Green Sanctuary Program
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Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
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Ongoing Events Bellingham: Saturdays, 10:00 am - 3 pm, Depot Market Square, Railroad & Chestnut Streets, April - Christmas The Greenest House Please join naturalists Rachel Castor and Holly Roger for our nature series: Walk When the Moon is Full. Every month we explore a natural history topic by the light of the full moon. November is the Moon of the Coyote. Group size is limited, registration is required. Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Location: Whatcom Falls Park, Bellingham Cost: Donation Contact: (360) 392-8992 November 4, 2009 The Greenest House “The Greenest House” is a new reality TV show that follows two ordinary families in the Pacific Northwest as they compete against each other to see who can reduce their carbon footprint the most over the course of three months. Watch as our teams learn how to curb their impacts in the areas of water, waste, energy and transportation. With so many conflicting messages about how to go green, reducing your carbon footprint can be a challenge, especially for those of us who don’t have hours to spend researching the best options or thousands of dollars to spend on the latest technology. So how can you reduce your energy use, live lighter and protect your budget? Find out as our families compete to see who will be “The Greenest House.” Starring the Edison Family, the Falcone Family, Kym Fedale, Alistair Jackson, Ben Rupert and a Bellingham cast of hundreds, come and watch your neighbors turn GREEN! Time: 5:30 pm Location: Pickford Cinema, 1416 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham Cost: Contact: (360) 647-1300 November 4, 2009 DAVID MAS MASUMOTO, WISDOM OF THE LAST FARMER: HARVESTING LEGACIES FROM THE LAND Hailed by The New York Times as a poet of farming, Slow Food activist Masumoto weaves together stories of family and farming, life and death, to reveal age-old wisdom that is fast disappearing-- and urgently needed. This is a graceful meditation on the work of growing food and its meaning across generations. Masumoto -- an organic farmer working the land in California's Central Valley -- farms stories as he farms peaches. In Wisdom of the Last Farmer, an impassioned memoir of revitalization and redemption, he finds the natural connections between generation and succession, fathers and children, booms and declines as he tells the story of his family and their farm. He brings us to the rich earth of America's Fruit Basket, under the vine trellises and canes where grapes are grown, and to the fruit orchards flush with green before harvest, where he uncovers and preserves the age-old wisdom that is fast disappearing in our modern, information-driven world -- and that is urgently needed in this time of food crises and social disruption. In the quiet eloquence of Wisdom of the Last Farmer, you will see how your own destiny is involved in the future of your food, the land, and the farm. David Mas Masumoto is the author of Harvest Son and Epitaph for a Peach. His organic farm is in Del Rey, CA. Co-sponsored by Village Books, Sustainable Connections and the Community Food Co-op Time: 7:00 pm Location: Village Books 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham Cost: Contact: (360) 671-2626 November 4, 2009 Green Drinks Bellingham! Join RE Sources for another session of Green Drinks Bellingham every first Wednesday of the month from 5-7 pm to connect with other green thinkers, movers and shakers. Tell all your friends and co-workers to come, too! The location has yet to be determined for this particular month so stay tuned for more information or visit the RE Sources website below to get on our email list. Green Drinks is an organic networking session that started in London, England and has since caught fire around the world. Like-minded individuals in places from Hong Kong to India, Sweden to South Africa meet every month to catch-up, network and talk about the latest green issues. According to greendrinks.org, “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.” The best part about Green Drinks is that there is no structure, just good people meeting at a regular place and time. Visit www.greendrinks.org to see the rave reviews from Green Drinkers across the planet! Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm Location: Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen 601 W. Holly St., Bellingham Cost: Free Contact: Megan Artz at (360) 733-8307 or MeganA@re-sources.org November 5, 2009 A Sea Change Imagine a world without fish. A powerful new film on climate change and the oceans proposes just that. A Sea Change is the first documentary about ocean acidification, the underbelly of climate change, a little–known but potentially devastating threat to ocean life. A Sea Change has played to sell–out crowds at major film festivals in Washington, DC, San Francisco and Seattle in 2009. Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, Senior Scientist with EcoAdapt, will provide closing remarks and answer questions following the screening. Please help spread the word! This event is FREE and open to the public. There is a $5 suggested donation to cover expenses for this event. This event is sponsored by the Northwest Straits Foundation, RE Sources and the Whatcom County Marine Resources Committee Time: 7:00 pm Location: Pickford Cinema, 1416 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham Cost: $5.00 donation Contact: (360) 647-1300 November 5, 2009 GORDON HEMPTON, ONE SQUARE INCH OF SILENCE: ONE MAN'S SEARCH FOR NATURAL SILENCE IN A NOISY WORLD Washington State is home to the only non-tropical rain forest in the northern hemisphere—in part of Olympic National Park. Here, in arguably the quietest place in the country, One Square Inch is physically located. Marked by a small red stone sitting on a log, a location that Emmy Award-winning sound ecologist Gordon Hempton hopes to protect from noise pollution along with a much larger area of the park. When his One Square Inch initiative became increasingly threatened by manmade noise, Hempton decided to take a cross-country journey from Washington State to Washington, DC, in his ‘64 VW bus, seeking out the sounds of our nation’s natural habitats and reconnecting with the land. Alarmingly, he found that natural silence can only be found in fewer than a dozen remote locations. This the incredible tale of a man on a singular mission to preserve natural silence from the steady spread of man-made noise. Time: 7:00 pm Location: Village Books 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham Cost: Contact: (360) 671-2626 November 6, 2009 TOD DAVIES, JAM TODAY: A DIARY OF COOKING WITH WHAT YOU'VE GOT In a book that Deborah Madison, author of Local Flavors, calls “a complete pleasure to read,” Davies writes about cooking in your own way, with what you have, for your own happiness and that of the people around you. With elements of eating locally, sustainably, and economically, this book is both practical and pioneering. Join Tod for a discussion on eating, cooking, and living well. …What’s in your fridge? Come prepared to share a list of ingredients you have on hand and Tod will give you some ideas about what’s for dinner. Tod Davies, passionate home cook and omnivore, thinks that if you want the world to be a better place, you should start by making sure that everyone is well fed. She lives in the mountains of Oregon with her vegetarian husband and two carnivorous dogs. Co-sponsored by The Community Food Co-op Time: 7:00 pm Location: Village Books 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham Cost: Contact: (360) 671-2626 November 7, 2009 The Green Team Everyone wants to make this world last forever. Find out how you can help by expoloring what it means to be green. We'll look at the 3 R's (reduce, re-use, recycle), alternative energy, and energy conservation. Ages 8-14. Time: 12:30p to 2:30p Location: American Museum of Radio and Electricity, 1312 Bay St., Bellingham Cost: $20/$16 AMRE members Contact: November 7, 2009 RE Coop: Chicken Coop Building Workshop at The RE Store Welcome them to your home with a sturdy coop constructed of salvaged materials. Our own Levi Woollen-Danner will introduce you to the basics of chicken care, coop design and construction. Participants will see options for constructing a small portable chicken coop with salvaged materials from The RE Store. Time: 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Location: RE Store, Guide Meridian, Bellingham Cost: $10 Contact: Jason Darling at JasonD@re-store.org or 360-733-8307 November 7, 2009 North Cascades Audubon Society: Semiahmoo Spit. Bird the beaches at the only designated Important Bird Area in Whatcom County. These monthly trips are co-sponsored by NCAS and Whatcom County Parks. Semiahmoo is one of our area’s most scenic, biologically rich and environmentally- challenged places. We will see shorebirds — September is outstanding for shorebirds — waterfowl, and other seabirds, as well as raptors and songbirds. Meet at the county park at 9 AM. Trip leader: Paul Woodcock. No registration required. Time: 9:00 am Location: County Park Cost: Free Contact: Paul Woodcock by phone at 380-3356 or e-mail at vp@northcascadesaudubon.org. November 10, 2009 Backyard Poultry 101 Learn everything you know to safely and enjoyably raise chickens in your backyard. Learn the most important considerations in caring for a small flock of hens in limited space, including chicken physiology, behavior, health, nutrition, and housing. This class also covers the wide variety of chicken breeds. Questions are encouraged. This class will provide everything you need to know to start raising chickens in your own backyard. Instructor Paul Farley has been raising poultry and teaching others how to do so for over fifteen years. This class is a fundraiser for Common Threads Farm, a farming education center on Lummi Island. Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm Location: 315 Westerly Rd., Bellingham Cost: $25 members, $28 non-members Contact: Kevin Murphy at 360-734-8158, ext. 220, or email kevinm@communityfood.coop November 10, 2009 First Gear Bicycle Class: Confidence and Comfort Learn the skills and techniques that make bicycling safe and comfortable for everyday trips. First Gear covers the cycling essentials to help everyone communicate and share the road. First Gear is the first of the three-part Full Cycle class series. Time: 5:30p to 7:30p Location: REI, 400 36th St., Bellingham Cost: $10 or Free for Smart Trips participants who register in advance. Or request a fee waiver. Contact: Ellen Barton 671-BIKE or info@everybodyBIKE.com November 11, 2009 BRIAN BRETT, TRAUMA FARM: A REBEL HISTORY OF RURAL LIFE This funny and thought-provoking memoir traces one day on “Trauma Farm.” Underlain