Mon, Aug 6, Guided Kayak Tour.10:00 am - 12:00 pm Join a naturalist on an exciting kayak adventure.  Pre-registration required, please call (508) 627-4850.

Mon, Aug 6, Down by the Shore, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Meet amazing creatures of the sea including crabs, whelks, and scallops! 

Tues Aug 7, Creature Feature: Birds, 10:00 am  - 11:00 am This program offers young naturalists a close-up look at native animals of Martha's Vineyard. 

Tues, Aug 7, Kayak Quest, Between 10:30 am and 2:30 pm schedule your 2.5 hr Kayak Quest  Enjoy Sengekontacket at your own pace on this self-guided tour.

Tues, Aug 7, Marine Discovery Tour, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Cruise from Oak Bluffs Harbor with Captain John and a Mass Audubon naturalist to explore the waters of Vineyard. Pre-registration required, please call (508) 627-4850.

Wed, Aug 8, Wild Wednesday - Turtles, 10:00 am - 11:00 am  Come and meet the natives

Wed, Aug 8, Guided Kayak Tour, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Join a naturalist on an exciting kayak adventure. Pre-registration required, please call (508) 627-4850.

Wed, Aug 8, Stargazing, 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Want to know more about the night sky? Join us while we explore the night sky and learn basic astronomy.   

Thurs Aug 9, Down by the Shore, 10:00 am - 11:30 am Meet amazing creatures of the sea including crabs, whelks, and scallops!   

Thurs Aug 9, Kayak Quest, Between 10:30 am and 2:30 pm schedule your 2.5 hr Kayak Quest
Enjoy Sengekontacket at your own pace on this self-guided tour.

Thurs Aug 9, Marine Discovery Tour, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Cruise from Oak Bluffs Harbor with Captain John and a Mass Audubon naturalist to explore the waters of Vineyard Sound. Pre-registration required, please call (508) 627-4850.

Fri, Aug 10, Kayak Quest, Between 10:30 am and 2:30 pm schedule your 2.5 hr Kayak Quest
Enjoy Sengekontacket at your own pace on this self-guided tour.

Sat, Aug 11, Felix Neck Trek - Explore the Shore with Justen Walker, Education Coordinator, 10:00 am - 11:00 am Join us as we explore the forest, pond, field, marsh, and seashore habitats of Felix Neck. 

Anyone who registers a car anywhere in Massachusetts can contribute to the well-being of the Island's non-profit organizations by applying for the new MV license plate. Acting together, and only together, we have an opportunity to send approximately $100,000 to Island charities each year. All it takes is to fill out a form (downloadable from www.mvdonors.org) and send it with a $40 check (payable to the Registry of Motor Vehicles) to the Martha's Vineyard Donors Collaborative. Since the $40 is in addition to the regular auto registration fee, 100% of the fee will go to Island non-profits through the new Vineyard Fund.

Contributors can request their own plate number combination, between 26 and 3,000, providing no one else has gotten to it first. We give up to three requests, to make your chances better. The web site offers tips in getting a number you want.

Your MV License plate will demonstrate to the world that you are a person who loves the Vineyard and wishes to preserve the good things of our Island life. Contact Peter Temple Peter@mvdonors.org with questions.

A book review by Marilyn Miller and Ron Zentner

THE WEATHER MAKERS
By Tim Flannery

How Man is Changing the Climate and what it Means for Life on Earth

The term “global warming” sounds benign – even, to some, like a good thing. But, as the Sustainable Book Club found out with their July selection “The Weather Makers” by Tim Flannery, it anything but. This well-written book explains the science of climate change – and why doing nothing about it should not be an option. The book club feels that this is an important book, a must read for anyone who wants to know more about, and understand the consequences of, global warming.

Go to the Sustainable Book Club section for the rest of the review

Published: August 1, 2007

On the streets of New York or Denver or San Mateo this summer, it seems the telltale cap of a water bottle is sticking out of every other satchel. Americans are increasingly thirsty for what is billed as the healthiest, and often most expensive, water on the grocery shelf. But this country has some of the best public water supplies in the world. Instead of consuming four billion gallons of water a year in individual-sized bottles, we need to start thinking about what all those bottles are doing to the planet’s health.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/
opinion/01wed2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, July 30 — A one-sentence provision buried in the Senate’s recently passed energy bill, inserted without debate at the urging of the nuclear power industry, could make builders of new nuclear plants eligible for tens of billions of dollars in government loan guarantees.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/
washington/31nuclear.html?th&emc=th

Women who live near California farm fields sprayed with organochlorine pesticides may be more likely to give birth to children with autism, according to a study by state health officials to be published today.

The rate of autism among the children of 29 women who lived near the fields was extremely high, suggesting that exposure to the insecticides in the womb might have played a role. The study is the first to report a link between pesticides and the neurological disorder, which affects one in every 150 children.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/
la-me-autism30jul30,0,6609909.story?coll=la-home-center