We now have organic (and hierloom/heritage) seeds in stock – Stellar Seeds - and next week we should receive our shipment of Urban Harvest seeds.
When you come to the store remember to bring your containers for refilling from our ever expanding bulk products and if your containers are heavier than plastic or paper bags (such as a cardboard box, plastic dishwashing liquid bottle or glass jar) please have one of our staff weigh it so that you don’t get charged for your container at the check out.
Reminder – we will be charging for the use of paper & plastic bags at the store (excluding the reused plastic shopping bags) starting on April 1st, 2010.
More new items at the store: Wholesome Sweeteners Icing Sugar and Dark Brown Sugar (both Fair Trade and Organic); Prana Black Chai seeds (whole and ground);Manitoba Harvest Shelled hemp Seeds; Organic Food Bars (lots of flavours) – 100% raw, organic and Gluten Free; Yogourmet Yogurt Maker and starters (yogurt and Kefir); Yogotherm yogurt maker; Mitoku Nori sheets; Celtic Sea Salt; Passion Sante seed sprouter and tofu maker; Two Girls Cooking (an odd name for a accompany that makes raw food products) –Mexican Beet Fiesta, Sweetie’s Zesty Carrot, Better than Cheddar Kale Chips, Mr. Rutabaga Smith; Organic Cream Earl Grey (the staff really love this tea and I decided to offer it in the store even though it is not Fair Trade); Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Rolled Oats, Steel Cut Oats and All Purpose Baking Flour; bulk split green peas. More next week!
The new cooler should be here by the end of the month and it will take me a week or so to get the power and the orders in to start filling them up.
Timothy did quite a bit of homework last weekend and I hope that he has got a little caught up. I appreciate that he is a little more focused on this task than he was a couple of weeks ago. Pity that I have to work so much and can’t help him through this. Each week he is making one meal on his own and he is getting quite creative – he likes experimenting when he is cooking – it brings out his creativity.
There will be door prizes and a raffle, speakers, a seed exchange table, and lots of seeds for sale including heritage varieties. Bring any spare seeds you have for the free seed exchange table, as well as any unwanted gardening magazines or books.
Speakers: 11:30 Ron Berezan "Get Growing: Ideas and Strategies for New Gardeners" 12:30 Bruce Bashforth "Seed Starting" 1:30 Gwen Simpson "Growing the Top 10 Herbs" 2:30 Urban Gardening panel featuring: Sonja Myllymaki "Small Plot INtensive (SPIN) Gardening" Dustin Bajer "Guerrilla Gardening Kim Sanderson "Involving Children"
The Harmony Brunch commemorates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and encourages everyone to renew their commitment to ending racial discrimination in their personal and professional lives. The CMEF's Harmony Brunch is an event is anticipated by members of many cultural and religious communities in and around Edmonton. This year's keynote speaker will be Dr W Andy Knight, professor of political science at the University of Alberta. His keynote is titled “Humanitarian Intervention and The Responsibility to Protect.”
The Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation is an Edmonton-based non-profit organization that promotes public education and awareness of multiculturalism. As well, we advocate adherence to a wide range of multicultural values including diversity, equality, fairness, justice, unity, harmony and inclusiveness.
The 13thAnnual Harmony Brunch is presented in partnership with the Centre for Race and Culture (formerly NAARR), the Alberta Human Rights Commission, Alberta Association for Multicultural Education and the Ramada Hotel and Conference Centre.
Life on earth is based on water. The quality of life directly depends on water quality. Healthy ecosystems are sustained by good water quality, which leads to improved human well-being. On the contrary, poor water quality affects the environment and human well-being. With waterborne diseases causing the death of more than 1.5 million children every year and 2 million tons of sewage and other effluents draining into the world’s waters every day, we all need to be more aware of what water quality is all about.
This is the first event of Water Week in Edmonton, organized by a coalition of groups form the U of A and greater Edmonton community. The documentary screening will be followed by a discussion with Ricardo Acuña, the Executive Director of the Parkland Institute.
Synopsis: Based on the ground-breaking book by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, Executive Produced by Mark Achbar (The Corporation) and Si Litvinoff (The Man Who Fell to Earth), narrated by Malcolm McDowell, BLUE GOLD: WORLD WATER WARS sheds light on the world’s rapidly approaching water crisis and suggests that wars of the future will be fought over water, as they today over oil, as the source of all life enters the global marketplace and political arena.
