Memorial Day Weekend and the Victory Garden - 5/31/11

Memorial Day Weekend and the Victory Garden - 5/31/11   

I was lucky enough to spend my morning and early afternoon yesterday in three different gardens, growing in two of them and advising in the third. Being in the garden is always a joyous time, even with the summer heat, but it had special resonance on Memorial Day: since early in the last century, if not before, food gardening and local food production has held a special place in American life, a role which is at once both intensely practical and intensely patriotic.

Washington Post garden writer Adrian Higgins captured this beautifully in his recent commentary, "The victory garden, still a winning idea."  Mr. Higgins noted, as so many of us do, that "the closer I am to the source of the veggies I eat, the better I feel about myself and the planet." 

The article is a clarion call for people to get involved in growing food, stressing that we are already moving toward a time "when we will need victory gardens on every block, in a post-industrial, post-global planet, when advancement is measured in localizing our world, not expanding it."  Brilliant. The only thing Mr. Higgins missed was mentioning that this movement is happening right in his own backyard, with Montgomery Victory Gardens!

In addition to growing our own, we will also need to defend the farms that still exist, and hopefully we will do so with all the vigor and determination that the Victory Gardeners of WW II fought their struggle.

You have all heard of the dire threat to Nick's Organic Farm, the only organic seed producing farm in Montgomery County.  The next public meeting in this struggle is on Thursday, June 9.  You can read more about it at the new Save Nick's Organic Farm website, as well as find opportunities to volunteer in the campaign.

Whether you join us on June 9 (please do!), grow your own food, or participate in any of a myriad number of ways folks are recreating our food system, you are participating in one of the most important, fundamental, and downright patriotic movements of our time.  Don't forget it!

For the new food revolution,

Gordon Clark, Project Director
Montgomery Victory Gardens  

PDA Celebration and Benefit for the Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign

After three successful state tours of the Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign this year, we’re taking it to Washington, D.C., in June.

On the night of June 6, we hope you’ll join us for an evening of celebration and community featuring John Nichols, Thom Hartmann and Donna Smith!

PDA Celebration and Benefit
for the Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign
at Busboys and Poets 14th & V Sts. NW
Closest Metro stop: Convention Center

Join us for a private reception before the main event at 8:00 PM. Click here for details and to reserve your ticket.

Or come to the main event at 8:30 PM. Click here for details and to reserve your ticket.

This promises to be a fun and entertaining evening. We certainly hope you can attend this warm-up celebration to the rally the next day. If you cannot, we hope you will consider making a contribution by clicking here so we can continue with our state Healthcare NOT Warfare tours.

Please mark your calendars for the June 7
Rally with the Nurses at Lafayette Park.
Closest Metro stop: Metro Center
 Click here for more information.

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PDA Chapter Meeting in Wheaton
Saigonese Restaurant,
11232 Grandview Ave
Silver Spring (Wheaton), MD 20902 Google Map
Public Transportation: Short walk from Wheaton Metro (red line)

Join us for a recap of the PDA DC HealthcareNOTWarfare fundraiser (June 6) and the healthcare rally and lobby day (earlier on Tuesday June 7) We'll also discuss the 2011 Maryland session--successes and failures--and the upcoming special session including redistricting, revenues, budget issues and plans for next year. Other hot topics: Congress and the budget, defense authorizations, Patriot Act extension, and more!

Hope to see you there,

Tim Carpenter
PDA National Director

June 12 U-Liners with John Kadlecik special concert: Art & Activism

EVENT: The U-Liners with Special Guest John Kadlecik present a special concert:
Art & Activism -- Music that inspires and informs.  COVER CHARGE: $10
SHOW TIME: 7:00pm to 8:30pm Sunday, June 12, 2011
VENUE:  Takoma Park Civic Auditorium -- 7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912
ARTIST WEBSITE:  http://www.uliners.com/  LABEL WEBSITE: http://www.azaleacityrecordings.com/

What role does music, and art, play in public dialogue?  Can music save the world?  Joe Uehlein & The U-Liners will explore this question in both a historical and contemporary context in a special concert on Sunday, June 12 from 7pm - 8:30pm at the Takoma Park Civic Auditorium as a fundraiser for Voices for a Sustainable Future, a Takoma Park based non-profit.

