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title: Beautiful Boston
date: 2009-10-26T00:32:40Z
modified: 2009-10-26T00:32:40Z
permalink: "https://350.org/beautiful-boston/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: "One of the world's great cities, which styles itself "the Hub of the Universe." But it's close to the ocean--in fact, much of the city was built on landfill dumped into the sea."
wpid: 13519
author: Bill McKibben
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One of the world’s great cities, which styles itself "the Hub of the Universe." But it’s close to the ocean–in fact, much of the city was built on landfill dumped into the sea. Our friends there are hoping they won’t have to put up sandbags for real some day–they had an amazing turnout for their Boston Under Water festival![](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2449/4043964069_82b2f42be4.jpg) despite (or maybe because of) the pouring rain