Upcoming Sustainable Bainbridge Events
(includes regional events)

JUNE

Thursday, June 25
Low Energy Buildings and Sustainable Communities: Designing for the Zero Carbon Economy
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.; doors open at 5:00 p.m. Seattle Central Library, Microsoft Auditorium

Guy Battle, Director, Battle McCarthy Ltd. is a British environmental and building engineer known for his work in low energy sustainable buildings and urban environments. His consultancy engineering practice has worked on a vast range of projects and has an international reputation for its work in delivering cost effective, eco-friendly buildings.

COST: $10. No one will be denied entry based on ability to pay. Contact Angie Morgan (206) 223-2028 for scholarship opportunities.

June 27 & 28
Matinees That Matter: Food Fight with short film Homegrown Revolution
5:00pm both days, Historic Lynwood Theatre, $9.00 all seats
Post-film special guests Lari Seltzer, Owner, Real Foods (Saturday) and Annie Willhoit, Sound Food (Sunday).

FOOD FIGHT is a fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement has created a counter-revolution against big agribusiness.

HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION: In the midst of a densely urban setting in downtown Pasadena, radical change is taking root. For over twenty years, the Dervaes family have transformed their home into an urban homestead. They harvest nearly 3 tons of organic food from their 1/10 acre garden while incorporating many back-to-basics practices, as well as solar energy and biodiesel.

Link to the MTM page for more detailed information.

June 28
Backyard Habitat Family Fair
1-4 pm at IslandWood?

Free event, full of family-friendly activities to inspire people to get their backyards certified as wildlife habitat. See a live beehive. Hear Dan, the Bat Man. Visit Sammy Snag.  Write nature poetry. Build a bird nest box. And more... All welcome. 

Visit Islandwood for more information.

JULY

Monday, July 6
Sustainable First Monday: Community Potluck
7-9 pm, Bainbridge Commons, 402 Bjune Drive SE
Sponsored by Sustainable Bainbridge.
 
In lieu of our regular SFM programming, Sustainable Bainbridge will host an ole' fashioned community "Sustainable Potluck."  Please bring your own plates, utensils and beverages along with a dish to share. In sticking with SB's mission, participants are encouraged to bring a dish featuring local ingredients from local farmers or culinary artisans (or leftovers from your 4th of July festivities!).  If you are musically inclined, please bring your instruments and talents for impromptu performances. 

Contact: info@SustainableBainbridge.net or 842-4439.

July 18
Tour de Coop
12-4pm, Self-guided tour

The first annual Bainbridge Island "Tour de Coop" offers a self-guided tour of Bainbridge Island chicken coops with 100% of the proceeds going to Helpline House.

Ticket sales for Tour de Coop will begin Saturday, July 11, at Bay Hay and Feed and Dana's Showhouse. Purchased tickets include a map and directions to the chicken coops. Ticket prices: Individual by bicycle: $8; Individual by auto: $10; Four people by carpool: $30.

For more information about the Tour de Coop, please direct emails here.

July 25 & 26
Matinees That Matter: The Garden
(2009 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature)
5:00pm both days, Historic Lynwood Theatre, $9.00 all seats

The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall.

ON-GOING

Permaculture Friday Evening Lecture Series
Wth Marisha Auerbach & Jenny Pell
All lectures 6:30 – 8:30 pm, The Good Shepherd Center Rm 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave, NE, Seattle WA

June 26 – Permaculture Around the World; July 24 – The Outdoor Room; August 21 – Indoor Permaculture

$15 - $8 sliding scale, No pre-registration necessary. Contact: Jenny Pell at  jennypell@gmail.com or (206) 949-0496.

Permaculture Design Course with Toby Hemenway
Second weekend of each month, May 9, through October 11, 9AM – 5:30PM
South Seattle Community College, 6000 16 Avenue S.W.;

Seattle Tilth is hosting Toby Hemenway in Seattle to teach a 72-hour Permaculture Design Course over six weekends May through October, 2009 at South Seattle Community College. Permaculture uses ecological principles to create sustainable human communities that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. This certification permaculture design course offers a framework for decision-making and right livelihood, and will give you holistic tools for food, water, and energy security; building healthy communities and economies; and many other issues. This life-changing course is ideal for homeowners, gardeners, teachers, design and real estate professionals, and anyone interested in creating a sustainable future. The course is adapted to a wide variety of learning styles and is presented via lecture, images, video, group discussion, exercises, and design projects. Course graduates will receive a Permaculture Design Trainee Certificate from the Permaculture. Institute (USA). The lead instructor, Toby Hemenway, is the author of /Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture/, for the last six years the best-selling permaculture book in the world.

COST: $900 for 12 full-day sessions To register visit www.seattletilth.org.

Making the Global Shift
Thursdays, May 14 – June 25
7 - 9 pm, Stillwaters Environmental Center (26059 Barber Cut Off Road, Kingston)

This 7-week Sustainability Discussion Course will present ideas on how to  successfully make the shift to sustainable living. View world-renowned speakers on dvd, and be inspired by their potent ‘global-local’ approach towards solving local and regional problems. Different speakers each week! Call (or see below) for complete schedule.

Cost: $5/session or $30/all 7 weeks. Contact: 360-297-2876 or
Joleen@stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org