As Joe Uehlein says, “Art is a critical complement to activism.  No matter how brilliant our attempts to inform, it is our ability to inspire that makes the difference.  Every great social movement has had a backbone of music and art.  The sustainability movement is no different, and will define the 21st Century in the same way that six great social movement defined the 20th Century: Labor, civil rights, women’s, environment, equality, peace & freedom.  It’s time to get out of our silos and work together to solve the climate crisis and build a sustainable future for the planet and its people.  Music and art will play a critical role.”

The U-Liners, often described as Woody Guthrie meets Merle Haggard meets Jerry Garcia, are a top-notch roots-rock ensemble that has played every great DC-area venue including the Birchmere, Jammin’ Java, the IOTA Club, Strathmore, the Black Cat, and many more.  the band has performed at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Yale University, the Knitting Factory in New York City, Bally’s in Las Vegas and other venues around the country.

The band includes some of DC’s best musicians including Wammie-winning multi-instrumentalist Avril Smith on guitar and mandolin, Wammie-winning drummer/percussionist Larry Ferguson, Mindy McWilliams on violin and vocals, Barry Warsaw on bass, Eli Gonzalez on sax, and Joe Uehlein on guitar and vocals.

The U-Liners will be joined by special Guest John Kadlecik of Further (with Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead).  A Takoma Park resident, John is touring the country playing large venues with Further.

Joe Uehlein is the founding President of the Labor Heritage Foundation, and more recently is the founder of the CultureWorks Collective, dedicating to integrating art and activism in ways that help unite and inspire people to achieve progressive change.  A 40+ year member of the American Federation of Musicians and a life-long labor and environmental activist Joe has lived his life at the confluence of art and activism.  

The U-Liners, one of the region’s best roots-rock bands, celebrate critical praise for their eponymous CD.  On Tap Magazine said “Longtime area roots-rocker Joe Uehlein practices in the best folk tradition: social consciousness that never loses site of musical enjoyment, and vice versa.”  The Washington Post said “The payoffs are plentiful....the original tunes enliven things... real treats...when it puts a hauntingly harmonized spin on (Woody Guthrie’s) 'Pastures of Plenty."  http://www.uliners.com/

Background:  A strong activist for worker rights and the environment himself, Joe is politically active and on the cutting edge of the latest efforts for workers’ rights and social justice today. He is the founder of CultureWorks Collective, dedicated to integrating art and activism in ways that help unite and inspire people to achieve progressive change.

From his early days working in an aluminum mill in Central PA, a feisty and passionate Joe Uehlein developed a keen interest in Rock & Roll and the Folk and Country sounds of working class music. Joe’s broad musical journey began in union halls across the country, touring to Japan, Switzerland, Great Britain and Venezuela, and led to sharing the stage with countless legendary artists including Pete Seeger, Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Boots Riley, and Lester Chambers.  Joe also performed at the White House for President Jimmy Carter.

Their debut CD, The U-Liners, crosses bridges and boundaries, providing audiences with inspiration, camaraderie and solid entertainment. As The Washington Post says, ”The payoffs are plentiful...”

You're invited! See you June 6!

Dear Friend,

After three successful state tours of the Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign this year, we’re taking it to Washington, D.C., in June.

On the night of June 6, we hope you’ll join us for an evening of celebration and community featuring John Nichols (Nation Magazine, MSNBC) and Donna Smith (SiCKO, national nurses organizer and healthcare advocate)!

PDA Celebration and Benefit for the Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign
at Busboys and Poets 14th & V Sts. (Convention Center metro)

Join us for a private reception before the main event at 8:00 PM. Click here for details and to reserve your ticket.

Or come to the main event at 8:30 PM. Click here for details and to reserve your ticket.

