Ocean River Institute
About
The Ocean River Institute is a Cambridge-based environmental nonprofit that helps individuals, families and grassroots groups protect ecosystems where they live and work. Its approach starts with local research and listening, then local action carried out alongside other groups. Campaigns have targeted nitrogen pollution, ecosystem-based ocean management, groundwater conservation for cold-water rivers and fish, and national blue-green legislation, offering people specific ways to save wildlife and fight climate change.
Dr. Rob Moir writes an environmental journal on the institute’s site. Recent projects include Attleboro’s first pocket forest, planted with the Miyawaki method for flood mitigation and drought resilience, with Attleboro High School students documenting the work. ORI has also run a Lawn Challenge to fight climate change and clean local waters, which WCVB’s Chronicle highlighted, and has written about why the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than other waters.
What to Know
- ORI produces a podcast called Shields of Achilles, broadcast live biweekly with archived episodes.
- It sells Blue Water Sailing prints of sailing vessels and ocean wildlife on aluminum panels.
- In early 2023 an ORI group sailed a 100-foot ketch across Drake Passage to Antarctica.
- It publishes environmental videos about its causes and campaigns.
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