Earth Day Event Success!

Eighteen volunteers participated in our Earth Day clean-up and planting along the Malden River.  We removed over 15 bags worth of trash and planted pansies, lettuce, and cilantro in pots to beautify the area.   The event was part of the Greater Boston Mystic River Clean-Up, a nine organization effort to coordinate events in the Mystic River Watershed in honor of Earth Day.  For more information, please see Boston.com for articles publicizing the event and covering the event.

Volunteers removing trash from the banks of the Malden River

You can check-out the beautified Malden Riverfront for yourself at 195 Canal Street in Malden!

195 Canal Street: Cambridge Health Alliance Malden River Trail

HELP BEAUTIFY THE MALDEN RIVER

Tri-CAP is holding an Earth Day clean-up and planting along the Malden River!

When:  Saturday, April 17, 2010 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Where:  195 Canal Street, Cambridge Health Alliance  Malden River Trial

Lunch and parking will be provided!

Cambridge Health Alliance Malden River Trail: Site of Tri-CAP's Earth Day Event

The event is part of the Greater Boston Mystic River Clean-Up, a nine organization watershed-wide effort.

Weekly Poll: Environmental Justice

How do you define Environmental Justice (EJ)? How do you think you (we) can effect positive change in your (our) communities around Environmental Justice? Please put your thoughts in the Comments!

Walk the Malden River

Don't forget to bring a water bottle

Tomorrow afternoon is our 3rd session of EMAP. We are going to walk the Malden River! If you are a member of Youth A.C.T. and you want to join us be sure to have your permission slips (you can get them from Youth A.C.T. or the Cyber Café) and be ready to do some thinking and some drawing. We’re meeting at the Cyber Café @ Malden Square at 3 pm.  We look forward to seeing you!

-Sarah & Nick

The Malden River

The Malden River, looking upstream

The Malden River connects Melrose, Malden, Everett and Medford, flowing north to south. The river has been straightened, deepened and even put underground. Flow in the lower part of the river is controlled by the Amelia Earhart Dam.   For more information on the Malden River, see the Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA) Action Plan (pg 3).

How to add a post to the blog…

Once you have received an email stating that you have been asked to be an author on the EMAP blog, you will need to follow the link in the email to create a username and password. Please pick something that you can remember and that is appropriate, as I will not have a way of actually entering your individual account.

After you are connected to the blog, click ‘My Dashboard’ and you will see a webpage with a lot of information–including a section called ‘QuickPress’. In the QuickPress section you can type in the Content section, or click one of the icons to add (from left to right): an image, a video, audio, media, or a poll.

Please tag your entry with your name and any important information (ie. photo, idea, poem).

Let me know in the comment section if this is helpful. See you on Friday!

-Sarah

What does it mean to be AN AUTHOR on the EMAP blog?

In order to allow you to upload pictures, video and other media, each of you have been made AN AUTHOR of the EMAP blog. This means that you will be able to post things without approval from the administrators. We are trusting you to post responsibly. I will be checking the blog an on regular basis and will shut it down if it is not used appropriately. If you have any questions as to what is appropriate please contact Sarah at sarah@maldensquare.org.

-Sarah

How to use the EMAP blog!

Good Morning!

I am still working on getting the blog set up so that you can easily make additions to it, while letting us monitor it. If you have any suggestions, feel free to email me at sarah@maldensquare.org

Nick and I look forward to working with you during EMAP!