Topic Archive: Cultural Institutions

  • Commercial Real Estate, Community Engagement, Cultural Institutions, Higher Education, Mitigation, Policy and Regulation News

    Bisnow: With Huge New Allston Campus Underway, Harvard Planning Head Discusses Vision For Area

    Harvard University’s Jaclyn Olsen joins panel discussion at Bisnow’s Boston Higher Education & University Development Summit; highlights the university’s sustainability efforts and collaboration with the Boston Green Ribbon Commission

  • Community Engagement, Cultural Institutions

    GRC Cultural Institutions Working Group All-Hands Gathering

    Our next GRC Cultural Institutions Working Group (CIWG) All-Hands meeting is set for Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 5:30pm-7:15 pm at the New England Aquarium. It will include a reception with refreshments, opening remarks from GRC Director Amy Longsworth and New England Aquarium President & CEO Vikki Spruill, and featured speaker Alan Ricks, Founding Principal…

  • Climate Justice, Commercial Real Estate, Cultural Institutions, Financial, Health Care, Higher Education, Mitigation, Policy and Regulation, Resilience Brief

    GRC Overview

    Learn more about the Green Ribbon Commission (GRC) and how it accelerates Boston’s progress toward a climate safe, carbon free, equitable future.

  • Cultural Institutions, Financial, Policy and Regulation Presentation

    Leveraging the Inflation Reduction Act to Advance Institutional Climate Action

  • Community Engagement, Cultural Institutions News

    MassArt launches Common Good Awards, celebrating contributions to civic life through the arts

  • Commercial Real Estate, Cultural Institutions, Health Care, Higher Education, Mitigation, Policy and Regulation

    GRCx Webinar: Leveraging the Inflation Reduction Act to Advance Institutional Climate Action

    Large institutional property owners (higher education, health care, cultural institutions) play key roles in advancing climate action. They are major energy users and asset owners, investing in resilience and decarbonization on their own property; they invest in climate “applied R&D” that can be shared with others; and they are respected voices in climate policy deliberations. …

  • Community Engagement, Cultural Institutions, Mitigation, Resilience

    GRCx Innovation Tour: Franklin Park Zoo

    On July 25, 2023, the GRC hosted our latest GRCx Innovation Tour at the Franklin Park Zoo, managed and operated by Zoo New England. Participants had the unique opportunity to see a Climate Action Plan come to life among the exhibits and operations across the Boston Franklin Park Zoo’s 72-acre site. A recent graduate of…

  • Community Engagement, Cultural Institutions, Mitigation News

    Jamaica Plain News: Free Electric Shuttle to Franklin Park Zoo from Forest Hills Debuts

  • Cultural Institutions, Mitigation, Resilience Presentation

    CCAP Green Ribbon Cutting Celebration

    For the past two years, the GRC has offered a program on Collaborative Climate Action Planning (CCAP) to some of Boston’s most prestigious cultural and educational institutions. The program is now being extended to all Boston organizations – from commercial real estate developers to hospital and healthcare institutions to large companies – this is a…

  • Community Engagement, Cultural Institutions, Mitigation News

    Boston Business Journal: N.E. Aquarium leans into advocacy, public support