Edits and The Toxic Tour

     Today we worked in making these changes, preparing the PowerPoint presentation for the final presentation next week and polishing our final deliverable. Later in the afternoon, we had the opportunity to go to the Toxic Tour. The Toxic Tour was in Dudley Sq., and it gave us the opportunity to learn about ACE and environmental justice; it was interesting to hear about this since we learned about the socioeconomic characteristics of Chelsea. The tour guide did an excellent job in showing us the community. We learned that there were no green spaces around Dudley Sq. and that the community had to get involved for them to be accommodated. We also learned about current issues such as transportation (mainly traffic, the lack of a train system, and pollution) and environmental issues. The Toxic Tour allowed us to learn more about environmental justice efforts in Roxbury and was a great bonding experience with one of our advisors and the other Boston IQP teams.