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SEE is an open forum committed to making Easthampton, MA ecologically sustainable. Please read our mission statment.

Next SEE Meeting

The S.E.E. Potluck and fiesta get together!!!
Sunday, December 9, 5:30 PM

Come join your fellow E'towners!
Bring food and/or drink to share. There are many great ideas bouncing
around the group nowadays, so come celebrate and create a sustainable
earth friendly community.

11 water Lane ( bottom floor of studio behind house)

Directions—> If you are going towards holyoke on 141 take a right on
Water St. The last house on the right is Mark and Susans--that’s the
place!!

Please email back an rsvp.

Great Holiday Gift Idea: Renewable Energy Certificates!

What better holiday gift, than to give a green energy upgrade to those you care about. With renewable energy certificates (RECs), it's easy and relatively affordable too. Even if your electric utility doesn't provide a renewable energy option, RECs enable you to 'exchange' dirty, non-renewable energy with green energy. How? Renewable energy providers sell RECs representing every green kilowatt-hour they deliver to the grid, and every green kilowatt-hour displaces a dirty kilowatt-hour! So the certificate guarantees that that more renewable energy is put into the grid (and less dirty energy is produced), while the extra revenue from the RECs help subsidize the cost of green energy production, helping renewable energy producers thrive. It's like an energy karma exchange!

Submitted by Peter King on Sun, 11/26/2006 - 9:40pm.
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Welcome to the SEE website!

SEEaction is a community administered site. If you would like to contribute, create content, or you just have something pertinent you want to post, please join. You will receive a login/password via email. Once you have a password, log in and click the 'create content' menu... You will be able to administer your own blog, create site pages, add stories, discuss topics in the forum... you can even work with others collaboratively on a book! . . . So to everyone, please enjoy!

-Peter, your site admin.

Step It Up – Easthampton!

On April 14, 2007, a citizen's movement was launched. At more than 1,400 Step It Up! events all around the country, thousands of Americans called on our leaders to act immediately to stop global warming. It’s time to gather again & call louder.
On Saturday, November 3, there will be a 2nd national Step It Up! event to urge our politicians to join us in taking on the greatest challenge of our time.
Join us for STEP IT UP EASTHAMPTON! We'll start at Maple Street School @ 2 pm with a short, gas-free, people-powered parade of bikers, joggers, strollers, etc.

Submitted by seeadmin on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 8:03am.
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Easthampton's Energy and Sustainability Plan—White Paper

Easthampton's Energy and Sustainability Plan
Relocalization: A Strategy for Survival in the 21st Century

"People see an endangered species every day now when they look in the mirror. It is not about the whales anymore.”
—Robert Watson, chief scientist and director of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network of the World Bank, and Chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Next Twenty Years.

The Master Plan is a guide that sets the development parameters for the City of Easthampton for the next 20 years. As it happens, the next 20 years will also be the period of the most profound change, crisis, and yes, opportunity, in the history of the modern world. The complex and interwoven crises of climate change and peak oil will have significant impacts on our local economy in Easthampton and the Pioneer Valley region. Over the next 20 years, we will be required to restructure our economies and our way of life in order to adapt to these monumental changes.

Submitted by seegreen on Wed, 12/06/2006 - 4:40pm.
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Welcome to my blog

This is my first blog ever so I should welcome anyone who visits. So...Welcome. My SEE project is to head up the effort to determine the viability of using the rather large object in the picture at the top of this page (most commonly refered to as a "dam") to operate machinery that will cause lots and lots of very, very small objects (most commonly called electrons) to come into existence. These will then be coaxed into copper wires to help operate lots of other machines, including the one you are now looking into. If we can do this and other similar things, we will be able to reduce our national reliance on fossil fuels supplied by foreign countries friendly to some very, very bad people who want to destroy our country from outside our borders.

Submitted by Michael on Tue, 11/21/2006 - 11:52pm.
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Any questions?

Hi, I'm Peter, the SeeAction site administrator. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions:

...But you have to solve this puzzle first:

peter (at sign) seeaction (then a dot) org

Submitted by Peter King on Mon, 11/20/2006 - 10:38pm.
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