Category — WASTE & POLLUTION

This conference is for all interested in making a difference.

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.

Students from UC’s, CSUs, Community Colleges, Private Universities and high schools are encouraged to attend. We also invite community members and others to attend. Attendees will find opportunities to hear inspiring speakers, exchange ideas in workshops, and to celebrate our collective successes.

$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

To All Permaculture Enthusiasts:

Experienced permaculture instructors Robyn Francis, of Australia, and Cathe’ Fish, of Northern California, will co-teach an exciting Permaculture Design Certification course this October 26 through November 8, 2011. We are incredibly fortunate to have world renowned permaculture designer and educator Robyn Francis come from New South Wales, Australia to Allsgood Farm in Penn Valley, California to co-teach this course.

Robyn Francis is an award winning permaculture designer and educator who founded Australia’s premier Permaculture Education Centre, Djanbung Gardens (see www.permaculture.com.au). She has taught over 100 PDC courses and spent over 25 years training new generations of skilled and competent Permaculture practitioners, teachers and professionals to be effective agents of change.  Cathe’ Fish is founder of Practical Permaculture Research Institute in Grass Valley, CA.  She is also an international speaker having taught hundreds of classes and workshops.  Cathe’ has been designing and teaching passive solar and permaculture systems for 25 years; from 40 acre farms to urban backyards.

This is an opportunity not to be missed!  We hope you will join us October 26 through November 8, 2011 for this rare and life changing Permaculture Design Certification course. Please read more about the course below…

Kind Regards,

Stephanie, PPRI Marketing

PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSE

October 26 – November 8, 2011

with Robyn Francis & Cathe’ Fish

(and a team of passionate and knowledgeable instructors)

At Allsgood farm, a 20 acre farm in Penn Valley, CA

Learn how to design for stability, resilience, and abundance at a farm that is dedicated to permaculture.

Gain hands-on skills in sustainable systems design and application for urban and farm properties.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Robyn Francis is an award winning permaculture designer and educator who founded Australia’s premier Permaculture Education Centre, Djanbung Gardens. Since 1985, Robyn has trained thousands of active permaculturists around the world. This will be the 122nd  Permaculture Design Course she has taught. Read her bio on her website www.permaculture.com.au. Watch a video of her inspiring permaculture center, Djanbung Gardens, in Australiia http://tinyurl.com/RobynsCenter

Cathe’ Fish, international educator and founder of Practical Permaculture Research Institute, is a 23 year Master Gardener, and has been teaching passive solar and permaculture systems for 25 years. She has designed 40 acre farms to backyards. She will be teaching Solar Kitchens at the International Permaculture Convergence in Jordan in September 2011. Read her bio on her website www.practicalpermaculture.com

ABOUT THE PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE

The Permaculture Design Certificate course is an internationally-recognized course resulting in a Permaculture Design Certificate. While the course minimums are 72 hours, we are offering you a more in depth 90 hour 2 week intensive (with Halloween off) so that you may truly apply your permaculture skills as a graduate. The course covers sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates. It includes the application of permaculture principles to food production, home design/ construction, energy conservation/generation, and explores alternative economic structures and legal strategies supporting permaculture solutions. Credit for this course is now accepted by a growing number of universities around the world. Certification from this course empowers you to develop a professional permaculture design, consultation and instruction business.

Specific course topics

• Theory & Principles of Permaculture
• Methods of Design
• Passive Solar Greenhouses
• Composting Toilets & Greywater Systems
• Small Scale Food Production
• Farming For the Future
• Water Harvesting & Management
• Food Forests & Plant Nurseries and a lot MORE!

Hands on activities

• Awareness of Natural Patterns
• Quick Ways to Create a Food Garden (with Sheet Mulching)
• Passive Solar Kitchen
• Water Harvesting Earthworks
• Compost and Compost Tea
• Fruit Tree Planting and Pruning
• Making Sauerkraut & Cheese
• Regional Wild Foods

ABOUT THE LOCATION

Allsgood Farm is owned by permaculturist Cliff Jepson and his wife Nora Heiber. It is a beautiful private 20 acres of giant Oak Savannah and Pastures.

