Each January, the NLCCS hosts a series of presentations at the Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show. Topics include talks on raising urban chickens, growing herbs at home, bee keeping, seed saving, victory gardens, grass to gardens, solar cooking, and more. Many of the speakers at the Home Show also participate in our Speakers Bureau. Here’s our Conversation Courtyard schedule for the January 20-22, 2012 Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show held at the Lane County Fairgrounds.

Thursday, February 16, 2012
7:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Hilton Eugene and Conference Center

Mark your calendar! Plan to attend this morning session to learn about the challenges and opportunities that face communities as they strive toward development and revitalization. Quality growth can spark a healthier social, economic, cultural, and vibrant community.

Keynote speakers Christopher Leinberger from the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and John Robert Smith, President and CEO of Reconnecting America and former mayor of the City of Meridian, Mississippi, will share their experiences and innovative ideas to help our community not only survive, but thrive.

The morning also will include a local panel to discuss opportunities, innovations, and work in progress in our own community.

To attend this free conference, register by Friday, February 3 by e-mailing LTD at rsvp@ltd.org or by calling 541-682-6106. Seating is limited.

Solarize Eugene is designed to bring lower cost solar to EWEB territory residences through the bulk purchase of solar electric and solar hot water panels. Solarize Eugene is based on a highly effective model that has dramatically increased solar installations statewide.

We are now looking for volunteers to make this project a success! Interested? We are hosting a meeting Wednesday, January 11th, 5:30-6:30 at the Downtown Public Library Singer Room. Please come to learn more about volunteering

For more information or to join our mailing list, email <http://solarizeeugene.info/contact/ <http://solarizeeugene.info/contact/> <http://solarizeeugene.info/contact/ <http://solarizeeugene.info/contact/> > >  or call Sarah Mazze, Program Manager at The Resource Innovation Group at (541) 654-4052

Join us at the 2012 Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show for our popular Won’t You Be Our Green Neighbor series of conversations related to creating more sustainable neighborhoods. Join a conversation about neighborhood beekeeping, winter gardening, seed swaps, community gardens, backyard composting, and herbs & medicinals. Please check back for a complete schedule. January 20-22 at the Lane Events Center/Fairgrounds, 13th and Jefferson.

Event Details

Time: November 20, 2011 from 2pm to 4pm
Location: Common Ground Garden
Street: 21st and Van Buren
City/Town: Eugene
Event Type: work party
Organized By: Matt Lutter

Come join us rain or shine as we transition the garden to fall and winter. Family-friendly, tools and instruction provided.

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EUGENE MUTUAL AID SOCIETY

A completely voluntary non-political, non-profit networking organization to connect those interested in being more self-reliant in an urban environment together with others in the Eugene-Springfield area. EMAS seeks to provide the organizational framework for those seeking to pursue the principles of permaculture, genuine perennial sustainability
and voluntary simplicity in mainstream urban neighborhoods.

The Eugene Mutual Aid Society is first and foremost an organizing tool to allow people to help others as close to home as possible; secondly an educational organization to share information and expertise about retrofitting existing homes and buildings into multi-family homes that are 100% self-sufficient for their own energy and waste disposal needs; victory gardens for daily vegetables and networking with local organic farmers for grains, legumes, nuts and fruit; thirdly, a non-profit organization to organized, plan and remodel or retrofitexisting homes and buildings to low-income self-sufficient living communities completely independent of municipal public services and utilities.

If you use Facebook, the page is here:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/297104546974762/

While we are constructing the website and forums.

If you would like to learn more please contact Warren Weisman weiswar@yahoo.com If you would like to attend our next meeting it is Thursday at 5PM and you can email for directions.