This is an event that will appeal to people who are passionate about locally grown and raised food, health, sustainability and other food and farming issues.
Featuring:
Friday, October 12
7-9:30 A documentary telling the story of family farms that were forced to stop providing healthy food to their communities by government bureaucracies.
Keynote Speakers
Saturday, October 13
Professional ironman triathelete, author of The Thrive Diet and creator of Vega nutritional foods.
Co-director of the Cornucopia Institute, the country's organic industry watchdog.
Attend three of these workshops during the day:
Energy, Intention and Food
Using Medicinal Herbs in Your Everyday Cooking
GMOs
Tea Time with TeaLeafs
Current Health Care Trends
Bringing Local Food to Your Table
The Yoga of Food
Sweet Surrender - Healthy Desserts
Going Organic
From Field to Fork
Fracking...Up Close and Personal
Superfood Showcase
Dirty, Sexy Greens
Straight Scoop on Gluten Free
The Three Sisters Garden
Natural Solutions for Dental Health
Daemon College
Charles J. Wick Center
4380 Main Street
Amherst, New York
Cost:
$25 for adults who pre-register, $30 at the door. Youth are free with a paying adult. Students with an ID get in for free! (must pre-register)
For more information or to register please visit: www.worldonyourplate.org
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This expansion will require bold, forward-looking action from wind leaders who recognize that addressing America's economic, energy, and climate challenges must be a top priority in the coming years. Leaders in the field will be at the WINDPOWER 2010 Conference & Exhibition, one of the largest annual wind conference and exhibitions in the world, last year featuring over 23,000 attendees and 1,280 exhibitors.
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Featuring Van Jones and William McDonough.
For more information, visit: westcoastgreen.com
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Workshops, breakout sessions, keynote speakers, trade show, and networking possibilities will allow the tens of thousands of attendees to convene and engage in big-picture, holistic thinking on how we create and live in our built environment. From architects to designers, builders to developers, government officials to dedicated citizenry, the event has something for anyone interested in finding new resources and gaining new strategies to create meaningful and lasting positive change. www.westcoastgreen.com
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Much of the $787 billion in federal stimulus money is supporting publicly owned green building and retrofit projects at the local, state and federal levels.
The federal government alone owns and operates some 500,000 buildings.
30 percent of all LEED projects are government-owned.
In January, the Obama administration set a 28 percent greenhouse gas reduction target for public buildings by 2020.
Join the U.S. Green Building Council, government officials, industry
leaders and experts from the non-profit community for Federal Summit
2010, one-and-a-half days of high-quality education, policy-oriented
discussions and presentations, networking with the decision-makers you
need to know to be part of the public sector's green building boom, and
other essential opportunities. And for government employees only, the additional half-day Government Forum will offer government-focused programming.
And Federal Summit 2010 is in the process of applying to qualify for continuing education hours toward satisfying GBCI's LEED Professional Credential maintenance requirements as well as AIA continuing education.
Speakers will include:
Director of U.S. General Services Administration Office of Federal High Performance Green Buildings Kevin Kampschroer
U.S. Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program Manager Richard Kidd
Urban Land Institute Senior Research Fellow Tom Murphy
U.S. General Services Administration Commissioner of Public Buildings Bob Peck
Office of Management and Budget Deputy Associate Administrator for Procurement and Senior Budget Analyst Cynthia Vallina
Example program topics include:
Retrofits of existing buildings
Implementation of current executive orders and legislation
Leadership and success stories in green building
Federal programs and resources
State and local programs
Multiple buildings and campus greening
Sustainable communities
Climate change
The event is open to all government agencies, non-government organizations and private firms that work with government agencies.
In 2010, the Transition Fair's keynote speaker is Richard Heinberg, a journalist, educator, and author of The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World.
Event co-sponsors include Alliance for Sustainability, Center for Energy and Environment, Gardening Matters, and many more!
Volunteers from the Cocoran, Powderhorn, Phillips, Seward, Longfellow, Standish Ericson and other Twin Cities neighborhoods will meet with volunteers from local congregations, immigrant associations, garden clubs and student volunteers to plan how each neighborhood can build local resilience and find ways to thrive as we adapt to climate change, peak oil and economic disruption.
This event will take place in the South High School Auditorium at 3131 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407.
