EcoCalendar
April 30, 2010 - May 16, 2010
Greetings Ecology Center members and friends,
Welcome to another list of events, classes, actions, films, conferences, grant deadlines, and more. Our searchable website edition of the calendar contains events further into the future. The Ecology Center's events are listed first, followed by additional community event listings. Please continue to send event listings to calendar@ecologycenter.org
Featured this calendar:
How to Build and Sustain Your School Garden
Fundamentals of Herbal Medicine - New Dates and Price!
Perennial Vegetable Workshop and Plant Sale at the Berkeley EcoHouse
Check out and sign up for these special Ecology Center classes!
ECOLOGY CENTER EVENTS
5/3/2010 Climate Change Action Workshop Series (Mon) Special Event
5/15/2010 How to Build and Sustain Your School Garden Class
5/16/2010 Urban Drought Solutions: Greywater, Rainwater Catchment, Earthworks EcoHouse Event
5/22/2010 Annual Strawberry Tasting at the Saturday Berkeley Farmers' Market Farmers' Markets Event
5/23/2010 Revolutionary Ecology: A Commemoration and a Celebration of Revolutionary Resistance BACH Event
5/23/2010 Fundamentals of Herbal Medicine - New Dates and Price! Class
5/24/2010 Marking the Moment: 20 Years After the Bombing of Judi Bari BACH Event
5/27/2010 Author Event: Breakthrough Communities Special Event
5/29/2010 Perennial Vegetable Workshop and Plant Sale at the Berkeley EcoHouse EcoHouse Event
6/13/2010 EcoHouse Tour EcoHouse Event
7/11/2010 Urban Drought Solutions: Greywater, Rainwater Catchment, Earthworks EcoHouse Event
8/8/2010 EcoHouse Tour EcoHouse Event
9/19/2010 Urban Drought Solutions: Greywater, Rainwater Catchment, Earthworks EcoHouse Event
10/10/2010 EcoHouse Tour EcoHouse Event
11/14/2010 Urban Drought Solutions: Greywater, Rainwater Catchment, Earthworks EcoHouse Event
12/12/2010 EcoHouse Tour EcoHouse Event
OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS
4/30/2010 Volunteer: Berkeley Youth Alternative Gardens East Bay
4/30/2010 Symposium: Food -- History and Culture in the West East Bay
4/30/2010 SPAWN Native Plant Nursery Workday North Bay
4/30/2010 Poetry Fundraiser: Hold the Light for Haiti & Chile East Bay
4/30/2010 Compost Give-away at Berkeley Marina for Berkeley Residents East Bay
4/30/2010 Volunteer: Fruit Tree Planting at Growing Home Community Garden San Francisco
5/1/2010 Volunteer: Creekside Habitat Restoration with SPAWN North Bay
5/1/2010 Workshop: Let Worms Eat Your Garbage East Bay
5/1/2010 - 5/2/2010 Bringing Back the Natives Native Plant Sale Extravaganza East Bay
5/1/2010 Sick Plant Clinic East Bay
5/1/2010 Jane's Walks -- Old Oakland East Bay
5/1/2010 Class: Start an Earth Day Salad Garden Peninsula
5/1/2010 Jane's Walks -- The Oakmore Stairs East Bay
5/1/2010 - 5/2/2010 Workshop: Introduction to Ecological Design Mendocino County
5/1/2010 Expedition: Pacific Environment's Vessel Watch
5/1/2010 Acterra's 40th Anniversary Party Peninsula
5/1/2010 - 5/2/2010 Oakland Museum of California Opening Weekend Celebration East Bay
5/1/2010 Class: Medicinal Plants of the Bay Area Peninsula
5/1/2010 Jane's Walks -- Lake Merritt, Roses, and Glen Echo Creek East Bay
5/1/2010 Workshop: Companion Planting East Bay
5/1/2010 Replace Your Lawn with California Natives South Bay
5/1/2010 Class: Alternatives To Lawns Peninsula
5/1/2010 Builders Booksource Spring Cleaning Sidewalk Sale East Bay
5/1/2010 - 5/2/2010 Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Biodiversity Plant Sale & Tours North Bay
5/1/2010 - 5/2/2010 Merritt College Horticulture Club Spring Plant Sale East Bay
5/1/2010 Workshop: Urban Composting San Francisco
5/1/2010 Bay Area Schools Environmental Conference South Bay
5/1/2010 Jane's Walks -- Mills College: A Creekside Oakland Gem East Bay
5/1/2010 - 5/21/2010 Farm Sanctuary California Country Hoe Down Central Valley
