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Nov 30 – Local Business Guide Launch Celebration

The Pioneer Valley’s Free Local & Green Business Directory Connects Consumers Searching for Local Businesses Even with some of the strongest and earliest Buy Local campaigns in the country, it’s still been hard for consumers here to sort out conflicting claims in regards to what businesses are locally owned.  Problem solved: Pioneer Valley Local First is releasing a free guide to locally owned, independent businesses both online and in paper format: The 2009-2010 Local...

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Free Service – Northampton Garbage Audits

GREEN Northampton is starting a free service available immediately to all businesses and residents in Northampton: Garbage Audits. GREEN Northampton has formed teams of auditors to visit homes and offices and give informational and sometimes excavational exploration into garbage, recycling and other collections of objects that need a destination other than the landfill. Mary Clark of Florence was among the first to receive an audit. “I found I could recycle or compost much more than I...

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DPU Allows Wind & Solar “Net Metering”

Under Green Community Act provision to spur renewable energy development, customers who generate more power than they use can sell back energy at higher rates BOSTON – Net metering for wind and solar energy installations, a provision of the Green Communities Act designed to encourage development of renewable power, takes effect on December 1 under an order adopted by Department of Public Utilities (DPU) last Friday (11/13). Net metering encourages homeowners, businesses, and municipalities to...

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Nov 16-20th – EEA Seeks Ideas for Reorganization, Public-Private Partnerships, and Regulatory Models

Budget challenges prompt search for new ways to meet environmental goals BOSTON – The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) has scheduled six “listening sessions” to take public input on options for changes in administrative structures and programs to meet environmental goals in light of budget challenges. After four rounds of spending reductions over the past two fiscal years and in anticipation of an equally challenging budget for next year, Governor...

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Grant to CET – help towns reduce, reuse, recycle

Rural towns, businesses and individuals in western Massachusetts are eligible for help increasing recycling, composting, reducing and managing their waste through a $90,000 grant award to the Center for Ecological Technology (CET) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development. This new funding will enable CET to help communities with fewer than 10,000 residents divert waste from landfills and combustion facilities through waste reduction, reuse and recycling....

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Nov 17 – Noho – Home Energy Saving Seminar – Free

Want to reduce your home energy costs? Looking for no-cost/low-cost solutions that offer the most “bang for your buck” in terms of energy savings? You’ll get many tips to help you reduce your electricity use, and learn ways to prevent heat loss in your home. You’ll also learn about available home energy efficiency programs, and generous incentives that make money-saving home energy improvements affordable. Learn all this and more by attending a FREE Home Energy Savings...

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Winter Conference – Food from Farms for Families

Northeast Organic Farming Association, Massachusetts Chapter (NOFA/Mass) presents its 23rd Annual Winter Conference:  Food From Farms For Families on January 16, 2010 at Worcester Technical High School. Joel Salatin to present keynote speech and all day seminar, Introducing Livestock to your Farm Over 40 workshops on organic farming, gardening, landscaping, and sustainable living. Lively exhibit area, NOFA/Mass Annual Meeting, great children and teens program, potluck lunch! General...

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Clean Energy Connections

Beyond Clean Energy Connections – using social networking Keeping the momentum going after this event is crucial — be involved in moving things forward at an increasing rate:“Think Global Act Local” only works when you know how to act. Clean Energy Connections is a yearly event that is part of the larger shift of focus in the valley and beyond ─ at EarthThrives.com, take what you saw and learned here and continue the effort when you get home. At:...

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