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| This week in conservation March 19 - 25, 2007 |
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| Speak Out About County Government | ||||||||
 Tues. March 20, 2007, 7 to 9 pmKatharine Cornell Theatre All Island residents are invited to share their ideas about county government with the Dukes County Charter Study Commission. For details, call Paddy Moore at 508-693-1627. |
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| Poultry Forum | ||||||||
 Wed. March 21, 2007, 7 pm Ag Hall, Panhandle Rd., West Tisbury. Panelists: Jim Athearn, Lynn Irons, Mitch Posin, Tom Vogl and Katherine Long. Topics: breeds, breeding, production, predation, disease, butchering, and more. Free. Refreshments. 508-693-3638. |
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| Speak Out About County Government | ||||||||
| Wed. March 21, 2007, 7 to 9 pm The Chilmark library All Island residents are invited to share their ideas about county government with the Dukes County Charter Study Commission. For details, call 508-693-1627. |
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| Nature Program: No Place Like Home (Bats) | ||||||||
 Sat. March 24, 2007, 10 to 11:30 amFelix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary About bat habitats, where you can build a bat house to take home. Cost is $20 per house for members; $30 for nonmembers. Preregister at 508-627-4850. |
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| Friends of Sengekontacket Volunteers needed to plant beach grass along Joseph Sylvia State Beach |
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 Sat. March 24, 2007, 10 to 11:30 am(if needed, Sunday March 25, 2007) 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 |
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| Electronics Disposal Day | ||||||||
 Sat. March 24, 2007, 9:00 am – 2 pmOn 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. |
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| Wind Update | ||||||||
| MVRHS Gets a Wind Turbine | ||||||||
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| Cape Wind report draws lines for battle |
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| Cape Wind Associates - the company that wants to build a wind farm on Nantucket Sound - last month filed a 5,407-page report to provide state, county and municipal agencies with the information they need to consider the company's permit applications. http://www.capecodonline.com/ cctimes/capewind14.htm |
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| Climate Change | ||||||||
| Renewing a Call to Act Against Climate Change |
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| Mercury Update | ||||||||
| Autism, mercury, and politics |
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| Water Update | ||||||||
| Edgartown Adopts Strict Regulations to Better Protect Sengekontacket Pond |
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| Expedition Update | ||||||||
| A visit with Jessieloosie | ||||||||
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Although we have the necessary resources and technology to meet most of our energy needs in the future with renewable energy, until fairly recently one key strategy has, for the most part, been overlooked in North America. This strategy involves the cooperative or collaborative installation and ownership of renewable energy projects at the local, community level. 
The MVRHS wind turbine (an ARE-442, the third in existence) was raised on the High School campus, Saturday March 10th. This 100’ wind turbine was the generous gift of Caroline (Nan) Rheault a member of the Vineyard Community, who has since, sadly, passed away.
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Some are born earnest, some achieve earnestness, and some have earnestness thrust upon them. Bill McKibben qualifies for inclusion in at least two of these wedges of humanity.
MOUNTING EVIDENCE suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of autism, attention deficit disorder, speech delays, and other childhood neurological disorders now epidemic in the United States.
New health regulations aimed at reducing groundwater contamination will result in many homeowners in Ocean Heights and Arbutus Park paying tens of thousands of dollars for new water and septic systems. 
Jessieloosie Eeshuglutak, an Inuit elder with a warm smile and sparkling eyes, invited me and Abby into a sod house by the ice-covered Pangnirtung shore. Lasaloosie built the sod house with the cooperation of the hamlet and manages it as a traditional skills school and educational center. From the outside the low house with a rounded roof is almost completely covered in snow. The only clue to the warmth inside is the condensation from the warm air escaping from the roof vent.