- 1:07 am - Sat, Jan 9, 2010
for those of you who are in NYC - jan 12 event! (and more)
A message from Melissa Ennen, the wonderful host of our ‘We Co-Create’ workshop series in Brooklyn:
Tuesday Talks with Andrew Faust, one of NY’s most stimulating permaculture speakers
Jan. 12: Decadence vs. Abundance: A Brief Ecological History of America and the World
Come learn what history has taught us about how to create ecological economies and increase natural capital. Democratic economies make more dollars and sense for most people; we just have to put public needs and desires before private profits.
Jan 26: Ecological Literacy vs. Environmental Education
We need to shift our worldview: to reconnect humanity to our proper role as caretaker of planet earth; to embrace our responsibility for the well-being of each other and the entire web of life. We therefore need a whole new philosophy of education.
Feb 2: Health and Longevity: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves
Come hear about a holistic view of health that directly connects people’s personal well-being with the health of their local landscapes and environment.
6 to 8 p.m.
$10 suggested donation
388 Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn
The A train to Hoyt/Schermerhorn is closest; but four blocks away is the Atlantic/Pacific station (2,3,4,5,B,D,M,N,Q,R,LIRR).
Andrew Faust is one of the premier Permaculture teachers and designers in North America with 17 years of Permaculture experience, 10 years as a certified alternative school teacher (Upattinas-Glenmoore, PA) and 8 years living off-the–grid in rural West Virginia. Andrew now lives in Brooklyn where he is applying his knowledge to urban needs and developing The Center for Bioregional Living site in Ellenville, NY, a pilot campus for his New York City students and clients. Faust has taught the full PDC more then 15 times since 2002 at Yestermorrow in VT. and is on his fourth offering of New York City based PDC courses.
-gracie
- 8:34 pm - Fri, Dec 25, 2009
MillionTreesNYC, Green Infrastructure, and Urban Ecology: A Research Symposium
Friday, March 5, 2010
9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
The Spring 2009 workshop “MillionTreesNYC, Green Infrastructure, and Urban Ecology: Building a Research Agenda” brought together more than 100 researchers, practitioners and New York City policymakers to collaboratively develop a research agenda to support the management, practice and rationale for MillionTreesNYC and to contribute to the accumulating knowledge on the socio-ecology of urban landscapes and green infrastructure.
This symposium is a follow-up to the spring 2009 workshop. The purpose of the symposium is to showcase research and projects that contribute to accumulating knowledge on the socio-ecology of urban landscapes, green infrastructure and public health.
Registration will be online soon. Please visit www.milliontreesnyc.org/research for more information.
Location
The New School (TBA)
Manhattan
Cost
Registration is $50.00; late registration for participants who sign up after February 15, 2010 will be $75.00
Contact Email
symposium@milliontreesnyc.org
website:
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/upcoming_events/events_search.php?id=175533
- 3:47 pm - Sun, Dec 20, 2009
greetings humans
apathy kills
write something on this blog if you want to share any ideas, links, photos, thoughts over the break. it would be great to all hear from each other on what we’ve been thinking and experiencing!—-gracie
p.s.
sfsu is san francisco state university. lets take action like this in the spring…
http://occupysfsu.wordpress.com
this one is good too:
http://occupysfsu.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/in-defense-of-the-occupation
- 12:44 pm - Thu, Dec 3, 2009
can NY state feed itself?
-gracie
- 12:05 am - Thu, Nov 12, 2009
right now
I wanted to bring an event to your attention that is scheduled to take place during the week of November 9th-14th in New York. JOURNEY NYC is an art installation co-created by Emma Thompson and “Elena” (a woman who was victimized by sex
traffickers). The installation is comprised of seven cargo containers
furnished to represent different stages of one woman’s journey of
human trafficking. JOURNEY will be based directly next to Washing
Square Park and is open between 12 noon and 8p every day.
Believe it or not, it was only within the past few years that NYC has
begun to pass anti-trafficking laws; but there is still more to be
done with sex tours operating out of NY. Hopefully, JOURNEY will help
to shed more light on the issues stateside.
You can hear more about JOURNEY NYC on NPR or watch the YouTube video.
The installation is being produced by the Helen Bamber Foundation.
Please consider forwarding this email to anyone you think might be interested.
Best wishes to you all.
- 10:57 pm - Mon, Nov 9, 2009
Beehive Collective flyer! design by Jen Hitchings
- 5:03 pm
been doing research on the connection between slavery & prisons
New York State just passed a proposition allowing prisons to contract prisoners to “voluntarily labor” for non-profits…
-gracie
- 11:28 am - Mon, Oct 26, 2009
Saturday, October 31st @ 12PM – 2PMMarcel van der Linden: Working Class History from Below
16 Beaver Group16 Beaver Street, 4th fl.New York, NY 10004
Marcel van der Linden will be presenting research from his book, “Workers of the World, Essays Towards a Global labor History,” which builds the foundations of a global history of capitalism from below: a history freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, van der Linden provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history – a labor history which integrates the history of slavery, indentured labor, and subsistence labor; and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world.
Published in 2008 in the Netherlands, the 477 page book “Workers of the World“ is available as a digital copy on www.thisisforever.org.
While the discussion will span themes from the entire book, the book’s Introduction (pp. 1-14 of the book’s pagination) is a useful starting point. So, too, are the sections Conceptualizations (Chapters Two through Four, pp. 17-78) and Forms of Resistance (Chapters Nine through Twelve, pp. 171-283)
Tea and coffee will be provided; any simple food contributions are appreciated, such as bread, cheese, honey, jam, fruit, etc.
For more information about this event:http://www.thisisforever.org/upcoming/global-labor-history
UPCOMING EVENTS in November
The series will be having one event nightly from November 10th through November 15th. See http://www.thisisforever.org/upcoming for the details!
November 10th - Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis on the politics of oil http://www.thisisforever.org/upcoming/politics-of-oil
November 11th - Ariel Salleh on a feminist and ecologically integrated politics of the commons, with Silvia Federici http://www.thisisforever.org/upcoming/ariel-salle
November 12th - Bristol Radical History Group on Radical History from Below November 13th - Bristol Radical History Group: Why History Matters and Why Radical History Matters MoreNovember 15th - Bristol Radical History Group: History as Inquiry and Militant Researchhttp://www.thisisforever.org/upcoming/bristol-radical-history-group
