Events

To learn more about OAEC, Permaculture and their other excellent programs, visit their website!

GLOBAL VISION MEETS THE LOCAL FLAVOR OF OVER 50 BUSINESSES

• Live Entertainment
• Door & Raffle Prizes
• Interactive Projects for Kids
• Food and Drink

Location:
Sebastopol Downtown Plaza

Sebastopol Area Chamber of Commerce
City of Sebastopol

Want to reserve a booth?
Early Bird Discount available until August 15, 2009
Space is limited, Call now to guarantee yours
Contact: Karla 823-3032
events@sebastopol.org
Or download a registration form at:  www.sebastopol.org/livebooth.html
Print and mail to:
Sebastopol Area Chamber of Commerce
P. O. Box 178, Sebastopol, CA. 95473

Click here for the Live on the Plaza flyer

Local ecotherapists Shepherd Bliss, Larry Robinson, and Sara Harris will read from their chapters in new Sierra Club Book “Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind” on Oct. 8, Thursday, from 6:30 to 8:30 at Copperfield’s in Sebastopol, 138 N. Main Street.

The book is a sequel to the ground-breaking “Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind.” Farmer and SSU teacher Shepherd Bliss will read about agrotherapy from his chapter “In Praise of Sweet Darkness.” Retired psychotherapist and Sebastopol City Council member Larry Robinson’s chapter is entitled “Psychotherapy as if the World Mattered,” which Utne Reader re-printed. Psychotherapist and wilderness guide Sara Harris’ chapter is “Beyond the “Big Lie’: How One Therapist Began to Wake Up.” The book has received positive reviews in Time magazine, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. The reading is free.

Location:
Copperfield’s
138 N. Main Street
Sebastopol

To learn more about OAEC, Permaculture and their other excellent programs, visit their website!

To learn more about OAEC, Permaculture and their other excellent programs, visit their website!

To learn more about OAEC, Permaculture and their other excellent programs, visit their website!

To learn more about OAEC, Permaculture and their other excellent programs, visit their website!

Join us for the Third State of the Laguna Conference and Science Symposium October 14-16, 2009 at Sonoma Mountain Village, Rohnert Park, with the theme: Meeting the Challenge - Strategies for adapting watershed ecosystems to climate change.

Help us to generate science-based climate change adaptation strategies for Laguna de Santa Rosa ecosystem conservation, restoration, and management in this interactive forum!

Using the Laguna as a case study, we hope to inspire and empower our region's resource managers, environmental scientists, policy-makers, agricultural practitioners, stakeholders and funding organizations to move forward together with new resolve.

Location:

Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center
1100 Valley House Drive
Rohnert Park, CA

For more information and to register please vistit:
http://lagunafoundation.org/news_state.shtml

Location:
BBQ Smoke House
6811 Laguna Park Way
Sebastopol, CA

Join us for the Third State of the Laguna Conference and Science Symposium October 14-16, 2009 at Sonoma Mountain Village, Rohnert Park, with the theme: Meeting the Challenge - Strategies for adapting watershed ecosystems to climate change.

Help us to generate science-based climate change adaptation strategies for Laguna de Santa Rosa ecosystem conservation, restoration, and management in this interactive forum!

Using the Laguna as a case study, we hope to inspire and empower our region's resource managers, environmental scientists, policy-makers, agricultural practitioners, stakeholders and funding organizations to move forward together with new resolve.

Location:

Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center
1100 Valley House Drive
Rohnert Park, CA

For more information and to register please vistit:
http://lagunafoundation.org/news_state.shtml

Go Local is fortunate to receive Judy Wicks as a featured guest speaker at this reception.  Judy is founder of Philadelphia’s landmark White Dog Cafe, and an international leader in the local living economies movement.  She is co-founder and board chair of the nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and founder  of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and Fair Food – both originally incubated at White Dog Community Enterprises, a non-profit created to direct business profits toward building a local living economy in the Philadelphia region.

