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January/February 2012
Wishing everybody a successful 2012!
Our thanks to those who recently contributed to GreenList Louisville. All contributions help offset our production costs. We appreciate the community support. There is a DONATE button on our website ... (click for more)
Our thanks to those who recently contributed to GreenList Louisville. All contributions help offset our production costs. We appreciate the community support. There is a DONATE button on our website and we welcome contributions of any size. Or contact us for advertising information.
Lauren Anderson, Director of the Air Pollution Control District gave an enlightening presentation at a recent Green Convene meeting. She came to talk about their new Idle Free initiative and in her overview of APCD she showed a couple of pictures I found interesting. One was of the Louisville skyline in the 1940’s. There were only vague outlines through a haze of coal smoke. The other was the skyline in the 1970’s. It blended into a haze of gray smog. While we’ve managed to control many of the visible signs of air pollution there are still a lot of toxins being generated and dispersed all around us. Read about APCD’s Idle Free Louisville program and find out how a few simple changes in how we use our cars can make a difference in the air we breathe.
In this issue you may also learn about the Kentucky Sustainable Energy Alliance, a broad-based coalition that is promoting the use of clean and renewable energy in the Commonwealth. We should all pay attention to and do what we can to help our legislators pass the Clean Energy Opportunity Act, HB239, in the 2012 session of the General Assembly. And we have an update on Councilwoman Tina Ward-Pugh’s Green Triangle Initiative including information on where you can drop off used cooking oil and grease to be recycled into biodiesel fuel.
On the spiritual side Rev. Diane Walker is offering insights into dealing with life’s transitions, something we often avoid thinking about but should be prepared for. And Louisville’s Earth and Spirit Center is offering a thought provoking program for the Easter season. Lent 4.5 has weekly lessons about the Christian message of living simply with the resources available to us.
I’m excited to have an article about the origins of Louisville’s Blessings in a Backpack. With the support of Highland Cleaner’s Mike Jones the organization has been helping 400 students at one elementary school, but right before going to press Blessings in a Backpack announced it has received support from the community that will enable it to help students from early education through fifth grade throughout the JCPS system. What a blessing to the community!
And finally, Eric Osborne of Magnificent Mushrooms offers some insight into mushrooms, perhaps the most important organism to life on our planet, yet one of the least understood or appreciated.
Wishing you all a Happy New Year!
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PosSOUPbility
Sun, Jan 29, 6pm at The Water Tower, 3005 River Road
“PosSOUPbility,” a new local meal-based micro-grant producing initiative, is seeking applicants for its first community event. PosSOUPbility seeks to become a regularly occurring community meal that supports new and emerging ... (click for more)
“PosSOUPbility,” a new local meal-based micro-grant producing initiative, is seeking applicants for its first community event. PosSOUPbility seeks to become a regularly occurring community meal that supports new and emerging creative projects that celebrate and/or benefit people, places and things in the Louisville area. Each community member who attends poSOUPbility purchases a $10 soup ticket and receives a ballot and a delicious soup-based meal. Three local innovators present project proposals during the meal, and attendees vote on the idea that they would most like to make a reality.
The innovator with the most votes receives a micro-grant, generated from meal funds to help execute their project, the outcome of of the project is presented at a future posSOUPbility meal. The first posSOUPbility event will take place at 6:00 p.m., Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at The Water Tower (3005 River Road, Louisville, KY 40207), thanks to the generosity of the Louisville Visual Art Association.
RSVP’s (recommended) to attend the meal will be accepted beginning January 1, 2012 and can be made by emailing posSOUPbility at the address listed below. Local innovators who would like to present project proposals at the January 29th event must submit a simple application form by January 15, 2012. The application, as well as additional information about posSOUPbility, is available at www.posSOUPbility. blogspot.com.
Applicants are encouraged to submit any questions to posSOUPbility@gmail.com. PosSOUPbility is
also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/posSOUPbility. While posSOUPbility is new to Louisville, the initiative is part of the larger Sunday Soup Network. For more information about the Sunday Soup Network visit www.sundaysoup.org. Contact: Nick Covault, 502.641.6674, posSOUPbility@gmail.com
The Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wed Feb 1, Noon-1:45 at the Louisville Nature Center, 3745 Illinois Ave
When Government Will Not Act, You Must.... Jackie Greene Jackie Green, husband, father, bicycle shop owner, and car-free since 1999, was an independent candidate for Louisville mayor in 2010. His ... (click for more)
When Government Will Not Act, You Must....
