Food Security
Jun 28 2011 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Jun 30 2011 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Permaculture is a completely solutions-oriented approach to addressing environmental, social and energy-supply problems. Discover your untapped potential for creating immense positive change starting at your back door. We've designed this six hour intensive to provide you with the tools to turn your home into the greenest home on the block - all the while saving money and making a super healthy, beautiful and inspiring environment for family, friends and community.
Cost: $75.00
The AREA
1119 10 Avenue SE
Calgary,
AB
A Lecture Presented by Jessie Radies & Nettie Wiebe
The cry "Go Local!" is increasingly heard today, with proponents pointing to numerous benefits to a thriving local food system, including access to nutritious foods, support for local farmers, closer connections between producers and consumers, lower carbon footprint, and reduced dependency on volatile global agricultural markets. But great ideas are not always easily put into practice, and creating a local food system faces multiple challenges, as well as rewards. Hear from two leaders in the Canadian Local Foods Movement about their own experiences working to create sustainable local production and retailing industries here in our own backyard, and join us in discussions about how to deepen our relationships to the food we eat, and the farmers who produce it. Read more »
Room 1 430, Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies
University of Alberta (Saskatchewan Drive adjacent to Bio Sci Building)
Edmonton,
AB
An evening presentation by Bill Swan – Greenman Sustainable Solutions
In response to the growing interest in local food security, healthy food in schools, and the overall sustainability of our agriculture systems, 300 community volunteers in Invermere BC teamed up to build a 300 sq. ft. greenhouse. It is now producing both food and sustainability programs for school and community audiences. Bill Swan, Community Greenhouse Project lead, will discuss how the project was developed including the many social, technical and logistical challenges and successes the project team encountered during the design, construction and operation of this successful initiative. This is part of a three seminar series on solar greenhouses sponsored by Alberta Agriculture. Read more »
CN Theatre – Room 5-142
Grant MacEwan University — City Centre Campus
Edmonton,
AB
Mar 27 2011 - 11:00am - 5:00pm
Red Deer Seedy Sunday is part of the worldwide Seedy Saturday/Sunday events that celebrate open-pollinated seeds. In Red Deer, the event is citizen-driven; coordinated with the support of Seeds of Diversity Canada, Spruce Lane Organic Farm, Kerry Wood Nature Centre, the Red Deer Garden Club, and The Root Cellar: ecoStore & Apothecary (a project of ReThink Red Deer's Centre for Urban Agriculture). Read more »
Kerry Wood Nature Centre
Red Deer,
AB
Mar 13 2011 - 6:30pm - 10:30pm
This will be a most wondrous event, not to be missed, with the theme food security and sustainable communities on the menu, enriched by the magical sounds of The Low Fliying Planes, Betty Supple, and Nathan Lee. Followed by the fantastical fire spining, hoola hooping/ beat boxing of both miss Laurel Collins and Beth Stupple. There will be a short video and heaps of great conversation on the great things happening in Red Deer surrounding food security, sustainability, and all of the wonderful people working together to make it so. Tickets are $11.50 and will be available through the Matchbox Box Office. Call 403 341 6500 and leave a message or stop by The Matchbox Theatre 5301 43 Street Red Deer, AB Mon.-Fri.12:30-5pm. 5301 43 Street Red Deer, AB
Contact:
Nathan Lee Gartner
ecoska [at] gmail [dot] com
(403)505-7839
The Matchbox Theatre
5301 43 Street
Red Deer,
AB
Feb 4 2011 - 4:00pm - 9:00pm
The M.D. of Bighorn is again presenting Living in the Natural Environment on Friday February 4, 2011.
This year’s event will be at the Cochrane RancheHouse from 4-9pm. As we have in the past, the Hall of Vision has been rented to provide an opportunity for non-profit organizations like yours to showcase their work and provide resources at no cost to your organization.
If you haven’t been to Living in the Natural Environment before, here are a few details: Read more »
Cochrane RancheHouse
Cochrane,
AB
Jan 29 2011 - 10:00am - Jan 30 2011 - 6:00pm
Location: Pure Earth Organics - #12 - 5579 47th St., Red Deer
Saturday January 29th & 30th, 2011
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (both days)
Apiaries and Bees for Communities (A.B.C.) is pleased to offer a Level One Beekeeping Certificate for hobbiest beekeepers in an urban and rural setting. This 16-hour intensive program will offer everything you need to know to begin beekeeping. Read more »
Feb 23 2011 - 9:00am - Feb 25 2011 - 5:00am
Creating a sustainable society is the greatest opportunity and the greatest challenge of our era. Since 2009, the Pathways 2 Sustainability Conference (P2S) has helped form the relationships and capacity for planning and participating in sustainable communities.
Building on P2S 2009’s sustainable communiites theme, P2S is moving forward from planning to community-based action. We are featuring over 40 Showcase Exhibitors, 12 Panelists, and 5 Keynotes on topics such as Community Supported Agriculture, Feed In Tarrifs, Renewable Energy, Community Finance, Food Security, and Sustainable & Resilient Community Planning.
Read more »
Red Deer College
Red Deer,
AB
Apr 11 2010 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Engage your taste buds, mind and
fellow food lovers with an evening dedicated to meeting your local farmers
and the chefs that are diligently working to bring the fruits of their labor
to your table. You will enjoy the best organic and sustainable foods Alberta
has to offer prepared by the finest local chefs. Then sit back to watch Food
Fight, a documentary that explores how American agricultural policy and food
culture developed over the 20th century. The after party will follow in the
Marquee Room with live music by Chris Velan.
Read more »
The Uptown Stage & Screen
612 8 Avenue SW
Calgary,
AB
Canadian Liberated Urban Chicken Klub (CLUCK)
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.
Read more »
Plaza Theatre
1133 Kensington Road NW
Calgary,
AB
