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From YouTube: Earth Day Press Conference - 4/22/22
Description
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will host an Earth Day celebration with the Rose Kennedy Greenway at the Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park. The Mayor will make a heat resilience announcement as part of the Earth Day event, which will also include environmental resources, games and music. The Earth Day celebration will run 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Interpretation will be available in Mandarin and Cantonese.
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A
A
My
name
is
chris
cook,
and
I
have
the
great
honor
and
pleasure
of
being
the
executive
director
of
the
rose
kennedy
greenway,
which
is
this
amazing
experiment
in
america,
where
we
actually
had
a
highway
that
separated
entire
neighborhoods
from
its
waterfront
and,
more
importantly,
separated
people
from
that
waterfront
and
separated
neighborhoods
from
each
other
and
now
because
a
lot
of
the
hard
work
of
a
whole
bunch
of
people
were
able
to
knit
this
into
this
beautiful
system
of
parks.
There's
no
better
place
to
be
celebrating
earth
day
than
here
at
the
rose
kennedy
greenway.
A
This
is
what's
possible
when
a
lot
of
people
move
towards
collective
action,
and
I
want
to
thank
all
the
members
of
the
staff
of
the
rose
kennedy
greenway.
I
especially
want
to
thank
our
leadership.
Doug
hewson
is
here
who's
our
board
chair.
Thank
you
very
much
doug
and
now
it
gives
me
great
honor
to
introduce
somebody
who
really
understands
the
importance
of
collective
action
around
earth
day.
A
You
know
whether
it
was
working
at
city
hall
or
whether
as
a
city
councilor
or
now
as
mayor,
there's
someone
who
has
always
put
the
environment
in
our
relation
to
it
at
the
forefront
of
her
policy
agendas.
She
works
tirelessly
on
all
of
her
green
initiatives
and
she
understands
that.
The
investments
that
we're
making
today
are
going
to
pay
dividends
for
future
generations
down
the
road.
We
are
completely
honored
here
at
the
greenway
to
be
celebrating
earth
day
with.
Ladies
and
gentlemen,
the
mayor
of
boston,
michelle
wu.
B
B
This
is
a
moment
of
great
urgency
for
the
city
of
boston
and
we
feel
that
every
single
day
we're
standing
in
a
community
that
really
has
shaped
the
history
of
the
city
and
the
history
of
this
country,
one
of
the
most
historic
chinatowns
anywhere
in
the
country
and
one
that
is
a
residential
community
in
distinction
with
many
of
the
chinatowns
across
the
country.
This
is
a
home
for
people,
it's
a
home
for
our
young
people
who
go
to
school
here
who
play
in
the
parks
who
enjoy
the
spaces.
B
So
on
this
earth
day,
I
want
to
mention
a
couple
of
numbers
that
reflect
the
urgency
we're
discussing
in
the
last
decade
alone,
boston
suffered
more
hot
days
and
nights
than
any
decade
in
the
last
50
years.
We
know
we
feel
every
summer
that
our
weather
patterns
are
changing
and
that
climate
change
is
here
right
now.
B
In
fact,
suffolk
county
and
the
boston
area
has
experienced
some
of
the
greatest
temperature
increases
on
average
compared
to
places
around
the
world,
and
that
is
a
function
of
our
weather,
weather
systems
and
the
relationship
with
the
temperatures
and
the
oceans,
and
that
means
that
this
cycle
will
only
grow
and
continue,
and
we
have
tremendous
urgency
to
mitigate
that
heat
threatens
the
health
and
well-being
of
our
residents
of
our
infrastructure
and
our
environmental
justice.
Communities
like
right
here
in
chinatown
are
especially
vulnerable.
B
It's
more
than
tornadoes,
hurricanes,
flooding
and
cold
weather,
combined
being
ready
for
hotter
summers,
means
centering
public
health
and
climate
justice,
and
I'm
so
grateful
to
our
chief
mariama
whitehammond,
her
entire
team,
our
partners
on
the
city
council
and
across
all
of
the
institutions
like
the
greenway
and
so
many
community
groups
here
in
chinatown,
for
making
sure
that
we
could
keep
our
residents
at
the
center
of
planning
for
the
changes
that
face
us.
That's
why
today
we're
releasing
a
new
document
and
roadmap
called
heat
resilience
solutions
for
boston.