This promises to be a fun and entertaining evening. We certainly hope you can attend this warm-up celebration to the rally the next day. If you cannot, we hope you will consider making a contribution by clicking here so we can continue with our state Healthcare NOT Warfare tours.

Please mark your calendars for the June 7 Rally with the Nurses at Lafayette Park. Click here for more information.

Hope to see you there,

Tim Carpenter
PDA National Director

Sign Petition to Save Organic Farm in Potomac

From our friend Naomi Bloch:

Nick's Organic Farm has leased County land held for an eventual middle school in Montgomery County Maryland for the past 30 years. Farmers from all over the region rely on Nick's certified organic feed and seed for their organic operations.

Sign here: http://www.change.org/petitions/turn-a-30-year-old-organic-farm-in-maryland-into-a-food-education-hub-not-soccer-fields-2

On March 7, 2011, Nick and the community at large were given 2-weeks notice that the land would become Soccer Fields. There have still been no public hearings on this decision.

Many environmental, agriculture and local food organizations have banded together to ask Montgomery County's Executive, Ike Leggett, to form a Food Policy Council that will use Nick's Organic Farm as an anchor for agricultural and food education.

A Food Policy Council would fit perfectly with the County's current efforts to strengthen the local food system; including the Food Innovation Hub, and of course the nationally renowned Agricultural Reserve.

We have to act quickly, the County is moving ahead on soccer field construction on this site. Please join the organizations calling for a Food Education center at Brickyard Farm by signing the petition to Executive Leggett. The public should have a voice in the future of the Brickyard property...and the health of their local food system.

For more info as this issue evolves: http://brickyardblogmontgomery.blogspot.com/

Sign here: http://www.change.org/petitions/turn-a-30-year-old-organic-farm-in-maryland-into-a-food-education-hub-not-soccer-fields-2

Celebrate Healthcare NOT Warfare Monday, June 6

Celebrate Healthcare NOT Warfare
at Busboys and Poets
2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

Monday, June 6, from 8:00–10:00 p.m.

8:00-8:30 p.m. Pre-event reception
$100 includes intimate gathering with the guest speakers and priority seating: http://www.tinyurl.com/June-6-reception

8:30-10:00 p.m.—public event
$30 suggested donation: http://www.tinyurl.com/June-6-event

With featured speakers:

John Nichols—the Nation, political commentator Democracy NOW!, MSNBC

Donna Smith—co-chair Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign, CNA/NNU community organizer

All proceeds benefit Progressive Democrats of Americaʼs Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign

Montgomery County Peace Luncheon, Saturday, May 21

Please come to the Montgomery County Peace Luncheon, Saturday, May 21, at 11 a.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville,  100 Welsh Park Dr., Rockville. Directions here: http://www.uucr.org/directions.php   

The keynote speaker for this year's Peace Luncheon is Gene Bruskin, co-founder of U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW, www.uslaboragainstwar.org), an organization consisting of some 200 labor affiliates.

Mr. Bruskin, a highly inspirational speaker, will discuss the relationship of war and inequality in the U.S. He will talk from a personal viewpoint, sharing stories from his wide experience in both union and peace organizing.

Under Mr. Bruskin’s co-leadership, USLAW has become the most respected voice for peace within the U.S. labor movement; the organization is also well-regarded internationally.  In addition to serving as co-convenor of USLAW, Gene Bruskin is currently Director, Strategic Campaigns Department, American Federation of Teachers.  From 2006 through 2008, he was director of the highly successful Justice@Smithfield Campaign for the UFCW.

Don’t miss your chance to hear this exciting, nationally renowned speaker!  Find out how the labor and peace movements can work together effectively from someone with a lifetime of successful, on-the-ground organizing experience.

There is a suggested donation of $25 for the luncheon, but pay what you can.  All proceeds from the luncheon will support a project of Women for Afghan Women, one that Peace Action Montgomery coordinator Jean Athey saw when she visited Kabul recently and will briefly describe.

