[CoolCommunities] Fwd: Portsmouth Sustainability Fair Meeting

[Diane Brandon]

This email comments on the one I just sent, and includes interesting  
information, so I'm passing it along.
Diane

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Nancy White <nancyjmwhite at gmail.com>
> Date: February 23, 2010 3:16:49 PM EST (CA)
> To:  (list)
> Subject: Re: Portsmouth Sustainability Fair Meeting
>
> All,
> Just wondering if someone or you (?Laurie) have the vendor list yet,  
> and the questions that you would be asking them for inclusion into  
> the Sustainability Fair, as I'd like to contact them for the  
> Amesbury Sustainability Festival....planned for May 15 (week after  
> Portsmouth's May 8)
>
> I'll be coming to the GREEN Home & Living Show this Sunday @ Frank  
> Jones Center (10-5pm).
>
> Since this is the first GREEN home show for Portsmouth (and NOT the  
> Sustainability Fair), I'm wondering if the same vendors will be  
> present, if you know this.....or do you think there would possibly  
> be vendors at the Green show this weekend who might not be aware of  
> the Natural Step approach to sustainable items/actions taking place  
> at the Sustainability Fair?  (ie: 'Green Washing' in full force?)  I  
> just get leery of these kind of 'organized' shows put on by other  
> organizations which, while well-meaning, may not be coming from a  
> common place, so I just needed to say this to 'someone' who is  
> planning P Sustainability Fair ... from the grassroots such as this  
> group.  One of the sponsors is Green Alliance, and don't know if the  
> same people are involved with this endeavor as has been working with  
> TNS.  Could it be that the success of the Portsmouth Sustainability  
> Fair is what has led to THIS Green Home Show?
>
> I had occasion to speak with Van Jones last night, since he was  
> speaking at Phillips Exeter Academy; when asked if he knew about The  
> Natural Step for Communities, he did say he knows of this & it is  
> making a difference, and to keep up this good/grand work!  (He was  
> broadly making a beautiful smile as he said this!)  Also to let you  
> know that at the discussion afterwards with Catherine Corkery  
> (Sierra Club, Concord) that several folks present spoke about the  
> work of SEAREI.....myself included.  Jennifer Wilhelm from Exeter  
> (in charge of Sustainability program @ PEA) had organized Van Jones  
> visit.  Don't know if this could make a difference in attendance,  
> but to have someone such a Van Jones present at the Sustainability  
> Fair would be a GRAND EVENT/BLESSING!  and I would imagine that  
> Jennifer from Phillips Exeter could be the contact for this if  
> someone were to pursue it with her for the Fair.
>
> Thanks for reminder about this meeting, and depending on snowfall  
> amounts in the next couple of days, it will depend on whether I get  
> to this meeting or not.
> Nancy White
> Amherst, NH
>
> Nancy White~owner/manager
> Real Bodies of Amesbury~Clothing From Bali
> 35 Main Street
> Amesbury, MA 01913
> 978-388-0839 shop
> 603-801-5407 cell
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:41 PM, <LFMc18 at aol.com> wrote:
> Dear Fair Friends,
>
> This is just a quick reminder that there is a Fair Meeting Wednesday  
> night, February 24, 2010, 7:00 to 9:00 PM in the Portsmouth High  
> School Library.
>
> Please come and bring your friends and neighbors.
>
> Thank you,
> The Fair Planning Team
>





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