[Ccpg] Opportunity for column

[David Goldstein]

Quail Springs, VC COOL, and Permaculturists:

I write the weekly Eye on the Environment column, which appears on
Sundays, typically on page A-18 of the Ventura County Star. I
occasionally invite guest columnists to use my space.

Would anyone like to promote upcoming green building events by using
the below notes, and perhaps the attached, to write a column for
publication? It can be either around 550 words (for the bottom of the
page) or around 750 words (two columns of text the Star runs along the
side of a page). 

Here are the rules: Avoid jargon and acronyms, don't editorialize or
polemicize, and keep most of it to an eighth grade reading level. Also,
keep it factual, rather than spiritually inspired (the type of language
that was in Bob Banner's press release about Quail Springs included a
call for "spirited" apprentices, expressions of "love" for straw and
clay, and other stuff the Star editors would cut).


Here's material you could start with (use without crediting me on the
by line, and e-mail  me a finished product)...


In the northern backcountry of Ventura County, a non-profit
organization runs the 450 acre Quail Springs Farm. This weekend, they
are hosting free “service learning” events, which include tree
plantings on the farm and in the Los Padres National Forest. The farm is
a demonstration site for “sustainable living, shelter, water, energy
and food,” according to its manager and founder, Joe? Green?. In
upcoming months they will lead workshops on native restoration, natural
building, organic gardening, and ways to slow erosion, using their
former  Cuyama Valley cattle ranch as a site for demonstration,
restoration, and learning. Quail Springs can be reached at 886-7239.

Later this month, they are offering Living Craft Project - Natural
Building Training at Quail Springs. Using clay, straw, sand, and wood,
and they will show how to create shelter. It is part of their Living
Craft Project. Living Craft Project is a school of natural building.
Quail Springs is currently searching for four apprentices, willing to
work at the ranch while learning building techniques. For more
information, go to towww.quailsprings.org/events.


Another upcoming workshop about green building will be hosted by VC
COOL, a Ventura County-based non-profit. It will focus on Natural
Building, including local earthen (Cob) building. That event will take
place Monday, January 26 at 6:00 PM at the Patagonia Firehouse Building,
280 W. Main Street, Ventura. It is a free event, hosted by the 
California Central Coast Chapter (C4) of the U.S. Green Building
Council, which is presenting it as a double-header of “Natural
Building” with Carolyn  Hernandez of the Natural Building Network, and
“Building with Cob (earthen-building) in Ventura” with Rachel
Morris, President and co-founder of VCCool.

There will also be a follow-up Open House at Rachel's work-in- progress
earthen-cob-building, Sunday, February 1st, 1-2 p.m. To RSVP for the
open house, please emailaction at vccool.org, or call  (805) 648-1267. The
local Green Home & Family Magazine is this month’s C4 event host.

These events are co-ordinated with the Green Building Council, an
organization of local professionals in the building industry. The Green
Building Council meets regularly to... They have also recently .... 



Please reply to all.

Thanks,
D.G.

david.goldstein at ventura.org
Ventura County PWA, W&S, IWMD
800 S. Victoria Ave. #1650
Ventura, CA 93009-1650 
805/658-4312 www.wasteless.org

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