ALEWIFE CORRIDOR  RESILIENCE SYMPOSIUM 

We are pleased to announce the Alewife Corridor Collaborative Resilience Symposium on January 19th & 20th, 2018, co-sponsored by Tufts University and Earthos Institute.  To register and for more details:  https://www.eventbrite.com/o/earthos-institute-and-tufts-university-15347582272.

Given the recent record breaking superstorms and cold snaps, combined with New England’s significant hurricane record, and Alewife’s crucial flood vulnerabilities (low grade poor drainage, pollution hot spots, drinking water sources, key transportation corridor, Mystic Lakes), this is a very timely and needed symposium.  

Resilience affects us all and touches on every aspect of our lives. It affects our health and safety, our ability to move around the city, our capacity to access basic needs such as housing and food, our collective ability to respond to emergencies such as blizzards and hurricanes, how we develop our communities and utilize open space, and how we relate to (and partner!) with ecosystems and other animals and plants.

In other words, it takes a rather large village to build resilience - all of us! Through this symposium we seek to support collaborative resilience in the Alewife area by bringing together community actors, municipal and state government, university researchers, and local and regional nonprofits to begin a process of creating a collaborative resilience vision/agenda for the Alewife Corridor.