In the retail industry, Judy was founder/owner of Black Cat, a retail store that featured locally made and fair trade gifts for 20 years, 1989 – 2009. In 1970, Judy co-founded the Free People's Store, now well-known as Urban Outfitters. Just after the 26th anniversary, Judy sold the White Dog Cafe in January, 2009, through a unique exit strategy that preserves the values of the business and assures local, independent ownership.  She is currently working on a book to be published in 2010 by Chelsea Green.

This reception is free to locally-owned businesses within Sonoma County.  It's open to the general public to attend.  Admission price is $5 for GoLocal individual members and $10 for non-members.

Wine, beverages and hors d'oeuvres will be served as attendees mix and mingle.  If you're a business owner and would like to participate in Give Local this season go here for more information about how you can join the effort.

Location:

Glaser Center
547 Mendocino Ave
Santa Rosa, CA

We need to be as ready as we can to take care of ourselves and our neighbors in the event of a disaster. 

Come to our Town Hall meeting on Thursday, October 15, and learn how we can prepare to get through a disaster together.  You'll hear from our Fire Chief, Police Chief, City Manager, CERT Board Member, and the County's Department of Public Health.

6:30 to 8:30 PM in the Multi-Purpose Room at Parkside School, 7540 Bodega Avenue.  Please invite friends and bring folks with you.

Join us for the Third State of the Laguna Conference and Science Symposium October 14-16, 2009 at Sonoma Mountain Village, Rohnert Park, with the theme: Meeting the Challenge - Strategies for adapting watershed ecosystems to climate change.

Help us to generate science-based climate change adaptation strategies for Laguna de Santa Rosa ecosystem conservation, restoration, and management in this interactive forum!

Using the Laguna as a case study, we hope to inspire and empower our region's resource managers, environmental scientists, policy-makers, agricultural practitioners, stakeholders and funding organizations to move forward together with new resolve.

Location:

Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center
1100 Valley House Drive
Rohnert Park, CA

For more information and to register please vistit:
http://lagunafoundation.org/news_state.shtml

 
The coming Wellness Fair on Sat Oct 17th, in Sebastopol is shaping up
to be an amazing, dazzling, healing event you don't want to miss!
Sample the wealth of alternative modalities, practitioners, wellness
products Sonoma County has to offer, we are blessed!

90 plus alternative practitioners and wellness vendors, wholesome
veggie food, magic Native American flute and vocal/acoustic guitar,
belly dancing, free or greatly reduced hands on sessions, samples,
gift certificates for wellness services/products, info, healing,
support, progressive community and so much fun! bring your friends
and family!

Here are some more of the attractions awaiting you:

* Rich Shames, M.D. and Georjana Shames, L.ac are a father and
daughter team bringing you their combined East West experience with
thyroid, adrenal and reproductive hormone balance * Elton M. Haas,
M.D., physician, author, medical director of the Preventive Medical
Center of Marin, the only integrative healthcare facility in the Bay
Area working w/insurance integrating mainstream medicine and
alternative care.

* Kyle Yoder, DC specializing in car accidents/whiplashe s and lower
back injuries/problems, newly arrived here, complimentary spinal
evaluations and mini hands on sessions, offering services by
donations, come say hello to him and welcome him here!

* Michael Brickey with feldenkrais, a system of somatic re-education
for improved movement and well being * Marcia Mengelberg with Aura
Soma therapy, Miessence organic skincare products, massage gift
certificates * hot stone massage with Elise Lorraine, CMT, NCBTMB

* Diana Concoff Morgan, M.A. holistic health educator, minister,
relationship communication expert - personal, professional and
romantic, for over 20 years has performed marriages and other
personalized spiritual ceremonies and rituals, come get info on
future classes and services and whole heart relations tips!

*Dinndayal Morgan, founder and director of Pathfinder institute,
School of Yoga Heart Meditative Movement, a certified Kriya yoga
teacher and Minister, Professor of martial Sciences, 7th degree black
belt in Chinese Kempo, Jujitsu and Eagle Claw Kung Fu, Five Rings
Movement Psychology. He teaches Yoga at Tone in Santa Rosa, visit his
booth for info about moving thru life transitions, classes and
workshops.

