Events and Community
- Mass. | Join us for a miniforest bus tour!
Registration for the 2025 Massachusetts Miniforest Bus Tour is now open!
Part of the Northeast Miniforest Summit, this bus tour to four different Massachusetts miniforests on Saturday, July 19, provides a reference point for how the Miyawaki method can be used in urban settings, in rural environments, and in collaboration with school groups.
Please note that two bus options are available.
Bus A: Saturday, July 19 at 9am ET
Bus B: Saturday, July 19 at 10am ET
Join Us! - As many of you in our Bio4Climate community may know, our co-founder, biologist, futurist and friend Jim Laurie is on the mend following knee surgery. Katya Stupina recently spent a day with Jim, connecting and healing over nature.
Today was a day full of learning and time spent well with a dear friend. Jim and I started our morning at a local diner (where of course, everyone knew Jim). Two quick hours later, we went to Horn Pond, saw Pluto, and conquered a hill.
We talked about robins, fungi, beavers, lichens, grasslands and grazing animals, tides, the water table, flooding forests, and Jim’s four principles for healthy lands:
1) Bringing infiltration teams to the land
2) Making bare ground illegal
3) Maximizing the consciousness of species, in the soil and everywhere
4) Developing living shorelines
From there, we set off on a quick field trip to an abandoned parking lot in Woburn to see how soil is reclaiming the land, how natural succession takes the reins once people move on and life simply knows just what to do. - Virtual | A FIRST LOOK
Join master storyteller Judith Black for an early telling of her newest piece: Feedback Loops, a 45-minute story about climate collapse, political action, and staying tender in the face of it all.
What does it mean to act with clarity, with care for others as well as ourselves, and with an open heart?
Live in Marblehead, Mass.
June 29 at 6 PM
July 13 at 6 PM
Live on Zoom
July 9 at 6PM
RSVP via email
News and Insights
- Roadless Rule A Reckless Attack On Climate Regulators
Read our full statement on the federal government’s move to declare “open-season” on 58 million acres of native forests, paving the way for road and development construction.
“…Tearing up these ecosystems for short-term profit threatens to unravel climate stability through cascading, long-range feedbacks. What harms a forest in one place can disturb rainfall, heat balance, and ecological life somewhere else…” - Perspective: Bio4Climate in Washington
Last week, Bio4Climate Science Communications Intern Adrianna Drindak attended a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., by The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) and the Federation of American Scientists about how federal policies can bolster resilience to extreme heat.
“While it is important to identify ways to survive the present conditions, that is not a long-term solution to limiting the effects of extreme heat. We must target the source of extreme heat, which lies with our carbon emissions and disrupted ecosystems, to work towards a cooler future. And that HAS to be a part of every heat mitigation briefing, conversation, and agenda.”
Read the full dispatch.
Courses
- Learn from the very best.
Water is one of nature’s most powerful, yet most overlooked, climate regulators, acting as a built-in cooling system. Join us and a roster of the leading experts and thinkers in an exploration of how water, not just carbon, holds the key to a livable future.
Want to start with a brief introduction on how water regulates the climate? Attend a free webinar hosted by instructor Hart Hagan:
The Cooling Power of Evaporating Water
Monday, June 30 – 12:00 noon ET
Your Climate Friendly Backyard
Wednesday, July 2 – 7:00 pm ET
Regenerative Farming & Water
Thursday, July 3 – 3:00 pm ET
The Worldwide Loss of Soil Moisture
Monday, July 7 – 12:00 noon ET
Reforestation has Cooled the Eastern US
Wednesday, July 9 — 7:00 pm ET
