Saturday, May 11, 2013
Wayland's 2013 Earth Day open houses and activities brought out the crowds.
Transition Wayland and the Wayland Schools PTO Green Team would like to thank all the hosts, visitors, sponsors, volunteers and the local media for making Wayland's latest Earth Day event a resounding success. Last year the two organizations collaborated to hold a traditional fair with booths and activities at the Town Building. Though with 400 visitors this was by all counts a success, they wanted to try something different this year. The goal was to “give Earth Day away” to the community by decentralizing it. They came up with the idea of open houses – opening homes, gardens, places of worship and businesses, where things sustainable, resilient and “green” are happening, though not always known to many residents. The invitation to the …
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team have organized a series of open houses throughout Wayland in honor of Earth Day. Check out the schedule and map.
For several weeks, you've read in Patch introductory invitations to a wide variety of green locations throughout Wayland. This weekend, all those introductions can become full experiences as homes, schools and businesses open their doors (or gardens or compost piles or farm stands) to guests for Earth Day weekend open houses. Check out the attached map and schedule and start planning your Earth Day activities. Don't forget to stop by the Wayland Transfer Station (if you're a sticker holder) to pick up some compost.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team are organizing a series of open houses April 27-28, that will celebrate Earth Day and allow residents to get to know the green efforts of their neighbors.
Editor's Note: This is the ninth in a series of articles contributed by Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team inviting residents to an Earth Day weekend with Open Houses all over town. Each week until then, you'll learn about another event at a different location.This week we discuss how you can get ideas for your own house energy improvements from the many strategies used in the open houses. The following article was written by Anne Harris. It’s another frigid winter morning. As you come downstairs you see through the windows the grey skies, snow piled on the back yard, leafless trees like bony stalks. But the room is toasty, snugly sealed and insulated with extra thick walls, warmed by an air source heat pump busy extracting heat…
Friday, April 12, 2013
There are more than 30 events taking place in honor of Earth Day throughout the weekend of April 26-28 in Wayland.
Throughout the past several weeks, you've been "invited" to various spots throughout Wayland for Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team's Earth Day Weekend. At each location, guests will experience another aspect of living green, from solar energy, to organic gardening, to water conservation, to what's growing at some of Wayland's schools. The weekend's tour schedule has been set, with a kick-off event scheduled for Friday, April 26 at Wayland High School during which the documentary "Chasing Ice" will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Check out a Google map of the various events throughout town and start scheduling your weekend. Attached to this article you'll find a printable PDF listing all the Earth Day events taking place April 26-28.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team are organizing a series of open houses April 27-28, that will celebrate Earth Day and allow residents to get to know the green efforts of their neighbors.
Editor's Note: This is the eighth in a series of articles contributed by Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team inviting residents to an Earth Day weekend with Open Houses all over town. The eighth article in this series is a personal history with the Wayland Transfer Station. The following article was written by Janot Mendler de Suarez. As children do, I used to squabble with my sister over who got to go to which St. Peter’s – one, being church with my mother, the other being the dump with my father, who coined the joke because, back in the olden days when I was a child, the fellow who ran the Wayland dump (then located where Wayland Middle School is today) was named Peter. There’s a certain poetry in finding the sacred in the …
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team are organizing a series of open houses April 27-28, that will celebrate Earth Day and allow residents to get to know the green efforts of their neighbors.
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Saturday, March 23
Editor's Note: This is the sixth in a series of articles contributed by Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team inviting residents to an Earth Day weekend with Open Houses all over town. Each week until then, you'll learn about another event at a different location. The sixth house in this series is at 237 Old Connecticut Path. The following article was written by Rabbi Katy Allen. Recently, I’ve been thinking about Honi the Wise One, a personage from ancient rabbinic literature who is also known as Honi the Circle Maker. Honi was given the appellation Circle Maker because of the time during a drought when he drew a circle, stepped inside it, and prayed and argued with God until healing rains came. Despite his name, Honi wasn’t …
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team are organizing a series of open houses April 27-28, that will celebrate Earth Day and allow residents to get to know the green efforts of their neighbors.
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Saturday, March 9
Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles contributed by Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team inviting residents to an Earth Day weekend with Open Houses all over town. Each week until then, you'll learn about another event at a different location. The fourth house in this series is at 281 Concord Road. The house was an ordinary small Garrison Colonial house, 60 years old with terrible drafts and thriving termites - not exactly the comfy condo that seemed sensible to empty-nesters Jean Milburn and Roger Wiegand. But the two-acre lot had an open pasture ringed by forest, a southern exposure, and a century-old barn with a jaunty weather vane. The land was flooded with sunlight and seemed perfect for passive and …
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team are organizing a series of open houses April 27-28, that will celebrate Earth Day and allow residents to get to know the green efforts of their neighbors.
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Saturday, March 2
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles contributed by Transition Wayland and the Wayland Green Team inviting residents to an Earth Day weekend with Open Houses all over town. Each week until then, you'll learn about another event at a different location. The third house in this series is at 6 Melville Place The article below was written by Sabine von Mering. Climate change is here. It’s happening. We are already seeing more floods, more severe weather, more incalculable damage to our buildings and roads on an annual basis. So what do we do? This question was what spurred Wayland resident Sabine von Mering to join Transition Wayland. Because she felt that no matter what comes, Waylanders will experience climate change …
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Vegetables will be abundant this fall at Claypit Hill.
Thanks to the generosity of the Wayland Public Schools Foundation, the Claypit Hill School vegetable gardens are getting a fence installed. The fencing is designed to protect the plants from the local wildlife population of deer, rabbits, raccoons, fox and more. In addition, Claypit Hill families have volunteered to care for the raised garden beds over the summer months so students returning in September will have beautifully maintained produce ready for harvesting. Each grade level at the school was responsible for one of the six raised garden beds. Also, in the extra raised bed, Sharon Postma’s fourth grade class planted sunflower and morning glory seeds to create a Sunflower House. And finally, volunteers from the High School Summer …
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
New blue recycling bins are now in place around Wayland.
Many of Wayland's public spaces and ball fields are showing some new colors. Blue, to be exact, in the form of a new recycling bin next to the existing green trash bins. The new bins have replaced the old "buddy bins," the wire mesh containers for bottles and cans that former middle schoool teacher Pat Conaway installed and has been emptying for the past couple of years. Last August, the Wayland Green Team, along with Conaway, began working with Wayland's Board of Public Works to find a permanent recycling solution more efficient than Conaway emptying the buddy bins into his trailer and carrying the load to the Wayland Transfer Station. “I'm trying to nudge Wayland to get involved in this and get the town DPW to take some responsibility,” …
Michael Lowery
7:17 am on Saturday, April 6, 2013
A fine hommage Janot! Our dump, er Landfill, er Transfer Station also serves its role as the prime political & petitioning spot in town. And not-to-be-missed: The seasonal recycled decor at the turnaround point-- https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/LQwlHrvrMkJFj7lwMx9I7x_T9SE3uUIxFkB6I-NJXpU?feat=directlink Other transfer stations pale! more ›