B
B
Today,
we're
also
taking
immediate
action
to
plan,
even
for
this
upcoming
spring
and
summer
season,
we'll
be
distributing
30,
pop-up
cooling
kits
with
the
hose
misters
and
tents
to
community
organizations
hosting
public
events
throughout
the
summer,
we'll
be
supporting
a
cool
roof
grant
program
to
ensure
property
owners,
understand
the
benefits
of
cool
roofs
and
to
facilitate
the
installation,
and
our
incredible
team
will
also
be
hosting
a
community-wide
design
challenge
for
a
cool
bus.
Stop
this
fall.
B
C
A
Very
very
honored
to
partner
with
you
and
one
of
those
ways
that
we're
partnering
is
right
here
in
this
park
in
this
neighborhood.
This
is
one
of
the
hottest
neighborhoods
in
boston.
This
is
also
one
of
the
largest
open
spaces
in
chinatown.
So
it's
not
acceptable
that
these
wonderful
kids
have
to
play
in
increasingly
hot
conditions.
So
partnering
with
the
environment
department,
we've
taken
immediate
actions
to
support
the
heat
resiliency
plan.
For
instance,
these
misters
have
been
installed
behind
us.
A
That'll
help
cool
kids
during
the
summer
as
they
play
and
in
addition,
with
the
environment
department,
we've
actually
installed
this
water
bubbler
here
so
there's
there's
clean
access
to
the
best
tasting
water
in
the
country,
boston,
water
and
sewer
commission's
water.
So
we're
just
so
honored
that
we're
already
taking
immediate
steps
to
not
only
prepare
for
climate
mitigation
but
also
climate
adaptation.
A
Again,
it's
about
collective
action,
so
I
just
have
to
give
a
few
quick
thank
yous
to
all
the
greenway
team
who
helped
out
with
this
on
the
maintenance
team,
tom
ball
bobby
davis,
bruce
corsairs,
leonard
krashova,
cj,
osborne,
rex
zen,
bob
stigberg,
horticulture,
derrick,
cole,
victoria,
heine,
valerie,
sties
tyler,
simons,
sam,
truly
julia
lloyd,
nate,
lee
megan,
renault
abby
parker,
and
in
programs
and
engagement,
keeling,
caldwell,
rachel
lake
karina
halcombe
and
fondy
tran.
Ladies
and
gentlemen,
that's
how
many
people
it
takes
to
do
something
awesome
like
this,
but
this
is
also
what's
possible.
A
D
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
chris.
It's
good
to
be
here
with
the
team
from
the
rose
kennedy
greenway
and
also
to
my
my
friend
and
and
colleague,
maya
wu
and
in
her
team.
Many
city
employees
are
doing
a
tremendous
job
working
on
this
issue
and
myself
and
the
mayor
got
here
early
before
the
speaking
program
started.
D
We
had
the
opportunity
to
talk
to
these
young
kids
here
these
students,
they're
josiah
quincy
students,
and
they
were
telling
us
about
access
to
parks
and
what
they
want
in
this
park,
including
swings
and
playgrounds,
and
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
chris
cook
and
the
greenway
team
for
being
a
great
neighbor
to
the
residents
of
china
of
chinatown
in
making
sure
this
park
will
eventually
be
a
beautiful,
beautiful
park.
So
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
chris,
but
I
I
I
couldn't
stop
thinking
when
I
saw
these
these
kids.
D
D
We
have,
we
don't
have
any
trees.
I
have
to
wear
this
hat
because
I
try
to
stay
out
of
the
out
of
out
of
the
sun,
but
we
want
to
make
sure
that
these
young
kids
have
the
same
access
to
open
space,
to
parks,
to
playgrounds
to
athletic
programs
as
any
other
kid
across
the
city.
So
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
the
maze
team
for
investing
so
much
in
this
community,
because
these
kids
really
deserve
it.
These
families
deserve
it.
Our
seniors
deserve
it
and
boston
is
a
welcoming
city.
D
We
welcome
our
immigrant
communities
and
we're
so
proud
of
the
asian
community
here
in
chinatown
and
the
chinese
community
for
their
tremendous
sacrifice
and
service
and
making
boston
a
better,
a
better
place,
so
I'm
honored
to
be
here.
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
the
dedicated
city
employees
that
are
here,
but
especially
to
say
thank
you
to
the
residents
of
chinatown
for
working
with
us,
not
giving
up
hope
but
working
with
us.
D
A
Thank
you
very
much,
counselor
there's
so
many
community
leaders
here
and
chinatown
really
is
a
community
of
people
who
are
focused
on
making
this
neighborhood
better
here
representing
two
two
groups.