Lebanese Taverna is catering, and there will be vegetarian options.  You will have the opportunity to purchase handicrafts from Afghanistan to benefit girls' schools and women's coops.

Please come and invite your friends!!   But, very important: you need to RSVP so that the organizers can ensure that there is enough food. Just send an email to info@peaceactionmc.org and say you intend to come to the peace luncheon.  Do it today, as space is limited! 

Sponsored by Peace Action Montgomery, Pax Christi, and the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville


 

Urgent Maryland Environmental Action Alert

Urgent Maryland Environmental Action Alert: thanks to Greg Smith

Fight Dirty Energy.  Protect Maryland's Environmental and Clean Energy Laws.

Call and Write Governor O'Malley Today.  Urge Him to Veto Senate Bill 690.
 

Dear friends,

One of Maryland's most important environmental and clean energy laws is under attack by the incinerator industry.  Maryland's Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) is an essential tool in the state's efforts to fight global warming, promote clean, renewable energy, and reduce our disastrous over-dependence on fossil fuels. 

This important law is now just a signature away from being badly weakened, and the man holding the pen, the person who will decide whether to weaken or defend this essential law is Governor Martin O’Malley.  He's been leaning the wrong way, and he needs to hear from you today.

The RPS requires companies that supply electricity to Maryland residences, businesses, and public and private institutions to get at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by the year 2022.  Suppliers can either generate their own renewable energy or they can purchase Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) from other generators.  Those generators can operate in Maryland or in other states.

Senate Bill 690 would weaken the RPS by inappropriately elevating waste incineration -- the burning of garbage, tires, automobile scraps and other materials -- to the top tier of Maryland’s RPS, placing this polluting, destructive technology on par with wind, solar, geothermal, and other legitimate renewable energy resources. 

SB 690 would provide even greater financial incentives to incineration, which is already heavily subsidized.  It also could flood Maryland’s energy market with dirty in-state and out-of-state RECs, and crowd out legitimate renewable energy.  This would undermine Maryland's efforts to fight global warming and promote clean, renewable energy.


Governor O'Malley's next and last scheduled bill signing day is Thursday, May 19.  He can either sign Senate Bill 690, veto it, or take no action and allow SB 690 to become law without his signature.

We need Governor O'Malley to take decisive action, defend and promote truly renewable energy, and veto SB 690.


To Learn More and Take Action

You can learn more about how to fight this attack on Maryland's RPS by reading below and by visiting our new web site at:        www.communityresearch.wordpress.com

On our site, you will find fact sheets, information on how your legislators voted on SB 690, letters from a nonprofits calling on Governor O'Malley to veto SB 690, and editorials from newspapers that support a veto.

You will also find an easy way to send Governor O'Malley an email letter.


Act Now.  Please Call and Write Governor O'Malley Today.  Urge Him Veto Senate Bill 690.

SB 690 passed by just one vote in the Senate in the closing hours of the General Assembly session.

Governor O’Malley supports incineration, and he supported SB 690 during the 2011 General Assembly session.

But a growing alliance of environmental, public health and sustainability nonprofits is urging Governor O’Malley to veto SB 690.

State legislators are, too.  So are businesses that develop and deploy recycling, composting and legitimate renewable energy.  And three Maryland newspapers – the Baltimore Sun, the Carroll County Times, and the Frederick News-Post – now urge Governor O’Malley to veto SB 690.

Please join us in urging Governor O'Malley to do the right thing and veto Senate Bill 690.  Call and write him today.  And spread the word by forwarding this action alert to friends, neighbors, colleagues and fellow activists.

Phone:  800-811-8336

Email:  governor@gov.state.md.us


Or send Governor O'Malley an email letter through our site and action link provided by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
 

A Few of the Many Problems with Incineration

Proponents claim that waste incineration is clean, inexpensive and renewable.  It's not.

