Paul Soglin: Waxing America

The Greening of Monroe Street

Don't forget to head over to the Monroe Street Festival this Saturday, October 10th! This year the long-running Monroe Street Festival will highlight a new initiative focused on green urbanism, including street design and overall infrastructure. The initiative, called "The Greening of Monroe Street", will transform the area into an "eco district" by featuring ten different stations that offer a look into different approaches to green urbanism. The stations will include landscaped pop-up parks, zero waste stations, educational materials, tours along the Dudgeon Monroe Neighborhood Nature and History Trail, and much more!

This year's initiative presents an opportunity to remember the importance of considering sustainability and the environment, even in urban areas, to protect the natural areas we know and love.

To view the "Green Passport" and see what will be happening at each of the ten stations, click on the link below:

http://weigogreener.org/images/Monroe%20Street%20Green%20Passport.pdf

To learn more about the initiative follow the link below:

http://weigogreener.org/images/Media%20Advisory.pdf

Mayor's Neighborhood Roundtable 2015

Be sure to mark your calendars for the 2015 Mayor's Neighborhood Roundtable on October 24th at the Warner Park Community Recreation Center! Registration begins at 8:00 am with a program from 9 am to 12 pm.

The Neighborhood Roundtable will begin with some networking and large group Q & A and then offer a few options for breakout sessions including "Neighborhood Projects and Funding Opportunities", "Neighborhood Engagement, Organizing, Involvement", and "Topic Table Discussions".

The Mayor's Neighborhood Roundtable presents a great opportunity to bring residents, businesses, community organizations, and other stakeholders together to discuss how we can make Madison's neighborhoods even better to live, work, play, and learn!

For more details or to register follow the link below. I hope to see you all there!

www.cityofmadison.com/neighborhoods/

Wisconsin Book Festival

Attention Book lovers, the Wisconsin Book Festival is approaching!  The four-day festival will take place between October 22-25, in and around the Madison Public Library's Central Library in downtown Madison.  

The festival will feature more than 60 events with plenty of opportunities to meet authors, discover new books or favorite writers, and have books signed.

This year’s lineup includes:
-2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction Adam Johnson for Fortune Smiles
-New York Times Bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi for The
Republic of Imagination
-Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss for Once In a Great City
-The New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris for Between You and Me
-Wisconsin’s own master storyteller Nickolas Butler for Beneath the Bonfire
-Caldecott medalist and beloved children’s book author Kevin Henkes for Waiting
-Acclaimed journalist Evan Thomas for Being Nixon
-Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich for Saving Capitalism
-National Book Award winner Timothy Egan for The Big Burn
-2015-16 Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser

See the full festival lineup at http://www.wisconsinbookfestival.org. Be sure to join in on some of these exciting events!