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Charles River Conservancy announces new executive director

The Cambridge Chronicle The Charles River Conservancy recently announced the appointment of new executive director Laura Jasinski, an urban planner with 10 years of experience in development and...

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Renata von Tscharner honored at retirement gala

The Cambridge Chronicle Editor’s note: The following was submitted by the Charles River Conservancy: Annenberg Hall of Harvard University is famous for Hogwarts-esque architecture, but on Saturday,...

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Charles River Conservancy Gala for Renata von Tscharner’s Retirement

Beacon Hill Times Annenberg Hall of Harvard University is famous for Hogwarts-esque architecture, but on Saturday June 2nd, it wasn’t Harry on his broomstick flying through the air, but a puppet of...

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9 Cities Making Polluted Waterways into Swimming Hotspots

Reclaiming rivers, one pool at a time By Megan Barber @megcbarberCurbed Magazine Opening day in 2017 at the Bassin de la Villette swimming pool on the Canal de l’Ourcq in Paris. Shutterstock Some of...

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Continuing Education: Urban Swimming Holes

By Joann Gonchar, FAIAArchitectural Record As Archie Lee Coates tells it, + POOL—a concept launched in the summer of 2010 for a swimming facility that would float in New York’s inner harbor and be...

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You love that dirty water. But how dirty is it really?

By Anna Fiorentino and Lia PetronioNews@Northeastern In 1965, the water in the Charles River was so dirty that The Standells wrote a song about it. It was the same year the Charles River Watershed...

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The Swiss woman who made a splash in Boston

By Susan Misicka In BaselSwissInfo.ch Swiss architect Renata von Tscharner has spent the past two decades championing the cause of the Charles River in Massachusetts. In 2000, she founded the Charles...

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Grab your swimsuits: Charles River Swimming Day is coming in June

By Steve AnnearTHE BOSTON GLOBE Wednesday marked the first official day of spring, which, for the more optimistic, means that summer is just a few months around the corner — lingering March snow piles...

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You Can Once Again Jump into the Charles River This Summer

By TESSA YANNONEBOSTON MAGAZINE A dip in the Charles River might not sound like a particularly pleasant activity at this moment in time, but do you remember how hot last summer was? When heat waves...

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Babylon had its hanging gardens; one day the Charles River basin could have...

By adamguniversialhub.com The Charles River Conservancy hopes to install a “floating wetlands” at North Point Park next spring to test whether the reintroduction of wetlands to the Charles River basin...

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Lynch Family Skatepark offers teenagers discipline, camaraderie, freedom

By Amelia NierenbergTHE BOSTON GLOBE Since opening in late 2015, the space has become a hub for nearby skaters. It is one of only a few parks in the area, with those in Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, and...

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Charles R. advocates not on board with Soldier’s Field bypass

By Emily Norton, Laura Jasinski, and Kane LarinLetter to the EditorCommonWealth Magazine On Monday, CommonWealth reported that although “[n]o one thought putting a structure out over the Charles would...

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The Charles Has Sprouted A New ‘Island’

By Craig LeMoultWBGH The “floating wetland” in the Charles River. Craig LeMoult/WGBH News On Tuesday afternoon, a team bolted together two dozen large structures off Magazine Beach in Cambridge,...

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Artificial island launched in Charles River; researchers hope it will help...

By Matt BergTHE BOSTON GLOBE Workers prepared the artificial island Tuesday. The theory is that it will become home to tiny organisms that eat the harmful algae that blooms in late summer in the...

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Charles River Conservancy, Northeastern University announce floating wetland...

Cambridge Chronicle The Charles River Conservancy and Northeastern University’s department of civil and environmental engineering, in partnership with Foth, an engineering consulting firm, and the...

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Artificial Island Launched Into Charles River To Improve Local Ecosystem

WBZ NewsRadio The first human-made island is 700 square feet and located just past the Longfellow Bridge, in the Charles River basin. Laura Jasinski is the executive director of the Charles River...

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Can a floating island in the Charles River rescue its water quality?

By Bob DumasBoston 25 News BOSTON — Since early in the summer of 2020, a man-made island has been floating right in the middle of the Charles River. It’s part of a science experiment focused on...

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Charles R. advocates not on board with Soldier’s Field bypass

By Emily Norton, Laura Jasinski, and Kane LarinLetter to the EditorCommonWealth Magazine On Monday, CommonWealth reported that although “[n]o one thought putting a structure out over the Charles would...

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The Charles Has Sprouted A New ‘Island’

By Craig LeMoultWBGH The “floating wetland” in the Charles River. Craig LeMoult/WGBH News On Tuesday afternoon, a team bolted together two dozen large structures off Magazine Beach in Cambridge,...

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Artificial island launched in Charles River; researchers hope it will help...

By Matt BergTHE BOSTON GLOBE Workers prepared the artificial island Tuesday. The theory is that it will become home to tiny organisms that eat the harmful algae that blooms in late summer in the...

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