April 2019 Newsletter

Promoting healthy and sustainable oceans through education that inspires action & advocacy

Join us at our annual spring event!

We are getting so excited to host "On the Brink: Saving our Right Whale, Saving our Ocean" on May 21st at the New England Aquarium. This event will highlight the challenges that North Atlantic Right Whales face and will provide insight on how we can help to protect them. This year our keynote

speaker is Dr. Scott Kraus of the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at NEAQ. Following the lecture, we will be hosting a luncheon to allow guests to continue the conversation! Reserve your seat before they're all gone!

And the Ocean Spirit Award Winner is...

We are pleased to announce

that our 2019 Ocean Spirit

Award Recipient is Bonnie

Combs. Read more about

her work in providing

sustainable food options,

promoting beach cleanups,

and advocating for the ocean throughout Massachusetts and

Rhode Island in our most recent

blog. P lease join us in

congratulating her at our

May event!

Tickets are limited! Purchase your ticket here!

Join A POD!

PODs are a chance to gather together in a casual setting to learn more about the threats to our beloved, endangered North Atlantic right whale. Our previous PODS all around Massachusetts have sparked lively conversation among new and old friends about possible solutions to our current crisis. We are hosting more talks across Massachusetts in the months ahead. Be on the lookout for a POD in your community.

Sign up to attend a POD or host your own! If you would like to host a POD all you need to do is invite a bunch of friends to a cozy location and guide a casual discussion about the right whale. Locations can range from your home, to a cafe, to a local library - whatever inspires you. We will provide toolkits for the hosts and pre-POD info for your guests.

To RSVP to a POD, or host your own, please contact us at:

communicationsforw2o@gmail.com

Join us for the next stops on the Whale Alert! Book Tour

Join author Angela Kakabeeke at a reading of "Whale Alert!" this April! Kakabeeke explains the threats to the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale that lives in our blue backyard. Children in attendance will receive a free copy of the book courtesy of W2O.

South Hadley Library - 4/17 @ 2:00

Winchester Library - 4/18 @ 2:30

Whitman Public Library - 4/19 @ 3:00

Abbot Public Library , Marblehead - 4/23 @ 3:30

No RSVP required. Questions? Contact Angela here!

Sew-A-Thon - May 2nd

We are delighted to share that we will be hosting our second Sew-A-Thon with Sierra Rothberg of Boomerang Bags Boston. No sewing skills required. Join us to make sturdy, reusable shopping bags on Thursday May 2nd from 5pm - 8pm at Stitch House in Dorchester.

We are creating these bags to help eliminate the need for plastic bags. After they are created, these bags will be handed out for free at the Boston Medical Center Food Bank .

Space is limited! Please let us know if you can make it - the more people we have, the more bags we can make!