Wisconsin Greens Hold Summer GatheringWisconsin Green Party August 21, 2007 Contacts: Nadine Holder, Co-chair, St. Croix Valley Green Party
nadine@nadineholder.com 715 294-4117 Wisconsin Green Party to hold Summer Gathering and Membership Meeting at Anathoth this Saturday Eco-municipality leaders David and Moderacki to speak The Wisconsin Green Party Summer Gathering and Membership Meeting will be held at Anathoth Community Farm (www.anathothcommunityfarm.org) 740 Round Lake Road, Luck, WI 54853, from Friday, August 24 to Sunday, August 26th, 2007. Anathoth Community Farm, dedicated to sustainable living, alternative energy, and a peaceful planet, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this summer. The community, founded by Green Party members Mike Miles and Barb Kass, is home to social activists and homesteaders, composting toilets and solar showers, photovoltaic electric systems and a straw bale home. The St. Croix Valley Green Party and the Wisconsin Green Party are bringing Jefferson County Supervisor Greg David and Johnson Creek City Administrator Paul Moderacki to be featured speakers on Saturday evening from 6 to 8 PM at the Café Wren in Luck. They will be presenting a framework for planning known as The Natural Step (TNS), which is an integral part of the burgeoning eco-municipality movement in Wisconsin. David and Moderacki, who both participated in the 2006 Municipal Leader's Tour of Sustainable Sweden, will share suggestions for starting local TNS study groups and will provide the audience with resources available for communities interested in working towards sustainability. For more information visit http://wisconsingreenparty.org/
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