8 Deceember 2011
Quinebaug Valley Greens Local
Meeting at the Joshua Hyde Library , Sturbridge, MA
Attendees: Maureen Doyle, Matt Maselli, Gus Steeves, Daphne Stevens
A recommended book about Local Food: The Town that Food Saved by Ben Hewitt
Rules for Radicals by Saul Elinsky
Chicken Update: The Planning Board of Southbridge , MA is sending a recommendation to the Southbridge Town Council to update the by-laws to include backyard chicken raising; the recommendation says: 6 hens, in an enclosure, on one acre of land, with their poop in a container. The Town Council will debate it and send it back to the Planning Board for revisions.
--Gus has written an article for the S. Evening News about the ongoing saga of chicken rearing with in the town
Update on Growing Places Garden Project in Clinton, MA: daphne did contact them but has not heard from them yet
Letter to endorse Jill Stein: Daphne and Gus will send the letter written in the last meeting and Maureen will send her own.
Suggestions for Better Meetings: Matt gave us some suggestions based on his experiences doing community organizing in New Haven, CT (a much larger city). He told us of some success stories (including keeping guns out of a local KMART) and then suggested two approaches: a house party (with one single goal; place large sheets of paper around the room with ideas of ways to reach that one goal; people can stand by the sheet they like and the methods can be narrowed that way (by eliminating the sheets where no one is standing)) or individual meetings with people from larger meetings. (This is a good way to get to know people and to build up trust. He did mention that his experience was with one overseeing paid organizer (who works at it for 40-60 hours a week).
Green Communities Update: The Town of Sturbridge shot down the Green Communities designation based
on several vocal people who talked about the increase in housing requirements. L
Next meeting: we will meet after the holidays on Thursday, December 29th, at Joshua Hyde Library at 11am
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
17 November 2011
Quinebaug Valley Greens Local
Meeting at the Joshua Hyde Library , Sturbridge, MA
Attendees: Maureen Doyle, Gus Steeves, Daphne Stevens
Daphne heard about Americanselect.org, a group that wants a 3rd candidate for President of the US. We talked about this in light of Jill Stein’s run for President.
Growing Places Garden Project in Clinton, MA: a non-profit whose mission s to “improve food security and provide nutrition”. Would they be interested in pairing with us to gain chickens and chicken ownership?
---growing places.org
--Daphne will research this
Sierra Club has a list of things needed for a town to attain the green designation
Map your neighborhood: this will enable people to share resources (like chain saws, looking out for handicapped folks, sharing/looking out for propane tanks, etc.)
--Kevin wrote an article about this in the Southbridge Evening News
Legislature bill about creating local energy supplies
Letter to Durant (that we worked on last meeting, regarding agriculture programs in more schools)
--Gus sent the letter already
--Durant has office hours at the Southbridge town hall tonight and we will talk to him about it
Jill’s Campaign
As everyone knows, fellow Green Jill Stein is running for president of the country. As a green chapter, we talked about sending a letter to the editor in support of his run. It would go something like this:
“We can’t afford to allow the ‘powers that be’ to keep running the show because they will drown us. That is why we support Jill in her efforts. However, the issues are SO critical (climate change, pollution, global economics, political corruption, world unrest, rapidly multiplying extinctions, and overpopulation) that we NEED to have someone with national and international recognition who is willing to fight for these as life-affirming priorities. Both Democrats and Republicans are wholly owned subsidiaries of corporation America who no longer represent what the people and the planet need.”
--send to the Boston Globe, SEN, T&G, Turley, Herald
TO DO:
Daphne: Research the Growing Places (see above)
Gus: Can you locate Kevin’s article about mapping your neighborhood?
Maureen: Ask Durant if he received Gus’s email; what does he think? DONE Gus resent the letter to him on 12/7/2011
Quinebaug Valley Greens Local
Meeting at the Joshua Hyde Library , Sturbridge, MA
Attendees: Maureen Doyle, Gus Steeves, Daphne Stevens
Daphne heard about Americanselect.org, a group that wants a 3rd candidate for President of the US. We talked about this in light of Jill Stein’s run for President.
Growing Places Garden Project in Clinton, MA: a non-profit whose mission s to “improve food security and provide nutrition”. Would they be interested in pairing with us to gain chickens and chicken ownership?
---growing places.org
--Daphne will research this
Sierra Club has a list of things needed for a town to attain the green designation
Map your neighborhood: this will enable people to share resources (like chain saws, looking out for handicapped folks, sharing/looking out for propane tanks, etc.)
--Kevin wrote an article about this in the Southbridge Evening News
Legislature bill about creating local energy supplies
Letter to Durant (that we worked on last meeting, regarding agriculture programs in more schools)
--Gus sent the letter already
--Durant has office hours at the Southbridge town hall tonight and we will talk to him about it
Jill’s Campaign
As everyone knows, fellow Green Jill Stein is running for president of the country. As a green chapter, we talked about sending a letter to the editor in support of his run. It would go something like this:
“We can’t afford to allow the ‘powers that be’ to keep running the show because they will drown us. That is why we support Jill in her efforts. However, the issues are SO critical (climate change, pollution, global economics, political corruption, world unrest, rapidly multiplying extinctions, and overpopulation) that we NEED to have someone with national and international recognition who is willing to fight for these as life-affirming priorities. Both Democrats and Republicans are wholly owned subsidiaries of corporation America who no longer represent what the people and the planet need.”
--send to the Boston Globe, SEN, T&G, Turley, Herald
TO DO:
Daphne: Research the Growing Places (see above)
Gus: Can you locate Kevin’s article about mapping your neighborhood?
Maureen: Ask Durant if he received Gus’s email; what does he think? DONE Gus resent the letter to him on 12/7/2011
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