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Charlotte Clean and Green - A Landmark Event

On April 18, 19 and 21, our local Sierra Club co-sponsored the Charlotte region's inaugural green educational festival, Charlotte Clean and Green with our partners Central Piedmont Community College and US Green Building Council, Charlotte Chapter. From 1500 - 1700 people attended Clean and Green activities, including green building classes organized by USGBC Charlotte, exhibits of green technologies, green-your-home classes, and a showing of the award winning film, Kilowatt Ours. Of the more than 30 classes offered, virtually all were filled to capacity. Saturday saw the main quad at CPCC filled with 54 exhibitor tents featuring solar energy systems, hybrid cars, Food Lion's massive tractor with it's energy efficiency upgrades, electric and propane powered lawn mowers, green roofs, recycling, earth friendly insulation and building products, and non-toxic cleaning agents. The BBQ lunch featured pork raised at Grateful Growers farm. Bluegrass and blues kept the kids dancing and a featured presentation by TV's Simple Living creators Wanda Urbanska and Frank Levering rounded out the day.

Check out the Charlotte Clean and Green slide show in our photo gallery. (To be posted soon)

The producers of Charlotte Clean and Green wish to thank the more than 100 volunteers and our many sponsors that made this event a success. Thanks to Wachovia Foundation, Earth Fare, GreenFiber, Food Lion, Topics Education, Argand Energy, Innovative Solar Solutions, Perkins+Will, WFAE, Southern Energy Management, Wallace Farm, Charlotte Business Journal, Carolina Foam, Environmental Resource Partners, and the Vyne on Central.

Catawba Center for the Environment to host Faith, Spirituality and Environmental Stewardship Conference
May 29-31 at the Catawba College in Salisbury.

This gathering is an interfaith conference and forum addressing environmental issues from a spiritual prospective.

If you have not yet attended a program at the Catawba Center for the Environment, here is your chance to visit this beautiful building in its 150 acre natural setting. Our good friend and partner Dr. John Wear, Director of the Center has put together this dynamic conference featuring internationally known speakers in the area of environmental stewardship. Here are brief highlights and appropriate links for more information:

The Center for the Environment at Catawba College presents

"The Earth is Tired:
A Concert for Renewal"
Ethos Chamber Singers & Players,
Paul Oakley conducting

8 p.m., Thursday, May 29
Omwake Dearborn Chapel, Catawba College

Tickets: $25
All proceeds go to the Center for the Environment

"Bringing Faiths Together To Respond to Global Climate Change"
By the Rev. Canon Sally Bingham
President & Founder of Interfaith Power & Light

"Serving God to Save the Planet"
By Dr. Matthew Sleeth
Author of Serve God, Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action

7 p.m., Friday, May 30
Hedrick Little Theater, Catawba College
Tickets: $15

Fully engage in the interfaith conference:
"Faith, Spirituality & Environmental Stewardship"

May 29-31
Come for one, two or all three days!

$65 to $150 depending on choices Center for the Environment

Catawba College
2300 West Innes Street
Salisbury, North Carolina

For tickets or more information: 704.637.4294
or go to www.CenterfortheEnvironment.com

Next Meeting and Upcoming Events

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Central Piedmont Group meeting

	Come and see Don Rosenburg present on Instant Organic Garden, his homegrown company that sells easy to maintain and grow compact gardens. Says Rosenburg, "my goal is to take out 90% of the physical work in getting your garden started and keeping it running." Don will present some tips and tricks for easy and successful gardening. Please visit his website for more info.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Central Piedmont Group meeting
	Justin Rowell will speak to our group about green remodeling and his company Greenmodeling. He will show us green remodeling examples and offer affordable green living tips to promote a healthy and environmentally friendly home and life. Please visit his website for more info.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Central Piedmont Group meeting
	Professor John Kunich of Charlotte School of Law will present materials based on his published work on Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law. His published work includes two books, Ark of the Broken Covenant: Protecting the World’s Biodiversity Hotspots and Killing Our Oceans: Dealing with the Mass Extinction of Marine Life.