Sustainable Shenandoah Meetings Through April 2010

We meet every Wednesday at Rainbow Hill - 6PM for dinner and social time, and our meetings start at 7PM. Schedule:

March 31 - 'Super Size Me' film screening: "Super Size Me" is one man's journey into the world of weight gain, health problems and fast food. It's an examination of the American way of life and how we are eating ourselves to death. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a 'McDonald's only' diet for thirty days straight. His Sundance award-winning feature is as entertaining as it horrifying as it dives into corporate responsibility, nutritional education, school lunch programs and how we as a nation are eating ourselves to death.

April 7 - project updates: Earth Day, Garden grant, garden plan, May Fest booth - donations, 'manning' etc.

April 14 - 'Troubled Waters' Film Screening:

A small town in northern Argentina is being poisoned by the very substance it needs to live. Discoveries have shown San Antonio de Los Cobres’ drinking water to be contaminated with arsenic levels 25 times higher than the World Health Organization’s accepted levels. Troubled Waters is a documentary film that will show the discovery of a poison being consumed daily by the people of Argentina and how nothing has been done about this crisis; until now. A determined group of people have brought together their resources and abilities to fight this global epidemic by providing a solution for the people of San Antonio de Los Cobres.

April 21 - 'Architecture To Zucchini' Film Screening: Essentially a teaching tool but inspiring to anyone interested in these issues, Architecture to Zucchini offers 12 case studies of "sustainability pioneers" — leaders in industries from wood processing plants to pizza joints that operate on sustainability principles, all based in and around the Portland, Oregon area. There are plenty of statistics here — 2.7 billion people in the world lack sanitation; 1 billion lack clean water; 20 percent of the population consumes 86 percent of the world's resources. These figures provide important background, but the real story here is that of pioneering businesspeople who are making their business work in tandem with sustainability principles.

April 28 - 'Farm of the Future' Film Screening