Cool Mac, Slow Food of Yamhill County, and Cozine Community Cycle will be joining Yamhill Valley Peacemakers for their traditional summer get-together.  Please join us Sunday, June 28th, at 5 p.m. at Lafayette Locks Park. The covered area has been reserved, so plan to be there rain or shine! There is a small playground and lots of big trees, so arrive early to go for a stroll, explore the park, and talk with friends. This will be an opportunity to meet new people and brainstorm ideas about how to “inspire the local community to create a sustainable energy future using practical solutions while meeting the needs of current and future generations.” (our mission statement!)

The park is ½ mile east of Lafayette off 99W at the end of Locks Road. Please bring your own table service, cups, and drinking water.  YVP potlucks are traditionally vegetarian. 

See you there!

Come join us this Saturday for discussions about plans for the summer months.  We have lots of ideas, but we’d love to hear yours!

When:  Saturday, March 21, 9:30 a.m.

Where:  First Baptist Church , Bereans Room (2nd floor education building) Please enter Washington Street entrance. Up two flights of stairs (or take the elevator to 2nd floor). Turn right and look for Cool Mac signs. 

See you there!

Nathan Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry at the
California Institute of Technology, will present “Where in the World
Will Our Energy Come From?” Tuesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored through
the Walter P. Dyke Endowment, honoring the Linfield alumnus and faculty
member who was known as a strong teacher, innovative scientist and
researcher, and philanthropist.

Lewis will discuss what it will take for the world to get away from
fossil fuels and switch over to renewable energy, including the
technical, political and economic hurdles that will need to be overcome
before renewable energy technologies will be widely adopted. Converting
to wind, solar thermal, solar electric, biomass, hydroelectric and
geothermal energy will not only take planning but also investment in
research and development, a variable price per unit of energy to get it
produced, and plenty of resources to create the energy sources.

Lewis has been on the faculty at Caltech since 1988. Since 1992, he has
also been the principal investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular
Materials Resource Center. He previously taught at Stanford University.
He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.

Lewis has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Teacher-Scholar and a Presidential Young Investigator. He received the
Fresenius Award, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the Orton Memorial
Lecture, the Princeton Environmental Award, and the Michael Faraday
Medal of the Royal Society of Electrochemistry. He is currently the
editor-in-chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Energy &
Environmental Science. He has published over 300 papers and has
supervised approximately 60 graduate students and postdoctoral
associates. His research interests include artificial photosynthesis and
electronic noses.

“Cool Mac educates and inspires our community to collaborate towards a thriving, sustainable future.”

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!

  

Yamhill Valley Peacemakers Presents

the award-winning documentary film

“The Power of

Community”

How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

FREE – All ages welcome

Saturday, Nov 15th — 1 p.m.

McMinnville Cooperative Ministries

in the Great Room

544 NE Second Street

followed by

A public forum on community solutions to global issues.

Topics will include food, housing, and transportation.

For more information

503-434-4462

Bring green ideas!

Co-Sponsored by

Cool Mac, Slow Food Yamhill County, Cozine Bicycle Club, Greenfield

Come early for conversation over Brown Bag Lunch at noon

Snacks and hot drinks provided

This documentary talks about how local citizens in Cuba joined forces –businessmen, laborers, housewives, etc.–to slow their energy consumption, which resulted in community gardens, new local businesses, etc. , and developed a real sense of “community.” We’re hoping this forum will initiate projects that our local citizens can get involved in and provide an outlet for those who want to create change. We believe that the future is NOW!

More – There will be a panel consisting of Joshua Ferguson, who will talk about water harvesting, Lucy Falcy of Slow Food Yamhill County, Nathaniel Hitchcock of the Cozine Bicycle Club, Barbara Boyer of Yamhill County Soil and Water. Each panel member will have 5 minutes to give an overview of their group/project. There will be 20-30 minutes after that for questions/discussion/action ideas.  Then the panel members will meet at separate tables with interested people to generate support and develop plans to work together on specific projects.

Welcome new Cool Mac’ers, and Hello Again to the rest of you!

On behalf of the Cool Mac Steering Committee, I’d like to take this
opportunity to invite you to a get-acquainted “party” at our next Cool Mac
meeting. If you’d like to get to know a little more about Cool Mac, would
like to meet the committee members, are interested in helping your
community become more sustainable and aren’t sure how, have some resources
that you think would be helpful to us, or just want to join us for some
good Cornerstone coffee on Saturday morning,  please come!   We are
looking for a few more interested parties who are willing to share their
expertise and/or energy as we grow our organization to promote
sustainability in this wonderful city of McMinnville!

Place:
First Baptist Church (Corner of Cowls and 2nd Street)
Fellowship Hall (long modern building)
Cowls Street entrance
Fireside Room (1st room on the left through double doors)

When:
Saturday, September 20
9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Hope to see both some new and some familiar faces on Saturday!

Linda Grove

Phone 503-472-9213
Cool Mac Steering Committee

The following is information on an upcoming class offered by Slow Food Yamhill County and the OSU Extension Service. Please join us if you are interested and/or share this info with others who may want to attend.

*Canning Class* – Canning Fruits and Tomatoes: Basic boiling water canning
processing method, review equipment, ingredients, current instructions,
step-by-step.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
OSU Yamhill County Extension Office, 2050 NE Lafayette Avenue.
Co-Sponsored by OSU Extension and Slow Food Yamhill County.

$10.00 per person. Questions to Judi at 971.237.3953