7\:05pm Jeremy O'Leary\, Portland Peak Oil
Jeremy O’Leary\, an organizer with Portland Peak Oil\, will talk about the process that led to the creation of the City of Portland’s Peak Oil Taskforce and the ongoing efforts to integrate peak oil mitigation into local government. Basically there are 500 number one priorities to do and the odds are pretty good you are going to be handy with a few of them. The additional good news is that as individuals and small groups\, most of the things we need to do to mitigate the effect of global weirding and peak oil will also re-localize the food supply\, reduce our energy needs\, create urban habitat\, and improve both emergency response and our general quality of life.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081121T194917Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080525T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080525T230000Z UID:http://www.portlandpeakoil.org/node/1627 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.portlandpeakoil.org/node/1627 SUMMARY:Film\: King Corn DESCRIPTION:King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends\, one acre of corn\, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.
In King Corn\, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis\, best friends from college on the east coast\, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors\, genetically modified seeds\, and powerful herbicides\, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive\, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system\, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081121T194917Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080528T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080528T043000Z UID:http://www.portlandpeakoil.org/node/1628 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.portlandpeakoil.org/node/1628 SUMMARY:Free Organic Veg Gardening Presenation - Popular! DESCRIPTION:Last night I attended this presentation and it was so popular\, the ReBuilding Center is offering another one!
Beginning gardeners are encouraged.
Interested in growing your own food? Or growing MORE food?
This is a free presentation from Metro.
Glen Andresen\, the presenter\, has many varieties of dwarf fruit trees in his backyard and raises honey bees!
Register to reserve a space for the presentation by email\: education@rebuildingcenter.org
May 27th at the ReBuilding Center
3625 N. Mississippi Ave.\, Portland\, OR 97227
Kaarin Thompson
OSU Master Gardener
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NW Vegetable Gardening\: How to keep your garden bountiful\, sustainable\, and healthy for you and the earth.
With Glen Andresen\, Metro Natural Gardening Program Educator
Tuesday May 27th 6\:30-8\:30pm
Free\; optional donation to support The ReBuilding Center's Education program
This presentation will include many of the following topics\:
-Organic vegetable gardening
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Take a Stand Against Global Warming\, Liquefied Natural Gas(LNG)
&\; Increasing Oregon’s dependence on Foreign Fossil Fuels!
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\;Join the Protest at NW Natural’s Annual Shareholders meeting!
NW Natural Offices (220 NW 2nd Ave in Portland)
NW Natural is supporting plans to more than double gas imports into Oregon through the NorthernStar LNG project and NW Natural’s Palomar Pipeline and THIS THURSDAY is your chance to let the people who own NW Natural what you think of these actions.
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National College of Natural Medicine and Sierra Club Team Up for Impact Film Festival
Festival seeks to build community around environmental health awareness
On June 14th\, National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) and Sierra Club will present the “Impact Film Festival” at the Hollywood Theater in NE Portland. The one-day festival will feature documentary films and an expert panel discussion about the intersections of environment\, community\, and public health.
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