The world’s fresh water is disappearing. As we pollute and waste away our very limited supply, corporate giants are working to make the building block of our globe a commodity, privatizing developing countries’ fresh water. In the midst of this, military control of water is rising, setting the stage for world water wars. This international award-winning film follows various examples of people fighting back against the powers that be - from grade school protests to court cases to revolutions. As the specters of drought and death loom, the film finds people willing to risk everything for their right to water, their right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Can the human race survive?
Native Plant Producers of Alberta is planning ten or more separate courses to be held in the Edmonton area starting in early February 2010 and ending in early May. Maximum capacity for each course will be 20-25 participants.
Our urban areas can be dynamic, healthy spaces full of pollinators, birds and flowers. By shifting yard maintenance techniques, plant species and styles we can create eco-landscaping alternatives to conventional landscaping. Conventional landscaping and yard management minimizes natural biological diversity, has a huge environmental footprint, and requires a lot of work!
This is a hands-on interactive workshop, which delves into the benefits of native ecosystems verses conventional horticultural communities common in yards today. We will teach you to identify the major components of your yard, and how to create vibrant and low environmental impact native plant communities. To ensure you can implement your “Nativescape”, you will also receive up to 150 native plants, in early June 2010, as part of our course registration!
Registration fee is $125.00 which includes G.S.T. for the course and up to 150 native plants for your project. For participants taking the course but no plants the registration fee is $80.00 which includes G.S.T.
February 23 in Edmonton March 1 in Blue Ridge March 2 in Drayton Valley March 3 in Wildwood March 4 in Onoway March 23 in Edmonton April 27 + 28 in Sherwood Park TBA in St. Alberta and Spruce Grove
We are looking to partner with organizations and community groups to help us promote this course. Please contact us if you would are interested in hosting an event in your town.
Everyone from your favorite sex blogger to Newsweek magazine is now aware of polyamory as a relationship option, but few have examined the underpinnings of what actually makes poly work. Is polyamory just like monogamy, only with more people? What beliefs and models need to be rethought to bring poly into the realm of practicality and human growth? Come prepared to listen, talk, and do some deep thinking about why and how we develop and maintain our relationships. BIO: Janet W. Hardy is a mass of seeming contradictions: mother and slut, dominatrix and homebody, intellectual and showtune queen. The author or coauthor of ten groundbreaking books about relationships and sexuality, including The Ethical Slut (75,000 copies sold to date, with a second edition recently released by Ten Speed Press), Janet has traveled the world as a speaker and teacher on topics ranging from ethical multipartner relationships to erotic spanking and beyond. She has appeared in documentary films (Slut, Beyond Vanilla, Vice and Consent, BDSM: It’s Not What You Think), television shows(SexTV, The Dr. Susan Block Show), and more radio shows than she can count. Janet's writing has appeared in publications as various as The Sondheim Review, Clamor, and EIDOS. Her essay “Ex” was a finalist in the Event and New Letters creative nonfiction contests, and her article “The Eater's Guide to Food ” will appear in June in California Arts and Living. She often fantasizes about being handcuffed to Stephen Sondheim’s piano.
Book Launch: Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada, Randolph Haluza-De Lay (co-editor), The King's University College and Environmental Conflict & Democracy in Canada, Laurie Adkin (editor) Political Science, University of Alberta.
This conference will give you the opportunity to learn about and explore different uses of the co-operative model by aboriginal communities.
Presenters include representatives from successful aboriginal co-operatives such as Arctic Co-operatives (a producer owned seller of Inuit art) and Pukwis Co-operative (a renewable energy co-operative). Internationally recognized co-operatives historian, Dr. Ian MacPherson will also be presenting.
The Saddle Lake community will present a proposal for an artisans co-operative: Cree-operative.
MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND Perhaps you know a lesbian who's happily partnered with a man, or a transsexual whose sexual preference changed along with his gender identity, or someone who loves latex so much that she doesn't care who's inside it. In a world where "male" and "female" are our only options for gender, and "gay," "bisexual" and "straight" our only options for orientation, such pairings don't make much sense... but with a broader sense of gender and orientation, they do. Let's talk about how such relationships might actually work, what factors draw us to one another and what factors keep us there. Please bring a notebook or pad and a writing instrument. ** This workshop is offered twice on the same day, please indicate in your registration whether you will be attending the noon or the 5pm workshop. ** ** Noon workshop registrants will have a higher chance of acceptance as the 5pm workshop is already almost full. ** TO REGISTER: Email Jess at outreach@apirg.org. Preference given based on the order your email is received.
