EcoCalendar
http://ecologycenter.org
September 23, 2011 -- October 9, 2011
Greetings Ecology Center members and friends,
Our EcoCalendar features two weeks worth of events, classes, actions, films, conferences, and more. The 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
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Two great events this Saturday! Explore Wild, Foraged, and Indigenous Foods at the Saturday Berkeley Farmers' Market.
move beyond fossil fuels
And join the Moving Planet Mobilization for a Berkeley Bike Ride, BART gathering, and SF Parade! Moving Planet is a worldwide rally to demand solutions to the climate crisis. Join the movement away from fossil fuels!
ECOLOGY CENTER EVENTS
9/24/2011 Moving Planet Mobilization: Berkeley bike ride, BART gathering, and SF parade Special Event
9/24/2011 Wild, Foraged, & Indigenous Foods Celebration at Berkeley Farmers' Market Farmers' Markets Event
9/25/2011 Peralta Community Garden's Annual Open House BCGC Event
9/29/2011 Rebuilding Village Economy Through Local Exchange: Local Timebanks and other Alternatives Special Event
10/1/2011 Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival Farmers' Markets Event
10/3/2011 Climate Action Workshop Series (2-session series) Class
10/4/2011 Advanced Seed Saving for Farmers and Gardeners Class
10/6/2011 Around the World Without a Plane: Dispatches from a Hot Planet Special Event
10/12/2011 - 10/14/2011 Slow Money National Gathering Special Event
10/13/2011 Fiber Arts Presentation: Black Mesa Weavers (Navajo) Special Event
10/14/2011 Harvest the Rain -- Book Talk with Nate Downey Ecology Center Store
10/15/2011 Bookmaking with Recycled Materials--WAIT LIST Class
10/20/2011 Fair Food from the Field to the Table Special Event
10/22/2011 Open Community Garden Day BCGC Event
10/22/2011 Composting for Renters EcoHouse Event
10/24/2011 Farm Tour: Visit Farms of the Ecology Center Farmers' Markets Special Event
10/25/2011 Halloween/Day of the Dead Celebration at the Tuesday Berkeley Farmers' Market Farmers' Markets Event
10/27/2011 Getting Involved in Tar Sands Activism, with Rainforest Action Network Executive Director Becky Tarbotton Special Event
11/15/2011 Chicken Clinic 2.0 Class
11/19/2011 Greywater, Rainwater Catchment, Earthworks Tour at the EcoHouse EcoHouse Event
11/19/2011 Giftmaking with Recycled Materials Class
OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS
9/23/2011 Albany Local Week Event: Bike About Town East Bay
9/23/2011 - 9/29/2011 Film: "Farmageddon" San Francisco
9/23/2011 Film: "Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice" San Francisco
9/23/2011 - 9/25/2011 Art of Community: Creating Sustainable Culture Through Cooperation North Bay
9/23/2011 Screening: "A New We: Ecovillages & Ecological Communities in Europe" (NEW DATE) East Bay
9/23/2011 Lecture: The Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Accident: What Happened and What Does It Mean? East Bay
9/23/2011 - 9/25/2011 Eat Real Festival East Bay
9/23/2011 Bay Area Social Equity Caucus Meeting: Assessing the Redistricting Process East Bay
9/23/2011 - 9/24/2011 Art Exhibit: Art at the SF Dump San Francisco
9/23/2011 - 9/25/2011 Seed to Salve: An Introduction to Herbal Living Mendocino County
9/23/2011 Conscientious Projector Film: The Battle of Chernobyl East Bay
9/24/2011 National Public Lands Day
9/24/2011 Class: Soils 101 San Francisco
9/24/2011 Introduction to Backyard Beekeeping and Honey Spinning North Bay
9/24/2011 AnimalPalooza! San Francisco
9/24/2011 - 9/25/2011 Ploughshares Nursery Harvest Season Clearance Sale East Bay
9/24/2011 Behind the Scenes Tour at the Marine Mammal Center North Bay
9/24/2011 Community Meeting: Community Gardens in El Cerrito East Bay
9/24/2011 Herb and Harvest Hoedown North Bay
9/24/2011 Food N' Justice with Phat Beets: Deconstructing Racism in the Food System East Bay
9/24/2011 Food N' Justice with Phat Beets: Phat Flea's Market and Bazaar East Bay
9/24/2011 Garden Talk: Preparing for Winter: Planting Cover Crops, etc. East Bay
9/24/2011 Wild, Foraged, & Indigenous Foods Celebration at Berkeley Farmers' Market East Bay
9/24/2011 Eat Real Bike Tour East Bay
9/24/2011 Pie Ranch Fundraiser Dinner - This Land is Your Land San Mateo County
9/24/2011 Free Compost for Berkeley Residents East Bay
9/24/2011 Moving Planet Mobilization: Berkeley bike ride, BART gathering, and SF parade
9/24/2011 Slow Food San Francisco Childhood Obesity Bay Area Conference San Francisco
9/24/2011 San José Clean Energy Showcase South Bay
9/24/2011 Class: Top Ten Herbs to Grow Peninsula
