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Register for Clean Energy Connections

Clean Energy Connections: Business Growth for a Carbon-Neutral Future is the region’s premier forum for green career- and business-development information and networking. The event convenes business owners, entrepreneurs, financiers, educators, career seekers, community leaders, and public agencies. On Wednesday, October 20, you will: – ACCESS resources to build your green business. – MEET entrepreneurs and clean energy experts contributing to the green economy. – LEARN...

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Green Consortium: Planning Charette

Saturday August 28th from 8am to 1:30pm, Western Mass Green Consortium is a hosting a planning charrette to follow-up the “info barrier.” Where 189 Pleasant Street Easthampton Ma. 01027Why Review “info barrier” workshop report, brainstorm action plans.How Community Collaboration The near-term goal of Project Retrofit is to stimulate demand for energy efficient retrofit work while augmenting thesupply of energy efficient retrofit competent workers in the Pioneer Valley. The long-term goal...

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New Farmers’ Market in North Amherst, MA

via pvlocalfirst.org Where: parking lot of WATROBAS MARKET, 81 Sunderland Road, in North Amherst Center When: every Saturday, 9am to 2pm Demand for local produce has been steadily increasing, but it has been very difficult for many small farms to gain access to the more populated Farmers’ Markets. These farms continue to struggle, despite the fact that there is a growing need to connect the farms to the public. To help solve this problem, a group of small family farms and a local grocery...

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FREE June 19: Sustainable Energy Summit 2010

Put together by Co-Op Power an PV Local First, this year’s Sustainable Energy Summit is Saturday, June 19. The Summit will be an exciting, fun-filled family event this year with lots of hands-on activities and is held on the shore of the Connecticut River in Holyoke at the Nuestras Raices 30 acre farm, 24 Jones Ferry Road, Holyoke, MA. The gate will open to the public at 10:30 a.m. and festivities will go throughout the day until 7:00 p.m. For more information about exhibitors and...

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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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Earth Hour 2010

At 8:30pm, Saturday March 27, thousands of global individuals, cities, and companies will make a little difference, save a little energy, and have some fun in the dark. For more information about who’s participating, events near you, and exactly how much impact one hour can have, visit Earth Hour’s Website. It’s not too late to plan our own earth hour..simply turn off your lights at 8:30pm local time and you’ll automaticaly join the largest rolling blackout ever.  Read...

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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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Winter Market Meets Demand for Local Produce

Originally published by the Greenfield Recorder. GREENFIELD – Even in the midst of winter, shoppers still have an appetite for locally grown goods and local farmers were on hand Saturday to help satisfy it. Saturday’s Winter Fare market in Greenfield, was “fabulous” according to Mary McClintock, a member of the organizing committee. “Things went really smoothly,” McClintock said. “There were lots of people, lots more than last year.” This was the...

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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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