Archive for December, 2009

Monthly Meeting January 11

The monthly meeting of The Gainesville Group will be held at Taste of Asian restaurant, 7921 Heritage Village Plaza, on Heathcote Blvd.

This months agenda includes, but is not limited to:

> The focus of the group in the year ahead
> Identifying relevant issues relating to PWC
> Educating ourselves on issues
> Forums for exploring issues
> Advocacy options

Redistricting Part Three

The third installment of the discussion of the Virginia redistricting process from David Solimini, posted on the William and Mary Election Law Society blog. Click the link below to read this interesting and informative article.Redistricting Part 3.

Are you growing your own food?

This article on Grist (link below) discusses the growing trend in local farming. Even individually we can grow at least some of our own food and be sure of the quality. We grew lettuce and peas this past Spring and followed that up with bush beans, corn, cucumbers, and turnip greens through the summer. Of course Tomatoes are easy to grow in pots. We use “Earth Boxes” a product that allows effective watering without over watering. The rectangular boxes come with wheels to ease moving them around a deck or porch. You can add a trellis kit and grow vertically. With some select small varieties of things like melons you can have a wide variety of produce all summer long. You don’t need a lot of room either. We have a 12 foot by 3 foot raised bed behind the deck. Corn did very well the past two years in only a 3 x 4 foot plot. For more details on the trend to local famring check out this post.

PWC takes a step toward greening the county.

This post is from cgrymes on the Prince William Conserve blog (see the blogroll). The county has a lot of work to do to really move forward on greening our government. The streetlight pilot project seems small by comparison with other counties though it is moving toward cutting county costs and that saves all of us a few tax dollars. greening-the-county-six-streetlights-at-a-time

Who will win the clean energy technology race – are we already behind!

"Without a large national project to regain competitiveness in the clean-tech sector, the United States will miss a major opportunity to grow our economy, correct our trade imbalance, and reduce our national deficit. Indeed, even if we transition to clean sources of energy, we risk trading our dependence on foreign oil for dependence on foreign clean energy." Teryn Norris

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1st Anniversary Party

The Gainesville Group will celebrate the end of our first year and the start of an even more exciting second year on Saturday December 12th at 6349 Retriever Lane, Gainesville, VA 20155. All supporters and members, past and present, are welcome. Please RSVP to thegainesvillegroup@gmail.com or call 571-233-8593.

Adopt-A-Highway Pickup

We’ll meet in the Heritage Village Plaza parking lot off Heathcote Blvd and spread out along the route. Should take a couple of hours tops. All gear is provided and a training video must be watched first. Please RSVP The Gainesville Group at thegainesvillegroup@gmail.com if you wish to help.