9/24/2011 - 11/19/2011 Tracking and Nature Connection Series SF Bay Area
9/24/2011 - 11/7/2011 Class: Introduction to Green Building and Ecological Design Lab East Bay
9/25/2011 Richmond Grows Community Seed Garden Work Party East Bay
9/25/2011 The Wetlands Series: Ceremony at Bayfront Park Peninsula
9/25/2011 PHCA Meeting: New Adventures in Passive House East Bay
9/25/2011 Sea Turtle Restoration Project's Leatherback and Whale Watching Tour SF Bay Area
9/25/2011 SCRAPPY Sunday San Francisco
9/25/2011 Piedmont Harvest Festival East Bay
9/25/2011 Peralta Community Garden's Annual Open House East Bay
9/25/2011 UC Botanical Garden Fall Plant Sale East Bay
9/25/2011 Fall Vegetable Planting Class East Bay
9/25/2011 Veg Speed Dating San Francisco
9/25/2011 San Francisco Lymewalk San Francisco
9/26/2011 Talk: Serpentine Soils and the Ecology and Evolution of Mycorrhizal Fungi East Bay
9/26/2011 SF Mayoral Forum: Our Food, Our Schoolyards, Our Water San Francisco
9/26/2011 An Evening with Ingrid Newkirk Santa Cruz County
9/26/2011 Transition Berkeley's Crop Swap East Bay
9/27/2011 EcoTuesday: Participant's 'Pitch Night' San Francisco
9/27/2011 An Evening with Jane Goodall Live
9/27/2011 The Ecology of Leadership Free Introductory Workshop San Francisco
9/27/2011 Fix it Fast and Fresh -- The Modern Larder Way East Bay
9/27/2011 Ecological Poetry Reading-- Poecology Literary Journal San Francisco
9/27/2011 Cooking Class: Adventures in Vita-Mixing East Bay
9/28/2011 California Native Plant Society -- Talk on Re-imagining the California Lawn East Bay
9/28/2011 Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living East Bay
9/28/2011 Rooted & Rising: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Solutions Salon East Bay
9/28/2011 "My Favorite Ecovillages Worldwide" Slide Show East Bay
9/28/2011 Panel: Big Green San Francisco
9/28/2011 Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Colloquium: Network-Landscapes East Bay
9/28/2011 Lunchtime Forum: Adapting to Sea Level Rise in Alameda County San Francisco
9/28/2011 Class: Solar Water Heating Systems San Francisco
9/29/2011 Presentation: Corporate Control of California's Water San Francisco
9/29/2011 Introduction to Bauman College: A Call with Dr. Ed Bauman
9/29/2011 Hunger Town Hall East Bay
9/29/2011 Great Communities Film Series -- The Happy Movie: Global Perspectives on Happiness North Bay
9/29/2011 Green Speed Dating (on a boat!) East Bay
9/29/2011 Rebuilding Village Economy Through Local Exchange: Local Timebanks and other Alternatives East Bay
9/29/2011 Muralist Susan Cervantes at Revolution Books East Bay
9/30/2011 Speaker: Characterizing On-road and Near-road Air Pollution: A Tale of Seven Cities East Bay
9/30/2011 Speaker: Green Chemistry: Exploration of New Chemical Reactivities for a Sustainable Future East Bay
9/30/2011 - 10/1/2011 Resilient Communities: Restoring People and Planet -- Rights of Nature Marin County
9/30/2011 - 10/2/2011 Creating Your Ecovillage Workshop w/Diana Leafe Christian East Bay
10/1/2011 Class: Double-Digging and Bed Preparation Peninsula
10/1/2011 National Solar Tour
10/1/2011 Class: Complete-Diet Mini-Farming Peninsula
10/1/2011 - 10/2/2011 World Veg Festival Weekend San Francisco
10/1/2011 Tour: Water Harvesting for Permaculture Paradises North Bay
10/1/2011 Hoes Down Harvest Festival Yolo County
10/1/2011 Photo Walk in West Berkeley East Bay
10/1/2011 Native Plant Sale at the Mission Blue Nursery Peninsula
10/1/2011 Honey Harvest Hootenanny East Bay
10/1/2011 - 10/2/2011 Class: Build A Strawbale House Mendocino County
10/1/2011 Wildlife Conservation Expo San Francisco
10/1/2011 Cooking Class: Healthy and Delicious Breakfasts East Bay
10/1/2011 - 10/2/2011 Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden Autumn Plant Sale and Celebration North Bay
10/1/2011 Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival East Bay
10/1/2011 San José Solar Home Tour South Bay
10/1/2011 - 10/2/2011 California Native Plant Society Plant Fair East Bay
10/1/2011 - 10/2/2011 Fundraiser: Swim A Mile for Women with Cancer East Bay
10/1/2011 Class: Rain Gardens: Home-scale Rainwater Harvesting for Urban Gardeners East Bay
10/1/2011 Sick Plant Clinic East Bay
10/1/2011 Volunteer: Restore Bird Habitat with the Audubon Society (SF) San Francisco
10/1/2011 - 10/2/2011 Merritt College Horticulture Club Fall Harvest Fair & Plant Sale East Bay
10/1/2011 Urban Homesteading Workshop East Bay
10/1/2011 Sustainable Fairfax 12th Anniversary Party Fundraiser North Bay
10/1/2011 Autumn at Filoli Festival |