Medfield Green Moms
Welcome to Medfield Green
To date we have held meetings on Plastics, Lawn Care and Pesticides, Skin Care, Bug Spray and Sunscreen, Healthy Eating/Local Eating, Reducing our Carbon Footprint, ideas to "Green" your holiday, Recycling, Green Cleaning, Composting, Personal Care Products, Water, and Reducing Energy in your home. In addition we have held movie nights and organized two very successful Medfield Green Days, a one stop reuse event. In 2011 we are planning meetings on learning about Holistic Health options, making green choices at our local grocery stores, and more! We are excited about our group and would love to have you join us, in person at a meeting, or just via email and the web! Use the "Contact Us" button to join our e-mailing list and keep up to date with upcoming meetings and events as well as helpful tidbits from other Green friends in Medfield and beyond!
2011 - 2012 Events and Activities
Upcoming Events and Activities...
Thursday February 2nd Movie Night. Social at 7:15, Movie Starts at 7:30 Sharp
If you are concerned about what toxic lawn chemicals are doing to our environment, your family, your pets and your water you can't miss this film!
The award-winning documentary film, A Chemical Reaction - while being a heart-warming, inspirational, human-interest story about the origin of the natural lawn care movement in Canada and the U.S. - is also a powerful tool for individuals and organizations interested in reducing and/or eliminating pesticides from the environment, especially around homes and schools. This is a story about how one relentless and slightly crazy lady was able to bring about change in the law in one town banning all pesticides and herbicides. The town then fought some of the biggest chemical lawn companies all the way to the supreme court in Canada. Very inspiring and empowering! Run time 80 minutes
Location: Home of Michele Stahl, 11 Carriage Lane (off Harding St) Medfield (Last house at the end of the street). 508-242-9842 Come casual and lets kick our feet up. RSVP and bring friends! Come for part or all of the film to RSVP: Call Michele at 508-242-9842 or email: k_mstahl@comcast.net.
Stay tuned: We feel this is an issue many people are not informed about therefore we are offering a Special Program on "Natural Lawn Care" co-sponsored by New 'N Towne at the Center in Medfield on Thursday March 8th. More information to follow...
If you are concerned about what toxic lawn chemicals are doing to our environment, your family, your pets and your water you can't miss this film!
The award-winning documentary film, A Chemical Reaction - while being a heart-warming, inspirational, human-interest story about the origin of the natural lawn care movement in Canada and the U.S. - is also a powerful tool for individuals and organizations interested in reducing and/or eliminating pesticides from the environment, especially around homes and schools. This is a story about how one relentless and slightly crazy lady was able to bring about change in the law in one town banning all pesticides and herbicides. The town then fought some of the biggest chemical lawn companies all the way to the supreme court in Canada. Very inspiring and empowering! Run time 80 minutes
Location: Home of Michele Stahl, 11 Carriage Lane (off Harding St) Medfield (Last house at the end of the street). 508-242-9842 Come casual and lets kick our feet up. RSVP and bring friends! Come for part or all of the film to RSVP: Call Michele at 508-242-9842 or email: k_mstahl@comcast.net.
Stay tuned: We feel this is an issue many people are not informed about therefore we are offering a Special Program on "Natural Lawn Care" co-sponsored by New 'N Towne at the Center in Medfield on Thursday March 8th. More information to follow...
The complete calendar of events and activities is on our Calendar Page.
Some History........
We began our group to support each other in learning more about "going green". Almost immediately we were overwhelmed with interest from our friends and neighbors. Within a few months we realized that "Green Moms" wasn't a broad enough name as many others (like Dads!) wanted to belong. So, we have just recently updated from Medfield Green Moms to Medfield Green. We hope that people that are "all shades of green" join us at our meetings. Please join our email list to get complete information about upcoming meetings and events.
Founding Steering Committee
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Jill E. Driscoll
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Ingrid Nevins
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Cheryl Durr Patry
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Megan Brott Sullivan
Meeting History, Topic, Speaker/Leader (Visit the Past Meetings Page for More Information)
- November 2011 – Local Shopping Night and Social, Butterfly Tree Gift Boutique
- November 2011 – Movie Night “Simple Steps to a Greener Home" by Planet Green
- October 2011 – Going Green Around the Home, Sustainable Life Solutions
- September 2011 – Medfield Day
- June – September 2011 – Medfield Green at the Medfield Farmer’s Market
- June 2011 – Year End Social and Wrap up at Basil Restaurant
- April 2011 – Medfield Green Day
- April 2011 - Shopping Green Locally
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March 2011 -Exploring Holistic Modalities
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December 2010, "Green" Yankee Swap and Social night
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November 2010, Cosmetics and Skin Care. Information on the Green Info page; Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow
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October 2010, Movie Night, Food, Inc.
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June 2010, Social night and planning meeting, at the Peace Abby, Sherborn, MA
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May 2010, Greening your cleaning, Leslie Richert,cosponsored by Memorial and Dale Street CSAs
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May 2010, Healthy Eating, Healthy People, Healthy Planet; Food Interest Group
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April 2010, 2nd Annual Medfield Green Day, (a community collection and redistribution event); Medfield Green Committee: Liz Bless, Laura Eselius, Susan Holbrook, Cindy McCahill, Bonnie Tragakis, Donna White, Susan Wilson...and many more!
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April 2010, Movie Night; The Story of Stuff and Zero Waste
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February 2010, Water Quality and Conservation; Lynn Gilleland, EPA and Ken Feeney, Superintendent of Public Works, Medfield
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November 2009, Energy Conservation in Your Home, Fred Bunger, Marie Nolan, Cynthia Greene, Medfield Energy Com.
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October 2009, Choosing Personal Care Products, Susan Garramone, Sisterra, inc.
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May 2009, Going Green Around the Home; Laura Kischitz, Sustainable Life Solutions
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May 2009, Medfield Green Moms Celebrates Year 1 and CSA information; Nicole Lewis
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May 2009, Medfield Green Day (a community collection and redistribution event); Community Service Committee: Laura Eselius, Liz Bless, Maureen Howells, Cindy McCahill
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April 2009, Green Gardening including composting; Betty Sanders, Master Gardener
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March 2009, Green Cleaning; Leslie Reiker, The Cleaning Coach
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February 2009, BPA – what is it and how to eliminate it fro baby/toddler products. Namasha Schelling and Elizabeth Saunders, Alliance for a Healthy Tommorrow.
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January 2009, Reduce, Recycle, Reuse; Megan Sullivan
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October 2008, Greening your Holidays; Founding Steering Committee with Laura Eselius and Ron White
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September 2008, Climate Change and Reducing our Carbon Footprint; Ingrid Nevis and speaker Dan Ruben
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June 2008, Eating Well and Eating Locally; Laura Einbinder
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May 2008, Sunscreen, Bug Spray and Skin Care; Jill Driscoll
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April 2007, Lawn Care; Michael Toft of Simply Safer Lawn Care
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March 2008, Plastics; Cheryl Patry
A complete calendar is on the Events Page
Contact Us
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