Jan 31
| February 16, 2009 |
| 8:00 pm | to | 9:15 pm |
WHAT: National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions; Climate Change/Sustainability
WHEN: February 16, 8 p.m.
WHERE: Riley Hall, Room 201 Linfield campus
WHO: Linfield’s Greenfield students are presenting a forum as described below
Panel of local professors, professionals, citizens to cover 5 categories:
1) Energy and Conservation
2) Food and Agriculture
3) Recycling and Waste Management
4) The Politics of Climate Change
5) Alternative Transportation
Q/A period. Linfield students have prepared a set of questions for each panel category and will take questions from the audience.
Small Group Discussions
Large Group Discussion and announcement of local events pertaining to the above subjects.
Public invited. Expected student attendance: 150. A good chance to meet with Linfield students and others in discussion about sustainability in our community and nation.
Jan 28
| February 24, 2009 |
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Yamhill Valley Peacemakers brings Oregons’s Ex-Secretary of State Bill Bradbury to McMinnville on February 24, 2009.
Oregon’s Ex-Secretary of State Bill Bradbury presents
‘Global Warming and its Impact on Oregon’
What: The Power of Community II:
‘Global Warming and Its Impact on Oregon’
Led by: Bill Bradbury
When: Tuesday, February 24
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: McMinnville Cooperative Ministries’
Great Room
544 NE Second Street, McMinnville
Jan 14
| January 17, 2009 |
| 9:30 am | to | 11:00 am |
“Cool Mac educates and inspires our community to collaborate towards a thriving, sustainable future.”
Our next Cool Mac meeting is this Saturday, January 17, at 9:30 at First Baptist Church Fireside Room (education building entrance on Cowls). Please join us as we share the results from the Energy Audit done by the McMinnville Sustainability Committee of which Cool Mac’s Duane Bond played a key role. Several members of Cool Mac were at the McMinnville City Council meeting for the Powerpoint presentation by Lucy Falcy, and we’ll share what we learned.
At our meeting we will also be discussing Cool Mac organization and procedures as well as doing a review of what we’ve accomplished so far. Please join us for coffee or tea and help us discover new ways to get involved in the future of the McMinnville area!
Jan 14
| January 16, 2009 |
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
SLOW FOOD OF YAMHILL COUNTY presents
What: Tableland film and appetizer potluck
When: Friday, January 16, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Board Room, Housing Authority of Yamhill County, 135 NE Dunn Place, McMinnville (off of Hwy 18 by McDonald’s and the Red Lion)
Tableland is an award-winning film that uses mouthwatering imagery to profile the production and benefits of local and seasonal foods. The movie includes enchanting characters, some from the Pacific Northwest, with their “hands in the dirt”; the farmers, chefs and consumers of small-scale, sustainable food.
In addition, there will be an opportunity to learn more about and sign up for the Northwest Earth Institute’s, Menu for the Future discussion groups.
Please bring an appetizer made with local or seasonal ingredients to share along with your favorite beverage and tableware (plate, fork, glass etc.).
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