<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This email comments on the one I just sent, and includes interesting information, so I'm passing it along.<div>Diane<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nancy White <<a href="mailto:nancyjmwhite@gmail.com">nancyjmwhite@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 23, 2010 3:16:49 PM EST (CA)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: (list)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: Portsmouth Sustainability Fair Meeting</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div>All,<br>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)<br> <br>I'll be coming to the GREEN Home & Living Show this Sunday @ Frank Jones Center (10-5pm).<br><br>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?<br> <br>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.<br> <br>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.<br>Nancy White<br>Amherst, NH<br><br>Nancy White~owner/manager<br> Real Bodies of Amesbury~Clothing From Bali<br>35 Main Street<br>Amesbury, MA 01913<br>978-388-0839 shop<br>603-801-5407 cell<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:41 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:LFMc18@aol.com">LFMc18@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> <div>Dear Fair Friends,</div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>Please come and bring your friends and neighbors.</div> <div> </div> <div>Thank you,</div> <div>The Fair Planning Team</div></font></div> </blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>