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Chesapeake Education, Arts and Research Society
Restoring and promoting the health of all life in the Chesapeake Watershed
through education and action projects organized by volunteers
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June 2013: Compost, Potlucks, & Geocaching
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Learn to Compost
Reduce waste and improve your soil!
When: Saturday, June 8, 10 am-3 pm
Learn about composting through a FREE workshop in Greenbelt!
Download the flyer
10:00-11:30: "Learning to Compost" with Luisa Robles, Recycling Coordinator for the City of Greenbelt
11:30-12:00: Win a Bin Raffle!
12:00-1:00: Break for lunch
1:00-2:00: Make a bin from recycled materials at the Community Center Garden, a Three Sisters Demonstration Garden site
2:00-3:00: Take the Greenbelt Connection to tour various backyard composting methods
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Concerts in the Chesapeake
Summer Series in Maryland
Updated concert information
Thank you for joining us this spring to share community through song and story! Please attend our summer concerts to hear more, featuring singer/songwriter
Mac Walter and the Finding Home Production creative duo Teresa Whitaker and Frank Schwartz.
Teresa, Frank, and Mac will pay tribute to their long-time collaborator Tom Wisner, Bard of the Chesapeake. Tom wrote many songs with his friends, but the ones in this collection are those he sang often with children and groups of educators throughout the Chesapeake Bay region. The songs are celebrations of imagination and wonder, and what it means to be "Chesapeake Born."
SUMMER DATES:
Thursday, June 20, 7:00-9:00 pm
with guitarist Mac Walter
100 Lafayette Street Havre de Grace, MD
FREE ($10 donation supports the series)
Friday, June 21, 7:00-9:00 pm
Special House Concert:
Summer Solstice Concert
Chesapeake Beach, MD
Saturday, June 22, 6:00-9:00 pm
8955 Guilford Road, Columbia, MD
Wednesday, June 26, 8:00-9:30 pm
Thursday, June 27, 6:30-8:30 pm
The Custom House, Washington College
101 South Water St, Chestertown, MD
Call 410-810-7156 for more information
Friday, June 28, 8:00-11:00 pm
with guitarist Mac Walter
49 West Street, Annapolis, MD
For additional details on these concerts contact Teresa and Frank:
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Only a sample of Tom Wisner's work is featured in this songbook and on the Chestory Virtual Archive. For more information about Tom Wisner and his work, please visit the Chesapeake Environmental Literacy website.
You can also view a slideshow featuring images from the Chestory Virtual Archive - click here!
Brought to you by Finding Home Productions LLC and the Center for the Chesapeake Story (Chestory), a project of CHEARS.
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Featured Video
Stormwater Management & Youth Employment: Fostering Stewardship Ethics
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Cache-In Trash-Out
Geocaching treasure hunt and beautification at Schrom Hills Park!
When: June 20, 6-8 PM
Where: Schrom Hills Park
6915 Hanover Parkway
Greenbelt, MD 20770
Join us for a fun evening of hide-and-seek geocaching and environmental stewardship. All ages and experience welcome!
What is geocaching? Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabling devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and attempt to find the "cache" hidden at that location.
What is CITO?
Cache In Trash Out is an ongoing environmental initiative supported by the geocaching community. Since 2002, geocaches around the world have been dedicated to improving parks and preserving the natural beauty of our outdoor resources.
For more information on geocaching and the CITO event at Schrom Hills Park, visit the website and find our listing: GC4C3W4
Contact: Kristen, 904-613-2809, Volunteer Maryland Coordinator with CHEARS and the City of Greenbelt Public Works
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Greetings!
Finally, rain has fallen and the wilted leaves spring upright and drink in the coolness. We are now in the heat of an early summer and look forward to spending more time in the shade of the woods, amongst the blooming flowers in the gardens, and listening to music of the Chesapeake Bay and bird songs of dawn and dusk. We hope you will join us for potlucks, workshops, music, film, meetings and conversation at any of the events listed below. For the Earth, Kim Walsh
Executive Director
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Film, Discussion, and Potluck: I AM
Saturday, June 15, 6:30-9:30pm
Sacred Economics Circle and CHEARS Home Salon
Please join us to view together the award winning film, I AM, which poses two practical and provocative questions: what's wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac who sets out on a twenty-first century quest for enlightenment. Meeting with a variety of thinkers and doers- from the worlds of science, philosophy, academia, and faith-including such luminaries as David Suzuki, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and more.
 In I AM, Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life...
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Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens
Greenbelt Food Forest
Bay-friendly Gardening ~ Growing Food & Healthy Ecosystems
The plants are in and growing strong! Help us grow together by lending a hand with weekly waterings at our garden sites.
