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SPG continues to work at finding more ways for Pacific Grove to transition to more sustainable practices..
SPG Activities
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OPEN MEETING ON SUSTAINABILITY!
WHAT CAN WE DO IN 2014 TO MAKE PG A BETTER PLACE ON
PLANET EARTH?
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
Wednesday, January 8, 7 to 8:30 pm
SPG invites all PG residents to start the year with a brain-storming
session:
What do you want from SPG in 2014?
What can we do together to make our city more
sustainable?
What issues are most important to you and your
family?
Energy? Traffic and transportation? Coastal
conservation? Public water? What else?
SPG needs your ideas, input, feedback, and active engagement.
If we want a sustainable community, we must all be part of it!
Your opinion is important and your participation essential!
Join us for an evening of lively interaction.
No presentation, but dynamic exchanges in small groups or a big circle.
Please come and add your voice!
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At the February Program
"Passive House Revolution"
What is the Passive House revolution that is catching on in the US and abroad? What examples are here on the Monterey Peninsula, including Pacific Grove?
Can Passive House principles be applied to your home to make it more efficient, comfortable, healthy, and environmentally responsible? What advancements in building products and practices have made this possible?
All these questions and more will be answered in the discussion following a short film and presentation by Jay Gentry. Jay is a founding member of Energy First, a national non-profit building-trade association, and director of CHERP (Community Home Energy Retrofit Program), which works in communities to promote residential retrofits that save energy and make homes more comfortable and healthy while reducing carbon emissions.
If you would like a free consultation in your home, you can sign up at the end of the program.
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SPG 2014 Programs
January 9,
program
"An Open Meeting on Sustainability in PG"
February 12,
program
"Passive House Revolution"
With Jay Gentry, Director of
Community Home Energy Retrofit Program
and
Laurie Warner, P.G. passive house owner
March 12,
program
"Fracking Monterey County?"
View "Gasland 2"
April 5,
PG Good Old Days parade, SPG marches.
April 5 & 6,
SPG has a booth on Lighthouse.
April 19,
Earth Day in the Garden, with many special guests.
May 14,
program
"Local Water Issues:
An Evening Forum of Young Voices"
June 11,
program
"Green Businesses in PG"
July 9
Annual SPG Potluck Picnic
(summer vacation)
September 28,
Green Living Tour
How homes and businesses in PG have become more sustainable.
October 8
"White Water - Black Gold"
A video
November 11
"Rebels with a Cause"
A video
December 9
SPG Holiday Party
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March SPG Program
"Fracking Monterey County?"
View "Gasland 2"
Gasland 2, a follow up on the original Gasland film, offers a deeper, broader look at the dangers of
hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. This destructive method of extracting natural gas and oil is now
occurring on a global level and carries added risks in our own backyard, Monterey County,
where its heavy impacts on water are an extra cost.
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Pacific Grove's Good Old Days.
Saturday April 5th, we walked or biked in the Parade,
and a few rode in an electric car.
THEN
On Saturday and Sunday, April 5 & 6th,
we tabled all day on Lighthouse.
April 19, Saturday
Earth Day at the
PG Community Gardening
Lots more information here.
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May 14 Program
"Local Water Issues:
An Evening Forum of Young Voices"
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
7:00 to 8:30 PM
Please join us as Monterey Peninsula students share research
and new ideas for water solutions in an era of climate change,
moderated by Dr. Carol Reeb, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University.
Participants Include:
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Monterey International School, Grade 5
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Monterey Institute of International Studies: winners of "Wicked Water Challenge"
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Monterey County Science Fair: winners of Water award
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June 11 Program
"Sustainable Business Practices:
Save money and increase exposure."
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
7:00 to 8:30 PM
Come and learn the many ways that local businesses have and can become more susainable and save money too.
Participants Include:
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Local businesses,
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Gabby Carbajal, Environmental Health Specialist,
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Abbie Beane from the Offset Project.
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July Picnic
The Annual SPG Picnic
July 9, from 6pm until we stop talking.
Elmarie Dyke Open Space, PG
Here is the
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(SPG was on vacation in August. )
Sunday, September 28, 11 am to 4 pm
SPG's first
Green Living Tour
Visiting homes and gardens in PG
with sustainable features and get inspired!
SPG presents Pacific Grove's first Green Living Tour, featuring homes and gardens that model energy
and water conservation, waste reduction, food production, and more.
The staging station will be in front of the PG Museum of Natural History, featuring its own
attractive drought tolerant garden of native plants.
1. FREE - sign up at the Museum, pick up your map, and enter the drawing for prizes!
2. Take the self-guided tour of homes & gardens. Meet neighbors and get inspired!
3. Go home and put your new ideas to work for you!
A drawing for prizes, local goods & services, will be held at sign up. SPG greatly appreciates donations
to the drawing from the following businesses and agencies:
Passionfish restaurant,
Happy Girl Kitchen
Sprouts Boutique
BookWorks
MRWMD
In-Shape Fitness Center
Solex / Applied Solar Energy
Everyone's Harvest
October 8
"White Water - Black Gold"
A video
Heard a lot lately about the controversy of the Keystone XL pipeline project, which will facilitate exporting
Canada's dirty tar sands oil through the US? About the pressure on Obama to approve this ill-advised project?
The documentary "White Water, Black Gold" is a sober look at the untold costs (to water and people)
associated with developing the second largest deposit of "oil" in the world. To be mentioned too,
exploiting the tar sands increases CO2 emissions to an untenable level,
if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change.
The documentary will be followed by a discussion, and a call to action to bolster our politicians'
resolve to oppose the Keystone pipeline project. The reality of climate change demands action.
Program flyer.
November 12
"Rebels with a Cause"
A video
7 to 8:30 pm
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
If you have missed the recent showing of this film at the Osio, here is your chance to see it for free.
"Rebels With a Cause", is an unforgettable documentary about how the power of people can make a
difference and effect change.
Join us and get inspired, uplifted and motivated with all that is possible.
Program flyer.
SPG Holiday Party
On December 10th, 7 pm at the Museum
Sustainable Pacific Grove held our usual December party.
SPG Holiday Party Information
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