Discover solutions for your farm, rural land or suburban backyard.

PERMACULTURE OFFERS POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO A PLANET IN CRISIS

Permaculture is a design science that brings together nature, earth sciences and human intelligence to develop positive solutions to create healthy and sustainable environments and build resiliant communities. Permaculture has accumulated over 35 years of experimentation and application around the world, urban and rural, in all climates and with diverse cultures.

Our mission is to share this knowledge and tools of empowerment for you to take and put into your home and garden, your property, your work/career, and in your community.  We will show you how to do it.

COURSE FEE

$1250.00 early bird special

$1350.00 after 9/15/2011

TO REGISTER

http://tinyurl.com/Robyn-PDC

Learn to use nature as your pattern for food production, housing, and community

Permaculture provides a framework for consciously designed landscapes that mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature. These systems yield an abundance of shelter, water, energy, and food for the provision of local needs that provide diversity, stability, and resilience for local populations.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Cathe’ Fish (PPRI)

530-274-2575

practicalpermaculture@gmail.com

Stephanie (PPRI Mktg. Director)

530-828-6390

permagaia@gmail.com

Cliff Jepson (Allsgood Farm)

530-356-5436

cliffjepsen@gmail.com

Earth Care - People Care - Fair Share

In this issue :

- Inside CalRecycle – California’s Department of Recycling

CalRecycle is the state’s leading authority on recycling, waste reduction, and product reuse. Officially known as the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, CalRecycle plays an important role in the stewardship of California’s vast resources and promotes innovation in technology to encourage economic and environmental sustainability. (…)

- Cash for Cartridges – Is there money in your printer?

They’re in virtually every home and office.  Printers are everywhere.  They come in a variety of sizes and speeds and range from a low cost home desk top model to a mini print shop.  They all have one thing in common; they have a voracious appetite for ink cartridges. Americans throw away 13 inkjet cartridges every second. High volume users of printers are becoming increasingly aware that the pile of spent inkjet and laser jet cartridges they are creating has value. (…)

- County News – The Paradise Lake Recycling Project

One of Butte County’s hidden treasures is Paradise Lake.  Nestled above Magalia just off Coutelenc Road,Paradise Lake offers an abundance of recreational opportunities.  Fishing, biking, hiking and kayaking are a few of the activities available to lake visitors.    It’s also a great place for a family picnic. (…)

- Seasonal Feature – The Sacramento River cleanup

We are all aware of the annual Labor Day float that occurs when thousands of mostly young people take to the Sacramento River in a variety of flotation devices to celebrate the end of summer and enjoy a day on the river.  We are also aware of the negative impact this activity has on the river.  Thousands of pounds of waste is left behind on the banks and in the in the water for someone else to clean up.  This article will not focus on the trashing of the river over the holiday weekend; instead it will highlight the folks who volunteer to cleanup of the river after the trashers have all gone home. (…)

FULL STORIES at :  www.RecycleButte.net

MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS :

- Do you know of a business or non-profit that offers recycling services and is not yet in our directory?  Let us know at  recycle@buttecounty.net.

- Do you have a bicycle you no longer ride but is in reasonable condition?  Drop it off at the Neal Road Recycling & Waste Facility.  We work with local non-profits who will repair and refurbish it then donate it to area youth in need of a bike.

- The Butte County Fair goes green.  Look for the recycling containers around the Fairgrounds and visit the County Recycling Information booth in Farmers Hall. The Fair runs August 25^th through the 28^th.

- Recycling Road Show :
Would your club, classroom or organization like a presentation about current trends in recycling and waste management?  Our staff will speak at your school or function about local recycling and waste issues and be happy to answer questions about local and national waste trends.  Call 879-2352.

Questions, comments, suggestions?  Email us at recycle@buttecounty.net.  We will try to respond as soon as possible.

Steve Rodowick