Jackie Greene
Jackie Green, husband, father, bicycle shop owner, and car-free since 1999, was an independent candidate for Louisville mayor in 2010. His focus as a candidate was on preparing Louisville for the carbon-constrained world of the future. By the example of his own personal lifestyle and by his periodic Emails, "The Greening of Louisville," Jackie continues to challenge us to simplify and "power down" our lives. Be ready to be engaged in a lively discussion of 'When Government Will Not Act, You Must...'
Shorter presentations
Chris O'Bryan
Limbwalker Tree Service
Limbwalker was begun in 2004 by Cory Petry and Chris O'Bryan. Their primary focus in the beginning was pruning. They have recently expanded the types of services they provide, focusing on improving soil health. They use soil decompaction, compost teas, and an organic-based lawn program to improve the health of the soils in which trees live.
Angela Schultz,
Chartreuse Independent Eco-Consultant
Angela educates people on ingredients in products they use everyday and teach them about dangers they need to avoid not only for their personal health, but the health of our environment.
Project WILD workshops Scheduled
Starting Jan 31st. For Details see pages 9-11 of the Jan/Feb GreenList
Louisville Nature Center Project WILD and WET. Several workshops and facilitator training opportunities have been scheduled at the Louisville Nature Center in collaboration with the Bluegrass Bioneers. Instead of six ... (click for more)
Louisville Nature Center Project WILD and WET.
Several workshops and facilitator training opportunities have been scheduled at the Louisville Nature Center in collaboration with the Bluegrass Bioneers. Instead of six hour workshops for the Project WET, Project WILD and Project Flying WILD, an alternative schedule has been put into place. Workshops will be held for three hours with an expectation of three hours of service (teaching lessons from the curriculum guide) to the LNC. The LNC is located at 3745 Illinois Avenue, Louisville, KY 40213.
Advance registration for all workshops is required and can be made by calling the LNC at 502-458-1328.
Classical Acupuncture & Herbs Grand Opening & Open House
Fri, Feb 3, 5:30 to 7:30pm and Sat, Feb 4, 1:30 to 3:30pm, at 1999 Brownsboro Rd.
FREE Feng Shui consultations with British expert Will LeStrange, FREE introduction to massage, acupuncture and Chinese herbs , and more. Come and get all your holistic health care questions answered. ... (click for more)
FREE Feng Shui consultations with British expert Will LeStrange, FREE introduction to massage, acupuncture and Chinese herbs , and more. Come and get all your holistic health care questions answered.
A great way to start the new year! Contact Martha at 502.489.1068.
15Thousand Farmers
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15Thousand Farmers helps create, empower, and inspire 15thousand new, sustainable, backyard/front yard farmers in Louisville, KY to feed their families and themselves! How? By using simple and easy instructions, checklists, ... (click for more)
15Thousand Farmers helps create, empower, and inspire 15thousand new, sustainable, backyard/front yard farmers in Louisville, KY to feed their families and themselves! How? By using simple and easy instructions, checklists, materials and ongoing support provided through local growers and resources that will provide everything needed to start growing food in our yards, on decks or in community gardens.
What will 15Thousand sustainable food growers mean to us here in Louisville?
• We’ll learn we can plant a seed and feed ourselves!
• And as we grow our own food, we can grow the community in our neighborhoods. We can meet our neighbors around a common interest – sharing growing secrets, trading special vegetables or herbs and seeds!
• We take back our power of choice! As we grow our own food, we begin to realize we have a choice to take charge of things we hold dear – abundant, inexpensive, delicious, nutritious sustainable food, sharing it with friends, saving money we usually spend at the grocery, reconnect with nature just outside our back door, making new friends in our neighborhood with a common interest, helping transform this community and the world.
• As we grow our food locally, we reduce our dependence on foreign oil as we buy less stuff that has been shipped in by truck, train or plane from distant states or countries.
• Sustainable growing sequesters carbon faster than any other current technology. So as we plant and grow our food, we powerfully affect climate change.
• Growing our own food in the neighborhood is fun and anyone can do it, from age three to 103!!!
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