Every Thursday evening at 6:00 P.M., EBC will be offering a series of how-to bike maintenance seminars. We’ll start things off on Thursday the 11th with a basic bike maintenance and tune up class. No previous experience is required. Bring your bike if you have one or come and practice on our bikes! All courses are free for EBC members and $5 for non-members. While registration is not mandatory it is strongly recommended as courses will be capped at ten people. To register, please email courses@edmontonbikes.ca
. And make sure to check out our calendar for upcoming courses covering topics from wheel care to drivechain overhauls!
The Deep Green Resistance training is a three-day workshop for activists and other folks who are interested in delving into some critical reflection on the state of the world and our role in fixing it. It is facilitated by Lierre Keith (http://www.lierrekeith.com/), Aric MacBay (http://www.inthewake.org/), and Derrick Jensen (www.derrickjensen.org). Some info on what the training entails is below, but to give you a rough idea, the DGR basically takes participants and places them inside an alternate reality for three days, where there is time to reflect on personal choices, reflect on the state of the movement, and role-play some of the existing tensions in the activist world today.
There needs to be 50 participants for this event for it to happen
Please forward this email along to your networks that might be interested in attending or supporting this training coming to the Prairies.
Cost Sliding scale of $200 to $450 per person for the weekend
There will be some billeting available for out of towners
We are also looking for people willing billet out of towners
Subsidies are available for those who qualify
We live in the most destructive culture to ever exist. In Derrick's talks around the country he repeatedly asks his audiences, "Does anyone think this culture will voluntarily transform to a sustainable way of living?" No one ever says yes. If we really accept the seriousness of the situation, what would that mean for our strategy and tactics? This is the urgent question we will be exploring over the weekend.
Topics to include: Organizing the Resistance Bringing It Down: Bottlenecks and Levers Building It Up: A Culture of Resistance Liberal vs Radical: Some Conceptual Basics Fighting Future Fascism Security Culture Q & A with Derrick
Location: Advised on registration
Address: Advised on registration
Cost: Sliding scale of $200 to $450 per person for the weekend
Enjoy delicious foods catered by the renowned Padmanadi Restaurant and a great opportunity to take home valuable items and services, be entertained by dancers, singers, and musicians and slides of the orphanage as well as help many orphaned children who have no other resources to draw from.
All proceeds of this event go to Himalayan Orphanage Project.
Location: Robertson Wesley United Church
Address: 10209 – 123 Street
Cost: $20.00 avaialble at Earth General Store 9605 – 82nd avenue or at the door
On March 27 at 8:30 pm, hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for an hour to demand action on climate change. But that's just the beginning. Every hour, Canadians are taking small steps to lessen their impact on the environment. From hanging your clothes to dry to taking transit to work, those small steps add up to huge changes for the better. Get inspired by others who are living Earth Hour ever hour, and tell us your story.
Comment by Michael Kalmanovitch - For many people in our community the tokenism of turning off one's lights for one hour is feeble but the organisations are attracting attention to simple actions that people can do on a daily basis to help them reduce their personal contribution to greenhouse gasses. Hanging laundry, using active or mass transit for trips, turning down the thermostat - all things that people in our community have been doing for many many years. Unfortunately we are a very small minority. Change is slow and it needs to happen quickly and major changes made. Little changes collectively can make major differences and eventually there will be a mindset/paradigm shift. Or at least this is the belief.
CWRA is partnering with the Alberta Water Research Institute and the North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance to develop a program that will showcase current research and science related to water and watersheds in Alberta. There will be a particular focus on issues in and around the North Saskatchewan River Basin. However other work showcasing innovation in water related science and management in Alberta will be included in the program.
The program is being structured around specific water management issues in Alberta. Speakers will present work that has been or is currently being done to address each issue, directly or indirectly, and this will be followed by a discussion of each issue and related research for the purposes of identifying “What else do we need to know?”
The program committee is putting together a packed set of sessions highlighting issues and innovations in the following areas:
Headwater Protection
Municipal / Industrial Water Quality Technology
Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems
Water Information and Information Management
Environmental Values
Productivity and Efficiency
Registration cost: Full Conference: includes a copy of the proceedings and one banquet ticket. Individual $395; NGO $250; Student $150. Single Day: Individual $240; NGO $150; Student $90.
