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• 11:30 a.m. Get Growing - Ideas and Strategies for New Gardeners with Ron Berezan,
• 12:30 p.m. Starting Seeds with Bruce Bashforth
• 1:30 p.m. Growing the Top ten Herbs with Gwen Simpson
• 2:30 p.m. Urban Gardening Panel with:
  • Dustin Bajer, Guerrilla Gardening;
  • Sonja, Spin Farming;
  • Kim Sanderson, Involving Children

There will be a seed swap, seed vendors, displays, a kid`s table,a gardening book and magazine exchange and a Seedy Café.

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The Mayor’s Environment Expo is an engaging and interactive event for students in Calgary. Everyone is welcome to visit the 50+ booths from the City of Calgary, environmental organizations and Calgary businesses, showcasing their action programs and products to reduce our impact on the environment.

All teachers are required to register in advance. Registration is available on-line at www.calgary.ca/mee

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The City of Calgary is celebrating Earth Day by inviting everyone to attend a presentation by Kevin Strange (Senior Advisor of Conservation Outreach at the Calgary Zoo) called "An Uplifting Earth Day."

Kevin will tell you that knowing a lot about conservation can make a guy a real drag at a  party if he chooses to dwell on all of the doom and gloom news we get exposed to every day.  But, Strange devotes his energy to positive conservation stories and is surrounded by people and organizations doing small, but nonetheless great things, for nature and the environment.  Celebrate Earth Day by listening to him share light-hearted and fun stories about nature, travelling, and spending a life-time working for plants and animals.

Examples of environmental initiative from The City of Calgary will be on display, as will Posters from students (grade 1-3) who participated in our Earth Hour Contest.

Admission is free but please register to attend by contacting laura [dot] st [dot] louis [at] calgary [dot] ca

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EcoLiving Events and The City of Calgary presents “Earth Hour in Calgary” at Olympic Plaza. Come out and show that Calgary supports this global initiative.  Activities start at 8:00pm and conclude at 9:30pm. Particpate in our countdown, listen to local musicians, discuss climate change solutions and have some hot chocolate heated by the solar power.

Registration is not required but comments are encouraged on either the EcoLiving or Footprint Facebook Site.

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Healthier People! Healthier Communities! Healthier Planet!

At the Copenhagen Conference, policymakers and scientists could not agree on taking a strong direction to halt global warming, so we the people of Canada must lead the way in saving our planet. Join us for this event to celebrate the innovative and collaborative thinking of like minds. Together we can create a healthy planet for today’s children and all future generations.

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Great News! Deep Green Resistance Training Deadline Extended to March 24!

Due to the importance of having this training in Alberta, the organizers - Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen, have decided to remove the cap on the number of participants allowed to attend. The deadline for registrations is now March 24^th. Please pass on to folks who might be interested!

Derrick Jensen’s Deep Green Resistance Training — Register Now!

Derrick Jensen and rad co-facilitating friends are likely gonna be coming to Edmonton on March 26-28 to do a 3-day intensive workshop called Deep Green Resistance. This 3-day workshop is particularly relevant to those of us who have been resisting the industrial developments of more tar sands, nuclear power and other environmental destructive projects. By bringing this conference to the prairies we will be building on the grassroots community that is already coming together, building on our network and strengthening our skills to bring about the changes we need to see.

The Deep Green Resistance training is a three-day workshop for activists, changemakers, and other concerned or inspired folks who are interested in delving into some critical reflection on the state of the world and our role in fixing it. We live in the most destructive culture to ever exist. Yet does our activism reflect that? If we really accept the seriousness of the situation, what would that mean for our strategy and tactics? How do we build up a culture of resistance? These are some of the questions that will be explored over the weekend, while we build on our skills to continue doing good works.

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What are Transition Towns?

Transition Towns (TT) are communities that seek out methods for reducing energy usage as well as increasing their own self reliance in positive response to climate change and ever-escalating prices in fossil fuels. They’re places that are more economically independent, ecologically sound, and socially connected. As a globally-connected marketplace, we are coming to realize that unbridled growth is not sustainable, and that reliance on imports from afar may become an impossibility within just a few years.

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First 200 people will receive a gift bag from Community Natural Foods, Spuds.Ca, and Mountain Equipment Coop with other great prizes from Green Calgary!

Art by: Dick Averns

Music by: Singer and Songwriter, Evan Freeman and Paul Gettis

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Canadian Liberated Urban Chicken Klub (CLUCK) presents the Alberta Premiere of…

Mad City Chickens

The Calgary Right to Food & Urban Chicken Trial:

A CLUCK fundraiser and rally of support for the legal challenge to the illegal City of Calgary Bylaw denying citizens a Right to Food by raising Urban Chickens.

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Rising to Change: A Celebration of Collaboration

Join us in a Salute to Danielle Droitsch "Farewell to Alberta"

5:00pm AGM, Reception to Follow

RSVP: b [dot] becker [at] albertaecotrust [dot] com

For more details on how to join us for the 2010 Annual General Meeting

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