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Moss Brook and TGP – No Fracking Way!
Posted on behalf of Jonathan Mark, Warwick Resident I first learned that my home (for over 30 years) was targeted by a pipeline proposal that would create new infrastructure for fracked gas at a web site called NoFrackedGasInMass.org. Kinder Morgan’s … Continue reading
Strategy and Potatoes
Posted on behalf of Kelly Chen, Media Coordinator for the North Shore Team Some things I’ve done this summer don’t seem “strategic,” whatever that word means. And as green heads nipped at my skin, and mosquitos left itchy red spots, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Team Massachusetts, Team North Shore
Tagged agriculture, calm, Climate, Climate Change, community, effectiveness, efficacy, erin, farming, Food, happiness, hearty, joy, movement, Movement Building, new harmony, potatoes, reflection, strategy, sustainability, zen
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How Low (carbon) Can You Go?
Posted on behalf of Jana Wilkes, Community Outreach Coordinator, Team East From last Sunday to Thursday, Team East stayed at Janice and Steve Kurkoski’s home in Warwick, MA. Upon first inspection, the house looked like any other cute home tucked … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Team East, Team Massachusetts
Tagged #conservation, Climate Change, climate summer, community, emissions, Energy efficiency, house, Mass Save, remodeling, retrofitting, sustainability, Warwick
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Pipeline Through Our State Forest?
Written by Jana Wilkes, Community Outreach Coordinator, Teams East Last week, Team East biked through the Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest, a beautiful 1,140 acre site of forests, marsh, and ponds. We biked down Trotting Park Road and decided to walk off … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Tagged #conservation, climate summer, Dracut, environmental justice, Lowell, state parks, sustainability, Tyngsboro
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Power to the Gardening People!
Written by Rachel Eckles, Media Coordinator, Team East, written on Sunday, June 22, 2014 Saturday, June 21, a few of us rode across town to join Mill City Grows in a work day for the community gardens here in Lowell, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Tagged climate summer, community, education, Food, gardening, innovation, learning, local business, Lowell, Mill City Grows, new friends, sustainability, training, urban gardening
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Growing a Community
Written by Janice Gan, New Media Coordinator, Team Maine August 1st, 2013 Today is our fourth day in Belfast and 39th day on the road, but it’s still hard to believe that this will be our last full week in … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Team Maine
Tagged #garden, belfast, Climate Change, community, permaculture, sustainability, Transition Towns
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Living with “less”: Am I really living with less?
Written by Alexis Russell Team Eastern Massachusetts Media Coordinator I have become familiar with the expressions of shock or disbelief that follow my description of how little I have with me: less than ten articles of clothing, the bare minimum … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Team Massachusetts
Tagged climate summer, community, eastern mass, ema, Environment, Lexington, massachusetts, sustainability
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Let the Yellow Mellow
By Jamie Garuti Eastern Massachusetts team – Events Coordinator This past year, I lived in a suite with seven of my close friends in college. This meant that there were two bathrooms for eight people – … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Team Massachusetts
Tagged Activism, Climate, eastern massachusetts, easternmass, ema, empowerment, sustainability, youth
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