Actually
is
karen
chen,
the
executive
director
of
the
chinese
progressive
association
but
she's
also
a
member
of
the
community
advisory
board
for
the
city's
heat
plan.
Please
give
her
a
warm
welcome.
Thank
you.
E
So
first
I
want
to
thank
the
mayor.
You
know
all
the
city
staff
council,
president
flynn,
a
city
councilor
to
be
here.
You
know
within
our
community.
We
don't
have
a
lot
of
opportunity
to
talk
about
the
environment,
so
we're
really
grateful
that
the
city
and
the
city
councils
brought
everyone
here
and
the
community
together
to
talk
about
the
environment.
We
have
so
many
challenges
in
our
community
oftentimes.
E
E
E
So
we
probably
actually
a
lot
of
people
in
the
community.
You
know
don't
really
know
that
the
asthma
rate
in
chinatown
is
so
high.
Also,
probably
unaware
that
you
know
the
ultra
fine
particle
matters
in
our
ear
also
impacts
our
cardiovascular
health
or
that
chinatown
is
a
heat
island
where
harder
than
most
other
neighborhoods
and
he'd
stay
longer
and
and
also
you
know,
the
threat
of
rising
sea
level.
You
know
where
we
stand
here.
You
know
you
see,
beech
street
actually
used
to
be
a
beach.
E
That's
why
it's
beach
street.
So
a
lot
of
you
know
chinatown,
it's
actually
landfill
used
to
be
water,
and
so
the
rising
sea
level
is
also
a
threat.
So
I'm
really,
you
know
grateful
that
the
city
is
coming
up
with
a
plan
that
actually
includes
protecting
chinatown's
future,
including
you
know
the
environment
and
actually
put
this
more
to
the
forefront,
so
the
resident
can
think
about,
as
we
are
thinking
about
stabling
chinatown's
housing
stock
as
we're
talking
about
stabilizing
working
families.
E
Where
does
you
know
environment
fit
into
this
whole?
You
know
big
picture
and-
and
I
know
that
within
the
community
we're
working
on
a
on
a
micro
grid
right
to
address-
you
know
heat
issues
and
we
also
we're
going
to
be.
You
know
at
the
state
house,
with
maya
wu
to
fight
for
low-income
fare
because
they're
all
part
of
italy,
you
know
protecting
our
neighborhoods.
E
A
A
I
will
recycle
those
in
honor
of
earth
day
later,
but
resilience
is
also
about
safety,
and
we
have
incredible
safety
partners
here
in
the
city
of
boston,
not
the
leachwist
least
of
which
is
chief
shermain
benford
and
the
extraordinary
captain
of
a1
bob
troccolo,
so
bob.
Thank
you
very
much
for
being
here
today.
Captain
very
grateful
for
that.
A
Also
in
city
leadership
is
a
dear
friend
of
mine,
someone
who
has
made
climate
action
very
personal
to
the
neighborhoods
of
the
city
of
boston
and
someone
who
I
start
most
days
with
and
sometimes
end
most
days
with,
as
well
just
seeking
her
advice
on
the
best
next
steps
on
how
to
connect
people
to
this
issue.
This
issue
that
is
so
important
to
us
this
idea
of
how
we're
going
to
take
our
to
take
care
of
our
environment.
Ladies
and
gentlemen,
a
warm
welcome
to
the
greenway
for
reverend
chief
mariama
whitehammon.
F
F
I
also
want
to
thank
mayor
wu
for
her
leadership
for
having
us
out
here
and
for
catalyzing,
so
much
action
in
city
hall
and
around
this
community
to
council
president
flynn
for
your
work
for
your
commitment.
He
never.
I
never
see
counselor
flynn
without
him
asking
me
what
we're
going
to
make
sure
we
do
for
chinatown,
so
he
is
a
tireless
advocate
for
this
community
and
to
karen
chen,
who
we've
known
each
other
a
little
a
little
while
and
when
we
were
younger
activists
in
this
work.
F
I
also
want
to
thank
all
of
the
advocates
and
community
members
who've
guided
the
strategies.
Many
of
you
have
come
out
to
open
houses.
You've
been
willing
to
look
at
the
data.
Some
of
you
participated
in
collecting
data
so
that
we
could
have
a
full
picture
not
just
of
the
problem,
but
what
is
possible,
as
we
move
forward
together
to
create
solutions,
played
a
particularly
important
role
in
that
process
and
what
and
is
why
this
felt
like
the
most
appropriate
place.
