Daily Archives: May 4, 2010

Sundays, June 13, 20, and 27, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Bostons’s Gardens & Green Spaces Tours

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Join Meg Muckenhoupt, author of Boston’s Gardens & Green Spaces, and Maryglenn Vincens, founder of Boston Your Way Premium Private Tours, for three exclusive walking tours through Green Boston, past and present.  Inspired by Muckenhoupt’s beautiful new book, Muckenhoupt and Vincens will examine how Boston’s shifting landscape and coastline have shaped the city’s ever-expanding network of public spaces.

Tours are $50 per person and are open to the public. Each tour is limited to 25 people. Reservations must be made by Friday June 4, 2010. Each ticket includes a signed copy of Boston’s Gardens & Green Spaces and complimentary tea at some of Boston’s finest cafés and restaurants.

Week 1: The Big Dig: Boston Blasts, Builds, and Reconnects: Sunday, June 13, 1pm-3pm
Week 2: Evolution of Boston Proper: From Puritan Functionality to Modern Day Leisure: Sunday, June 20, 1pm-3pm
Week 3: The Fenway: Land Conflicts, Commitments, and Community Gardens: Sunday, June 27, 1pm-3pm

To register, email: events@unionparkpress.com and send us the Boston’s Gardens & Green Spaces Tour Form.  You may also log on to www.unionparkpress.com/news-events/bostons-gardens-green-spaces-june-tour-series/ for more information.

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Monday, May 10, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Home Sustainability 101: How to Live Greener, Cleaner and Cheaper

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The Ellis South End Neighborhood Association will present Home Sustainability 101: How to Live Greener, Cleaner and Cheaper to be held at the Lyric Stage, 140 Clarendon Street (YWCA building – mezzanine level). This program – free and open to the public – will reveal simple ways to make our homes more livable through carbon footprint reduction, energy conservation, and smart renovations or improvements that pay for themselves in just a few years. Intended for condominium and home owners, renters, building managers, real estate agents and prospective buyers, the symposium is for everyone who wishes to live greener in every way.

The symposium will feature four speakers: Jacob Knowles, an energy conservation specialist from The Green Roundtable/NEXUS; Catriona Cooke of Conservation Services Group; Josh Wood, South End architect who has recently completed an award winning, sustainable renovation on Rutland Square; and Bertil Jean–Chronberg, manager of the Beehive and two–time “green” renovator whose innovative renovations were featured in The Boston Globe home section in January 2010 (see picture below – www.boston.com.)  The energy specialists, the architect and the home owner will illustrate a series of creative and energy efficient solutions through slides, charts and informational handouts. From weather stripping to storm windows, from insulation to new heating systems, the modest and the grand will be covered in this practical and informative neighborhood symposium.

The program will include audience questions and participation and is free and open to the public.  For more information,  contact Grace Gregor by email at gracegregor@mindspring.com,  or visit the Ellis Neighborhood Association web site, www.ellisneighborhood.org.

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Thursday, July 22 – Saturday, July 24 – American Horticultural Society National Children & Youth Garden Symposium

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Register today for the 2010 American Horticultural Society National Children & Youth Garden Symposium, to be held July 22 – July 24 in Pasadena, California.  The Symposium’s theme is “The Vitality of Gardens: Energizing the Learning Environment.”  Featured keynote speakers include Alice Waters, chef, author, and proprietor of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, and the founder of The Edible Schoolyard.  Also, meet Sam Levin, one of six co-founders of Project Sprout, an organic, student-run garden on the school grounds in Massachusetts, and Roger Swain, familiar to many American gardeners as the genial host for 15 years of the popular PBS television program The Victory Garden.  The Symposium is hosted by the Descanso Gardens, Garden School Foundation, the Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Kidspace Children’s Museum, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, and the University of California Common Ground Garden Program. For more information, log on to www.ahs.org.

The restoration we seek in gardens is more essential than ever, but gardens are also sources of healthy food, environmental protection and personal fulfillment. The garden can be an incubator for fostering engaged citizens. For children and youth, a garden can be a science lab, art studio, kitchen, gathering place, theater of the imagination, a special place to explore the world.

Come learn how to create and use gardens to provide dynamic environments for experimentation, social engagement, self-expression, and connection to the natural world. Hear from youth, the adults in their lives, and national experts about the vital role of gardens in the lives of today’s youth.

As a symposium attendee you will participate in the only national symposium that explores the positive impact of gardens in the lives of children and youth, meet and learn from leading youth garden experts, receive useful and relevant project, curriculum, design and garden management ideas, explore the gardens and programs of the Symposium hosts, participate in 3 dynamic days of workshops, lectures, poster sessions and field trips and network and share your own expertise with children’s gardening advocates from across the nation. The early full registration fee is $330 (AHS members $290) before June 1, and $350 thereafter.   Lodging is available at the Westin Pasadena Hotel (the location of the sessions) at a discounted special rate of $155/night for reservations made by July 9.  Call the hotel at  866-837-4181 and ask for the National Children & Youth Garden Symposium room block.

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