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Sierra Club: Outdoors Youth Ambassador Intern
Submitted by Donna Hoffman on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 10:27
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Plutopia 2010: The Science of Music
Submitted by jonl on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 17:32
Plutopia 2010 is an evening event during SXSW Interactive, Monday night, March 15, starting at 7pm. SXSW badgeholders get in free, others pay $15 admission.
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Sustainable Filmmaking Panel Discussion
Submitted by Marjorie Eber on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 17:00
Austin Film Meet & the Blue Theatre Present
Sustainable Filmmaking Panel Discussion
A FREE Unofficial SXSW panel
Please Join the Young People of Casa Verde Builders in Celebrating Completion of their Latest Home
Submitted by Dick Pierce on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 15:50
Please Join the Young People of AYW's Casa Verde Builders at their Open-House Celebration:
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SFC: Happy Kitchen Program Coordinator
Submitted by jessguff on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 14:58
Sustainable Food Center
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
2nd Annual Women's Clothing Swap- SUCCESS!
Submitted by brandi_clark on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 14:27
I just love win-win-win-win-win-win kinds of events, and the 2nd Annual Austin Women's Clothing Swap was just that! With this one event:
- Over 500 Austin women got to update their wardrobes for free - super valuable in a tough economy
- Onsite seamstresses adjusted swap finds so ladies could go home with personalized fits
- We got to shake our booties and enjoy the melodies of numerous musical and drumming performers throughout the day
- Dozens of ladies got free hair trims from Supercuts
- Approximately 1 ton of clothing for Safeplace
- Fun raffle drawings highlighted generous local businesses
- Raised over $4,000 for Women for Women International and the Feminist Action Project
- Lots of bedding was collected for the animals at Emancipet.
You can stay in the loop about the latest happening's with the Austin Women's Swap by joining the Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=242667362168&ref=ts
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Field Notes: Mayor's Climate Charrette (part 2)
Submitted by chris_searles on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:42
After Mayor Leffingwell's introduction, including the statement, "All of us on Council believe that global climate change is the issue of our time," Dr.
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Winter Series Talks - Ramping up as they are Winding down - Don't miss your chance to attend/learn/share
Submitted by Dick Pierce on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 15:18
We've had some great talks - Local Food-Farmer/Rancher/Gardener, Local Food-Distribution/Marketing, and Re-Localization or Alternate Finance/Banking/Commerce - lately at the Thursday night Winter S
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Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin preview
Submitted by scott swearingen on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 14:48
My new book, Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin, will be available soon! The book is a history of the environmental movement in austin, what it has acheived, and how that movement still shaped the politics and urban design of Austin today.
This blog will include sections of the book, as well as history I could not include in the book.
Take a peek at the very first "teaser" from the book.........
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Field Notes: Mayor's Climate Charrette (part 1)
Submitted by chris_searles on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 09:16
"Charrette" refers to any collaborative session in which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem. While the structure of a charrette varies, charrettes often take place in multiple sessions in which the group divides into sub-groups. Each sub-group then presents its work to the full group as material for future dialogue. Such charrettes serve as a way of quickly generating a design solution while integrating the aptitudes and interests of a diverse group of people. -- Wikipedia, 3/8/10
And so it was. Mayor Leffingwell revived the "Community Plan" portion of Austin's 2007 Climate Protection Plan by sponsoring a day and half charrette at City Hall, March 4 & 5. The meetings, which were led by partnership between the Mayor's and Climate Protection staffs, involved more than 60 local community leaders gathered at City Hall. Professionals, city employees and grassrootsers (like me) from diverse backgrounds (transit, water, real estate, big biz, commerce, low income, UT, etc) got together to first define a common goal, then branch off to lay out objectives and metrics for guiding and measuring future progress.
