As the program begins to draw to a close for the summer, the Ambassadors spent the week sharing what they’ve learned throughout the season with local youth.
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Four candidates joined a Boston Mayoral Forum hosted by the Coalition for a Resilient & Inclusive Waterfront, to discuss their plans for the future of Boston’s waterfront along the city’s harbor and rivers.
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Several site visits around the City engaged the Waterfront Ambassadors this week, as they learned more about climate change, sea level rise, and some of the plans to adapt Boston’s vulnerable harborfront to the changes ahead.
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For their third week of stewardship and community projects in and around East Boston, the Waterfront Ambassadors met with local leaders to learn about climate change and Environmental Justice.
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A series of family-friendly events are launching in and around Piers Park this summer, hosted by The Trustees Boston Waterfront Initiative and community partners including the Veronica Robles Cultural Center, and Friends of Mary Ellen Welch Greenway.
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What does it take to craft your own mission statement? This was the question posed to the Waterfront Ambassadors during their second week of stewardship and learning in neighborhoods in and around East Boston.
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The 2021 Waterfront Ambassadors season has kicked off, welcoming 11 teens from the Boston area including East Boston, Revere, Lynn, Hyde Park, and Chinatown.
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The current design for Piers Park III in East Boston features a resilient green shoreline. How to activate this space for education was the topic of a public meeting hosted by the Boston Waterfront Initiative, NOAH, and Greenroots.
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Bringing together forty non-profit organizations and community groups from across the City of Boston, the Coalition for a Resilient and Inclusive Waterfront was officially launched Tuesday morning.
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Following a discussion last week about potential Arts & Culture programming like live performances, a movie screen and salsa socials, the waterfront team on Wednesday night gathered opinions and ideas for future recreational programming, alongside co-hosts from the East Boston YMCA and the Piers Park Sailing Center.
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Veronica Robles Cultural Center (VROCC) and members of the East Boston community joined the Boston Waterfront Initiative team on Thursday night to offer ideas for Arts & Culture programming at the future Piers Park III.
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Following several public meetings focused on design elements for the future Piers Park III, the next round of virtual discussions will gather ideas and feedback for future programming and activities at the East Boston waterfront park.
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Boston has a long history of using parks to improve the everyday lives of its residents. The Emerald Necklace, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, was imagined as a “green ribbon” sprawl of open space providing an escape from what was then an increasingly industrial, polluted city. It was this idea of using parks as a means for public good and well-being that led to the founding of the Trustees of Reservations in 1891 by Olmsted protégé Charles Eliot.
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During a Design Week presentation the Boston Waterfront Initiative team shared how community feedback has so far been incorporated into the initial design draft for Piers Park III, and what’s coming next for this project.
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This summer the Boston Waterfront Initiative will welcome back its Waterfront Ambassadors, for projects, activities, and learning, at home and around the harbor.
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Mark your calendar! The Boston Waterfront Initiative team is pleased to be joining two upcoming events: Boston Design Week and a CityAwake-hosted Climate Readiness Earth Day panel.
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Featuring tide pools, grassy lawns, a picnic grove, kayak launch, natural plantings, and salt marsh, the first draft of a design for the future Piers Park III was released this week, and is ready for public comment.
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Boston Mayor Kim Janey welcomed gardeners to the 45th annual Gardener’s Gathering as it kicked off on Saturday, March 20 in a virtual format.
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What aspects of park design are most important to you? What kinds of programming would you like to see at Piers Park III? These are some of the questions being asked of the public in an online survey about the future East Boston waterfront park.
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More than 19,000 properties in Boston are at risk of experiencing flooding events, according to a report and interactive flood mapping tool from research and technology non-profit First Street Foundation.
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