Fighting For Our Future
This virtual Climate Speaker Series event was recorded on October 6, 2021. In Conversation with Mothers Out Front On October 6, 2021 the Friends of Mount Auburn hosted a virtual presentation and panel discussion featuring volunteers from Cambridge Mothers Out … Continue reading
Climate Speaker Series
The dangers brought on, at least in part, by our warming climate are too numerous to ignore. Mount Auburn’s Climate Speaker Series provides a platform for local researchers, academics, public officials, business and non-profit leaders, and volunteer organizations to share with … Continue reading
Local Climate Change Preparedness
View of a recording of this Climate Speaker Series event. Panelists Kara Runsten, John Bolduc, and Laurel Schwab join Mount Auburn for an overview of the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program and the efforts of Watertown and Cambridge to conduct vulnerability assessments and implement climate change preparedness and resiliency plans. The role of the urban forest and green infrastructure in addressing heat and flood risks are a focus of the panel discussion. Continue reading
Climate Change & Henry Thoreau
View a recording of this Climate Speaker Series event. For the past 17 years, Professor Richard Primack and his team have been using Thoreau’s records from the 1850s and other Massachusetts data sources to document the earlier flowering and leafing out times of plants, the earlier flight times of butterflies, and the more variable response of migratory birds. Learn more about this climate science journey, more than 150 years in the making. Continue reading