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 Both Democrats and Republicans are wholly owned subsidiaries of corporation America who no longer represent what the people and the planet need.”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