Friday, June 5th UU Church of Rutland, 117 West Street, Rutland VT. Jim Merkel – Real World Sustainability. Free and Open to the Public. Sponsored by Sustainable Rutland, SolaFest, RAFFL and City SEEDs. For more information, please visit www.sustainablerutland.org or contact info@sustainablerutland.org OK. You are convinced that American culture is unsustainable. You have watched a string of economic bubbles blow up and burst. You know about increasing consumerism, extinction rates, military spending, as well as decreasing glaciers, happiness and financial security. And yet: "All this sustainability stuff sounds great, but I have to live in the real world." This presentation highlights how "real-world status quo" has led to stress, overwork, perverted economics, climate change, poverty, wars -- and how "real-world changes” can provide the remedy. Jim Merkel, author of Radical Simplicity, suggests dozens of Yankee- practical lifestyles steps that can actually not only lighten your footprint but also lighten the heaviness of a world going sour. Friday June 5th. Click here for more information.
BIOFUELS/VEGGIE OIL CONVERSION WORKSHOP: June 12, 6pm to
June 14, 2009 at 5pm Yestermorrow Design/Build School 189 VT Rte 100,
Warren http://www.yestermorrow.org 802-496-5545 Contact Kate Stephenson
Summer Permaculture Design Certification Course - June 14-26 at Rock
Point in Burlington. Join us for a two week residential Permaculture Design
Certification course that goes above and beyond the standard curriculum, led by
a group of some of the most experienced designers, farmers, and educators in
Vermont and the Northeast. Together, we'll design and implement permaculture
solutions for a multi-use community center and nature preserve, and each student
will also be guided in generating a whole systems design for space of their own
choosing. For more information click here
Monday June 22, 7-8:30pm Menu for the Future reading
and discussion group- 1st of 6 weekly sessions about sustainable food
systems Latham Library, Thetford. The course books may be borrowed or
purchased ($21) from the library. Please read the first session for
June 22. For more information and to register call the library at
802-785-4361.
Tuesday, June 23, 7:00 p.m. Garbage: The Revolution Starts at Home,
a documentary on household garbage by Canadian filmmaker Andrew Nisker:
Mayor Room, Howe Library, 13 South Street, Hanover. Free. Bring bowl
and mug for popcorn and drinks. Sponsored by the Upper Valley Land
Trust, Vermont Earth Institute (VEI), the Vermont Chapter of the Sierra
Club, SERG, Sustainable Hanover, and the Greater Upper Valley Solid
Waste District. Information: VEI at vei@valley.net or (802) 333-3664.
START OR JOIN A VEI DISCUSSION COURSE Check out the newest course on food and food systems "Menu for the Future." Get together with friends for garden-fresh treats and good conversations using this newest coursebook reader or the other VEI topics. The other course topics are: Global Warming, Voluntary Simplicity, Choices for Sustainable Living, Discovering a Sense of Place, Globalization and Its Critics, Deep Ecology andHealthy Children-Healthy Planet. Contact VEI at 802-333-3663 or vei@valley.net about organizing a discussion group.
Sponsors include libraries, faith communities, workplaces, schools, museums, and other community groups. You can also organize a course for your friends and neighbors.
For the Healthy Children— Healthy Planet course we are seeking partnerships with social service agencies, educational programs, schools, parent-teacher organizations and community groups. This course addresses challenges of raising children in a consumer culture and included advertising, overscheduling, technological overload and peer pressure. Course topics also include antidotes—establishing family rituals, exploring nature, creating meaningful learning experiences, and fostering good health.
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