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Just as before you can login to TheDirt.org, make blog posts and post events.  There is a new form and we can now display Google Calendar feeds to the calendar! We've already added  Google Calendars from Friends of Trees and a few other organizations to give folks a better idea of what the calendar will be like. 

See below for a quick view of events this week or click here for the full page, monthly view.

 

Format: 2013-06-19
Format: 2013-06-19

Spring Tree Care: Pest & Disease Management/Fruit Thinning

VBC evening session - Saturday, June 1st

Spring Tree Care: Pest & Disease Management/Fruit Thinning

Cascadia Education Project FUN FUNGI Raiser

Class June 13: Water Conservation/Summer Planning for Winter Eating

Garden Party with Rep. Alissa Keny-Guyer

Permaculture Design Certification and Sustainable Living Skills Course

Cascadia Wild-OUTDOOR SURVIVAL SKILLS - Shelter construction

Homesteading for Women: Tools for Self-Reliant Living

PRI Permaculture Design Course (two weekends a month, June thru October)

Free! - Sunday Parkways Farm Tour

Free! - Sunday Parkways Farm Tour

Sundown at Ecotrust Concert Series

When: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm

Join us Wednesdays in July 2013 (10th–31st) from 5:30-8:30pm for the fourth annual Sundown concerts and showcase.
Sundown celebrates the intersection of music, green living and community wellbeing. Hosted at Ecotrust’s Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center Parking Lot, the free outdoor concerts bring together top local musical acts and the Innovation Showcase, featuring an exciting group of innovators working in the Pacific Northwest.

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2013 NW Permaculture Convergence

When: 
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 8:00am to Sunday, August 4, 2013 - 9:00pm

This year we converge at Pacific University August 2-4th, 2013 in Forest Grove, Oregon: home of The B Street Permaculture Project -an active Permaculture program with hands-on events scheduled for all 3 days and shoulder events before and after the convergence. 

Speakers include Carol Deppe best selling author of "The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times" and Don Tipping from Siskyou Seeds.

Get involved! Visit our CONTACTpage to reach committee organizers or visit us on facebook here. Tickets on sale May 15th!

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Unready for the Big One

Two Line Description: 

This is not a call to survivalism. But it is a call to self-reliance of the kind that societies have historically depended upon and which could dramatically cut mortality in a natural disaster such as a Cascadia subduction-zone earthquake.

Previews of disasters read like so many movies. Are they really real?

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Home Orchard Society Gardener's Calendar

Two Line Description: 

Handy list of gardening tasks that should be done for each of the months of the year.

By Ted Swensen 

A collection of gardening tips for your home garden & orchard. Click on a month to view the calendar. If you would like to contribute, post your tip at the HOS forums!

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The Top Ten films as chosen by Transition initiatives!

I know it has been a thrillingly exciting wait, but now we can announce the Top Ten films most popular with Transition initiatives!!  Thanks to everyone who voted.  I know the fever pitch of excitement this has generated.  You can either read them below (click ’read more’) or you can play this little player to hear them read out in a Top Ten countdown kinda stylee.

10.  The End of Suburbia

9.  There’s no tomorrow

8.  Dirt, the movie

7.  Voices of Transition

Joint 5th. The Age of Stupid

Joint 5th. The Economics of Happiness

4.  Koyannisqaatsi

3.  The Power of Community

2.  A Farm for the Future

1. In Transition (1.0 & 2.0)

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