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Visit our websites for more information about what we do at the Gardens and the Greenbelt Food Forest.
Come out this month to meet Lucy, Maggie, Kristen, and other Greenbelt friends for relaxing, fun activities outside. Stop by to meet the entire core Garden planners, including Ben, Becky Jean, and Jean!
There are also a variety of special events and workshops planned each month, so keep up with the Gardens/FoodForest Calendar for updates.
Cleaning out your garage? Do you have extra garden tools?
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 GCAN: Greenbelt Climate Action Network
MEETINGS
- The next GCAN Meeting will be on Tuesday, June 18, at 7 pm, in the Community Center, Room 1114 We will have two parts to our evening. First, we will have a potluck meal, to celebrate the end of our programming year. Secondly, we will listen to a CD with a guided session on EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) or "tapping" to heal the collective (and personal) stress of climate change. Please look for a separate GCAN email later this month with details.
GCAN "ACTIVISTS"
We continue to have a broad-spectrum focus, including:
- CITY: No current action.
- COUNTY: Join an ad-hoc group that meets in College Park, to support a new county Draft Solid Waste Plan, that moves us in the direction of "Zero Waste". This plan is of particular interest to those of us concerned about recycling or composting.
- STATE: Over the summer we will be working with CCAN and FWW (Food & Water Watch) to monitor the Commission on Fracking, to make sure the natural gas industry does not exert undo pressure on the process. Click here to learn more and sign a petition to Governor O'Malley.
- FEDERAL: We are continuing to fight the approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Many of us will be participating in the 5 day 2013 Walk for our Grandchildren (July 22-26) or in one of several different rallies in DC on July 27-28-29th.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
- The Greenbelt TimeBank continues to make progress. After two months of experimentation with the TimeBankUSA software, we have decided to try a simpler platform through hOurworld. Our Greenbelt Time Bank is now up and running! Click to join - it may take a few days for one of the coordinators to approve your membership.
- The Greenbelt Worker-owned Cooperative continues to meet monthly. Three of the most popular ideas are a Childcare Center in Franklin Park, a Composting Facility to make organic soil, and an Edible Landscaping Business. Next meeting is Sun, June 2, 3:30-5:30 pm. The Composting Coop Subcommittee will meet on Sun, June 9 or 16, 3-5 pm. Contact Lore for details.
- Re-Skilling Workshop Committee is being spearheaded by Judy Hamburg. The next topic will probably be "weatherizing your windows". Stay tuned for details.
- Film Fest: The recently completed Sacred Economics circle has decided to host a series of provocative films. Please keep your eyes out for upcoming announcements. Next up will probably be "I AM" on June 15th in a private home.
DISCUSSION CIRCLES
We recently started three discussion circles:
B. A "Peer Support Group" for Climate/Sustainability Activists is meeting on Mondays, starting on June 3rd in Greenbelt. Please email Lore for more info.
C. "Voluntary Simplicity" will be meeting Wednesdays in South College Park/North Hyattsville, starting June 5th. Contact Carol Nezzo for more info.
A new circle can start on any one of a number of topics (Sacred Economics, Common Security Club/Resilience Circle, Change By Degrees: Addressing the Climate Challenge) as soon as we have a critical mass.
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Green Man Festival Follow-up Activities
Hear ye! Hear ye! On behalf of CHEARS and the Green Man
tribe, thank you for celebrating Mother's Day weekend with us at the 9th Annual Greenbelt Green Man Festival this year! We had a great turn-out with lots of music, crafts, and fun!
A special thank you goes out to the vendors, organizations, and the volunteers who made this festival possible.
We couldn't do it without you!
How was your experience at the 9th Annual Greenbelt Green Man Festival?
Take our survey to share your experience with the Green Man tribe and help us shape the festival for next year!
Festival Closing Events:
June 16: Join us for a Potluck Gathering to celebrate a successful year.
Interested? Contact Richard for more information!
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The 9th Annual Green Man Festival was a celebration of Greenbelt's commitment to preserve its acres of forests and to extend the urban tree canopy by planting more native fruiting trees.
The Green Man Festival reconnects us to the folklore of ancient civilizations through science, art, music and myth by featuring many local artists, musicians and local performers from Maryland.
Visit our website to learn more or write to Richard, Project Coordinator.
Going to the festival? Attended in the past? Tell us about it!
 Find the Green Man tribe on Facebook!
The Green Man is out there
waiting for you just outside of view...Read more
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Chesapeake Education, Arts and Research Society
P.O. Box 1841 | Greenbelt , MD 20768
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