Boston Flora

Tag: Wgbh

  • Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern – Sensory Chocolate Tasting, Online

    Bonnie Bennett, owner of Kakawa Chocolate House and an expert chocolatier, will guide participants through this March 26 one hour virtual class. Learn how to taste and pair different chocolates from around the globe. During the class, guests will have an opportunity to explore the distinctive looks, aromas, textures, and flavors that define different varietals and terroirs of chocolate-growing regions. In addition, Bonnie will share some of her extensive knowledge of the history of chocolate and expand upon some of the unique properties and unusual facts about cacao.

    Each $75 ticket includes a chocolate kit that will be shipped directly to the postal address entered when you register. One interactive kit contains enough chocolate to serve two people, a sensory tasting wheel, and a note sheet to record your observations. Purchase multiple kits for an amazing Chocolate celebration with family and friends!

    Space is limited for this tantalizing virtual adventure. Registration for this GBH event ends on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 5pm EST, to provide ample time to ship the chocolate kits to your preferred shipping address. Register at www.wgbh.org/events

  • Friday, March 15, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Eastern – Ask the Expert: Planting, Pampering, and Petal Perfection, Online

    Transform your yard into a lush paradise. Whether you live in a rural or urban area, learn the secrets of how to cultivate a vibrant oasis right outside your door. Join GBH and public gardening expert Karen Daubmann from Massachusetts Horticultural Society and immerse in the lavish wonders of your own backyard haven. The free virtual event takes place March 15 at noon Eastern. Register at https://www.wgbh.org/events/ask-the-expert-planting-pampering-and-petal-perfection

    Karen Daubmann is committed to creating effective and longstanding change to public gardens throughout her 25-year career. She joined Massachusetts Horticultural Society (MHS) in March 2022, where she brings her experience in advancing the operational and planning scale of public gardens. In the development and execution of exhibitions that have welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors, Daubmann focuses her work on encouraging guests to connect and interact with gardens through art, nature and culture. Prior to joining MHS, she worked for 14 years at the New York Botanical Garden, culminating in her position as vice president for exhibitions and audience engagement. She has been featured in Jennifer Jewell’s The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants and has contributed essays for Kusama: Cosmic Nature, 2021 and Frida Kahlo’s Garden, 2015.

    Daubmann lives and gardens with her husband Matt and dog Klaus in coastal Rhode Island.

    This event is presented is in partnership with Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

  • Friday, February 9, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Eastern – Will Carbon Capture and Storage Continue Its Failure to Reduce Global Warming?

    GBH, in partnership with Science for the Public, presents a free online lecture on February 9 at noon Eastern. The major cause of the global warming crisis is excess atmospheric CO2 emitted mainly by fossil fuels. The extreme level of atmospheric CO2 is well beyond a “capture and storage/sequestration” solution, yet the hype persists that some clever extraction innovation will resolve the problem. Dr. Charles Harvey, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, has extensive experience with both CO2 capture/storage (CCS) engineering and the realization that CCS cannot reduce CO2 enough to reduce global warming. He argues instead for rational policy: drop fossil fuels and shift to renewables. Now. His expert advice is gaining a wide audience.

    Charles Harvey is internationally recognized for outstanding research in multiple areas of the field of environmental engineering. He has received numerous awards and has appeared in PBS (Frontline) and BBC productions. He is a Fellow of both the American Geological Society the American Geophysical Union. To register, visit https://www.wgbh.org/forum-network/lectures/carbon-capture-and-storage-will-not-reduce-global-warming

  • Friday, November 17, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Eastern – Ask the Expert: Birding Migration, Online

    Do you know how many flyway patterns there are in the U.S. or what triggers birds to migrate? David Allen Sibley, author and illustrator of The Sibley Guide to Birds, will share his insights about our winged friends and the unique pathways they use to find their new seasonal  homes.

    This GBH virtual event takes place at 12pm EST on November 17. Register at www.wgbh.org 

  • Friday, October 20, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Eastern – Ask the Expert: Pruning, Planting and Preparing Your Garden for Winter, Online

    We’re tidying up our gardens as we await a cool fall breeze. Then, the brilliant colors of changing leaves start to appear. Autumn is a stunning season, but it’s also a messy one with wilted plants, overgrown weeds and fallen leaves. So, what is a gardener to do? Fall clean-up seems like a lot of work, but it’s actually quite manageable. Public gardening expert Karen Daubmann will guide you through a list of to-do’s to keep your garden in peak condition all year-round. The online presentation takes place October 20 from noon – one pm Eastern.

    Karen Daubmann is committed to creating effective and longstanding change to public gardens throughout her 25-year career. She joined Massachusetts Horticultural Society (MHS) in March 2022, where she brings her experience in advancing the operational and planning scale of public gardens. In the development and execution of exhibitions that have welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors, Daubmann focuses her work on encouraging guests to connect and interact with gardens through art, nature and culture. Prior to joining MHS, she worked for 14 years at the New York Botanical Garden, culminating in her position as vice president for exhibitions and audience engagement. She has been featured in Jennifer Jewell’s The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants and has contributed essays for Kusama: Cosmic Nature, 2021 and Frida Kahlo’s Garden, 2015. Daubmann lives and gardens with her husband Matt and dog Klaus in coastal Rhode Island.

    This event is presented by GBH in partnership with Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Register HERE.

  • Thursday, May 11, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Eastern – You Are Here: Wanjiku Gatheru, Live and Online

    Environmental justice warrior, Rhodes Scholar, and founder of Black Girl Environmentalist Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru will converse with Boston Public Library President David Leonard as part of the 2023 Lowell Lecture Series You are Here: Climate Change and What’s Next. Their 60-75 minute conversation will followed by an audience Q&A from both the in-person and virtual audiences. The live event takes place at the Lowell Lecture Hall, 15 Kirkland Street in Cambridge.