Information provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other sources indicate that incineration is more expensive and polluting than many other ways to generate electricity.  It's more expensive than on-shore wind, off-shore wind, big solar, small solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy.  Megawatt for megawatt, incineration generates more carbon dioxide than even coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel.  Megawatt for megawatt, it generates more lead, mercury and other pollutants than natural gas and even coal.

Mass-burn garbage incinerators generally destroy huge quantities of recyclable and compostable materials even in counties and cities with recycling programs. 

Ton for ton, reuse, recycling and composting generally save more energy than incineration generates.  They also provide more local jobs and more local revenues than incineration or landfilling.

Proponents also claim that incineration reduces demand for landfill space.  It can, but incinerators don't eliminate demand for landfills.  Some materials cannot be burned or don't burn well and go straight to landfills.  And incineration generates enormous of quantities of ash, which contains toxic pollutants and often is dumped in landfills.

The majority of what most jurisdictions burn or bury could be reused, recycled or composted -- with less expense, less pollution, and less damage from resource extraction, and with more energy saved, more materials conserved, and more benefit to local economies.

"The choice for Governor O'Malley and Maryland is clear. We can attempt to reach our renewable energy goals honestly by pursuing wind, solar and other legitimate

renewables, or we can cheat by promoting trash incineration.

"We can build a sustainable, green economy based on reducing waste and creating local jobs and revenues through recycling and other strategies, or we can continue

to burn and bury valuable resources and diminish our children's future.

"Mr. O'Malley should veto the bill."

                 -- Brenda Platt, Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and an expert on building sustainable economy through resource conservation, Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun, May 10, 2011 

Clean is Clean.

Renewable is Renewable.

Incineration is Neither.

vote for Clarissa Libertelli's Doodle for Google.

Vote for Clarissa Libertelli's Doodle for Google.

One of our students at Wood Middle School was selected out of 107,000
entries as a finalist for the region in her age group in the Doodle for
Google contest. If she wins the overall contest she wins a scholarship
and the school gets $25,000 in computer equipment. Clarissa Libertelli
is the name of the student and she is in 7th grade.

Please help Wood and Clarissa by voting for her. I have posted the link
below. Each email address can only vote once so if you have multiple
email addresses please vote from each one.

Clarissa's doodle was hand drawn, scanned and then colored using
software. Some of the other doodles were not drawn freehand.

This is an awesome honor for Wood and Clarissa. She will find out if
she wins when she attends an awards presentation in New York City.

http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html#d=d3-3

Please feel free to send the link to your family, friends, neighbors,
colleagues and anybody else you thing might be interested in voting for
this young lady.

Thanks for your support,

Lori Wilen

Montgomery County Peace Luncheon, Saturday, May 21

Please come to the Montgomery County Peace Luncheon, Saturday, May 21, at 11 a.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville,  100 Welsh Park Dr., Rockville. Directions here: http://www.uucr.org/directions.php   

The keynote speaker for this year's Peace Luncheon is Gene Bruskin, co-founder of U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW, www.uslaboragainstwar.org), an organization consisting of some 200 labor affiliates.

Mr. Bruskin, a highly inspirational speaker, will discuss the relationship of war and inequality in the U.S. He will talk from a personal viewpoint, sharing stories from his wide experience in both union and peace organizing.

Under Mr. Bruskin’s co-leadership, USLAW has become the most respected voice for peace within the U.S. labor movement; the organization is also well-regarded internationally.  In addition to serving as co-convenor of USLAW, Gene Bruskin is currently Director, Strategic Campaigns Department, American Federation of Teachers.  From 2006 through 2008, he was director of the highly successful Justice@Smithfield Campaign for the UFCW.

Don’t miss your chance to hear this exciting, nationally renowned speaker!  Find out how the labor and peace movements can work together effectively from someone with a lifetime of successful, on-the-ground organizing experience.

There is a suggested donation of $25 for the luncheon, but pay what you can.  All proceeds from the luncheon will support a project of Women for Afghan Women, one that Peace Action Montgomery coordinator Jean Athey saw when she visited Kabul recently and will briefly describe.

