| 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 |
TBA
7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| May 17 |
TBA
7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
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| June 21 |
TBA
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 |
video |
| 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 |
Socially 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 |
video |
| March 24 |
Getting a Grip: Our Food and Our Small Planet
Frances Moore Lappé
7 pm -- Newton Free Library |
video |
| 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 |
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| 2007 Calendar |
| January 22 |
Cynthia Rosenzweig, of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
"Climate Change in Our Back Yard"
View the video (requires Quicktime version 7 or later) |
| February 26 |
John Warner of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell
"Green Chemistry" |
| March 26 |
Jill Stein
"Rebuilding Democracy for a Healthy Tomorrow" |
| April 23 |
Ed Wilson, CEO of EarthWatch
Global Citizenship |
| May 21 |
Heather Rogers
The Conquest of Garbage |
| 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" |
| February 27 |
Dr. Kerry Emanuel,
"Why Are Hurricanes Growing Stronger?" |
| March 27 |
Pat Beckett, Chip Osborne
& Dr. Regina Downey
"Pets and Pesticides"
View the video (requires Quicktime version 7 or later) |
| April 24 |
Earth Day
"Innovative Environmental Projects in Newton Schools" |
| 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. |
| 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
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