Vegan Potluck & Video: "The Last Mountain" in Owings Mills
Earthsave's Veg Dinner Educational Series meets on the last Saturday of each month. The dinners give people a chance to sample a wonderful variety of tasty vegan cuisine and meet lots of friendly, like-minded people. Our vegan dinner in May will feature a video screening of the environmental documentary "The Last Mountain", which is about a grass roots struggle in West Virginia to end the devastating practice of mountain-top-removal coal mining. It's also about the threat that powerful corporations can pose to democracy.
Coal company Massey Energy is currently blowing the tops off of mountains to collect coal, dumping the waste into local gullies and man-made storage lakes, and then "reconstructing" the mountain tops. The negative effects of this coal-mining practice are huge, including everything from deforestation, increased local flooding, and deteriorating water quality to negative health impacts such as increased rates of cancer, autism, asthma, and premature death in local populations.
The film describes the extensive influence Massey Energy has over local government, and the even wider influence of the coal-mining industry on countrywide government, highlighting the negative environmental and political ramifications of such unchecked power. Juxtaposed with that enormous political clout are a host of local citizens who've banded together, with the help of environmental activist and lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to oppose mountain-top-removal coal mining. Please join us if you can!
DINNER GUESTS are asked to bring a dish that’s made without animal products to serve 6-8 people, along with a donation of $5 ($2 for members). Guest may attend without bringing a dish for a $12 fee ($10 for members). Please give 1 day notice if paying for dinner. The fee to attend only the presentation only is $5. Monthly Dinner Ed Series events are held on the last Saturday at the Learning Center/Yoga Studio of Your Prescription for Health, 10210 S. Dolfield Rd. in Owings Mills. Please RSVP if you plan to attend. Email Baltimore@Earthsave.org, or call 410-252-3043.
DIRECTIONS From Beltway 695: take exit 19 onto I-795 (Northwest Expressway). Get off at Exit 4 (Owings Mills Blvd). Bear right when exit splits. Take right at first traffic light (South Dolfield Road). Travel approximately l/2 mile. Flying Avocado Café and "Your Prescription for Health" pharmacy is on the right after Gold’s Gym (which is on left). The Learning Center/Yoga Studio entrance is at the opposite end of the building.
DIRECTIONS From Reisterstown Road: Travel West on Painters Mill Road. Turn right at 2nd traffic light onto S. Dolfield Road. Go left at the second driveway into the parking lot of Your Prescription for Health.
