@ourmuddy.bsky.social
GREETINGS OF THE SEASON and warm holiday wishes from Our Muddy River!
With deep appreciation to all the community photographers who bring us scenes like this one, from Cindy Grant. #showmethemuddy!
With deep appreciation to all the community photographers who bring us scenes like this one, from Cindy Grant. #showmethemuddy!
December 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
GREETINGS OF THE SEASON and warm holiday wishes from Our Muddy River!
With deep appreciation to all the community photographers who bring us scenes like this one, from Cindy Grant. #showmethemuddy!
With deep appreciation to all the community photographers who bring us scenes like this one, from Cindy Grant. #showmethemuddy!
Join Brookline GreenSpace Alliance for a winter tree walk, Sunday, January 11th! RSVP: [email protected] muddyrivermmoc.org/join-the-brookline-greenspace-alliance-for-a-winter-tree-walk/
Join the Brookline GreenSpace Alliance for a Winter Tree Walk - Muddy River Restoration Project
Join Brookline’s Town Arborist and Tree Warden Jack Schleifer for a winter tree identification walk. Jack will share insights on how to identify tree species in the winter. The walk will start at 10 a...
www.muddyrivermmoc.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Join Brookline GreenSpace Alliance for a winter tree walk, Sunday, January 11th! RSVP: [email protected] muddyrivermmoc.org/join-the-brookline-greenspace-alliance-for-a-winter-tree-walk/
Coming up this Saturday: the second Charlesgate Park Walking Tour! @emnecklacebos.bsky.social @charlesgatealliance
Meet at the corner of Charlesgate East and Beacon Street.
RSVP: emeraldnecklace.org
Meet at the corner of Charlesgate East and Beacon Street.
RSVP: emeraldnecklace.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Coming up this Saturday: the second Charlesgate Park Walking Tour! @emnecklacebos.bsky.social @charlesgatealliance
Meet at the corner of Charlesgate East and Beacon Street.
RSVP: emeraldnecklace.org
Meet at the corner of Charlesgate East and Beacon Street.
RSVP: emeraldnecklace.org
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Please. Let's take care, respect and love the rivers. Us and the public administrations. They are basic.🌿
December 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Please. Let's take care, respect and love the rivers. Us and the public administrations. They are basic.🌿
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Please. Let's take care, respect and love the rivers. We and the public administrations. They are life.💙
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Please. Let's take care, respect and love the rivers. We and the public administrations. They are life.💙
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The Tree for Boston is lit! Thank you to our friends at @nsgov.bsky.social for this wonderful gift!
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The Tree for Boston is lit! Thank you to our friends at @nsgov.bsky.social for this wonderful gift!
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Good morning, Boston ☀️
Open Newbury is back today starting at 10am!
Open Newbury is back today starting at 10am!
City of Boston Streets Cabinet (@streets.boston.gov)
Open Newbury Street is back this Sunday, December 7, for a holiday stroll! Newbury Street will be car-free from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Come enjoy all the shops, salons, galleries, and restaurants Newbury…
bsky.app
December 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Good morning, Boston ☀️
Open Newbury is back today starting at 10am!
Open Newbury is back today starting at 10am!
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❗Join us for a collection showing with some of the LMEC’s oldest city maps❗
This free showing will be hosted Friday, December 12 in the Learning Center with a staff member from the Leventhal Center available to answer questions.
Drop in any time between 2:00PM - 4:00PM. No reservation is required.
This free showing will be hosted Friday, December 12 in the Learning Center with a staff member from the Leventhal Center available to answer questions.
Drop in any time between 2:00PM - 4:00PM. No reservation is required.
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
❗Join us for a collection showing with some of the LMEC’s oldest city maps❗
This free showing will be hosted Friday, December 12 in the Learning Center with a staff member from the Leventhal Center available to answer questions.
Drop in any time between 2:00PM - 4:00PM. No reservation is required.
This free showing will be hosted Friday, December 12 in the Learning Center with a staff member from the Leventhal Center available to answer questions.
Drop in any time between 2:00PM - 4:00PM. No reservation is required.
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After an outcry from clean water advocates, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s board has tabled an upcoming vote on a proposal to allow the continued release of sewage overflows into the Charles River.
MWRA board tables vote on Charles River sewage proposal, environmental group says - The Boston Globe
Officials have worked for decades to stem the periodic release of street runoff and sewage overflows into the Charles.
trib.al
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
After an outcry from clean water advocates, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s board has tabled an upcoming vote on a proposal to allow the continued release of sewage overflows into the Charles River.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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ALERT: Boston is lit tonight for the holiday season.