About the film: RED WITHOUT BLUE is an artistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gender, identity, and the unswerving bond of twinship despite transformation. An honest portrayal of a family in turmoil, RWB follows a pair of identical twins as one transitions from male to female. Captured over a period of three years, the film documents the twins and their parents, examining the Farley's struggle to redefine their family. The twins' early lives were quintessentially all-American: picture-perfect holidays, supportive parents who cheered them on every step of the way. By the time they were 14, their parents had divorced, they had come out as gay, and a joint suicide attempt precipitated a forced separation of Mark and Alex for two and half years. Through candid and extensive interviews with the twins and their family, RED WITHOUT BLUE recounts these troubled times, interweaving the twins' difficult past with their efforts to find themselves in the present. The film follows the painful steps of Clair's transition, including electrolysis and the difficult decision to proceed with bottom surgery. Through its portrayal of these articulate and independent twins, each haunted by the painful experiences of their adolescence, the film questions normative standards of gender and identity – as Mark and Clair reassert their indescribable bond as identical twins. Through the power of the Farleys' voices, we hear the story of a family's redemption from a dark past, and ultimately, its revival to the present.
Every Thursday evening at 6:00 P.M., EBC will be offering a series of how-to bike maintenance seminars. We’ll start things off on Thursday the 11th with a basic bike maintenance and tune up class. No previous experience is required. Bring your bike if you have one or come and practice on our bikes! All courses are free for EBC members and $5 for non-members. While registration is not mandatory it is strongly recommended as courses will be capped at ten people. To register, please email courses@edmontonbikes.ca
. And make sure to check out our calendar for upcoming courses covering topics from wheel care to drivechain overhauls!
The John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights would like to announce the second meeting of our Human Rights Cafe Series.On the first Sunday afternoon of each month, we welcome you to join one of our Human Rights Facilitators in a dialogue on a variety of topics following internationally recognized ‘days’ that speak to important human rights issues.
The dialogues, which aim to foster the continual movement of Edmonton as a Human Rights City, will allow participants the opportunity to explore critical human rights issues as they relate to our lives in Edmonton.
February: International
Development Week (February 7-13)
March: International Women’s Day (March 8)
April: Earth Day (April 22)
May: World Press Freedom Day (May 3) and Aboriginal Awareness Week (May 25-31)
June: Canadian Multiculturalism Day (June 27)
Location: Three Bananas Cafe in Sir Winston Churchill Square
Learn what they never taught you in sex ed! Fertility Awareness can deepen a woman’s knowledge of her reproductive health through all stages of life. It is an effective alternative to hormones, chemicals, barriers, and other methods of preventing or achieving pregnancy. Learn about menstrual cycle charting and share your personal experiences in a supportive group environment. Everyone welcome regardless of gender or knowledge level.
Meetings are first Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:30 pm, Nov. 2009-April 2010 at Block 1912 Café, Edmonton.
Conference, Worth Fighting For: Public Solutions and Our Common Future.
Visionary author and lecturer Dr. David Korten will speak on the themes of his most recent book, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, which sets forth a framework for an economy designed to bring humans into balance with Earth’s biosphere, equitably share the wealth of our common human heritage, and make democracy a living practice. Korten, a former Harvard Business School professor, is known for his clear and unflinching critique of an economic system ruled by global corporations and financial markets and his practical proposals for a future in which economic power is rooted in people and communities of place.
Korten's previous books include The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism, and the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World. He is founder/president of the People-Centered Development Forum, board chair of YES! Magazine, a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, and co-chair of the New Economy Working Group.
This event is included in PIA's Conference, or separate tickets are available for $15.
Visit our website at www.pialberta.org for more information.
David Korten will also be giving a keynote address in Calgary at the University of Calgary, Room 119, Craigie Hall C at 7:00pm on Wednesday, April 7. Cost, $10.
Location: Chateau Louis Hotel & Conference Centre
Address: 11727 Kingsway Avenue NW
Cost: $15.00 for Keynote only - see website for conferene information
A day long "pay what you want" workshop for holistic practitioners on how you can get more of the clients you want and grow your practice quickly, authentically and organically (using low-cost & low pressure techniques that won't break your bank or feel 'icky')
WHO IT IS FOR: Perhaps you’re a Therapist, Massage Therapist or Body-worker, Herbalist, Nutritionist, Doula, Midwife, Shamanic Practitioner, Fitness Instructor, Life-Coach, Meditation Teacher, etc . . .
