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Dr. Jane Goodall visited New England Roots & Shoots groups on Friday, May 9, at the Mass. Audubon’s Boston Nature Center in Mattapan. Two groups from Arlington, Planet Ottoson and the Bishop Green Bees, met the famed primatologist, asked questions, and shared their work with her and with other Roots & Shoots groups. [more]
 Planet Ottoson (www.PlanetOttoson.org) and the Bishop Green Bees (www.GreenBees.org) teamed up on their presentation to Goodall and the other New England groups, and got some great ideas for future projects.
Lillian Wilcox and Marina Wagner presented the Green Bees projects to Goodall and the New England groups, focusing on recent projects: releasing ladybugs, planting the Leone memorial tree, a recycling relay race, Bishop Park cleanup, their new school recycling program, building bird nests; and their recent visitors from Roots & Shoots in Tanzania and Nepal -- Deus Cosmos and Manoj Gautam.
Planet Ottoson member Jeremy Norberg-Bohm gave an impassioned presentation for Planet Ottoson Roots & Shoots, focusing on the club's local open-space stewardship project, their Model U.N. program, the Teosinte El Salvador sister-city project, and collaborations with the Green Bees elementary-school Roots & Shoots group.
The Boston Nature Center is an urban sanctuary. Its George Robert White Environmental Conservation Center is decsribed as one of the “greenest” buildings in Boston, teaching environmentally sustainable design by example.
An on-site community garden provides food for 260 local families, and the Boston Nature Center’s Teen Ambassadors are a Roots & Shoots member group.
One person has commented on this article.  1. New England Regional Manager, Roots & ShootsUse your real name, Unregistered Hi! Thanks so much for this wonderful taste of the Roots & Shoots Fair with Dr. Jane. It was a wonderful morning; Planet Ottoson and Bishop Green Bees are exemplary Roots & Shoots groups whose work is greatly admired by the Roots & Shoots staff and Dr. Jane. Kindest regards, Christine Ellersick |
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