2012 Green Neighbor (Not Just) Bike Tours

[This page is from our 2011 Green Neighbors summer tours, where we totaled close to 600 total participants in our fourth consecutive tours summer. Please stay tuned as the schedule is already being assembled for the tours in summer, 2012! ]

NLCCoS is hosting our annual tours of neighborhood sustainability efforts. Previously known as the “green home bike tours,” these events have become the more accessible “Green Neighbor (Not Just) Bike Tours.” Please join us by bike, foot (some tours may be all or partially walkable), or pooled transport to visit neighborhood examples of gardening, permaculture, green energy, rainwater collection, beekeeping, chickenkeeping, community gardens, neighborhood cooperation, and more. Don’t see your neighborhood listed and might be interested in helping lead or organize a tour? Please contact Doug at <deeblack@gmail.com>.

June 25, 26, River Road
Meet at Rosetta Park, corner of Evergreen and Benjamin; 6/25, 11 AM. 6/26, 11 AM

July 24, Fairmont Neighbors
Meet at 2018 Orchard St., 2 PM
(the Fairmont tour this year will focus on just a few blocks, so it’s a very walkable tour)

July 30, Southeast Neighbors
Meet at Edgewood Community Pool, 10 AM (enter on W side Mill St, 2 homes N of 46th)

July 31, Crest Drive Citizens
Meet at Ridgeline Montessori School, 3411 Willamette St. (south side of post office)

August 6 & 7, Friendly Area Neighbors
8/6 Meet at Common Ground Garden. 21st & Van Buren, 11 AM
8/7 meet at Amazon Community Garden, 27th & High, 1 PM

August 20, Jefferson Westside
Meet at Monroe Park, 11 AM

August 20, Active Bethel Citizens
Meet at Peterson Barn, 10 AM
tour should last 2 hours; last stop will have a presentation by a local recycling-reuse expert
hosted by Active Bethel Citizens; call Cathy at 541-687-1899 for more info

Sept 10, Whiteaker Neighborhood
Meet at the Owen Rose Garden, 10 AM

When:  Saturday March 10 – 7-10pm
Where:  U of O Campus - Columbia 150
Cost: Variable.  This event opens the space for gifting.  Charles and the event staff have given over $2000 and hundreds of hours of their combined time to bring him to Oregon and organize this event.  You will have the opportunity to purchase a small token at the event to support Charles’s Oregon tour and his continued work in realizing a vision of gift, reunion, and shared prosperity.  Tokens can be purchased on a sliding scale from $1-50.  Let your heart be your guide.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Come hear Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition. Discover a powerful, mind-opening account of history, social analysis, solutions and new possibilities for the future of money, economics and the quality of our lives and our future.  Learn how we can all benefit in this vision and contribute to it.  Explore a new economic world filled with

• gifting, sharing, and generosity
• local money and resilient communities
• a commons that’s thriving and expanding
• negative interest that generates greater, truer wealth
• liberated human passion, caring, and contributions
• societies freed of concentrated, corrupted power
• economics that takes seriously all damage to nature and people
• lives transformed from alienation to vibrant interdependence
• and much, much more

Discover economics as if people and nature really mattered….enlightened economics that knows we are all connected…

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www.wowhall.org/events.php

3/11 : The Revolution is Love: A Transition Activist Intensive with Charles Eisenstein

 

“I consider Charles Eisenstein one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time.  Rarely have I met a person who combines such philosophical and spiritual depth  with such practical insights into the cultural and institutional origins of the potentially terminal dysfunctions of modern society – and the potential solutions.” – David Korten, author of The Great Turning and The Post-Corporate World

 

On Sunday, March 11, Unifying Cascadia and its partner organizations proudly host The Revolution is Love: A Transition Activist Intensive with Charles Eisenstein from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the WOW Hall.

Discover economics as if people and nature really mattered — enlightened economics that knows we are all connected. Join Charles Eisenstein – acclaimed author, teacher and speaker — for a day-long intensive workshop to explore activism in a time of profound transition.

Our world is facing a series of deepening challenges in 2012: economic crisis, ecosystem collapse, water and soil depletion, and a shrinking supply of cheap energy. These challenges will require new ways of thinking, and a whole new paradigm of activism and leadership.

In this workshop you will realize a new level of confidence, commitment, and effectiveness in what you are already doing — an approach that doesn’t depend on trying harder, but is a natural evolution. This daylong event is a hands-on exploration of becoming more effective as change agents. It is also about reuniting the long-sundered realms of the activist and the spiritual practitioner.

This workshop will explore: The psychodynamics of transition; The rebirth of community; Activism in an age of social and ecological healing; A Leader as “one who holds the story of what is to be.”

Lunch and snacks will be provided.

Jack Arnold, a participant in Charles’ intensive workshop in Baltimore on January 28, called it, “Possibly, probably, definitely the most, bestest, day for allowing me to bring together the many ‘mes’ in my head I’ve ever experienced.”

In keeping with gift principles, cost is self determined. A $25 registration deposit is required.  At the conclusion of the workshop, you will be welcomed to give more according to your level of ability and gratitude, or your deposit may be refunded in whole or part if you wish. You must attend the full workshop to be eligible for a refund.  Preregistration is required.

