Green Tuesdays Resume at the Monona Public library

From the friendly folks at The Natural Step Monona:

Green Tuesdays: Lectures & Films on Sustainability

Green Tuesdays: Films & Lectures on Sustainability is the enlightening and entertaining series of lectures, films, and conversations on sustainable living brought to you by The Natural Step Monona and the Monona Public Library (1000 Nichols Road, Monona, WI).

May 20, 6:30 - 8:00 pm Gary Peterson, Senior Project Manager, Mid-America Planning Services

Gary Peterson, a municipal planning consultant, participated in both a Sustainable Sweden Tour and Sustainable Leadership Training at Tufts University. He will discuss ways that communities work to become eco-municipalities—adopting and implementing sustainability objectives throughout government and the community—with examples from Sweden, Copenhagen, Prague, and Vienna.

June 24, 6:30 - 8:00 pm Ellen Rulseh and Susan Priebe, Earth & Water Works Through Earth & Water Works

Ellen and Susan specialize in using native plants for rain gardens, shoreline buffers, prairie and wetland restorations, and green roofs. You will learn why native plants and these types of landscape features are desirable as natural infiltration systems.

Future presenters include:
Rebecca Anderson, Director of Advocacy for Trek Bikes on their One World, Two WheelsSM program
Tom Eggert of the UW-Madison School of Business on Business Risk and Reward in the Global Warming Era
John Reindl, recently retired Recycling Manager for Dane County, will speak to his own waste reduction efforts.

Films include:
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
The Ecological Footprint
Everything's Cool
A Lot in Common
Natural Connections.

The Green Tuesdays series is free and open to the public. It continues once-per-month through August and every-other-week in the fall. This program is supported by the Dane County Environmental Council.