5/1/2010 Info Meeting: Volunteer with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory San Francisco
5/1/2010 Healthy Garden Workshop: Conserve Water and Care for your Soil East Bay
5/1/2010 Open House: Friends of the Eel River North Bay
5/1/2010 Wine Into Water: An Afternoon of Wine, Cheese, Chocolate and Fundraising East Bay
5/1/2010 Lindsay Wildlife Museum Pack Rat Sale East Bay
5/1/2010 Volunteer: Pier 94 Wetland Restoration San Francisco
5/1/2010 - 5/2/2010 The Watershed Nursery Native Plant Sale Extravaganza East Bay
5/1/2010 Jane's Walks -- Crocker Highlands/Grand-Lake Stair Walk East Bay
5/1/2010 Volunteer: Remove Invasives and Plant Wild Flowers at Point Isabel East Bay
5/1/2010 Free Acupuncture on May Day East Bay
5/1/2010 Greywater Workshop: Create a Sustainable Life - Gardening with Free Alternative Water Sources East Bay
5/2/2010 Kassa: Urban Adobe Festival East Bay
5/2/2010 Electronic Waste Disposal Event East Bay
5/2/2010 Albany Arts & Green Festival East Bay
5/2/2010 - 6/21/2010 Class: Permaculture Design Introduction East Bay
5/2/2010 Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour East Bay
5/2/2010 Workshop: Vegetable Focus -- Solanums San Francisco
5/2/2010 Tour: Bike Tour of Presidio Natural Areas with Stephen Phillips San Francisco
5/2/2010 Garden City: Finding City Land for a Garden San Francisco
5/2/2010 Women Entrepreneurs Showcase East Bay
5/2/2010 Jane's Walks -- An Advocate's Walk East Bay
5/2/2010 - 5/8/2010 Buckeye Gathering: Traditional Arts & Primitive Living Skills Sonoma County
5/2/2010 A Walk on the Wild Side: Edible Wildflowers, Grasses, and Seeds North Bay
5/3/2010 Talk: Wildlife Corridors East Bay
5/3/2010 Discussion: Landscape Panoramas: Expanding Our View of Nature East Bay
5/3/2010 - 5/24/2010 Climate Change Action Workshop Series (Mon) East Bay
5/4/2010 Tour of LEED-Platinum Home Peninsula
5/4/2010 Community Meeting: Help Plan the Future El Cerrito Recycling and Environmental Resource Center East Bay
5/4/2010 Film Screening Benefit: Food INC, Benefit For Pie Ranch San Francisco
5/4/2010 - 5/7/2010 Conference: Association of California Water Agencies Monterey County
5/4/2010 South Bay Green Building Professionals Guild Meeting: Show Me the Money Peninsula
5/4/2010 Lecture: Oil Exploration and Fishing Livelihoods in Mozambique East Bay
5/4/2010 Talk: The Plundered Planet - Why the Exploitation of Natural Resources Affects Us All San Francisco
5/4/2010 Lecture: History of a Ground Water Cleanup Project: LLNL Livermore Site East Bay
5/4/2010 Discussion: Youth Leaders Speak Up on Driving Down Carbon San Francisco
5/5/2010 East Bay Green Building Professionals Guild Meeting: Greywater - Current State of the Art for Planning, Codes and Installation East Bay
5/5/2010 Workshop: Reusable Transport Packaging Solutions Peninsula
5/5/2010 Presentation: Taking (Temporary) Root: Pop-up Storefronts and an Urban Farm in Hayes Valley San Francisco
5/5/2010 Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library Orientation East Bay
5/5/2010 - 5/15/2010 Food Sovereignty Tour To Cuba Outside California
5/5/2010 Green Medicine Webinar: Green Pediatrics
5/5/2010 Presentation: The Plundered Planet San Francisco
5/5/2010 Author Event: "Transforming Power" San Francisco
5/5/2010 Berkeley Stanford CleanTech Conference: Car 2.0, The Race for Electric Transportation Leadership San Francisco
5/5/2010 Lecture: Sneaky Sea Slugs! San Francisco
5/5/2010 Panel Discussion: Feeding 9 Billion with the Challenges of Climate Change East Bay
5/6/2010 Nutrition Movie Night: "Food, Inc." East Bay
5/6/2010 - 5/7/2010 Certified Green Building Professional Training (Oakland) East Bay
5/6/2010 SDForum's Green Evening: 'The Modern Green Supply Chain' Peninsula
5/6/2010 A Vermicomposting Extravaganza, Live Demonstrations and Lecture Peninsula
5/6/2010 Tour: Green Corridor East Bay
