Our annual sustainability conference provides a forum to discuss current issues that are relevant to our region, our community, and our faculty, staff, and students.

We seek to develop common ground to help build a sustainable society; one that balances economic, environmental and social needs.  We will explore programs that will actually help us address the global problems we are now facing.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of this conference please visit our web site for more details:
http://wwww.csuchico.edu/sustainablefuture/conference/

Session Times: 9:00 A.M. -5:00 P.M. – see our website for schedule details as they become available.

Advanced Registration- Online: January 1, 2012- February 17, 2012
www.csuchico.edu/sustainablefuture/conference/

Onsite Registration: Opens daily at 8:00 A.M. in the Bell Memorial Union Main Lobby

FEES: Students are free.   $50 for all three days or $20 per day for all other attendees.

$25 for Regular (after Oct. 12) - FREE for CSU Chico students

For complete information, please visit : http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/fall-convergence-2e

Our keynote speaker this fall will be Derrick Jensen, social and environmental justice activist and author of the critically acclaimed Endgame series.

Friday:
5:00PM-10:00PM Check-in begins at GRUB Cooperative
1525 Dayton Rd, Chico CA 95928
7:00PM Film Screening, “GASLAND”
BMU 100, CSU Chico
10:00PM Friday Night Check-in at GRUB Cooperative Ends
(Any parties arriving after 10PM will need to check in Saturday morning at the on-site registration desk)

Saturday:
8:00AM-9:00AM Breakfast and On-Site Registration Begins
9:00AM-9:30AM Welcome begins in BMU 100
9:30AM-10:30AM Keynote Address by Morgoth Gamboa
10:30AM-11:00AM Transition Time
11:00-11:50AM Track 1 Workshops
11:50AM-1:20PM Lunch
1:30PM-2:20PM Track 2 Workshop
2:30PM-3:20PM Track 3 Workshop
3:30PM-4:20PM Track 4 Workshop
4:30PM-5:30PM Keynote Address by Derrick Jensen
5:30PM-6:00PM Q&A with Derrick Jensen
6:00PM-7:00PM Transition time to travel from CSU, Chico to GRUB
7:00PM-8:30PM Dinner at GRUB with words from Dr. Mark Stemen
8:30PM-9:30PM Speakeasy Performs
9:30PM-10:30PM Soul Union Performs
Midnight Quiet Time

Sunday:
9:00AM-10:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM-10:20AM Welcome
10:30AM-11:20AM System Wide Caucus
11:30AM-12:20PM Getting to know CSSC – Op Team, Council & Board
12:30PM-1:00PM Close-Out and Goodbyes

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Four Workshop Tracks (Saturday of convergence!)

Track 1 (11:00 am)
Growing Activist Communities from the Inside Out
Fair Trade on your campus
Sustainability Funds
Freeganism: The Art of Dumpster Diving
Achieving Group Synergy – Dynamic Meeting Facilitation
ECO Website
Keystone XL Pipeline
Greening Events
End Coal Campaign
Tour of Associated Student’s Recycling Program

Track 2 (1:30 pm)
The Power of the Student Voice
Experiential Education and Student Activism: Butte College Students Report Back from Bioneers Conference
Advocating for Change: Creating a new food system through the 2012Fair = Farm Bill
SCOOP: Auditing an Office
Everyday Recycling
Sustainable Manufacturing Engineering
Cross-Pollination for Clean Energy Campuses
Problems with Plastics and What We Can Do
Shades of Green: Strengthening Diversity in the Environmental Justice Movement
DIY Extreme: Vegan Soap, Lip Balm, Toothpaste, & Deodorant Making

Track 3 (2:30 pm)
Green Leap Forward: Debunking nuclear myths, catalyzing clean energy
Permaculture: A Tool for Radical Student Change-Makers
Youth Organizing in Oakland
Making Energy Tangible
The Recycling and Rubbish Exhibit program and Worm Composting Demo
Taking Back the Tap at UCSC and UC Berkeley
The Predicament and Managing Outcomes
Eco Mindsets
California State Dreaming – The CSU Sustainability Policy
Composting 101

Track 4 (3:30 pm)
Making the Animal-Earth-Human Liberation Connection and Veganism
Climate Action Protest
End Coal Campaign
Ecofeminism 101
Moon Cycles
E-ARC
Taking Back the Fork: What Students Can Do Now to Reclaim our Food System
Move to Amend
Queer Rights and the Sustainability Movement
Art Therapy: Expressing Yourself Through Art

For all updates, visit our  facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/sustainabilitycoalition

Dear friends,

GTC’s website is currently being bombarded by thousands of junk posts that have absolutely nothing to do with sustainability.  It makes it difficult and cumbersome to find the legitimate posts and to put them up on the site.   It is possible that this barrage was designed to achieve just that.   Or the site may have only fallen victim to parasitic marketing.  In either cases, the GTC team is now working on figuring out ways to protect ourselves from such onslaught.

We truly apologize for the delay in posting legitimate Chicoan posts.  Please, bear with us as we look for practical solutions.

Respectfully green regards,

Gerard Ungerman

BUTTE BICYCLE COALITION Minutes

August 29, 2011

Introductions: Carla, Teresa, Stacy, Laurie, Pete, Greg, Jennifer, Billie, David, Todd, Dennis, David, Karen

• Still waiting on tax exempt status approval-expecting to hear within 4 weeks
• Need to recruit new board members. Currently there are 5. Stacy and Teresa are interested,
• Funding is needed for various educational projects, Bike Chico, and we need to increase membership. Currently $390 in the bank and $950 at North Valley Community Fund.

