This Friday, May 14th, G.A.L.A. encourages people to participate in Wolfeboro's Bike & Walk Day.

This event is organized by the Wolfeboro Department of Parks and Recreation, along with the Wolfeboro Pathways Committee and the Wolfeboro Area Chamber of Commerce. The Bike and Walk Day Competition challenges local businesses and schools to encourage all of their employees and students to bike and walk to work and school on May 14th. Businesses and schools with the highest rate of participation will receive community recognition and prizes. If a business with 10 total employees has 3 people bike to work on May 14th, they will achieve a 30% participation rate. A school with 100 total students that has 40 students ride to school on May 14th, will achieve a 40% rate. You can register your business or school by visiting our website or contacting the Wolfeboro Parks and Recreation Department at 603-569-5639. New for this year will be an outdoor Bike and Walk Breakfast Celebration from 6:30am to 9:30am on Friday, May 14th at the Railroad Depot in downtown Wolfeboro. This will be a free event for anyone who happens to be walking or biking to work or school on May 14th. We'll have food, coffee and goodies from local businesses and you can stop by to help celebrate the day!  You will also have a chance to enjoy a pedal-powered smoothie from G.A.L.A.'s Fender Blender Booth!

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Thank you to everyone (and there were a lot of you! ) who helped make the
Wolfeboro Area Earth Day 40th Anniversary Celebration a huge success.
Special thanks to individuals Susan, Jackie, Barbara, Mary Beth, Boz, John,
June, Adam, Joy, and Jessamy; to all vendors and individuals who
volunteered and participated in the Earth Week Expo, all the organizations
and people who facilitated workshops, nature walks, and presentations
during the week, all the business owners who participated in Wolfeboro
Green Merchant Days and those who sponsored our ad, all venues who
sponsored events and meetings including the Wolfeboro Inn, Brewster
Academy, All Saint's Church, Kingswood High School, Carpenter Elementary
School, Abenaki, Wolfeboro Solid Waste Facility, Wolfeboro Waste Water
Treatment Center, Public Works Garage, Kingswood Youth Center, and Nordic
Skier, thank you to Huggins Hospital for helping with transportation,
thanks to Beverly and the band and all sponsors of the Barn Dance, to BG
Hodges, JC Sings and Image Awnings for fixing our vintage banner, to WASR,
Community TV, Granite State News, and the Kingswood Press for helping with
publicity, and last, but certainly not least, all of you, the community,
who participated in our exciting earth week events.  And for those of you
who I missed - thank you, thank you, thank you.  Be sure to view, and
upload, all pictures from the week's activities at
http://earthweek2010.shutterfly.com.  Stay connected with G.A.L.A. and join
us in celebrating sustainability! Josh Arnold, Executive Director, G.A.L.A.

 

Free, Public, Fun for the whole family!  Check out the day's features below . .

 

Nonprofits, Community Groups, & Businesses: Moose Mt. Regional Greenways / Wolfeboro Agricultural Commission / Dan Hole Pond Watershed Trust / Master Gardener's / Natural Landscapes / Lay Lakes Monitoring / Lakes Region Conservation Trust /Food Pantry Garden Committee / Pork Hill Farm / Granite Earth Institute / Spider Web Gardens / Made on Earth / Build it Green / Sustain Ability NH / Global Awareness Local Action / Energy Committee / Pathways Committee / Go Green Energy Audits / Wolfeboro Library / Brewster Environmental Club

 

Workshops, Presentations, & Activities: Eco-Game Show / Recital of The Lorax / Recycled Puppet-Making / Pedal-Powered Smoothie Bar  / Earth Week Pledge Table / Plastic Bag Crotchet Demonstration / Grease-Car & Biodiesel Display  / Recycled Art / Straw Bale Home Tour / Energy Audit Workshop / Worm Bin / Recycle-Mobile  Earth Week Event Sign Up / AND MORE ! ! ! !

Global Awareness Local Action (G.A.L.A.) has partnered with Project Laundry List to spread the word about the benefits of line-drying as part of National Hanging out Day, a national event which falls on the first Monday of G.A.L.A.’s Wolfeboro Area Earth Day 40th Anniversary Celebration. Participants in the day's events will hang their clothes on a rack or line in a visible, but inoffensive manner so as to promote wider acceptance of this activity. Some will hang banners and T-shirts with colorful messages drawing a link between energy usage and the way we wash, dry, and care for our clothes.

 

"The clothesline is a pennant of the eco-chic, not a flag of poverty," said Alexander Lee, founder and executive director of Project Laundry List. "Americans are hungry for a return to common sense, healthy physical work, and conservation. The clothesline is a symbol of our movement." Project Laundry List also distributes miniature clothespins to be worn on the collar as a ribbon of the "right to dry" movement.

 

Project Laundry List estimates that most families using an electric dryer can save more than 20% on their electric bill each month. Gas dryers cost about half as much to run and about 22% of American households with a dryer use natural gas.

 

A clothesline was set up by Abigail Adams at The White House when the Adams first occupied the presidential mansion in 1800. Many National Hanging Out Day efforts this year will be focused on getting The First Family to disclose the location of their clothesline.

 

Over 60 million Americans live in more than 300,000 community associations. Most of these places have rules that restrict or ban clotheslines.