For more information visit
http://www.afs.nonprofitoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={6B8C71B3-2046-4331-AF4F-B7CCFFD094F0}
The 2011 TimeBanks Conference will provide an opportunity for individuals, youth, families, communities, states, and countries across the world to come together to share and learn more about time banking from one another.
TimeBanks will unveil the newly enhanced Community Weaver 2.0 and showcase its capability to support time banking as a critical social networking tool and technology that partners with the principles of Timebanks to re-balance our core values and organize to support humanity, transform local and global economies, environment, and promote the well-being and sustainability of future generations and our planet.
The 2011 Conference will include plenary sessions, concurrent workshops, an exhibit hall, networking opportunities, and organizing as a collective movement for change and further the development of sustainable solutions through time banking for the future.
High lights of the conference will include:
For more information, visit: tbusaconference.org
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Bolivia has invited all 192 governments in the UN to attend the conference and is working closely with the United Nations Development Program to bring representatives from nearly all the 49 Least Developed Countries (LDCs), whose populations will be most vulnerable to climate change. Spain, Russia and France have also indicated that they will send representatives and others are still confirming.
The conference was announced by President Evo Morales of Bolivia in the aftermath of the widely denounced outcomes of the Copenhagen UNFCCC conference in December 2009. The aim of the Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change is to advance an agenda led by civil society organizations and in dialogue with proactive governments dedicated to preventing climate change. The conference aims to analyze the structural causes of climate change, and develop specific proposals and actions for addressing it.
All media and journalists are warmly encouraged to come to Bolivia to cover this event. Registration is free and can be done at the conference website at http://cmpcc.org (Spanish) or http://pwccc.wordpress.com (English)
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The National Service-Learning Conference focuses on service-learning as a way of teaching and learning that builds academic skills and citizenship while addressing community needs in a genuine way. It convenes teachers and other service-learning practitioners, administrators, researchers, policy-makers, youth leaders, parents, program coordinators, national service members, community-based organization staffs, and corporate and foundation officers. With more than 200 workshops, it provides access to new ideas and networking opportunities.
The conference has drawn an impressive array of speakers starting with Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich in 1989, and in later years, President Bill Clinton, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Harris Wofford, Senator Paul Wellstone, Senator Dave Durenbuger, Senator John Glenn, Jane Goodall, Dr. Alec Dickson, Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, John Bridgeland, Alan Khazi, Gerda Weisman Klein.
Each year the conference features over a dozen on-site opportunities to serve the local community. Past on-site projects have included International Sharing and Caring Mural, Sewing for Others Hygiene Care Kits, Family Care Packages, More than Warmth Quilts, Be Aware Bracelets, Operation Goody Bag, just to name a few.
Serving the host community is part of the history of the conference. Along with on-site opportunities, conference attendees are encouraged to go off-site and get their hands dirty. Off-site projects have included Habitat for Humanity projects, Ronald McDonald House, EarthMatters, Youth Opportunity Center, Homelessness Projects, Save the Bay, and many others.
For more information visit http://nslc.nylc.org/index.php
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We're bringing all of these people together under one roof. That's what the National Conference for Media Reform is all about.
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For more information, visit: midwestrenew.org
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The TEDx Bellevue theme for 2012 is Sustainable Happiness — from "someday" to everyday.
Why Sustainable Happiness?
Sustainable Happiness means transforming a future ideal into a daily reality. TEDx Bellevue is committed to recreating our communities as places that support balanced lives, workability, and play for generations to come.
Imagine a society which:
| VALUES | MORE THAN |
| Common good | Personal agenda and interests |
| Balance in all areas of life | Narrow focus favoring work productivity |
| Sustainable well-being for all | Short term profits |
| Creative pragmatism | Idealism |
| Risk for what's possible | Settling for what's comfortable |
| Contribution | Material wealth |
TEDxBellevue will provide a place for speakers and attendees alike to connect, collaborate, and create a Sustainable Happiness global community with measurable outcomes.
Event Location:
Cast Iron Studios
10650 Northeast 4th Street
Bellevue, WA, 98004
September 30th, 2012
1:00pm-7:00pm (GMT -7hrs)
This event is open to the public. Tickets are available.
For additional details please visit: www.tedxbellevue.com/
For related readings, see YES! Magazine's Winter 2009 issue: Sustainable Happiness
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