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THANK YOU!

Dr. David Suzuki
In his talk at the Cascadia Convergence Kick-off on Friday, October 26, 2007 he gave one unforgettable illustration of what exponential growth means - one key understanding about the urgency of humanity's current problems. He used the idea of a bacterium doubling once a second in a test tube of food material. Suppose a quarter of the food material was used up at 58 seconds, and the bacteria are happy thinking they still have 75% of their resources. How long before all the food in the test tube (read planet) is used up?

Then the smart bacteria scientists come up with a way to produce 3 whole new worlds of food. How many more seconds does it take to use up those 3 new worlds?

THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO ATTENDED, IT WAS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS.

Many seeds were planted, many ideas germinated and many relationships formed over the those 24 hours and the energy continues to grow. This is good, there is hope in our own exponential growth!

Now please get involved to nurture and augment the weaving!

E-mail inquiries@sustainablecascadia.org or contact anyone involved.


Financial Supporters
  Seattle Center Sustainable Business Consulting SeattleBALLESeattle Event Horizons Five E's UnlimitedReal Trust Consulting

 

  
Contributing Organizations
  What's WorkingOSR-Northwest EcotrustCEL Parsons Public Relations     Green October Conscious ChoiceYes!Whidbey Institute Seattle Human Services CoalitionSustainable SeattleClimate Dialogs Interra     Antioch Natural Capital Institute Global Heat NBIS     Live History  

Book recommendation for December:

Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
by Lester R. Brown

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The Cascadian Sustainability Passport

Please contact passport@sustainablecascadia.org to get more information.

What’s it about?

This is a social tool that will reduce the transaction obstacles for communities to be more involved in education.

The Passport project is designed to promote the development of place-based sustainability knowledge through collaboration between three groups: Educators, Student Learners and Local Experts. You ARE in one of these groups OR can facilitate their better coming together!
  • Students will have fun gaining mastery of local knowledge and tracking their achievements in the passport booklet.
  • Local experts (including LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS and elders) will gain audiences for their materials and potential volunteers for their projects, as well as increased public exposure.
  • Educators will have access to free educational materials that are relevant to local issues, and thus more exciting ways to deliver curricula that supports official standards (e.g., Washington's GLEs ).
Why?
- We want our region to be a great place for us and our descendents to live in.
- We hope for the thrill of the unexpected emergence of positive ideas and results that we can’t now imagine.
- We hope for the warmth and safety of increased connection to our communities and the right action that flows from deep knowledge of our local surroundings.
- We want our region to be a great place for us and our descendents to live in.

More:
Sustainable Cascadia believes this system will generate creative social change toward regional resilience through broad community collaboration and improved awareness. Sustainability is conceived broadly to include environment, health and well being, justice and economics. An example curriculum can be found here on page 6

Beyond the online development and distribution of learning materials, student passports will be customizable, with tools such as special maps, embedded art, and other creative elements to make it attractive and useful, with added rewards as mastery levels are achieved. It is being designed to enhance the reputation of the individuals and organizations (especially schools) involved.

Passports can be developed for any age or interest group. Initially, we have a volunteer teacher who will be working with 4th grade students.
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Eat Local Now! A Hands-On Festival

The "Eat Local Now! A Hands-On Festival" event held on Saturday, September 13, 2008, at University Heights Center was a success! We plan to do it again this year and planning is getting under way - contact us.

We enjoyed a local foods dinner outside in the plaza area and the weather was perfect.

For the first time, Eat Local Now! brought a skill-building, knowledge sharing event on the food cycle: from gardening to planting, growing, harvesting, cooking, composting, processing, transportation, and local food economy.

This was be a unique “hands-on festival” with learning opportunities about local food and the local food system. People learned how to weave local foods more into the fabric of their life, whether it was a new concept to them or they had been doing it for years.

Please contact info@balleseattle.org if you have questions or are interested in helping organize, sharing your knowledge, partnering, or volunteering. Eat Local Now! A Hands-On Festival is presented by Sustainable Cascadia, BALLE Seattle, and Rolling Fire pizza.

We will add more information as it becomes available on the Eat Local Now! website at http://www.eatlocalnow.org.



Tatiana Cattand, Staff Volunteer, BALLE Seattle.








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