March 2010
 
Less than one week to go to the Gala Summit Event! This event, featuring James Howard Kunstler is shaping up to be a real powerhouse! Kunstler is a provocative speaker. Nearly 200 people will be in the audience and we have a fascinating discussion panel scheduled to follow the talk (after we enjoy some delicious appetizers from the Gelston House). Get the few remaining tickets now!

If that is not enough, ECCoLoV President Michael Harris will be featured on WESU's 88.1 FM radio show, The Bauer Hour, for a full hour with Mr. Kunstler. Listen in today (March 1st) at 4 PM for this preview of the event.

In April we will host a work party at our Annual Meeting, a chance to report on our work in 2009, deepen plans for 2010, and come together in community sharing some of the more routine tasks needed to keep ECCoLoV a vibrant and viable non-profit entity. We also present below information about the upcoming Awakening the Dreamer symposium ECCoLoV will sponsor on May 2.

As always, it is you and the energy you bring to ECCoLoV that allows us to continue moving forward. Please join us in these exciting efforts over the coming months!

James Howard Kunstler
Keynote Address
Saturday, March 6, 2010

Our annual summit event is scheduled for Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 4 to 8 PM at the Gelston House in East Haddam. This is a gala affair featuring a keynote address by James Howard Kunstler, delicious appetizers, a cash bar and a panel discussion about the Transition Town initiative. It is a must-see event!

Tickets are just $25 and can be obtained from www.earthcharterct.org or at the door on March 6. If you have supported ECCoLoV in the past, won't you buy a ticket now as a way of continuing this support? THANK YOU!

James Howard Kunstler is the author of a number of books, including The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape; The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil; and World Made by Hand, a novel of America's post-oil future. He has appeared on The Colbert Report, and is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.

He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA, the APA, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948, where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State University of New York, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. He lives in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York.

Doors open at 3:30 PM for complementary snacks. We'll feature the keynote address from 4:00 to 5:30, then hors' d'oeuvres and a live panel discussion focusing on community level responses for creating a sustainable future.

Monthly Meeting
2.00pm on Sunday March 14, 2010 at the EAST HADDAM GRANGE, Town Street, East Haddam.

The March 12th meeting will feature Food, Inc. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

Come discuss Food, Inc. at The Grange right here in East Haddam.

Future events
Sunday, April 11 at 2 PM we will feature our annual meeting/work party as the theme of the monthly meeting.

Sunday, May 2 at 1 PM we will feature the Awakening the Dreamer symposium in the place of our regular meeting. We have moved the date to avoid meeting on Mother's Day!

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