Monthly Archives: August 2010

Eugene: Local and Green

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October 30, 2010
8:30 amto4:30 pm

CLICK HERE FOR CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

The NLC Committee on Sustainability is planning a conference focusing on practical ways to live more local and green in our homes, neighborhoods and community.  Challenges and Strategies To Go Local and Green.  Getting Started, Moving Forward, Working Together.

Topics and issues will include:

  • Where do I start?
  • Food, energy
  • Lifestyle
  • Kids track
  • Culture
  • Land use
  • Transportation
  • Community collaborations
  • Transforming homes and neighborhoods.

Saturday, October 30, 8:30 to 4:30

First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive St.

*Proceeds benefit OSU Extension Service*

More information, including a community conference schedule

*More information, call 686 6761 or 687 7199*

Amazon Green Neighbors Bicycle Tour, August 21st

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August 21, 2010
10:00 amto12:30 pm

Please come enjoy a bicycle tour visiting some of the interesting ‘green’ happenings in our Amazon neighborhood.

We’ll depart from Camas Ridge Elementary School (29th and Harris) around 10AM.

We’ll enjoy a ride through the Amazon Neighborhood and will be able to visit a number of interesting garden, composting, beekeeping, building, and other green projects underway.

It’s a great way to meet new friends and gather good ideas!

Please contact David Stucky (541.543.6458) for more details or if you need a bicycle in order to participate.

2010 Sustainable Neighborhood (not just) Bike Tour Schedule

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2010 Sustainable Neighborhood (not just) Bike Tour Schedule

July

17, 18 – River Road Community Organization/RRCO. July 17 meet at 11AM at Rosetta Park, Benjamin and Evergreen. Visit pesticide-free public park space, chicken-keeping, permaculture design, green building, neighborhood collaboration, and more. Open house afterwords at suburban permaculture site at 212 Benjamin, 3 to 5PM.

August

7 – Friendly Neighborhood- West (of Jefferson St)/FAN-West (excursion into Crest Dr neighborhood 8/7). Meet at Friendly Street Market, 2757 Friendly, at 11AM. Tour will include community right-of-way cooperative “Common Ground” garden, chickenkeeping, beekeeping, edible landscaping, passive solar design home by UO women’s student architecture group, high-density new urbanism ‘Lucia Village’ community, permaculture home design presentation by Heiko Koester, and more
8 - Friendly Neighborhood- East (Jefferson St & east)FAN-East. Meet at Village School, 2855 Lincoln, 1 PM. Tour will include a permaculture design presentation by Heiko Koester, a visit to a solar PV College Hill home, as well as a visit to a home with an ultra hi-efficient ductless heat pump indoor climate system.
14 – Jefferson Westside, 10AM, meet at Monroe Park. Tour will include chickenkeeping, beekeeping, permaculture gardens, recycled garden art, water catchment, solar panels, and more. The tour homes are within walking distance of each other.
21 – Amazon, meet at Camas Ridge Community School, 1150 East 29th Avenue, at 10am. Tour will visit school gardens, feature beekeeping, chickenkeeping, communally built outdoor oven, aerobic composting, compost teamaking, passive/active solar design, rainwater catchment, green building, and more.

September

4 – Whiteaker Community Council/WCC
11- Fairmount Neighborhood- more to come.
18 – Active Bethel Citizens/ABC. Tour features a permaculture-designed eco-village, backyard chickens, rainwater catchment, ‘geo-thermal’ heating (more to come), PV solar design, and a gathering at Peterson Barn featuring locally-grown food. More to come.
19 (Sunday)- Laurel Hill Valley. 1-3 pm. Meet at Northwest Youth Corps, 2621 Augusta St. Tour by bike, pedicab and carpool. Sites feature organic gardens, PV electricity, green home design and reuse of materials, wildlife-friendly landscaping, small-scale chickenkeeping, food preservation, bioswales and watershed protection.
25 – Southeast Neighbors/SEN, meet at 450 E 30th Ave, 10 AM.

Fairmount Neighborhood Farmers Market, Sunday, August 8, 10-3 PM

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August 8, 2010
10:00 amto3:00 pm

The Fairmount Neighborhood Farmers Market is still going strong, every Sunday from 10-3 PM. The market is held at the Sun Automotive parking lot at the corner of Agate and 19th.

