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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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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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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Franklin County Green Drinks is on hold starting September 2011. We’ve found that attendance has been down over the past few months and in the interest of making it a successful event for everyone that waiting until there is a higher interest level would be best. Please sign up on the left column to receive notifications of future events and feel free to contact us at info@earththrives.com if you are interested in helping to build this event back up or have any...
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Earth Thrives is Run and Managed by Advocates of Green and Sustainable Action In the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, Where We Live!! Here are some of the valuable supporting staff and contributors: Rich RothGreenfield, MAPresident/CTO Rich has been interested in Biology and ecology since early school and grew up exploring the woods of Long Island, NY and sailing her waters. Entering RPI to study engineering the year of the first Earth Day, Rich focused his work in a variety of environmental...
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EarthThrives was built upon the idea of sharing our stories. Won’t you join us? Guidelines for Story Submission: Your story should be no more than 750 words long or 3 minutes of video. Writing should be well-written. Both writing and videos should be interesting and relevant to our mission: following the lives of everyday people as they go green. Please do not include a phone number or email within your story. There is a spot on the submission form for you to enter your email. Your...
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Posted by wp-admin on 5-15-09 in Press Releases | Comments Off on Many Voices, One Movement: a benefit concert for First Generation
First Generation an intensive, arts-based and youth leadership-development program provides a platform for young people to have a public voice in their community, and beyond, through creative expression and thoughtful exploration of what it means to be First Generation. First Generation began in the fall of 2008 in Springfield, MA with a group of 12 youth, ages 15-22, who are the first in their families to be growing up in the United States or who define themselves as first generation in other...
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Posted by wp-admin on 6-25-08 in Latest | Comments Off on MA bans disposal of mercury
[ Originally published in Greenfield Recorder: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 ] The state recently banned disposal of mercury-containing items. This means that mercury-containing items can't be placed in the trash and must be handled separately. Mercury is hazardous to human health and creates environmental pollution. Mercury accumulates in humans and in aquatic animals. The most common household products that are banned from the trash are: thermometers with silver liquid mercury, nondigital...
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Posted by wp-admin on 12-5-07 in Latest | Comments Off on Green keeps rolling in for ‘Solar Village’
RDI has Received funding to include a full film of the RDI story. By ANITA FRITZ Recorder Staff – Published: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 GREENFIELD — The good news keeps coming for the Wisdom Way Solar Village project and Rural Development Inc. In addition to $1.8 million RDI received from the state Monday to begin building 20 low-income, low-energy condominiums, it received on Tuesday $575,000 in loans from the nonprofit Housing Assistance Council located in Washington, D.C.,...
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Posted by wp-admin on 11-9-07 in Latest | Comments Off on Patrick Pushes Biofuel Standards in New Bill
By Ken Maguire Associated Press Writer / November 5, 2007 BOSTON —Gov. Deval Patrick and top lawmakers want to put Massachusetts on the clean energy map by requiring biofuel blends in home heating oil and providing tax incentives for producers of more efficient ethanol technology, known as cellulosic ethanol. The state would be the first to require all diesel and home heating fuel sold here to contain a minimum amount of bio-based alternatives in their blends, as well as the first to...
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