Community Outreach - Learning Events, Caring for the Earth Lawn Signs, and more

Our Community Outreach plays an important role in sharing important topics that affect us all, and how we can work together to nurture our planet for future generations. We've regularly used displays at the Post Office and Library, exhibits/booths at the Farmers Market and during Founders Weekend, various publications, letters to the editor and articles in local papers, contributing to Town plans (the Master Plan, Open Space and Recreation Plan, and the Hazard Mitigation & Climate Adaptation Plan), as well as the alternative use evaluation of the Town property on Stockbridge Road. We also collaborate with other entities in town - from the schools and the Lee Land Trust to the Chamber of Commerce, the Collge Internship Program, and the Historical Society. Even our zero-trash efforts during Founders Weekend and other special events as well as our service days involving roadside cleanups, invasives removal, and downtown garden work have educational components.

We've also donated environmental resources (books and videos) to Lee schools and the library. And this winter we're holding our second season of Learning Events - the last Saturday of the month in December 2024 and January and February 2025. The events will be held at the Lee Public Library. Our first event, which included the showing of Common Ground, a documentary about regenerative agriculture, was well attended and the movie is excellent - informative and compelling. We donated it to the library, so you others may watch it. Our second event - a multi-generational discussion -- was also well attended and included participants from AmeriCorps, Greenagers, and staff from Williamstown's Green River Farm, who are leaders and practitioners of regenerative agriculture.

Climate change is perhaps the biggest challenge to continued life on our planet. Our February event will give you the opportunity to test the impact of targeted policies and practices to mimize global warming. Here's information about it:

Our February Learning Event - climate change computer simulation

 

Last winter and spring we presented five Learning Events. The topics are listed below.

Following the theme of Caring for the Earth One Action at a Time, we've engaged with landowners who have agreed to place our lawn signs containing the image to the right on their property to help spread the world. We've also started using A-frames and banners to communicate key messages that we hope will be helpful as we strive to have Lee be more environmentally friendly and sustainable.

We'll continue to use various means for community outreach and welcome suggestions of how we could do more and do it better.