From Audubon Society of Rhode Island:
Hi everyone, Happy President’s Day!
This month’s Environmental Book Club meetings are this week, on Tuesday (Bristol) and Wednesday (Smithfield). We will discuss a series of essays on forestry:
The story of Chipko, a movement in India that successfully challenged government forestry policy (and is the origin of the term “tree-hugger”): http://www.markshep.com/nonviolence/GT_Chipko.html
Writings by Mitch Lansky, a Maine low-impact forester—available at http://www.lowimpactforestry.org/ (“Big Oaks, Little Acorns,” “Not Wilderness,” and “Old Growth: A New Paradigm….”)
BRISTOL
Tuesday, February 19 7-8:30 pm
Audubon’s Environmental Education Center
Directions: http://www.asrieec.org/directions.htm
SMITHFIELD
Wednesday, February 20, 7-8:30 pm
Audubon’s Powder Mill Ledges Refuge
Directions: http://www.asri.org/pml.htm
See you there!
July Lewis
Policy Assistant
Audubon Society of RI
401-949-5454 x3044
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