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NorCal Bulletin 2010-02-13

 

Northern California ADPSR Newsletter
13 February 2010
ADPSR NEWS

TOWARD A JUST METROPOLIS:

From Crises to Possibilities
June 16-20, 2010 Conference San Francisco Bay Area
Call for Proposals - Deadline March 1, 2010
Presentations, Posters and Workshops
Classroom-based sessions, which will occur on Friday, June 18th and Saturday, June 19th, are the primary way for organizations and individuals to showcase their work, workshop new ideas, and network with others invested in similar areas of work. The call below is designed to stimulate and help you format your proposal, but the most important thing is to send us your ideas! Don't hesitate to email workshops@justmetropolis.org with questions.
Visit www.justmetropolis.org for more information
In this issue:
ADPSR NEWS
Just Metropolis Conference Now Accepting Papers

ADPSR NORCAL EVENT
Green Stimulus/ Green Jobs: 
Ramping Up Community Wide - Energy/ Water Retrofits
February 16, 2010, San Francisco
EVENTS
Reduce Your Footprint in 2010: A Free Community Workshop
Permaculture and Earth Cafe Courses
SPECIAL REQUEST
CCAC Students seek your building supplies
ADPSR NORCAL EVENT
ADPSR Monthly Presentation
Green Stimulus/ Green Jobs: 
Ramping Up Community Wide -
Energy/ Water Retrofits
February 16, 2010    7:00 PM
AIA San Francisco 130 Sutter Street, 6th Floor
$10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Co-Sponsored by Bay Localize
As a follow up to ADPSR's green jobs/ home energy retrofit symposium in 2009, we are looking at California's massive industry roll out, one year later. With federal stimulus money providing early phase incentives, and the California's Public Utilities Commission gearing up to meet AB32 emission targets - 13 million existing homes are slated to be retrofitted by 2020. The goal is to reduce energy by 30% to 70% in single and multi-family homes. Bruce Mast and Peter Crabtree will talk about efforts to build capacity in the business and academic communities. Andy Mannle has a broad overview of the entire state effort from AB32 assessment districts to new marketing and lead generation programs. Richard Harris will be speaking to the energy water nexus that makes water retrofits an essential part of this comprehensive statewide effort.
Panelists:
Bruce Mast, Program Director, Build It Green
Peter Crabtree, Dean of Vocational Programs, Peralta College
Andy Mannle, Community Outreach Manager for New Leaf America
Richard W. Harris, Water Conservation Manager, East Bay Municipal Utility District
$10.00, No one turned away for lack of funds
SPECIAL REQUEST
Students from the Architecture and Industrial Design Programs at CCA (California College of Art) are paired with teens at Mission High School, San Francisco
to develop a school garden at MHS this semester.
We are urgently seeking donations of building materials and tools for the project.
Here's the current wish list:
Scrap lumber (redwood, pine, fir: not PT, lengths over 3ft.) 2x4, 2x6, 2x12 also 1x6, 4x4 posts
Scrap sectional steel (1/2 - 1"; lengths over 3 ft.)
Scrap plywood 5/8" and 3/4". For exterior use,
Bamboo (over 3')
1"x1" stakes
tree stakes
1/2" rebar (lengths over 3')
concrete wire mesh
Garden tools (shovels, rakes, trowels, wheelbarrows)
Screw guns (3 -6)
Please reply to
APDSR Member
Course Instructor
CCA Center for Art & Public Life
EVENTS
Reduce Your Footprint in 2010: A Free Community Workshop
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Are you part of a congregation, neighborhood association, workplace, PTA or other community group? Are you a concerned citizen? Come discover resources right here in Berkeley to help you reduce your personal and collective carbon footprint.
The City of Berkeley, the Berkeley Energy Commission, the Ecology Center, and the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists invite you to a fun and informative workshop to help you and your community group reduce global warming emissions. At this workshop you will: Find out how your lifestyle practices and the choices you make as community groups impact greenhouse gas emissions; Discover how you can significantly reduce your personal and community emissions though an exciting and no-cost 4-session program; Be given the opportunity to participate in, form, or have the Ecology Center facilitate a free Climate Change Action workshop series in your community; Receive information for implementing energy efficient and renewable energy options in your home, workplace, congregation, school, and other shared spaces.
Come join us! RSVP requested but not required. Free attended bike parking.
Free childcare. RSVP by 2/22 if you are interested in childcare.
Time - 7pm.
Location - Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar St., @ Bonita, Berkeley.
Cost - Free.
Info - 510-548-2220 ext. 240, debra@ecologycenter.org,
 
Permaculture and Earth Cafe Courses
The Regenerative Design Institute is gearing up for the spring, and we've got some amazing courses coming up! Our year-long permaculture design course starts in March, we have a new PDC in Santa Cruz as part of a series with Jon Young, and our popular Earth Cafe course series is coming back starting in April. Early bird deadlines for these three courses are coming up. 
Four Seasons Permaculture Design Certification 
Offered:  March 2010 - February 2011 (Early bird deadline this Friday, Feb 12!)
Location: Commonweal Garden, Bolinas
This course is a great opportunity to take a permaculture design certification course over a full year of nature's rhythms. You will learn how to observe and use the same principles that make ecological systems self-sustaining, and apply them to integrated homes and gardens. In addition, you will learn how to apply these principles to energy systems and water supplies, healthy communities, meaningful and fulfilling work, ecological economies and global political movements for change.
Four Seasons Santa Cruz Permaculture Design Certification 
Offered:  March 2010 - February 2011 (Early bird deadline March 5)
Location: Santa Cruz Waldorf School (New location!)
This is a new course offering: the same permaculture training with the instructors you know and love, AND offered as part of an exciting new workshop series in collaboration with Jon Young: Weaving the Village through Nature Connection and Permaculture Design. You can sign up for just the permaculture certification course, or join us for the whole series. In addition to the full curriculum presented in all of RDI's permaculture design certification courses, the PDC offered at the Santa Cruz Waldorf School will be uniquely integrated with the Waldorf School Community as well as being connected with the UCSC agro-ecology community, Transition Santa Cruz, and the Live Oak Grange.
Earth Cafe 
Offered: April 3, May 1 & June 5 (Early bird deadline Feb 26)
Location: Commonweal Garden, Bolinas
This popular series is back! Join Carin McKay at the Commonweal farm to explore our relationship with food and the earth.
Eating may be the most intimate relationship we have with the natural world.  When we make conscious and well-informed choices about the food we eat, we can create health and well-being for ourselves and for the planet. How do we create eating habits that give nourishment back to the earth, as well? The Earth Cafe is a practical, interactive, personalized program that will empower you to build a healthier lifestyle, for yourself and for the planet, through the exploration of food.  The program weaves together hands on gardening, culinary and food-crafting skills, nutritional education, as well as nature based personal wellness practice.
Regenerative Design Institute 
P.O. Box 923 | Bolinas, California, 94924
415-868 9681