Imagine: Fewer cars in Southie...how is this possible?

On September 27, please join us for a very special Planet Southie meeting focusing on alternative transportation issues and solutions, including safety and access. Clarification: this is not an effort to ban cars. The goal is to increase safe reliable transportation options. Also, many of the people involved in this effort are South Boston natives; others are newcomers. All are welcome.

Join your neighbors and elected officials to discuss improving bus, walking and biking options for our neighborhood. This will include discussion of access for disabled persons.

With development booming, now is the time to come together and plan!

Thursday, September 27 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at the Distillery Building, 516 E 2nd St. Meeting will be in the main Distillery office, which is handicap accessible (across the parking lot from our regular meeting room).

Meeting Agenda:

1) 6:00-6:30 pm - Welcome/Intros/Goals for Meeting

2) 6:30-7:00 - Bus Access
- Issues
- Solutions
- Action Steps

3) 7:00-7:30 - Walking Safety and Access
- Issues
- Solutions
- Action Steps

4) 7:30-8:00 - Biking Safety and Access
- Issues
- Solutions
- Action Steps

If you would like to get involved in planning and/or promoting the meeting, please email us at planetsouthie@gmail.com.

Snacks will be provided!

As always, all are welcome at Planet Southie!

Check out the most recent issue of our "Plug in Southie" e-newsletter here.

Upcoming Planet Southie Meetings: Schedule

We meet every fourth Thursday from 6:30 - 7:30 pm* at the Distillery Building, 516 E 2nd St*.

Meet green-minded neighbors and find out how to get involved in various local green projects. We are planning a series of community information sessions and need your help! All are welcome!

Upcoming Planet Southie Meetings:

• Thursday, July 26, 2012
• Thursday, August 23, 2012
• Thursday, September 27, 2012 *Note special extended time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Topic: Alternative Transportation
• Thursday, October 25, 2012
• November meeting falls on Thanksgiving and will be rescheduled
• Thursday, December 27, 2012

*Meeting Location: The Distillery Building, 516 East 2nd Street.: If you walk in the yard, enter the door of the building to your left, a low brick building that says Honeywell on it (across the parking lot from the Distillery residences).  The office is right around the corner and you should be able to see people through a large picture window before you get there. If you get lost, call Fred at 617-821-2429

Lilies gracing Carson Beach

Next meeting is Thursday, June 28

Join us June 28 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm for our monthly meeting*. Meet green-minded neighbors and find out how to get involved in various local green projects. We are planning a series of community information sessions and need your help!

*Meeting Location: The Distillery Building, 516 East 2nd Street.: If you walk in the yard, enter the door of the building to your left, a low brick building that says Honeywell on it (across the parking lot from the Distillery residences).  The office is right around the corner and you should be able to see people through a large picture window before you get there. If you get lost, call Fred at 617-821-2429

This Month's Newsletter: Greenhouses, Gardens, and Family Fun!

Click here to check out this month's eNewsletter: Plug in Southie!

May 24 Greenhouse presentation at monthly Planet Southie meeting

Next meeting is May 24. Topic: Greenhouses!

Reminder: Next Planet Southie Monthly meeting is this Thursday (May 24) from 6:30 - 7:30 pm at the Distillery Building*.  As always, all are welcome!

Meeting topic: Greenhouses and Optimal Food Production (and how to apply this locally)

Lumen Building Greenhouse

• Guest speaker Fred Gordon will discuss greenhouse research being applied in the Netherlands. During a recent trip to the Netherlands, Fred toured a greenhouse research center.
• This is a huge industry in the Netherlands, and the productivity that they get out of greenhouses is astounding -- 8600 lbs of tomatoes, or 10,573 lbs of cucumbers, or 3.277 lbs of snap beans per 1000 square feet (a pretty small greenhouse).
• Fred wants to bring over this technology and equipment to apply locally!
  
  

*Meeting Location: The Distillery Building, 516 East 2nd Street.: If you walk in the yard, enter the door of the building to your left, a low brick building that says Honeywell on it (across the parking lot from the Distillery residences).  The office is right around the corner and you should be able to see people through a large picture window before you get there. If you get lost, call Fred at 617-821-2429

Free Tomato Plants for Urban Gardeners

The Boston Parks and Recreation Department is set to give away 2,012 tomato plants grown by Mahoney's Garden Center to encourage more residents to become urban gardeners.

Read more here...

The event will take place Sunday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Fenway Victory Gardens in the Back Bay Fens where the city will host a slew of family activities and giveaways as part of its Boston Blooms program, an initiative launched last year to beautify neighborhoods.

Plug in Southie! Signs of Spring in this month's newsletter

Click here to check out this month's issue of our e-newsletter, Plug In Southie! 

A sure sign of Spring!
Crocuses are popping up all  over Medicine Wheel's No Man's Land Garden this week.

Read about this weekend's Southie Trees event, how to help pass the Bottle Bill update and more ways to help build a greener and healthier South Boston.

Reminder: Next Planet Southie Monthly meeting is this Thursday from 6:30 - 7:30 pm at the Distillery Building*. As always, all are welcome!

*Meeting Location: The Distillery Building, 516 East 2nd Street.: If you walk in the yard, enter the door of the building to your left, a low brick building that says Honeywell on it (across the parking lot from the Distillery residences).  The office is right around the corner and you should be able to see people through a large picture window before you get there. If you get lost, call Fred at 617-821-2429

Update the Bottle Bill

There is simply too much trash in our beautiful Southie streets, gardens and parks. A lot of it is unredeemable bottles. One solution? Expand Recycling...

Help get the Updated Bottle Bill passed so that all plastic bottle are redeemable. Details here.

Next Planet Southie meeting is Thursday, March 22 from 6:30-7:30 pm

Next Planet Southie meeting is Thursday, March 22 from 6:30-7:30 pm at the Distillery Building*.

All are welcome!


*Meeting Location: The Distillery Building, 516 East 2nd Street.: If you walk in the yard, enter the door of the building to your left, a low brick building that says Honeywell on it (across the parking lot from the Distillery residences).  The office is right around the corner and you should be able to see people through a large picture window before you get there. If you get lost, call Fred at 617-821-2429

Plug In Southie: All the news that's fit to print!

Check out this month's issue of our e-newsletter, Plug In Southie, here. Get the scoop on a neighborhood cleanup, Southie Trees, energy savings, nearby winter farmers markets and more!

Next Planet Southie monthly meeting is Thursday, February 23 from 6:30 - 7:30 pm at the Distillery Building*. All are welcome at Planet Southie!

Subscribe to our e-newsletter, Plug In Southie, here!

*Meeting Location: The Distillery Building, 516 East 2nd Street.: If you walk in the yard, enter the door of the building to your left, a low brick building that says Honeywell on it (across the parking lot from the Distillery residences).  The office is right around the corner and you should be able to see people through a large picture window before you get there. If you get lost, call Fred at 617-821-2429