Lebanese Taverna is catering, and there will be vegetarian options.  You will have the opportunity to purchase handicrafts from Afghanistan to benefit girls' schools and women's coops.

Please come and invite your friends!!   But, very important: you need to RSVP so that the organizers can ensure that there is enough food. Just send an email to info@peaceactionmc.org and say you intend to come to the peace luncheon.  Do it today, as space is limited! 

Sponsored by Peace Action Montgomery, Pax Christi, and the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville


 

Montgomery County Peace Luncheon, Saturday, May 21

Please come to the Montgomery County Peace Luncheon, Saturday, May 21, at 11 a.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville,  100 Welsh Park Dr., Rockville. Directions here: http://www.uucr.org/directions.php   

The keynote speaker for this year's Peace Luncheon is Gene Bruskin, co-founder of U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW, www.uslaboragainstwar.org), an organization consisting of some 200 labor affiliates.

Mr. Bruskin, a highly inspirational speaker, will discuss the relationship of war and inequality in the U.S. He will talk from a personal viewpoint, sharing stories from his wide experience in both union and peace organizing.

Under Mr. Bruskin’s co-leadership, USLAW has become the most respected voice for peace within the U.S. labor movement; the organization is also well-regarded internationally.  In addition to serving as co-convenor of USLAW, Gene Bruskin is currently Director, Strategic Campaigns Department, American Federation of Teachers.  From 2006 through 2008, he was director of the highly successful Justice@Smithfield Campaign for the UFCW.

Don’t miss your chance to hear this exciting, nationally renowned speaker!  Find out how the labor and peace movements can work together effectively from someone with a lifetime of successful, on-the-ground organizing experience.

There is a suggested donation of $25 for the luncheon, but pay what you can.  All proceeds from the luncheon will support a project of Women for Afghan Women, one that Peace Action Montgomery coordinator Jean Athey saw when she visited Kabul recently and will briefly describe.

Lebanese Taverna is catering, and there will be vegetarian options.  You will have the opportunity to purchase handicrafts from Afghanistan to benefit girls' schools and women's coops.

Please come and invite your friends!!   But, very important: you need to RSVP so that the organizers can ensure that there is enough food. Just send an email to info@peaceactionmc.org and say you intend to come to the peace luncheon.  Do it today, as space is limited! 

Sponsored by Peace Action Montgomery, Pax Christi, and the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville


 

Human Rights Commission Hosts Free Community Forum

Human Rights Commission Hosts Free Community Forum

The City of Rockville's Human Rights Commission will host the second free community forum in a series Thursday, May 12, at 7 p.m. at the Twinbrook Community Center Annex, 12920 Twinbrook Parkway.

The forum, Defending Religious Freedom; Building Interfaith Bridges, will focus on how to advocate for religious freedom and interfaith dialogue globally and locally. It will feature guest speakers from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and Interfaith Works, and will include a discussion and light refreshments.

For more information about the forum or the Human Rights Commission contact Janet Kelly, human rights and mediation coordinator, at jkelly@rockvillemd.gov or 240-314-8316, TTY 240-314-8137.

Fwd: IMPORTANT UPDATE for Mother Earth Day Celebration

You Are Invited to

 

"Mother Earth Day" Celebration

On May 15^th (a week after Mother's Day), join WeGreen USA in celebrating
"Mother Earth Day" Gardeners Special Seminar & No-Meat Potluck – A fun and information packed event.

 

Sunday, May 15^th; 2 - 4 pm

Marilyn J. Praisner Library  –  Meeting Room (not Community Center)

14910 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, MD 20866

Free for Maryland residents, but please bring a meatless dish to share with 6-8 people.

Since space is limited please Register at: http://www.wegreen-usa.org/event-registration.html

 

"GARDENERS SPECIAL" - MASTER GARDENER PRESENTATIONS

Two Maryland Master Gardeners' educating Maryland residents about safe, effective and sustainable
horticultural practices that build healthy gardens, landscapes and communities.

