Meet the M at Mpower Events
April, 2008
4.13.2008
Time: 3 -7 pm
Food, Faith and Earth Day event - see event flyer list below for details
( 7118 Old Sauk Road )
Care of Creation is not just a slogan. It is increasingly something Christians are attending to. An interdenominational group of ministers and lay leaders is organizing a special Earth Day event featuring local food & faith exhibits and workshops and a keynote presentation at 4 pm by Wisconsin’s own Christian environmental leader, Cal DeWitt.
This free event is followed by a special local food dinner prepared by Barbara Wright of the Dardanelles . Dinner seating is limited; $8 for advance reservations, $12 at the door. Sunday, April 13, 3-7 pm at Madison Christian Community ( 7118 Old Sauk Road ). For more information about the meal or to make dinner reservations e-mail harvestofhope@tds.net or call 824-1761.
4.16.2008,
Time: 7:30 am - 4:30 pm
Second Annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference
www.nelson.wisc.edu/outreach/climate_change/index.htm
(Monona Terrace)
Registration deadline: Tuesday, April 8th, 4:00 PM
4.18.2008,
Time: 12 - 4 pm
Habitat ReStore Earth Day Celebration
www.restoredane.org/news.cfm#66
(208 Cottage Grove Rd, Madison)
4.26.2008,
Time: 9 am – 6 pm
Isthmus Green Day
www.thedailypage.com/green/schedule.php
(Monona Terrace)
If you are interested in volunteering for any of the events posted above, please contact
Jessie at jessie@sustaindane.org
Faith, Food and Earth Day 2008
A Celebration of Creation
Date: Sunday April 13th
Time: 3:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Madison Christian Community
7118 Old Sauk Road
Madison
Phone: (608) 824-1760
Event features and schedule are included on the flyer
Pathways to Health and Healing
Save the Date: Monday, April 14th and Tuesday April 15
Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center
This two-day conference focuses on improving/enhancing/greening your internal and external
environments. Practical tools for clinicians.
Guest Speaker: Karl-Henrik Robert, MD, PhD. Founder of The Natural Step International.
Sponsored in part by UW Health Integrative Medicine.
Conference registration materials
and conference agenda are located on the Integrative Medicine web site.
Wisconsin Union Directorate
Distinguished Lecture Series Presents
Guest Lecture: Dr. Karl Henrik Robert
Date: April 15th
Time: 7:30 pm.
Location: UW-Madison, Mills Hall - Humanities Building
Tickets not necessary
Karl-Henrik Robert, MD, PhD, is one of Sweden's foremost cancer scientists as well as founder of The Natural Step.
The Natural Step focuses on ways for businesses and communities to approach social, ecological and economic sustainability.
In 1999 Dr. Robčrt won the Green Cross Award for International Leadership, and in 2000 he won the Blue Planet Prize, the ‘Nobel prize’
for ecological sustainability, sponsored by the Asahi Glass Foundation. Over the last two years, sixteen Wisconsin communities have
officially adopted The Natural Step sustainability framework and are committed to incorporating principles of sustainability into
their community and municipal planning processes, policy and projects.
7th Annual Habitat for Humanity ReStore Earth Day Celebration
Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Location: Habitat for Humanity ReStore
208 Cottage Grove Rd
Madison, WI.
Contact: Jen Voichick, Director
Telephone: (608) 661-2813 Fax: (608) 661-2840
Email: jvoichick@restoredane.org
Web site: www.restoredane.org
Open to the public, no fee, free refreshments, Earth Day activities for children and free parking.
Seventh annual Earth Day celebration featuring a Recycle/Reuse Art
Auction and hosting 15+ earth-friendly exhibition booths providing information
on green building, sustainable living and other recycling/reuse options.
Exhibitors include: Artisan Exteriors, Bike Federation of Wisconsin,
Blue Heron Natural Builders, Community Car, EnAct, EcoFriendly Flooring,
Full Spectrum, Focus on Energy, MG&E, MPower Campaign, Olbrich Garden,
Sustain Dane Rain Barrels, Sustainable Times, Madison Stuff Exchange, Clean
Sweep, Isthmus Green Day, Earth & Water Works, Green Jeans Insulation,
Woodlanders Gathering.
May Events
Event: Interfaith Sustainable Travel to Worship
Location: Your House of Faith
Date: Any day in May
Website: http://www.madison.com/communities/faith/pages/May1.php
Contact: Susan De Vos
email address: atwfus@tds.net
Be part of the solution. Although some people use a sustainable travel mode all the time, we have designed a
May celebration to highlight the behavior. We have established a special, optional state-wide friendly competition
between congregations to record the highest proportion of all trips to worship that use a car-limited transit mode
during a weekend or day in May. Top congregations receive modest acknowledgment (for the last couple years that has
been a small plaque). Your involvement can be simple.
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