[SEMCO] Shrink Your Footprint Workshop Series

[Kristin Thoms]

The Shrink Your Footprint Series returns to Buttonwood Park Zoo this
year with all new themes for events.  The Series is designed to help
everyone reduce their environmental impact, energy use, water use, and
expenses through lectures and workshops.  The first event in the series
is Eat Green on Saturday, January 17th starting at 10 AM.  This event
will focus on not only purchasing sustainably-grown and local products,
but also growing your own food.  The event will consist of a three-part
lecture and a workshop.  Andy Pollock, from Silverbrook Farms will
discuss local organic farming and the benefits of being a locavore.
Nancy Carroll, from the Bayside Restaurant, will discuss what foods at
restaurants and grocery stores are environmentally friendly and which
ones should be avoided.  The workshop will focus on growing food in
urban areas and other areas that might not seem conducive to planting.
These are all free events thanks to funding from a $5000 grant from the
Community Foundation and SEEAL.  The sponsoring agencies are: Buttonwood
Park Zoo, The Coalition for Buzzards Bay, The Marion Institute, Trustees
of Reservations, Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust, the Lloyd Center for
the Environment, Massachusetts Audubon Allen's Pond Wildlife Sanctuary,
Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance, and the Westport River
Watershed Alliance.   

 

The Eat Green event will be followed by the Buy Green event on February
21st and the Water Green event on March 21st.   

 

For more information, contact JoAnn Bernier Cornell at
jcornell at lloydcenter.org or call 508-558-2918.

 

Each Shrink Your Footprint event will be held in the Main Conference
Room at the Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford, MA. 

Address: 425 Hawthorn Street, New Bedford, MA 02740. 

 

Eat Green

Saturday, January 17 10am - Noon

Locavore ~ Urban Gardens ~ Restaurants

 

Buy Green

Saturday, February 21 10am - Noon

Household ~ Personal

 

Water Green

Saturday, March 21 10 am - Noon

Urban ~ Suburban ~ Rural

 

 

Kristin Thoms

Communications Associate

The Coalition for Buzzards Bay

620 Belleville Avenue 

New Bedford, MA  02745

508-999-6363 X207

thoms at savebuzzardsbay.org

 

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