Every month, Save the Pine Bush volunteers make a vegetarian/vegan lasagna dinner with salad, garlic bread and delicious deserts. Everyone is invited to attend!
After dinner, we have a speaker. Here is a partial list of the speakers who have visited Save the Pine Bush over the years.
Our Favorite Butterfly, the Karner Blue
David MacDougall Author of
A Field Guide to the Karner Blue Butterfly
(Lycaeides melissa samuelis) Natural History, Identification, & Conservation of a Regional Treasure
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Changing SEQRA: Why Standing Matters
Katherine Nadeau from Environmental Advocates, Wednesday, January 21 2009
Current Research on the Spread of Lyme Disease
Melissa Stone, PhD student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program at the State University in Albany, Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Reptiles and Amphibians
Diana Strnisa, Educator from Five Rivers, Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Solid Waste Management Planning
Resa Dimino, Special Assistant in the DEC Commissioner’s Policy Office, Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What is Happening to the Bats?
Ward Stone, NYS Wildlife Pathologist, Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Special book signing for, Son of Mountains-My Life as a Kurd and a Terror Suspect, by Yassin Aref, Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Speakers:Shamshad Ahmad, professor of physics and president of Masjid As-Salam Mosque; Kathy Manley, attorney; Jeanne Finley, editor of the book; Steve Downs, attorney
Sometimes they put innocent men in prison. Yassin Aref is one of those men. This book is the story of a UN refugee who sought peace and freedom in America. A Muslim imam entrapped in a phony “sting” concocted by the FBI, accused of aiding terrorism, & sentenced in 2007 to 15 years in federal prison. Yassin Aref is currently incarcerated at the Communications Management Unit in Terre Haute, Indiana (also known as “GitMo in the Midwest”). This story is of an Iraqi Kurd who has struggled all his life just to survive. In 1970 Yassin was born to illiterate farming parents, grew up under the rule of Saddam Hussein, encountering tremendous poverty, brutality, and repression; as a teenager, he sympathized with the Kurdish peshmerga (freedom fighters) and risked his life opposing the dictator’s genocide against the Kurds.
Read special essay for Save the Pine Bush written by Yassin Aref, In the Shade of a Tree
Understanding the Old and New Technologies for Dealing with Trash and Garbage
William Peruzzi, PhD, an expert on solid waste technologies
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Proposed Habitat Restoration for the Rapp Road Landfill
Steven I. Apfelbaum, M.S., Principal Research & Consulting Ecologist, President & Owner, Applied Ecological Services
with a brief introduction by Willard Bruce,
Commissioner, Albany City Department of General Service
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Solid Waste Policy in New York State
Val Washington, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Deputy Commissioner of the divisions of Solid and Hazardous Materials, Environmental Remediation and Mineral Resources
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Energy Policy, the Iraq War and Global Warming
Jeff Jones, Coordinator of the New York State Apollo Alliance
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
New York State’s Most Successful Predators: Fishers & Coyotes
Roland Kays, Curator of Mammals, NYS Museum, May 16, 2007
Earth Week Celebration
Susan Lawrence of the Sierra Club, Steve Breyman, from Citizens’ Environmental Coalition
and Katherine Nadeau from Environmental Advocates, April 18, 2007
Habitat Management During the COVID Pandemic – An Update
Neil Gifford, Conservation Director, Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission
Wednesday, April 21, 2007
Habitat Management & Restoration for the Karner Blue Butterfly – An Update
Neil Gifford, Conservation Director, Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
University at Albany Goes Green in “Fits and Starts”
Professor George Robinson, Member of the University Task Force on Environmental Sustainability
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Enough Trash-Talking! Time for a Holiday Party
Piano by Millie DiBlasi,
Magician Larry Lessner, Music by Cavanaugh & Kavanaugh and Terri Roben
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Global Warming, Energy Use & Solid Waste Management
John Waffenschmidt, Vice-President & Business Development, Covanta Energy
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
The Car-Free Lifestyle Guide to the Capital Region
Gregory
Rosenthal, Author
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Real Solutions to Dealing with Solid Waste
Steven J. Davis, Senior Program Administrator, RPI Recycling and Solid Waste Programs
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Reduce the Waste Stream and Reduce Dependance on Imported Oil
Susan Caumont and Jeff Beller, Hosts of the WRPI Energy Show
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
The Pine Bush and the Landfill — Where do We Go From Here?
The Honorable John J. McEneny, Member of the NYS Assembly, 104th District
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Debbie Jackson, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Comparative waste management practices:
Models from three very different systems; Albany NY; Dresden Germany; Yambol Bulgaria
Willard Bruce, Commissioner, Albany City Department of General Services
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
The movie “Gone Tomorrow The Hidden Life of Garbage” by Heather Rogers was shown
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Albany’s Garbage Challenge: No Magic Bullet
Laura Haight, New York Public Interest Research Group
Wednesday, March 15, 2005
The Comparative Impacts of Landfills and Waste-to-Energy Facilities
Jack Lauber, Environmental Engineer
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Integrating the Landfill into the Pine Bush
Pollution, Garbage, Money, and Survival of the Pine Bush Ecosystem
Dr. George Robinson, Associate Professor of Biology, University at Albany
Wednesday, January 18, 2006