The Trash-Free Natick Project 2014

Hi Friends,
Recently we've engaged a number of volunteers in the Trash-Free Natick Project, and we're hoping to recruit more. We had a very successful Clean-up of Rte 135 and the Nasty Settling Pond near Roche Bros. April 24 (with CA Technologies - Framingham), for three days in a row (June 2 - 4) we mobilized more than 100 volunteers from MathWorks Corporation to do all of Fisk Pond, Middlesex Path, and parts of Rte 135, and just last weekend we conducted our 10th Clean-up of Dug Pond w/ the Natick HS Earth Club, Sunday, 6/15. We're organizing a massive Green-up Natick Day on June 28, Sat., 9 am - 12 Noon from two staging locations: the Stop n Shop / Rte 27 Parking Area, and the Roche Bros. Plaza (West Natick). We plan to venture north - south, east - west, and clean up the Town. We'd love to have you join us. In fact, many people don't know that we're only about two dozen volunteers short of reaching our goal: Natick: the first Trash-Free Community in Massachusetts in 2014. Here are some photos of recent efforts. We have some wonderful volunteers; we only need 25 more and we can do it!
Hoping to reach out to my friends in the amazing Two Hands Project in Australia, and many other folks in Framingham, Wayland, Sherborn, and Wellesley. We're making substantial progress. There are so many important environmental causes out there (climate change, storm water, endangered species). All critically important. I start local and basic; I start with trash and recycling. Come on, we can do it. In Natick (a town of roughly 33,000 people) we can make this community essentially Trash-Free with about 50 volunteers. It's just a "building block" to wake people up to all the huge environmental challenges that we face all over the world. Heal the earth; give back to your community. Simple as that.--pat