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Kevin Essington

Kevin Essington

Buy the forest, save the town

Like you, I watch the infernos in California or the walls of water in the northeast, with a mix of horror and numbness. I wonder if you…

Nov 29, 2018

Buy the forest, save the town

Nov 29, 2018

Kevin Essington

How Metro-Boston can get serious about being Climate-Smart

City-dwellers in America should be proud. We have sent dozens of municipal representatives to Bonn, Germany to negotiate the world’s…

Nov 15, 2017

How Metro-Boston can get serious about being Climate-Smart

Nov 15, 2017

Kevin Essington

What does “Climate-smart Boston” look like?

In 2030 not only will Boston have 100,000 additional residents but Boston Harbor will be 3 inches higher, we’ll get an additional 2.5…

Nov 14, 2016

What does “Climate-smart Boston” look like?

Nov 14, 2016

Kevin Essington

Our land knows no elections

My Boston colleagues know I’m fond of pointing out that our office is three blocks away from the first public park in the world: the Boston…

Nov 11, 2016

Our land knows no elections

Nov 11, 2016

Kevin Essington

Greens Infrastructure:

How urban farmers are cleaning urban environments by growing food

Jun 23, 2016

Greens Infrastructure:

Jun 23, 2016

Kevin Essington

What Color Are Your Parks?

Look at this picture of a public meeting from last week. What kind of New England town or neighborhood do you think this meeting was in?

Apr 15, 2016

What Color Are Your Parks?

Apr 15, 2016

Kevin Essington

March 29, 2010: A Watershed Moment

I tried to describe a watershed to my 13-year old son last week. It was a strange concept for him to wrap his head around. It seemed odd to…

Mar 25, 2016

March 29, 2010: A Watershed Moment

Mar 25, 2016

Kevin Essington

Go Play in the Street

Is Boston creating unlivable neighborhoods?

Feb 20, 2016

Go Play in the Street

Feb 20, 2016

Kevin Essington

Where Is Your Happy Place(making)?

This did not look like a happy place.

Feb 5, 2016

Where Is Your Happy Place(making)?

Feb 5, 2016

Kevin Essington

We’re Wearing the Outdoors

L.L. Bean is selling more than duck boots. That is what I learned on my first time to their mothership in Freeport, Maine. They have…

Jan 22, 2016

We’re Wearing the Outdoors

Jan 22, 2016

Kevin Essington

Kevin Essington

MA and RI state director @tpl_org who loves the global and urban environmental challenge and tries to say something useful about it here.

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