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The Amazing Monarch Butterfly: Global Stories and Local Monitoring Efforts

Online/Zoom

For hundreds of years, the residents of Michoacán, Mexico, considered the early November arrival of monarch butterflies — which coincides with their celebration of Dia de los Muertos — to represent the souls of their departed ancestors. It wasn’t until…

Online Winter Seed Sowing Demonstration

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Join the Wild Seed Project for a free online winter seed-sowing demonstration. Seed Program Manager, Emily Baisden, will demonstrate each step of sowing native seeds and talk through best practices and where to find the materials you need to do…

Silent Earth: Saving Our Insects

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Presented by and in partnership with the Massachusetts Pollinator Network, Lexington Living Landscapes, Lincoln Land Conservation Trust and Mass Audubon. Insects are vital, fascinating, weird, and wonderful. They are food, pollinators, recyclers, pest controllers, and much more, so we should be…

Climate Change and Forest Management 101

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The Woodlands Partnership of Northwest Massachusetts is hosting two mid-winter webinars focused on stewarding our forests and the services they provide amid a changing climate. Alexandra Kosiba, PhD, will present “Climate Change and Forest Management 101,” which will address how…

Electric Vehicles 101 – Webinar

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Curious about getting an electric vehicle (EV), but not sure where to start? Join Green Energy Consumers Alliance for their popular Electric Vehicles 101 webinar to learn the basics! They'll cover environmental and consumer benefits, information about batteries and charging,…

Waste or Resource?: A Panel Discussion on Wood Residue

The Woodlands Partnership of Northwest Massachusetts is hosting two mid-winter webinars focused on stewarding our forests and the services they provide amid a changing climate. On February 2 at noon, the Woodlands Partnership will host the webinar “Waste or Resource?:…

Why & How We Need to Protect Our Streams with Michael Jastremski

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Climate change, development, and the decisions of individuals and communities have led to unprecedented stress on streams and on the flora and fauna that depend on them to survive. Mike will talk about how our streams are connected to Long…

Making Reparations: Seeding a Just Future

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As the 50th anniversary of the book Small is Beautiful, 2023 is our opportunity to advance solutions to today's social, economic, and environmental challenges that build on Schumacher’s original vision. To meet this calling, the Schumacher Center is convening a…

Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: Fair and Stable Utility Pricing

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Local Energy Advocates Western Mass is excited to present Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on Tuesday, February 21 at 7 PM. She will address the recent rise in electricity prices and discuss her recently introduced bill, HD 3253, An Act to Provide Fair…

Lawns to Meadows – Transforming Our Lawn series

16 Court Square 16 Court Square, Greenfield, MA, United States

Owen Wormser will share stories from his experience creating meadows throughout New England over the past 20 years, with details on how to establish and maintain a thriving habitat for bees, other pollinators, and birds. DATE: Thursday, February 23 TIME:…

To Understand A Tree Webinar

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In this webinar, multi-disciplinary collaborators will discuss their year-long study of the dignity of a living red oak, its network of eco-systemic relationships, and the ubiquity of the material of wood in design and daily life. The project is led…

Bats of Massachusetts

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Learn about the different bats that live in Massachusetts and where they go during the winter. Join Elise Stanmyer, a wildlife biologist with the DCR-DWSP, to discover where and how bats hibernate or migrate and about current threats bats face…

Tree Talk Tuesdays: Ash and Basswood

Online

Join VLT forester Caitlin Cusack to learn to distinguish between ash, basswood, and their look-alikes and discuss the future of these trees in a changing climate. DATE: Tuesday, February 28 TIME: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM LOCATION: Online »REGISTER HERE« COSTS: Free, but…

Heat Pumps: “What Can I Do?” webinar series

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As the climate crisis worsens, many people are asking: What can I do? Where to begin? Try attending one — or all! — of Elders Climate Action (ELA) monthly "What can I do?" webinars. At their March webinar all about…

Gardening for Wildlife in an Era of Climate Change

Online

The evidence is clear: Climate change is here! The effects that scientists have long predicted are occurring and will only intensify in the coming years. What does this mean for our native flora and fauna? And what can one homeowner…

Mustelids with Nathan Buckhout – Berkshire Green Drinks (hybrid event)

Shire Breu-Hous 63 Flansburg Ave, Dalton, MA, United States

MassWildlife biologist Nathan Buckhout will present at the March Berkshire Green Drinks gathering on Wednesday, March 8, at 6:00 PM in person at Shire Breu-Hous inside The Stationery Factory, 63 Flansburg Ave, Dalton, MA, and online via Zoom. Nathan will…

Gardening with Native Plant: Why & How

Online

This talk is about the current biodiversity crisis; the evolutionary history among native plants, insects, birds and fungi, and how these interdependent relationships among diverse species are necessary for their survival. Amy Meltzer will show how growing native plants and using ecological landscape…

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