Join us at the Greener Homes and Gardens Expo on May 17/18 and become more self-sustained in your garden by attending free seminars about making your own soil amendments, caring for urban chickens, managing small–scale beekeeping, harvesting rainwater, incorporating pet-friendly gardening techniques, utilizing permaculture practices and more.
$3 suggested donation to benefit Habitat for Humanity ReStore
Anuradha Mittal, an eloquent and unflinching advocate of social and economic justice, is the founder and director of The Oakland Institute, a California-based think tank that aims to help bridge policy think tanks with activist networks and social movements. She spoke on The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution for the World’s Poor in Portland on February 10, 2007.
The documentary, "The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil," was inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to Cuba through Global Exchange in August, 2003. That year Pat had begun studying and speaking about worldwide peak oil production. In May Pat and Faith attended the second meeting of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, a European group of oil geologists and scientists, which predicted that mankind was perilously close to having used up half of the world's oil resources. When they learned that Cuba underwent the loss of over half of its oil imports and survived, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, the couple wanted to see for themselves how Cuba had done this.
Film Screening- Free!
Thursday, October 18
6:30PM Refreshments, 7PM Video Screening
Sierra Club office, 2950 SE Stark St, Suite 100
Maquilapolis documents to heroic efforts of women factory workers in Tijuana to fight for their basic rights as workers and people and to end their mistreatment at the hands of foreign corporations.
The values stated in the Earth Charter include protection of the natural environment, sustainable use of resources, and people’s right to a healthy environment. The documentary Kilowatt Ours illustrates how much of our current production and consumption of energy conflict with those values, and what we can do about it.
