Nature Connection: Volunteer Training

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

The Nature Connection is a local non-profit, delivering educational and therapeutic nature programs to individuals with limited access to the outdoors - to nature. Though the use of fresh plants, live animals, and natural materials, The Nature Connection delivers monthly programs with themes based on the seasons, cycles, and connection to nature to: at-risk youth, […]

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Thoreau Animal Index Blitz

Organizer: The Walden Woods Project Join the Walden Woods Project to co-create an index of all of the animals mentioned in Thoreau’s Journals! Like Ray Angelo’s Botanical Index, this will become a valuable resource to Thoreau scholars for years to come. Reasons to join us: Researchers around the world will benefit from this resource. Everyone […]

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Sustainable Concord – Presentation by Amanda Kohn, Sustainability Director for the Town of Concord

Harvey Wheeler Community Center 1276 Main St, Concord, MA, United States

🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 Amanda Kohn is Concord's new Sustainability Director, and she will come to the COA to speak about Sustainable Concord, the town’s first climate action and resilience plan. Sustainable Concord is our roadmap for prioritizing sustainable projects and initiatives town […]

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A Conversation with Bill McKibben

Virtual Concord, MA, United States

In his new book — The Flag, The Cross, and The Station Wagon — award-winning author, activist, and educator, Bill McKibben looks back at his adolescent years growing up in Lexington where he cheerfully led tours of revolutionary battle sites and examines why we find ourselves living in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak […]

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