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1. 2008 Newton Student Energy Essay & Art Contest: March 30 deadline!
2. March 19: Newton Conservators Spring Lecture: “North of Quabbin - Lessons in Land Protection” with Allen Young
3. March 24: Environmental Speaker Series: "Getting A Grip: Our Food and Our Small Planet " with Frances Moore Lappé ; Newton’s 12th Alternatives to Pesticides Month
4. March 25: "Ultimate Green Lawns" with Jackson Madnick (Newton DPW program)
5. March Environment Show: "Getting a Grip" with Frances Moore Lappé
6. Committee Meetings
7. Join GDC now for 2008
8. NewtonSERVES: April 13 -- Green Decade’s environmental project!
9. Other: NCSC - Unplugged and Connected Month; Cape Wind book talk; MCAN’s Global Warming Café; NESEA Building Energy 08; ELA Annual Conference, Environmental Action Conference (Toxics Action Center), D2E Expo
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1. 2008 NEWTON STUDENT ENERGY ESSAY & ART CONTEST: March 30 Deadline!
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either living or attending school in Newton, are eligible to enter
either or both contests. On-line registration and details of the 2nd Annual Energy Conservation Contest are available on the website, along with the Contest Registration Form. The contest is co-sponsored by
the Green Decade, Newton Schools Foundation, Green Energy Newton, and
NSTAR, and other organizations. Awards will be announced in April, close to Earth Day! Questions or information: 617-965-1995 or energycontest@greendecade.org |
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| 2. NEWTON CONSERVATORS 2008 SPRING LECTURE: “NORTH OF QUABBIN - LESSONS IN LAND PROTECTION” WITH ALLEN YOUNG |
Wednesday, March 19 at 7 pm
Newton Free Library, Druker Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the Newton Conservators and the Newton Free Library
330 Homer St. (corner of Homer & Walnut Streets)
Newton Centre, MA 02459
Newton's pure water originates in the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts, yet the area around Quabbin is unfamiliar to most residents. Allen Young, land protection advocate and author of North of Quabbin Revisited: A Guide to Nine Towns North of the Quabbin Reservoir is the featured speaker for the Newton Conservators Spring Lecture. For more information, contact the Newton Conservators website.
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| 3. ENVIRONMENTAL SPEAKER SERIES: "GETTING A GRIP: OUR FOOD AND OUR SMALL PLANET " WITH FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ |
Monday, March 24 at 7 pm
Newton Free Library, Druker Auditorium
Co-sponsored with the Newton Free Library
330 Homer St. (corner of Homer & Walnut Streets)
Newton Centre, MA 02459
Celebrate Newton’s 12th Annual Alternatives to Pesticides Month by attending this evening’s discussion by Frances Moore Lappé, award-winning author of Diet for a Small Planet and 16 other books.
- Do you know how land use, oil consumption, air and water quality, nutrition and food safety are all affected in the process of bringing food to your table?
- Are you aware of the social, environmental and nutritional challenges with which our food supply system confronts us?
- Do you know what we can do to respond to these challenges?
Ms. Lappé, will help us understand these and how we can respond.
This event is co-sponsored by the Green Decade Coalition, the Newton Free Library, the Newton Conservators, The Newton Community Farm, The Newton Farmers Market, Cheshire Garden, and the Newton Conservators.
All ESS events are
held at the Newton Free Library, Druker Auditorium, at 7 pm, usually on
the 3rd Monday of the month, January through June. Tea will be served -- please bring your own mug. For more
information about the series, contact 617-965-1995 or Environmental Speakers Series on our website.
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| 4. ULTIMATE GREEN LAWNS: SAVE TIME, MONEY & REDUCE WATER USE |
Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 7:30 PM
Jackson Madnick, environmental expert
Newton Free Library – Druker Auditorium
Free to the public
Sponsored by Newton’s Department of Public Works
Free Starbucks Coffee and Whole Foods Dessert will be served at 7 PM.
Protect your children, your animals and your health by never using toxic pesticides or fertilizers on your lawn again, and still have a beautiful green lawn. Learn everything you need to know about growing a very low maintenance, environmentally safe, lush green lawn. This workshop will teach you about the organic lawn care program, featuring a new deep root ecological grass called ECO-LAWN that requires no watering, no fertilizer and regular cutting. A question and answer session will follow the speaker’s presentation.
Information: Maria Rose - Newton DPW at 617-796-1056 or Jackson Madnick 508-653-0800 |
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| 5. MARCH ENVIRONMENT SHOW: "GETTING A GRIP" WITH FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ |
March 1st to March 28th.
Host: Beverly Droz (Green Decade)
Guest: Frances Moore Lappé The March Environment Show
features an interview with Frances Moore Lappé on her new book Getting
a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad. Ms.
Lappé is also the featured speaker at the March Environmental Speaker
Series on March 24 (see above).
This monthly show is produced alternatively by the Green Decade and the Newton Conservators. More information about the March program is available at greendecade.org/environmentTV. The Environment Show is broadcast on the NewTV Blue channel (Comcast Chan. 10, RCN Chan. 15, Verizon Chan. 34):
Mondays 3:00 p.m.
Tuesdays 1:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m.
Wednesdays 11:30 a.m.
Thursdays: 12:00, 4:00 and 7:30 p.m.
Saturdays: 10:00 a.m.
