Sustainable South Coast

Speak up, NB, every 3rd Wednesday

carol — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:41:48 +0000

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.

Garden Night 2, Friday, June 5 (2009!)

carol — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:02:02 +0000

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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Talk with Van Jones, Green Jobs Advocate

carol — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:38:15 +0000

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contributors/van-jones/headshot.jpg
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

Music and Gardening: Green City Night, Oct. 3

carol — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:47:08 +0000

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

Biodiesel now available

carol — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:12:10 +0000

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

www.fishisland.net

Sustainable food discussion groups and workshops

carol — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:06:31 +0000

Menu for the Future - a 6 week discussion circle with readings collected and assembled by the Northwest Earth Institute exploring the connection between food and sustainability.

Introductory meeting Tuesday Sept 9th at 6:30 PM - Brix Bounty Farm, 858 Tucker Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747.
We’ll then meet for 6 Tuesdays from Sept. 23rd through Oct 28th.

More info on readings - NWEI Course Offerings - Menu for the Future

Any Questions, Please Contact Derek at 508-992-1868 or derekchristianson@gmail.com (see our blog for other happenings: http://brixbounty.blogspot.com/)

Know Your Vegetables
A Monthly Conversation Series Focusing on Small-Scale Vegetable Production.

We invite you (home gardeners, foodies, farmers, anybody who enjoys vegetables… young and old) to join us in a free discussion series on a range of topics related to vegetable production.

Monday Sept 15 – Soil Testing and Fall Cover Crops
Monday October 20 – Fall Fertilizers and Composting
Monday November 24 – Nutrient Density in Foods
Monday December 15 – Biodynamic Agriculture

January 2009 – Preparing a Seed Order and Variety Selection
February 2009 – Tools for the Vegetable Garden, Small- Scale Farm
March 2009 – Seed Starting, Greenhouses and Cold Frames
April 2009 - Sustainable Production Techniques, Row Covers and Transplanting
May 2009 – Weeds, Cultivation, and Stale Bedding

Conversations will continue into summer 2009: topics to be determined.

Discussions are held at Brix Bounty Farm. Usually 3rd Monday of the Month, 6:30 PM

For more information or to RSVP please contact us:
Derek Christianson, Brix Bounty Farm, 858 Tucker Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
Ph: 508.992.1868
http://brixbounty.blogspot.com/

Weekend Permaculture Workshop, Sept. 20-21

carol — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:32:30 +0000

Dick Pierce, SE Mass. native and permaculture instructor, will lead a 2-day introductory course offering practical training and skills in sustainable living. We will cover design principles, techniques, and mind-sets that can easily be applied to your home, workplace, and community to help you live well and joyously, in the city, suburbs, or country, but with less energy, less resource consumption, and a smaller/kinder ecological footprint.
Who: Basics for those starting out and new material for experienced hands - homeowners, renters, apartment dwellers; gardeners, organic consumers; land developers, city planners, architects, teachers, etc.. FA is on Tucker Rd., an easy drive from SE-MA, Cape Cod, Boston, RI - via Rt. I-195 or Rt. 6.

Cost: for two-day Course = $120. - $20 goes to Scholarships – for Teachers, Students, Community Coordinators, Seniors, Low Income. Please ask about giving/receiving scholarships.

Sept. 5: Grassroots Public Conversation about the Sustainability Task Force Report

carol — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:08:43 +0000

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

Meeting tonight!

carol — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:10:09 +0000

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

Agenda items anyone?
Here are a few:

Getting the full SSC mailing list in PHPlist or some other automated
list (Dave and Chuck)

Discussing do-able programming for the rest of the year (First
Fridays, film series, possible workshops, etc.)

Bumper stickers

Sustainable Southcoast response to Mayor’s Sustainability Task Force
report (I can send that via another email)

Grants

General discussion of area events, etc.

Anything else?

Welcome to Sustainable Mattapoisett

carol — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:50:16 +0000

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