Helping Guide Our Work in the Alewife Reservation
Our Alewife Subsidiary Board works with Green Cambridge staff to advise on the development and funding of place-based engagement for our Friends of Alewife Reservation programs. We use the Reservation as an outdoor classroom and a service learning site, promoting our urban wild in Cambridge, recognizing it as a regional wetland, and providing support for critical conservation measures. The group creates the framework to engage with partners and a wider public to advance and manage the sensitive ecological interface between a robust urban wilds, and the built environment.
This work is part of Green Cambridge’s work in the promotion of urban cultivation, urban forests, and urban wilds. Our work in the Alewife Reservation shows how these are connected and allows for a platform for educational discovery. A priority is engaging people of all ages and backgrounds running programs specifically geared towards their interests while aligned with conservation and ecological needs in the reservation.
We build upon the experience, achievements, and systems of the previously independent Friends of Alewife Reservation and its network. We work in coordination with and in accordance with Department of Conservation and Recreation regulations.
If you'd like to discuss being part of the group, email alewife@greencambridge.org for more information! For specific information on the roles and responsibilities of a board member, see the framework document at this link.
This work is part of Green Cambridge’s work in the promotion of urban cultivation, urban forests, and urban wilds. Our work in the Alewife Reservation shows how these are connected and allows for a platform for educational discovery. A priority is engaging people of all ages and backgrounds running programs specifically geared towards their interests while aligned with conservation and ecological needs in the reservation.
We build upon the experience, achievements, and systems of the previously independent Friends of Alewife Reservation and its network. We work in coordination with and in accordance with Department of Conservation and Recreation regulations.
If you'd like to discuss being part of the group, email alewife@greencambridge.org for more information! For specific information on the roles and responsibilities of a board member, see the framework document at this link.
Board Members
Larry Childs |
Larry lives in the Mystic River watershed and has lived in Cambridge for 25 years and has been active in Cambridge civic life throughout. He is a non-profit professional and works for Project Adventure specializing in team and leadership development for education, corporate and non-profit organizations.
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Rona Gregory |
Rona lives in North Cambridge and is a retired EPA New England attorney where she focused on hazardous waste cleanups, brownfields redevelopment, and environmental justice.
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Eric Grunebaum |
Eric is passionate about having access to natural areas is critical for human health and well-being, particularly in densely settled hard urban landscapes where many people live is a precious resource that should be protected, maintained and improved. He works at Cambridge Energy Advisors doing business development and impact investment. Previously, Eric was a filmmaker, serving as co-producer of The Last Mountain, a movie about mountaintop removal in West Virginia. He's also co-founder of Friends of Jerry's Pond in Cambridge.
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Greg Harris |
Greg is founding editor of Pangyrus LitMag and founder and co-director of Harvard LITfest. As faculty at Harvard University, Greg has been recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Oregon’s Regional Arts and Culture Council. A degree candidate in conservation biology at Miami University of Ohio's Project Dragonfly, he is currently researching a book on environmental education's role in combating climate change. His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Harvard Review, Jewish Fiction, Earth Island Journal, and the New Voices Project: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust. His audiorecording “Champion of Hot Peppers” won a 2001 National Parenting Publications Association Gold Medal for storytelling. His translation of Seno Gumira Ajidarma’s novel Jazz, Perfume, and the Incident was published as part of the Modern Library of Indonesia (2012).
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Ryan Kingston |
Ryan works as a Sustainability Projects Coordinator working with Massachusetts State Government to reduce energy use and support environmental sustainability efforts. Previously, he worked as a service coordinator at the New England Aquarium for the live blue Service Corps to remove barriers to service to engage volunteers in conservation action.
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David Loutzenheiser |
David has lived in North Cambridge for the past 16 years. He loves running and walking on trails, and have explored every trail within the Alewife reservation. He works as a transportation planner at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, working to develop a regional trails system.
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Michael Barry |
Mike recently retired from the EPA's Boston New England Office where he directly supervised the cleanup of hazardous waste sites, chemical/oil spills and FEMA disaster responses such as Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. He also served in the submarine Navy in the 1980’s and then served with several New England reserve units. Mike lives in Arlington, commuted for 20+ years by bike to downtown Boston and is an active bike and nordic ski leader for the Appalachian Mountain Club.
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Honorary Members
Ellen Mass |
Ellen was president of the Friends of Alewife Reservation until July 2019, when it became part of Green Cambridge. In her retirement, she remains a resource for our work in the Alewife Reservation and continues to be devoted to a protected and sustainable environment.
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