Living Car Free Cafe

Submitted Wed, 2008-05-14 19:23 — Shelby Tay

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | 7:00 pm
Bean Around the World, 2528 Main Street (see map)
www.climatecafes.ca | info@climatecafes.ca | Join the facebook group

Owning a car is not only bad for the
environment, it’s bad for your pocket book, but living without one is
not always easy. For those who need more convenience and flexibility
than walking, biking or public transit can provide, car sharing is a
practical alternative.

Join Climate Cafes for a discussion of
the various challenges and opportunities in leading a car free
lifestyle and find out if car sharing is right for you. Tracey
Axelsson, founder and director of the first English speaking car co-op
in the world, The Co-operative Auto Network, will be present to explain the mechanics and history of car sharing and co-ops.

Event title:
Living Car Free Cafe

Start:
2008-05-20 19:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-05-20 21:00

Location:

Location(s)

2528 Main Street Bean Around the World

Vancouver, BC
Canada

See map: Google Maps

Event Website:
http://www.climatecafes.ca

Contact Email:
ideas@climatecafes.ca

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W.E.D. Library Display

Submitted Mon, 2008-04-28 21:48 — ahazelwood

Just in time to promote The Bundaberg 2008 World Environment Day Celebration on June 1, SustainaBundy will have a display in the Bundaberg Library. From the 12th to the 22nd May, a collection of SustainaBundy's books, magazines and DVDs on peak oil, climate change, sustainability, self sufficiency, organic gardening and more will be on display in the library entryway along with World Environment Day posters and information.

Following World Environment Day, the contents of the display will become a part of the library collection, available for borrowing by anyone with a Bundaberg Library card. A list of the items will be available on the SustainaBundy website so borrowers can ask for them by name.

The books, magazines and DVDs are from the personal collections of SustainaBundy members - the materials will do much more good if they're available to the wider community instead of just the owners, and we're happy to be able to use them to promote WED before they go into the library's inventory!

Here is a small sample of items that may be on display. Watch this space for a complete list of borrowable items soon!

DVDs:
-Relocalisation: How Peak Oil Can Lead To Permaculture by David Holmgren
-A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
-The End of Suburbia
-The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
-An Inconvenient Truth
-A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
-The Future of Food
-Small Scale Cooperative Enterprise in Maleny: Creating Prosperous Communities
-School Gardens/Eating Your Park
-Natural Building and a New Sense of the Earth

Books:
-Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty - Daniel Lerch
-Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance - John Storey
-The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It - John Seymour
-From Utopian Dreaming to Communal Reality: Cooperative Lifestyles in Australia - Bill Metcalf
-Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times - Steve Solomon
-The Natural Way of Farming - Masanobu Fukuoka
-The Rodale Book of Composting
-Organic Control of Household Pests - Jackie French
-Companion Planting - Brenda Little
-The Backyard Orchardist - Stella Otto
-Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens - Gail Damerow
-Preserving Summer's Bounty: A Quick and Easy Guide to Freezing, Canning, and Preserving, and Drying What You Grow
-Lost Arts: A Celebration of Culinary Traditions - Lynn Alley
-Home Cheese Making - Ricki Carroll
-Homemade Root Beer, Soda and Pop - Stephen Cresswell
-Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them - Rolfe Cobleigh
-The Beauty of Strawbale Homes - Athena & Bill Steen
-The Natural Plaster Book - Guelberth & Chiras

Magazines:
A selection of Earth Garden, Grass Roots, National Geographic, New Scientist and others

Event title:
W.E.D. Library Display

Start:
2008-05-12 09:30 (Calendar)

End:
2008-05-22 17:00

Location:

Location(s)

Bundaberg Library

Bundaberg, QLD, 4670
Australia

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Permaculture Design Course at Ashevillage Institute (AVI)

Submitted Mon, 2008-03-17 17:11 — vanvalli

This year  Ashevillage Institute will be hosting classes and internships that provide you with real solutions to Peak Oil and the climate crisis.   Our course offerings are taught by a dynamic team of instructors and take place at an educational community dedicated to permaculture and regenerative ways of living. Join a lifestyle and a worldwide movement with over 100,000 Design Course graduates!

Contact Information:
Kimchi Rylander
Registration Coordinator
email AVI@kleiwerks.org or call 828.225.8820


April 25-27, May 30-June 1, June 27-29, July 25-27, Aug. 29-31, Sept. 26-28, Oct. 24-26
Permaculture Design Course at Ashevillage Institute (AVI)
with Patricia Allison  and other nationally renowned instructors

This course will introduce you to the essential principles and practices of permaculture, an ecological design system for creating abundant regenerative human habitats.  It takes place at Ashevillage Institute, an emerging urban education center and living laboratory for sustainable solutions in action.  AVI is located in a cluster of houses in a neighborhood a few blocks from downtown Asheville, North Carolina. Students receive a Permaculture Design certificate upon completion. 

This course:
• Includes 72 curriculum hours
• Has an urban, neighborhood, and residential focus
• Allows you to use the word 'Permaculture' professionally
• Is hosted by Kleiwerks, an internationally-renowned organization
• Offers practical, intellectual, cultural, social, and spiritual aspects of sustainability
• Has an outstanding team of pioneering guest presenters from around the country, with over 200 cumulative years of teaching experience!

The weekend course format allows for more hands-on projects, social networking, and cultural sharing. It runs  the last weekend of every month from April thru October, and begins with Friday evening presentations hosted by Ashevillage Institute.

Course fee: $1400 (does NOT include food and lodging)
For details on registration, fees, discounts, course info, and other details, click here: http://www.kleiwerks.org/avi/workshop_details.php

For details on all 2008 educational events at the Ashevillage Institute, click here: http://kleiwerks.org/events_projects.php
 

Additional Week-end Sustainability Workshops
For more info or to register email AVI@kleiwerks.org or call 828.225.8820

Introduction to Permaculture with Patricia Allison & guests: March 27 & 28
Residential Rainwater & Greywater Harvesting with Brad Lancaster (Author of 'Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond'): April 24 & 25
Bee-Keeping with Chris Mathis (WNC Bee School & Spicewood Farm): May 29 & 30
Natural Building with Janell Kapoor (Kleiwerks), Steveo Brodmerkel (Kleiwerks), Lydia Dolman (City Repair), Mark Lakeman (City Repair): June 26 & 27
Wild Food & Fermentation with Sandor Katz (Author of 'WIld Fermentation' & 'The Revolution Will Not Be Micro-waved') & Frank Cook: July 24 & 25
TBA (tentatively Bio-Dynamic Wkshp): August 28 & 29
TBA (tentatively Raw Food Wkshp): September 25 & 26
Natural Finishes - Earthen Plasters & Paints with Janell Kapoor (Kleiwerks): October 23 & 24

Event title:
Permaculture Design Course at Ashevillage Institute (AVI)

Start:
2008-04-25 08:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-10-24 17:00

Location:

Location(s)

Asheville, NC, 28802
United States

See map: Google Maps

Event Website:
http://www.kleiwerks.org/avi/workshop_details.php

Contact Email:
AVI@kleiwerks.org

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• permaculture
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