    For Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru, caring about the environment started early. While farming with her mom and grandmother as a child, the conversations would often turn to saving the earth. The first-generation American of Kenyan descent became even more invested when taking an environmental science class in high school, when she learned that social justice and climate issues were deeply intertwined. Everything suddenly became personal. “It was in this call I learned that the environment had everything to do with me,” she says.

    This lecture is part of the BPL Lowell Lecture Series “You Are Here” on Climate Change and what’s next and produced by GBH Forum Network. This event will begin at 6pm ET. Free. Get tickets and virtual link HERE.

  • Tuesday, April 4, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Eastern – You are Here with Alexandra Cousteau, Online

    Ocean conservationist and environmental advocate Alexandra Cousteau will converse with Boston Public Library President David Leonard as part of the 2023 Lowell Lecture Series You are Here: Climate Change and What’s Next. Their 60-75 minute conversation will followed by an audience Q&A.

    Alexandra Cousteau builds upon the more than 60 years of global name recognition to engage people who expect to hear credible environmental information from the third generation of this pioneering family of explorers. Born into the family business, Alexandra joined her parents in Easter Island on her first expedition at just four months old. By the age of three, she had toured Africa, exploring Egypt, Tunisia, Uganda, and Kenya in the arms of her father. While many of those memories are now out of reach, the experience of those expeditions with her father’s crew has shaped her sense of purpose, her connection to the ocean, and her love of adventure. She could swim before she could walk and was one of the few who learned to dive with SCUBA from Captain Cousteau himself at the tender age of seven. Her childhood friends were the sea creatures that inhabit the rocky shorelines of the south of France. The ocean has been her guide ever since.

    This lecture is part of the Boston Public Library Lowell Lecture Series on climate change and what’s next and produced by GBH Forum Network. This event will begin at 6pm ET. Free. Register at www.wgbh.org for link.

  • Friday, April 14, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Eastern – Ask the Expert: Spring Gardening, Online

    Whether it’s a grand garden or a cozy corner, any yard can be a place to connect with nature around you. Learn how to transform your backyard into a lush paradise full of beauty at GBH’s next Ask the Expert: Spring Gardening event with public garden expert Karen Daubmann online on April 14 at noon Eastern. Bring your questions.

    Daubmann has worked for 25 years to create effective and longstanding change in public gardens. She joined Massachusetts Horticultural Society (MHS) in 2022, where she focuses on encouraging guests to connect and interact with gardens through art, nature and culture. Prior to joining MHS, she worked for 14 years at the New York Botanical Garden. She has been featured in Jennifer Jewell’s The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants and has contributed essays for the exhibits Kusama: Cosmic Nature, 2021 and Frida Kahlo’s Garden, 2015.

    Register for this free virtual Ask The Expert event.We will email you the link to this virtual event once you have registered. GBH will be using Zoom Webinar for this event. Zoom is free to the public but will require a computer download. You can download Zoom here. If you already have Zoom you will not need to download the platform again. Register at www.wgbh.org

  • Tuesday, November 17, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Virtual Making History Gala

    The Massachusetts Historical Society will hold its annual Making History Gala online on November 17 from 6:30 – 7:30 pm. The benefit will feature Jon Meacham in conversation with Emily Rooney.

    Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian, contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, and contributing editor at TIME. His #1 New York Times bestseller, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, looks at tumultuous periods in American history when presidents and ordinary citizens came together to rebuild a civic trust.

    Emily is the creator and former host of Greater Boston. Since 1997, Emily has brought her journalistic credentials and deep knowledge of media, politics and culture to the GBH audience and has earned numerous awards, including the National Press Club’s prestigious Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism, a series of New England Emmy Awards, and Associated Press recognition for Best News/Talk Show. Before coming to GBH, Emily was director of political coverage and special events at Fox Network in New York from 1994 to 1997. Prior to that, she was executive producer of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Emily also worked at WCVB-­TV in Boston from 1979 to 1993, where she served as news director for three years and as assistant news director before that.

    Honorary Chairs of the event are Governor Charlie Baker and First Lady Lauren Baker, Edward C. and Elizabeth B. Johnson, Henry Lee, CJ and Neil Musante, and Mayor Martin J. Walsh. $500 – register at www.masshist.org.

  • Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Can We Cool the Planet? Webinar

    As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are wondering if we need solutions that go beyond reducing emissions. From sucking carbon straight out of the air, to geoengineering our atmosphere to physically block out sunlight, to planting more than a trillion trees, the options may seem futuristic or tough to implement. But as time runs out on conventional solutions to climate change, scientists are asking the hard questions: Can new, sometimes controversial, solutions really work? And at what cost?

    Join NOVA’s Can We Cool the Planet? filmmakers Ben Kalina and Jen Schneider for an important conversation. They will be joined by experts, Lola Fatoyinbo, Ph.D., research physical scientist in the Biospheric Sciences Lab at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and David Keith, Ph.D., Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University and professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Guests are encouraged to submit their questions during the conversation. Caitlin Saks, NOVA senior producer for Can We Cool the Planet? will moderate this discussion.

    The event is free, but reservations are required. Secure your ticket today.

    NOVA’s Can We Cool the Planet? premieres Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020 at 9pm EST on GBH and will be available for streaming online and on the PBS video app.

    WGBH will be using Zoom Webinar for this event. Zoom is free to the public but will require a computer download. You can download Zoom here. If you already have Zoom, you will not need to download the platform again.