*Michaela McGivern blends energy medicine with other modalities for
compassionate mind-body healing: Quantum Energetics, Theta Medical
Healing, Incan Shamic work, Nutri-Energetics, Applied Kinesiology,
muscle testing, intuitive readings.

* Jeri Nager with her delightful, beautiful gourd art creations,
class info! * Scott with his locally crafted delicious organic freeze-
dried wheatgrass powder *Zrii nutritional health drink combining
Ayruvedic medicine, modern phytonutrient technology and
pharmacological grade formulations and so much more!!!

For booth info please email vardarose@att. net or call 829 9794, few
booths still available!

 
Free Admission!!!
 
Location:
Masonic Lodge, 373 N. Main St. (across from Safeway)

Sebastopol

Catalyzing Community is honored to conclude their "How We Did It" series with our local friends at Two Acre Wood Cohousing here in Sebastopol.  Please join them and hear the story of how this group of people came together, manifested their dream of community, and how they have evolved over the last 10 years.  Please note that this event will be held on a MONDAY, and will be on location at the Two Acre Wood common house.

Monday, October 19th from 7-9 pm
Two Acre Wood in Sebastopol (directions)

After years of searching and developing, Two Acre Wood began its journey as a living community in 1999.  One of Sebastopol's first true cohousing communities, Two Ace Wood consists of 14 households with 22 adults and 17 kids ages 1 to 17. Grandchildren visit often. The common house has a multi-purpose room, kitchen, lounge, kids room, laundry room, bathroom.

The Two Acre Wood community has a fully stocked and functioning common house to extend their personal living space and interact with the community.  There is also gorgeous landscaping, vegetable gardens, and more. The top of the property is a preserved oak woodland that has lovely meditative sitting spots, a dog run and just nice open space for the squirrels and birds!  To see pictures, visit this page.

Come hear the details first hand, and please RSVP.

Location:
East West Cafe
128 N. Main Street
Sebastopol, CA

Please note that this training will run on Friday, October 23rd and Sunday, October 25th with a special free, open-to-the-public Energy Descent Planning Session Oct. 23rd, 6 to 9pm.

Saturday, the 24th will NOT be a training day as there are climate action activities underway (see below).

Building Resilient Communities for a Post-Carbon World

The Transition movement is a set of inspiring ideas for creating an attractive and enticing vision of how our communities could be. The converging crises of climate change and oil depletion and economic instability cannot be solved separately, and they cannot be solved with technological miracles, but only by lessening our dependence on fossil fuels. This doesn’t mean a bleaker future. The heart of transition is the belief that if we engage with enough imagination and ingenuity to unlock the collective genius of our communities, we can choose a future that is more satisfying, just and sustainable than what we have now.
 
Participants in the training will:

• explore the opportunities for personal and social transformation presented by the challenges of peak oil, climate change and economic instability
• learn the key concepts of the Transition model, including how to set up and foster successful Transition groups., Permaculture principles and community visioning
• understand how to raise awareness of the need for transition through public talks and events
• form contacts with other change leaders in your local area
• establish a plan of action for yourself and your community

Co-sponsors of this training

• Pilgrims Way Book Store, www.pilgrimsway.com, participants receive 20% off coupon
• Citizens for a Sustainable Monterey County, www.sustainablemontereycounty.org
• Tomorrow Matters, www.deborahlindsay.com , Sundays 4 -5pm, KRXA 540 AM

 
Climate Action
Join forces with folks around the globe to raise awareness through creative action by promoting the number 350. www.350.org  Some of us will optionally join in participating in a 350 Climate Action Event in Big Sur, Pacific Grove and other locations. You are encouraged to create your own action too!

Download the event flyer here.

Trainers:

Kat Steele
Scott McKeown
To register contact Deborah Lindsay, decal@deborahlindsay.com

Registration fee is $135 before October 1st • $155 after October 1st.

