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Shift Your Shopping NOW!

Shift Your Shopping encourages residents and businesses to make a “Shift” by buying from local independent businesses for the holiday season. Shift Your Shopping offers a simple, powerful way to boost our economy and preserve and create jobs in our local communities. The campaign encourages residents to take job creation and economic concerns into their own hands by exercising their power to strengthen their own local economies. Numerous studies on the impact of buying from local...

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CLOSING VERMONT YANKEE … HOW YOU CAN HELP

CLOSING VERMONT YANKEE … HOW YOU CAN HELP A supper and a briefing session on December 6th and 8th by the Safe and Green Campaign. Just four months from now Vermont Yankee will face its scheduled, state-mandated closing, on March 21, 2012. Safe and Green Campaign will present two pot luck supper briefings as an opportunity to learn how to become actively involved in making sure the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor is finally shut down in a safe and timely way. The briefing will include the...

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Common Good Finance Has a Solution

ASHFIELD, MA:  In this time of popular discontent with the 1% that controls most of the world’s wealth, a small nonprofit in Ashfield, Massachusetts has a solution. Common Good Finance announced this week its plans for a revolutionary new money system that it claims could lead quickly to an economy that benefits everyone. At the heart of the design for a Common Good Economy is a local money system called R Credits™. The R​ stands for Regenerative, Revolutionary, and taking Responsibility for...

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Energy Competition Between UMASS Amherst Dorms

For the duration of November, an energy use competition is being held between two Southwest Area towers, John Adams and Kennedy, which are almost identical in size and resident population. According to the Energy Intern Program Coordinator, Sam Willis, and interns of the Campus Sustainability Initiative, Zach Hellyar and Liyang Wang, the goal of the competition is to raise awareness while reducing energy usage among the campus population, one building at a time. A sub-meter tracks the amount...

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Compost Pilot Project – UMASS

This fall UMass Amherst will be host to a compost pilot project outside the Franklin Dining Hall near the Central Residential Area. Although there are presently compost bins in the Bluewall Café and all the dining halls compost food, there has not been a resource for members of the campus community to use when they wish to compost outside of the aforementioned areas. Sara Hopps, who serves as the Food Intern for the Campus Sustainability Initiative, is leading this compost pilot project with...

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Green Living Mobile Project Tour Visits UMass

Since 2009, the Green Living Project’s Mobile Tour has been on the road to promote its message of sustainability. As part of UMass’ first Campus Sustainability Week, the Mobile Tour came to campus to provide tours of its eco-friendly RV and a multimedia and film presentation about the work done by the Green Living Project. The Mobile Tour seeks to share stories from around the world of people working towards a more sustainable planet. The Green Living Project has five areas of focus for its...

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UMass Celebrates First Campus Sustainability Week

This semester, the Campus Sustainability Initiative celebrated the first annual Campus Sustainability Week (October 24-28), intended to highlight student organizations and university programs that are working to make UMass Amherst an environmentally conscious institution. The first day of sustainability week coincided with National Food Day. Local specials were featured in all Dining Commons and community members were given a chance to get some exercise on a “Sustainable UMass”...

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Greening Greenfield Film Series

Greening Greenfield Energy Committee presents… A FILM SERIES ON LIVING SUSTAINABLY     How can we as a community prepare for and even celebrate the changes we need to make as we come to the end of cheap energy?   November 30, 6:30 pm     St. James Church, Greenfield GASLAND The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudi Arabia of natural gas”, but is it safe? This film follows a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of...

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It’s Our Future!

It’s Our Future! Youth Speak Out to Save the Environment &  the Earth Friday, November 18,  7-9pm Northampton Center for the Arts   (17 New South Street–across from Academy of Music) Using poetry, prose, hip-hop rhyming, music (singing a capella, with guitar, etc.), dance, art, video, sculpture, skits, and stand-up comedy, young people between the ages of 8 and 25 are invited to speak out about climate change and other environmental threats, and express their hope and vision...

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