Rainfall-driven eruptions of raw sewage into the Charles River, the Mystic River and especially the Alewife Brook take place on a regular basis. There are things we could do beyond waiting for the installation of municipal infrastructure.

The way some Texas places are “football towns” that pump out NFL stars, Cambridge could be known as a town of cultivators, where kids grow up at the forefront of an urban farming movement, the director of the nonprofit Green Cambridge says.

Boston Mycological Club hikes into conservation lands offer a glimpse into – and revelations about – the sometimes bizarre complexity of the fungus world.

I realized that in my irritation and fear I’d lost sight of something: You don’t get the blessing without the risks. That is, bugs aren’t bugs – they’re a feature.

We live in the places we make – and now that means we must plan greenspaces to mitigate heat island effects from our paved roads, settle the particulate pollution from our cars and ease the stresses of living in dense enclaves.

What we’ve known on Rindge Avenue is not Jerry’s Pond. It’s Jerry’s Pit. Jerry’s Pit has a rich and interesting history. Jerry’s Pond has yet to be created.

In inaugurating a monthly column on the city’s environmental issues and possibilities, Greg Harris shares an avian surprise he stumbled across by Alewife.