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Jamaica Plain Elected Representatives Discuss State of JP

4 March 2011 - 2:38pm | RadioView
by Dave Goodman (I.B.I.S. Radio)

BOSTON/Jamaica Plain - One of Boston's dozen or so distinct neighborhoods, Jamaica Plain (or JP for short) has one of the most outspoken and activist populations in the city. Hundreds of those residents interested in the past, present, and future of their community took part in a special meeting on Tuesday, February 15th at English High School and sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Forum and the JP Neighborhood Development Corporation.

Critically Exploring Science and Technology

15 February 2011 - 11:49am | Felicia
by Felicia M. Sullivan

UMass Boston now has a new program that explores the social, economic, and political dimensions of science and technology in our ever-changing world. So often we end up as the consumers of science and rarely are we encourage to question where do new drugs, technologies, or scientific knowledge come from. Offering both a masters and graduate certificate, the Science in a Changing World program seeks to connect those with scientific knowledge to communities of practice and change agents.

Jamaica Plain Green House Demonstrates Passivhaus Rehab Construnction Techniques

6 December 2009 - 3:13am | jpgreenhouse
by Simon Hare, Declan Keefe, and Ken Ward (Advocate)

In the Bourne neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, Andrée Zaleska and Ken Ward, with their 3 boys, Simon 8, Eli 9, and Kuba 11, are rehabbing a 100 year old, abandoned, former corner store to serve as their new home, a demonstration of sustainable living & passivhaus design, community center and climate campaigning "hub" for Bill McKibben's 350.org.

For Economic Insecurity, Common Security Clubs Promoted As Way to Create A New Economy

10 July 2009 - 6:42pm | RadioView
by Dave Goodman (I.B.I.S. Radio)

BOSTON/Jamaica Plain - On the third floor of Building L at the Brewery Complex in Jamaica Plain, staffers with the Institute for Policy Studies, the Forum Organizing Project, and the Jamaica Plain Forum, are laboring over a critical question for our times: how to pull people out of the quicksand that is the U.S. economy.

Andree Zaleska, Director of the Forum Organizing Project and Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies Senior Scholar, and their partners with the Grassroots Policy Project and On The Commons, think they have a pretty good answer: "common security clubs."

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