The mission of Living Local is to enhance the quality of our lives and the vitality of our community by inspiring an Island – wide transition towards a more sustainable local economy. In the face of uncertain energy supplies and environmental change, we aim to nurture conservation of resources and local production of renewable energy, healthy food, and other necessities.

Sat, April 28th New Ag Hall
8:30 Coffee, tea and muffins
9-10:30 Presentation by Randy Udall, nationally respected energy expert, and the island’s own John Abrams on future energy supplies and building a local economy
10:30-2:30 Living Local displays, energy, food, farms, and other ideas
12:00 Solar Model Car Race
Air Conditioner and dehumidifier turn-in Call 1-800-797-6699

Collaborative of VCS, Vineyard Energy Project, and Island Grown Initiative
Questions call 508-693-9588

Working Group 11 Contribution to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report
Climate Change 2007
Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Summary for Policymakers
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf

The National Wildlife Federation has produced an excellent Gardener's Guide To Global Warming.
Go to
http://www.nwf.org/gardenersguide/
Gardners_Guide.pdf

MassDEP is seeking proposals for the §319 Nonpoint Source Pollution Competitive Grants Program. To view the Request for Responses (RFR), go to the Comm-PASS website. Search for the keyword "319." A public information session will be held at MassDEP’s Worcester Office on April 24. For details about past §319 projects, see MassDEP's Website. Proposals are due by May 31. For other grant information and workshop postings go to Cz-Mail@state.ma.us

Bob Tankard’s “Tank Talk” will feature Earth Day and VCS history and related activities, with Tess Bramhall, Brendan O’Neill, and David Nash. The show will air on Channel 13 at 7:00 PM Tues. April 17, and Thurs. April 19, at 6:00 PM.

For other listings check the MVTV website.

On Channel 76 look for the Plum TV “Morning Noon and Night Show.” They also have a segment on Earth Day which features Tess Bramhall, President of the Board at VCS. The show will be aired on Mon. April 16 at 3:00 PM, Tues. April 17, 1:00 PM, and Wed. April 18, at noon. In addition the show will air at 8 AM and 8 PM on those three days as well.

Present: Terry Appenzellar, Wendy Culbert, Melinda Loberg, Mark London, Bruce Rosinoff, Craig Saunders, Bret Stearns and Bill Wilcox

The group continued to review the goals and objectives section of the summary document beginning with the Storm water section. A number of edits were made to the wording. It was suggested that some sample projects be added to the appendix including the Oak Bluffs, Viera Park storm water project and the project at the herring Creek crossing in Aquinnah.

Please go to the Island plan section for the rest of the Water minutes.

FALMOUTH - If residents want to bring their mucky ponds back to life, they'll have to lighten the daily load of nitrogen seeping into town estuaries.

http://www.capecodonline.com/
cctimes/septicsystems12.htm

BARNSTABLE - A recent decision by the Cape Light Compact to begin discussions with Cape Wind Associates about future contracts is little more than a symbolic gesture.

The Compact, an affiliation of Cape and Vineyard towns that purchases electricity and gas on behalf of consumers, does not have the legal authority to contract directly with Cape Wind Associates. Cape Wind, still facing a daunting permitting process, has no product to sell. And if the company has secured the needed financing to build the proposed wind farm of 130 turbines in Nantucket Sound, nobody at the privately owned company is saying so.

http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/
compactto9.htm

Visitors to the Cape Cod National Seashore expect the pristine. So, it might come as a shock to tourists this summer to see signs at ponds within the park warning them not to eat any of the freshwater fish because of high levels of mercury contamination.

But they really shouldn't be surprised, because it's a region wide problem, with the fish in 10,175 lakes, ponds and reservoirs and 46,207 river miles in the six New England states and New York all under mercury contamination advisories.

http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/
statejoins12.htm

As I sit here, comfortably in the tent on Inugsuin Fiord, I am chewing on a piece of iceberg ice. We are camped next to a 30 foot tall iceberg that juts angularly out of the frozen sea. The fresh taste of the ice is quite a treat after a trip across sea ice where the snow that we collect for water often lends a slightly salty taste to the drinking experience.

The day began 21 miles away from this iceberg where we awoke to calm weather and blue skies, a change from the blizzard conditions of the evening before. My sled partner today was Will. We skied and mushed our way across various hilly drainages before a several-mile long descent to the sea ice. A musher from Clyde River, Jason Paluq, showed up to greet us on the trail and has joined us for the rest of our journey to the village.

http://www.globalwarming101.com/
content/view/746/