Happy New Year!

Happy Sustainable New Year! I hope you all have friends or family to celebrate the end of 2009 and the beginning of a whole new 2010. If not, please join me at Princeton Country Dancers' New Years' Eve Dance at 8:00 (instruction at 7:30) on December 31 at Suzanne Paterson Center in Princeton, for an evening of English country dancing and contra dancing with live music. Admission is $20, $15 for seniors, and $10 for students. Make new friends, get some exercise, share a dessert potluck and help sustain two crowd-pleasing, centuries-old dance traditions! For details see: http://www.princetoncountrydancers.org/events/PCD-NYEdance09.pdf

Sustainable Montgomery has accomplished plenty this year. We have worked with Montgomery Township to pass resolutions and ordinances and produce events that will make Montgomery a more sustainable place, and Lauren Wasilauski, our intrepid coordinator, documented these actions in an application for certification to Sustainable Jersey. We are proud that these efforts have resulted in certification, and we are all determined to keep up the momentum. 2010 will see a Sustainable Montgomery web page on the Montgomery Township website, an anti-idling initiative, and many more new projects. We all hope you will join us in supporting and participating in many of them. Why not make it a New Year's resolution?

Here's a great way to start a sustainable new year: check out the Princeton Environmental Film Festival at the Princeton Public Library: http://www.princetonlibrary.org/peff/
I have seen a few of their offerings in past years and loved them. Among the films are some children's and family films (on Saturday mornings) and some short films, plus live music and other presentations.