The Middle Tennessee Group hosts monthly social gatherings featuring updates on local issues and actions as well as lightning talks on nature and environmental topics. These are free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided. They are held at Radnor State Park and Natural Area Welcome Center on the second Thursday on every month from March to to October.
Upcoming programs have info about registering.
Programs from 2021 and 2022 include video recordings. Click on the program title below and scroll down on the description to find the link to the recording.
October 12: Meet, Greet, and Learn! This is the last one for this year!
October 12, 2023
Our September speaker is John Finke, the Bureau Director for Environmental Health Services and the Director of the Air Quality Division at the Metro Public Health Department. He has a Master's of Environmental Engineering from the University of...
September 14: Meet, Greet, and Learn!
September 14, 2023
Our September speaker is Jaffee Judah, a Nashville native and the Executive Director of Recycle and Reinvest, a non-profit that engages vulnerable youth to improve their environment while increasing their confidence and pride. Since 2018, Recycle...
August 10 Meet, Greet, and Learn!
August 10, 2023
Elizabeth Langgle-Martin, MSW, serves as the Director of Community Engagement at The Nashville Food Project where she has been a part of food and land access work for the past 5.5 years. Elizabeth believes that access to quality, culturally...
July 13 Meet, Greet, and Learn!
July 13, 2023
Alice Hudson Pell is the Executive Director of TennGreen Land Conservancy. She has a Master’s in Higher Education Administration, Institutional Advancement from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, and a Bachelor of Arts from Agnes Scott College...
June 8 Meet, Greet, and Learn!
June 8, 2023
Joanne Logan, retired professor of Environmental Science at the University of Tennessee, will tell us about how you can become a Citizen Scientist to collect valuable data about our natural world.
May 11 Social Gathering
May 11, 2023
Middle TN Group May 11, 2023 Program
Come and Learn at our Spring Social!
May 11 (Thu), 2023 at 7:00 PM CST
Walter Criley Visitors’ Center at Radnor Lake
**Pre-program hike at Radnor will start at 5:30 PM. Meet in the Visitor Center...
April 13 Program - Ask a Councilmember!
April 13, 2023
Middle TN Group April 13, 2023 Program
Ask a Nashville Metro Councilmember!
by Bob Mendes, Nashville Metro Council
April 13 (Thu), 2023 at 7:00 PM CST
Walter Criley Visitors’ Center at Radnor Lake
**Pre-program hike at...
March 9 Program - Sustainability in the Floral Industry (recorded)
March 9, 2023
Co-owners of Forward Flora will tell us about their business of extending the life cycle of natural materials and floral supplies.
November 10, 2022 Program - How We Can Help Our Birds (recorded)
October 31, 2022
Laura Cook will tell us about bird conservation efforts at Warner Park Nature Center, and what we can do.
October 13, 2022 Program - A Cohousing Agrihood comes to Tennessee (recorded)
October 13, 2022
Thursday October 13 at 7:00 pm, Radnor Lake Park.
A Cohousing Agrihood comes to Tennessee: Where Real Estate and Food Intersect
John Patrick, local farmer and homeowner of the first LEED Platinum home in mid-TN, will talk about sustainable...