Month: February 2007

2/26, 6:30 PM Monroe County Pub Lib Room 1B  ~Film Screening, 

‘Global Gardener:Permaculture with Bill Mollison’

Sponsored by the Bloomington Permaculture Guild & CSL.

2/22, 6:00 – 8:00 PM Bloomington Adult Community Center. Food Security Policy Group meeting 

Action group for people concerned about availability and health issues of our
local food supply. Plenty of room for more to join us!

H. Michael Simmons, Ph.D.

Adult Program Specialist, Bloomington Parks and Recreation

Tel:(812)349-3737 Fax:(812)349-3707

simmonsm@bloomington.in.gov

2/20, 4 PM @ Boxcar Books & Community Center (310 A S. Washington).

Holistic Affordable Housing general meeting.

http://www.freewebs.com/greenhouzing, greenthecity@yahoo.com

2/19, 7 – 9 PM at the Caldwell EcoCenter 323 S. Walnut. The GreatTurning discussion group for David Korten’s book The Great Turning.  Meet with a group of concerned citizens who will read and discuss this book.  We have plenty of room for more people.

Come and learn how to use red wrigglers to compost food scraps. Bring a wooden artillery box or soft plastic sweater box, drill with a small bit and newspapers.  We will provide the worms.

Link

Sponsored by the Bloomington Permaculture Guild & CSL.

“When you pray, move your feet.” This African proverb flashes on the screen at the end of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s film about global warming. On Sunday, February 11th from 6 – 7:30 pm, the Unitarian Universalist Church (2120 North Fee Lane) will host a panel discussion
exploring how each of us, individually and together, can move to action to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. What are our options in transportation, housing, food, energy use? What do those choices mean? How can we change? Speakers will include David Rollo (Bloomington City Council member), eith Vogelsang (Fellow at the Land Institute), and Jeff Riegal Naturalist). Ben Brabson (IU Physics) will moderate. There will be mple time for questions and comments. Come help us cross the threshold rom understanding to action. There will be a vegetarian potluck at 5 pm that you are welcome to attend as well.

Green Communities offers grants to help cover the costs of designing, planning and implementing green components into affordable housing developments, as well as tracking their costs and benefits. Grant funds up to $50,000 per project–plus funding for community trees — is now available for developers committed to providing green affordable housing.

Applications must be received online by February 23, 2007.

Awards are expected to be made by the last week of March 2007.

In this event, we will review in detail the grant application process for Green Communities. Enterprise staff will also present information on reporting requirements if applicants are awarded funds.

Expected Outcomes:

• Participants will be able to submit complete and competitive applications.
• Participants will have information on the reporting requirements of the funds if they are awarded a Green Communities grant.

Registration takes place 20 minutes before the event. Information on how to join the meeting can be found at http://www.enterprisecommunity.org/training_and_events/webinars/

If you have questions about joining this event, please call Donna Schmidt at 410-772-2417.