The Zero Waste Home: Practical Steps for Sustainable Living
Julie DesChamps, founder and chair, Waste Free Greenwich, and a panel of experts will present “The Zero Waste Home: Practical Steps for Sustainable Living,” via Zoom on Tuesday, June 16, at 7 pm. This program will help you transform your household habits into sustainable practices. Cosponsored by Perrot Memorial Library and Waste Free Greenwich, this collaborative webinar will offer a comprehensive guide to a zero-waste lifestyle, covering everything from smart shopping and textile longevity to mindful eating and expert recycling.
The program will highlight Perrot’s innovative Library of Things, a collection of borrowable tools, technology, and gadgets that promotes a “borrow instead of buy” philosophy to reduce waste and save space. Complementing this resource, a series of four expert-led sessions will provide actionable strategies for every room in the house:
Conscious Consumers, Substitutions, and Waste: Maggie Clayton will share how to harness your purchasing power to phase out plastics and transition to less toxic, waste-free alternatives.
Repair, Refresh, Rewear: Meg Hadley Zimmerman will demonstrate simple techniques to alter and mend clothing, helping you extend the life of your wardrobe and combat textile waste.
Even in the Kitchen, You Can Make a Difference: Registered dietitian-nutritionist Janet Levine will examine the link between our food choices and the environment, offering practical tips for a more sustainable kitchen.
Ask the Waste Wizard: Recycle Right: Julie DesChamps will help you master the art of sorting to ensure your recycling efforts are as effective as possible.
Registration is required. To register, click here. Please note: When you register, you will receive the Zoom meeting login information in your confirmation email. Keep this information handy for the night of the program.
For more information on this program, call us at 203-637-1066 or email us at adultprogramming@perrotlibrary.org.
Book Discussion with Susannah Marren, Author of “Palm Beach Confidential”
Join us on Wednesday, June 17th, at 7 pm, for a book discussion with Author Susannah Marren, Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library. Ms. Marren will be interviewed by Cathy Horn, co-chair, Greenwich Pen Women Letters Division, and will discuss her latest book, Palm Beach Confidential.
Decades after Lucinda Barrows comes to Palm Beach, she has everything she set out to claim: a seat at every elite table and three stunning daughters raised in the shelter of privilege. Yet beneath the family’s renown, Lucinda’s life is in turmoil. When a stranger comes to town to shatter her carefully constructed legacy, discretion is offered—at a steep price. As Lucinda’s daughters uncover what has the means to destroy the Barrows family, they become the mirror for the far-reaching consequences of a devious plan. Suddenly they are forced to choose between their mother and the truth. Who will prevail … and who will fall from grace?
Susannah Marren (pen name for Susan Shapiro Barash) writes dramatic fiction about how women are positioned in contemporary society and what they long for. This is the essence of her nonfiction work as well, including Estranged: How Strained Female Friendships are Mended or Ended, Tripping the Prom Queen, and A Passion for More.
Copies of Ms. Marren’s book will be available for signing and sale at the program.
Registration is required. To register, click here.
For more information on this program, call us at 203-637-1066 or email us at adultprogramming@perrotlibrary.org.
Author Visit: Elise Howard, Author of “Plant This, Not That”
Elise Howard, author of Plant This, Not That: Over 200 Native Plant Swaps for a More Sustainable, Pollinator-Friendly Garden, will speak at the Perrot Memorial Library on Thursday, June 25, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building. The event will include a brief tour of the Library’s pollinator garden and is co-sponsored by Perrot Memorial Library and Greenwich Pollinator Pathway.
Plant This, Not That by Elise Howard establishes some basic principles for selecting and using native plants, along with specific examples of substitutions for plants you may be wanting to replace, including suggestions for gardens in various regions around the country.
Elise offers 200-ish examples of swaps for plants that have proven troublesome or just don’t do much in the name of supporting biodiversity, grouped helpfully by their landscape purpose: for hedging, for groundcovers, for foundation plantings near the house, etc.
Elise began learning about natives more than 15 years ago as a volunteer at Riverside Park in New York City. These days, she lives in gardens in the city and in Western Massachusetts.
Registration is required. To register, click here.
For more information about this program, call us at 203-637-1066 or email us at adultprogramming@perrotlibrary.org.