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Start: Sep 12 2009
End: Sep 13 2009
8:30-4:30
Location:
City Corporation Yard
714 Johnson St.
Sebastopol
What we accept:
- Computer equipment (computers & monitors, laptops, keyboards, printers, mice, hard drives, tape & zip drives etc.)
- Consumer electronics (DVD players, VCRs, gaming devices, stereo components, radios, PDAs, cell phones, cables, etc.)
- Televisions (CRTs/LCDs)
- Office equipment (telephones, fax machines, copiers, etc.)
- Kitchen appliances (blenders, toaster ovens, coffee makers, microwaves, etc.)
- Household appliances (hair dryers, irons, curling irons, vacuum cleaners, etc.)
We will not accept:
- Large appliances (refrigerators, freezers, ovens, stoves, dishwashers, air conditioners, water heaters, etc.)
What happens to the e-waste?
ASL Recycling mechanically dismantles devices into commodity streams (dark & light plastic, ferrous & non-ferrous metals, etc.). To learn more about ASL’s recycling process, please visit www.aslrecycling.com
Questions ASL Recycling 408.468.0230
Start: Sep 13 2009 10:00 am
End: Sep 13 2009 4:00 pm
This outstanding day starts full-on with Brock Dolman at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, an amazing 80-acre nonprofit organizing and education center, organic farm and home to the intentional community, Sowing Circle.
Into its second decade, this organization has consistently addressed environmental, social and economic crises with innovative, practical solutions, style and beauty. Witty and reverent, Brock Dolman, Director of OAEC’s Permaculture, Basins of Relations, and Wildlands Biodiversity Programs, will satiate you with his wealth of knowledge and pepperings of natural history, wildlife biology, native California botany, watershed ecology, habitat restoration and regenerative human settlement design. We’ll meander through gardens containing over 3,000 varieties of heirloom annuals and 1,000 varieties of edible, medicinal and ornamental perennials.
Having become more literate with the landscape, we’ll head to Sunrise Ridge Gardens where Erik Ohlsen will guide us through this 7-acre garden sanctuary. Erik designed it to emphasize diversity with energy efficiency and showcase heirloom fruit, berries, and lavender. Beauty, functionally and good stewardship underlie the carefully arranged swales and channels that minimize erosion and maximize percolation of runoff into the ground. Erik Ohlsen, owner of Permaculture Earth Artisans, is a Permaculture designer, teacher and community organizer.
At the end of the day, you’ll be full up with the delightful possibilities for life in flow with nature.
Location:
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC)
15290 Coleman Valley Road
Occidental, CA
For more information and to register please visit:
http://www.dailyacts.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=132&Itemid=141
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Start: Sep 16 2009 6:00 pm
End: Sep 16 2009 8:00 pm

Location:
Pine Cone Cafe
162 N. Main Street
Sebastopol, CA
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Start: Sep 17 2009 7:00 pm
Learn all about how to save money with energy efficiency and solar and how to fund it through the county's Energy Independence Program.
Speakers include:
Introduction by Michael Kyes who lives in a zero energy home
Paul Rosen on energy audits
Martha Baeli on PG&E energy efficiency programs
Marty Roberts on solar and Solar Sonoma County as resource
John Haig and Liz Yager on Sonoma County Energy Independence Program
Location:
Sebastopol Community Center on Morris Street.
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Start: Sep 19 2009 10:00 am
End: Sep 19 2009 4:00 pm
Water is life and with the state of our water crisis, we are excited to partner with the City of Cotati to save water while creating a diversity of benefits including saving money, educating and empowering citizens and transforming resource-intensive lawns into delectable edible and beautiful landscapes. This hands-on lawn conversion workshop will include water conserving site design, hands-on sheet mulching, earthworks and drip irrigation. We will also tour two water conserving lawn conversions for further inspiration.
Location:
Cotati, CA
For more information and to register please visit:
http://www.dailyacts.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=149&Itemid=141
Start: Sep 19 2009 5:00 pm
Instructors: Brock Dolman and Kendall Dunnigan
Guest Instructors (may include): Benjamin Fahrer, Dougo Gosling, Michelle Vesser, Dave Henson, Adam Wolpert, Kate Lundquist, Carol Nieukirk, Jim Coleman, Chas Moore, Janine Björnson, Tamara Wilder, Matt Every, Erik Ohlsen
Cost: $1500/$1400 if registered two weeks in advance (residential course). Some partial work exchange opportunities are available for this course; see below for more details. For registration information, click here.
Click here to see a video about our Permaculture Design Course at OAEC.
Whether you currently own property or dream of it, this two-week intensive course will immerse you in information, ideas and inspiration for how to design sustainable, regenerative systems in balance with your home ecosystem. You will learn the ethics, principles and practice of “permanent culture,” by exploring topics such as organic gardening, mulching, natural building techniques, forest farming, water retention and regeneration, erosion control, community processes, and much more. Using a combination of lecture, discussion, hands-on activities at OAEC’s 80-acre site, visits to local permaculture examples, and a group design project, you will have the chance to integrate and apply the concepts of permaculture during almost 100 hours of course time. Upon completion of the course, participants receive a Certificate of Permaculture Design.
In 2009, OAEC enters its second decade and fifteenth year as a permaculture school, the most established and longest continually operating school of its kind in California. We celebrate having offered 30 courses to well over 500 students, and consistently hear feedback from graduates that OAEC's design course is a “life-changing” experience.
For a more detailed description of our facilities, including information on what to bring, visit our Participant's Information page.
Work Exchange: A limited number of work exchange positions are available. We award these positions to course registrants based on demonstrated financial need. Participants receive a $250 reduction in course fees in exchange for 20 hours working in our kitchen or doing other course-related support tasks. If you would like to be considered for a work exchange position, check the "Work Exchange" box on your registration form. Include a brief letter describing your situation, along with your $100 course deposit. If you are not chosen for one of the positions and cannot pay the standard course fee, your deposit will be fully refunded.
To learn more about OAEC, Permaculture and their other excellent programs, visit their website!
Start: Sep 19 2009 6:00 pm
End: Sep 19 2009 9:00 pm

Please join The Ceres Project amidst the beautiful gardens of Lynmar Winery to celebrate The Project’s work and provide the support for our continued growth in 2010
Location:
Lynmar Winery
3909 Frei Rd. Sebsastopol
COME & ENJOY...
*Mellow jazz by The Urban Professionals
*Silent & Live Auction
*Tours of Lynmar Winery's food gardens with gardeners Sara McCamant & Michael Pressley
*An inside look at The Ceres Community Project's plans for 2010 and beyond with staff, board, clients, teen and adult volunteers
Food & Wine Pairings featuring:
Lynmar Winery
Iron Horse Vineyards
Skipstone Ranch
Alexander Valley Vineyards
First Light Farm
Gourmet Mushroom
Laguna Farm
Meadow Song Farm
Oliver's Markets
Redwood Hill Farm & Dairy
Whole Foods Sebastopol
Check out the event website here: http://www.ceresproject.org/LynmarEvent.html
TICKETS
Tickets $50 to $100 sliding scale.
*Reserved tables available.
$100 per person for up to six people per table.
To purchase tickets, send a check to
Ceres Project/Lynmar Event
PO Box 1562
Sebastopol CA 95472
To order tickets using a credit card,
email LynmarEvent@ceresproject.org
and send us your phone number,
or call
829-5833 ext.4
and leave a message.
We will call you to get your credit card information.
You will receive a confirmation email when we receive your payment
as well as a reminder email the week before the event.
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