[Scpg] Sustainable Sundays: Urban Homesteading Presentation

[Dervaes]

Sustainable Sundays: Different Shades of Green 

When: Sunday, November 9 (10:00 am - 4:00 pm)
Where: Natural History Museum, 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles
Cost: Tickets are $9.00 for adults and $2.00 for children (5-12) and can be
purchased at the door.

In this new series, the Museum becomes a forum in which visitors learn about
international conservation issues, and then can interact with organizations
that actually do something about those issues. 

Bikes, slow food, farmers market and urban homesteading advocates. Path to
Freedom, give a presentation on urban sustainability called 'The Path to
Sustainable Living in the City' (60 minute) by Jules Dervaes

At 11:00am In a 60 minute Jules Dervaes will talk about his family's
revoluntionary urban homestead project in Pasadena and their journey toward
a sustainable and self-sufficient life in the city. The Dervaes family is
living a protest against the corporate powers that control the food supply
by growing 6,000 pounds of produce a year on 1/5 of an acre.  Over the last
twenty years the family also has instigated numerous sustainable elements
into their lifestyle, from edible landscaping, solar panels, biodiesel,
citified farm animals, greywater practices and many more.

At 12:30pm, "eco-chef" Aaron French will present "Eating Greener: The
Ecology of Food and Why It Matters," a 40-minute lecture, 20-minute cooking
demonstration, and a 15-minute Q&A session. It will offer participants an
integrated framework for our food systems and provide context for current
buzzwords such as "local," "organic," and "sustainable." Participants will
learn steps each person can take to foster and promote sustainability in
their local food region. Chef French holds bachelor's and master's degrees
in Ecology, is the chef of The Sunnyside Cafe in Albany, California, writes
the EcoChef column found in ten Bay Area New Group newspapers, and was a
participant in Slow Food Nation, both as a contributor to the Slow Food
Nation blog and as host of a Slow Breakfast at The Sunnyside Cafe.

Conservation International's Jen Morris will also present information about
investing in global pro-conservation, small- and medium-sized businesses at
2:30pm.

-------------------About Path to Freedom------------------

Since the mid-1980s, members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at
transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena into a thriving organic
micro farm that supplies them with food all year round. These eco-pioneers
also run a successful home business providing their surplus produce to local
restaurants. Through their adventures in growing and preserving their own
food, installing a solar power system, home-brewing biodiesel for fuel,
raising backyard farm animals, and learning back-to-basics skills, these
modern-day pioneers have revived the old-fashioned spirit of self-reliance
and resourcefulness. Since 2001, their website has inspired hundreds of
thousands to take steps towards a sustainable future and has generated a
21st century urban homestead movement.