Sustainable South Coast

6 pm to 9 pm: Join us in Wings Court for talks, gardening, free seedlings and compost, and music!

Wings Court is the courtyard in downtown New Bedford behind Green Bean Cafe and Pour Farm Tavern. Access it through gates on Union Street or Purchase Street.

Garden Night in 2008

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We need help shovelers and planters to plant an apple tree, herbs,
blueberries, and water-cleaning plants
We have 4 shovels, bring some if you can.
Even 15 minutes of shoveling will be helpful!
Contact Carol or Mark for more info: carol@fishisland.net or realworth@comcast.net

Green City Night flyer–please post!

(Chuck Smiler suggests we will make pesto from this summer’s city harvest of pesto!)

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GREEN CITY NIGHT
Gardening & Music to honor the waters

5 to 9 pm • Friday, October 3
Wings Court, Downtown New Bedford
Enter on Purchase Street or Union Street • FREE

Help dig and plant the Wings Court EcoGarden, a landscape
that cleans water

Celebrate music to protect the water
with a preview of the Taunton River Folk Festival,
honoring the source of New Bedford’s water

MUSIC
5-5:45: Ragtime Jack Radcliffe
5:45-6:30: Tesseract, folk harmonies
6:30-7:15: Louis Leeman, singer-songwriter
7:15-8: The Jethros:, bluegrass
8-8:45: U.S. Sam, blues and rock
Also: Providence Phoenix Female vocalist of the year 2007 Maria
Ventura, Lonesome Steve Ventura, and Don Barry

Hosted by First Fridays, Sustainable SouthCoast,
Taunton River Folk Festival, and NB Green/Verde.
NewBGreen@gmail.com or 508-999-0691

www.firstfridaysnb.org, www.nbgreen.org, www.sustainablesouthcoast.org

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

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

We need helpers! And hangouters!
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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.

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

Dave Gould made this great video of the evening. More than 100 folks turned out to get compost, mulch hay, seeds, seedlings, and raised-garden beds with which to start a small garden. Actually, most folks showed up to lend a hand spreading compost and planting plants for the Wings Court Eco-Garden Project.

volunteers needed! attendees needed too!

GARDEN NIGHT @ WINGS COURT, DOWNTOWN NEW BEDFORD

Take home a garden!

6:30 to 9 pm • Friday, June 6
Wings Court in Downtown New Bedford
Enter on Purchase Street or Union Street
Free • All welcome

Growing food helps reduce your grocery bill, lower your gas costs,
and eat better. Join us.

• get FREE garden compost (bring buckets!)
• plant seedlings, buy and trade plants, get free seedlings!
• watch a fun film about an eclectic farmer
• make a raised-bed garden
• help plan the Wings Court eco-garden
• bring a picnic! enjoy live music
• free bicycle cab rides by NB Pedicab

Schedule:

5 pm
Sing Out singalong (a First Fridays event) in Bristol Hall,
752 Purchase Street, next to The Green Bean cafe

6:30 pm
Garden Night in Wings Court (behind Bristol Hall)

8 pm
Film: The Real Dirt on Farmer John

Hosted by First Fridays, Sustainable SouthCoast and NB
Green/Verde.

Compost supplied free by the City of NB. Materials funded by the
United Way of Greater New Bedford’s Mini-Grants Program
Questions: NewBGreen@gmail.com or 508-999-0691

Sustainable SouthCoast
Organizational and general networking meeting
Discuss programs, check in, envision activities for the year
Wednesday, April 9, at Bristol Building, corner of 752 Purchase St.
(Purchase and Union Streets), New Bedford.
Steering Committee meets 6:30, general meeting at 7:00, end at 8:30.
We will continue to discuss programs, including joint programming for
Sustainable SouthCoast and the New Bedford environmental collaborative.

Environment Coffee
Check-in of environmental interests
Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 AM, Room 314, City Hall
Share resources, news, etc. Discuss and sign up for the New Bedford
environmental collaborative.

Tuesday, April 8 6:30 – 8 PM: Free film showing: King Corn
An amusing exploration of the culture of America’s largest crop
Web site: www.kingcorn.net
New Bedford Whaling Museum, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740