Make your own rocket stove!  You will need to bring one #10 can, along with its removed lid (make sure it has a real lid, not a foil pull-tab) and 4 fruit or soup cans (again, without pull-tab lids or rounded bottoms)that are all the same size.  You will also need a good pair of tin snips.  These are not too expensive and are a handy tool.  Possibly two people could share one, but you will be doing a fair amount of cutting with it.  A complete materials list will follow, but those are the biggies.

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Would you like to...

• grow food organically but you are limited on space?
• use areas where the soil may be unhealthy to grow in?
• get more agriculture in a city covered in concrete and asphalt?

Aquaponics is a technique that can help bring organic food production to challenging areas.

Location

THIS MEETING WILL NOT BE HELD AT PCCS!  Please see below for location.

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from:

The Committee for the Development of Residential Work Sites for Green Training in Agriculture & Economics (R.W.S)

This ongoing Project is promoting the dignity of self-support for those experiencing homelessness,
while helping build a new green economy.

May 14, 2009

Hello Again Friends of Simplicity,
Here is an UPDATE of the Residential Work Sites Project:

There's good news from many quarters in the effort to help people experiencing homelessness, and to help prevent further homelessness and hunger.

* Nationally, President Obama's 2010 Budget Proposal includes big increases in funding for housing and homeless programs, including:
$46.3 billion for HUD programs, an 11 percent increase;
$1.8 billion for McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants, an increase of $117 million over FY 2009;
$1 billion for a National Affordable Housing Trust Fund;

Location

Where: At the Bullock's 30 year old Permaculture Homestead, Orcas Island, WA

Instructors: Douglas Bullock, Sam Bullock & Dave Boehnlein

Includes:
Tour, lecture, hand-on projects, presentations, group discussion, and networking. We will cover Permaculture design theory & practice, forest gardening, perennial food systems, plant propagation, efficient water & energy systems, fertility management - beneficial plants/healthy soils, and ecological systems as a model for human communities.

Course Tuition: $200; includes delicious, mostly organic meals & materials. Camping space is provided. Payment is due upon course registration. Course is limited to 50 participants.

For more info or to register contact:
Dave Boehnlein
360-840-8483
info@permacultureportal.com
 

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What is Ready. Safe. Go.?

Ready. Safe. Go. is an opportunity to learn more about crime prevention, safety, and emergency preparedness.  Choose between 21 free classes during three hour long sessions in the morning, network with other volunteers, community members, and staff during lunch, then honor fellow community members at the awards ceremony in the afternoon. 

This annual event is a partnership between the Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI) Crime Prevention Program and the Portland Office of Emergency Management (POEM), with support from the Portland Citizen Corps Council.

Who Should Attend

Everyone is welcome! 

The training is geared for the Portland community.

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Think. Ask questions. Find your passion. Take action.

The Springboard Social Innovation Forum is a monthly community event envisioned and hosted by Springboard Innovation, a nonprofit organization based in Portland that fosters community-led community change. Our mission is to help turn ideas to action, led by local community members… like you.

Get enraged. Get engaged. Get busy.

This month's forum is themed:

“Online Solutions"

Our guiding question at the forum will be: "How do internet-based technologies support social innovation?"

We will be using emerging local projects for real-time, hands-on learning. Learn how the internet can be used to raise seed-funding for social entrepreneur startups, learn about free and low cost online resources for creating a successful social innovation, learn how social marketing can create social change.

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Andrew McLeod will present his debut book - Holy Cooperation!: Building Graceful Economies.

Through the lenses of cooperative economics and religion, this new book examines how cooperatives provide an essential response to economic troubles that move beyond charity to the roots of injustice. Andrew McLeod will present on faith-based cooperation and discuss how faith-communities can play a key role in addressing the economic crisis.

With a balanced look at the threeAbrahamic faiths, this talk utilizes Andrew’s extensive history, dedication and commitment to cooperative business and economics while tying in communities of faith. Andrew will offer concrete examples of how we can get beyond addressing symptoms of injustice and build a new economy with justice and liberty at its core.

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