Living Green

Panel Discussion to Provide Tips for an Energy-Efficient, Environmentally-Friendly Home

April 6, 2006

CONTACT:

John Vasconcellos, The Coalition for Buzzards Bay

508-999-6363, ext. 202; vasconcellos@savebuzzzardsbay.org

Callum Grieve, Marion Institute

NEW BEDFORD, MA—The Coalition for Buzzards Bay and the Marion Institute invite the public to join them for the next presentation in the Global Warming: What Can We Do? lecture series on Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 7:00 – 9:00 pm at The Coalition for Buzzards Bay, 620 Belleville Avenue, New Bedford.

Will Saltonstall, Principal of Marion-based Saltonstall Architects, Marissa Perez-Dormitzer, Recycling Coordinator for the

Greater New Bedford Regional Refuse Management District, and Robert Hancock of Energy Star Homes, an EPA-sponsored program that promotes energy-efficient homes, and Nick Novick from Small Planet Landscaping in Ashland will provide an update on current challenges and solutions to a more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly home.

Admission is free to members of The Coalition for Buzzards Bay and/or the Marion Institute.  Charge per lecture for non-

members is $5.  Senior or student non-member charge per lecture is $3.

For more information, contact The Coalition for Buzzards Bay at 508-999-6363 or the Marion Institute at 508-748-0816 or

visit www.savebuzzardsbay.org or www.marioninstitute.org.

The final presentation in the Global Warming: What Can We Do? series will be held on Wednesday, May 3, 2006 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Award-winning actress Lisa Harrow and her husband, internationally renowned whale biologist Roger Payne, will present a performance piece entitled "Lessons from Copernicus" at Falmouth Academy in  Falmouth.

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The Coalition for Buzzards Bay is a private, non-profit membership organization dedicated to the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of Buzzards Bay and its watershed. The organization works to improve the health of the Bay ecosystem for all through education, conservation, research and advocacy and is supported by more than 4,700 members.

Founded in 1992, the Marion Institute seeks to engage the widest possible number of people in seeing, connecting and participating in new ways that best support their own lives, and those of the wider community at large. We believe in the interdependence of all life and the critical balance necessary for a sustainable future.