Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Q&A Recording
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, ages 14+
The storytelling weaves the history and structural realities of racial injustice in the food system, with movement strategies past and present of frontlines communities mobilizing for food and land sovereignty. Learn how you and your organization can help build a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community.
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Recording
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for all ages
Let’s get started planning your garden with the ingredients you love eating by creating a meal plan and kitchen garden planner with your favorite recipes. We will discuss and visualize your garden setup, planning, Framingham growing seasons, plant size, and tending & harvesting your garden. Presented by Safiyat Hamiss of Tasty Harvests!
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Recording
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, high-school-age students and above
In this keynote presentation for Science on State Street: Planet Earth Edition, noted educator Dr. Jeffrey Bennett will give you the foundation you need to speak intelligently about the science behind global warming, and show you why the solutions to this important problem are ones that people of all political persuasions can agree on.
Thursday, April 22, 2021
12:15 PM
Recording
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, ages 14+
The words “environment,” “wilderness,” and “nature” evoke images for us, whether of pristine woodlands or polluted streams. This talk illustrates how artists, scientists, and inventors have helped to shape our changing perceptions of the environment.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Recording
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, ages 14+
Presented by Deb Markowitz, Director of the Massachusetts Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Deb will share the many ways that nature can help us address the climate crisis and can contribute to healthy and safe communities. She will tell us about some of the ways that TNC has been leading in this effort and how you can get involved.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Recording
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for all ages
Framingham’s State Representative, Jack Lewis, and Barnas Monteith discuss Podokesaurus, our new Massachusetts state dinosaur! We will share some of the latest dinosaur discovery data and how it relates to space science and climate change. An exciting event, 100 million years in the making, you won’t want to miss!
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Recording
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for all ages
Compost restores life to soil and helps plants thrive. You can singlehandedly reduce your trash to practically zero if you compost, reduce, reuse, and recycle!
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Recording
Recommended for: High-school-age students and adults, but suitable for all ages
Join local MetroWest Students as they illustrate local environmental challenges that they are working on solving. Join us as our student teams share the work they have completed so far. Participants will be asked to provide feedback on their projects.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Recording
Recommended for: Grades 3-5
Dr. Jeffrey Bennett offers an interactive reading of his book, The Wizard Who Saved the World. The book explains the basic science of global warming while offering children an optimistic and inspirational view of our future and how they can contribute to it.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Recording
Recommended for: Grades 1&2
Dr. Jeffrey Bennett offers an interactive reading of his book, Max Goes to the Moon. Max (the dog) and a young girl named Tori take the first trip to the Moon since the Apollo era. Along the way, the story presents sophisticated science that is thoughtfully explained so that grownups and children can learn together.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Recording Coming Soon
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, ages 14+
Resident Scholar, Rajashree Ghosh, from Brandeis University provides virtual commentary on the film RiverBlue. How can a pair of jeans destroy rivers and lives? What toxic chemicals may be released into the environment?
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Recording Coming Soon
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, ages 14+
The Library will host Rev. Vernon Walker, from CREW, to talk about extreme weather and social justice. Learn to prepare for extreme weather that will elicit hope and social justice.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Recording
Recommended for: Grades 5-8
Dr. Jeffrey Bennett offers an interactive presentation, Climate Change: What It Is and How We’ll Fix It. Students and young learners are given the foundation they need to speak intelligently about the science behind global warming and its solutions.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Recording
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, ages 14+
Before we can talk about solutions, we must try to understand what wicked problems like climate change can teach us about our current path toward destruction: how we got to this point, and what is needed for meaningful change toward a better world.
April 12 - April 24, 2021
Sidewalk Chalk North Atlantic Right Whale and Student Statements on North Atlantic Right Whales
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for all ages
5th Grade students at Mt Alvernia Academy teamed up with the MA Environmental Trust to learn about the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and to advocate for its protection.
April 12 - April 24, 2021
Streaming Virtually
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for all ages
Join us for this unplugged, pre-recorded lesson and food demonstration where participants will challenge their perceptions of food waste, explore food waste reduction ideas, and discover how easy it is to repurpose food scraps into a scrumptious dish.
April 12 - April 24, 2021
Online Resources
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for all ages
Ready, get outside and explore the Earth this spring! Visit our online workshops and resources to share, learn and celebrate our Earth!
Friday, April 23, 2021
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for ages 6+
Would you expect to find a shorebird at the edge of a forest? Come learn about the strange and wonderful American Woodcock. You'll discover that these little birds are full of surprises.
Friday, April 23, 2021
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, ages 14+
Plunge below the ocean’s surface to explore the dynamic relationships found in deep ocean ecosystems; dig beneath the forest floor to see how Earth’s tallest trees rely on tiny fungi to survive; and soar to new heights to witness the intricate intersection between human and ecological networks.
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Recommended for: Adults and older youth
Written in the late 1990s, Kia Corthron’s Splash Hatch On the E Going Down was ahead of its time in grappling with environmental racism. Join this conversation on the short and long-term impacts of racist environmental policies and the lack of regulation, both how it was over 20 years ago and where we are today.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, but suitable for all ages
Both Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Mia Charlene White are working on creative ways to build community and solidarity in the climate space. This will surely be a thought provoking conversation on how we can continue fighting for a transition towards a world that values climate and environmental justice!
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for all ages
Fly through the solar system out into our galaxy and beyond. Explore the possibility of life on other planets. Discover why it's important we protect this fragile protector of life we call Earth.
April 19 - April 25, 2021
Recommended for: Adults and older youth
Playwright Kia Corthron has been praised for her poetic language and vivid characters grappling with one of the great existential threats of our time. This play addresses urban politics and environmental racism.
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for ages 5+
Learn more about vernal pools before we venture out to investigate one of the vernal pools found at Blue Hills - who will we discover living there? These "wicked big puddles" may be one of the best places to study the relative health of the nature of Massachusetts.
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for ages 5+
Join us for a family-friendly Earth Day celebration at the Boston Nature Center! Together we'll create environmentally friendly gardening take-home projects, design land art, and learn about how we can advocate for the environment.
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for all ages
Our Goal: 100+ folks picking up litter on April 17th and posting pictures of their progress to the Keep Framingham Beautiful Facebook page. Something that we can all safely do as a community during continued times of social distancing!
Friday, April 16, 2021
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for all ages
This event will introduce you to the wide variety of local wild bee species and the habitats on which they depend, and help you learn how to identify the often-overlooked bees in your neighborhoods.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for ages 6+
What’s the deal with compost? Join a Mass Audubon staff person to learn what can be composted in your everyday life and why composting helps reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, ages 14+
While technical options exist for long-term isolation of toxic radioactive waste, these are irrelevant in the face of the socio-political complications of siting and operating a nuclear waste repository. This lecture will situate the struggle to effectively manage nuclear waste within the realm of nuclear energy issues, nuclear security, and nuclear non-proliferation issues.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Recommended for: Adults and older youth, high-school-age students and above
In this virtual workshop, participants will learn about the basics of mushroom cultivation, wild mushroom foraging in urban and rural environments, storage and processing of mushrooms, and their culinary uses. Participants will leave this virtual workshop with the knowledge and confidence to begin their own foray into the world of fungi.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Recommended for: Children and families, suitable for all ages
Plunge below the ocean’s surface to explore the dynamic relationships found in deep ocean ecosystems; dig beneath the forest floor to see how Earth’s tallest trees rely on tiny fungi to survive; and soar to new heights to witness the intricate intersection between human and ecological networks.
