Fwd: LGG news & events: Sept. 29, 2009

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From: Louisville GreenGuide <louisville...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Subject: LGG news & events: Sept. 29, 2009

Louisville Green Guide
http://louisvillegreenguide.org
 
 
Events: October 1 - 11, 2009

 

• Friday, October 2, 8pm. Dark Skies, Why We Need Them. UofL Planetarium.
  
• Saturday, October 3, 8am - Noon. Fall mulch and compost sale. Louisville Zoo, 1100 Trevilian Way.
  
• Saturday, October 3, 9am - Noon. Falls of the Ohio Canoe Trip. Meet at the Interpretive Center at 9am or at the boat ramp on Harrison Avenue by 9:30am.
  
• Saturday, October 3, 9am - Noon. Olmsted Parks Volunteer Event: Cherokee Park. Meet at parking lot at Lexington and Ledge Roads. Register with Sarah Wolff at 502-456-1623 or sarah...@olmstedparks.org.
  
• Saturday, October 3, 9:30am - 12:30pm. Falls of the Ohio Walking Tour. Meet at the Interpretive Center.
  
• Saturday, October 3, 10am - 5pm. Louisville Solar Tour. Green Building, 732 E. Market Street.
  
• Saturday, October 3, 1 - 3pm. Olmsted Parks Event: Get oriented in Cherokee Park. Meet at Baringer Hill Pavilion. Register with Sarah Wolff at 502-456-1623 or sarah...@olmstedparks.org.
  
• Saturday, October 3, 1 - 4pm. Olmsted Parks Volunteer Event: Cherokee Park. Meet at Old Seminary Road along Beargrass Road below Barrett Hill Road. Register with Sarah Wolff at 502-456-1623 or sarah...@olmstedparks.org.
  
• Saturday, October 3, 4pm. Stone Soup Event. Green Building, 732 Market St.
  
• Tuesday, October 6, 5pm. Master (Park) Plans Public Meeting. St. James Church school auditorium.
  
• Wed., October 7, Noon - 1:45pm. Louisville Sustainability Forum. Barn behind the Passionist Monastery, 1924 Newburg Rd.
  
• Wed., October 7, 7:30pm. Kentucky premier of Coal Country. Kentucky Theatre, 214 E. Main Street, Lexington, KY.
  
• Saturday, October 10, 9am - Noon. Olmsted Parks Volunteer Event: Iroquois Park. Meet at Amphitheater. Register with Sarah Wolff at 502-456-1623 or sarah...@olmstedparks.org.
  
• Saturday, October 10, 9:30am - 12:30pm. Falls of the Ohio Walking Tour. Meet at the Interpretive Center.
  

• Saturday, October 10, 1 - 3pm. Olmsted Parks Event: Walk in the Woods at Cherokee Park. Meet at Baringer Hill Pavilion. Register with Sarah Wolff at 502-456-1623 or sarah...@olmstedparks.org.
  
• Sunday, October 11, 2-4pm. Sustainable Louisville Network's 11th Day Event. Amazing Green Planet, 1301 Herr Lane, Suite 117.

 
News:  September 17 - 29, 2009

 

• KREC Announces its 2009 Competitive Grants Program Awards
  
• Thin-film solar
  
• City providing landfill site for botanical project (C-J)
   
• Riverview Park work to get under way (C-J)
  
• Abramson seeks entrants for 'Kilowatt Crackdown' (C-J)
  
• Meetings to discuss plans for Tyler and Cherokee Parks (C-J)
  
• Cleanup volunteers (C-J)
  
• Paul Krugman on climate change (C-J)
  
• MSD, LG&E and trees (C-J)
  
• All about trees (C-J)
  
• EPA announces plan for surface mining study (H-L)
  
• Ky. lawmakers may address recycling electronics (H-L)
  
• Harnessing the sun (H-L)
  
• Surface mine inspections drop in state (H-L)
  
• EPA says state must re-evaluate power plant (H-L)
  
• Video: Paul Osterlund is confronting water scarcity with a remarkable idea
  
• Chris Turney: Lessons of climates past
  
• Videos: Bob Berman explains Biocentrism and one Astrophysicist's take
  
• Bert Hölldobler on the Superoganism
  
• Healthy Food & Local Farming conference
  
• Initial phase of $40 million Riverview Park to begin (Barry's Bike Blog)
  
• Boulder, Louisville, and press coverage of crashes (Barry's Bike Blog)
  
• Safe bike routes for Louisville
  
• 'Green' roof is Kentucky's largest
  
• Brown-Forman high on 'green' ranking (Business First)
  
• Criticism mounts as tires pile up
  
• How we deal with crashes
  
• Car free day flash mob - Tuesday (cartky.org)
  
• Impact of federal climate legislation on agriculture (KRC)
  
• Reflections on KRC and the Virginia Environmental Endowment (KRC)
  
• World Car Free Day: Sept. 22 (IPL)
  
• Needed: Kentucky Conservation committee campus liaisons
  
• Job opening: Communications and Outreach Director (IPL)
  
• Community Farm Alliance 2009 Jefferson County Campaign FAQs
  
• Proposed Actions (APCD)
  
• Energy audit could mean more than $30 million in savings for UofL
  
• City of Jeffersonville agrees to upgrade sewer systems
  
• UofL gets OK to shrink its carbon footprint (UofL)
  
• Birth control could fight climate change (WLKY)
  
• Tunnel to bridge now in question (C-J)
  
• FDA to be aggressive in tobacco regulation (C-J)
  
• Secondhand smoke risks underestimated, survey finds (C-J)
  
• History of the environmental movement (C-J)
  
• Mayor Abramson, friend of coal? (C-J)
  
• Air regulators back down (C-J)
  
• Trimble ash pond safe, EPA says (C-J)
  
• Bringing back the VET? (C-J)
  
• Utility CEO under "incredible pressure" about mtr (KFTC)
  
• Where have all the solar factories gone? (KFTC)
  
• Proposed amendment to APCD regulation 2.08 (Metro Newsroom)
  
• Governor Beshear announces $28.7 million in improvements for Interstate 65 (KIPDA)
  
• KIPDA provides coordinated human services plan public review

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