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Community Foundation of Western MA Grant – Deadline August 4

PRESS RELEASE Proposals are requested from IRS designated 501(c)(3) organizations with 509(a) status, for projects that serve the residents of Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties by the Foundation of Western MA. Competitive Grants are made in the areas of arts, culture, education, environment, health, housing, and human services. The Community Foundation encourages creative and collaborative responses to existing or emerging problems or opportunities, and projects that leverage...

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The Massachusetts Land Initiative for Tomorrow (MassLIFT) is inviting applications from service learning educators for our 2011- 2012 AmeriCorps service positions.

PRESS RELEASE AmeriCorps MassLIFT was designed by a collaboration of seven regional land trusts and watershed associations to meet community needs for land protection, stewardship of protected lands, conservation outreach and education, and service learning that engages young people in conservation. AmeriCorps MassLIFT members serve in one of 12 regional conservation organizations across the state, and in one of four positions: land steward, regional conservationist, service learning...

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CISA Offers Spring Workshops For Farmers and Farmers’ Market Managers

  Tuesday, May 17th, 6:00-8:00pm, CISA and the MA Farm Energy Program will team up to offer a workshop on energy efficiency. PRESS RELEASE: CISA is excited to offer two workshop opportunities for farmers this May.   Tuesday, May 17th, 6:00-8:00pm, CISA and the MA Farm Energy Program will team up to offer a workshop on energy efficiency. Energy Efficiency for Maple Sugaring Participants will learn about equipment and techniques to reduce energy use for maple syrup production, and take a look at...

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UMASS Certificate in Sustainable Food

PRESS RELEASE: The University of Massachusetts recently approved a new 15-credit Certificate Program in Sustainable Food and Farming.  This is available for college students, high school grads, and students with a GED.   It is possible to complete this degree entirely online, mixed online and on campus, or entirely on campus. To learn more see:...

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STROLLING OF THE HEIFERS ANNOUNCES FIRST SLOW LIVING SUMMIT: A June 2011 conference on sustainability and social entrepreneurship

STROLLING OF THE HEIFERS ANNOUNCES FIRST SLOW LIVING SUMMIT: A June 2011 conference on sustainability and social entrepreneurship

PRESS RELEASE: BRATTLEBORO, VT — A well known festival celebrating a slower, more connected lifestyle will branch out this summer by launching a regional conference exploring the concept of “Slow Living.” The first Strolling of the Heifers Slow Living Summit, scheduled to take place June 1-3 in Brattleboro, will focus on topics of social and economic sustainability with the goal of exploringways to build healthy, thriving local economies while encouraging, mentoring and supporting a new...

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Important News Regarding the NESEA K-12 Education Department

PRESS RELEASE: This has been a spectacular year for NESEA’s Education Department. The Education staff have had a very full year with the deliverance of so many programs.  We had several programs running simultaneously including, Solar Sails New York: Expansion of Solar and Wind Energy Education for School Power…Naturally, a two-year service contract with the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority; Clean Energy for a Clean Environment, sponsored locally be the Western...

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MotherWoman Celebrates Mothers!

PRESS RELEASE: MotherWoman wanted to find a unique way to celebrate mothers. We engaged our community in creating this video to honor the gifts we receive from mothers. Families and friends told us what they treasure most. We asked internationally known singer/songwriter powerhouses, The Nields, to write a love song to mothers. Amazing family photographer Sarah Prall captured the beauty of area mothers, fathers and children. We hope you enjoy this tribute and share it with the mothers you...

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NORTHAMPTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS JOIN TOGETHER TO MAKE A GIANT EARTH DAY BALL!

PRESS RELEASE: All Northampton Public Schools will work together in April to make the largest ball ever made entirely of single-use plastic shopping bags. The event will culminate on April 23rd at Northampton’s Earth Day celebration in Pulaski Park when the ball will be rolled down the streets of Northampton and into the park. In a tribute to the inspiring kids’ book, Theo and the Giant Plastic Ball, published by the United Nations Environmental Programme, Green Action in...

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FY2012 PARC and LAND Grant Rounds Open

PRESS RELEASE: The Division of Conservation Services announces the opening of the FY 12 grant round. URL: www.mass.gov/eea/dcs-grants PARC funding is available for the acquisition of parkland or the development or renovation of a park. LAND funding is available for the acquisition of conservation land. The maximum grant award for both grants is $500,000. Please attend an informational grants workshop on May 4, 2011 at 10:00 am at 100 Cambridge Street, Boston or May 10, 2011 at 11:00 am at 101...

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April 6: What is a Rain Garden?

GREENFIELD, MA – Come see the Greenfield Public Library’s rain garden, and learn how you can beautify your yard or community, while attracting butterflies, keeping our rivers and steams clean, and replenishing our ground water. Ed Himlan, of the Massachusetts Watershed Coalition, will present a slideshow on how to build a rain garden on Tues., April 6, 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the Greenfield Public Library. This event, organized by Greening Greenfield, and co-sponsored by many...

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Residential Energy Code Training

Residential Energy Code Training offered On April 20 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources is offering an energy code training session at the Town Hall at 6 Walker Street in Lenox for contractors, architects, building inspectors, real estate brokers, appraisers, home inspectors, and others in the building professions. The presenter will be Chuck Miller, a building inspector in Westhampton, and building science trainer for the Center for Ecological...

