Events

Come join us at our next Transition Sebastopol Movie Night at the French Garden Restaurant with Special Guest!

Screening: A Crude Awakening- the Oil Crash

OilCrash tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled... read more.

Watch the movie trailer here.

Join In! Try it out!

On Thursday May 14, 2009, tens of thousands of residents from all corners of the Bay Area will put their car keys
aside, grab their helmets, and hop on their bicycles and ride to work. How about Sebastopol?!

Check out the Sebastopol "Energizer Stations" map here (pdf).

Visit the Bike to Work web site here.

When is Bike to Work Day?
What Happens on Bike to Work Day?
Why Bike to Work?
How many people in the Bay Area commute to work by bike everyday?
Do I need to register for Bike to Work Day?

Please note: The event time has been moved forward to 6pm to allow attendees to leave and attend the Sebastopol Town Hall on Water Conservation at 7pm. Read details of the Town Hall event here.

We're on the precipice of global disasters of our own making that could forever undermine our ability to survive and thrive on this planet. But we're also on the threshold of awesome and entirely unexpected possibilities that could unleash our largely hidden potential.
 
For this to happen, we will need to talk plainly with each other about the seemingly bewildering situation we face, and quickly make some very clear decisions together.

Join Transition Sebastopol and Special Guests Michael Brownlee (Transition Boulder County) & David Johnson (Transition Portland) for this powerful introduction to the inspiring Transition movement, and learn how you can become involved in helping our community to carve out a pathway to freedom from fossil fuel dependence and to develop local resilience and self-reliance in the face of global crises.

Water is a precious and limited resource. Conserving water helps to maintain this resource, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change.

The City of Sebastopol will present a Town Hall to discuss the conservation of water, both inside and outside your home. We will also present home products designed to conserve water. The meeting will focus on ways in which City residents and businesses can help meet our 2009 Voluntary Water Conservation Goal: to reduce water usage by 15% from the past 10-years’ average.

The forum will feature 3 speakers who will discuss techniques to help you improve water usage. Dave Leff will discuss the interior, Rick Taylor will cover the yard and exterior areas, and Mike Bishop will demonstrate products from Sebastopol Hardware.

After the presentations, we will have an open forum.

The Town Hall is FREE and refreshments will be served.

Leading the meeting will be Mayor Sarah Glade Gurney and Council Member Kathleen Shaffer.

Location:
Park Side School
in the Multi Purpose Room which faces Washington Avenue.
7450 Bodega Ave
Sebastopol (see map below)

Hope to see you there,

Kathleen Shaffer

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This is the kick-off event for the Sonoma County Health Initiative Program that encourages walking as a regular part of a healthful, carbon-lite lifestyle.  iWALK is the first of several Health Action initiatives featuring physical activities, healthy eating, and preventive medical care.

Sebastopol's iWALK features a circular walking tour of Sebastopol, with 5 scheduled starting points along a 6.3 mile loop.  Walkers are encouraged to walk to a neighborhood starting point, where a Community Leader will guide them along the route, picking up new walkers and leaders along the way. 

Start your walk as early as 9 AM for the morning circuit or as late as 12:25 PM from Ives Park for the afternoon circuit. Choose to walk the entire loop and end at your starting point or choose to walk just one segment. Pack a lunch or snack, water, sunscreen, and hat. Restrooms are available along the route.  Walkers are welcome to leave the walk at any time for a shorter journey.

Walking celebrities, Richard and Brenda Nichols, will escort the group the whole way, all day. 

Here is the route [also detailed on the attached flyer and map]:

1.  Sebastopol Downtown Plaza at 9 AM, departs 9:15 AM
Greeting by Mayor Sarah Gurney, with co-leader City ManagerJack Griffin

2.  Analy High School 10:15 AM [2 miles] at the crosswalk to the West County Trail on High School Road
Susan Olson, Director of the Sebastopol Independent Charter School

3.  O'Reilly & Associates 10:45 AM [1.1 miles (3.1)] at the plaza between the buildings
Jim Corbett, aka Mr. Music and 2009 Citizen of the Year

4.  Libby Park 11:45AM [1.5 miles (4.6)] at the Gazebo
Lix Schott, Principal of Pinecrest Elementary School

5.  Ives Park 12:25 PM [1.4 miles (6.0)] on the steps on Willow Avenue
Carla Swartz, Board Member of Sebastopol Chamber of Commerce

The walk continues to the Plaza [.3 miles (6.3)] and around to the all starting points listed above.  We'll have a short lunch break before continuing, with the final drop-off at Ives Park around 3:30 PM.

If you have any questions, contact Richard Nichols at 823-4071.

Saturday, May 16, Salmon Creek School, 1935 Bohemian Hwy in Freestone

Join Transition Sebastopol for A Celebration of All Things Fermented
A Catalytic Community Celebration Joining Culture with Agriculture

Featuring crafters of the fermented arts, farmers, neighborhood health care & volunteer organizations (such as Transition Sebastopol!!)

Come join us at our next Transition Sebastopol Movie Night at the French Garden Restaurant!

We are inviting members of the local CSA & farming community to join us in our post movie lively discussion!

Guests include: Paul Kaiser from Singing Frog Farm, Dan Smith of the French Garden Restaurant & Farm, Nathan Boone from First Light Farm, Laurel Anderson, farm manager at Salmon Creek Middle School.

Screening: The Real Dirt on Farmer John

Follows Farmer John’s astonishing journey from farm boy to counter-culture rebel to the son who almost lost the family farm to a beacon of today’s booming organic farming movement and founder of one of the nation’s largest Community Supported Agriculture farms. The result is a tale that ebbs and flows with the fortunes of the soil and revealingly mirrors the changing American times. At once funny and stirring, what drives the film’s powerful appeal is the way in which it digs up “real dirt” not only about the tragedy of losing our traditional American family farms but about what really makes for an original American life - one lived, on a man’s own terms, in balance with the land, through hardships and unexpected triumphs, with creativity and verve.

Watch the trailer here.

FREE EVENT
~donations appreciated as a screening
fee applies to the showing of this film~

Location:
The French Garden Restaurant
8050 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol (map)