Thank
you.
F
Do
you
have
more
feedback
for
me,
the
report's
mostly
done,
but
there's
still
opportunities
to
engage
so
we'll
we'll
keep
listening,
and
I
also
want
to
take
a
quick.
Usually,
you
know
you
think,
and-
and
we
get
noticed
those
of
us
who
have
like
fancy
titles,
but
I
do
want
to
give
a
quick
shout
out
to
zoe
davis
and
sanjay
says
who
spent
countless
hours
reviewing
so
many
drafts
of
this,
because
we
really
wanted
to
get
it
right
and
so
with
all
of
those
folks.
F
As
mayor
wu
mentioned,
boston
can
get
pretty
hot,
and
extreme
heat
is
only
being
exacerbated
by
the
growing
impacts
of
climate
change.
This
neighborhood,
in
which
we
stand,
is
literally
the
hottest
neighborhood
in
boston
during
the
day
and
even
in
the
night,
and
we
know
that
the
heat
impacts
everyone,
but
it
does
not
impact
everyone
equally.
F
F
There's
2.5
million
dollars
for
a
new
climate,
ready
streets
program
to
deliver
on
heat,
resilience,
storm
water
management
and
air
quality.
We
want
to
not
just
create
streets
and
do
one
thing
going
with
public
works
and
another
thing
going
with
the
the
tree
teams
and
another
thing
going
with
transportation.
We
want
to
do
the
work
all
together.
F
We
want
to
build
the
kinds
of
streets
that
protect
people
and
make
them
safe.
That
work
is
a
deep
partnership
with
the
streets
cabinet,
which
is
another
important
partner.
Who's
been
active
in
this
heat
plan,
there's
20
million
dollars
for
a
nation
leading
pilot
for
energy
retrofits
and
triple
deckers
and
other
multi-family
homes,
and
I
live
in
dorchester
the
heart
of
triple
decker
city.
F
F
So,
if
you're
having
a
great
event
out
there
reach
out,
let
us
know
we
want
to
help
you
keep
it
cool
and
the
cool
roofs
program
which
we
hope
chinatown
will
be
one
of
our
core
neighborhoods
that
really
leans
into
that
program,
and
the
community-wide
cool
bus
stop
challenge,
for
which
we
want
to
thank
the
mbta
for
being
an
active
partner
and
helping
us
support.
Our
neighborhoods
boston
is
ready
to
take
on
this
climate
challenge
and
to
become
a
green
new
deal
city
today
and
every
other
day.
F
F
Sometimes
this
gets
lost,
but
I
hope
that
on
today
we
will
remember
the
important
action
of
so
many
ancestors
that
went
before
us
who
fought
for
our
abilities
to
remain
in
our
neighborhoods
who
push
back
on
racist
and
classist
decisions
that
impacted
many
of
our
environmental
justice
communities,
and
I
hope
we
who
have
been
in
this
a
while
will
also
follow
the
leadership
of
young
people.
Who've
really
made
this
a
central
issue
for
our
time.
A
Thank
you
reverend.
Thank
you
very
much
reverend,
and
I
also
want
to
thank
vivian
lee's
here
and
the
reason
we
have
an
amazing
harbor
walk
is
because
of
vivian
lee
and
a
lot
of
other
people.
She'll
always
remind
me
of
that,
but
thank
you
vivian.
I
also
want
to
thank
the
parks,
commissioner
ryan
woods,
as
well
as
the
environment
commissioner,
allison
bridges
for
being
here.
A
Most
importantly,
I
hope
that
you
have
a
wonderful
earth
day
and,
as
you
think,
about
this
park
that
connects
neighborhoods,
think
about
your
relationship
with
earth
and
how
you
can
reconnect
with
earth
now.
That
being
said,
if
there's
any
questions
on
the
topic
of
earth
day,
we're
happy
to
answer
them
at
the
podium.
If
there's
other
questions,
we
can
take
them
off
to
the
side.
B
Climate
is
the
issue
that
is
going
to
define
the
next
hundred
years
in
our
country.
It's
what
I
think
about
raising
two
boys
and
counting
every
year
that
they
grow
up
as
another
alarming
milestone
after
another,
in
terms
of
our
warming
planet
and
our
rising
sea
levels,
and
so
the
very
same
steps
that
we
need
to
take
to
create
a
world
that
is
healthy
and
resilient.
