Sustainable South Coast

7-9 pm
Bristol Hall
752 Purchase Street, next to Green Bean Cafe
Downtown New Bedford

Here’s the draft Mayor’s New Bedford Sustainability Task Force report. [click here]

or here: sustaining-new-bedford.doc

you-are-invitedtoa-grassroots-public.pdf

Monthly meeting tonight at Bristol Hall, 752 Purchase Street, New Bedford
6:30
Bristol Hall
752 Purchase Street, New Bedford

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Mattapoissett Sustainability Open Forums are scheduled on the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM at the Mattapoisett Public Library downstairs meeting room. These meetings are open to the public. Please join us.

Bonne Desous
bdesous43@verizon.net

Green City Night was photographed by Bob Hughes of The Standard-Times for its Out and About section.

See photos at:
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=MEDIA19

Here, New Bedford resident Claudia Grace shows a zucchini and a lovely tomato she grew using the mulch garden bed design shown at our May permaculture workshop with Dick Pierce.

We need helpers! And hangouters!
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Great for bumpers (including bike, moped and tractor bumpers), windows, signs, etc., our new bumper sticker proclaims the urgency of the need to get right with the ecosystem.

Thanks to the United Way of Greater New Bedford’s Mini-Grants program, Sustainable SouthCoast bought garden supplies to give away, supplies for meetings and workshops, and these bumper stickers! Thanks United Way and Claudia Kirk!

Get one at our next event. They’re free to Sustainable SouthCoast members (anyone who has attended our meetings) and 50 cents to all others.

Fossil Fuel Independence Day was a great time to gather and think about what celebrating the origin of the United States is about and how we can honor those efforts today.

Here’s a slide show of the event by Chuck Dade [click here]

Next First Fridays, Aug. 1, we tentatively plan to continue the garden work at Wings Court, with demonstration of how to make a rainbarrel, digging earth for the raingarden (a spongy garden that drinks up rainwater from downspouts) and creation of raised-bed demonstration gardens.

Chuck Hauck created the sculpture of the Ghost of Fossil Fuel Past. We moved him (or her?) to William Street for SummerFest.

Ghost of Fossil Fuel Past (with solar-lit eyes) (Chuck Hauck) and the Wooden Wind Turbine (David Braun)

download poster (We’ll leave poster board in Bristol Hall starting Monday. Folks can take pieces to make their energy-vision posters. We’ll also try to provide a sample poster. Or, make a poster on July 4! We’ll put them up on a clothesline to be viewed.)

In the city where the U.S. began its trajectory to petroleum fuel dependence…

Fossil-Fuel
Independence Day
July 4
Envision local, clean, peaceful renewable energy!
4to 9 pm • Friday, July 4 • Free
Wings Court in Downtown New Bedford
(Enter the courtyard on Purchase or Union streets)

- Live music
- Large eco-sculptures
- Poetry and ceremony to bless the earth
- Make, post and view posters of local visions for a clean renewable energy future
- Help dig and install a raingarden (and other tasks)
- Information and conversations about biofuels, solar-heated water, weatherization, rainbarrels, low-cost heat, wind energy, bicycling, public transit and more!
- Petition for a city Energy Committee
- Information tables at Summerfest, July 5

MUSIC SCHEDULE:
4 pm: Bobby Lee
5-7 pm: Sing Out singalong (a First Fridays event) in Bristol Hall, 752 Purchase St.
7 pm: Mark Moniz
8 pm: U.S. SAM

ACTIVITIES:
6 pm: Earth-honoring ceremony to bless the earth and our city
6:30 pm: Making and posting energy posters. Digging the Wings Court rain-
garden to treat stormwater (shovels invited). Signing the energy petition.

Hosted by First Fridays, Sustainable SouthCoast, NB Green/Verde,
A.C.C.E.S.S. Art and City Repair Project

Rain location: Bristol Hall, 752 Purchase Street

Volunteers, posters, garden workers and artists needed!

Contact: NewBGreen@gmail.com or 508-999-0691

www.sustainablesouthcoast.org