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NESEA: BuildingEnergy10 Conference, March 9-11

Northeast’s Leading Sustainable Building and Clean Energy Conference Expected to Draw Thousands of Green Experts to Boston NESEA’s BuildingEnergy10 Conference and Trade Show Returns to the Seaport March 9-11, 2010 Some 4,000 renewable energy and green building experts will bring their cutting edge thinking to Boston this month for the BuildingEnergy10 Conference and Tradeshow. BuildingEnergy10 (BE10) is the annual event organized by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association...

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Workshop on Feb 13: Awakening the Dreamer

The Greening Greenfield Energy Committee is bringing an internationally-renowned workshop to Greenfield called Awakening the Dreamer & Changing the Dream. It will be presented on Saturday, February 19, 1-5 pm at the Second Congregational Church next to the Town Hall. Registration will begin at 12:30 pm. The Awakening the Dreamer workshop was created by the Pachamama Alliance, which was inspired by the deep concern indigenous Ecuadorian elders and shamans expressed about the destruction of...

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Public Meeting: Mass Biomass

Massachusetts Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Thursday, December 17, 2009, 6:30 – 8:30 P.M. In November 2009 the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) commissioned a team of experts to conduct a comprehensive study of issues related to biomass sustainability and carbon policy. Launched at the direction of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles, the six-month study will result in a “white paper” that brings the best science to bear...

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13 Tips to Green your Holiday

This just in from GREEN Northampton Between Thanksgiving and New Years, Americans generate about 1 million extra tons of trash per week, a 25% increase of solid waste. 1.)   Wrapping paper is now recyclable! – All wrapping paper is recyclable except wrapping paper with foil, ribbons, bows, metallic inks and glitter. Recycle your wrapping paper at the landfill or transfer station this year with your other paper. Also, keep in mind that all cardboard gift boxes, tissue paper, gift cards...

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Greenfield 10% Challenge Growing

The Greenfield Business Association (GBA) and The Sandri Companies have joined the Greenfield 10% Challenge to help the Town meet the goal of reducing its energy use by 10% by the end of 2010.   The 10% Challenge was launched last April by the Greening Greenfield campaign. “Reducing energy use is good for business and for the environment” said Becky George, coordinator of the GBA “We are proud to take the challenge. We are urging our members to join the 10% Challenge and reduce their energy...

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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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Press: EarthThrives Opens the Door to Volunteers

Pioneer Valley, MA – EarthThrives is happy to announce that internships and volunteer opportunities are available for the Fall and Winter of 2009-2010. These opportunities in journalism, editing, new media and website operations are expected to fill quickly. Interested applicants should go to http://www.earththrives.com/volunteer for more information about individual positions and details on how to apply. EarthThrives is very excited to invite the community to engage in the process of...

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Press: EarthThrives Nominated for Green Stamp Program

We are proud to announce that EarthThrives has been nominated to receive this month’s Co-Op Green Stamp from River Valley Market. River Valley Market sent out this voting info to their members, “Member-owners, [vote] between now and 9:00 pm on November 27 for November’s recipient of donated Green Cards (worth $1.00 each) and cash register can donations. Past monthly recipients have received shopper donations ranging from several hundred to several thousand dollars.” Did...

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Pioneer Valley Institute to Host Tom Wessels Program

The Pioneer Valley Institute will present author and ecologist Tom Wessels at its annual meeting on Wed., Nov 4 at 7 o’clock in Greenfield Community College’s Sloan Theater on the main campus. The program, based on Wessels’ book Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, is free and open to the public. There will be a brief business meeting at 6:30 to which all PVI members are urged to come. This program introduces us to approaches used to interpret a forest’s history...

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Clean Energy Connections

Clean Energy Connections

Clean Energy Connections at UMass Amherst on November 10, 2009 is a career and business development information and networking event. EarthThrives providing followup beyond the event (see details) • Access resources to build your business or start your clean energy career. • Tour exhibit hall displays about green technologies, services, practices and products. • Meet entrepreneurs and community groups mobilizing around clean energy. • Learn about clean energy trends. What’s hot and...

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Economy of the Commons

Nobel Prize in Economics to Elinor Ostrom: “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons” Ostrom’s pioneering work mostly concerns the governance of common-pool resources — resources that are rivalrous (i.e., scarce, can be used up yet need to be or should be governed as a commons — classically, things like water systems and the atmosphere. This work is cited by many scholars of non-rivalrous commons (e.g., knowledge commons) as laying the groundwork for their field. In the...

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350 Day of climate awareness – Oct 24th 2009

If you have organized a consciousness-raising event for next Saturday—October 24th—the day of climate awareness www.350.org — make sure you post your events there. Search for local events at Earththrives’ PV valley 350 event search(It also has a saved copy of local events since 350.org has been pretty busy) From GREEN Northampton In our community, there is a drive to get 350 homes to pledge to put up clotheslines in their yards.  (Dryers are one of the largest users of electricity...

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Forum on the Environment: Mayor Higgins & Michael Bardsley to Debate

GREEN Northampton & WRSI are co-sponsoring a debate between Mayor Clare Higgins & City Councilor At Large Michael Bardsley. The debate is scheduled for October 20, 7:30 pm in the auditorium at Northampton High School. It is scheduled to last 90 minutes and will include 30 minutes of Q&A with the audience and the candidates. Three environmental areas will be discussed: Transportation, Energy Efficiency & Solid Waste Management. Experts in each of the areas will question the...

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