saturday, July 24, 10am - 2pm Space is limited! If you would like to volunteer at any of these events, please RSVP to Maggie at... more Environment, Nature

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Cambridge Exposed... It's not pretty!
Submitted by 02141-0 on Jan 28 2009 - 5:24pm
Hey... After lots of meetings and long hours working to help shape the future of my neighborhood, I've come to a realization: the process needed to be exposed (how luminous of me...). Our city, it's councilors, the processes that shapes the future of our neighborhoods, our city needed to be...
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Free Breakfast 4 Green People in Harvard Square
Submitted by Margaret Desjardins on Jan 24 2009 - 10:04am
COME TO BREAKFAST - AND BRING YOUR GREEN FRIENDS! Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons will kick off her "9 in '09" Mayor's Walk/Ride Day Challenge if you participate in 9 or more W/R Days you get an invitation to a special reception with the Mayor, but you have to have a passport to keep track of them...
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Construction Barges in the Broad Canal
Submitted by Mark Jaquith on Jan 3 2009 - 2:58am
On May 15, 2001 Mirant Kendall, LLC was granted a license by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to install new generating equipment and related structures. Special condition 1 of the license was that they “shall construct and maintain in good repair a publicly accessible pile-...
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Up-zoning Give & Take
Submitted by Mark Jaquith on Dec 28 2008 - 4:33pm
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. has purchased seventeen acres of land in East Cambridge.(The areas highlighted in orange and aqua in the picture) They are petitioning the City Council for zoning relief. They are asking for an increase in allowable square feet of floor area for their parcels....
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BeLive: "Say It In Your Own Words" -- Hatch...
Submitted by SharonMaryS on Nov 20 2008 - 9:05am
On Tuesday, 11/19/09, BeLive had as our guest local gardener and community builder Hatch Sterritt. Hatch can be seen pulling his cart of gardening tools around Area 4, interacting with neighbors to help them create beauty in the streets surrounding them. He believes that cleaning weeds and debris,...
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Turn Green this Halloween - Walk Ride Day
Submitted by Margaret Desjardins on Oct 29 2008 - 7:26am
This Friday (Halloween) is Walk Ride Day so have some fun with it. Dress up in costume or dress up in Green and Orange and reduce your carbon BIGFoot print for the day. Wear green, go green, be green...feel good about yourself- and get LOOT from participating sponsors (see list below)! Find...
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