[CoolCommunities] Eliot Library - Green Mondays: Practical information for sustainable local living

[Diane Brandon]

Green Mondays: Practical information for sustainable local living
Location: The William Fogg Library, Old Road & State Road in Eliot,  
Maine  207-439-9437

Each program runs on a Monday night, 7-8:30pm. (No program Oct. 13th,  
when the library is closed.) The public is welcome; there is no charge.
The series is organized, in collaboration with the library, by a  
group of Eliot residents dedicated to sustainability education.

September 15: Putting Your Garden to Bed: Winterizing and Protecting  
Your Green Investments with Jenny Isler
Currently the Horticulturalist at Strawbery Banke Museum, Jenny is a  
Master Gardener with over 30 years of gardening experience, including  
owning  a CSA organic farm, running a landscape business,  
coordinating community gardens, working at prestige nurseries and  
planting obsessively in her own and her friend's gardens. Jenny has  
led horticultural workshops for youth and adults and spoken on  
various gardening topics here in the Seacoast area and elsewhere.

September 22: Backyard Windmills and More with Ben Brickett
Ben Bricket lives on Pleasant Street in Eliot. He is an engineer,  
tinkerer and inventor. He is working on several projects, one of them  
being his affordable, easily constructed windmills which produce  
electrical power capable of lighting and heating a room. He wants  
participants to have a hands on experience during this discussion so  
he will be bringing in parts of the windmill to demonstrate how these  
power generators work.

September 29: Alternative Energy Projects in Our Own Community -  
samples of methods in current use locally with Shannon Darr
Shannon is a local resident living on Main Street in Eliot. She is a  
nurse, mother and homeowner and a member of the Eliot Sustainability  
Group. Inspired by viewing The E-Design Series (PBS) and by the  
challenges of heating a home in New England, Shannon has been  
locating and visiting homes and businesses that have incorporated  
alternative energy methods. She will discuss how these projects are  
working for the owners and ways to promote further use of alternatives.

October 6: Have You Been Greenwashed?  How to know if a company's  
claims that they are "green" are true with Lise Laurin
Lise Laurin founded her company, Earthshift, in order to support  
businesses that want to reduce the environmental impacts of their  
products.  As a consultant, she provides training and tools  that  
allow them to measure the costs of these impacts both to the  
companies and to society. Prior to Earthshift, Lise worked with  
electronics and semiconductor companies in manufacturing and  
development.  She began her professional life as a process engineer  
at Intel. She holds a BS in Physics from Yale University.

October 20: Getting Green through Education of our Youth with Laurel  
McEwen, BS, MBA of Stepping Up Green and Kristen Sweeney, BA, MBA,  
BS, Science Teacher in Dover, NH
Learn from two Eliot citizens how they have partnered to create a  
unique curriculum for 8-12th graders. By using primary data  
collection in a home energy audi and a carbon footprinting model, the  
students use technology to analyze data, work with climate change  
models to predict future global outcomes, and design a green home.