Green Garden Tour is this Sunday!

Sunday, September 11
11 AM to 3 PM – rain or shine!
Residences throughout Belmont*
Info Table at Beech Street Center, 266 Beech St.

Sustainable Belmont is hosting its 6th Green Garden tour. This free self-guided garden tour highlights a variety of safe and healthy organic garden practices. See how gardens and gardeners in Belmont have weathered the drought. You can visit gardens and meet the residents growing everything from flowers to vegetables, raising chickens and guinea pigs, composting and keeping bees!

This year enter a chance to win a rain barrel or composter at each garden you visit. The more gardens you visit the better chances of winning!

*Garden tour maps can be picked up from the Beech Street Center at 266 Beech Street on September 11, 2016 from 11 to 3 pm or download your from our site on the morning of the tour!

No Meeting Tonight

Our regular September meeting is postponed and will not be held this evening. We will resume regular meeting schedule of 1st Wednesdays in October. Apologies for the late change. Hope to see you at the Garden Tour!

Thank you!

Thank you to Jeri Weiss, Phil Thayer, Kim Slack, Amanda Mujica, Darrell King, and Claus Becker for providing information on the new Electric Car campaign and the Green Belmont Garden Tour, as well as Public Transit information (lots of takers) at the recent Meet Belmont event. It's always encouraging to see the breadth of environmental advocacy in Belmont and to see how it has grown in recent years, as well as to connect with other groups in Belmont and find common ground.

Belmont Drives Electric!

Coming on the heels of the BelmontGoesSolar.org campaign -- the most successful solarize campaign in MA with 250 sign-ups!! -- Sustainable Belmont is helping to start the BelmontDrivesElectric campaign to launch on October 1st. Several Electric Vehicle coaches attended Meet Belmont and are available for questions. They are looking for additional volunteers, too: BelmontDrivesElectric@gmail.com.

Do you already own an electric vehicle? Belmont Drives Electric is interested in hearing from you, too. Please contact them via email to share your experience and insights.

Though the residential solar program has ended, you can still support renewable, clean energy by making the switch.

By participating in Mass Energy’s "Make the Switch" to clean energy, you purchase renewable energy and send a strong message that Massachusetts households want more renewable energy. Your donation is 100% tax deductible. See how on our homepage: www.sustainablebelmont.net

Helping Belmont to be an environmentally responsible community

Sustainable Belmont is an all-volunteer organization, originally formed as a task force by Belmont's Vision 21 Implementation Committee. We hold regular discussions, workshops and presentations to enable the community to be environmentally sustainable. Meetings and events are open to the public. You can reach Sustainable Belmont members by email: sustainablebelmont@gmail.com

Kind regards from, Kate Bowen (Chair) and John Kolterman (Adviser)

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