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Sidehill Farm is a raw milk certified dairy farm which brags the town’s oldest milking parlor, and unusual facilities – a milk room built into a step van and a yogurt plant in a semi trailer. They sell raw milk and yogurt from their grass-fed cows as well as fruits and vegetables grown in their fields and greenhouses.

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Sierra Club is a comprehensive environmental organization that operates primarily through its volunteer members at local, state, and national levels. Activity includes endorsing and supporting pro-environment candidates for elective office. A year after founding the Club in 1892, John Muir visited Concord. He placed flowers on the graves of Thoreau and Emerson, then walked to Walden Pond. "No wonder Thoreau lived here two years. I could have enjoyed living here two hundred years or two thousand...." Region: Thoreau Group; Nearly 2,000 members in Concord and 11 nearby towns. To visit this site click Local Sierra Club. State: Massachusetts Chapter; 21,000 Sierrans statewide. For more information about this chapter click Sierra Club Mass. National: Headquarters in San Francisco; 750,000 members. To read more about this organization click Sierra Club Headquarters. Join us! Memberships start at only $25. Click on the headquarters link just above, then click "join or give" in the list at right of the screen.

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Smolak farms offers a variety of activities for visitors including pick-your-own fruit, shopping at the farm stand and bakery, educational hayrides, and a summer Nature and Craft program for kids.

The farm store stocks freshly made pies, muffins, cider donuts, and breads as well as strawberries, sour cherries, peaches, nectarines, plums, apples, raspberries, tomatoes, and pumpkins.

Open daily 7:00am-5:00pm

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Solar Works Inc. has been in the business for 25 years now, providing solar electric power systems, solar water heating systems, backup power systems, hybrid power systems, solar pool heating systems, and energy efficient appliances.

Both Boston and Lee, Massachusetts locations. They also have locations in New York, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and New Jersey.

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SolarFlair offers solar electricity systems as well as solar hot water systems. The company offers an on-site energy consultation and installation as well.

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SolarOne provides lighting systems as well as Harvester systems developed for output solar energy for any number of things including micro-utility applications, providing water purification, lighting, remote power, and wireless telecommunication.

For the location closet to you, head to the Staples website.

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The SuAsCo Watershed Community Council's mission is to build a community-based alliance that promotes the sustainable economic and environmental well-being of the Sudbury-Assabet-Concord River (SuAsCo) Watershed; in other words to promote blue waters and a green economy.

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Sudbury Valley Trustees is a regional land trust, founded in 1953 by a few foresighted individuals who recognized that change, planned or unplanned, has a significant impact on the environment, on the region, and on the quality of everyday life in our communities. Today, over 3,000 members support SVT’s work in 36 communities around the watershed of the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers

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Sunshine Solar offers solar pool heaters as well as solar water heaters for homes. Installation and free estimates are available.

Although Sunshine Solar's main office is located in New York, they serve Massachusetts and Connecticut as well.

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Sustainnovation empowers business enterprises of all kinds to establish sustainable practices, policies, strategies, and products that are of genuine value to their business, their communities, and the environment.

They are a cohesive group of business professionals sharing the belief that the evolution of the planet and human industry are interconnected. They believe that respecting the earth is aligned with bottom line business economics.

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Tech Environmental has established a reputation for providing its clients with quick-response, high quality consulting services.

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The tech friendly solution to using less energy.

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Fruits & Vegetables in Season - Fresh Turkey, Chicken & Eggs - Hormone Free, Natural & Grass Fed Beef - Fresh Christmas Trees & Wreaths - Dried Flowers & Floral Arrangements

Open year round

Use TerraPass to balance the emissions you can't reduce.

When you buy a TerraPass, your money funds clean energy and efficiency projects such as wind farms. These projects result in verified reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Alternative Energy Store is a retailer of renewable energy goods and extensive information on how and why to use them. They provide technical service for the Do-It-Yourselfer as well as offering a variety of one and two day workshops for those that wish to learn more about environmental sustainability. Their website also includes an extensive forum full of information and stories.

Their Hudson office receives customers by appointment.

The first comprehensive look at the full range of modern consumer activities, identifying those that cause the most environmental damage and those that cause the least. By Michael Brower and Warren Leon. Three Rivers Press, 1999. 304 pp.