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2008-2009 GSP Calendar

Below is BUF's GSP planning wish list for the upcoming year.
If you have any comments, ideas, volunteers, etc. for the upcoming year, don't hesitate to let a GSP member know. Feedback and help are always very much appreciated.

September: Local Food
    Food4Tots program
      (Throughout September)

    "Kids Feeding Kids"
      (September 7)

    SC's Eat Local Week
      (Septemer 7-14)

    Food Conversations
      (September 15)

    Crop Walk
      (September 28)

    BUF GSP Local Cookbook Recipe Dr.
    Menu For the Future Course
October: Green Building & Renovation
    BUF's New Addition
    Meet Green Contractors
    Green Building Info Display
    Conversation Cafe
November: Fair Trade
    GSP/SJ Fair Trade Speaker
    Fair Trade Info Display
    Conversation Cafe
December: Spiritual Connection to the Earth
    Solstice Celebration
    Conversation Cafe
January: Personal Green Resolutions
    Pachamama Symposium
    Conversation Cafe
February: Social/Environmental Activism
    Just Food SJ Special Offering
    Environmental Org Info dispaly
    Conversation Cafe
March: Water Conservation
    NSEA Work Parties
    Water Conservation Info Display
    Meet the CSAs
    Conversation Cafe
April: Green Gardening
    BUF Plant Sale
    Green Garden Party Series
    BUF's Earth Day Celebration
    Conversation Cafe
May: Wildlife Conservation
    Backyard Habitat Info
    Conversation Cafe
Music: "There'll Come A Day" by Irthlingz
Words and Music by Bob Killian, courtesy of Irthlingz

Activities for the Month of
July 2008




Check often as events are updated regularly.
Also, click on Information Center icon or text and check out the Calendar site for more information on upcoming events and activities.


Bellingham Farmer's Market
Open Saturdays 10:00 am - 3:00 pm in Depot Market Square, through December 25.

Bellingham's Farmer's Market in Fairhaven
Open Wednesdays at the Village Green from 3-7 pm, through September 30.

Ferndale's Farmer's Market
Has begun and is open on Saturdays & Wednesdays from 9am-3pm through Oct. 25th on Riverwalk (just after the bridge)


August 4: Sustainable Connections' "First Gear"

August 6: Green Drinks Bellingham!

August 7: Member Lunch: Fair Trade-The Story

August 8-10: Sand in the City Sand Sculpting Festival

August 12: The 100 Mile Challenge with Amy Pelham

August 11: Changing the Dream Open Space Salon

August 14: Re Sources' Water Features Design and Hands-on Installation workshop Pt. 1 - Design

August 16: Re Sources' Water Features Design and Hands-on Installation workshop Pt. 2 - Hands-on Installation

August 16: Fourth Annual Lummi Island Reefnet Festival

August 17: Seed Saving Workshop with Micaela Colley of Organic Seed Alliance, and Brian Campbell and Crystine Goldberg of Uprising Organics

August 23: RE Store 15 Year Anniversary and SLC Grand Opening

August 23-24: Black Mountain Forestry World of Wood Festival

August 26: Whatcom County Going Green with LEED - An Energy Efficient Future Assembled Locally

New in Environmental News

City of Bellingham wins the 2008 Green Washington Award for Government! "For a relatively small city, it has instituted sophisticated innovations in providing green power, improving the quality of storm water run-off to its reservoir and has hired a director of sustainability to help guide the city's green-energy efforts. This city is really pushing things, said our judges, including becoming an EPA Green Power partner, buying all of its electricity from renewable sources, including wind and solar. As its mayor says, "We're on this planet for the long haul." The City of Bellingham will receive our Green Washing Award for government. * Runner-Up in Government: The City of Seattle" Washington CEO Magazine . The ReStore won runner-up in the Nonprofit Category. Congratulations Bellingham and ReSources!

"Planet Green is the first and only 24-hour eco-lifestyle television network with a robust online presence and community. Launching in June 2008, on-air content will reach 50 million homes with more than 250 hours of original green lifestyle programming. Both online and on-air, Plant Green's content is entertaining, relevant, and accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds. By representing a broad range of ideas and perspectives, Planet Green is taking an active role in generating conversation and motivating individuals to take action when it comes to improving the environmental status of our planet. " Additional information and Green Planet activities can be found on the Green Planet website.

Check our our new environmental justice page on environmental groups. It's a simple listing of local, national and international groups working on a variety of environmental issues. Any and all of them need our support. If there any groups you would like to add to this list, contact Deb Cruz @ dwcruz@comcast.net.

Call to BUF Artists! The Green Sanctuary webpage is looking for green artists to submit photos or reproductions of their artwork or other creative projects. Works of wildlife, earth-based themes/scenes, projects using recycled or earth media, etc. are welcome. For a sample of what the Earth Artist's Gallery looks like, check out the Worship and Celebration webpage to connect to the gallery. Contact Deb Cruz if you are interetested in a spot in the gallery (dwcruz@comcast.net)

Fresno's UUs Go Green With Their New Building - Check out the article on the Sustainable Living web page here.

Simplicity Group offers up "green" recipes and resources. Check out the recipes on either the Simplicity or Sustainable Living web pages.

WATCH SUNDANCE CHANNEL'S 'THE GREEN'
THE GREEN is television's first regularly-scheduled programming destination dedicated entirely to the environment. THE GREEN presents original series and documentary premieres about the earth's ecology and concepts of "green" living that balance human needs with responsible care for the planet. Among other great programs, check out "Big Ideas for a Small Planet", a documentary series presenting the forward thinking designers, products and processes that are on the leading edge of the new green world. Watch THE GREEN, Tuesdays at 9pm on the Sundance Channel. Click here for this week's schedule

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Unitarian Universalists Take Stand on Climate Change . . .

Bellingham and the State of Washington take on environmental awards and distinctions . . .

Lake Whatcom and Blanchard Mountain under siege . . .

Reduce your carbon inprint . . .

Terraquarium underway . . .

Climate Change and its impact on wildlife . . .

Learn to conserve water and energy . . .