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| This week in conservation JANUARY 28 - February 3, 2008 |
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| Farmers in Training program | ||||||||
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| Island Alpaca farm | ||||||||
 Sat and Sun, Feb 2 and 3, Island Alpaca farm open to the public from 11 to 4 pm |
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| Fair Isle Knitting Technique | ||||||||
| Sun, Feb 3, Fair Isle Knitting Technique, Island Alpaca Farm, 11 am to 2 pm Have your ever admired beautiful Fair Isle sweaters and wished you could make one? You can. This three-hour class will teach you how to knit with yarn in each hand; how to carry two colors across a row; and how to read a chart. Most of our work will be done in the round, but we will also work on a flat swatch so you can learn how to carry yarn over a purl row. Contact instructor, Ann Marie D'Addarie @ 508-274-9696, or Farm, @ 1-508-693-5554, or send along and email to islandalpaca@verizon.net Class Fee: $35 |
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| Tisbury Pond Club Walk | ||||||||
 Sun, Feb 3, Tisbury Pond Club Walk, The Trustees of Reservations 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m Long Point Wildlife Refuge, Winter Entrance (Deep Bottom Road), West Tisbury. Hear the tale of a special hunt club whose members yearned to keep Long Point open and wild, as we view old journals, photographs, and duck hunting equipment. A walk will uncover old duck blinds and lead us toward our wildlife viewing blind. Free to all. |
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| MV Commission Update | ||||||||
| Agricultural Commission | ||||||||
 At last November’s Agricultural Commission Workshop, there was a consensus to pursue the idea of creating an Island-wide Agricultural Commission. A working meeting to begin outlining an initiative will be held on Tuesday, January 29, at 4:00 PM at the MVC. All interested parties are invited to attend. (Information: Christine Flynn, Flynn@mvcommission.org) |
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| Sustainability Update | ||||||||
| Monsanto Says Biotech Just Beginning |
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 CREVE COEUR, Mo. - Monsanto Co. executives told shareholders Wednesday that record profits in 2007 are just the beginning, with growing acceptance of genetically engineered crops expected to deliver new business opportunities in coming decades."It's still like being back in the '60s with computers," Chief Technology Officer Robb Fraley said. "This is an industry that is very much in the beginning of its cycle." http://www.thecampaign.org/forums/ showthread.php?t=1012 |
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| Climate Change Update | ||||||||
| Climate Roadmap' targets emissions |
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| EU executive adopts blueprint for climate fight |
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| BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The European Union's executive adopted plans on Wednesday to slash greenhouse gas emissions, seeking to push the world into tough climate action, but delayed key decisions on how to soften the impact on industry. The plans will transform Europe's energy supply by 2020, with a 10-fold increase in renewable energy production in Britain for example, and raise power bills by 10 to 15 percent. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL23609671 |
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| Energy Update | ||||||||
| Drought Could Shut Down Nuclear Plants |
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| Edgartown's tale of tidal currents: Muskeget Channel energy farm |
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| On the night of Sept. 11, 2007, Karen Fuller made a dash to the airport with a Federal Express package full of papers. It's what she does, as the administrative assistant to the Edgartown selectmen and the town administrator. She meets the deadline. But this was no ordinary deadline. When that package arrived at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Washington, D.C., Edgartown had met a critical deadline by a matter of hours. http://www.mvtimes.com/news/2008/01/24/ edgartown-muskeget-channel.php |
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| Water Update | ||||||||
| Edgartown Water Pipe Speculation |
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8,000 ACRES Jan Buhrman on Martha’s Vineyard, home of many small farms. 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration's top environmental regulator faced off Thursday against Democratic senators who took turns denouncing him for blocking tailpipe emission cuts in California and more than a dozen other states.
Fri, Feb 1, Farmers in Training program for ages 10 and up offered after school at the FARM Institute. Call 508-627-7007, extension 106 for details.
Plan aims to reduce greenhouse gases
LAKE NORMAN, N.C. (Jan. 23) - Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate. 
Last week, the crew working on burying the electric lines in Edgartown dug up some old wooden water pipe about four feet down on Daggett Street. Peter Wells has a short section of it – a piece of tree trunk about a foot in diameter with a four-inch hole bored out. He said it was probably someone’s private water line, maybe coming down from a cistern farther up the hill, that might have brought water to a boat. Although it was probably well over a hundred years old, the wood was completely intact because of salt water pickling from the tidal intrusion at that depth.