June 4, July 2, August 6, September 10, October 1, November 5, December 3, 2012: Programs to be announced
May 7, 2012 6:30 PM Vegan pot luck dinner with locally sourced food, discussion of Forks Over Knives, vegan food preparation and recipes and discussion of Hippocrates Health Institute
April 2, 2012, 7:00 PM Forks Over Knives, www.ForksOverKnives.com
March 5, 2012, 7:00 PM Soil Food Webs and Composting with Jeff Newman
February 6, 2012, 6:00 PM Pot Luck Dinner, 7:00 PM meeting with local Girl Scouts and update on the garden and recycling efforts.
January 9, 2012 Free viewing of the film BAG IT: Is your life too plastic? 7:00 PM
January 3, 2011, General Planning Meeting -Join us to create meeting details for the 2011 calendar year.
February 7, 2011, Pot Luck Dinner at 6:30 PM- Bring a dish with a locally sourced ingredient or raw food non-meat dish; Guest speaker Tina Clarke of Transition US; Discussion of recycling in Monroeville.
March 7, 2011, Speaker Kevin May, Philosophical, Cultural Recyclist and Transitioner speaking about life and good living. We'll also do an update on our work including recycling, Permaculture Design, and implementation of a vegetable garden this spring.
April 4, 2011, Screening of Gasland, the Academy Award nominated documentary followed by discussion of joyful alternatives. Potluck dinner at 6:00 PM and movie at 6:30 PM.
May 2, 2011 7:00 PM Learn about Permaculture with Elisa Beck. What does it mean and how can I do it in my yard and community too?
May 10, 2011 6:30 PM in collaboration with the Monroeville Public Library: Screening of Gasland and community discussion in the gallery space
June 6, 2011 7:00 PM Moni Wesner retired physician on Eating your Yard. Lois Drumheller, third ward council woman on the food garden on municipal property outside the Monroeville Library. Everyone will go home with a plant and see the new garden!
July 11, 2011 Update from the Recycling committee, and the Cedars; view and weeding in the garden outside the Monroeville Public Library with Lois, and information about Planet Aid with dorothy Moyta
August 1, 2011 Learn about beekeeping with Roberta Jones, beekeeper extrordinaire from Murrysville. Check out Laurel Mountain Bees and join us for an evening of honey tasting, hand cream sampling and seeing live bees, contained in a special space called an observation hive. Help weed the garden too!
September 12, 2011 Join us at 6:00 PM for a pot luck dinner and & 7:00 PM for our Gift Circle. See blog entry for details!
October 3, 2011 Kerri LaCharite, Produce Specialist at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank will speak about local and urban agriculture initiatives and volunteer opportunities in South Western Pennsylvania. See blog entry for moer details.
November 14, 2011 5:30 PM at Monroeville Fire Hall # 4, 4370 Northern Pike, in Monroeville, PA for a public meeting sponsored by Alcosan to update the community on fulfilling the consent decree to fix the sewage system in Allegheny County. Followed by our meeting at 7:00 PM at the Monroeville Public Library. Speaker will be Rachel Kudrick of the Pittsburgh Public Market.
December 12, 2011 7:00 PM: Jim Pottinger on his POLARTREC journey to Greenland; This meeting is in collaboration with the Monroeville Public Library.
April 5, 2010 AJ Stones, Master Builder on Building Green and movie trailer from Groundwater Up
May 3, 2010: Jeff Newman on Your Garden Soil, An Undergraound City
June 7, 2010 Moni Wesner on Mushrooms
July 19, 2010: Jeff Jaeger and Jeff Newman on Natural Yard Landcare
August 2, 2010: Jen Goetchius on EcoLakewood, Ohio
September 1, 2010 Regular Meeting
September 15, 2010 In Collaboration with MPL : Film screening, In Fear of Fallen Food
September 22, 2010 Field Trip to Westmoreland Consevation District. See blog post for details.
October 4, 2010 Building New Hope-- Programs in Central America and Fair trade organic shade grown coffee
October 5, 2010 Matt Mehalik of Carnegie Mellon on Monroeville Sustainability Needs Assessment
October 26, 2010 Gasland Documentary
November 10, 2010 Polar Trec with Mr. Jim Pottinger of Gateway High School
November 15, 2010 Allegheny Green Roofs
December 6, 2010 Mark Dixon, Your Environmental Road Trip, YERT
All meetings, unless otherwise specified, are from 7:00-8:30 PM in the Monroeville Public Library. For further information e-mail sustainablemonroeville@gmail.com or check http://www.sustainablemonroeville.com/
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