A blog has also been created that offers cooking ideas and recipes for produce and other foods purchased at the Fairmount Neighbors Farmers Market… http://fairmountmarket.blogspot.com/

CERT CAN August 4th

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CERT ( community emergency preparedness team)  is alive and well in CAN. Here are a few suggestions for the CAN CERT Blog #32 for earthquake preparedness:

Here are a few  simple steps you need to take:

1) Know how and where to shut off your utilities. Keep the necessary tools at the site.

CharlieF’s blog

2) Strap long tall objects to the wall so they won’t tip over when the shaking starts. This includes the bookcase as well as the water heater.

3) Put a personal kit together and keep it handy. The kit is different than the 72-hour food kit. This personal kit is just for you. It includes a hard hat, gloves, sturdy shoes, whistle, and working flashlight.

Envision Eugene CAN August 10

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Churchill Area Neighbors are working on Envision Eugene in our community. At the July CAN general meeting we discussed ideas for our neighborhood that included: 1) more resources for teens in our neighborhoods 2) a possible farmers market in the Churchill area to bring neighbors together 3) Repairing the Skate Park 4) Churchill’s great public garden

Help Needed at Camas Ridge School

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Tomorrow (Wednesday, 8/4) at noon, a truck carrying steel for our new bike shelter will arrive at Camas Ridge and will need to be unloaded. The wonderful designBridge students that are working on the project will be there, but they are looking for a few more strong hands to help them unload the steel.

When: Tomorrow – Wednesday August 4th from 12 – 1

Who: Anyone looking to get outside and lift some stuff

Where: Camas Ridge Community School – 1150 E. 29th

Please bring work gloves, and wear closed toe shoes if you can help.

The largest pieces of steel are about 150 pounds and 20 ft. long. The plan is to move them one-by-one from the truck to the yard. We need some muscle. If you feel like you can help out for an hour, please join us!

Mike McCann

(541-579-4288)

2010 Green Neighbors Friendly Area Homes Tour visits headlining Common Ground Cooperative Garden, more August 7

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August 7, 2010 11:00 amtoAugust 8, 2010 3:00 pm

Eugene’s Friendly Neighborhood eye-catching Common Ground right-of-way Cooperative Garden and Friendly Street’s ‘new urbanism’-styled Lucía-Community Village will be two of the highlights of the 2010 “Green Neighbor’s (not just) Bike Tours” when they roll through on the Friendly-West tour Saturday August 7th. More related here, here, here, and here. The Saturday tour starts at 11AM at Friendly Market, 2757 Friendly St. The 2010 tours continue Sunday August 8th in Friendly – East, meeting at 1PM at the Village School, 2855 Lincoln St at 1PM, and run through Sept. 25th, having visited 8 separate Eugene neighborhoods.  Eugene Pedicabs will be on hand on the 7th for green-friendly cycling transport, as well as on subsequent tours. Car & vanpooling is also encouraged if you can’t bike.

Friendly Neighborhood has consistently set the Green pace in previous bike tours attendance, as well as catching note for the region’s growing Friendly Neighborhood Farmers social networking site, and this spring’s 2-chicken-limit ordinance ‘flap’ with City Council. Besides the Common Ground stop, the day will include a presentation on permaculture, a home with edible landscaping, a presentation on Friendly Street’s ‘new urbanism’-styled Lucía-Community Village, passive solar home design, green building, beekeeping, and more. Sunday’s tour will include a permaculture presentation, visiting a new PV solar installation at a College Hill home, as well as a visit to a home with an ultra hi-efficient ductless heat pump indoor climate system.

More info is at www.eugeneneighbors.org/wiki/NLCgreen#Upcoming_Events, http://eugenesustainability.org/,  emailing deeblack “at” gmail.com
or calling 541.485.6846

Mobile Cannery Project, Saturdays, August 14- October 16

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August 14, 2010
August 21, 2010
September 11, 2010
September 25, 2010
October 2, 2010
October 16, 2010

This summer, the Mobile Cannery will present demonstrations about canning and preservation in collaboration with Center for Appropriate Transportation (CAT) with support from a Neighborhood Matching Grant from the City of Eugene. We’ll load up our cargo bike with canning materials and visit each of the six community gardens this summer. It is our hope to get the folks interested, involved, and excited about food preservation.

8/14 River House Community Garden

8/21 Alton Baker Community Garden

9/11 Skinner City Farm

9/25 Whiteaker Community Garden

10/2 Matthews Community Garden

10/16 Amazon Community Garden

Contact:
Tracy Gagnon
Site Coordinator
School Garden Project of Lane County
tracyg.sgp@gmail.com
541.284.1001