Please note that this training will run on Friday, October 23rd and Sunday, October 25th with a special free, open-to-the-public Energy Descent Planning Session Oct. 23rd, 6 to 9pm.

Saturday, the 24th will NOT be a training day as there are climate action activities underway (see below).

Building Resilient Communities for a Post-Carbon World

The Transition movement is a set of inspiring ideas for creating an attractive and enticing vision of how our communities could be. The converging crises of climate change and oil depletion and economic instability cannot be solved separately, and they cannot be solved with technological miracles, but only by lessening our dependence on fossil fuels. This doesn’t mean a bleaker future. The heart of transition is the belief that if we engage with enough imagination and ingenuity to unlock the collective genius of our communities, we can choose a future that is more satisfying, just and sustainable than what we have now.
 
Participants in the training will:

• explore the opportunities for personal and social transformation presented by the challenges of peak oil, climate change and economic instability
• learn the key concepts of the Transition model, including how to set up and foster successful Transition groups., Permaculture principles and community visioning
• understand how to raise awareness of the need for transition through public talks and events
• form contacts with other change leaders in your local area
• establish a plan of action for yourself and your community

Co-sponsors of this training

• Pilgrims Way Book Store, www.pilgrimsway.com, participants receive 20% off coupon
• Citizens for a Sustainable Monterey County, www.sustainablemontereycounty.org
• Tomorrow Matters, www.deborahlindsay.com , Sundays 4 -5pm, KRXA 540 AM

 
Climate Action
Join forces with folks around the globe to raise awareness through creative action by promoting the number 350. www.350.org  Some of us will optionally join in participating in a 350 Climate Action Event in Big Sur, Pacific Grove and other locations. You are encouraged to create your own action too!

Download the event flyer here.

Trainers:

Kat Steele
Scott McKeown
To register contact Deborah Lindsay, decal@deborahlindsay.com

Registration fee is $135 before October 1st • $155 after October 1st.

As many of you know, there is a relatively new movement to make the entire world aware of the number 350.  350 parts per million is what many scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments are now saying is the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere.

Please note that this training will run on Friday, October 23rd and Sunday, October 25th with a special free, open-to-the-public Energy Descent Planning Session Oct. 23rd, 6 to 9pm.

Saturday, the 24th will NOT be a training day as there are climate action activities underway (see below).

Building Resilient Communities for a Post-Carbon World

The Transition movement is a set of inspiring ideas for creating an attractive and enticing vision of how our communities could be. The converging crises of climate change and oil depletion and economic instability cannot be solved separately, and they cannot be solved with technological miracles, but only by lessening our dependence on fossil fuels. This doesn’t mean a bleaker future. The heart of transition is the belief that if we engage with enough imagination and ingenuity to unlock the collective genius of our communities, we can choose a future that is more satisfying, just and sustainable than what we have now.
 
Participants in the training will:

• explore the opportunities for personal and social transformation presented by the challenges of peak oil, climate change and economic instability
• learn the key concepts of the Transition model, including how to set up and foster successful Transition groups., Permaculture principles and community visioning
• understand how to raise awareness of the need for transition through public talks and events
• form contacts with other change leaders in your local area
• establish a plan of action for yourself and your community

Co-sponsors of this training

• Pilgrims Way Book Store, www.pilgrimsway.com, participants receive 20% off coupon
• Citizens for a Sustainable Monterey County, www.sustainablemontereycounty.org
• Tomorrow Matters, www.deborahlindsay.com , Sundays 4 -5pm, KRXA 540 AM

 
Climate Action
Join forces with folks around the globe to raise awareness through creative action by promoting the number 350. www.350.org  Some of us will optionally join in participating in a 350 Climate Action Event in Big Sur, Pacific Grove and other locations. You are encouraged to create your own action too!

Download the event flyer here.

Trainers:

Kat Steele
Scott McKeown
To register contact Deborah Lindsay, decal@deborahlindsay.com

Registration fee is $135 before October 1st • $155 after October 1st.