B
That
we're
proud
to
pass
on
to
our
kids
are
the
same
steps
to
close
gaps
today
in
our
city,
and
so
this
is
really
a
win-win-win
all
around
and
we're
excited
to
show
beyond
boston
across
the
country.
Just
what
happens
when
you
can
tap
into
the
good
jobs,
the
community,
the
health
benefits
that
really
come
together
when
we
focus
on
how
interconnected
all
our
issues
are
with
climate
at
the
center.
H
B
We
know
that
the
very
communities
who
have
been
absorbing
the
brunt
of
the
impacts
from
the
pandemic
long
before
kobit
19,
have
already
been
fighting,
advocating
and
presenting
solutions
for
how
we
move
forward
and
so
I'll
pass
it
over
to
our
chief
to
see
if
she
would
like
to
add
anything
else
on,
particularly
these
neighborhoods
and
communities.
But
I
know
in
every
issue
that
we're
thinking
about
it
is
how
we
connect
all
of
the
urgent
challenges
our
our
residents
and
families
have
been
facing
since
long
before
the
pandemic.
F
So
I'll
just
add
that
one
actually
key
part
of
the
report
is
that
it
looks
at
the
relationship
between
historical
redlining
trends
in
our
neighborhoods
and
where
our
hottest
areas
are,
and
you
unfortunately,
would
probably
not
be
surprised
to
know.
There
is
a
lot
of
overlap
between
communities
that
we
disinvested
in,
where
there
wasn't
energy
put
into
parks
or
green
space,
where
the
kinds
of
development
choices
that
were
made
were
made
because
they
figured
well.
These
are
low-income
people,
or
these
are
folks
that
we're
not
going
to
give
the
highest
quality
to
so.
F
The
report
actually
really
does
look
at
that,
and
it's
unfortunate
that
that's
actually
a
nationwide
trend,
I
think,
what's
exciting
about
what
we're
hoping
to
do
here
is
to
say
in
the
same
way
that
some
folks
bore
a
disproportionate
amount
amount
of
the
brunt.
Those
same
communities
should
now
get
a
disproportionate
investment
in
reversing
those
negative
trends.
F
Yeah,
so
I
think
what
I
would
say
at
the
foundation
of
is
this.
This
notion
that
to
mitigate
these
impacts,
it
really
can't
be
just
one
department
paying
attention
to
this,
and
one
of
the
things
that's
exciting
is
that
in
this
report,
so
many
different
departments
set
at
the
table
now,
what
we
need
to
do
is
figure
out.
How
do
we
take
what
we
know
to
impact
policy,
because
in
the
past
I
wouldn't
want
to
call
up?
There
are
definitely
departments
that
have
done
what
they
would.
F
Now
we
have
the
opportunity
to
take
it
and
look
at
the
policies
across
the
city
that
may
not
have
been
heat
related,
but
they
have
heat
impacts
to
them.
So
actually,
the
climate
ready
street
is
a
perfect
example
of
that.
Really,
looking
at
what
kinds
of
paving
materials
are
we
using?
Can
we
be
looking
at
if
we're
going
to
do
it
over
all
of
our
streets,
sometimes
in
the
past
they've
been
done
in
a
way
that
doesn't
make
it
that
easy
to
plant
trees?
F
So
we're
asking
things
like
how
are
we
putting
making
sure
that
there's
enough
soil
left
after
we
do
street
work
so
that
we
can
still
plant
trees
and
what's
exciting?
Is
there's
been
no
department
that
says
you
know
get
out
of
the
way
we're
just
going
to
keep
doing
things?
The
way
we've
been
doing,
as
people
have
said
at
the
table
and
looked
at
the
impacts
of
those
choices,
we're
glad
that
so
many
have
been
are
ready
to
be
partners
in
looking
at
decisions
that
maybe
we
never
thought
about
before
from
the
heap
impact.
A
Thank
you
so
folks
we're
going
to
end
it
there
but
happy
earth
day
before
you
leave.
You
can
be
the
change.
You
can
actually
change
what
this
park
looks
like
we're
running
a
design
process
for
mary
suhu
park
right
now,
we're
trying
to
think
about
different
enhancements
that
can
make
that
park
better.
Do
not
leave
without
going
over
to
the
rose
kennedy
greenway
table
and
taking
the
survey
to
see
the
change,
so
we
can
make
sure
we
have
a
beautiful
space
for
these
kids.
Ladies
and
gentlemen,
happy
earth
day.
Thank
you.