Living Climate Futures is pleased to host 3 different guided walking tours including hands-on activities with local environmental and climate justice groups around Boston:

GreenRoots Chelsea Environmental Justice Tour and Community Cleanup GreenRoots has over 20 years of experience organizing for environmental justice in Chelsea, a vibrant majority Latinx community with a lot of history packed within 2 square miles. Tour participants will learn about the political, economic, and immigration history that has led to Chelsea's current environmental injustices while walking the city’s streets and seeing firsthand the oil terminals, giant road salt piles, and industrial zones that sit directly next to immigrant-owned businesses and densely packed residential buildings. This tour coincides with a Citywide Cleanup event that GreenRoots is running for Earth Day and we will participate in community trash pickup along the waterfront. The event and tour will start at Chelsea City Hall and will end at 12 noon at PORT park, where lunch will be offered. Bus will return to MIT by 1:30.

The Food Project Join The Food Project for a tour of its growing spaces in the Roxbury/North Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, including their 10,000 square foot greenhouse and two acres of previously vacant land now cultivated by youth, staff, and neighbors. The Food Project employs hundreds of youth from the Greater Boston Area and seeks to ensure that anyone who wants to grow their own food has access to non-toxic growing space. After touring the growing areas participants will help with a gardening project.

ACE Toxic Tour in Roxbury Join Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) for a Toxic Tour of Roxbury’s Nubian Square to learn about the history of environmental justice and the Development Without Displacement campaign in our neighborhood home. Toxic Tours are great for students, teachers, community organizations, faith-based groups, public health professionals, politicians and anyone interested in Environmental Justice advocacy, organizing and policy change.

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Open to MIT community only. Registration required. Limited availability.