upcoming EVENTS
Connect: GWA @ The Landscape Expo 2017 Wednesday, October 4-Thursday, October 5, Long Beach, California
Region I Regional Meeting“ The Telling of Selling” at Blithewold Gardens Friday, October 13, 9:00 AM 3:30 PM, Boston, Massachusetts
Region I Connect Meeting GWA @ New England Grows 2017 Saturday, December 1, Noon – 2:00PM Boston, Massachusetts
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The recent disintegration of the Larsen C ice shelf( along the inner peninsula at far left) created a trillion-ton iceberg and brought renewed attention to melting of polar ice.
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2018 GWA Annual Conference & Expo August 1-16, 2018, Chicago, Illinois
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CareerNext Summit 2018 September 15, 2018, Des Moines, Iowa
5. Coca Cola intends to double the amount of recycled plastic in all of its PET bottles over the next three years: https:// cdn. theguardian. tv / mainwebsite / 2017 / 06 / 29 / 170629PlasticBottles _ desk. mp4
6. Norway’ s government actively searches for opportunities to purchase from vendors who manage their products responsibly: http:// www. sustainablebusiness. com / norway-pledges-buy-zero-deforestation-products /
7. Islands present a unique opportunity to work out sustainability issues because they are a closed system of a relatively small size, population, infrastructure, etc., making it easier to test out and scale-up potential solutions.
a. Danish island of Samso uses 100 % renewable energy for power: https:// www. ecowatch. com / samso-worlds-first-100-renewable-energy-powered-island-is-a-beaconfor-1881905310. html
https:// understandsolar. com / can-learn-samso-100-renewable-island /
b. Hawaii has a statewide plan for sustainability that accepted input from all segments of its population. The plan could easily be used as a model for other communities: http:// www. oahumpo. org / wp-content / uploads / 2013 / 02 / Hawaii2050 _ Plan _ FINAL. pdf
Lois J. de Vries chairs the GWA Sustainability Committee and is Founding Executive Director of the Sustainable Gardening Institute and the Sustainable Gardening Library. She works and gardens in northwestern New Jersey.
Samsø, Denmark combined wind, solar, geothermal, and biofuel resources to power the entire island without using fossil fuel.
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