Postings Related To: Social Justice

Permaculture Inspiration

(Event Sponsored by Transition Berkeley)
May 22, 2013 7:00 pm - Event Details
Posted by Catherine Sutton

Transition Berkeley Presents: Permaculture Inspiration & Gardening Opportunities
Wednesday, May 22, 7-9 pm

Join us for this inspiring and informative evening where we’ll show the film, “Permaculture: the Growing Edge”, hear from local gardening representatives and experts on how you can tap into local opportunities for growing food.

The lineup of guests includes: Victory Lee, People’s Victory Garden Program and 4th year of the Victory Garden Challenge, Lotta Chan, head of the Community Garden Working Group, Alexa Hauser and Catherine Sutton, Transition Albany, will share about the Memorial Park Edible Landscape project, and Joy Moore, co-founder Farm Fresh Choice and Garden Coordinator for Berkeley Technology Academy.

Permaculture is a sustainable system of earth care that offers solutions to many of our grave environmental problems and a hopeful, proactive vision of change. The film introduces us to inspiring examples of projects, and includes a visit to David Holmgren’s own homestead, tracking deer with naturalist Jon Young, sheet mulching an inner-city garden with Hunters Point Family, transforming an intersection into a gathering place with City Repair and joining mycologist Paul Stamets as he cleans up an oil spill with mushrooms.

Cost: donations gratefully accepted to support the community work of Transition Berkeley
Location: the Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave. (near Dwight), Berkeley, wheelchair accessible
Info: contact Linda

OTHER TRANSITION EVENTS

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Albany Arts & Green Festival

(Event Sponsored by Several, including Transition Albany)
May 19, 2013 11:00 am - Event Details
Posted by Catherine Sutton

AAGFA wonderful opportunity to socialize, learn new stuff, eat great food (we have food trucks this year), hear some talented musicians, see the new Edible Garden, and take part in Albany’s annual Green extravaganza. Transition Albany is a sponsor this year and we’ve tried to extend the scope of tables offering information on how to create strong community and move out of the fossil fuel age.

If  you would like to help out at our table for an hour or two please contact transitionalbanyca@gmail.com. Thanks!

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Money & Life

(Event Sponsored by Transition Albany)
June 2, 2013 2:00 pm - Event Details
Posted by Catherine Sutton

Money & Life“Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster but as a tremendous opportunity? This cinematic odyssey connects the dots on our current economic pains and offers a new story of money based on an emerging paradigm of planetary wellbeing that understands all of life as profoundly interconnected.”

A profoundly hopeful, uplifting and energizing film, all helps us to understand the fundamentals of money – and how it got this way –  and how we can reclaim our lives from the rule of money.

Keep in touch as we develop partnerships with other local organizations and ask them to kick off audience discussion afterwards.

This film is being distributed in the spirit of the gift and you can watch it online here for a donation of your choice: http://moneyandlifemovie.com/

Watch this space…

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Albany Community Clothing Swap

(Event Sponsored by City of Albany)
April 25, 2013 7:30 pm - Event Details
Posted by Catherine Sutton 
Spring Cleaning!! Clean out your closets and bring your 
wearable-but-unwanted clothing to the Community Center where you can 
rummage through everyone else's wearable-but-unwanted items. Bring one
bag or more of your washed, gently worn items (men's, women's, 
maternity, plus size and children's clothing) and be admitted to our 
fabulous swap room where clothing will be set out by type (pants, 
skirts, shirts, blouses, etc.) Choose items and take them home. There 
won't be a dressing room or mirrors, but you can try things on over
your clothes and meet your neighbors and ask them for fashion advice!
All sizes welcome, WOMEN'S PLUS SIZES VERY APPRECIATED
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ELP Work Party

(Event Sponsored by Transition Albany Garden Group)
April 30, 2013 7:00 am - Event Details
Posted by Catherine Sutton

An evening work party to include those who can’t make weekends.

Bring gloves and hand tools. We’ll plant, complete the “wall” of tree trunks between the garden and the lawn, and hang out to dream of what comes next.

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