In June, interested homeowners, businesses, and contractors will have an opportunity to learn first hand how to properly site, specify, permit, and install a residential scale wind energy system by participating in week long workshop organized by Cape & Islands Self-Reliance.

WHERE AND WHEN?
This six-day apprentice-level workshop will take place from Monday, June 18 through Saturday, June 23, 2007 in Harwich, Massachusetts. The workshop classes will take place at the Cape Cod Regional Technical High School, and the hands-on installation will be at a near-by residence. The installation will feature a grid-connected 2.5 kW Tulipo™ turbine that will be mounted on a counter-balanced, tilt-up, mono-pole tower.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
*Renewable energy practitioners looking to learn more about wind siting and installation*People who are interested in small-scale wind systems or getting into the renewable energy field *Home, farm, and business owners who are thinking about purchasing and/or installing a small wind system *Students and Teachers of sustainable energy topics

REGISTRATION
On-line registration and more information can be found on Self-Reliance’s website www.reliance.org or by calling 508.563.6633. Cost of workshop is $650, which includes continental breakfast and lunch each day, comprehensive handouts, and a textbook (“Wind Power” by Paul Gipe)

The Woods Hole Research Center has a Research Associate position open with responsibilities in remote sensing and programming for analyzing and monitoring land-use change and informing ecosystem models applied to research on stream ecosystems, parks and protected area management, and ecosystem responses to climate change. The work is focused in the North America, including Alaska. The position will support projects related to the use of land cover and landscape change information in ecosystem models to assess hydrologic runoff and plant productivity. The successful candidate will be expected to process and manipulate spatial data sets, develop algorithms and source code as needed, Q&A results, and work within a group setting to conduct model simulations, analyze and synthesize results, assess accuracy/uncertainties, present results, including verbal presentations and assistance with reports, publications, and web material, and other tasks as agreed upon in the course of the research.

To apply, EMAIL cover letter, curriculum vitae, and contact information for three references to jobsearch@whrc.org. Application deadline: June 8, 2007. For more information see http://whrc.org/about_us/jobs.htm

Thurs, May 17, Living Local Day will be featured on the Plum TV, Morning Noon & Night show, Channel 76 at 8AM. This segment will also be aired at 8PM that night and everyday for the rest of the week at 8AM and again at 8PM.

To Energy/Waste Work Group Members

Here are the minutes from last week's meeting of the core group. It is meeting again this week to specifically discuss how to most effectively involve the full Work Group in an overall review of the work drafted thus far.

The Island Plan Steering Committee is also working on having the topic of each of the five Work Groups be discussed among the entire Island community for rotating two-week blocks. Energy/Waste scheduled for June 30 through July 13, with a public forum on July 11. More detail to come.

Go to the Island Plan section to read the Energy/Waste work group minutes.

BELTSVILLE, Md. (May 3) - Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet.

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/
_a/honeybee-die-off-threatens-us-food/
20070502195509990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

Although no one can pinpoint the cause, regulators, scientists and fishermen agree that there are not as many lobsters as there used to be in the coastal waters.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/
pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070506/NEWS/705060352

A quarter of the world's oceans will be protected from fishing boats which drag heavy nets across the sea floor, South Pacific nations have agreed.

The landmark deal will restrict bottom-trawling, which experts say destroys coral reefs and stirs up clouds of sediment that suffocate marine life.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
science/nature/6627425.stm

Day after day, children are riding to school on aging buses, breathing what some activists say is a dangerous brew of pollutants.

State officials around the country are struggling to find the money to carry out initiatives to reduce emissions on school buses. And Congress has yet to deliver on the $1 billion over five years it promised in 2005 to help states clean up diesel fleets, including school buses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/
us/06bus.html?ex=1336104000&en=3cdb3a91f05b7084
&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Does the time of year in which a child is conceived influence future academic achievement? Yes, according to research by neonatologist Paul Winchester, M.D., Indiana University School of Medicine professor of clinical pediatrics. Dr. Winchester, who studied 1,667,391 Indiana students, presents his finding on May 7 at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/
2007/05/070507071813.htm

There can be no fashion-consciousness when you skin is burning. Ever since we left Clyde River the sun has been relentless. It rises well before we wake and doesn't set until we are fast asleep. It reflects off all the white snow and ice and burns even the undersides of our noses and under our chins. Each one of us has his or her own methods for trying to protect our skin. Stetson, Abby and I slather on the zinc oxide sunblock and don baseball caps and bandanas. We joke that with the thick white paste on our faces we look a bit like geishas or clowns. One day when my zinc layer was especially thick, Stetson asked if I was trying to scare away the polar bears.

http://www.globalwarming101.com/
content/view/852/88889017/