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When:
Sunday, June 3
Where:
The New Deal Cafe
113 Centerway
Greenbelt, MD 20770
Time:
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Light refreshments will be provided
All are welcome to the Green Man Festival Art Show Reception, being held this Sunday at 7 pm to 9 pm in the New Deal Café. People of all ages submitted art entries for the exhibit showcased during May and June, 2012.
This year's theme of "Celebrating Our Common Ground, the Garden From Where Life Springs!" asks you to connect your senses and imagination to the natural world that is all around us. It asks you to share what you see, feel, hear, taste, smell and simply connect with in the undeveloped spaces around the back yard, at the edge of forests, along creeks and riverbanks or beside a lake --wherever the Green Man may be. For the exhibit you may submit paintings, drawings, collages, photos, constructions, sculpture, fabric, glass, pottery and any handmade art or craft item that expresses the love of nature.
Join us for great art, light refreshments provided by FONCA, and music from Tom Wisner and the Rachel Carson anniversary album during the reception.
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Greetings!
You may have noticed that the look of our eNews has changed. Don't worry- we still have all the great information and events that you look forward to each month! Starting this weekend, get outside and join us to work and play in the gardens, public gathering events by GCAN, and celebrate another successful Green Man Festival at our Art Show Reception.
We need you! - Stay tuned for more of our fresh, new look, & let us know what you think. We can't do what we do without you!
See you outside!
Concetta Laskey Communications, Outreach, & Education |
Saturday, June 2 (9:00-11:00 AM) ~ Monthly workday at the garden. Join us to plant the last few warm-weather seedlings, give our small fruit trees and vines some TLC, and complete the final steps of covering grassy paths with mulch. Look for our garden's bamboo trellises and now mostly wood-mulched pathways, downhill from the playground. Contact Lucy for more information.
Community Center Garden ~ 15 Crescent Road
Saturday, June 9 (10:00 AM-12:00 PM) ~ Monthly workday at the garden. Volunteers of all ages are welcome to finish bed preparation, plant warm weather-loving vegetables and flowers, and finish placing mulch.
Located behind the Community Center near the pool. Contact Tony for more information.
Springhill Lake Community Center ~ 6101 Cherrywood Lane
Saturday, June 16 (10:30 AM-11:30 AM) ~ Monthly workday at the garden. We will be featuring solar-powered technology for your home. Located next to the Springhill Lake Recreation Center, rain gardens, and site of the future Greenbelt Food Forest. Contact Maggie for more information.
 Saturday, June 16 (10:30 AM-11:30 AM) ~ Demonstrations of Solar Ovens and Solar Recharge Devices. We will be featuring solar-powered technology for your home outside of the garden. You can also bring your own gadgets for us to try out. Located next to the Springhill Lake Recreation Center, rain gardens, and site of the future Greenbelt Food Forest. Rain location: inside the Recreation Center. Contact Maggie for more information.
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MONTHLY MEETING
* The June 13 GCAN meeting will feature a talk by John Lippert, entitled "Slash Your Home's Energy Usage, Cut Your Energy Bill, and Help the Environment". Details will follow in a separate email.
SAVE THE DATES [email Lore for additional info about each]
- Wed, June 6, 7 pm - initial meeting to discuss the possibility of starting a Barter Network or Time Bank. - Sat, June 16, 12-2 pm - Solar "Gagdet" Idea Swap, learn about solar cookers, solar garden lights, solar rechargers for phones and computers, etc. Bring the gadgets you have at home for "show & tell". Additional details to follow, and see the Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens section above. - DATE "tbd" - initial meeting, in conjunction with the Greenbelt Cooperative Alliance, to discuss inviting Gar Alperovitz of the Democracy Collaborative to Greenbelt. Is it time for Greenbelt to start an 8th "green," worker-owned cooperative?
GCAN "ACTIVISTS NETWORK" - Thurs, May 31, 6-8 pm [CARPOOL FROM GREENBELT? Contact Lore] Maryland's Proposed Climate Action Plan - Public Meetings. Maryland is accepting comments on its draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act of 2009, which requires the state to develop and implement a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent (of 2006 levels) by 2020.
Thurs May 31, 6-8 pm, Annapolis Md at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 580 Taylor Ave , C1 Conference Room
(Info, including copy of draft plan: 1-877-620-8367 and click here to visit the website) - Thurs, June 21, 7:30 pm GHI Investment Committee
Are you a member of GHI (Greenbelt Homes, Inc)? On page 8 of the recent GHI Annual Report, there was a listing of GHI Investments. One of the investments is Goldman-Sachs $100,000. As many of you might know from the movie "Inside Job" (which we watched in our Common Security Club), Goldman-Sachs is partially responsible for the economic meltdown of 2008. This has caused our properties to lose value. It has also contributed to at least two GHI members going in to foreclosure. Please write to Lore if you would like to attend to request that GHI "divest" in Goldman-Sachs. Meeting location: tba (GHI Admin Bldg?)
- 99% Spring - as a follow up to the 99% Spring training in April, click here to visit this website and participate in hundreds of "direct actions" throughout the region. . Our local Greenbelt/College Park team is working on a follow up direct action. Fri, June 1st is a national day of action against Walmart.
DISCUSSION CIRCLES
* We will start a new discussion circle (Hungry for Change, Power a Bright Future, Common Security Club, or World on the Edge) as soon as 8 people express interest. Email Lore and let her know what topic would most interest you.
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Chestory: Center for the Chesapeake Story
The Chestory Legacy Group meets twice yearly to continue Tom Wisner's legacy. The Chestory Archive, located at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, MD, has much of Tom's writings, art work and educational materials. These materials are now also available on-line on the Chesapeake Environmental Literacy website.
Chesapeake Conservation Corp volunteer, Concetta Laskey has done an incredible job of cataloging Tom's work and creating the website for the archive. This resource will assist teachers in meeting Maryland's new environmental literacy standards. We are working now on plans to raise funds to continue developing and maintaining the website and to offer workshops for teachers. A sample presentation using Tom's educational materials was given at the Greenbelt Green Man Festival on May 12-13, 2012. Workshops have also been facilitated with Sparks Elementary in Baltimore County and the Greenbelt Nursery School, located in the Greenbelt Community Center.
The new children's song book and accompanying CD, "Singing the Chesapeake", with songs by Tom, his son Mark Wisner, and Teresa Whitaker, is scheduled to be completed this summer. We are planning events this fall in various schools to celebrate this long awaited publication.
We will soon be adding a new item for sale on the Chestory website - "Bay Babies" - a delightful children's book about the Bay written by Cathy Green and illustrated by the late Mary Beth Harry. Proceeds from the sale will go toward the Mary Beth Harry Student Scholarship through the Arts Council of Calvert County.
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