Sat. March 24, 2007, 9:00 am – 2 pm
On the campus of MVCS
111 Edgartown Rd., Oak Bluffs (Across from the High School)
Bring you old and tired computers, monitors, televisions, printers, notebooks, copiers, scanners, air conditions, stereo equipment, dehumidifiers, cell phones, microwaves, small refrigerators, fax machines. No charge for mice and keyboards. Discounts for car loads. Disposal off-Island in an environmentally friendly way.

All proceeds will benefit technology upgrades for MVCS Complete information available in the Pressroom of www.mvcommunityservices.com.

Friends of Sengekontacket
Volunteers needed to plant beach grass along Joseph Sylvia State Beach

Date: Sat. 24, 2007 (if needed, Sunday March 25, 2007)
Time: 2 shifts ---9AM to Noon and Noon to 3PM
Location: 4 groin area near the Little Bridge, Oak Bluffs
Contact: Debby Lewis luvmvi@aol.com or 508-693-1599

In March Reading Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire
Discussion March 27, 5:30 pm at the Felix Neck Visitor’s Center
Please join this island-wide book group, reading and discussing books that examine our relationship with nature. The group is sponsored by all six island libraries, Felix Neck Sanctuary, Polly Hill Arboretum and The Vineyard Conservation Society.

Go to the SBC site to see the new brochure of book listings as well as a piece by E.O. Wilson.

The movement and transformation of carbon in the ocean have large climate implications

Carbon makes the world go around. It is the building block of life on Earth, and in the form of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere, it has a powerful impact on the planet’s climate. In the process, carbon also goes around the world and through the oceans—in a complex cycle that, until recently at least, the Earth has kept in balance.

http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/
viewArticle.do?id=19466&sectionid=1000

NILAND, Calif. — The idea of replacing crude oil with algae may seem like a harebrained way to clean up the planet and bolster national security. But Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones and her husband, David Jones, are betting their careers and personal fortunes that they can grow masses of the slimy organism and use its natural photosynthesis process to produce a plentiful supply of biofuel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/
business/07algae.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

In the war over plans to build a wind farm on Nantucket Sound, a new battle has erupted.

Joining the fray are individuals and groups who say they are undecided about the Cape Wind proposal to build 130 turbines over 24 square miles on the Sound. One issue unites them: They say the 30-day public comment period following the company's filing of an environmental impact report with the state last month is not long enough.

http://www.capecodonline.com/
cctimes/moretime7.htm

Traveling over sea ice is nothing at all like the skating rink I used to know in Boston. There the ice was smooth and flawless, made perfect by the zambonie several times a day. Out here the ice is jumbled in some places - each pile making it's own sculpture against the blue sky. In other places the ice is covered in snow, packed hard by the wind, and carved out into ripples and small canyons.

http://www.globalwarming101.com/
content/view/583/