Local Foods Week: September 24-30

Next week, several partners are coming together to celebrate Local Foods Week in Guilford County. This year, we're looking at food waste alongside our annual focus on support​ing local efforts.

Events are schedule each day from Sunday through Saturday. You can find additional information from the Guilford County Cooperative Extension at:

https://guilford.ces.ncsu.edu/2017/07/guilford-local-foods-celebration-june-2016/

Or on the Facebook page at:

https://www.facebook.com/guilfordeats/

Conversations on Sustainable and Socially Responsible Investing, September 28 at 3:30pm and November 16 at 8:30am

Dear UNCG and Greensboro communities,

The UNCG Sustainability Council is pleased to announce a series of Conversations on Sustainable and Socially Responsible Investing.

The first conversation "What is Sustainable and Socially Responsible Investing and Why Is It Important?" will be September 28 at 3:30 pm in the UNCG Faculty Center and will feature panelists Jill Hopke from DePaul University and Luis Hestres from the University of Texas at San Antonio.  This conversation will be hosted by Environmental & Sustainability Studies and Geography.

The second conversation "The Business of Investing Responsibly" will be November 16 at 8:30 am in the UNCG Faculty Center and will feature Ebony Perkins of Self Help Credit Union and Christopher Demetropoulos of Trillium Asset Management.  This conversation will be hosted by the Bryan School of Business and Economics.

Check here for more information on additional conversations:
https://sustainability.uncg.edu/conversations-sustainable-socially-responsible-investing/

See you at the Conversations!
Stephen Holland
Sustainability Faculty Fellow
Department of Economics 

Events at the Kathleen Clay Library This Summer

Planning and Planting for Pollinators - Monday, June 26 from 6:30 – 7:30 pm Gardeners need pollinators, and pollinators need gardeners too. Master Gardeners will teach how home gardens can provide important habitat for pollinators, especially in urban and suburban neighborhoods: year-round food sources, and places for the next generation to reach maturity. To register, call 336-641-2400. Kathleen Clay Library.

Growing Up WILD – Friday, June 30 from 9 – 3:30 pm Educators, and youth leaders join us for this workshop taught by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission. Receive a free curriculum and learn activities to help young children explore nature. To register, e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov . Kathleen Clay Library.

Wine to Water  - Thursday, July 6 from 10  – 11:30 amThe Newcomers Lighter Side of Reading Book Club  invites adults to join in a discussion of the book, Wine to Water: How One Man Saved Himself While Trying to Save the World. Kathleen Clay Library.

Forest Unseen - Friday, July 14 from 12 – 1  pmGreen Reads book club welcomes adults to join in the discussion of the book, Forest Unseen:  A Year’s Watch in Nature. You can pick up a copy at the branch prior to the program. Kathleen Clay Library.

 

Plarn – Saturday, July 15 from 1  – 3 pm Come learn how to make and craft with “Plarn” aka plastic bag yarn. Please bring: Q sized crochet hook (15-16mm), scissors, and at least 10 plastic bags. Find out how you can get involved in Operation Bed Roll by crocheting portable sleeping surfaces for people experiencing homelessness in Greensboro.  Kathleen Clay Library.

Hometown Habitat – Sunday, July 16 from 3 – 4:30 pm Come see the film, Hometown Habitat, Stories of Bringing Nature Home. This program is sponsored by the Native Plant Society. This film shares the critical role native plants play in the biodiversity of our ecosystems. Kathleen Clay Library.

Fall Vegetable Gardening  - Monday, August 14 from 6:30 – 7:30 pmMaster Gardeners will teach how to plan and plant for your fall garden.  Learn about season extenders and other tips and techniques to keep your garden growing well past the first frost. To register, call 336-641-2400. Kathleen Clay Library.

 

Sustainable Lawn Care  - Monday, August 28 from 6:30 – 7:30 pmMaster Gardeners will teach how to grow a healthy stand of grass with good planning and sensible management that can minimize issues with weeds, diseases and insects and still reduce the impact and expense of lawn chemicals. To register, call 336-641-2400. Kathleen Clay Library.

