EcoCalendar
February 19, 2010 - March 7, 2010
Welcome to another list of events, classes, actions, films, conferences, grant deadlines, and more. Our searchable website edition of the calendar contains events further into the future. Please continue to send event listings to calendar@ecologycenter.org .
The Ecology Center's events are listed first, followed by additional community event listings.
ECOLOGY CENTER EVENTS
2/22/2010 Climate Change Action Workshop Series (Mon) Special Event
2/25/2010 Reduce Your Footprint in 2010: A Free Community Workshop Special Event
2/26/2010 Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (BASIL) 11th Annual Seed Swap BASIL Event
3/6/2010 Free Worm Composting Workshop EcoHouse Event
3/9/2010 National Nutrition Month at the Tuesday Berkeley Farmers' Market Farmers' Markets Event
3/16/2010 National Nutrition Month at the Tuesday Berkeley Farmers' Market Farmers' Markets Event
3/18/2010 Author Event: "A Different Kind of Luxury" Special Event
3/23/2010 César Chávez Commemoration at the Tuesday Berkeley Farmers' Market Farmers' Markets Event
3/23/2010 - 5/25/2010 Merritt College Lectures on Natural Building at the Ecology Center Special Event
4/18/2010 EcoHouse Tour EcoHouse Event
4/22/2010 40th Anniversary of Earth Day and The Ecology Center Special Event
OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS
2/19/2010 SPAWN Native Plant Nursery Workday North Bay
2/19/2010 Volunteer: Berkeley Youth Alternative Gardens East Bay
2/19/2010 Town Hall Meeting with Congressman John Garamendi East Bay
2/20/2010 Volunteer: Creekside Habitat Restoration with SPAWN North Bay
2/20/2010 California Coastal Ecosystem Restoration at Lands End San Francisco
2/20/2010 A History of Gardens - Part 2: Landscape Design, Renaissance to Early Modern East Bay
2/20/2010 Tour: Community Rainwater Harvesting Projects North Bay
2/20/2010 Volunteer: Habitat Restoration at Pine Point Marin County
2/20/2010 Class: Container Gardening for Busy People San Francisco
2/20/2010 Volunteer Training: Help Fight Invasive Kelp in the Bay San Francisco
2/20/2010 The Groove Garden's Birthday Bash for Julia Butterfly Hill North Bay
2/20/2010 Workshop: Growing Your Own Vegetables From Seed East Bay
2/20/2010 - 2/21/2010 Herbal Tincture Making: Advanced Methods East Bay
2/20/2010 - 5/1/2010 Docent Training: Lead Walks at the SF Botanical Garden San Francisco
2/20/2010 Class: Fruit Tree Varieties Peninsula
2/20/2010 Seminar: Energy-Efficient Replacement Windows -- Improving Your Home Comfort East Bay
2/20/2010 Volunteer: Work Party at Strawberry Creek Lodge-CANCELLED East Bay
2/20/2010 Workshop: Diesel Car Maintenance East Bay
2/20/2010 Workshop: Introduction to Organic Garden Watering San Francisco
2/20/2010 Mushroom Foray: Salt Point State Park North Bay
2/20/2010 Plant-a-thon at Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline East Bay
2/20/2010 Pooches On The Paths East Bay
2/20/2010 Sustainable Landscape Program: Site Assessment and Development North Bay
2/21/2010 Lecture: Making the Journey to a Healthier Diet Peninsula
2/21/2010 Film & Discussion: "HomeGrown" East Bay
2/21/2010 Talk: Evolutionary Biology Today East Bay
2/21/2010 Class: Backyard Beekeeping East Bay
2/21/2010 Workshop: Fruit Tree Basics Peninsula
2/21/2010 Class: Herb Growing Santa Cruz County
2/21/2010 Performance and Food: Food Justice Series East Bay
2/22/2010 Film Screening: "Food, Inc." East Bay
2/22/2010 Transition SF Community Meeting San Francisco
2/22/2010 Art Show: Socially Engaged Art and Global Politics San Francisco
2/22/2010 Cooking Class: Sweet Treats -- Basic Baking East Bay
2/22/2010 - 3/15/2010 Climate Change Action Workshop Series (Mon) East Bay
2/22/2010 Good Government Awards (SF) San Francisco