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: By now, you’ve probably already discovered that trying to market yourself by spending hundreds on brochures, business cards and logos won’t get you very far. This day will look at low and no cost marketing strategies that can work to get and keep a cornucopia of committed clients.
THE COST: Pay what you can. You attend the entire day and then pay with TWO cheques - one payable immediately and the other up to six months from the date of the event. There’s no minimum and no maximum.
Really. Seriously. Truly. No pressure. No funny business. No games. A genuine ‘pay what you can’ deal. Some people can afford a lot and some just a little. And don’t you hate it when you pay a bunch for a workshop and it’s not worth it? I do.
SPACES: Only 14 spaces left.
YOUR FACILITATOR:Tad Hargrave is a pioneer, documentor and a leader in the movement towards green and local economies and a co-founder of www.e-sage.ca - one of Edmonton's leading hubs for green and local lifestyles. For almost a decade, Tad has worked as a 'marketing consultant for hippies'. Since 2002, he has been on a mission to bring refreshing and unorthodox ideas to conscious entrepreneurs that help them grow their organizations and businesses (without selling their souls).
OFRE helps connect Edmonton fruit growers with fruit pickers. Do you have a fruit tree that you don’t have the time or the energy to harvest? Are there more berries than you can handle? OFRE will send volunteers to your house at your convenience to pick your fruit or berries for you. They pick share and process the produce and return a portion back to inner city programs for immediate use in the community. Come learn more about OFRE and how to become involved. http://ofre.wordpress.com/
Participants will: * Review and understand what current research teaches us about moving learners to take action * consider different program models and program elements that best help learners move to action * Articulate the specific action goals of your education program, and describe exemplar action projects that might result * Identify changes that could be made to optimize the action dimension of your program
We will be hosting a wine, beer and food tasting that showcases locally owned businesses and Albertan and Canadian produced foods and beverages. We will also be screening the Vancouver produced documentary, TABLELAND (www.p1-productions.com). From the orchards of the interior of B.C., the Napa highlands, rural Quebec and everywhere in between, TABLELAND showcases the successful production of tasty, local, sustainable and seasonal food from field to plate. All of the proceeds from the evening will support the work of the Canadian Food Grains Bank (www.foodgrainsbank.ca).
CFGB is a partnership of 15 Canadian church-based agencies working together to increase the involvement of Canadians in efforts to end hunger in developing countries. The focus of their work is supporting international partnerships and activities to reduce hunger on both an emergency and sustainable basis and influencing changes in public policy. Its work is supported by the federal government through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and private donations.
In February, I had a chance to visit four of the partner projects in northern India and Bangladesh. I saw first hand the impact that our support is making in the lives of the citizens. Leadership development, nutritional needs, income generation and local business generation were some of the outcomes I heard and saw through the stories of the people I met and stayed with. The Canadian Food Grains Bank is a “hand up” in times of famine and emergency relief but is also supporting people to figure out how to feed themselves and develop connected and sustainable community life and local economies.
Tickets for this event are by advance sale only so that we can organize the catering. You can purchase tickets by contacting me directly at 458-9286 or dreidt@telus.net. Tickets are $30.00 each
Location: Red Deer College - Cafeteria Board Room (1007A)
Invitation is open to those interested in Edmonton based Transition Initiatives
Friday & Saturday, April 16th & 17th, 2010 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of increasing costs of fossil fuels ("peak oil") and climate change?
They begin by forming an initiating group and then adopt the Transition Model with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community to kick off a Transition Initiative. A Transition Initiative is a community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question:
"for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
After going through a comprehensive and creative process of:
awareness raising around peak oil, climate change and the need to undertake a community lead process to rebuild resilience and reduce carbon
connecting with existing groups in the community
building bridges to local government
connecting with other transition initiatives
forming groups to look at all the key areas of life (food, energy, transport, health, heart & soul, economics & livelihoods, etc)
kicking off projects aimed at building people's understanding of resilience and carbon issues and community engagement
eventually launching a community defined, community implemented "Energy Descent Action Plan" over a 15 to 20 year timescale
This results in a coordinated range of projects across all these areas of life that strives to rebuild the resilience we've lost as a result of cheap oil and reduce the community's carbon emissions drastically.
