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

UPCOMING EVENTS

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

Earth Day Bird Walk and A LITTLE Trouble-Making

April 19

Danehy Fields
166-190 New Street Cambridge, MA 02138
We will meet at the New Street Parking Lot. (166-190 New St, Cambridge, MA 02138).

8-10am EST
Free and open to the public

Celebrate Earth Day with a morning bird walk at Danehy Park, one of the largest and most popular of Cambridge’s green spaces. Earth Day matters now more than ever.

Danehy Park is also home to a Miyawaki Forest, planted by volunteers in 2021. There are now 140+ trees and 32 native species of plants. We’ll take a look….

We’ll also keep an eye and especially an ear out for newly arriving songbirds and other migrants as well as resident birds.

Beginners are welcome and encouraged to join us—we’ll even have some binoculars to lend. You can also download the free Merlin app if you would like to learn a little more about bird songs on this walk.

Registration in advance is required. Limited to 24. A second walk may be added if there is demand. 

After this walk, you’re invited to join us in sitting down to write a postcard or two to your representatives about an environmental issues of your choice. We’ll bring everything you need—pens, stamps, etc.

We are excited to offer this walk in partnership with Many Helping Hands 365 and, if you are a Cambridge neighbor, plan to join us in celebrating the next MLK Day of Service.

As always, new birders are always welcome, and we will have binoculars to lend.

Earth Celebration! Harbor Park​, Pier 5 Boston Navy Yard

April 26

197 8th Street Boston, MA 02129

11am-5pm EDT
Free and open to the public

Join us for our fourth annual Earth Celebration. For three years we have hosted the largest outdoor Earth Day event filled with fun activities, live music, and delicious food.

Let's come together to celebrate our beautiful planet and learn how we can protect it for future generations.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and enjoy a day by the waterfront.

Together, we can create a brighter, more compassionate world for all.

26th Annual Charles River Earth Day Cleanup

April 25 & 26

The Charles River Cleanup is one of the largest Earth Day Cleanups in the country! Join us in protecting and preserving the Charles and Muddy Rivers on Friday, April 25th, and Saturday, April 26th, 2025.

Get involved this spring! Multiple organizations contribute to the Annual Charles River and Muddy River Day Cleanup, focusing on restoring various locations along the rivers. 

If you are interested in volunteering at a specific location, please click on the link and follow up with the organization hosting a volunteer event at your preferred destination.  

Various locations, Greater Boston

10am-12pm EDT
Free and open to the public

Spring Forest Explorations

May 10

Hillcrest Parkway Winchester, MA 01890

9:30am - 12pm EDT
Free and open to the public

Join Claire O'Neill & Laura Roberts for a lovely Biodiversity walk in the Fells, exploring how seasons pass and shape our plants and wildlife in our beautiful urban forest. Enjoy, observe, and record the flora and fauna in various locations of the woods, starting from 61-59 Hillcrest Parkway (exact location along Hillcrest will be confirmed a few days before the event).

This is part of Earthwise Aware's biodiversity and climate studies that collect data about the impact of climate change on the synchronicity of fauna and flora phenophases (i.e., observable stages or phases in the annual life cycle of a plant or animal that can be defined by a start and an endpoint). This is an excellent opportunity to learn how to be alert and in tune with our environment and to discover our urban woodland's biodiversity and cycles..  

Ocean Conservation Hackathon

June 6-8

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
ALL AGES

11am-5pm EDT
Registration required. Free and open to the public

By NEREID Ocean Conservation
NEREID Ocean Conservation is a non-profit platform that leads innovative restoration projects across New England, combining technology and community engagement to protect our coastal ecosystems.

Let's celebrate World Ocean Day by spending an awesome weekend together, tinkering to build products that protect and monitor our ocean ecosystem. Focus on AI, data, and robotics.

Friday Agenda
5pm: Doors open, pizza and beer set out/ 5-6pm: Networking, write-up project names and groups on whiteboards/ 6-6:20 pm: Opening speech by organizers and sponsors/ 6:20-7pm: Project pitches/ 7-8pm: Groups form. If people don’t have a group yet, there will be a volunteer in charge of assigning them/ 8pm: Happy hacking!!

Saturday Agenda
All-day hacking/ 8-10am: Breakfast and coffee/ 12-1pm: Lunch buffet/ 6-7pm: Dinner buffet/ Night hacking!

Sunday Agenda
8-10am: Breakfast and coffee/ Hacking/ 12-1pm: Lunch buffet/ 4-5pm: Finalist Pitches/ 5:5-30pm: Break, judges assemble/ 5:30-6:30pm: Winners announced, closing remarks/ 7pm: Event ends, everyone leaves premises

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

Learn to be green

Get involved

It all begins with you.

About 350.org
https://350.org/about/

​350.org MA
https://350mass.betterfutureproject.org/

Mass River Alliance -  Campaign for clean water in MA
https://www.massriversalliance.org/

Mass River Alliance:  What you can do
https://www.massriversalliance.org/what-can-you-do

Friends of the Earth, Initiative against US funding of fossil fuels:
https://action.foe.org/page/29399/action/1?ea.tracking.id=Website

Donate

Put your money to work fighting climate change.

Live green

It all begins with you.

• Walk, bicycle, or take public transportation instead of driving
• Don’t idle needlessly, turn your engine off whenever possible
• Carpool
• Get an energy audit through Mass Save
• Insulate your windows
• Grow wild flowers instead of keeping a lawn that has to be mowed
• Install solar panels
• Trade in a gas guzzling vehicle for a hybrid or an electric car
• Eat local, buy from local farmers
• Compost
• Grow a vegetable garden
• Stay informed and vote for the environment
• Turn your heat down (or you AC up) a few degrees
• Avoid using plastics
• Install heat pumps in place of gas furnace
• Recycle responsibly
• Preserve trees and plant new ones
• Cook with a convection oven
• Eat vegan/vegetarian instead of depleting the earth with live stock
• Support environmental organizations