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Join BGGreen and Verdi's Restaurant on the Square for the First Annual 50 Mile Dinner! On Thursday, October 16 (5-9pm) Verdi's Restaurant will be offering a special 50 Mile Dinner Menu, featuring delicious dishes prepared from locally-grown, locally-produced food and beverages within a 50 mile radius of Bowling Green. Au Naturel Farms, O'Daniel Farms, Chaney's Dairy Barn, John's Custom Meats, Greener Groundz and BG Brewing Company are a few that will be a part of this wonderful event, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to BGGreen. Action: Support your local farmers and businesses, and be sure to come on down to Verdi's on October 16!

Many congratulations to Seth Cude, who won the top School Network Prize for $40,000 from the Chase Go Green contest on Face Book last month! Christian Downing, Set has been active with Greentoppers Students for Campus Sustainability and the Drive for a Million campaign. Details are still being decided on how the award money will be used to help make WKUs campus more green.

“Nuclear power is continuing its decades-long collapse in the global marketplace because it’s grossly uncompetitive, unneeded, and obsolete—so hopelessly uneconomic that one needn’t
debate whether it’s clean and safe.” -Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

To help raise money for projects, BGGreen has partnered with LetsGoGreen.biz. Buy Green and help raise money for BGGreen. All items are eco-friendly and designed to save resources and money. Just visit www.LetsGoGreen.biz on the web, choose your items. At checkout, select BGGreen Partnership as your partner group and 25% of proceeds will be donated to BGGreen. Visit often, even monthly, and thanks for your support!

Articles & Links

Renewable Energy for the Developing World - Hands On
Designed to support locally-led, innovative, entrepreneurial partnerships in developing countries, which have the potential to make real improvements in poverty eradication and environmental sustainability.

Big U.S. Conservation Win in Canada, by Jeff Wells, Christian Science Monitor, 9/22/08

The Methane Time Bomb: It’s Happening, by Steve Conner, The Independent UK, 9/23/08
The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists.

Companies That Buy Green Power, Mother Earth News, 9/15/08
Fortune 500 companies, universities and mom-and-pop shops around the country are voluntarily taxing themselves for their carbon footprint during operations. Over 1,000 organizations are members of the EPA’s Green Power Partnership. This volunteer coalition purchases a total of almost 16 billion kWh of green power each year. Find out which businesses buy the most green power and what resources they’re using.

Great Web Sites for DIY Projects
Whether you’re looking for plans for a shed or trying to figure out why your water heater isn’t working, you can find useful, reliable information online. But which sites are the most helpful? Which are the most user-friendly? We asked experts to weigh in on their favorite Web sites for do-it-yourselfers.

It Takes Just One Village to Save a Species By Phil McKenna, NY Times, 9/23/08
By helping a Chinese village out of poverty, Pan Wenshi protects the endangered langur.

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