Next Monthly Meeting is August 28

Thursday, August 28th from 6:30 - 7:30 pm

Location: The Distillery (Honeywell Building across parking lot). 516 E 2nd St,

Topics include sustaining ongoing work and planning November Planet Southie Green Globe Awards.

As always, all are welcome at Planet Southie!

7 Ways to Have a Green Day at Southie’s Beaches

Southie's beach season is far from over! L and M Street Beaches connect Pleasure Bay with Carson Beach, creating the longest stretch of beach in Boston. The beach draws visitors from all over the city, especially during the summer months. 

Southie's beaches are a little slice of heaven. Photo by Planet Southie

To keep our beaches clean and simultaneously reduce our carbon footprints, follow these quick tips for an eco-friendly beach trip:

We're taking July off! No July 24th meeting. See you at the beach!

We're enjoying Summer and hope you are as well. No July 24th monthly meeting will be held.

Stay tuned for news about the next meeting!

Photo of M Street Beach by Southie Spots

Don't Miss the June 26 Monthly Meeting!

Please join us at our next monthly meeting!

Thursday, June 26th from 6:30 - 7:30 pm

Location: The Distillery (Honeywell Building across parking lot). 516 E 2nd St, South Boston.

Hear all about Planet Southie's recent Greenovate Boston Award and how to get involved!

As always, all are welcome at Planet Southie!

Talk about gas leaks at our next meeting: Thurs, May 22 from 6:30 - 7:30 pm

Please join us at our next monthly meeting! Thursday, May 22 from 6:30 - 7:30 pm

West Broadway Sunset

Location: The Distillery (Honeywell Building across parking lot). 516 E 2nd St.

Topic: Talk about gas leaks with Joel Wool from Clean Water Action! Learn why they're a danger and why we need your help to get them fixed.

Updates on Greenovate Boston, @southie_walks, and more.

FYI: This is Stefanie's last meeting before she and Aaron follow their dream to move to Aaron's hometown in the Adirondacks. Please stop by to say hi and bye if you have the chance.

As always, all are welcome at Planet Southie!

Next monthly meeting is April 24: Learn about South Boston Grows!

Our next monthly meeting is:
Thursday, April 24nd from 6:30 - 7:30 pm 
at the Distillery, 516 E 2nd St.

We will share updates and learn all about South Boston Grows!

South Boston Grows aims to improve Community Food Access and allows for Continued Learning Opportunities for youth; their families and their community. Some research has also shown that including garden-based youth programs in the curricula has a positive effect on academic achievement. SBG targets their work in urban areas of need and grow food in all South Boston Housing Developments and other open areas.

Happy Spring! March 27th Planet Southie meeting to focus on community engagement

Our next monthly meeting is
Thursday, March 27th from 6:30 - 7:30 pm at the Distillery, 516 E 2nd St.

We will share updates and continue to move forward on our Greenovate Boston community engagement project.



FYI - A few neat things:
Opportunities to clean up the neighborhood this Spring:

• Sign up for Boston Shines! May 9 & 10 LINK
• Contest to name a new Southie litter campaign! LINK
• Southie Trash Talk tweet ups. Follow #SouthieTrashTalk hashtag on twitter

Also: check out this new web forum on Southie development issues LINK

See you Thursday!

As always, all are welcome at Planet Southie!

Action Alert: Speak up about 340 W 2nd Street project

UPDATE: We hear from the City that the community process on this project will "most likely be concluding tomorrow" 3/11. Speak up now.

Our friends at the Saint Vincent’s Lower End Neighborhood Association (SVLENA) need your help to speak up about 340 W 2nd Street.

Please help by attending the ZBA meeting on March 11th at 11:30 am at Boston City Hall, Room 801 and speak out against this project because: 

• Grossly exceeds the Floor to Area Ratio that is established on the site.
• Developer was unwilling to make height & density changes requested by the community.
• The entire Saint Vinny's Neighborhood Association is against this project.
• Major privacy concerns between proposed building and nearby existing building.
• Will create an unsanitary condition in the small gap between buildings.
• Density issues for the neighborhood.
• (Please feel free to add to this list) 

Can't attend, but want to speak up? Contact: Eric Prentis and Councillor Bill Linehan

Contest Time! Name Southie's new litter campaign

It's time to name the campaign. Wait...what's this all about again? Read more here.
Got an idea for a name? Share it on the below form!

Southie Trash Talk: Residents brainstorm about litter campaign

Tired of windblown trash vortexes, dog poop and a general sense of ewwww?

Well then, we have just the thing for you!

Here's what happened: in the past 2 weeks (coincidental with the melting snow), Southie's social media circles have been abuzz with ordinary neighbors of all stripes who are fed up with litter.

Over at the SaveKStreet blog, it's been stated frankly: 
"Has anyone else noticed that the streets of our neighborhood are overflowing with trash? Up and down every Southie street are piles of trash."

OK. OK. So these things happen. The question is what to do about it? 

A bunch of Southie neighbors who shared their frustration via Twitter decided to be proactive -- they got together via Planet Southie's "tweet up" (affectionately dubbed #SouthieTrashTalk) and excitedly agreed to help start a resident-led clean up campaign. Here they are this morning, hash-tagging it out:

#WillTwitterSaveSouthie? This AM's #SouthieTrashTalk w/ @kennycooks @Anna__Wh1te @SaveKStreet @planetsouthie @veemdog pic.twitter.com/NCD7dNvYPI
— Planet Southie (@planetsouthie) March 8, 2014

Some of the ideas that have been floating around: