09.08.08
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more like this >Permaculture - A Design Course on Sustainable Living on MV in Sept.
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Publicity/sound bytes abound these days on: Green living, local food, concerns over climate, water and soil, using more local/renewable resources, alternate transportation, and Green/natural building. Designing/remodeling homes, landscapes and whole communities for lower resource use, more recycling and reuse, less oil-based transportation, and more local businesses, employment, products, and food production are becoming more important to the economy, the environment, and human welfare. Sustainable Strategy efforts are springing up for cities/towns, schools, colleges, open spaces, farms, and neighborhoods.

Posted By: DickPierce
Categories: Architecture Community Education Energy Farming Food Gardening gardening Housing Land Use sustainable
more like this >Island Home - Why People Come to Martha's Vineyard and Why They Stay (2008)
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Why do people who have created successful lives elsewhere choose to live on an island?

Posted By: elainepace
Categories: Artisans Education home island
more like this >Vineyard Author Reaches Children, Bonobos and the Environment

"I’m Lucy: A Day in the Life of a Young Bonobo" is composed of caring words by Mathea Levine (Chilmark), astonishing photographs by Marian Brickner and a heartfelt afterword by Jane Goodall has trul

Posted By: julieroads
Categories: Arts conservation Education kids Nature Recycling Young People
more like this >Native Earth Teaching Farm

Native Earth Teaching Farm is a wonder not just for its animals and its vision of farming. That alone would be a rich resource for islanders and seasonal residents and visitors.

Posted By: editor
Categories: Community Education Farming Food Gardening Land Use Native Earth Teaching Farm Rebecca Gilbert
more like this >The FARM Institute with Melinda Rabbit DeFeo

Local food production shows us how all of the things on the farm, — people, animals, plants, dirt, micro-organism, sun and air — are all interconnected.

Posted By: editor
Categories: Community Education Farming Food Land Use Local Food Melinda DeFeo The FARM Institute
more like this >Food For Well-Being with Elizabeth Germain

Elizabeth Germain has been offering classes on the preparation of fresh local foods for many years.

Posted By: editor
Categories: Community Education Elizabeth Germain FARM Insitute Farming Food Gardening Slow Food
more like this >The FARM Institute: Local Nourishment
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When you go to Katama Farm you will learn hands on about community agriculture. Visit The FARM Institute's web site for more information.

Posted By: jbitner
Categories: Agriculture Education Farm Farming martha's vineyard The FARM Institute