[Ccpg] Opportunity for column

Mon Jan 26 17:46:11 PST 2009

Let's keep this one focused on Green Building. Wally's plan is ambitious, and to include the upcoming Quail Springs stuff, as well as the stuff Rachel Morris sent, he'll have to stay focused to keep it to just 750 words.

>>> "Quail Springs" <info at quailsprings.org> 01/26/2009 4:57 PM >>>
Hi David, Wally, and all,

Thanks for the opportunity to get the word out, David.  And thanks, Wally,
for taking on the writing. Warren Brush (Executive Director) or I will give
you a call asap for the requested update on our programs.  Wondering, is the
focus green/natural building, or do you also want to share permaculture
trainings?  And, is there a deadline we're working with?  Look forward to
chatting, and to the column!

Best,

Kolmi

Kolmi Majumdar

Programs Manager 

Quail Springs Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm

www.quailsprings.org 

info at quailsprings.org 

(805)886-7239

From: Wally Geer [mailto:go2wallyworld at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:33 PM
To: David Goldstein; ccpg at arashi.com; lbokun at earthlink.net; ewerb at ewerb.com;
info at quailsprings.org; 'Rachel Morris'
Subject: RE: Opportunity for column

Dear Everybody:  In talking to David, he is letting me take a pass at a
article.  However, I would appreciate some help from Quail Springs Farm, by
having someone get in touch with me to get a little update on what programs
you have in the works these days (I can be reached via E-Mail at
go2wallyworld at hotmail.com  or my cell phone at 805-896-8926).

Thank you & Best Regards,  Wally Geer 

> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:20:09 -0800
> From: David.Goldstein at ventura.org 
> To: ccpg at arashi.com; lbokun at earthlink.net; ewerb at ewerb.com;
go2wallyworld at hotmail.com; info at quailsprings.org; rachel at vccool.org 
> Subject: Opportunity for column
> 
> 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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