💛
📸: @mass_drone_demic
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📸: @mass_drone_demic
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
ALERT: Boston is lit tonight for the holiday season.
💛
📸: @mass_drone_demic
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📸: @mass_drone_demic
“Wetlands filter pollution and help safeguard our drinking water. They also absorb and store floodwaters, protecting communities. What’s more, they provide vital wildlife habitat. ...Protecting wetlands and streams means the critical ecosystems that house so many species can continue...”
We must support and strengthen these federal safeguards to ensure everyone in our country has clean, reliable water. This bedrock law must be maintained, and federal protection of our rivers, streams, and wetlands must continue. www.americanrivers.org/2025/01/keep...
Keeping pollution out of your water: How the Clean Water Act protects your water
It might seem obvious to state that the Clean Water Act (CWA), established in 1972, is critical to the drinking supply of millions of Americans. After all, this fundamental U.S. law is specifically ta...
www.americanrivers.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“Wetlands filter pollution and help safeguard our drinking water. They also absorb and store floodwaters, protecting communities. What’s more, they provide vital wildlife habitat. ...Protecting wetlands and streams means the critical ecosystems that house so many species can continue...”
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Join us for two public tours of Charlesgate Park next month!
Sign up today and get a first-hand look at the exciting changes underway for this pivotal greenspace connector.
Sign up for each date:
www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/charle...
www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/charle...
Sign up today and get a first-hand look at the exciting changes underway for this pivotal greenspace connector.
Sign up for each date:
www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/charle...
www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/charle...
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Join us for two public tours of Charlesgate Park next month!
Sign up today and get a first-hand look at the exciting changes underway for this pivotal greenspace connector.
Sign up for each date:
www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/charle...
www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/charle...
Sign up today and get a first-hand look at the exciting changes underway for this pivotal greenspace connector.
Sign up for each date:
www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/charle...
www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/charle...
“America cannot be a world leader if we don’t take care of our water. We are less competitive, less healthy, and less safe if we don’t get the basics right.” #cleanwater
Clean water is not a luxury. All water is connected, from remote mountain streams to urban waterways. Pollution anywhere risks the rivers we rely on for our drinking water.
💧 #SpeakUp for clean water: act.americanrivers.org/page/78223/a...
💧 #SpeakUp for clean water: act.americanrivers.org/page/78223/a...
Act Now: Tell Congress to support a blueprint to deliver clean water
Clean water is not a luxury. It is vital to our future economic growth and national security. It is also essential to our nation’s treasured hunting and fishing traditions and the heritage of our comm...
act.americanrivers.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“America cannot be a world leader if we don’t take care of our water. We are less competitive, less healthy, and less safe if we don’t get the basics right.” #cleanwater
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I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast
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American Rivers is announcing its disapproval of the EPA’s new proposed definition of the WOTUS provision of the Clean Water Act.
The rule would dramatically reduce the reasonable science-based protections used to protect our nation's waterways.
Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/media-item/a...
The rule would dramatically reduce the reasonable science-based protections used to protect our nation's waterways.
Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/media-item/a...
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
American Rivers is announcing its disapproval of the EPA’s new proposed definition of the WOTUS provision of the Clean Water Act.
The rule would dramatically reduce the reasonable science-based protections used to protect our nation's waterways.
Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/media-item/a...
The rule would dramatically reduce the reasonable science-based protections used to protect our nation's waterways.
Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/media-item/a...
“...communities, economies, and ecosystems that rely on the river need certainty around how the system will be managed as we prepare for a hotter, drier future.”
With warming temperatures, unpredictable precipitation, and a growing population across the Southwest all contributing to diminished Colorado River flows, the need for new river management guidelines is urgent.
Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/2025/11/cons...
Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/2025/11/cons...
Consensus on the Colorado River?? Not quite yet...
River basins don’t get much more complicated than the Colorado – seven states, two countries, 30 Tribal nations, 11 National Parks, and a $1.4 trillion economy span its 247,000 square mile reach, not ...
www.americanrivers.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“...communities, economies, and ecosystems that rely on the river need certainty around how the system will be managed as we prepare for a hotter, drier future.”