with deep knowledge of biology and botany, this erudite, witty, and passionate book is an unforgettable portrait of the issues all farms face in this age of industrialization and homogenization. Brett’s adventures and his musings on the lost art of independent farming are so vivid the sights, sounds, and smells leap from the pages inspiring a romantic longing for a simpler, more meaningful existence living close to the earth. Brett, a writer from the Attwood-Ondaatje “brat pack” of the 70s in Canada, is the author of Uproar’s Your Only Music—a Globe and Mail Book of the Year—and several books of poetry. He has lived on Salt Spring Island running Trauma Farm for twenty years. Co-sponsored by The Community Food Co-op Time: 7:00 pm Location: Village Books 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham Cost: Contact: (360) 671-2626 November 11, 2009 An All-Local Thanksgiving_with Mary Ellen Carter Celebrate the bounty of our local harvest for your Thanksgiving dinner! A veritable feast will showcase all of the gorgeous local ingredients available to us at this abundant time of the year. Recipes will include traditional Thanksgiving side dishes with a twist, using ingredients grown or processed in Whatcom County. Local cookbook author, newspaper columnist, and cooking instructor Mary Ellen Carter is a strong advocate of returning to the table to enjoy good food. Time: 6:30-9 pm Location: Downtown Co-op, 1200 N. Forest St. Cost: $10-$30 sliding scale/ $10 due at registration, pay the remainder at class Contact: (360) 734-8158 November 12, 2009 LANGDON COOK, FAT OF THE LAND: ADVENTURES OF A 21ST CENTURY FORAGER Langdon Cook learned the hard way. You can’t impress a potential mate by claiming a homemade “Egg McMuffin” as part of your culinary cadre. He’s mended his ways, and has as a master forager, he crafts delicious dishes from wild nettles, freshly dug clams, a variety of berries, mushrooms and crab. Through trial and error, and years spent experimenting, Cook finds the literal “fruits” of his labors both nutritious and rewarding—especially when he’s spent the better part of a day in pursuit of a meal. Fat of the Land describes foraging, not as a throwback to our hunter-gatherer past, but as a way to reconnect with the landscape, and appreciate the bounties of the water and earth around us. Structured around the seasons of the year, each chapter focuses on a specific food type and concludes with a recipe featuring the author’s hard-won bounty, a savory stop to each adventure-filled morsel. Time: 7:00 pm Location: Village Books 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham Cost: Contact: (360) 671-2626 November 12, 2009 LYNN COLWELL & COREY COLWELL-LIPSON, CELEBRATE GREEN!: CREATING ECO-SAVVY HOLIDAYS, CELEBRATIONS, & TRADITIONS Celebrate Green! is bursting with easy, inexpensive, quick ways to green up every aspect of celebrations from décor to food, to activities and gifts. The book takes a light-hearted approach that is easy to implement for the new-to-green and confirmed environmentalist alike. Join us to make your own beeswax candle and to learn tips for making any holiday or event fun and meaningful while doing what’s best for people and the planet. Corey and Lynn are a mother-daughter team working to change the world one celebration at a time. Time: 7:00 pm Location: Village Books 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham Cost: Contact: (360) 671-2626 November 15, 2009 Let's Walk the Walk! - Transition Whatcom Heard of Transition Whatcom and want to know more? Enthusiastic about Transition to a less energy- dependant community and ready to put your commitment into real action? Willing to initiate some resilience- building in your neighborhood but don’t know where to start? If you’ve talked the talk and wanting to do more walking the walk, join up with others who are putting their commitment to Transition-ing into action! This interactive event will provide ways to connect with others in your area, and will be a springboard for some exciting transition projects. Time: 1:00 -4:00 pm Location: TBA Cost: Free Contact: November 17, 2009 The Story of Stuff Film Screening Brad Matsen presents a full and extraordinary portrait of the man who illuminated the oceans to millions of people across the world and helped instill the belief that the environment deserves preservation and protection. Matsen’s passionate and clear portrait illuminates the personal and professional life of one of the world’s greatest explorers, a man who changed the way we think about and treat the world undersea. Brad Matsen is the author of numerous books and articles on marine science and environmental topics, and was a creative producer for the TV series, The Shape of Life. Time: 6:30 pm Location: Re Sources, Sustainable Living Center, Meridian Ave, Bellingham Cost: Contact: 360-733-8307 November 18, 2009 BRAD MATSEN, JACQUES COUSTEAU: THE SEA KING Brad Matsen presents a full and extraordinary portrait of the man who illuminated the oceans to millions of people across the world and helped instill the belief that the environment deserves preservation and protection. Matsen’s passionate and clear portrait illuminates the personal and professional life of one of the world’s greatest explorers, a man who changed the way we think about and treat the world undersea. Brad Matsen is the author of numerous books and articles on marine science and environmental topics, and was a creative producer