General Programs and Special Events

General Program Meetings

All General Program meetings are open to the general public. If you are interested in the subject of a particular meeting, please attend. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call Bruce Blake - Programs - (630)629-2520 or Rllnstns1@aol.com

Location: All meetings are held at the Glen Ellyn Public Library unless otherwise noted.

Glen Ellyn Public Library, Meeting Rooms A & B

400 Duane Street

Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Duane Street runs east and west and is the first street on the south side of the Metra train tracks. The Library is 4 blocks west of Main Street.

The River Prairie Group of the Sierra Club has general program meetings four times each year presenting speakers on environmental topics and to provide information for new members about the club's activities.

Upcoming General Program Meetings and Special Events

January 18, 2010 (Monday) 7:00 PM – Eating Locally with the Green Earth Institute -

Organic Farming in Naperville

When eating healthy adopts a “think globally, act locally” attitude, community supported agriculture takes root and thrives. Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a country wide trend to supplying community members with organic vegetables and fruit and sustainably produced meat, eggs and cheese from local farms. Each year, “subscribers” purchase a “share” of the farm and receive a weekly portion of the harvest throughout the growing season.

The Green Earth Institute, located at the McDonald farm in Naperville, is committed to promoting healthy eating through growing and supplying a wide variety of vegetables and offering educational progams on nutrition and nature for the entire family. Tots and parents can participate in Nature Buddies, elementary school aged children can be Nature Rangers and the Green Scene is designed for 6^th through 9^th graders. Interns from Benedictine University's nutrition program create kid friendly vegetable recipes which appear in Kids' Corner, a column in the weekly newsletter.

The Green Earth institute was started by Steve Tiwald seven years ago as a career change from developing and managing managed health care programs to what he calls supplying “primary preventive care”, a healthy diet of seasonal, organic vegetables. Good nutrition is at the core of the Green Earth Institute's mission and as it turns out, what's good for our diets is good for the planet.

Learn more about the environmental and health benefits of growing and eating local, organic produce from Steve Tidwald at his program titled, Eating Locally with the Green Earth Institute.

http://www.greenearthinstitute.org/

November 17, 2009 (Tuesday) 7:30-PM – Environmental Book Club

Location:
Cafe Amano
105 S. York
Elmhurst

Time:  7:30-9:00 PM

Selection:
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, by Van Jones ('08)
Addresses the two crises of social inequality and global warming. The principles of eco-equity. The "Noah Principles". How environmentalists can end their isolation by helping to foster a new Green Growth Alliance. (This book is also the November selection for the Chicago Chapter.) For more information, contact Jim Babcock.