Community Garden meeting

Submitted Sun, 2008-03-30 19:54 — ahazelwood

Lots of people at the movie festival were interested in the community garden concept. Here's your chance to get involved! Following is the agenda for the Bundaberg Community Garden Committee Meeting this Thursday. Please bring something to share for dinner if you are able. For more information please contact Christine Sorbello on 4150 2700.

1. Shared Dinner
2. Activity Feedback: Meeting with Landcare, SustainaBundy Movie Day
3. Potential Land: St Mary’s (feedback from Pastoral Council), Lamb St, Scotland St
4. Auspice/Partner: Partner planning, Approaching council
5. Guest Speakers: May speaker – Carla Colasimone, Dates and speakers for coming meetings
6. W.E.D. Expo: Planning and ideas
7. Next Steps
8. Next meeting, Thursday 1st May

Event title:
Community Garden meeting

Start:
2008-04-03 17:30 (Calendar)

End:
2008-04-03 18:30

Location:

Location(s)

School of Arts Building Bourbong St.

Bundaberg, QLD, 4670
Australia

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Relocalization: Prospects for Localized Food Production; a Roundtable Discussion

Submitted Thu, 2008-03-20 16:02 — Sundog

please note this announcement for the next "Greening in Small Business" class to be held at the BDC April 3rd. It will address relocalization and should be especially exciting. There are four speakers presenting the outlook especially for food production in the southern Willamette Valley.

I hope you can make it. Get the word out!

Will

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Announcing

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
4-7 PM

Room 213
Lane Community College
Business Development Center
1445 Willamette Street

Event title:
Relocalization: Prospects for Localized Food Production; a Roundtable Discussion

Start:
2008-04-03 16:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-04-03 19:00

Location:

Location(s)

1445 Willamette St, Lane Community College, Business Development Ctr.

Eugene, OR, 97401
United States

See map: Google Maps

Contact Email:
willik_754@msn.com

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Viewing of How Cuba Survived Peak Oil tomorrow!

Submitted Wed, 2008-04-02 10:14 — Barry

Sierra Club's Southeast MI group presents:
"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"
with WRIF Radio Host Peter Werbe

Thursday, April 3, 2008
6:30pm Potluck
7:30pm Program

Northwest Unitarian-Universalist Church
23925 Northwestern Hwy, Southfield, MI
(located along the south-bound Hohn Lodge Fwy service
drive between 9 & 10 Mile)

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's
economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut
by more than half--and food by 80%--people were
desperate. This film tells of the hardships and
struggles as well the community and creativity of the
Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share
how they transformed from a highly mechanized,
industrial agricultural system to one using organic
methods of farming and local, urban gardens. This film
opens with a brief history of Peak Oil, a term for the
time in our history when world oil production reaches
its all-time peak and begins to decline forever. While
there remains some debate as to when we will reach
peak oil, most experts agree the time is now. Cuba,
the only country that has faced such a crisis, is an
example of options and hope.

Join us after the film for a discussion with WRIF
radio personality Peter Werbe, host of the popular
"Night Call" show, who has recently returned from
Cuba. He will share his observations about the island with
us as we continue to explore local sustainability
strategies for metro Detroit.

Event title:
Viewing of How Cuba Survived Peak Oil tomorrow!

Start:
2008-04-02 10:12 (Calendar)

End:
2008-04-04 10:12

Contact Email:
geographyprof@wowway.com

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Conduct Your Own Water Quality Monitoring

Submitted Mon, 2008-03-17 13:35 — Nik

HAPPENING

Watershed councils offers free workshops

The Coastal Watershed Council is offering a free Water Quality Workshop Series with hands-on training on "Conduct Your Own Water Quality Monitoring."

The first class is 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday in Salinas. Additional classes in the series are April 2 and 9.

The workshop series is for farmers, growers, ranchers and others from the Central Coast agricultural community.

The series is RWQCB approved for 12 hours Water Quality Education Credit.

Information: Tamara Doan, 464-9200 or 588-3679, tcdoan@coastalws.org.

Online: www.coastal-watershed.org.

Event title:
Conduct Your Own Water Quality Monitoring

Start:
2008-03-19 11:30 (Calendar)

End:
2008-04-09 17:00

Event Website:
http://www.coastal-watershed.org

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• Water
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Weekend Series Permaculture Design Course in Columbus, Ohio

Submitted Thu, 2007-12-13 11:01 — Keith Johnson

February 22-24, Feb. 29-March 2, March 14-16, 28-30, April 11-13, 2008
Weekend Permaculture Design Course in Columbus, Ohio

“Help green the city and prepare for climate change. Build networks of support and empower yourself with the skills of ecological design as we search for the roots of permanent culture”

Description: Over five weekends (Friday evenings, Saturdays and Sundays), we will present the permaculture design curriculum with special emphasis on urban applications, strategies for changing climate and building local networks of support.

The class will implement at least one of the design projects by rehabilitating an old orchard as a forest garden on the 40-acre campus of the United Methodist Children’s Home in Worthington; helping to move this historic institution back to its agricultural roots and forward to a second century of sustainability.

The course is co-sponsored by Simply Living Columbus, and the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association, and UMCH. Some work-trade scholarships will be available.

Instructors: Peter Bane, Rhonda Baird and guests.
Cost: $895 including weekend lunches and course materials, $150 deposit required.

Contact: Peter Bane 812-335-0383
Association for Regenerative Culture P O Box 5516, Bloomington, IN 47407

You can help us promote this event by downloading, printing, and sharing the following files.
Recruit and register at least three folks from your own community or organization’s "guild" and work together following the guidelines for an individual work/trade scholarship. The teachers will consider each of these requests for special guild discounting. Contact us.

Event title:
Weekend Series Permaculture Design Course in Columbus, Ohio

Start:
2008-02-22 09:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-04-13 19:00

Location:

Location(s)

Columbus, OH
United States

See map: Google Maps

Event Website:
http://www.arculture.org/classes-events/events.htm

Contact Email:
pcactivist@mindspring.com

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• Design Course
• permaculture
• Permaculture Design Course

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