December 3, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Join Housatonic Valley association for their annual meeting featuring David Vallee, the Hydrologist-in-Charge of the National Weather Service’s Northeast River Forecast Center. They will also be celebrating watershed heroes, Bob Valentine and Xinyi Shen. RSVP…
December 7, 2:00 p.m. Organized by: Sierra Club Massachusetts and Union of Concerned Scientists Massachusetts is considering adopting the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) Rule that, if adopted, will increase the percentage of clean, zero-emission trucks sold in Massachusetts leading to…
December 2, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. For decades, the beverage industry made promises to improve bottle and can recycling programs. But it broke those promises. Instead, Big Beverage has done everything in its power to keep our failed recycling systems in place and…
Friday, December 3 @ 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. If you haven't yet enjoyed one of ELA's fall conferences, you have one more chance! Join us for the 6th annual Ecological Plant Conference as we delve into five plant-centric topics to educate,…
Saturday, January 1st Join a team and welcome the new year with some winter birding! Contact Rene Wendell to sign up or for more information about time and place. Contact info: (413) 429-5025; renewendell@hotmail.com
Coming in August 2014 - Beats 4 BEAT Celebration and Fundraiser! On Sunday, August 17th, at First Church of Pittsfield. Pastor James Lumsden is organizing another wonderful afternoon of blues, jazz, rock, and soul music to benefit BEAT. Last year,…
We have the most wonderful volunteers! Thank you all for helping cleanup the river! We could not do nearly so much without you as part of the Team. You can see photos from this year's cleanups on BEAT's Facebook…
Our June 19th river cleanup was a great success. Our next river cleanup will meet at Fred Garner Park on Pomeroy Ave in Pittsfield at 8:30 am. We plan to cleanup from the confluence of the Southwest and West branch…
River Cleanup of June 19, 2010 We met at Fred Garner Park on Pomeroy Ave in Pittsfield. Here is a google map of the location. Some people cleaned from land. The rest carpooled to Fairfield Street to clean the river…
Berkshire BioBlitz at the Pittsfield State Forest - June 4&5, 2010 Jane Winn from BEAT had the honor of officially starting BioBlitz at noon by blowing a loud blast on a conch shell. ("I knew I played trombone in high…