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Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
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October 3: International Walk (or Bike) to School Day Join kids around the world and walk to school on Wednesday, October 3rd. Ideas and assistance are available: www.iwalktoschool.org or contact EverybodyBike at 671-BIKE for a resource packet and prizes for your school, or email info@everybodybike.com, and visit http://www.everybodybike.com. October 3: Global Warming: Facts and Fiction: World Issues Forums/Paths to Global Justice Speakers Dr. Thomas Ackerman, currently Director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) and Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. This presentation will begin with a brief overview of the science of global warming, which is well developed and vigorous. The focus will be on both what we know and the uncertainties attached to that knowledge, with applications to the Pacific Northwest . The second part of the presentation will address current policy response at the national level. What are we doing as a nation? What should we be doing? Can we do more, both regionally and nationally? Time: Noon-1:30pm Location: Fairhaven College Auditorium Contact: http://www.wwu.edu/depts/fairhaven October 3: Green Drinks Bellingham! RE Sources is bringing Green Drinks to Bellingham! Join us at Boundary Bay on Wednesday,September 5th from 5-7 pm to connect with other green thinkers, movers and shakers. Tell all your friends to come, too just look for the reserved tables in the outside beer garden. 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. We've chosen Boundary Bay on the first Wednesday of the month for Green Drinks Bellingham so write it on your calendar and come on down! Visit www.greendrinks.org to see the rave reviews from Green Drinkers across the planet! For more information about RE Sources for Sustainable Communities or any updates on the Green Drinks Bellingham, visit our website at www.re-sources.org or contact Megan Artz at (360) 733-8307. Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Location: Boundary Bay beer garden 1107 Railroad Ave., Bellingham October 5: REart: Recycled Art Show The 6th Annual Recycled Art and Fashion month will be featured in three galleries in Bellingham and two galleries in Seattle during the month of October, 2007. The series of art show openings begin on October 5th with the Bellingham Downtown Gallery Walk, the next evening at the RE Store, and at the Viking Gallery (to be announced). Local professional artists, higher education students, and public school students will be featured in 3 separate galleries. Come gain some fresh inspiration around junk, sustainability, and artistic expression at our 6th annual Recycled Art Show. And don't miss the Haute Trash Fashion Show on October 20th - spicy hilarity and incredible wearable art - for 21 and older. More info is on the RE Store website. Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location: Allied Arts Gallery, RE Store, and WWU Viking Gallery 1418 Cornwall Ave, 2309 Meridian, and WWU Viking Union 507 Contact: Jason Darling October 7: Postponed. GSP-sponsored Northwest Earth Institute course entitled "Changing Co2urse." October 7-13: Refuge Week October 11: Public invited to help set process for disposal of dredged materials Washington residents can help shape procedures for handling dioxin contamination in material dredged from the state's waterways. State and federal agencies that manage and regulate disposal of material from dredging projects will hold two meetings on Sept. 26 in Seattle. Meetings also will be held Oct. 2 in Lacey, Oct. 11 in Bellingham and Oct. 16 in Port Angeles . The Dredged Material Management Program (DMMP) manages material dredged to maintain navigational waterways and berth depths filled in by natural sediments. Such dredging typically takes place at harbors, ports and marinas. Between 2000 and 2006, roughly 20 million cubic yards of material were dredged and disposed of at open-water disposal sites. Some dredged material contains dioxins, a group of chlorinated organic compounds identified as known human carcinogens. DMMP agencies want to start developing a new framework for evaluating dioxins in dredged material. The agencies will take input from the scheduled public meetings and from stakeholders - such as ports, marine businesses, tribes, environmental interests, and state and federal agencies - into account when drafting a framework. That draft will be issued for public review and comment, probably in 2008. At the meeting, the first hour will be an information session, followed by public comments and questions. For information about DMMP and directions to all meeting sites, see http://www.nws.usace.army.mil/PublicMenu/Menu.cfm?sitename=DMMO&pagename=Dioxin_Work_Group Time: 5:30pm to 8pm Location: Port of Bellingham Squalicum Boathouse, 2600 South Harbor Loop, Bellingham October 12: What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of The Empire A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle. What is it doing to us as thoughtful human beings as we face these overwhelming challenges? And what is it doing to the rest of the life on this planet? Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Berry, William Catton, Ran Prieur and Richard Manning, What a Way to Go looks at the current global situation and asks the most important questions of all: * How did we get here? * Why do we keep destroying the planet? * What do we truly want? * Can we find a vision that will empower us to do what is necessary to survive, and even thrive, in the coming decades? This special screening and dialog with the filmmakers (writer/director Tim Bennett and producer Sally Erickson) will take place. Sponsored by Sustainable Bellingham and Whatcom Community College, with co-sponsors and The Whatcom Film Association, and others soon to be announced. ~ Jan Lundberg at CultureChange.org ~ Carolyn Baker, CarolynBaker.org Time: 6:45 p.m. Location: Whatcom Community College Heiner Center Auditorium Cost: Free Contact: http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com October 14: GSP-sponsored Northwest Earth Institute course entitled "Changing Co2urse." 1st Session - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. For more information, see our RE page or click here for NWEI course description and registration October 14: RICHARD CANNINGS, ENCHANTMENT OF BIRDS When Richard Cannings was growing up in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, the songs of the meadowlarks rang through his bedroom window as the morning sky brightened; now meadowlark songs mean home. Cannings describes various aspects of the birds' natural history, including how they tuck their nests deep into a hollow beside a clump of grass, where they are so completely hidden that he has seen only two in his entire life. In this series of delightful mediations, the author weaves his personal experiences with fascinating descriptions of the behavior, anatomy, and evolution of birds from all across North America. Other birds described include the northern gannet, the saw-whet owl, and the trumpeter swan. These nuggets of birdlife cover the continent, from the shores of the Atlantic, across the alpine tundra of the Rocky Mountains, to the Pacific Ocean. Richard Cannings works as a consulting biologist in B.C., teaches ecology at the University of British Columbia and is a regular contributor to the CBC. Time: 5:00 PM Location: Village Booksmith's Readings Gallery October 17-23: Wolf Awareness Week October 20: Haute Trash Fashion Show The Haute Trash Fashion Show has been wowing audiences up and down the west coast for over 2 decades. This pack of dynamic designers (www.hautetrash.org) has been uniting forces with RE Store to put on some of the most outlandish and hilarious costume design this side of Paris. Come be amazed at what these folks can turn trash into. You will talk about this night for years to come. More information is available on our website. Stick around to dance with live music and the great ambience of the Wild Buffalo. Special thanks to Michael Cline for his pro photos from our 2006 runway show. Time: 8:30 AM - 9:30 PM Location: Wild Buffalo 208 W. Holly Street Bellingham, WA Contact: Jason Darling October 21: GSP-sponsored Northwest Earth Institute course entitled "Changing Co2urse." 2nd Session - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. For more information, see our RE page or click here for NWEI course description and registration October 22 - 28: Give Wildlife A Break Week October 27: The Pachamama Alliance Symposium If you are ready to be disturbed, inspired and moved to action, if you are ready to be introduced to a thriving community of like-hearted, deeply committed cohorts who are actively engaged in awakening from and changing the dream of our modern industrial culture, we invite you to come to the Symposium. The aim of the Symposium is to come to grips with the assumptions that underlie the way we see the world, our place in it, and with what each of us can do - both individually and cooperatively - to move the world in a new direction. The Symposium explores the link between three of humanity's most critical concerns: environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. Collectively, it seems we are living inside a dream; sleepwalking in a trance. We live in an outmoded worldview - a way of seeing the world in which unthinkable acts appear reasonable, sensible, and even intelligent. The indigenous Anchuar people of Ecuador, who still live in earth honoring ways, have urged us, for the sake of all life, to "change the dream of the North." Our root crisis is a crisis of consciousness. Changing our collective dream will be a do-it-yourself-together project that will be accomplished by committed individuals working in concert with one another; tens of millions of us, each willing to think and act in a whole new way. This is one of the generating principles behind the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium. Using video clips from some of the world's most respected thinkers, along with inspiring short films, leading edge information and dynamic group interactions, the Symposium allows participants to gain a new insight into the nature of our time, and the opportunity we have to shape and impact the direction of our world with our everyday choices and action. Time: 9:00 to 5:30 (Doors open at 8:30) Location: Woodside Spiritual Center 2224 Yew Street Road, Bellingham WA Cost: $25.00 Contact: http://www.awakeningthedreamer.org October 27: Make A Difference Day! NSEA Work Party Help NSEA and the Chums of Terrell Creek plant native plants and remove non-native vegetation along Terrell Creek. From I-5 North, heading toward Blaine, take the Grandview Rd. exit and head west. At the stop sign turn right onto Jackson Rd. Parking is available in the parking lots at theBirch Bay Bible Community Church on the left. Cross Jackson Rd. and check in at the NSEA tent. The Chums of Terrell Creek are sponsoring a BBQ lunch after this work party. Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Location: Terrell Creek: BP Cherry Point Site October 27: The Pachamama Alliance Symposium October 28: GSP-sponsored Northwest Earth Institute course entitled "Changing Co2urse." 3rd Session - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. For more information, see our RE page or click here for NWEI course description and registration |
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