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Event Details
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Budget Panel.
3 R's.
Affluenza.
Panel on NH Budget Policy
Our state and local budgets are agreements we reach about what is most important to us and how we pay for it. But it's getting harder and harder to put our money where our mouth is. Our next budget deficit could be $600 million. Decisions at the state level affect us at the local level. Reductions here can mean increases there.
Saving now might cost more later. Today's decisions will ripple out for years to come. We're resourceful in New Hampshire, though; we can face the facts and discuss our options. At these forums, experts will explain the state budget and how it affects local budgets and school funding. They will connect the dots between revenue and services, exploring issues like the courts and corrections; health care, including mental health care; the state retirement system; and the many state programs that invest in people. Panelists will review solution options and take your questions. Come ask yours
- Steve Norton, Executive Director, NH Center for Public Policy Studies
- Brian Walsh, Chairman, Hanover Board of Selectmen
- Lisa Shapiro, Economist and Board Chair, NH Retirement System
- Dartmouth faculty moderator TBA
This event is organized by the New Hampshire Fair Tax Coalition; the LWV NH is a member of this coalition. The Rockefeller Center is a co-sponsor of the Oct 5th event.
The Three R's Revisited: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The Natural Resources Committee of the League of Women Voters of the Upper Valley Presents its 2010 Series on the Environment:
The Three R's Revisited: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Feb 1: Creating a Recycled Treasure
Bring a friend and join us at the AVA Gallery to hear
Stuart White, Senior Architect with Banwell Architects, discuss transforming this former garment factory into a LEED-certified art gallery.
- 5 to 7 pm, AVA Gallery, 11 Bank Street, Lebanon
- Admission: $10, includes wine, cheese and tour of building
Feb 17: Lebanon Landfill: A Hidden Treasure
Marc Morgan: Solid Waste Manager, City of Lebanon
Wayne Bonhag, President: Bonhag Associates
(Mechanical-Electrical-Energy Engineers)
- Converting methane to energy at the Lebanon landfill
- Landfills as a source of untapped energy
Feb 25: Recycling Plastics: Trash or Treasure?
Robert Malloy: Chair, Department of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts
- Economic and environmental impact of recycling plastics
- End products of recycled plastics
- Designing new products for enhanced recyclability
Co-sponsors: Sierra Club and Sustainable Hanover
Reycling Resources
Affluenza
Here's what the Library Journal had to say about Affluenza:
"De Graaf, producer of the PBS documentaries Affluenza (1996) and Escape from Affluenza (1998); David Wann, a former EPA staffer and expert on sustainable lifestyles; and Thomas H. Naylor, professor emeritus in economics at Duke, have assembled an updated and more in-depth look at the epidemic of overconsumption sweeping the United States and the rest of the world, based on de Graaf's documentaries. They define "affluenza" as "a painful, contagious, socially-transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more" and examine the spiraling cycle of overconsumption, spending, stress, and broken relationships caused by America's obsession with uncontrolled economic
growth at any cost. This witty yet hard-hitting book provides evidence of the social problems caused by the American obsession with acquiring "stuff" and proposes solutions for living more sustainably."
- Library Journal review
Sponsored by the LWV-UV and the Howe Library
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