In addition to the workshop, Charles will speak on Saturday March 10, from 7:00 -10:00 pm at Columbia 150, U. of O. campus. Cost: You decide – sliding scale of $5-20 or any other amount that feels right and fair to you.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Charles is also doing book talks in Portland 3/7, Corvallis 3/8 and Ashland 3/9.  Activists in all four towns are coming together to explore how to further a regional vision of greater vitality, resilience and interdependence in all our communities.

Charles Eisenstein is being sponsored and promoted by Unifying Cascadia, Eugene City of Peace, Survival Center, Co-Intelligence Institute, Emerald Valley Time Exchange along with other organizations in Portland, Corvallis and Ashland.

See http://unifyingcascadia.info for more information. To preregister, click on the ticket link below.

SHOWTIME: 9:00 – 4:00 PM, PRICE: Cost Self-Determined; $25 Deposit Reserves Space. BUY TICKETS NOW

Richard was guest speaker before our Green Neighbors Faire began March 3rd. Thanks to all for attending on March 3rd and making it such a positive day! More media below….

^courtyard panorama with all-accessible bikes, backyard chickens, and more!

A busy day at Faire’s ‘power-workshops’ in Fellowship Hall at FUMC venue…

Youth Zone workshop

Richard Heinberg’s address before the Faire began…

Click here for video of courtyard hub-bub of activity at Faire

The Green Neighbors Faire

Saturday, March 3   10 PM to 12:30 PM

First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive

10:00  Richard Heinberg Presentation Transitioning After Growth; Connecting Community, Economy, & Environment  [suggested $5 to $10]

11:00 – 2:30 Green Neighbors Faire [Free]

More information on Richard Heinberg and his presentation

Faire Home Page - Schedule and Description of Workshops, Panels, Youth Celebration

Follow Up Events for the Green Neighbors Faire – Work parties, events, tours related to the GNF

March 13, Thats My Farmer Tuesday – 5:30 to 7:30   First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive. Celebrate local farmers and community supported agriculture.

March 17 -  Site tour of a Permaculture property conversion project Saturday, March 17, Noon to 2 PM.  Tour at 12:30.  See what a suburban property can look like after 12 years of intensive changes.  Grass to garden, driveway removal, passive solar home redesign, rain water catchment – 6500 gallon storage and gravity distribution system, edible landscaping – vertical, fenceline, food forest; solar bungalow, aesthetics, home economics and more.  see www.suburbanpermaculture.org and e mail for directions or call 686 6761

March 18 – Work Parties and Tours of Common Ground Garden Friendly Neighborhood are regularly scheduled.  Location is 21st and Van Buren.  Scheduled work parties and tours summer schedule – April to September are first and second Saturdays at 10 AM, then third and fourth Sundays at 2 PM Come join the fun!  New people are welcome.  Also, check the Friendly Farmer Ning Site

March 31 – Work Party – Help restore a filbert grove Saturday, March 31, 11 to 3. Filbert grove is located in the Greenway along the Willamette River where McClure meets the River Bike Path [a block north of Stultz] . Prepare for the weather.  Bring pruning gear, gloves, rakes if possible. Munchies if you can. Call 686 6761 for more info.  The grove of 100 trees is overgrown with black berry and weeds.  Needs to be pruned and cleaned up.  This grove can be a wonderful community food resource.  See what a work party is like, make some new friends and help reclaim local food assets!

April 14 and 15, Bio Gas Workshop with Warren Weisman.  Info Here

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.

Tabling organizations, search the name of the group for their website

Committee on Sustainability – info@eugenesustainability – Neighborhood based organization advocates living more local and green.  Speakers bureau, Green Home Show presentations, Green bike tours all over town

Bring Recycling brettj@bringrecycling.org – Community reuse and recycle

Helios Resource Network  helios@heliosnetwork.org -  Listing of community organizations, matching grants

Solarize Oregon sarah@trig-cli.org -  Collaborative program to expand use of solar water and electricity

Kindista ben@commongoodsnetwork.org – On line networking for barter and gifting

Eugene Mutual Aid Society Eugenemutualaidsociety.org (Maggie Springer) -

CALC – Community Association of Lane County  calcoffice@gmail.com – Social and community issues

Northamerican Butterfly Asso. Eugene-Springfield bruce@salixassociates.com,

Willamette Valley Sustainable Foods Alliance farms@mountainroseherbs.com – Promotes local food

Emerald Valley Time Exchange info@emeraldvalleytimeexchange.org – Alternatives to the cash economy

MECCA info@materials-exchange.org – Making art from refuse

Nedco-Sprout ledaletters@gmail.com – Neighborhood Economic Development Corporation, diverse land use and food projects that benefit the community

Our Islands Conservation Center aelonkeinad@hotmail.com,

Friends of Trees erikb@friendsoftrees.org,

EVEN vegedunet@comcast.net – Advocates and educates about the benefits of plant based diets

Eugene Coalition for Better School Food hollymcrae4@gmail.com

Workshops

Morning session

Edible and Medicinal Landscapes – Heiko Koester

Energy and Water Conservation [EWEB]