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2007-02-06 19:00

Yandina Permaculture meeting

Maroochy Community Gardens - hosting Yandina Permaculture Group's first meeting for 2007. Come along to the blue house in Yandina and get involved in your one and only Sunshine Coast community garden. For people interested in growing their own food organically at home, sustainable living, networking with others. Everyone welcome.

Event title:
Yandina Permaculture meeting

Start:
2007-02-06 19:00 (Calendar)

End:
2007-02-06 22:00

Location:

Location(s)

41 Farrell Street

Yandina, QLD
Australia

Contact Email:
maroochypermaculture@bigpond.com

Key 1

2007-02-06 19:00

Make Your Home Energy Efficient: Cracking the Code of NYSERDA Grants

Does anyone realize that there is money available for PV panels, energy
audits and energy efficiency work on residential and commercial buildings
in NY? And what's more it is not that difficult to access. I work for the
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) but
couldn't make this claim until I actually went through and participated in
the programs that I helped create.

The programs I used for my house in Troy were administered by NYSERDA and
CPC, the Community Preservation Corp., so I finally got to use a program I
helped create! It has been a good experience, one that I would be happy to
share. Usually it is a maze of confusion and the reward seems not worth
the effort, but with a little guidance and someone else leading the way
through the morass of forms, websites, assistance, incentives, state and
federal tax credits, etc. the return on time investment can be much more
rewarding. And why not take advantage of these credits? I think sometimes
that these programs are designed to confuse and make it difficult to
actually get the money! However, if we crack the code and figure it out,
we can make the system work for us.

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Charle-Pan Dawson works as a project manager for a high performance
buildings program and helping develop a green building program at NYSERDA,
the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Web pages I
authored for NYSERDA may be found at
http://www.nyserda.org/programs/Green_Buildings/default.asp. He is also a
LEED accredited professional and studying to become a Dynamic Governance
facilitator.

The event will be preceded by a potluck dinner at 6pm.

Event title:
Make Your Home Energy Efficient: Cracking the Code of NYSERDA Grants

Start:
2007-02-06 19:00 (Calendar)

End:
2007-02-06 21:00

Location:

Location(s)

98 Grand Street The Ironweed

Albany, NY
United States

See map: Google Maps

Event Website:
http://www.nyserda.org/programs/Green_Buildings/default.asp

Contact Email:
charle-pan@stny.rr.com

Key 1

2007-02-06 19:00

Global Warming as a Moral Issue

Abrupt Climate Change: Three Lectures at Union College

2007 Winter Seminar Series, Union College
[All presentations at 7 PM in the Nott Memorial]

Tuesday February 6, 2007
Bill McKibben
Writer in Residence, Middlebury College
Global Warming as a Moral Issue

Event title:
Global Warming as a Moral Issue

Start:
2007-02-06 19:00 (Calendar)

End:
2007-02-06 21:30

Location:

Location(s)

Nott Memorial Union College

Schenectady, NY
United States

See map: Google Maps

Key 1

2007-02-06 19:00

‘Regional Sustainability in the Energy Descent Future’ DVD screening

All welcome
Tuesday 6th February
from 7.00 pm
At
The Blue House
Yandina Community Permaculture Gardens - 41 Farrell Street Yandina
Film night
A rare opportunity to see
David Holmgren’s DVD (co-founder of Permaculture)
‘Regional Sustainability in the Energy Descent Future’

The presentation gives information to help empower citizens and communities to creatively respond to the end of cheap energy. David shows how to focus media and public attention on local groups, networks and businesses that are providing resources for both awareness and positive solutions and will draw on the incredible success of permaculture as a grass roots global movement to illustrate a diverse range of strategies and solutions that people can implement at home and in their local and regional communities. In so doing David will introduce and discuss the concept of re-localisation.

Energy descent challenges us to find local solutions that suit the particular nature of sites and cultural contexts. Universal recipes will no longer work. From a bottom up perspective, particular local, integrated and multi-faceted solutions can be found. Permaculture is the best available framework for re-designing the way we think and act to resolve the energy crises

Event title:
‘Regional Sustainability in the Energy Descent Future’ DVD screening

Start:
2007-02-06 19:00 (Calendar)

End:
2007-02-06 21:30

Location:

Location(s)

Australia

Key 1

2007-02-06 18:30

East Bristol Launch: Local Sustainable Network, Free Film Showing

We would like to invite you to the launch of a new local sustainable network for Barton Hill, the Dings, Lawrence Hill, Newtown, Redfield and Upper Easton.

