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| This week in conservation March 3 - 9, 2008 |
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| Life Lecture | ||||||||
 Tues, March 4, Life Lecture 7 pm, Vineyard Haven library, Main St. Dr. Frederic Hotchkiss: “Starfish and the Number Five." Sponsored by V.H. Library Evening Lecture Series. 508-696-4211 ext. 16. |
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| Martha’s Vineyard Water Alliance Meeting | ||||||||
 Wed, March 5, Martha’s Vineyard Water Alliance Meeting, MV Commission, OB 12:30 PM Frank Dunkl, from Chilmark Spring Water will talk about their process. All welcome |
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| Tashmoo Spring Building | ||||||||
| Wed, March 5, Tashmoo Spring Building, Tashmoo Spring Building Preservation Committee invites everyone to discuss potential future uses for the historic building, currently undergoing restoration, at a meeting from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Tisbury Senior Center. Bring your ideas. Refreshments. For details, call 508-696-4202. | ||||||||
| Creature Feature: Owls | ||||||||
 Fri, March 7, Creature Feature: Owls, from 10 to 11 a.m. for children ages 3 to 6 with a parent/friend at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road. Cost is $9, or $6 for MassAudubon members. Registration required. For details, call 508-627-4850. |
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| Friday Conversations: Robert Culbert | ||||||||
 Fri, March 7, Friday Conversations: Robert Culbert, Friday Conversations today features Robert Culbert, who will talk about Coastal Erosion and the Oak Bluffs beaches, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Oak Bluffs Senior Center. For details, call 508-693-9771. |
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| Regulatory Revisions To Stormwater Management In MA | ||||||||
| Fri, March 7, All-Island Conservation Commissions Quarterly Planning Session Regulatory Revisions To Stormwater Management In MA, MVC Offices, OB, 12-1:30PM D.E.P.Circuit Rider Margo Clerkin will provide an overviw of regulary changes to the stormwater standards, implementation of LID techniques, and stormwater management system design. This will be of interest to anyone responsible for regulating, design, or planning for stormwater management. Please Join us, all welcome! Call 508-693-3453 with questions |
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| Nutrition Lecture | ||||||||
| Sat, March 8, Nutrition Lecture 7-8 pm, Natural Food Barn, 294 State Rd., Vineyard Haven. With Lisa Vunk. Detoxing. Weekly through May 3. Free. 508-471.3707. | ||||||||
| A CIGoGreen track | ||||||||
 Sat, March 8, A CIGoGreen track is being offered at the Cape Wellness Expo in Hyannis featuring workshops on green living and green building. (http://www.capeexpo.com/saturday.html) contact Joan C. Muller, Ed Coordinator Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve at 508-457-0495 x107 or joan.muller@state.ma.us |
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| 13th Annual Cape Cod Natural History Conference | ||||||||
| Sat, March 8, 13th Annual Cape Cod Natural History Conference, at the Cape Cod Community College West Barnstable. Dr. Fredrick H.C. Hotchkiss, Director, Marine and Paleobiological Research Institute MPRInstitute.org will be giving a short talk titled Starfish Symmetry Oddities. For information and registration go to website www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay click on Special Events and find the PDF file with registration form and conference program. The contact person is MelissaLowemlowe@massaudubon.com Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary | ||||||||
| VCS Winter Walk at North Tabor Farm | ||||||||
 Sun, March 9, VCS Winter Walk at North Tabor Farm in Chilmark starting at 1:30 pm. The walk leaders will be Matthew Dix and Rebecca Miller, the family farmers who have been farming North Tabor Farm for the last fifteen years. This 17-acre farm is a small, biodiverse enterprise, an alternative to island youth lot with an agricultural restriction. “We call it a family farm not only because we live there, but because all our kids help us with the work.” Rebecca explains. They own six acres and lease approximately eleven more to grow the mixed greens they are renown for. The pastures are home to dairy goats, laying hens, a couple of horses and sometimes a pig or two. Besides mixed greens, North Tabor Farm produces varieties of herbs, potatoes, asparagus, onions, garlic, melons, berries, shitake mushrooms and flowers. North Tabor Farm is located on North Road in Chilmark. Watch for VCS signs. Call VCS with questions 508-693-9588 |
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| Cape Wind Public Hearing | ||||||||
 Tues, March 12, Cape Wind Public Hearing, 5 PM, Martha’s Vineyard High School Auditorium, Oak Bluffs |
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| Announcement | ||||||||
| The Martha's Vineyard Times will celebrate Earth Day with an article on no-nonsense, everyday things we do to save the planet. Tell us what you do. For example Anna Marie D'Addarie, Calendar Editor, says, "I take 5 minute showers and put my watering can into the shower to capture the water as it heats up before I get in. Also, I do not buy or drink bottle water and I always use a refillable mug for my morning coffee. I changed my habits after taking the Low Carbon Diet Workshop at the Vineyard Haven Library in November." Tell us how you make a difference. Email Anna Marie at: calendar@mvtimes.com. |
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| Island Plan Update | ||||||||
| Natural Environment Core Group | ||||||||
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| MVC Update | ||||||||
| MVC study targets ways to improve permitting practices Island-wide |
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| Sustainable Book Club | ||||||||
| Coming Home to Eat |
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| Nature Update | ||||||||
| Of microbes and men |
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Bacteria disappearing from our bodies mayharm human health |
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| Fake flipper sought for sea turtle |
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 SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) -- When tourists found a 5-inch green sea turtle bloody and missing three of her flippers, the people who run a hospital for the endangered animals here gave her little chance of survival. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/ BIONIC_TURTLE?SITE=MAHYC&SECTION=HOME &TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-02-28-07-45-39 |
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| Climate Change Update | ||||||||
| Brother, can you spare a carbon credit? |
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| Sustainable Update | ||||||||
| UN Says Warming Threatens Fish Stocks |
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| Near Arctic, Seed Vault Is a Fort Knox of Food |
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| LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — With plant species disappearing at an alarming rate, scientists and governments are creating a global network of plant banks to store seeds and sprouts, precious genetic resources that may be needed for man to adapt the world’s food supply to climate change. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/ world/europe/29seeds.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin |
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We're very excited to let you know about the launch of Flat Point Poultry, a pastured broiler chicken operation starting up in West Tisbury. 
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Pesticides, heavy metals and other airborne contaminants are raining down on national parks across the West and Alaska, turning up at sometimes dangerously high levels in lakes, plants and fish. 
Mon, March 3, Beginner Knitting Class, Island Alpaca, Mitten Class from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. teaches a basic mitten using double pointed needles. At Island Alpaca. Cost is $45. For details and supplies list, call 508-274-9696 or 1-508-693-5554.
Following are the notes from the February meeting of the Natural Environment Core Group: work continues on identifying natural environment priorities as part of evaluating development and growth options.
The Martha's Vineyard Commission (MVC) recently released a comprehensive study of current permitting practices and procedures Island-wide, with a view toward identifying possible improvements for consideration by towns and the MVC.
In March Reading Gary Nabhan’s
Thinkers weigh a radical new way to reduce greenhouse gas: Give everyone an individual carbon allowance, and let the dealing begin.
PARIS (AP) — Major world commercial fish stocks could collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and over fishing, U.N. officials said Friday.