• OARS 2026 Annual River Cleanup – NEW DATE

    West Concord Concord, MA, United States

    You can make a difference for our rivers! WHEN: Saturday, October 3, 10:00am – 2:00pm WHERE: Bedford, Concord, and Framingham   Join the OARS Team and community members from across the watershed for a day of impact. Gather at your chosen site along one of our three rivers with your OARS staff and board site leaders to […]

  • New Environmental Film Series in Carlisle This Fall

    Carlisle First Religious Society 27 School Street, Carlisle, MA, United States

    Discover how everyday consumption and waste impact our planet and our health at a free three-part film series in Carlisle (First Religious Society, 27 School St). Open to all, including children 10+. Nov 7 (7pm): Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics—exposes the environmental and health dangers of plastic pollution. Dec 12 (7pm): Just Eat […]

    Free
  • “Autumnal Tints” a talk and a little walk

    Walden Pond Visitor Center 915 Walden Street, Concord, MA, United States

    Thoreau was a lifelong observer of the colorful leaves that surrounded his native Concord every autumn. He kept copious notes on the autumn leaf color. In the final years of his life, he put these observations into a lecture that he called “Autumnal Tints.” It would be one of the last essays that he worked […]

    Parking fee
  • Disperse: Art Ramble by Helen Duncan

    Umbrella Arts 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United States

    This year’s Art Ramble features work by multi-media artist Helen Duncan. Duncan’s porcelain clay and wire forms are dispersed along the Fairyland Pond Trail in the Hapgood Wright Town Forest, right off of Concord Center. Duncan's delicate dandelion-esque pieces come alive on the trail, responding to their environment by shifting with the breeze and reflecting […]

    Free