#Massachusetts #YesOn6 Nature for All Fund to protect forests, family farms, and wetlands; build new parks and greenspaces; add and improve trails, river paths, and greenways; and preserve the land near critical waterways to prevent pollution from entering our rivers and streams.

#Somerville #HonkFest Sunday! Wall, roll, move, and dance with our coalition for a healthy ecosystem. Because Earth is for all of us. Meetup 11 a.m. Day St parking lot; parade at noon. The membership of our coalition has grown and now includes Climate Crisis Cabaret and Rewilding MA.

Join #Somerville MA community leaders to explore how we can grow city-wide efforts to mitigate #climate harms and restore #biodiversity during a period of federal setbacks. 10/17, 3-5 p.m. Somerville Community Growing Center. Free event followed by open social time. Please RSVP: bit.ly/4jkQnez

Learning the history of #Somerville MA's Free Range Sculpture Garden, with @doormouse12.bsky.social's and @alexxkittle.bsky.social's wonderful zine. Check it out at timdevin.com/gardenzine.h.... #DavisSquare #CommunityPath #UrbanPastorals

Congratulations to @urbanpastorals.bsky.social contributor Lizzie Rutberg on her exhibition at Rooted Cafe, @artsatthearmory.bsky.social in #Somerville MA. Opening reception Saturday 10 October 3-5 p.m. Image: Walnut St (2025) by Lizzie Rutberg, at urbanpastorals.com

While people are losing their lives, homes, and livelihoods, the real culprits of the #climatecrisis continue to profit off the destruction.

It's time to #makepolluterspay. Sign the petition:

RIGHT NOW: Activists disrupt #Boston outside the NECA Fuels Conference at Federal Reserve Plaza, demanding no new fossil fuel infrastructure. Join us - we're here until 9:30. Tell dirty fuel companies they have no place in #Mass. xrboston.org/news/xr-bost...

September's report from the UN Environment Programme says Earth will exceed 1.5°C increase by 2025. Meanwhile today's Northeast Energy & Commerce Association's Fuels Conference includes speakers from Shell & American Gas Association. Explore if you want to be horrified: necanews.org/events/2026-...

Thanks to everyone who joined us in the garden yesterday evening for a reading by #ElizabethBradfield and an open mic. You were awesome! #Somerville MA #SomervilleCommunityGrowingCenter

Tomorrow (Tuesday) at the #SomervilleCommunityGrowingCenter!

HONK! parade returns Sunday 11 October at noon. Join Somerville, MA-area environmental groups at HONK! Fest 2026 as we walk, roll, and dance for a healthy ecosystem for all living beings! bit.ly/4xLKryF @earthwiseaware.bsky.social @cityofsomerville.bsky.social @csindie.bsky.social

Poetry with Elizabeth Bradfield
Reading from SOFAR
Tuesday, September 29, 6:30-8:00 pm
Rain Date: Saturday, October 3, 4:30-6:00 pm
Featured set by Bradfield followed by an open mic for anyone to share a poem (3 minute time limit, can be original or a cover). Signup www.thegrowingcenter.org/2026

Building Somerville’s Capacity to Respond
Saturday 17 October, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. (Rain date: Sunday 18 October, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.)
Followed by open social time.
The Somerville Community Growing Center
22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA
RSVP: bit.ly/4jkQnez #SomervilleMA #TheGrowingCenter

URBAN PASTORALS
Facilitating conversations among #Somerville, MA, USA communities and individuals by building awareness of our shared #environments. A participatory project bringing folks together in small acts of attending to, and tending, our shared ecosystems. urbanpastorals.com