Past Committee Meetings, Guest Speakers and Accomplishments   

2009 Activities

• Dimming the Sun Potluck
• Conservation Hikes and Picnic - Hubbard Park, Meriden, CT
• Raised $1000 for Maine Woods Initiative Fund Drive to save an acre! More info...
• Invasive Species Hike & Identification - Bluff Point State Park
• Maine Woods Initiative Pancake Breakfast
• Bull's Bridge AT Cleanup

2008 Guest Speakers

January	Josh Friedman, Connecticut Fund for the Environment
February	Adam Moore, Executive Director of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association 2008 Legislation Review
March	Pizza Social and Movie
July	Gus Kellogg, President/Founder Greenleaf Biofuels "Biofuels Role in Connecticut's Energy Future"

2007 Guest Speakers

January	Adam Moore, Executive Director of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association
February	Potluck Dinner & Viewing of Nova's Dimming the Sun.
March	Heidi Green, Executive Director of 1,000 Friends of Connecticut, an organization dedicated to promoting smarter, more responsible development in Connecticut
April	no speaker
May	no speaker
June	Dr.Charlotte Pyle, Landscape Ecologist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Tolland & a working member of the Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group.  Dr. Pyle spoke on the scope of the invasive plant problem in Connecticut. How to identify Invasive Species? How to help eradicate them?
December	Viewing of "Kilowatt Ours"

2006 Guest Speakers

January	Birge Dayton, CT AMC Conservation/Trails Committees History and Development of Privies and Composters
February	Dr. Fred Loxsam, Eastern Connecticut State University -- Institute for Sustainable Energy
March	Christine Woodside, Appalachia editor, Author of "Homeowner's Guide to Energy Independence"
April	Bob Wall, SmartPower Connecticut
May	Terry Kinney, CT Fund for the Environment -- "CT's Clean Car Initiative"

2004 - 2005 Guest Speakers

October 2004	Shelley Greene; The Nature Conservancy – Salmon River conservation projects. http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/connecticut/
November 2004	Kim O’Rourke; Middletown Recycling Coordinator – computer and electronics recycling in Middletown http://www.cityofmiddletown.com/Public%20Works/Public%20Works.htm
December 2004	Roger Smith, CFPA – Spoke on Clean Water Action, CT Climate Coalition, and current climate legislation http://www.ctwoodlands.org/
April 2005	Patty Pendergast; CFPA – Spoke on ATV legislation http://www.ctwoodlands.org/
May 2005	Kristen Sykes, AMC Highlands Advocate and Katherine Rand, The Highlands Coalition -- spoke on Highlands Act, specifically in CT http://www.outdoors.org/conservation/wherewework/highlands/