Videos
of The Environment Show programs are now available for viewing online at the GDC website.
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| 6. COMMITTEE MEETINGS |
GDC
members and friends are welcome to join the following Green Decade
committee meetings this month. For more committee information visit the
Volunteer page on our website, or
click on the committee name below. Please note -- new committees may
not yet be on our website.
TRANSPORTATION: Bike Newton meeting. Sunday, March 16@ 10:30am, 497 Chestnut St. (Enter Moffat Rd.) Contact Lois Levin at loislevin@comcast.net or 617-527-1237.
STUDENTS FOR A GREENER WORLD: Tuesday, March 25 at 5:30 pm. New Green Decade student committee with Newton middle school and high school student members. Contact Margaret Ford at margford@yahoo.com or 617-964-0606. |
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| 7. JOIN THE GREEN DECADE NOW FOR 2008 |
Join the Green Decade now for as little as $25 for an individual/family membershipl, $50 for a business membership or for students, only $10 for the year! This year, new and renewing members will also receive a reusable shopping bag as our thank-you for joining the Green Decade.
Join or renew on-line and pay by credit card or download the membership form and mail with
your check made out to GDC/N, to PO Box 590242, Newton, MA 02466.
Membership forms are also available in each issue of the Green News.
For more information, contact 617-965-1995 or e-mail membership@greendecade.org.
As always, members receive discounts at GDC events and sponsoring businesses, plus the Green News newsletter, published 6 times each year and mailed to our members. If you prefer to receive the Green News on-line, you will help save paper and postage costs. Let us know at contact@greendecade.org and be sure to include your name and e-mail, along with Green News Online in the title. |
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| 8. NewtonSERVES: April 13 -- GREEN DECADE’S ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT! |
Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 13 to join us for NewtonSERVES 2008 - A Day of Community Service! This year the Green Decade will have the Enviro-Quilt, and plan other environmental projects (to be announced). For the Enviro-Quilt project, volunteers are asked to bring colored (recycle) paper which is blank on one side for writing environmental tips, fun facts or drawings, to be joined into a large recycled paper quilt with recycled twist ties! We plan to display the quilt at City Hall and the Energy Contest Award Ceremony, among other sites. Start saving your colored paper and twist ties, and watch the GDC website’s Upcoming Events page for more details on this project and others.
For information on NewtonSERVES 2008, contact Denise Joseph at 617-796-1284 or djoseph@newtonma.gov. |
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9. OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS
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March: UNplugged and Connected Month
Newton Community Services Center
492 Waltham Street, West Newton, MA 0246
March is UNplugged and Connected Month in Newton, a month-long program that reminds Newton families and residents to unplug electronics and engage in human interaction! Nature & environment activities include planting seedlings and exploring the Arnold Arboretum or Newton parks and ponds. For more information, contact Gail Somer at NCSC at 617-969-5906, x 143.
To see a colorful calendar of suggested activities that do NOT require electronics but do emphasize person-to-person interaction, go to the NCSC’s website.
Cape Wind Reading and Discussion
March 6, 5:30pm at the Coolidge Corner Theater
Free admission - books for sale and discussion to follow
Brookline State Representative Frank Smizik and Selectman Jesse Mermell present a reading from Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for America’s Energy Future on Nantucket Sound, featuring authors Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb.
Co-sponsored by the Brookline Conservation and Parks & Recreation Commissions, Environment Massachusetts, Clean Water Action, the Massachusetts and Boston Climate Action Networks and others.
2008 ELA 14th Annual Conference & Eco-Marketplace
Re-Visioning the Landscape: An Ecological Approach
March 6-8, 2008
MassMutual Center, Springfield, MA
For more information about the conference program, exhibitors and the Ecological Landscaping Association please visit www.ecolandscaping.org or call ELA at 617-436-5838.
MCAN’s Global Warming Café
Sunday, March 9
1:30-3:00 pm
Sponsored by MCAN and The Green Roundtable
NEXUS, 38 Chauncy St., 7th Floor, Boston
Details about the event and location at www.greenroundtable.org, Upcoming Events. RSVP to register for this event at phoebe@greenroundtable.org
NESEA Building Energy 08 - Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Conference
March 11th - March 13th
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston
“The Practice of Sustainability: Tools, Actions & Solutions” will showcases the leading edge of green buildings and clean energy in high performance buildings, retrofit and rehabilitation of existing buildings and renewable energy. Online registration/information at www.buildingenergy.nesea.org.
Environment 2008 Conference (Toxics Action Center)
Saturday, March 15th
Registration $50
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston
Over 25 workshops and speakers to help you tackle climate change, ensure clean drinking water, phase out persistent toxic chemicals, and develop skills and strategies to create a healthy and safe community. For more information & registration, contact Meredith at www.toxicsaction.org or 617-747-4362.
D2E Expo (Down to Earth Festival )
Hynes Convention Center, March 28-30, 2008
The latest in environmentally responsible products and services, highlighting alternatives in food, fashion, transportation, energy, investments, home, and garden that tread lightly on the earth. D2E will entertain with cooking demos, eco-chic fashion shows, and workshops, like green fashion & beauty, natural landscaping & composting, and local vs. organic food. Speakers include Bill McKibben and Frances Moore Lappé. Don’t miss the sustainable design symposium and a youth green jobs forum. Visit www.d2eboston.com for discounted tickets and the latest list of exhibitors and workshops. |
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