Join us this coming Monday evening, May 7, 2012, for the May meeting of Sustainable Monroeville. Raw vegetarian pot luck dinner at 6:30 pm and meeting starting with garden tour at 7:00 pm. We'll talk about eating, food, and the movie we saw last month, Forks Over Knives. Be there y'all! Volunteer gardening opportunity Friday, May 11 from 4:00 to 7:00 PM. go to www.sustainablemonroeville.com for…See More

If you're interested in Guerilla Gardening and start-up Community Gardening efforts, here's a group for you. I, Justin Thakar, will be cataloging, here and on my TransitionPGH.org blog, what I will have learned and a list of resources I will have compiled.I've already been talking to my apartment neighbors about doing some collaborative container/balcony gardening, splitting the produce and such--and I'll be putting up invites on everyone's doors to see if they're interested.That's material…See More

Come join us build friendships, community resilience, and economic self-sufficiency at the Gift Circle. As we share our needs and gifts with each other we are able to discover and utilize untapped resources within our community, effectively turning one person's unused asset into another person's treasure.  This creates more abundance for everyone in the community to enjoy while also cutting waste and unnecessary consumption.