<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hey you, wondering what's hampening with New Leaf this semester? We have a new meeting time/space:<br></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,255)">~Wednesdays 6:30-7:30pm Kern Room 108~</span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,255)"></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,255)">First meeting is tomorrow!!!<br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,255)"><br></span></span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span><font color="#000000">All are welcome whether you're new to new leaf or environmental activism, you can't remember how you ended up on this listserv, you're only coming for the food etc (okay maybe not the last reason... we didn't start ordering food yet). Whatever the case, hope to see you there.</font></span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> The new signers will be Emory Ellis and Anna Bey :)</span></font></span></span></span><br></div></div><br></div><div><div><div>Other c00L + important eco events in February:<br><br></div><div><div><div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)">(Today in a couple hours!) Tuesday February 7th, 5:30 - 7pm <br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Recycling and Refuse Management Committee RRMC Town Meeting</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Town Room, 2nd floor of Town Hall 4 Boltwood Ave, Amherst MA 01002</span><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)"><font color="#000000">Learn about steps being taken to transition Amherst to a Zero Waste town, listen to heated debates about whether or not to ban plastic water bottles, plan sustainability fest, strategize about zero waste public education, etc. </font><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)"><font color="#0000ff">Saturday 5pm February 11th Merrill Living Room Kosher Kitchen <font color="#000000">bake hallah and make soup with the JSU (Jewish Student Union) in preparation for... </font>Sunday 5:30pm Red Barn <font color="#000000">celebrate the holiday of the trees (Tu B'shevat)!! This is open to people of all backgrounds who love nature regardless of religion or lack thereof... music, singing, lots of food, and come dressed as a tree if you feel so inclined (flyer attached). </font> </font></span><br><br class="gmail-m_4535652649070298667gmail-m_-3996178624965605465gmail_msg"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">
Sunday February 26, 2017, 2:00pm</span><br class="gmail-m_4535652649070298667gmail-m_-3996178624965605465gmail_msg">
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst (UUSA)<br class="gmail-m_4535652649070298667gmail-m_-3996178624965605465gmail_msg">
Jacqui Patterson, Director, NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice
Program:<br class="gmail-m_4535652649070298667gmail-m_-3996178624965605465gmail_msg">
Environmental injustice, including the proliferation of climate
change, has a disproportionate impact on communities of color and
low income communities in the United States and around the world.
The NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program was created to
support community leadership in addressing this human and civil
rights issue.<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_4535652649070298667gmail-cff-start-date"><br></span></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_4535652649070298667gmail-cff-start-date">Monday, February 27, 2017, 7:00pm</span><span class="gmail-m_4535652649070298667gmail-cff-end-date"> - 9:00pm</span></span><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://facebook.com/events/468326066889900"><p>Climate Action Now Monthly Gathering</p><p><font color="#000000">Plug into the intergenerational local environmental justice and sustainability movement in western mass.</font></p></a><div>Thanks for reading!!<br></div><div>Sara Brown<br></div></div><div><span class="gmail-m_4535652649070298667gmail-cff-desc-text"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>