for the TV series, The Shape of Life. Time: 7:00 pm Location: Village Books 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham Cost: Contact: (360) 671-2626 November 18, 2009 Green Building 101: Get Ready to Hit Reset McGraw-Hill Construction's 2009 Green Outlook reports that the value of green building construction starts was up five-fold from 2005 to 2008 (from $10 billion to $36-$49 billion), and could triple by 2013, reaching $96-$140 billion. As the building industry begins to bounce back, do you know where you will be building and more importantly WHAT you will be building? This workshop will highlight an overview of the local certification programs and will dive into simplifying green building to get back to the fundamentals of smarter design. In addition, this workshop will cover: Potential green building code updates (ICC 700 adoption), New City of Bellingham partnerships, New Alternative Methods and Materials cut sheets, The FIVE/12 Agenda and local incentives, and Optimizing the benefits and minimizing the risks of green building. RSVP Required. Time: TBA Location: TBA Cost: Contact: Nick Hartrich Nick@Sconnect.org or http://sustainableconnections.org/greenbuilding/events/ November 20, 2009 BRENDA HILLMAN, PRACTICAL WATER -- POETRY! Practical Water is both an elemental meditation and an ecopoetics focusing on water: Taoist water, water from the muses’ fountains, the practical waters of hydrology from which we draw our being. Here also are twinned lyrics for the moon, governess of tides and night vision, as the poet explores matters of spirit, our political life, and earthly fate. No one is reimagining the possibilities of lyric poetry with more intelligence and invention than Brenda Hillman. She is the author of eight poetry collections, teaches poetry at Saint Mary’s College, and works with CodePink, a social justice anti-war organization. Time: 7:00 pm Location: Village Books 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham Cost: Contact: (360) 671-2626 November 21, 2009 NSEA Whatcom Creek Work Party II Join NSEA and the City of Bellingham Parks Volunteer Program to plant native trees and shrubs along the new Racine Trail, which runs along Whatcom Creek north from Fraser St. to the south end of Racine St. just below Whatcom Falls Park. Parking is available in the Geri Fields parking lot at the corner of Fraser St. and Puget St. Look for signs and check in at the NSEA tent. We’ll bring the tools and gloves – all you have to do is wear sturdy shoes and weather-appropriate clothing. Refreshments are provided by The Bagelry, the Community Food Co-Op, Erin Baker’s Wholesome Baked Goods, Starbucks Coffee, and Tony’s Coffee & Teas. So bring your friends, your family, and your enthusiasm and we’ll see you at the creek! Time: 9:00 am Location: Whatcom Creek (directions above) Cost: Free Contact: 715-0283 or email volunteers@n-sea.org November 21, 2009 NICK JANS, THE GLACIER WOLF: TRUE STORIES OF LIFE IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA In this new collection of personal essays, Nick Jans explores the rain forests and tidal fiords of Southeast Alaska, where he’s lived for the past 10 of his 30 Alaska years. Part a chronicle of personal discovery, and part story of this mountain-and-glacier-rimmed seascape, the book is ultimately about the wildlife and people making their homes there. The truly remarkable story of Romeo, Juneau’s “celebrity” black wolf, is the central strand around which the rest of the book is woven. Stories of wildlife encounters combine you-are-there personal experience with informative natural history, human bonding with injured or orphan wild creatures, tales of adventure and wilderness travel, along with pieces that describe the flavor of everyday life. On this journey, Jans invites longtime Alaskans to first-time visitors; armchair or wilderness travelers; animal lovers; and folks who just love a good story told in a conversational, reader-friendly, yet carefully crafted voice. Time: 7:00 pm Location: Village Books 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham Cost: Contact: (360) 671-2626 November 21, 2009 North Cascades Audubon Society: Blaine, Semiahmoo, Birch Bay, and Lake Terrell This trip will be a half-day tour of one of our favorite local birding spots and a few stops in between. Emphasis will be on ducks, shorebirds, gulls, and other seabirds, as well as raptors. Take binoculars, scopes if you have them, wind and rain gear, and a lunch or snacks as needed. No pre- registration is required. Time: 8:30 am Location: Meet to carpool at the southeast corner of the Sunset Square parking lot. Cost: Free Contact: Andrea Warner, 734-9881 November 28, 2009 FARMfood: Green Living with Chef Daniel Orr Join renowned chef Daniel Orr at the Community Food Co-op's Connection Building as part of the Bellingham Farmers Market's "Chef at the Market" series. In FARMfood, he advocates using locally grown, wholesome ingredients and features a diverse assortment of recipes influenced by his Midwestern roots, as well as his stellar global culinary career. Co-sponsored by Village Books, Bellingham Farmers Market, and the Community Food Co-op. Space is limited for this talk, demonstration, and sampling from FARMfood, so arrive early. (Please park on the street, not in the Co-op lot, for this event.) Time: 11:00 am Location: Downtown Co-op Connection Bldg., 1200 N. Forest St. Cost: Contact: |
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