Save the Date!
The April meeting of the Ewing Community Gardens is this week. All are welcome.
Date: Wednesday, April 17
Time: 7 – 9 p.m.
Location: Ewing Senior and Community Center (ESCC)
Author: ewinggreenteam
Community organization focused on environmental issues
March Green Team Meeting
The monthly meeting of the Ewing Township Sustainable Green Team will be held on Wednesday, March 27th. All are welcome.
Green Team members, please read the February minutes prior to attending so that they can be approved.
Where: Ewing Senior and Community Center 999 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing, NJ 08628 When: Wednesday, March 27th from 7 – 9 p.m.
Environmental Film at TCNJ Tonight!
You’re Invited!
Learn more about sustainable living and how to decrease your impact on our planet’s resources. Attend the new Bonner Environmental Film Series at The College of New Jersey this winter.
Crude Impact “It took hundreds of millions of years for petroleum to form on Earth. It took just 150 years for human beings to bleed the planet of roughly half of this oil.” Crude Impact is a must see documentary on world Peak Oil and its impact of irreversible decline on the world social, political, economic, and political order. Reviewers describe the impact of this film as disturbing, amazing, eye-opening, and impressive. See it for yourself and decide.
Date: March 25th
Time: Film showing at 7:30 p.m. followed by a discussion
Location: TCNJ, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ 08628 – Education Building Room 115 (driving directions)
Free Parking in Lots 4-6
Campus Map: http://tcnj.pages.tcnj.edu/files/2011/01/campus-map-2011.pdf
Co-sponsored by the (TCNJ) President’s Climate Commitment Committee, the Ewing Environmental Commission, the Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement & the Ewing Green Team.
Trifecta of Green Team Sustainability Events – Saturday March 23rd
Saturday, March 23rd promises to be a busy day for environmental causes in Ewing. The day starts out early with the Ewing Community Gardens Cleanup at Whitehead Road Extension. At midday, the Ewing Green Team will co-host the Living Local Expo with Sustainable Lawrence, the Hopewell Valley Green Team and the Mercer County Office of Economic Development and Sustainability, a green fair at Lawrence High School Commons. We will top it off in the evening with participation in Earth Hour where individuals and communities around the globe turn off their lights from 8:30 – 9:30 p.m. as a symbolic gesture of support for planet.
Ewing Community Gardens
Time: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Location: Whitehead Road Extension, Ewing
Township staff has been hard at work this week preparing the community gardens for the spring gardening season. The expansion of the gardens has begun and the amount of land available for gardeners will be almost doubled. [Don’t forget to sign up for a plot ASAP to ensure that you get one.] Truckloads of wood chips have been delivered to the site for use on the site paths, courtesy of Mercer County and Britton Industries. Township staff is also busy preparing to install the new water line and outlining the site fencing.
On Saturday the gardeners will be joined by a cohort of young volunteers from the College of New Jerey for the spring site clean up. The cleanup will run from 8 – 4 and cleanup from last year will be undertaken along with setting out and mulching the paths for the coming season. All gardeners are invited. Be sure to wear sturdy and washable footwear. [The geese have visited!]
Living Local Expo
Time: noon – 4 p.m.
Location: The Commons at Lawrence High School, 2525 Princeton Pike Lawrenceville
The 6th Annual Living Local Expo, organized by Sustainable Lawrence in partnership with the green teams from Lawrence, Ewing, Hopewell, and the Mercer County Office of Economic Development and Sustainability, will run from noon until 4 p.m. at the Commons at Lawrence High School. It will feature hands-on workshops, displays from 40-plus local businesses and non-profits, and the “Ask your Neighbor” table where visitors can hear how homeowners and businesses completed successful energy-efficient projects. Speakers will discuss a variety of sustainability issues ranging from local farms, school gardening & projects, to the future of transportation and recycling in Mercer County, and more. It promises to be an exceptional event.
Admission is free.
Earth Hour 2013
Time: 8:30 – 9:3o p.m.
March 23rd is also the date that the world unites to take a stand against climate change. Earth Hour is a global movement that endeavors to unite people around the world in making a commitment to save the planet. It has been held annually at the end of March since 2007. Its goal is to unite communities from across the world celebrating a commitment to the planet by switching off lights for one designated hour wherever you are in the world. Turning of the lights is the symbolic gesture. Organizers ask individuals, communities, schools, businesses and governments to couple that with pledges of positive actions toward a sustainable future.
What green initiatives can you undertake as part of your stand against climate change?
Sixth Annual Living Local EXPO
When: SATURDAY, MARCH 23rd 12 PM – 4 PM
Where: Lawrence High School Commons, 2525 Princeton Pike, Lawrence Twp. 08648
FREE Admission
This year’s 6th Annual Expo, organized in cooperation with the sustainable communities in Mercer County: Ewing, Lawrence and Hopewell Green Teams, the Lawrence Township School District and the Mercer County Office of Sustainable Development, promises to be better than ever with the inclusion of electric cars, local farms and cooking demonstrations, hands-on workshops and the “Ask your Neighbor” table. Enjoy a full Expo floor and schedule of presenters and demonstrations throughout the afternoon.
Highlights
- Several car dealers will bring their high efficiency models to see and test drive Ebikes, electric cars and more.
- Cooking demonstrations by local chefs. Learn about vegetable gardening and organic lawn care.
- Buy a freshly prepared, delicious lunch and get to know your local farmers at our
farmer’s market area. - Ask your neighbor about their experiences remodeling and performing energy efficiency projects. Get to know the inside scoop and the incentives that you can still get from NJ Clean Energy and other sources.
- Meet local schools and organizations to learn about projects, new biking paths and walking trails, and community projects.
- Donate your old bike to The Trenton Bike Exchange. Donate gently used medical equipment to Goodwill. They will have a drive in the parking lot. Learn where to recycle Styrofoam and other “unrecyclables”.
Exhibitors and presenters will show us many ways of conserving energy and the advantage of becoming sustainable.
- The Home & Energy Expo provides information and resources on everything local.
- Over 40 exhibitors and presentations, plus local food and games for children of all ages.
- Compare offers from many installers, auditors, service providers and more.
- Explore new eco-chic appliances, a green dry cleaners, a re-store and much more.
- Presentations include local school gardening and science projects, the Future of Transportation, MCIA about recycling in Mercer County, Mercer County Master Gardeners, Terracycle, Mrs Gs Appliances cooking demonstration.
- Learn about the new businesses moving into the area: Capital Health System, Frontier Airlines, Philly Ebikes…
Sustainable Ewing Green Team 