We’ve been telling the story of North Country Sustainability Center for nearly two years. Finally we put it in a YouTube storybook.  Check it out, please.

http://youtu.be/Dyn9iSp8yXU

NCSC, as we call it, is a innovative incubator that builds communities by  allowing the development of the skills that have long been there.  Traditional skills such as carpentry, sewing, cooking and farming are being rediscovered, but in…

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It’s so frustrating to see so many stories about people feeling hopeless, homes being lost, and buildings being vandalized.  The media, the people, and even the government calling for ways to make things better, and yet we sit. Here we have an idea that can light a candle for many people, locally and nationally, but it’s not “out of the box enough,” and too small scale for others to consider.

What if “outside of the box,” is not what hasn’t been invented yet, but those things we let…

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North Country Sustainability Center, Inc. just agreed to lease a retired elementary school in Ashburnham, MA as our temporary home base. This will allow us to start offering programs, make local food and art pieces available for sale, and build the long term goal of creating a very exciting project.

What does NCSC do for anyone else?  Well, to start with, we're a regional operation, so we are open to working with and helping anyone who has a dream to start a small business that…

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With the news all full of frustration and anger, is it possible that a dream can still come true?

I hope so, because we have a unique chance to make it happen. But it will take a little help from a lot of people. 

                Since I started in the field of local food and environmental education I had an image of  reusing an old building to create a place where farms could sell their food, consumers could purchase high quality locally grown food and a community could come…

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New Program Kicks Off Social Networking Program

                North Country Sustainability Center, Inc. (NCSC) wants to raise people’s…

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NCSC,, the North Country Sustainability Center has received recognition as a registered non-profit

organization. Though we haven't finished all the paperwork, we wanted to announce our existence

to the NE Food system folks.



NCSC is an economic development program that will empower the residents of North Central MA and

the southwestern parts of NH to grow their own food, their own businesses, and celebrate the culture

of rural New England.



Our plans include… Continue

I took the twitter offer from @greensmith a few weeks ago to post something about local/regional economies as a way to change our development trajectory. Part 1 of 3 is posted here. Part 2 will be up in a few days and Part 3 will include food and… Continue