• BBC is part of Annie B’s Drive (the North Valley Community Foundation) which started Aug 1 til the end of September. Donations can be made on line at www.nvcf.org. Donations are leveraged with Foundation money. How to spread the word? Guzzetti’s Gazzette. Other ideas?

• Laurie stated on Sept 15 from 6-9 at the City Plaza, @ TNM NVCF is hosting an event for those organizations on their Annie Bs list. BBC has a table. Need staff. Bring decorations—bike sculptures, posters/photos. Donors get a t-shirt. Todd, Stacy, David, Pete volunteered. Set up at 5:30 PM

• How to develop relationships with Bike Shop owners? Table this for later.

• Pete talked about 350.org which highlights climate change. Sept 24 (Sat) “Moving Planet” take action to fight climate change. Considering a family ride beginning at One Mile through the park ending at 5 Mile with a solar cooker demo by Todd. Would include cycling info among other material. David Grau’s group also interested.

–Carol Lams “Let’s Move group also involved in promoting 350.org. Karen to determine if Carol’s group wants to have their event on the 24^th also. Have a bike parade? Need to know if there is a permit required for this type of activity. Karen to check with Katie Simmons; Pete to check on available ?; Laurie to do PSA for KZFR and KCHO; Karen to look into waivers (Shirley Adams B+G) Need to promote the Oct 5^th Walk and Bike to School Day at this event.

• “Thank you 4 Riding Your Bike” ongoing campaign. Ideas:  stickers, bells (use as a membership thank you), tags on bike. Wording: “Thanks for riding your bike” (Bike Chico.org—check out our events” ‘Bicycling—pass it on” Use postcards by placing BBC sticker over “tell us your story” “See you on the Trails” “I’d rather be biking” “Keep pedaling”

How to affix? Where to put?

How else to use the leftover cards? Dragon Graphics owner may suggest a design. See if bike shops interested in paying for it and have their name on the back.

• Oct 5 Walk and Bike Day Jen: place public posters in key locations with statistics or cycling facts. Pete reminded us that we need School District and campus approval for signs. Karen will ask Suzy Tolen if we could update the Bike Chico art for Walk and Bike day. Todd suggested a “why it’s good to cycle” essay contest
• Dennis:  word of mouth was how he got his message out when teaching kids bike safety. He also suggested school newsletters. Karen suggested putting signs in a parking lot where the cars are parked. Billie suggested getting the schools to use their neon signs. Ask Kirk about butcher paper. Jen reminded all that signs need to be taken down after they served their purpose.

• Todd:  use the BBC website as a portal to receiving a disc from a business. Ideas:  like a “QR” code like Farm Star Pizza. Per Stacey this is a way to get a longer message out. Todd, encouraged reaching out to riders along a bike path. Todd suggested a bike mural; find an artist to donate the time.

Local celebrities, Chamber of Commerce campaign “Why I Bike?” is something Katie Simmons at Chico Velo has been working on.

• Bike safety tips inserted in the bike routes maps. Karen, Pete, Laurie did this for handing out during the WRECtacular event. Could the safety info be included in the revised map? (some is already)

• Website:  need help and ideas. Dave: chainlink. org (Chicago)—social network started by his niece for all things cycling oriented. Jen suggested recruiting a Chico State class to make the updating the website an ongoing project. Greg mentioned a need for an umbrella site for all things bike. Laurie and Greg to ask the City or the Chico State campus (note not clear on this)

Laurie stated once tax exempt, can use “wordpress” to update website. Wordpress is web-based software to maintain a site. A Bay Area agency assists non-profits to update their sites. Billie volunteered.

• Meet Dave Synder on Thurs, Sept 1 at 7 PM at no host dinner at Malvinas. Dave is the Exec Director of the California Bike Coalition. He will be at K & Ps on Tues and Thurs nights. If you want to meet with him during the day, contact the Goodwin/Hollingsworths.

• Have a Facebook presence.  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Butte-Bicycle-Coalition/116846711668259 Friend us!

• CA Bike Summit in Los Angeles Nov 5. Anyone want to go? Karen might.

• 99 Corridor Tour—dates: Sept 7 and 9 at 8 AM. Billie and Dennis interested. Karen will contact Ron Baker to suggest these times.

• Pete is developing a bike curriculum to take to into the schools. Would like volunteers. Billie said she was trainable.

• General agreement to meet monthly on Mondays until further notice. 1200 Park might be better spot, though less tasty.  (Karen adds: OPT for Healthy Living is available! At 1311 Mangrove)

Notes by Jennifer Harris, Billie Kanter and Karen

Karen Goodwin, MS
Nutrition Education Specialist
OPT for Healthy Living (formerly OPT for Fit Kids),

Center for Nutrition & Activity Promotion
1311 Mangrove Ave Ste B
Chico, CA  95926
530-898-5678

presents the Academy Award nominee doc that everyone should watch:

“GASLAND”

Saturday May 14 at 12:00 pm

Sierra Club is sponsoring the screening of GASLAND.  The amazing story of people lighting their tap water on fire.  Discover how FRACKING became exempt from our federal environmental laws.  California FRACKING maybe coming to a well near you.  There will be cool t-shirt and water bottle prizes.