Courses
- Meet your instructors! Visionary experts Brock Dolman and Anastassia Makarieva will each join our upcoming Water & Climate course to teach a class as guest experts.
Instead of “Planet Earth,” biologist, educator, and policy changemaker Brock Dolman calls our home “Planet Water” to help reframe thinking about more progressive settlement systems, land use and water management practices at the watershed scale.
Dr. Anastassia Makarieva is a leading researcher of howecosystems shape the water cycle. Listen to her explain the biotic pump theory she co-invented.
Water & Climate is a new 4-week course that will change the way you think about climate solutions. Early bird registration gives you immediate access to our private Water Cools group, where you’ll receive valuable resources and conversation ahead of the course.
News and Insights
- Is a river alive?
Robert Macfarlane sat down with Emergence Magazine to talk about his upcoming book and how we can reimagine our relationship to, and understanding of, water.
I take the opportunity to “who rivers” all the way through: “the river who flows; the river who runs; the river who reaches the sea”—not which. And English is a language of “it”-ing, of objectifying. In French, as you’ll know very well, it’s la rivière or la fluve qui coule—who—so they have the “who” present, but we don’t. And I also kind of scratched my head very early on: I suddenly realized that “to river” is not a verb in English. But what could be more of a verb than a river?
Events and Community
- Community Spotlight: Andover Climate Changemakers Forum
At the recent Andover Climate Changemakers Forum in Andover, Massachusetts, where representatives from 24 towns across Essex County gathered to share local climate solutions, Dianne Plantamura presented her own “recipe card” laying out a thoughtful, replicable plan for rewilding Veasey Park’s underutilized spaces using the Miyawaki forest method, planting a variety of native trees and plants to restore biodiversity, improve soil and water health, and build community connection through hands-on ecological stewardship. It’s part of a powerful collection of local action “recipes” aimed at regenerating ecosystems from the ground up. - Cambridge | Call for Volunteers, June & ongoing
Join us in bringing a Native Plant Pollinator Garden at Danehy Park to life!
This summer, Bio4Climate is teaming up with NPCG and the City of Cambridge to plant a Native Plant Pollinator Garden at Danehy Park, near our existing miniforest.
We’re looking for volunteers to help with soil preparation (June 7), planting (June 15), and ongoing stewardship (watering and weeding) throughout the season. Whether you can help for a single day or throughout the summer, we’d love to have you!
Volunteer for the Native Plant Pollinator Garden