5/6/2010 The Latest in Greywater and Rainwater Capture Peninsula
5/7/2010 May Day Film Showing & Discussion - Sacco and Vanzetti San Francisco
5/7/2010 SPAWN Native Plant Nursery Workday North Bay
5/7/2010 - 6/5/2010 Paddle to the Sea 2010 Northern California
5/7/2010 - 5/16/2010 Affordable Housing Week -- East Bay East Bay
5/7/2010 Art Opening: FRESH DIGS East Bay
5/7/2010 Volunteer: Berkeley Youth Alternative Gardens East Bay
5/7/2010 Sustainable Enterprise Conference North Bay
5/7/2010 Occidental Arts and Ecology Center "Second Chance" Biodiversity Plant Sale North Bay
5/7/2010 Hands-On Cocktail Class with Scott Beattie and Lance Winters San Francisco
5/7/2010 National Public Garden Day East Bay
5/7/2010 California Trout Benefit Gala & Auction: California Blue Ribbon Waters San Francisco
5/7/2010 Class: Fearless Meditation Practice Built for Justice East Bay
5/8/2010 Workshop: Gardening to Manage Pests Naturally East Bay
5/8/2010 Solar Hot Water Basics for Residential Customers San Francisco
5/8/2010 Workshop: Composting and Vermicompost East Bay
5/8/2010 Workshop: Let Worms Eat Your Garbage East Bay
5/8/2010 Class: Water-Wise Gardening North Bay
5/8/2010 Volunteer: Creekside Habitat Restoration with SPAWN North Bay
5/8/2010 Class: Medicinal Plants of the Bay Area East Bay
5/8/2010 Class: Soils, Bed Preparation and Amendments SF Bay Area
5/8/2010 Class: Medicinal Herbs - The Endangered to the Common, Their Uses and Cultivation East Bay
5/8/2010 Kids in Gardens Teacher Workshop East Bay
5/8/2010 Workshop: Bamboo Trellises and Other Structures East Bay
5/8/2010 Class: Drip Irrigation Peninsula
5/8/2010 Workshop: Design a Bay-Friendly Garden East Bay
5/8/2010 Class: Herbs with Jill Sheppard of Baia Nicchia East Bay
5/8/2010 Kids Creek Fest East Bay
5/8/2010 - 5/9/2010 Annual Plant Sale East Bay
5/8/2010 Workshop: World Fair Trade Day Celebration, Recycled Magazine Jewelry Making San Francisco Bay Area
5/8/2010 Talk & Book Signing: "Teaming with Microbes" East Bay
5/8/2010 Volunteer: Kids Creek Fest East Bay
5/8/2010 Volunteer: Broom Busting at El Cerrito Hillside Natural Area East Bay
5/8/2010 Richmond Greenway Gathering East Bay
5/8/2010 Spring Tracking Series Marin County
5/8/2010 Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library Orientation East Bay
5/8/2010 OBUGS' Spring Community Planting Event: "Spring into the Garden" East Bay
5/8/2010 Benefit: Urban Beets Dance Party East Bay
5/8/2010 - 5/15/2010 Affordable Housing Week -- San Mateo San Mateo County
5/8/2010 SCRAP Workshop: Re-Frame It! San Francisco
5/8/2010 Temescal and Rockridge Walk East Bay
5/9/2010 Class: City Chickens and Ducks -- (2pm) East Bay
5/9/2010 Workshop: Succulent Propagation East Bay
5/9/2010 Class: Urban Goats 101 East Bay
5/9/2010 Meeting: Passive Buildings California Group East Bay
5/9/2010 Garden City: Navigating Permits, Procedures and Building Community Support for Your Garden San Francisco
5/9/2010 Concert: Junkestra by Nathaniel Stookey San Francisco
5/9/2010 Workshop: Vegetable Focus -- Brassicas San Francisco
5/10/2010 - 5/11/2010 Certified Green Building Professional Training (Richmond) East Bay
5/10/2010 Author Event: "Toxic Loopholes" San Francisco
5/10/2010 - 5/24/2010 Call for Entries: What the World Needs Now East Bay
5/11/2010 Class: Landscape Watering North Bay
5/11/2010 CA Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) Workshop on Surface Water Sacramento County
5/11/2010 An Evening Dedicated to the Protection of The White Lions Peninsula
5/11/2010 Ecotopia Revisited: A Conversation With Ernest Callenbach and Novella Carpenter San Francisco
5/11/2010 Give Comment: El Cerrito Animals Ordinance -- Proposed Revisions East Bay
5/11/2010 Webinar: EPA's Role in Water Resources Management for a Changing Climate
5/11/2010 Information Session: Landscape Architecture Certification Program at UC Berkeley San Francisco
