NECWA News Blog

  Here is a vegan recipe for today's feast. By eating less meat and dairy or by going vegan, you can reduce your carbon footprint and reduce the needless suffering of animals in factory farms.  https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/vegan-salads-sides/roasted-red-potatoes-and-cabbage/

 Join us for a fun and free event at the Middleboro High School. With Sustainable Middleboro and the Middleboro High School Yes Club, NECWA is putting on quite an event for the whole family! Lots to learn and do!

Stop by the NECWA information table at this week's Plymouth Farmers Market and learn more about this superher! And don't just stop at our table! The market has lots of great food, veggies, lotions, soaps, and other other delightful and delicious things for sale. And just in time for Valentine's Day!

This fun GIF of an Ocean Sunfish was created by Siani, one of our 2025 winter interns. Siani had not had a lot of experience with GIFS so she took on this project and created something really great. Internships provide the platform for high school and college students to experiment with graphic design and animation techniques, gaining experience needed for their profession.

NECWA Shark Week In Review Written by Emily Gerrior Intern Sarah helping at the blockprinting table. On July 24, 2024 and July 26, 2024, NECWA hosted two events themed around Shark Week. The first was at the Middleborough Public Library and the second was at the Bridgewater Public Library. For both events, we set up stations where attendees could make their own authentic shark tooth necklaces and create colorful block prints of sharks and other marine wildlife.  Free educational material for all Along with our assortment of diamondback terrapin, horseshoe crabs, and ocean sunfish artifacts, we also had shark jaws and a real fossil megalodon tooth on display.  Marine wildlife artifacts on display As soon as we opened the doors to both events, attendees poured into the room! The megalodon tooth and the shark tooth necklace station proved to be extremely popular among younger attendees. We also received several questions about our other marine life artifacts, which we w...

Join NECWA founder and marine biologist, Krill Carson, for this fun and informational program at the Wellfleet Public Library on Monday, August 19th. All are welcome to this free program.   

 We hope you can join us today at Hannaford's in Middleboro, MA. The NECWA interns will be manning an educational table so stop by and say hello as you pick up free educational material. 

INTERN AND VOLUNTEER ICE CREAM SOCIAL AND FUN DAY   Written by Emily Gerrior Last Sunday (July 14 th , 2024), interns and volunteers were treated to an ice cream social, courtesy of NECWA. This event took place on the lawn outside NECWA’s Marion Field office. This event marked my first time meeting many of the interns outside of our weekly ZOOM meetings. I was also pleased to see many of the interns I had already worked with during previous NECWA educational events.  There was plenty of ice cream of all flavors to go around, served with reusable bowls and spoons, as well as popsicles, a fruit salad, chips, and cool drinks. After days of sweltering heat, it was certainly nice to have a cold treat!  Additionally, there were games for us to play. Some attendees chose to play cards and Jenga, while others participated in lawn games such as cornhole. We also swapped stories about NECWA events and successes.  Throughout the social, we had surprise visits from several (ador...