Today Western Mass had a great day at Puffer’s Pond getting people excited about letter writing! Shattering our goal, we had people write a total of 20 letters to State Senator Stanley Rosenberg, State Representative Ellen Story, and Governor Deval Patrick, asking for their support of 100% clean electricity in MA, and to support a bill that would phase out coal in the state by 2015. We had students representing UMass, Mt. Holyoke, Hampshire, and ARHS there.
We met a few new people who are really interested in getting involved, and are planning on going to our regional meeting this sunday, one from Amherst College, and one from Mt. Holyoke.
That’s awesome! Good for you guys.
I was one of the planners of the Puffers Pond event and had a table providing information about the use of biochar for helping reduce atmospheric CO2 and combat soil degradation. We also gathered signatures on a petition sent to the French administrators of the coal burning power plant in Holyoke, MA. This emits about 1,000,000 tons of CO2 per year and approximately 80 people signed the petition asking for a change. This was mailed to the French company as well as to the French consulate in Boston (since the French government is a principal shareholder in the company).