The community also recognises two crucial points:
A) That we used immense amounts of creativity, ingenuity and adaptability on the way up the energy upslope, and that there's no reason for us not to do the same on the downslope
B) If we collectively plan and act early enough there's every likelihood that we can create a way of living that's significantly more connected, more vibrant and more in touch with our environment than the oil-addicted treadmill that we find ourselves on today.
TRAINING OVERVIEW: This 2-day, 12-hour course delivered by international-level trainers will cover the basics of Transition Towns and how to:
- Understand the context for Transition and how the model has evolved – from inspiration to working groups - Gain knowledge of the main steps of Transition to work out a plan of action for yourself and your community - Understand the inner and outer aspects of Transition in order to hold an inspiring talk on TT in your community
The event will include lunch and light snacks with co ffee/tea breaks. The course is limited to 35 participants.
REGISTRATION:
$220 + GST - RDC Students (valid ID req'd) $250 + GST before and including March 26 $300 + GST after March 26
For more information:
Contact Marlon with the Edmonton Transition Network edmontontransition@gmail.com (780-862-2237)or join the Edmonton Transition Network Facebook group. The Edmonton Transition Network is organizing a group to go down together, car sharing and other pre-training activities. Please get in touch with us if you decide this training is for you.
NOTE: all proceeds will go towards land stewardship and economic localization projects in Red Deer & District, led by TT-trained members of ReThink Red Deer. (www.rethinkreddeer.ca)
Cancellation Policy: In the event of limited resources or lack of registrants, we reserve the right to cancel the event by Friday, March 26th. Full refunds will be issued if this happens.If you need to cancel your registration for any reason; If notified 7 days in advance we will refund your course fee but will deduct a $50 administrative fee; Less than 7 days in advance we are unable to provide a refund but would allow you to send someone in your place
I love getting something for nothing, celebtrating efficiency, reducing my ecological footprint, and having my clothes smell good. Hanging your clothes on a clothes line or a drying rack just makes sense.
Everytime you don't use a dryer reduces your carbon footprint. Accoring to the website http://www.laundrylist.org/ you can save about 15% off you monthly energy bill. It makes economic and ecological sense.
DESCRIPTION: Saving the world one sip at a time. So, here's the deal - we've rented out the whole basement of Yianni's (a hidden, classy and eclectic gem in Edmonton called the Kasbar) for a shindig and mixer of folks who work in the environmental field.
It's going to happen every month (at various locations).
Greendrinks.org started years ago and now happens in 636 cities world wide.
We will have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, government and business. Come along and you'll be made welcome.
Just come and we will look after you and introduce you to whoever is there. It's a great way of catching up with people you know and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so there's always a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organising network.
These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity. It's a force for the good and we'd like to help it spread to other cities. Contact your local node to get the latest info about coming along.
Location: The Kasbar (the basement of Yianni's on Whyte)
Be part of a dynamic team and help cook for a cause. Edmonton Meals on Wheels needs you in our kitchen as a kitchen helper and food assembler where you will peel, chop, serve and package the meals we serve to people in our community. If the kitchen is not your scene, join our fleet on the road as a driver/meal deliverer. Help bring meals to people around the city. As a Meals on Wheels volunteer driver, you will have the rewarding experience of making someone's day by delivering nutritious meals to them. You must have a valid driver's licence and vehicle.
Call 780-429-2020 or email us at emow@mealsonswheelsedmonton.org. For more information visit us at www.mealsonwheelsedmonton.org.
Be part of a dynamic team and help cook for a cause. Edmonton Meals on Wheels needs you in our kitchen as a kitchen helper and food assembler where you will peel, chop, serve and package the meals we serve to people in our community. If the kitchen is not your scene, be part of our fleet on the road as drivers/meal deliverers. Help bring meals to people around the city. As a Meals on Wheels volunteer driver, you will have the rewarding experience of making someone's day by delivering nutritious meals to them. You must have a valid driver's licence and vehicle.
Call 780-429-2020 or email us at emow@mealsonswheelsedmonton.org. For more information visit us at www.mealsonwheelsedmonton.org.
The CommuniTEA Infusion project is looking to compile a list of volunteers who might like to help out with hosting the CommuniTea Infusion events in Edmonton neighborhoods. We think that we will begin getting the tea van out building community about two times per month come early May 2010.