Homeowners and the Chesapeake Bay

GUEST SPEAKER: Catherine Callahan

Montgomery County Master Gardener

Container Gardening

GUEST SPEAKER: Liz Hofmeister

Montgomery County Master Gardener

NO-MEAT POTLUCK

Please bring a meatless dish to share with 6-8 people.
Choose from any category:

Appetizer, Salad, Main Course, Fruits / Dessert.

Bread & Beverages will be served.

FREE GIFT for the first thirty (30) attendees

WeGreen USA, a non-profit, community action group, is helping individuals and communities take action in reducing the carbon footprint, greenhouse gases and environmental pollution. Ours is the collective strength of individuals working together for making our communities more energy efficient and sustainable. 

 

 

DIRECTIONS FROM:

North (The Columbia area)

Drive south on Columbia Pike (Rt. 29). Turn right at Spencerville Rd. (Rt. 198) Take the next left at Old Columbia Pike. (Sandy Spring Bank is on the corner). Continue for 1/4 mile to the library on the right.

South (The Silver Spring area)

Drive north on Columbia Pike (Rt. 29) to Greencastle Rd. (first traffic light after Briggs Chaney Plaza). Turn Left on Greencastle Rd., continue to Old Columbia Pike. Turn right on Old Columbia Pike. Continue around the curve. The library is on the left and has a bright teal roof.

East (The Laurel area)

From Sandy Spring Rd. (Rt. 198) cross Columbia Pike (Rt. 29). Take the next left at Old Columbia Pike. (Sandy Spring Bank is on the corner). Continue 1/4 mile to the library on the right.

West (The Spencerville area)

From Spencerville Rd. (Rt. 198) drive to Old Columbia Pike and Turn right at the Sandy Spring Bank. Continue about 1/4 mile to the library on the right.

 

To REGISTER click this link: http://www.wegreen-usa.org/event-registration.html

Free Workshop: How Square Foot Gardening Can Help You Live Like a “Locavore”

Free Workshop: How Square Foot Gardening Can Help You Live Like a "Locavore"

 

One of our favorite speakers, Linna "the locavore" Ferguson, returns to College Park to discuss this timely topic, answering these questions and others:
·         What is a locavore anyhow­and do we really want to be one?
·         What difference does being a locavore have on our environment?
·         How can we "integrate local food into our lifestyles"?
·         Where can we find local food networks­and what are they anyway?
 
Linna will discuss the easiest way to get the most local food you can by growing your own with the world-famous method, Square Foot Gardening­ a small space, intensive-growth approach that works.
 
When: Saturday, May 7, 1 pm to 3 pm
 
Where: Old Parish House, 4711 Knox Road, College Park, MD 20740
 
Metro: Just one block from the College Park Metro stop on the green line.
Driving: Park on the street, and be sure to get a parking pass when you arrive!
 
How: For more information and to register, please email janiso@erols.com or call and leave her a message at 240-888-6972.
 
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Free Workshop: How Square Foot Gardening Can Help You Live Like a “Locavore”

Free Workshop: How Square Foot Gardening Can Help You Live Like a "Locavore"

 

One of our favorite speakers, Linna "the locavore" Ferguson, returns to College Park to discuss this timely topic, answering these questions and others:
·         What is a locavore anyhow­and do we really want to be one?
·         What difference does being a locavore have on our environment?
·         How can we "integrate local food into our lifestyles"?
·         Where can we find local food networks­and what are they anyway?
 
Linna will discuss the easiest way to get the most local food you can by growing your own with the world-famous method, Square Foot Gardening­ a small space, intensive-growth approach that works.
 
When: Saturday, May 7, 1 pm to 3 pm
 
Where: Old Parish House, 4711 Knox Road, College Park, MD 20740
 
Metro: Just one block from the College Park Metro stop on the green line.
Driving: Park on the street, and be sure to get a parking pass when you arrive!
 
How: For more information and to register, please email janiso@erols.com or call and leave her a message at 240-888-6972.
 
For more on Linna, see http://www.foodscaper.com/