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Transition EventsFeb 10 2010 - 7:00pm
Feb 13 2010 - 11:00am
Feb 17 2010 - 7:00pm
Feb 27 2010 - 11:00am
Mar 17 2010 - 7:00pm
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Fruit Trees! Reskilling with Bright NeighborJoin Randy White from Bright Neighbor for an evening of free skills training on how to maintain fruit and nut trees for maiximum food production. You will also learn the basics of grafting scions (branches from existing food trees) to root stock, creating trees with multiple fruits. Come bring your own ideas, skills, and talents to this community training workshop! This event is part of the re-skilling effort. Location
St. Francis Che Room 1131 SE Oak St.
Portland, ORSpringboard Social Innovation Forum: Business as Unusual: Building Innovative CitiesHow can we make social innovation flourish in our city? What do communities need to recognize and support social innovators through all stages of their development? How can we best assess how our city enables or discourages social innovators to thrive?
Join us for a “working Forum,” where Portlanders will put our heads together to discuss the best ways to create and support social innovation in Portland and in other communities nationwide. We will be exploring Springboard’s latest initiative, Innovative Cities. ( categories: )
PPG Meeting Feb. 15 - GardenMedicine
PPG Meeting Feb. 15 - GardenMedicine
When we learn about Permaculture - from a book or in a class - we often see that certain plants have "medicine" listed as one of their functions. But do you ever wonder what part of the plant to use? When to pick it? What kind of health issues the plant medicine is used for? Would it be handy to get some ideas about this before spring planting? It's one thing to know that plants have medicinal functions, but Permaculture education rarely includes the body of knowledge needed to actually make use of plant medicines. Join the Portland Permaculture Guild at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15 when herbalist, Permaculture designer and naturopathic physician Orna Izakson will discuss the functions and uses of many garden medicinals. The Garden Medicine slideshow draws from Orna's extensive study of herbal medicine, with an eye to Permaculture functions and practical ideas for putting the people's medicines back into the people's hands. To learn more about Orna, see GardenMedicine.com or CeliloHealth.com, or read below! PPG meetings are held at Pacific Crest Community School at NE 29th and Davis (2 blocks N of Burnside). The meeting starts at 7pm. (Potlucks are temporarily on hold due to lack of participation. If enough people ask, they could be reinstated - please let me know.) Please enter at the North door (Davis), or the door from the parking lot. Bio: Orna Izakson trained in Permaculture with Toby Hemenway and Pam and Joe Lietch. She studied herbal medicine with teachers including Colette Gardiner, Howie Brounstein, Deb Soule, Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski, Ryan Drum, Deborah Frances, Glenn Nagel and Jill Stansbury. She is a licensed naturopath in Oregon and a registered herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild. She also runs GardenMedicine.com, a blog and resource on medicinal plants in Permaculture. A retired environmental newspaper journalist, Orna's work has appeared in publications including Willamette Week, The Los Angeles Times, E/The Environmental Magazine, High Country News, Multinational Monitor, the Bangor Daily News, In Good Tilth and WellWire.com. She has chapters published in two books, "Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth" and "Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change." Orna runs Celilo Natural Health Center in Northeast Portland and is writing a book on Permaculture gardening with medicinal plants. For more information, see www.celilohealth.com and www.gardenmedicine.com. Location
Pacific Crest Community School NE 29th & Davis (2 blocks N of Burnside)
Portland, ORNeighborhood Change Course, Phase 1
Location
Lents Baptist Church 5921 SE 88th
Portland, OR( categories: )
Illahee Series: The Power to Change Our Minds - Jonah LehrerJonah Lehrer is a Contributing Editor at Wired and the author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist. He graduated from Columbia University and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He has written for The New Yorker, Nature, Seed, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. He is also a Contributing Editor at Scientific American Mind and National Public Radio's Radio Lab. ----
Location
First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park
Portland, OR( categories: )
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