CT AMC Conservation Committee

Committee Meeting Agenda:

6:30-7:30 pm:         Speaker and Presentation

7:30-8 pm:    Committee Business (all are welcome!)

 

CFPA Building, Middlefield, CT:    Directions

 

2008 Guest Speakers                                                                                            -- back to top --

January, 2

Josh Friedman, Connecticut Fund for the Environment

February, 6

Adam Moore, Executive Director of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association

2008 Legislation Review

March, 5 Pizza Social and Movie
July, 2 Gus Kellogg, President/Founder Greenleaf Biofuels "Biofuels Role in Connecticut's Energy Future"

 

2007 Guest Speakers                                                                                            -- back to top --

January, 3

Adam Moore, Executive Director of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association

February, 7 Potluck Dinner & Viewing of Nova's Dimming the Sun.
March, 7 Heidi Green, Executive Director of 1,000 Friends of Connecticut, an organization dedicated to promoting smarter, more responsible development in Connecticut
April, 4  no speaker
May, 2  no speaker
June, 6 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 will speak on the scope of the invasive plant problem in Connecticut. How to identify Invasive Species? How to help eradicate them?
December, 5 Viewing of "Kilowatt Ours"

 

2006 Guest Speakers                                                                                            -- back to top --

January, 11

Birge Dayton, CT AMC Conservation/Trails Committees History and Development of Privies and Composters

February, 8 Dr. Fred Loxsam, Eastern Connecticut State University -- Institute for Sustainable Energy
March, 8 Christine Woodside, Appalachia editor, Author of "Homeowner's Guide to Energy Independence"
April, 12 Bob Wall, SmartPower Connecticut
May, 10 Terry Kinney, CT Fund for the Environment -- "CT's Clean Car Initiative"

2004 - 2005 Guest Speakers                                                                                -- back to top --

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/