[Scpg] SUNDAY: Sustainability Seminar in Pomona

[Fred's Notebook]

It's that time of year!  Some call it Imbolc.  Some call it Groundhog's 
Day, etc.  Call it what you will, but my brothers and sisters at the Regen 
Cooperatives hold their annual seminar.

Maybe I'll see you there!
Fred (coming from Carlsbad)


Regenerative Cooperative's 3rd Annual Sustainability Seminar
Sunday, February 1st, 2004

Topics include:

    Permaculture
    Indigenous knowledge
    Solar Energy
    Natural Childbirth
    Regenerative Living
    Ecovillages
    Homeschooling
    Biodiesel
    Yoga
    Urban Farming

    and more!


Schedule:
997 Bradford (Possum House)
10:45-12:00  Tour of the Center for Regenerative Studies
              (Meet at Bradford (Possum) at 10:45)

12:00  CHECK IN 997 Bradford (Possum House)
12:20-12:40 Regen Intro
12:45-1:15  Introducing the Ecovillage Network of the Americas, Lois 
Arkin            of LA Ecovillage
1:20-1:50   Intro to Permaculture & Biodiesel, Deanna Moore of Common Vision
Break (20 min) & 1:55-2:30  Biodiesel workshop outside w/Deanna
2:10-2:40  Environmental Education, Earth Resource Foundation Butts Out,
Linda Nicholes
2:45-3:15  Natural Childbirth, Kim Crane & Sarah Davis
3:20-3:50  Home Schooling, Larla Dey Maloney & Kim Crane
3:50-4:10  Break
4:10-4:40  Solar Energy, Bob Siebert, P.E.
4:45-5:15  Urban Farming &,Claremont's Co-op, Adrienne Lester & Noah
Westgate
5:20-5:50  Indigenous Knowledge, Mark Acuna, authority on Tongva/Gabrieleno 
culture and ethnobotany of Native Plants

164 Alvarado (Phoenix House)     Documentary Film Series
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2:00-3:10  Escape From Affluenza (55min) on unsustainable consumer culture 
and how to escape it, by John de Graaf and Vivia Boe
3:15-4:05  Metal of Dishonor (50min) Radioactive depleted uranium used in 
the war-for-profit system, by People's Video Network
4:10-4:40  Workshop: Marxist Ecology and Liberal Environmentalism: Towards 
a sustainable environmental agency, Matt Romain
4:45-5:15  Leasing the Rain (20min) Privatization of water resources in a 
capitalist world and the movement to resist it, by David Murdock and 
William Finagan
5:20-6:20  Praha 2000: World Bank and IMF Under Siege (55min) The 
institutions of imperial finance capital and the international solidarity 
movement to defeat them, IMC and NGO Collaboration

341 Kingsley (Tortoise House)
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2:00-3:00  The Patriot Act and the Loss of Civil Liberties,
            A Personal Account,
            with FBI victim Josh Connole
3:05-3:40  Activism in the Media, Beth Solomon
3:45-5:05  Yoga Workshop, Sustaining Our Selves Through Yoga,
            Naomi Bendiner

After The Workshops
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6:30pm    Vegan Potluck Dinner Bradford (Possum) House
Evening:  A Celebration of This Year's Hard Work Towards a Regenerative
Future.
           Bring instruments, snacks, and an open heart. Bradford (Possum) 
House

Throughout the day Leif Lorenzen will be creating paintings at the Bradford 
(Possum) House backyard. Paintings will be raffled off along with other 
prizes in the evening , raffle tickets are $2.00.

$5.00 Suggested Donation for Food Not Bombs and funding this event.
FMI: call (909)469-5100