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october 15 -21, 2007
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In This Issue:

Local News:
Scott Lively Is Most Unlikely Farmer Green;
What’s putting some aquaculturists in a “foul “mood?

Feature:
Gas Emissions Rarely Figure in Investor Decisions

Calendar:
Flower Decorating;
Ocean Fertilization: Ironing Out Uncertainties in Climate Engineering

Save The Date:
Tisbury Village Quest Workshop - postponed

Opportunities:
WHSTEP Administrator

Nature Update:
Eider duck deaths puzzle researchers

Wind Update:
Report Mixed On Cape Wind;
The New England Wind Forum

Water Update:
More cities join anti-bottled water movement

Sustainability Update:
Cod nursery dream growing on Martha’s Vineyard
LOCAL NEWS
Scott Lively Is Most Unlikely Farmer Green
By SAM BUNGEY
Vineyard Gazette
He runs Dakota Beef from home in Edgartown.

Prepare yourself before meeting organic beef farmer Scott Lively. You may never want to eat fast food again.

“So you put the trim into a tray, dump the tray into a bucket, and every few hours that bucket gets turned into a bag of meat,” explains Mr. Lively, describing the journey of a hamburger from barn to bun.

http://www.mvgazette.com/article.php?4511

Currently MVTV is showing a video on the newest Sea Squirt invader to arrive on Martha’s Vineyard. Check out this gelatinous invasive species on Channel 13, Tues. Oct 16 @ 7PM and Wed. Oct 17 @ 6PM
What’s putting some aquaculturists in a “foul “mood?
Fouling organisms are taking their toll on marine aquaculture

Worldwide, fouling organisms such as mussels, barnacles, seaweeds and sponges, among others, have wreaked havoc on commercial and recreational marine operations, colonizing docks and pilings and the hulls of boats. Biofoulers weigh down floating docks, and can cause drag and reduce fuel efficiency in vessels. Even with the development of “state of the art” antifouling materials, most docks and boats still need to be cleaned and treated on a yearly basis.

http://www.seagrant.uconn.edu/aquafoul.pdf
http://www.seagrant.uconn.edu/squirts.pdf
Feature

Gas Emissions Rarely Figure in Investor Decisions
By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
Published: September 25, 2007
NY Times

Corporations have become better about disclosing their greenhouse gas emissions and somewhat better about curbing them. But few investors are using that information to decide where to put their money.

That was the gist of the fifth annual report of the Carbon Disclosure Project, a nonprofit group that monitors corporate disclosure related to climate change. The group, which gathers its data through surveys, represents 315 institutional investors that manage a total of $41 trillion in assets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/
business/25carbon.html

Ideal Bite
Energy Tip
Ink cartridges take eons to decompose. Recycle your old ones, and next time you buy, go with refilled cartridges, which work just like conventional ones and cost less. Saving money. Recycled cartridges cost up to 75% less than new ones. Smaller landfills. An average ink cartridge takes about 450 years to decompose. Conserving oil. Recycling an ink cartridge can save 3 qt of oil.

 

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Calendar
Flower Decorating
Tues, Oct 16, 2007
10 am-12 noon, Featherstone Center for the Arts, Barnes Rd., Oak Bluffs. Make arrangements with your own flowers with Else Membreno. Continues Nov. 17. $25. Pre-register: 508-693-1850.
“Ocean Fertilization: Ironing Out Uncertainties in Climate Engineering,”
Fri, Oct 19, 2007
A public forum hosted by Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to discuss the pros and cons of “iron fertilization” of the oceans as a means to mediate global warming. At 2:30 p.m. in the Redfield Auditorium on Water Street in the Village of Woods Hole. The forum, is a follow-up to an interdisciplinary science workshop conducted at WHOI in September. Free
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Save The Date
Tisbury Village Quest Workshop

The Tisbury Village Quest Workshop scheduled for October 25-26, 2007 has been postponed until the Spring of 2008.

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Opportunities
WHSTEP ADMINISTRATOR

Position: WHSTEP Administrator (Part-time, no benefits)

DESCRIPTION: A part-time position is available with the Woods Hole Science and Technology Education Partnership (WHSTEP). Reporting to the WHSTEP Co-Chairs, the Administrator will work in close coordination with the Executive Committee and its subcommittees to help fulfill the WHSTEP mission:

WHSTEP, established in 1989, is a partnership of schools, scientific institutions, businesses, and community resources. Its purpose is to support, promote, and expand science, math, and technology education and science literacy in the participating communities of Bourne, Falmouth, and Mashpee.

Send resume by mail to WHSTEP Search Committee, P.O. Box 487, Woods Hole, MA 02534 or by e-mail to whstep-info@whoi.edu. Deadline for applications is October 22, 2007.
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Nature Update
Eider duck deaths puzzle researchers
By Doug Fraser
STAFF WRITER
October 11, 2007
Cape Cod Times

WELLFLEET — The white sandy shore of Duck Harbor is great for beachcombing. Lobster buoys, rope, driftwood, even a sailboat wash ashore here. But among the piles of twisted eelgrass, smooth stones and jingle shells at the wrack line are scores of common eiders. Beaks open, necks in a still-sinuous curve, the wings sodden. Dead.

http://capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
article?AID=/20071011/NEWS/710110330/-1/NEWS01
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Wind Update
Report Mixed On Cape Wind
By JULIA WELLS
Vineyard Gazette

A staff report released by the Cape Cod Commission this week gives a decidedly mixed review to the controversial plan by Cape Wind Associates to build 130 wind turbines on Horseshoe Shoal. The report finds that Cape Wind’s plan to connect the turbines to land in West Yarmouth through underwater electricity transmission lines meets only eight of 32 performance standards set by the commission.

http://www.mvgazette.com/article.php?676
The New England Wind Forum
The New England Wind Forum (NEWF) announces the posting of its third New England Wind Forum electronic newsletter (PDF 1.8 MB). Through this periodic newsletter and the NEWF Web site, the NEWF has been developing a clearinghouse for objective information on wind power in New England since 2005.

http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/
windpoweringamerica/pdfs/new_england/
newf_newsletter_2007_10.pdf
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Water Update
More cities join anti-bottled water movement
Updated: 9:30 p.m. ET Oct 9, 2007
MSNBC

Production of plastic, energy needed to ship it is seen by critics as wasteful

NEW YORK - Cities around the U.S. are joining influential restaurateurs and activists in a public campaign to be launched Wednesday to convince consumers to choose tap water over bottles.

Chez Panisse restaurant, run by celebrity chef Alice Waters in Berkeley, California, has joined Corporate Accountability International and others to promote tap water as safer and more environmentally conscious.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21214017/
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Sustainability Update
Cod nursery dream growing on Martha’s Vineyard
Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 35 Number 2
October 2007
By Mark Alan Lovewell

WEST TISBURY, MA– American cod, once common in Martha’s Vineyard waters, hasn’t been fished here for years. But a group made up of Vineyard fishermen and others want to do something about that: They are talking about creating a nursery operation to raise cod for release to replenish the local population.

http://www.fish-news.com/cfn/editorial/
editorial_10_07/Cod_nursery_dream_growing_on_Marthas_Vineyard.html
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