Wetlands protection is at risk: “The Trump administration has just announced that they will redefine which wetlands and waters have #CleanWaterAct protections in a new proposed Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule.”
tinyurl.com/yc6dmwk3
tinyurl.com/yc6dmwk3
Trump’s new proposal will dismantle wetlands protections and increase flood risk | Growing Returns
The Trump administration has just announced that they will redefine which wetlands and waters have Clean Water Act protections in a new proposed Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. This rule cre...
blogs.edf.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Wetlands protection is at risk: “The Trump administration has just announced that they will redefine which wetlands and waters have #CleanWaterAct protections in a new proposed Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule.”
tinyurl.com/yc6dmwk3
tinyurl.com/yc6dmwk3
Protect our climate goals!!
BREAKING: Mass. could render its 2030 climate commitments null and void under new sweeping legislation being fast-tracked by the House.
NEW: House moves forward with bill to weaken 2030 climate goals
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Protect our climate goals!!
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The 50-year plan outlines strategies for the near- and long-term that range from elevating roads and other infrastructure to restoring natural floodplains. It also calls for state funding and support from local businesses.
Mass. moves forward with 50-year coastal climate plan as federal support retreats
The 50-year plan outlines strategies for the near- and long-term that range from elevating roads and other infrastructure to restoring natural floodplains. It also calls for state funding and support ...
www.wbur.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The 50-year plan outlines strategies for the near- and long-term that range from elevating roads and other infrastructure to restoring natural floodplains. It also calls for state funding and support from local businesses.
“Public lands are key to what we care about most—rivers that are filled with clean, free-flowing water to sustain people, fish, farms, and wildlife.”
For some 180 million Americans, the water in our faucets began many miles away in a stream or river, flowing for miles through a public forest or grassland, where rain and melting snow were absorbed, stored, filtered, and cooled to nature’s perfection. www.americanrivers.org/2025/04/publ...
Public lands and clean drinking water
It’s hard to overstate the relationship between federally owned public lands and clean drinking water in the United States. For some 180 million Americans, the water in our faucets began many miles aw...
www.americanrivers.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“Public lands are key to what we care about most—rivers that are filled with clean, free-flowing water to sustain people, fish, farms, and wildlife.”
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Who protects us when the EPA won’t? yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/who-...
Who protects us when the EPA won’t? » Yale Climate Connections
With the EPA’s top research office dismantled, America’s ability to respond to toxic spills, floods, and wildfires is in jeopardy. The solution: build an independent environmental science institute.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Who protects us when the EPA won’t? yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/who-...
Kudos to The Longwood Collective for its new Open Space and Resilience Framework. The Plan provides a vision for a greener, more resilient Longwood. This document is the first of its kind in the district, guiding #climateresiliency and #openspacedesign planning.
tinyurl.com/2zbjwebb
tinyurl.com/2zbjwebb
The Longwood Collective Presents The Longwood Open Space and Resilience Framework - Muddy River Restoration Project
By Abby Oliveira, Senior Land Use and Sustainability Planner, The Longwood Collective The Longwood Collective, the chief planner and principal steward of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA), ...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Kudos to The Longwood Collective for its new Open Space and Resilience Framework. The Plan provides a vision for a greener, more resilient Longwood. This document is the first of its kind in the district, guiding #climateresiliency and #openspacedesign planning.
tinyurl.com/2zbjwebb
tinyurl.com/2zbjwebb
This fall, the Town of Brookline is kicking off a plan to restore a historic landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the town’s most famous residents, by bringing back the Beacon Street Bridle Path, a 2.25-mile pathway that once spanned the town.
tinyurl.com/4ptsa6ae
tinyurl.com/4ptsa6ae
Brookline begins detailed design for Beacon Street Bridle Path - Brookline.News
This fall, the town of Brookline is kicking off a plan to restore a historic landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the town's most famous residents, by bringing back the Beacon Street Brid...
tinyurl.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This fall, the Town of Brookline is kicking off a plan to restore a historic landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the town’s most famous residents, by bringing back the Beacon Street Bridle Path, a 2.25-mile pathway that once spanned the town.
tinyurl.com/4ptsa6ae
tinyurl.com/4ptsa6ae
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Day 30 of #inktober - the prompt is vacant
A sketch of an empty bench
#inktober2025 #inktober2025vacant #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #penandinkdrawing #dailydrawing
A sketch of an empty bench
#inktober2025 #inktober2025vacant #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #penandinkdrawing #dailydrawing
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Day 30 of #inktober - the prompt is vacant
A sketch of an empty bench
#inktober2025 #inktober2025vacant #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #penandinkdrawing #dailydrawing
A sketch of an empty bench
#inktober2025 #inktober2025vacant #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #penandinkdrawing #dailydrawing