5/11/2010 Panel: Confronting the Global Crisis on Migration and Displacement San Francisco
5/12/2010 North Bay Green Building Professionals Guild Meeting: PG&E Residential Retrofit & New Construction Programs North Bay
5/12/2010 Class: Replace Your Lawn with California Natives South Bay
5/12/2010 Discussion: The Urban Farming Movement San Francisco
5/12/2010 Forum: Local Codes: Mapping and Transforming the City's Forgotten Public Space San Francisco
5/12/2010 Panel: Navigating the Road to Sustainability San Francisco
5/12/2010 Informational Meeting: Black Mesa Weavers Annual Wool Buy East Bay
5/13/2010 Volunteer: Bike to Work Day San Francisco Bay Area
5/13/2010 - 5/14/2010 Certified Green Building Professional Training (San Rafael) North Bay
5/13/2010 Fundraiser: Bubbles & Bivalves San Francisco
5/13/2010 Sustainable San Anselmo Presents: Cuba -- A Model of Sustainable Living North Bay
5/13/2010 Bike Away From Work Party and Fashion Show San Francisco
5/13/2010 The Green Edge: Differentiating Your Business and Improving Your Bottom Line San Francisco
5/14/2010 Volunteer: Berkeley Youth Alternative Gardens East Bay
5/14/2010 - 5/16/2010 Class: Plants of Mount Diablo, Identifcation and Medicinal Use East Bay
5/14/2010 Ferment Change Fermented Feast Fundraiser East Bay
5/14/2010 - 5/15/2010 Exhibition: "The Uncanny Valley Orphanage" & "Break in Case of Emergency" San Francisco
5/15/2010 Class: Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Garden East Bay
5/15/2010 Volunteer: Creekside Habitat Restoration with SPAWN North Bay
5/15/2010 Workshop: Introduction To Permaculture Mendocino County
5/15/2010 Class: How To Start Your Vegetable Garden Peninsula
5/15/2010 Class: How to Trap Gophers North Bay
5/15/2010 Eco-Garden Tour -- Marin County Marin County
5/15/2010 Volunteers Needed for Eco-Friendly Garden Tour Marin County
5/15/2010 Healthy Gardens without Toxic Chemicals East Bay
5/15/2010 Class: Landscape Watering San Francisco
5/15/2010 Class: No Fuss Landscape Beautification South Bay
5/15/2010 Class: Secrets of Drought Tolerant Landscaping South Bay
5/15/2010 - 5/16/2010 Intro to Practical Permaculture Workshop Northern California
5/15/2010 Volunteer: Martin Luther King Jr. Shore Restoration East Bay
5/15/2010 How to Build and Sustain Your School Garden East Bay
5/15/2010 Workshop: Compost San Francisco
5/15/2010 Sustainable Landscape Program: Plants and Plant Communities North Bay
5/15/2010 Volunteer: White-Crowned Sparrow Habitat Restoration San Francisco
5/15/2010 - 5/16/2010 Workshop: Processing Animals for Food North Bay
5/15/2010 Workshop: Bees in the City San Francisco
5/15/2010 - 5/16/2010 350 Garden Challenge Sonoma County
5/15/2010 Workshop: Diesel Car Maintenance East Bay
5/15/2010 Lecture: What Makes Water Wet? The Latest Word on the Most Important Molecule in the Universe East Bay
5/16/2010 City Slicker Farms Bike Tour and Potluck East Bay
5/16/2010 $$Smart and Green Day East Bay
5/16/2010 Class: Landscape Watering East Bay
5/16/2010 Commonweal Gardens Open House and Tour North Bay
5/16/2010 Class: Greywater for Backyard Gardeners East Bay
5/16/2010 Urban Drought Solutions: Greywater, Rainwater Catchment, Earthworks
5/16/2010 Garden City: Diggin In -- Getting Your Garden Started San Francisco
5/16/2010 Workshop: Advanced Permaculture Mendocino County
5/16/2010 Walk: Medicinal Plants in the Garden San Francisco
5/16/2010 A Celebration of Old Roses East Bay
5/16/2010 Informational Meeting: Black Mesa Weavers Annual Wool Buy East Bay
5/16/2010 Community Event: La Pena's Food Justice Series Presents: Foodshare East Bay
5/16/2010 Workshop: Composting and Vermicompost East Bay
Carrie Bennett
Ecology Center
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Thanks to David, James, and Serena for help with the EcoCalendar.
Thanks to Beck Cowles for guidance.
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