By Lance Green

How can you make it so your water softener does less harm to our waters and still work well for you?

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Spark your inner energy geek and help Monona become energy independent. These forums offer brief presentations followed by group discussion. Goal? You, more energ!zed to help make Monona a more self-sufficient city.

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Weeds have many extremely valuable virtues, yet too many of us are still willing to ignore their benefits and only focus on qualities that are perceived to be negative. The values we choose to honor lead many to use chemicals to achieve a presumed aesthetic perfection, but at what cost?

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[ October 11, 2011; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] “Gasland” (film). The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology called “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks [...]

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My lawn drives me nuts. Even though I continue to diminish its share of my property, the absurdity of having any lawn at all is on my mind every time I mow. The absurdity of most anyone having a lawn is on my mind every time I mow! Read on for a brief bit about what God might think.

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[ May 10, 2011; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Date: Tuesday – 5/10/2011
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location: Monona Public Library, 1000 Nichols Road

With humor, chutzpah and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning cinematographer Daniel B. Gold set out in search of the truth about polyvinyl chloride (PVC), America’s most popular plastic. From Long [...]

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[ April 12, 2011; 12:30 am to 8:00 pm. 12:30 am to 8:00 pm. ] Date: Tuesday – 4/12/2011
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location: Monona Public Library, 1000 Nichols Road 

Big River/King Corn shows a portion of the Peabody Award-winning documentary King Corn, in which Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, [...]

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See the films “Flow” and UW student short “Holy Land, WI” on Tuesday, November 9 at 6:30pm at the Monona Public Library.

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by Melissa Zietz

There is a bit of time left for a few lawn chores that will do much to make spring chores easier, while lessening the impact on the environment.

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[ January 11, 2011; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] River of Waste with short America’s Dairyland

When: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Where: Monona Public Library, 1000 Nichols Road, Monona, WI
Topic: A heart-stopping new documentary, A River Of Waste exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. The damage documented in today’s factory farms far [...]

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