Location:
Himalayan Tandoori
969 Gravenstein Ave
Sebastopol, CA

This screening was scheduled for September 30th, but due to a scheduling conflict, we need to postpone this month's movie night to October! Sorry for any inconvenience and we hope to see you at our September 24th event with Vicki Robin!

Come join us at our next Transition Sebastopol Movie Night or the debut of the documentary film about the Transition movement at the French Garden Restaurant!

About the Movie:
In the film you will see the stories of communities creating their own currencies, setting up their own pubs, planting trees, growing food. You’ll see local authorities getting behind their local Transition initiatives, and get a sense of the scale of this emerging movement. It is a story of hope, and it is a call to action.

The film is the work of director Emma Goude, with production by Smith and Watson, and with input from Transition communities around the world.

Watch the trailer here.

FREE EVENT
donations appreciated

And please support our event hosts by bringing your appetite and ordering some of their wonderful restaurant or bar menu.

2-3 miles
Walk from the Plaza through Sebastopol’s Spooky neighborhoods,
including a stop at the Sebastopol Senior Center for hot cider and Halloween treats on the way back to the Plaza. All ages welcome!

Leader: Kathleen Shaffer, member,
Sebastopol City Council.

Download the full 2009 Sebastopol Walks schedule here.

Like to excercise & create community at the same time? The Sebastopol Walks series is a great way of doing both!

You can also visit the iWALK site which lists other scheduled Sonoma County walks and allows you to add to the calendar, too.

Inviting all interested gardeners to join in cultivating a grassroots community seed bank that supports Sonoma County gardeners with free, locally grown, open pollinated, pesticide and GMO-free seed.

Seed and Plant exchange all morning with local food potluck at 12:00 pm.
Class on Garlic from 10:30 - 11:30 am.

We will be having a garlic exchange- please bring any varieties of garlic you would like to share.

West County Community Seed Bank meets monthly on the last Saturday of the month to share seeds, plants, resources and local gardening and food information.
All are welcome, including children.

For more information contact Sara at 829-5234 or saramc@emeraldearth.org

What you could bring:
… Plants or seeds to share
… Coin envelopes
… Books or resources for sharing with others
… Local food potluck item!

Location:
Salmon Creek School Garden
1935 Bohemian HWY
Occidental

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West County Community Seed Bank

Vision:
To create a grassroots community seed bank that supports Sonoma County gardeners with locally grown, open pollinated, pesticide and GMO free seeds. Anyone can become a member of the West County Seed Library, we ask for a donation of $5.00-$20.00 and a commitment to grow out and donate back seed following the library's protocol for growing clean seeds.  No on is turned away for lack of funds.   The West County Seed Library will be housed at the Salmon Creek School Garden and will be open to the public monthly for classes, resource sharing and a seed and plant exchange. The West County Seed Library will have resources available to members on growing and processing seeds.
 
Why save seed and why a local seed bank?
Our rapidly changing world gives us all the more reason to strengthen our local resources and our ability to be self-sufficient.  Local seed saving allows us to cultivate plants that do well in our region, with each generation adapting more to the local environment.   It also lets us preserve heirloom seeds that are being lost as the seed industry is being concentrated into fewer and fewer large corporations.  Seed banks are a great investment; with some plants one seed can return up to 40.000.  The abundance seed savers experience should be shared with the community and helps to model a different economic system.    We hope to cultivate a network of seed savers in the region to support each other and the seed library, which will be a resource for the expanding community of gardeners and help strengthen our local food system.

For more information contact Sara McCamant 829-5234 or saramc@emeraldearth.org

The quarterlly neighborhood meeting will be Thursday, November 5.  The location will be City Hall.  Kathleen Shaffer will greet you at the back, east side door, and the time will be 6:00 - 7:30pm. 
 
This meeting serves as a discussion of both problems or issues you may have in your neighborhoods, and to talk about general interest items and news.
 
There will also be a representative from the Sebastopol Police Services to discuss Neighborhood Watch, and we will hear about the Neighborhood CERTification program which is our disaster preparedness group.