Inconvenient Truth - Wednesday, August 30 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Sponsored by Green Reads, join us for the showing of the, An Inconvenient Truth. This 2006 documentary film, discusses the dangers of climate change. Kathleen Clay Library.

Free Music This Summer!

Check out the MUSEP Concert Series 2017.

Monday April 10 at 5:30pm in Sullivan 201

Reception to Follow

        Primatologist and Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, Patricia Wright is the founder of Centre ValBio research station at Ranomafana National Park, where work is done to protect Madagascar’s unique and biologically diverse ecosystems.  She has made major contributions in the biology, ecology, conservation and behavior of living primates, especially the Malagasy lemurs.  In 2014 she was awarded the Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation.

        A member of the American Philosophical Society, she has received a MacArthur fellowship, the Hauptman-Woodward Pioneers of Science Award, and the Distinguished Primatologist Award of the American Society of Primatologists.  Her books include Madagascar:  Forests of Our Ancestors; High Moon over the Amazon:  My Quest to Understand the Monkeys of the Night; and For the Love of Lemurs:  My Life in the Wilds of Madagascar.  The 3D IMAX film, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, features her work.

Sponsored by: Phi Beta Kappa, UNCG’s College of Arts and Sciences, UNCG's Departments of Anthropology, of Geography, and of Biology, and UNCG's Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program.

For questions and disability accommodations: robert.anemone@uncg.edu

Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy "A Wild Solution for Climate Change"- Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 4-5 pm

Seminar in the UNCG Biology Department     

Sullivan Science Building Room 101
Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 4-5 pm

“A Wild Solution for Climate Change” will present an analysis of climate change through the lens of biology: Human release of CO2, ancient and modern photosynthetic products, impacts on biodiversity at different levels of scale, and how biology might assist in tackling this environmental juggernaut.

Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy, "the Godfather of Biodiversity," is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and University Professor in the Environmental Science and Policy Department at George Mason University. As a tropical biologist and conservation biologist, he has worked in the Amazon of Brazil since 1965. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in

biology from Yale University. Among his many accomplishments, Dr.Lovejoy is the recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2001), the Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2008) from the BBVA (Banco de Bilbao Viscaya Argentaria) Foundation, and the Blue Planet Prize (2012).

Dr. Lovejoy was the World Bank’s Chief Biodiversity Advisor and the Lead Specialist for Environment for Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Senior Advisor to the President of the United Nations Foundation. From 2008 to 2013, he served as the first Biodiversity Chair of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. Previously he served as President of the Heinz Center. He currently is Chair of the Scientific Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the multibillion-dollar funding mechanism for developing countries in support of their obligations under international environmental conventions.

Dr. Lovejoy introduced the term biological diversity to the scientific community in 1980. One of his notable accomplishments is development of the debt-for-nature swaps, in which environmental groups purchase shaky foreign debt on the secondary market and then convert this debt at its face value into the local currency to purchase biologically sensitive tracts of land in the debtor nation for purposes of environmental protection and conservation.

“Hundreds of thousands of species will perish, and this reduction of 10 to 20 percent of the earth's biota will occur in about half a human life span.... This reduction of the biological diversity of the planet is the most basic issue of our time.”

— Dr. Lovejoy's Foreword in Conservation Biology by Michael Soulé and Bruce Wilcox (1980).

2013 Tax Refunds Deadline 4/18/2017

For whatever reason, some people just do not file their tax returns and are missing out on a refund that could be due them. Many people who do not have a filing requirements (low income, etc.) should file because they are still entitled to a federal & state tax refunds of their withholding. The IRS gives you 4 yrs from a filing tax year to file a return for refund. After April 15th of the 4th year it is forfeited.

Outstanding 2013 returns must be filed by April 18, 2017 to get their refunds.

IRS Has Refunds Totaling $1 Billion for People Who Have Not Filed a 2013 Federal Income Tax Return

https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/irs-has-refunds-totaling-1-billion-for-people-who-have-not-filed-a-2013-federal-income-tax-return