Environmental Speaker Series Calendar

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Environmental Speaker Series Calendar

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Environmental Speaker Series Calendar

More information on the Environmental Speaker Series is available on the Environmental Speaker Series Committee Page.

2008 Calendar
January 28	Think Outside the Bottle Deborah Lapidus, Corporate Accountability International 7 pm -- Newton Free Library
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
March 24	Getting a Grip: Our Food and Our Small Planet Frances Moore Lappé 7 pm -- Newton Free Library
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
May 19	Making Materials Matter, Ken Geiser, Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, UMASS Lowell
June 16	TBA

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

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?"
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