The Farm Institute is delighted to announce After School Programs 6 days a week! That’s Right! Monday through Saturday we are offering programs for students K – 8 and WE PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION (Mon – Fri)! Programs are for 8 weeks. Sessions begin 4/7. Register early to secure a bus seat!

We now provide transportation! Don’t let your child miss out on the opportunity to spend an afternoon outdoors! Care for newborn lambs! Learn fiber crafts! Dig in the garden!

Transportation is provided from school to FARM Time: After school – 5:30 PM

Interested?
Contact: Nora Kennedy, Education Manager, The FARM Institute 508-627-7007 or nora@farminstitute.org After school – 5:30 pm.

Each of the first five work groups of the Island plan have established two preliminary sets of goals. The first are short term actions that are ready to implement during the next few years and the second are long term initiatives. One example of a long term initiative being promoted by the Livelihood and Commerce work group is the establishment of a community-owned electric utility. Here is a brief description:

COMMUNITY–OWNED LOCAL ELECTRIC UTILITY
As an island, we could improve things in many ways if we had a community-owned electric utility.

Go to Island Plan for the rest of the description, as well as the Energy and Solid Waste work group update.

An island wide community owned public electrical utility is an option the island of Martha’s Vineyard must investigate if Martha’s Vineyard really wants to become a “renewable energy island”. We need to make the energy we use and not have to depend on the mainland for virtually all our energy needs.

Go to the Energy Section for the rest of the article.

Scientists say Europe may face intensified storms
Retreating Antarctic glaciers threaten sea levels

Rapidly thinning Arctic sea ice may have reached a tipping point that threatens to disrupt global weather patterns, bringing intense winter storms and heavier rainfall to western Europe, scientists warn today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/
science/story/0,,2035521,00.html

New wastewater disposal regulations for the Ocean Heights and Arbutus Park subdivisions approved by the Edgartown board of health last week are intended to create safer drinking water and a healthier Sengekontacket Pond. Homeowners in those neighborhoods, however, are not convinced the regulations will do either.

http://www.mvtimes.com/news/
2007/03/22/edgartown_health_rules.php

Don Hatch, the manager of the Martha's Vineyard Refuse District, reports some good news on Mercury collection for island residents. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 9AM - 2 PM people can drop off their old thermostats and thermometers at the Edgartown Transfer Station at 750 West Tisbury Rd., Edgartown. Check in with the attendant at the scale house for specific directions as to where to deposit these items. The first 20 people will receive a free digital thermometer.

For the rest of the story go to Household Hazardous Waste, under Recycling section. Also check out the new ’07 Schedule for Household Hazardous Waste Days.

Part of an email sent by Abby's mother Sandy Fenton:
The team on Baffin Island are pinned down by incredible winds up to seventy miles an hour with blowing sand. They had a very difficult day on Sunday haling their 1000+ lb sleds up a waterfall and over boulders but lived to tell about it! Sunday night they evidently had a hard time holding on to their tents. Let's hope last night was better.

Yesterday there was no hope of sending out a text and photo dispatch. Winds were gusting up to 70 miles per hour. It was impossible to walk outside without being blown down the glare ice of the river. Our tents were shredding, cords breaking, tent poles snapping, and blowing sand and snow was finding its way into every nook and cranny. On my watch, the graph of the barometric pressure plummeted for twenty-seven straight hours, indicating a storm of great intensity.

http://www.globalwarming101.com/
content/view/640/