The launch event will be a free screening of Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ film followed by a discussion. We hope that local people who are interested in improving sustainability on a local level and are interested in global environmental issues will come along, sign up to a mailing list and get involved.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Al Gore’s persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as merely a political issue – rather, it is one of the biggest moral challenges facing our global civilization.

Followed by refreshments, & then a discussion with a panel of experts: ‘What can we do as individuals and as a community?’

More information available from Matthew Cheney
0117 353 2308

map

Event title:
East Bristol Launch: Local Sustainable Network, Free Film Showing

Start:
2007-02-06 18:30 (Calendar)

End:
2007-02-06 21:30

Location:

Location(s)

Fielden Theatre, City Academy (main entrance), Russel Town Avenue

Bristol, BST, BS5 9JH
United Kingdom

Contact Email:
matthew.cheney@ndcbristol.co.uk

Key 1

2007-02-06 11:00

next April 27th/28th Lane County Relocalization Conference planning meeting

January 30th Relocalization Meeting Notes

In attendance were Ravi, Doug, Joshua, Jan, Alex, and Guy

For an agenda, we spoke briefly about the organization of the 2nd day, but this still needs to be resolved in greater detail because when we first started out the meeting on this, there were only four of us and we felt we needed more of a quorum. We will continue with this next week. We also discussed about contacting potential keynote speaker and workshop leaders to schedule them since time is short, but again, we lacked a quorum. This, too, will be finalized next week.

Joshua announced that he is leaving the group for work commitments elsewhere and both Ravi and Guy sounded the alarm that our group is getting small, especially since Ravi also says he is on the edge of further participation because of ongoing events at Dharmalaya. Doug also suggested that we need some more women participating in the planning of this event! Therefore,

>>>we must decide next week if we have enough members to continue or perhaps postpone the event until a later date when people have more free time to commit.<<<



Ravi introduced that Don Schneider may be a possible keynote speaker since Don is active in giving workshops on sustainability. Don also wants to create dialogue between different sectors of the community and strengthen the weak connections between them. This sounded positive and Doug added that we need more of a psychological feel to the presentations.

Alex stated that he would contact the Native American longhouse on the UO campus to see if it is available for our event (and we therefore don’t have to worry about insurance) and Doug said he has also reserved a room at EWEB for the event in late April.

Ravi next introduced an excellent table on how we can organize the workshops and he discussed the excellent work of Tom Atlee. Appropriate speakers would be assigned to these particular topics.

FOOD

ENERGY

CONSTRUCTION

TRANSPORTATION

CULTURE CHANGE

ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING

POLICY CHANGE

TECHNOLOGY

RESOURCE BASE

Alex also suggested that Tom Atlee should too be added to our potential keynote speaker list. Tom apparently just received a grant from the Kellogg foundation to hold a similar symposium in Santa Rosa, California.

Discussions then proceeded to formalizing the main goals and objectives of our workshops and then Jan suggested that to lessen planning time, we would first have education in the morning followed by having discussion oriented rounds (based around Ravi’s table above) in the early afternoon. In the late afternoon, the various workshop groups would get back together into the main plenary session where they would offer solutions to all of the speakers gathered together for questions, answers, and discussions. This format, of course, would require strong moderators/facilitators and Alex said he would bring a list of people that may help out with this event. This change of format created a positive response from everybody.

Guy suggested that we should get Native American input as well, particularly from tribal elders who could educate the audience on how they achieved sustainability for thousands of years! We could ask several different tribes such as the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Coos/Coquille, the Grande Ronde at Sieltz, and the Kalapuya. One such person may be Ester Stuzman who is a Kalapuyan elder who lives in Yoncalla. Guy has worked with her before.

Ravi ended the meeting by wanting to give a short presentation next week on his previous work in Russia with the People’s Academy of Sciences. His salon will focus on a theory driven development plan based on PROUT (Progressive Utilization Theory).

Event title:
next April 27th/28th Lane County Relocalization Conference planning meeting

Start:
2007-02-06 11:00 (Calendar)

End:
2007-02-06 13:30

Location:

Location(s)

454 Willamette St., upstairs main meeting room

Eugene, OR, 97401
United States

See map: Google Maps

Contact Email:
deeblack@gmail.com