WHAT YOU CAN DO

Barbara Fletcher, Look Out, mixed media collage, 12 x 18 in.

At a time when life on our planet is in imminent danger, the artists of Shared Habitat Earth have made climate change the focus of their work, calling for action and social justice. We support a variety of organizations, and encourage you to get involved however you can.

Scroll down and find events, actions to take, information on “being green”, places to donate, and petitions to sign.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Yvonne Lamothe, Egrets and Ducks at the Pond Around the Corner,(detail) oil on panel, 24 x 36 in.

Introduction to Nature Monitoring – Protecting Urban Forests

September 14

Bellevue Pond
300 Elm Street
Medford, MA 02155

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

By Earthwise Aware

The EwA naturalist team introduces how to document ecological communities at risk in a fast-changing world. Join us!

Earthwise Aware's naturalist teams study land use and climate impact on ecological communities at risk in a fast-changing world. This is an orientation field session that introduces the science program and team. You will help the team record bird movement, observe seasonal phases of fauna and flora, monitor bio-pollution, and map habitat fragmentation factors. It's also a chance to learn new skills and join the team & the effort.

Free to the public - registration required.

nature monitoring

Boston Local Food Festival

September 20

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Rose Kennedy Greenway
Rain Date: (9/27)
1`1:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Join us this September for a delicious day of tasting your way across New England’s bounty and diversity! With nearly 100 food vendors, two demo kitchens — one hosting a seafood cooking competition, the other hourly cooking demos from chefs — family activities, and more, there is something for everyone. Every food vendor represents New England’s finest foods — from popsicles made from local fruit to roasted Filipino-style pig, from blueberry crisps from a blueberry farm to raw oyster bar, from Jamaican Jerk sauce made with Maine-grown blueberries to Mexican-style street corn from locally-grown corn-on-the-cob.

Volunteers
Volunteers make the world go round, and the Boston Local Food Festival a success and joyful event! Volunteers support the food vendors, activities, and/or festival goers. They help us reach for our Zero Waste goals, set up the experience, or bring the Greenway back to its beautiful pre-festival state.
Every volunteer gets a fashionable t-shirt, and a meal voucher for each shift worked.To register to be a volunteer, click HERE.

boston local food fest

Charles River Conservancy Volunteer Programs

September 19

Richard McKinnon Park (Cambridge)
“Little Greenough Boulevard” (Watertown between Arsenal St. and North Beacon St.)
10:00AM - 12PM

October 24

Location to be announced
10:00AM - 12PM

Open volunteer events welcome individuals and community members to spend a few hours working on projects and cleaning up the parks along the Charles River.

September Open Volunteer Event: COASTSWEEP!
When: Saturday, September 19, 2026, 10am-12pm
Where: Richard McKinnon Park (Cambridge) and “Little Greenough Boulevard” (Watertown between Arsenal St. and North Beacon St.)
What: Bring your family and friends to participate in a community cleanup! All ages welcome.
Please email Sasha for more information and to RSVP (spots are limited): svallieres@thecharles.org.

October Open Volunteer Event
When: Saturday, October 24, 2026, 10am-12pm
Where: Announced soon!
What: What could be more New England than a community Autumn park cleanup? All ages welcome. We’ll have treats for volunteers. Costumes encouraged for friends and family alike!
Please email Sasha for more information and to RSVP (spots are limited): svallieres@thecharles.org.

Sign up for our e-newsletter to get updates on upcoming cleanups.

CRC Volunteer events

Take action

It all begins with you.

TELL CONGRESS TO STOP SHELLING OUT BILLIONS TO BIG OIL
Our leaders cannot claim to be serious about environmental justice and climate change if they continue to hand away taxpayer money to Big Polluters. TAKE ACTION

SAVE OUR OCEANS FROM PLASTIC POLLUTION
Plastic is polluting our entire planet, from the beaches to the deepest depths of our oceans. TAKE ACTION

SAVE OUR PUBLIC LANDS FROM OIL AND GAS DRILLING!
Nearly a quarter of our country’s emissions come from fossil fuel extraction on public lands—we can’t afford to let the fossil fuel industry drill and mine even more. TAKE ACTION

FIGHT DEFORESTATION
Over ten years ago, the world’s biggest retail companies committed to ending deforestation in their supply chains by 2020, but they have failed. We must hold them accountable. TAKE ACTION

TELL U.S. TO TERMINATE ITS INVOLVEMENT WITH A DEADLY COAL PLANT
The U.S. helped fund the Sasan coal plant in India—a project with an ash pond that burst, creating a massive flood of coal ash that led to the deaths of six people. TAKE ACTION

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PROBLEMATIC WEYMOUTH COMPRESSOR STATION.
TAKE ACTION