2/22/2010 Down to a Science Forum: Restoring Coyote Valley San Francisco
2/23/2010 An Evening of Film and Conversation with Julia Butterfly Hill and Joanna Macy East Bay
2/23/2010 EcoTuesday: Featuring Joel Makower San Francisco
2/23/2010 Lecture: Natural Resources -- How Some Corporations and Countries are Getting it Right--CANCELLED Marin County
2/23/2010 Proposed Berkeley Plastic Bag Ban Ordinance at the Berkeley City Council Meeting East Bay
2/23/2010 Panel Discussion: Geo-Engineering -- Global Salvation or Ruin? San Francisco
2/24/2010 Green Business Super Mixer East Bay
2/24/2010 Author Event: "Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do" East Bay
2/24/2010 Presentation: Mining and Indigenous Rights San Francisco
2/24/2010 SPUR Forum: Canary in a Coal Mine -- Climate Change, Birds and Conservation San Francisco
2/24/2010 Conversations from the Frontline of the Climate Justice Movement East Bay
2/24/2010 - 3/17/2010 Bike Maintenance and Repair Class Series East Bay
2/24/2010 Colloquium: Bay Friendly Landscaping, Sustainable Practices, and Standards East Bay
2/24/2010 Positive Opportunities for Youth Resource Fair & Youth Manifesto Rally East Bay
2/24/2010 - 3/20/2010 Beginning Bird Watching Classes SF Bay Area
2/24/2010 Two Films & Discussion: "Shellmound" & "In the Light of Reverence" East Bay
2/24/2010 Discussion: Sharp Park Gulf Course in Pacifica San Francisco
2/24/2010 Class: Long-Term Abundance East Bay
2/24/2010 Information Session: Peace Corps East Bay
2/25/2010 The Wise, Healing Ways of Building Peninsula
2/25/2010 Growing Your Own Organic Garden Peninsula
2/25/2010 Panel: "Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle" San Francisco
2/25/2010 Panel: Mining in Central America San Francisco
2/25/2010 - 2/27/2010 Winter California Native Plant Sale East Bay
2/25/2010 Party: Cookbook Swap San Francisco
2/25/2010 Benefit Presentation: Ecological Sanitation--NEW DATE East Bay
2/25/2010 Dinner and Presentation: "The American West: Wild, Restless, and Exotic" East Bay
2/25/2010 Cooking Class: Moroccan Flavors East Bay
2/25/2010 Reduce Your Footprint in 2010: A Free Community Workshop East Bay
2/25/2010 David Brower and the Pearl of Siberia: Lake Baikal in Conversation and Photographs East Bay
2/26/2010 Lecture: Maximilian Mayer -- Mitigating Global Warming Through Art East Bay
2/26/2010 Compost Give-away at Berkeley Marina for Berkeley Residents East Bay
2/26/2010 SPAWN Native Plant Nursery Workday North Bay
2/26/2010 Festival: PLAYgreen East Bay
2/26/2010 Volunteer: Berkeley Youth Alternative Gardens East Bay
2/26/2010 Cleantech Open 2010 Competition Launch Party San Francisco
2/26/2010 Fiesta del Sol East Bay
2/26/2010 Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (BASIL) 11th Annual Seed Swap East Bay
2/27/2010 Caring for Your Urban Orchard: A Hands-on Class on Fruit Tree Management East Bay
2/27/2010 Owl Wars Marin County
2/27/2010 Rainwater Harvesting Principles and Earthworks East Bay
2/27/2010 Volunteer: Creekside Habitat Restoration with SPAWN North Bay
2/27/2010 Coho Salmon Habitat Restoration Marin County
2/27/2010 - 4/24/2010 Online Course: Leadership In Green Health Care
2/27/2010 A History of Gardens - Part 3: Modernism East Bay
2/27/2010 Recycling Center Special Collection Event for El Cerrito Residents East Bay
2/27/2010 Class: Beginning Beekeeping San Francisco
2/27/2010 Help Restore Cerrito Creek East Bay
2/27/2010 Class: Permaculture - Perennial Vegetables, Basic Principles East Bay
2/27/2010 Together Green: Volunteer Days San Francisco
2/27/2010 Volunteer: Remove Invasive Plants at Point Isabel East Bay
2/27/2010 Class: Companion Planting Peninsula
2/27/2010 Class: Grow Biointensive Peninsula
