Greening Our Community Calendar
More information on the Environmental Speaker Series is available on the Environmental Speaker Series Committee Page. All events will be at the Druker Auditorium at the Newton Free Library unless otherwise noted.
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| 2013 Calendar | ||
| January 7 | Gasland A documentary film that tells the stories of communities across the country where "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing is extracting natural gas. 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| February 4 | How High Will the Sea Rise? Dan Grossman, author of Deep Water, a book about global warming induced sea level rise. 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| March 18 | Home Energy Success Stories Direct from Newton Homeowners Rachel White, Owner and Principal of Greener Every Day 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| April 22 | Everything You’ve Always
Wanted to Know About Trash and Recycling , But Were Afraid to Ask! Courtney Forrester and Elaine Gentile, Newton Department of Public Works 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| May 28 | Celebrating Kids for a Greener World and Annual Environmental Leadership Awards 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| June 18 | Controlling Invasive Plants in Newton Yards and Parks with Eric Olson 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| 2012 Calendar | ||
| January 30 | Mapping Gas Leaks in Newton and Beyond Nathan Phillips, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment, at Boston University 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| February 27 | For Cod and Country Barton Seaver, chef, author, speaker and National Geographic Fellow 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| March 26 | Growing Green: Ask the Experts about Organic Gardening and Landscaping a panel discussion with Risa Edelstein, Jessica Banhazl, and Sarah Little 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| April 30 | Greening Our Community Series: Cooler, Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living with Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| May 21 | Greening Our Community Series: Imagine If Everyone Were Green! 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| June 19 | Greening Our Community Series: Newton's Energy Plan: Progress To Date 7 pm -- Newton Free Library NOTE: The change of date from Monday to Tuesday |
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| 2011 Calendar | ||
| January 10 | Create and Collaborate! New Tools and Resources for Exploring Life on Earth Marie Struder, Harvard University 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| February 28 | Film: "The Work of 1000" Screening followed by panel: Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong, CRWA's Bob Zimmerman and Rita Barron 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| March 21 | Cape Wind: Making Massachusetts the 'First Mover' in Offshore Wind Power Mark Rodgers, Cape Wind Communications Director 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| April 11 | Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth Juliet Schor, Boston College Department of Sociology 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| May 16 | The Newton Green News Show Students for a Greener World and Annual Environmental Leadership Awards 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| June 20 | Create a Nuclear Free Future Hattie Nestel, nuclear power expert 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| 2010 Calendar | ||
| January 11 | Affluenza: Antidotes and Opportunities Gretchen Brewer, Earth Circle Conservation & Recycling. 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| February 8 | The End of the Long Summer Dianne Dumanoski, author and environmental activist, on her latest book, published in 2009. 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| March 15 | Winter Moth Joseph S.Elkinton, Professor of Entomology, UMass Amherst 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| April 12 | Celebrate the Earth with the Next Generation Environmental projects from elementary, middle and Newton North High School Students 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| May 17 | Appreciating the Earth’s Biological Legacy A visual introduction to our planet’s biodiversity, including Newton. Dan Perlman, Brandeis University 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| June 21 | Environmental Leadership Awards Money Saving EcoTeam Tips 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| 2009 Calendar | ||
| January 12 | Green and Blue: Fixing Our Cities and Towns to Work with the Environment Bob Zimmerman, Executive Director, Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA) 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| February 23 | Clean Tech: An Agenda for a Healthy Economy Amy Perlmutter, Clean Tech Project of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| March 16 | A Sense of Wonder A film celebrating the work of Rachel Carson 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| April 27 | Organic Gardening 101: Sustainable Practices Ted Chapman, Risa Edelstein and Henrietta Light 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| May 25 | Growing Up Green(er) in Newton 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| June 22 | Environmentally Responsible Investing 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| 2008 Calendar | ||
| January 28 | Think Outside the Bottle Deborah Lapidus, Corporate Accountability International 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| February 25 | Is Zero Waste Possible in Our Throw-away Society? Rob Gogan, Recycling and Waste Manager for Harvard University 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| March 24 | Getting a Grip: Our Food and Our Small Planet Frances Moore Lappé 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| February 23 | Clean Tech: An Agenda for a Healthy Economy Amy Perlmutter, Clean Tech Project of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| March 16 | A Sense of Wonder A film celebrating the work of Rachel Carson 7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| April 28 | "Back to the Farm? What Community Farms Do for Us." Greg Maslowe, Newton Community Farm and Grey Lee, Land's Sake Farm, Weston |
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| May 19 | Making Materials Matter, Ken Geiser, Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, UMASS Lowell | |
| 2007 Calendar | ||
| January 22 | "Climate Change in Our Back Yard" Cynthia Rosenzweig, of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
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| February 26 | "Green Chemistry" John Warner of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell |
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| March 26 | "Rebuilding Democracy for a Healthy Tomorrow" Jill Stein |
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| April 23 | Global Citizenship Ed Wilson, CEO of EarthWatch |
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| May 21 | The Conquest of Garbage Heather Rogers |
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| June 11 | Annual Meeting and Environmental Leadership Awards |
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| 2006 Calendar | ||
| January 23 | Michael Klare, "Global Petro-Politics: The U.S., China and the Struggle Over the World´s Oil" |
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| February 27 | Dr. Kerry Emanuel, "Why Are Hurricanes Growing Stronger?" |
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| March 27 | Pat Beckett, Chip Osborne
& Dr. Regina Downey "Pets and Pesticides" |
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| April 24 | Earth Day "Innovative Environmental Projects in Newton Schools" |
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| May 22 | Barbra Batshalom, Executive
Director of the Green Roundtable "Is Your Home Healthy and Energy Efficient?" |
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| June 12 | Annual Meeting and Environmental Leadership Awards "Reflections on the Charles River" presented by the Charles River Watershed Association. |
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| 2005 Calendar | |
| January 24 | Newton's State of the Environmental 2005: Mayor David Cohen. |
| February 28 | Michael Klare, author of "Blood & Oil: the Dangers and Consequences of American's Growing Petroleum Dependency" and "Resource Wars". (Snowed out -- rescheduled for January 2006) |
| March 28 | Ann McGovern, Department of Environmental Protection Composting Specialist and workshop facilitator for "Alternatives to Pesticides" |
| April 16 | Bill McKibben, "The End of Nature" |
| May 23 | "Newton's State of the Environment" (Rescheduled from January) Mayor David Cohen |
| June 16 | Annual Meeting and Environmental Leadership Awards " Community-Based Social Marketing" with Jan Aceti of Aceti Associates |