Sustainable South Coast

Environment Coffee is a monthly check-in and information sharing hour for environmental interests in New Bedford.

Join us!

Room 314, City Hall
133 William Street, downtown New Bedford
7:30 AM (yes, morning) to 8:30 a.m.

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Come speak with Van Jones at a small community meeting.

Thursday, Oct. 23
1 pm
Downtown New Bedford Library, 3rd Floor,
William Street, across from City Hall

Van Jones is Founder and President of Green For All
He is working to combine solutions to America’s two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Launched at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, Green For All grew out of Van’s work creating a ‘Green Job Corp’ in Oakland, California, as part of a program at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Van founded the Center in 1996, which promotes alternatives to violence and incarceration, including its successful “Books Not Bars” campaign that has helped reduce California’s overall youth prison population by more than 30 percent.

Sponsored by
The Marion Institute
The New Bedford Environmental Council
NewB Green/Verde
Sustainable SouthCoast
Old Bedford Village Development Corporation
Wasted Away

Vegetable oil based diesel is now sold at Fish Island in New Bedford, next to the Fish Island gas station

www.fishisland.net

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

Call if lost, late, etc.: 978-760-0034
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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.

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.

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