 

Last year, G.A.L.A. partnered with the Kingswood Youth Center to install what they called “free solar clothes dryers.” Together, youth center participants and G.A.L.A. volunteers installed over 25 clotheslines of all different shapes and sizes in the Wolfeboro-area. This collaborative and creative service project will continue this Monday when the group installs yet another clothes line as part of the Hanging Out Day Festivities.

 

This year, however, a film crew shooting the documentary, “Drying for Freedom”, will capture G.A.L.A.’s solar clothes dryer installation. A sneak preview of this documentary will be on Tuesday, April 20th, 7PM at Anderson Hall as the opening act of the Earth Week activity titled, “Know Your Community, Know Your Niche.” The documentary trailer will be followed by a presentation from Alex Lee about Project Laundry List where people will learn clothes line facts such the fact that the rotary clothesline was invented in Sutton, NH in 1854. Other area organizations including the Food Pantry Garden, Conservation Commission, Energy Committee, G.A.L.A., and the Lakes Region Conservation Trust will also be presenting short updates and profiles of their respective initiatives and sharing how people can become involved.

 

Project Laundry List, founded in 1995, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to make air-drying and cold-water washing laundry acceptable and desirable as simple and effective ways to save energy.

 

Also visit http://earthweek2010.shutterfly.com for a complete updated list of Wolfeboro Area Earth Week Activities.

Global Awareness Local Action (G.A.L.A.) has partnered with Project Laundry List to spread the word about the benefits of line-drying as part of National Hanging out Day, a national event which falls on the first Monday of G.A.L.A.’s Wolfeboro Area Earth Day 40th Anniversary Celebration. Participants in the day's events will hang their clothes on a rack or line in a visible, but inoffensive manner so as to promote wider acceptance of this activity. Some will hang banners and T-shirts with colorful messages drawing a link between energy usage and the way we wash, dry, and care for our clothes.

 

"The clothesline is a pennant of the eco-chic, not a flag of poverty," said Alexander Lee, founder and executive director of Project Laundry List. "Americans are hungry for a return to common sense, healthy physical work, and conservation. The clothesline is a symbol of our movement." Project Laundry List also distributes miniature clothespins to be worn on the collar as a ribbon of the "right to dry" movement.

 

Project Laundry List estimates that most families using an electric dryer can save more than 20% on their electric bill each month. Gas dryers cost about half as much to run and about 22% of American households with a dryer use natural gas.

 

A clothesline was set up by Abigail Adams at The White House when the Adams first occupied the presidential mansion in 1800. Many National Hanging Out Day efforts this year will be focused on getting The First Family to disclose the location of their clothesline.

 

Over 60 million Americans live in more than 300,000 community associations. Most of these places have rules that restrict or ban clotheslines.

 

Last year, G.A.L.A. partnered with the Kingswood Youth Center to install what they called “free solar clothes dryers.” Together, youth center participants and G.A.L.A. volunteers installed over 25 clotheslines of all different shapes and sizes in the Wolfeboro-area. This collaborative and creative service project will continue this Monday when the group installs yet another clothes line as part of the Hanging Out Day Festivities.

 

This year, however, a film crew shooting the documentary, “Drying for Freedom”, will capture G.A.L.A.’s solar clothes dryer installation. A sneak preview of this documentary will be on Tuesday, April 20th, 7PM at Anderson Hall as the opening act of the Earth Week activity titled, “Know Your Community, Know Your Niche.” The documentary trailer will be followed by a presentation from Alex Lee about Project Laundry List where people will learn clothes line facts such the fact that the rotary clothesline was invented in Sutton, NH in 1854. Other area organizations including the Food Pantry Garden, Conservation Commission, Energy Committee, G.A.L.A., and the Lakes Region Conservation Trust will also be presenting short updates and profiles of their respective initiatives and sharing how people can become involved.

 

Project Laundry List, founded in 1995, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to make air-drying and cold-water washing laundry acceptable and desirable as simple and effective ways to save energy.

 

Also visit http://earthweek2010.shutterfly.com for a complete updated list of Wolfeboro Area Earth Week Activities.

G.A.L.A. is calling on volunteers to help orchestrate a memorable Earth Day 40th Anniversary Celebration. The recently established and planning committee for the “Wolfeboro Area 40th Anniversary Earth Day Celebration” held its second meeting last Thursday at the Pinckney Boat House. Community members gathered to brainstorm ideas for activities that will take place during the week of April 17-24, 2010. As of this date more than thirty different workshops, presentations, field trips and service opportunities are in the works. This group will gather again next Thursday, March 4th, 7pm at the Brewster Boathouse to continue planning, and they would love your help and input.

Earth Week is scheduled to kick off on Saturday April 17th with an Expo/Fair of information booths, environmental games for kids, workshops, tours, and non-profit and green vendors. During the week, schools, scouts, and conservation organizations will be providing workshops, service programs, and field trips. On Saturday, April 24th, the annual town clean-ups will take place, followed by a celebration to honor those who have completed service projects, carbon challenges, and other projects throughout the week.

The next meeting will take place on Thursday, March 4th, at 7 pm at the Pinckney Boat House. Anyone and everyone interested is welcome to attend. The committee will be finalizing the site location, exploring publicity opportunities, and continuing to develop workshops and presentations. For more information call Susan Fuller at 515-1223, or email Barbara Laverick, at balcad@metrocast.net .