The CommuniTEA Infusion experience is essentially a mobile tea house that comes to a neighborhood street and creates a kind of town square where people can come together, get to know each other better and strengthen connections. One reason this is important in our fast paced society today, is that fewer persons are connected in meaningful ways with community. If however the gathering place comes right to your door, there is a greater chance for meaningful exchange to take place.
CommuniTea Infusion has no religious or political affiliations and is run by neighbors who are inspired by the possibility that conversations could sow the seeds of building stronger, creative, safer, more connected communities.
The nature of this initiative is such that it requires the contributions of community members to make it work.
The essence of a CommuniTEA Infusion event is to give, connect and contribute.
Volunteers and neighbors help set up the event upon arrival, like a barn raising, which engenders the feeling that everyone has cooperated to put the event on. The CommuniTea Infusion event is not just entertainment but a community collaboration. In this way the event is an inspiration and model opportunity for all of us to take responsibility for making the places we live fun, connected and rich with meaningful interactions among community members. Artists and musicians can also be invited to bring their talents to the gatherings.
Volunteer roles are very flexible and open to developing as the project matures over time. We want to make the process of hosting events, easy, fun and fulfilling. Time commitments are totally flexible and may include helping with events for a couple hours a month. If you are interested in supporting this innovative, fun project, please contact teavan@edmontonlearningcommunity.com and we'll send more information as it becomes available.
More info is available on our hip new website as well as a link to a powerpoint about the project.
Green Pros, A fresh green online directory has sprouted this Spring, promising to connect Edmontonians with leading professionals who will help green their homes and lifestyles. Sponsoring company Raising Spaces chose to launch Green Pros just in time for the City of Edmonton's Earth Hour celebration on Saturday March 27th, 2010 to let residents know that a green helping hand is available for their next home reno.
Andrea Jones, founder of eco home resource Raising Spaces shares that, "Home building and renovation projects can easily elevate stress levels around the home and quite often lead to burnout. This is especially true for eco and health conscious do-it-yourselfers, since the extra challenge of researching more sustainable products and building methods is time-consuming and challenging." With Green Pros, you can now skip the stress, avoid expensive mistakes and find the right professional for your home and values, inside and out.
Those searching the online 'Green Pros' directory will discover skilled eco professionals including:
Sparkling Green Team - Breathe easy with their non toxic home cleaning services.
The Doody Hunters - Offering pet waste clean up at affordable prices. They scoop, they clean, they ‘doo’ it all.
Rhapsody in Green Landscape Consulting and Design - Specializing in composting and water collection and usage while bringing beauty to the back yard.
Green Pros offers a complete directory of skilled green home professionals. Whether their Spring-time plans include landscaping, cleaning, or renovation, Green Pros will help Edmontonians relish what the coming season has to offer - balmy weather, leisure time, and the potential to live greener and healthier.
Jones welcomes homeowners to join Green Pros on Saturday March 27, 2010 at 7:30pm at City Hall downtown Edmonton as they launch their eco home services directory and celebrate Earth Hour: "Join the festivities and turn the lights out!"
Naomi Klein gave a fantastic talk last week in Toronto on the issue of climate debt. It provides a radically compelling and utterly rational view of the problem of climate change. It is posted on YouTube in 6 parts (55 min. total).
Several years ago there was a book titl;ed - Ecological Debt. The world governments always seem to tbe preoccupied by the economic debts but have trouble dealing with the ecological/environmental and social debt that we have creatged. Michael
Many of us are at a skill deficient. We seem to have lost many skills that in generations past were passed down through hands on learning - a mother teaching their daughter how to make bread, canning the harvest, knitting, etc - a father sharing how to repair and build things, etc. Yes these were gender specific and times have fortunately changed but there has been a gap in passing this information along through the tradition ways.
Websites like Instructables allows us to learn some skills that will help us reduce our impact, save money, make us more resilient to changes in the environment and economy, they are fun, and make us more knowledgeable and fuller.
The Outreach Coordinator is responsible for developing programs to improve our services and strengthen our programs as they relate to communities and needs not currently well-served.
The Project Coordinator is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing the projects and operations of EBC. The position aims to further EBC's goal of encouraging and facilitating bicycle use in Edmonton and promoting and strengthening our organization.
CommuniTea Infusion has no religious or political affiliations and is run by neighbors who are inspired by the possibility that conversations could sow the seeds of building stronger, creative, safer, more connected communities. 
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