Sustainable MetroWest Gathering 2013 presentation by Alex Volfson

1. *
* Transition Framingham
* Framingham Sierra Club
* Framingham Earth Day
* Green Up Day
Community Garden Group
Environmental Education
FACES – Environmental Justice
Plarning
Disaster Preparedness
Framingham Downtown Renaissance
Plant-Based Eating Group
Good Time Cycles
Permaculture Plantings
Grounds Around Town

2. *
* Community Gardens
* Framingham’s first community gardens
* “Grounds Around Town”
* People collect coffee grounds from businesses to
compost, instead of having them go to landfills
and create methane
* Based on Ashland’s “Grounds Around Town”
* Seed Swap
* Swapped seeds and seedlings

3. *
* Framingham Earth Day
* I <3 Framingham
* Best Practices: Plan ahead, Know your
strengths and weaknesses

4. *
1. Put your sign-up sheet out EVERYTIME.
2. Advertise if you want to see people (even
the existing ones!)

5. *
* Support fledgling groups that come out of I <3
Framingham.
* Engage more people.

6. *
* An annual, local, regional gathering.
* Simple (read: will actually be used) system for sharing
resources
* Everyone’s webpage to have a page of links to groups local to
surrounding towns