Eat Local Food & Meet Local People: Tuesday, January 12th 6:30-9:00

This event is currently sold out! Please check back soon for information on future ALLocal Dinners.

SBN is hosting its third ALLocal Dinner in Lexington at Nourish, a new restaurant owned by former SBN board member, Karen Masterson. All ingredients in the four course meal will be sourced, processed, delivered, prepared and eaten! as close to Lexington as possible, stretching out through MA into New England. In January, an all local meal is a real challenge and Organic Renaissance of Lexington has agreed to source and provide the local ingredients as a sponsor. Between courses, guests will shift places for more meeting opportunities and Karen will speak about her commitment as a community focused restaurant to work with area farms and businesses. Attended by food growers, producers, distributors, retailers, writers, etc., these evenings sell out very quickly.

What: Four Course Meal with owner's description of the food sources. Rotating seats every course for great meeting opportunities. Prepared with 100% New England grown and processed food. Sponsored by SBN & Organic Renaissance

Where: nourish, 1727 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA In Lexington Center right by the Minuteman Bike Trail

When: Tuesday, January 12th from 6:30 - 9:00 pm

Cocktails, Networking, Seating: 6:30pm

Dinner begins: 7 pm and seating rotates every course

Menu: 4 courses with choice of a vegan or poultry entree

Price: $40 Transportation: MBTA bus routes #62 and #76, serving Alewife Station, stop nearby Parking available in the lot directly behind the restaurant

Funds Benefit: Sustainable Business Network's Local Food Committee

SBN will host our Eighth Annual SBN Holiday Party at WBUR on Monday evening November 30.  Once again we're happy to announce that WBUR's Robin Young, the host of the popular radio program that reaches over 200 NPR stations, will once again be interviewing a well-known and talented WBUR radio personality. This year David Boeri, the co-host of the WBUR program Radio Boston, will be the featured guest. While David Boeri's television work at WCVB-TV and WGBH-TV is legendary, his entire career in broadcasting is impressive.  He has won Edward R. Murrow awards, Emmy awards, Radio and Television News Directors Association awards, Society of Professional Journalists awards, and was named Boston's Best Political Reporter.

David has reported stories such as the wars in El Salvador and Kosovo, environmental issues in Belize, politics in Canada and organized crime in Boston.  After several years as a commercial fisherman in Boston, he wrote "Tell it Good-bye Kiddo: The Decline of the New England Offshore Fishery". He later lived and hunted with Eskimo whalers in Northwestern Alaska and authored "People of the Ice Whale" about an endangered culture's hunt for an endangered whale. David's breadth of experience, skilled reporting and engaging style is a hallmark of Radio Boston.

This party year we're going to include a Silent and Live Auction offering a wide range of great deals on products and services donated by SBN companies. In an effort to finance the expansion of SBN's work, the SBN Board has personally pledged $19,000 to SBN as part of a Matching Challenge.  The board is hoping that SBN members and friends will match this pledge with an additional $19,000 in donations, party attendance, and purchasing items at the SBN Silent and Live Auction.

Auction Items include:

Four Celtics Tickets

New Orleans dinner for six at Rebecca Rowley's home

One year membership at The Longfellow Clubs

Party at The Longfellow Clubs (tennis, swimming, dancing, etc)

And many more!

Don't miss this fun celebration bringing together the SBN community.

November 30, 2009

7:00-9:00 pm

WBUR Offices on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston

Featuring David Boeri interviewed by Robin Young

Silent and Live Auction of cool products and services of SBN companies

$50 per person and $75 per couple

Please click here to register

Local First networks from all over New England are joining together to promote the "Shift Your Shopping" campaign.  Cambridge Local First and Somerville Local First are co-sponsoring this campaign which begins on the Friday after Thanksgiving and continues to New Year's.  This dynamic marketing campaign will include posters in the windows of participating businesses, articles in various local and alternative newspapers, radio spots, and the The `Real Proof' event at the Somerville Theatre described below.

The purpose of the Shift Your Shopping campaign is to encourage our communities to buy local for the holidays by educating residents, businesses, and government leaders to shift at least 10% of their annual budget to Local Independents.  For many retailers, the holiday season is the time when a local business does the highest volume of sales which makes it the perfect time for customers to show their support for local businesses and to make the 10% Shift.  Where you spend your money helps build strong local economies and is a vote that is just as important as the one you'll make on Election Day.