The Asheville Sustainability Center will launch its monthly Green Mondays series on Monday, September 29, at the Chamber of Commerce’s second floor conference room, from 3-5 pm. Green Mondays will provide experts, regional leaders, citizens and students with an open forum for understanding and advancing possible pathways to sustainability. Speakers will be followed by the main event, a community conversation on the given topic for each particular month.

The session on September 29 will focus on how to communicate sustainability options to decision-makers and the general public. Speakers will include Ian Booth of Sustainable Now and the producer and co-host of URTV’s Green Radio Bistro; journalist Rebecca Bowe, a staff writer and contributing editor at Mountain Xpress who has been writing the “Green Scene” environmental news column since 2006; Andrew (Drew) Jones, program director of the Sustainability Institute, who creates system dynamics simulations to help organizations develop strategies to address complex problems such as climate change; and Joseph Malki, co-founder and vice president of Seven-Star, the nation’s leading green event planning and production company that is based in Asheville.

For more information, contact Steven Samuels at (828) 505-3547.