Daily Archives: September 4, 2020

Wednesday, September 23, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – GCBB Fall Flower Arranging Workshop on Zoom

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The first meeting of The Garden Club of the Back Bay’s 2020/2021 program year will be a virtual flower arranging workshop on Wednesday, September 23 from 4 – 6 pm. Join Garden Club members for a late afternoon session led by GCBB member, Nancy Cyr.  Nancy is a Senior Flower Associate at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  She studied flower design with a number of teachers including Francoise Weeks.  She believes that flower arranging is for everyone and that, while it is fun to have access to special and unusual flowers, you can achieve beautiful effects with flowers from the grocery store and weeds picked on your walks.  At the end of the workshop, Nancy will take questions from participants.

There will be a $40 fee for flowers and vase.  To pay your $40.00 fee through the Garden Club’s website, click here:   http://www.gardenclubbackbay.org/shop/

Or if you prefer, pay by check (made out to the Garden Club of the Back Bay) and mail to Jolinda Taylor, 276 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA  02116. Responses and payment must be received by September 18.

Flowers/vase can be picked up on Wednesday morning, September 23 between 10 and 11 am at the parking lot of the First Lutheran Church, 299 Berkeley Street. These will be the same flowers/vase that Nancy will use for her demonstration. There is a limit of 20 people for this option. NOTE: Please wear a mask when you arrive to pick up your flowers/vase.

Floral supplies limited to 20 attendees.  Others may join the call with their own flowers and vase. There will be no charge if you are participating with your own materials, but in order to receive the Zoom link and list of recommended materials, you must email Jolinda by clicking HERE.

Thursdays, September 17 & 24, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Homesteading Workshop (Cancelled)

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Have you ever wanted to raise bees for honey or grow your own herbs and vegetables? Learn these new practical skills and more needed for a self-sufficient lifestyle with The Trustees’ Homesteading Workshop Series this Fall to celebrate the current season and seasons to come. Each week in the month of September at The Stevens-Coolidge Place, 137 Andover Street in North Andover, we will explore a different aspect of Homesteading through hands-on and interactive workshops that will provide you with the knowledge and technical skills to bring these Homesteading practices back to your home.

APOLOGIES – THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID CONCERNS BUT WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FUTURE.

Thursday, September 10, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Green Infrastructure Beyond Flood Risk Reduction, Online

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The Graduate School of Design at Harvard University is pleased to present a series of talks and webinars broadcast to our audiences via Zoom. This lecture will be ONLINE ONLY. For security reasons, virtual attendees must register. Scroll down to find complete instructions for how to register.

Event Description

This lecture explores whether it is possible to achieve both social justice and environmental sustainability in efforts to mitigate urban flood risk. The expanding scale of urban flooding under climate change has renewed interest in large-scale restoration projects that make room for water in metro centers. However, ecologically functioning green infrastructure – unleashed rivers, sprawling wetlands – is inconsistent with the current governance landscape of fragmented local governments seeking to maximize local land values and minimize affordable housing. Moreover, even smaller-scale urban greening projects have resulted in gentrification, suggesting that larger-scale green infrastructure projects will produce still more racist, classist, and exclusionary development. The design imagination for new ecological landscapes has far outpaced a reimagination of the institutional and governance arrangements needed to enable nature-based solutions that advance social justice and ecological sustainability under climate change. This lecture provides an introduction to U.S. development practices implicated by these transitional landscapes, suggests future directions such as urban food production and regional governance, and invites conversation about ways to bridge traditional disciplinary silos in creating racially just, ecologically sustainable, and fiscally functioning cities.

Linda Shi, MUP ’08, is Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. Her research concerns how to plan for urban climate adaptation in ways that improve environmental sustainability and social justice. She assesses how aspects of urban land governance – including the fiscalization of land use, property rights regimes, and metropolitan regional institutions – shape climate vulnerability and adaptation responses. An urban environmental planner by training, Shi has worked for AECOM, the Institute for International Urban Development, and the Rocky Mountain Institute, and consulted for the World Bank and American Institute of Architects on projects and research in the U.S., Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Shi received a Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, a master’s in urban planning from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a bachelor’s and master’s in environmental management from Yale / Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Register to attend the lecture here. Once you have registered, you will be provided with a link to join the lecture via Zoom. This link will also be emailed to you.

The event will also be live streamed to the GSD’s YouTube page. Only viewers who are attending the lecture via Zoom will be able to submit questions for the Q+A. Live captioning will be provided during this event. After the event has ended, a transcript will be available upon request.