2/27/2010 Class: Vegetable Garden Beds East Bay
2/27/2010 Volunteer Appreciation Day at San Francisquito Creek Peninsula
2/27/2010 Workshop: Composting and Vermicompost East Bay
2/27/2010 - 2/28/2010 Designing, Building, and Managing Native Gardens Workshop South Bay
2/27/2010 Workshop: Growing Your Own Vegetables From Seed East Bay
2/27/2010 Frog Docent Orientation North Bay
2/28/2010 Ye Ol' Secret Dinner O' Late Winter Heirlooms San Francisco
2/28/2010 Creating an Edible Oasis: Hands-on Food Forest Design Course Santa Cruz County
2/28/2010 Cooking Class: Mexican Soups East Bay
2/28/2010 Youth Bus Pass Summit East Bay
2/28/2010 Class: Beginning Beekeeping San Francisco
2/28/2010 Volunteer: Habitat Restoration at Point Reyes National Seashore North Bay
2/28/2010 Course: Medicinal Plants of the Bay Area: A Bioregional Exploration Peninsula
2/28/2010 Snowy Plover Walk San Francisco
2/28/2010 Short Class: Efficient Landscape Watering Systems East Bay
2/28/2010 Author Event: Golden Gate Gardening by Pam Peirce San Francisco
2/28/2010 Rain Barrels and Ponds (and more earthworks!) East Bay
3/1/2010 Presentation: East Bay Reservoirs: Curse and Blessing East Bay
3/1/2010 Panel Discussion and Film Screening: Nuclear Tipping Point San Francisco
3/1/2010 - 3/5/2010 Greywater Installer's Course (Oakland) East Bay
3/2/2010 Panel Discussion: Alternative Models for Local Produce Distribution San Francisco
3/2/2010 Film Screening & Discussion of "The Botany of Desire" San Francisco
3/2/2010 Class: Irrigation Troubleshooting for Landscape Professionals (Richmond) East Bay
3/3/2010 Class: Water Harvesting and Greywater East Bay
3/3/2010 Class: Irrigation Troubleshooting for Landscape Professionals (SF) San Francisco
3/3/2010 Walk: Southeast Campus Architecture East Bay
3/4/2010 Bay Area Public Agency Council East Bay
3/4/2010 Sustainable Landscaping Lecture & Fair San Francisco
3/4/2010 Class: Irrigation Troubleshooting for Landscape Professionals (Mill Valley) North Bay
3/4/2010 UC Berkeley Energy Symposium East Bay
3/4/2010 Solar Ribbon Cutting Ceremony East Bay
3/5/2010 SPAWN Native Plant Nursery Workday North Bay
3/5/2010 Volunteer: Berkeley Youth Alternative Gardens East Bay
3/5/2010 - 3/7/2010 Workshop: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming Mendocino County
3/6/2010 Natural Dye Workshop North Bay
3/6/2010 The Buzz on Native Bees East Bay
3/6/2010 Pier 94 Wetlands Restoration Workday San Francisco
3/6/2010 - 3/13/2010 Cooking Class: Moles of Oaxaca East Bay
3/6/2010 Tree Planting at Alemany Farm San Francisco
3/6/2010 Solar Hot Water Basics for Residential Customers San Francisco
3/6/2010 Save MUNI Summit San Francisco
3/6/2010 Volunteer: Remove Invasive Plants at Point Isabel East Bay
3/6/2010 - 3/7/2010 White Elephant Sale East Bay
3/6/2010 Volunteer: Creekside Habitat Restoration with SPAWN North Bay
3/6/2010 Class: Malibu Compost East Bay
3/6/2010 Class: Secrets of Drought-Tolerant Landscaping Peninsula
3/6/2010 Free Worm Composting Workshop East Bay
3/6/2010 - 3/7/2010 Sustainable Fairfax Volunteer Corps Training North Bay
3/6/2010 Class: Edible Landscaping and Container Gardening North Bay
3/7/2010 Film Screening: "The Age of Stupid" East Bay
3/7/2010 Class: Seed Starting East Bay
3/7/2010 Class: Growing Tomato Transplants from Seed Santa Cruz County
3/7/2010 Class: City Chickens and Ducks East Bay
3/7/2010 Course: Medicinal Plants of the Bay Area: A Bioregional Exploration North Bay
3/7/2010 Class: City Chickens and Ducks East Bay
Carrie Bennett
Ecology Center
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Thanks to David, James, Kimberly, and Serena for help with the EcoCalendar.
Thanks to Beck Cowles for guidance.
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