Avoiding Cargo Cults [508 podcast]

On this week’s 508 podcast, Mike Benedetti–the blogging king of Worcester–and Brenden Melican talk about VegWorcester’s recent vegan donut feed-in (see photos). Mike and Brendan discuss how Richard Feynman‘s concept of cargo cults relates to activism and Worcester’s vegetarian renaissance. Mike’s analogy raises a question that we need to be constantly asking ourselves about VegWorcester’s [...]

February 3, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Activism, Events, Misc, Veg Advocacy  No Comments

VegWorcester Facebook Page Reaches 200

Worcester’s vegetarian renaissance continues! Time to nerd-out. VegWorcester has reached a new milestone: 200 fans on our facebook page. We launched the facebook page in July 2009, so all the fans are from the past six months. That means we’ve picked up a new fan or two every single day. Speaking of which, if you [...]

December 23, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Misc  No Comments

VegWorcester’s December E-News Now Online

If you aren’t on the VegWorcester email list, you may not have seen this yet. The December VegWorcester E-News is now online. Here’s what you’ll find in this month’s e-newsletter: Upcoming Events A Report-back from Our Second Vegan Feed-in Veg Books Top the Best Seller List VegWorcester at the Boston VegFest Vegan Cookies at Price [...]

December 2, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Misc  No Comments

December VegWorcester General Meeting [Dec 3]

We’re having the December VegWorcester General Meeting on Thursday, Dec 3 from 7pm-8:30pm.  Feel free to bring a vegan snack to share, but no worries if you can’t. This is a great time to find out what projects we’re working on and how you can get involved. We will have report-backs on the various projects, [...]

November 29, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Misc  One Comment

VegWorcester.com Now Back Online [Whoops]

The VegWorcester website was down for the past few days, but it is now back online. We were transferring the site to a new host and there were some bumps along the way. I can’t promise that there won’t be a couple glitches here and there, but the worst is behind us. Should be totally [...]

October 28, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Misc  No Comments

Want a VegWorcester bike jersey?

CJ is going to compete in a bike race soon. Long story short: we’re printing up some VegWorcester bike jerseys. Here is the design we’re printing: Here is the shirt: So do you want a hip VegWorcester bike jersey too? Email drew@VegWorcester or leave a comment below. Also, mark my words: next year we are [...]

August 22, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Misc  No Comments

Reminder: VegWorcester general meeting this Thursday

Don’t forget about VegWorcester’s July General meeting. There should be some new people coming out this month. Come to 49 Cedar Street, Worcester at 6pm this Thursday, July 23. Try to bring a vegan dish to share, it’s a potluck. Read the original meeting announcement.

July 21, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Events, Misc  One Comment

Want to help plan Worcester’s vegetarian renaissance? Come to the VegWorcester General Meeting on June 11

UPDATE: Sorry about the typo in the title. This post was about the June meeting, not the July meeting. The July meeting is July 2 @ 7pm, same location. The Details We’re having our monthly VegWorcester general meeting this coming Thursday at 7pm. It will be a potluck, so bring  a vegan dish to share. [...]

June 8, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: 2009 Vegetarian Dining Guide, Activism, Events, Veg Advocacy  2 Comments

We’re handing out VegWorcester dining guides downtown all week. Want to help?

Today Steve Baer and I handed out a couple hundred VegWorcester dining guides at the DCU center in Worcester. It was a very positive experience, everyone was very pleasant. Everyone was nice and enthusiastic, very few people turned down the booklet. I ran into a girl that I met when I gave a talk about [...]

June 2, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: 2009 Vegetarian Dining Guide, Activism, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach  One Comment

What do you think of the new look of the VegWorcester website?

Just did an overhaul of the VegWorcester website. Trying to power through all of those small back-burner web projects. I botched going to a show tonight where I was supposed to have a table with info about vegetarianism and animal rights. So I spent the night working on the website. Lots of cool stuff is [...]

June 1, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Misc  2 Comments