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Join our effort today. Let's work together to make Hanover a greener and healthier community. Email us : SustainableHanover@gmail.com

Toxic Waste Day

Please bring items on October 30th to the Hanover Transfer Station
What to bring??? Here's a list - 

COME TO A GREEN CELEBRATION!




Marshfield Fairgrounds
Saturday October 8, 2011
10:00am - 4:30pm

Welcome to the first annual South Shore Celebration! 
The Celebration! is the South Shore’s premier event celebrating
 the fall harvest, local foods, and sustainable living. 
Festival Highlights:
Farmers Market & Local Food
Sustainable Products & Resources
Workshops & Presentations
Family Entertainment and much more……
Admission: 3 per Person /  $6 per family
For more info: 

SSSh Celebration - Home

 


Get ready for the October 1, 2011 NESEA tour Hanover!
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Planet Subaru just added 370 solar panels and will be on the tour this year.
 Are you interested in having your home or business on this tour? Find out more at: 


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Green Poster Contest!


And the winner is ....Alexandra Theodorou.
Thank you for your great poster!
for more information on this go to:
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 Energy Savings Kits (with power cost monitor)
now available at the John Curtis Free Library
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Improving school lunches - 'Hanover Healthy Kids Initiative'- (HHKI)
click on-  School Foods
Over-fed but under-nourished. Children today are consuming 'low nutrient dense' foods that are high in calories. Too many of the wrong foods and not enough of the right ones.
Are you eating the right foods? - see here - MyPyramid.gov - United States Department of Agriculture - Home  and see what nutrients you may be missing out on in your normal diet!
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Improving recycling in our town - Zero Waste - Hanover pays over  one million dollars a year to dispose of your trash - 
there are more productive things we could be doing with that money.
 Please recycle instead! The_Dangers_of_Plastic_Bags

Check out what we should be recycling at -  Hanover

HANOVER TOXIC WASTE DAY -  at the Transfer Station. What should you bring?
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What is Sustainability? 
 
Everything you eat. Everything you drink. Everything you use. Everything you do - effects our planet.

The following quote reflects our view of sustainability  …. We would like to ...
“. . . help people understand that our health, and that of our children, depends on the health of the environment, and that we must do everything we can to protect it.” – Center for Health and the Global Environment – Harvard.

 Sustainable Hanover is grounded on the principles of sustainablility. Our goal is to create a community that not only enhances the quality of life for people today, but also ensures that the needs of future generations can be met. It involves understanding and planning for the long term viability of a community's natural resources as well as it's social and economic systems. (See our 'About Us' page for more insight on our purpose.) 

  
The Issues, Programs & Committees
 
At our booth on Hanover Day 2008 we took a survey and  found Hanover residents were concerned about or interested in the following issues:
  • Energy  100% -  Home energy costs, alternative energy
  • Recycling 100%  - junk mail, PAYT –see issues page
  • Schools  90% - Green schools, new HHS
  • Food  85% - Community Garden, Farmers Market, Healthy Cooking Classes, composting, rain barrels
  • Air & Water  75% -  water quality, no idling law
  • Personal Health & Healthy Homes  70% -  Healthy Personal care products, cleaning , safe plastics, pesticides
We are in the process of  planning programs to address these concerns and interests.
See the individual pages for a complete description.
 
“Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.” President Obama