EcoCalendar http://www.ecologycenter.org
March 19, 2010 - April 4, 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
3/19/2010 Stomp the Stumps Benefit Dance Party BACH 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
3/23/2010 Climate Change Action Workshop Series (Tues) Special Event
3/24/2010 Learn How to Facilitate Your Own Climate Change Action Group Class
3/27/2010 Compost Give-Away at the Berkeley Farmers' Market Farmers' Markets Event
4/5/2010 Climate Change Action Workshop at Ashkenaz Special Event
4/8/2010 Basics of Seed Saving with Bill Merrill BASIL Event
4/17/2010 Workshop: Sharing Solutions 101 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
3/19/2010 Art Exhibit Opening: "Dusted: Work by Dustin Fosnot" San Francisco
3/19/2010 Volunteer: Berkeley Youth Alternative Gardens East Bay
3/19/2010 Seminar: Household Energy, Air Pollution, Climate, and Health East Bay
3/19/2010 Screening: "Food, Inc." East Bay
3/19/2010 SPAWN Native Plant Nursery Workday North Bay
3/19/2010 Stomp the Stumps Benefit Dance Party East Bay
3/19/2010 Amazon: Defending Rivers and Rights East Bay
3/20/2010 Workshop: Spring Equinox Gathering East Bay
3/20/2010 Be Berkeleyan, Be Counted! Picnic East Bay
3/20/2010 Workshop: Gardening From The Ground Up East Bay
3/20/2010 Caring for Your Urban Orchard: A Hands-on Fruit Tree Class North Bay
3/20/2010 Class: How to Replace Lawn with California Meadow and Natives South Bay
3/20/2010 Bus Tour: Cohousing in the East Bay East Bay
3/20/2010 Workshop: Bay-Friendly Gardening Basics East Bay
3/20/2010 Connecting the Dots for Sustainable Neighborhood Planning East Bay
3/20/2010 40 years of the Suppressed Histories Archives: Real Women, Global Vision East Bay
3/20/2010 Worm Composting Volunteer Work Party East Bay
3/20/2010 Ripple Effects East Bay
3/20/2010 Restoration at Schoolhouse Creek East Bay
3/20/2010 Fundraiser: East Bay Vegan Bakesale East Bay
3/20/2010 Panel Discussion: Eating Our Way To World Peace San Francisco
3/20/2010 Class: California Native Plants for Bay Area Sustainable Gardens South Bay
3/20/2010 Rooftop Garden Community Workday East Bay
3/20/2010 Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Garden Tour North Bay
3/20/2010 - 4/2/2010 Permaculture Design Course North Bay
3/20/2010 Class: Herbs in the Garden, Herbs in the Kitchen Peninsula
3/20/2010 Conference for High School Students: EcoCareer Day San Francisco
3/20/2010 Workshop: Diesel Car Maintenance East Bay
3/20/2010 Volunteer: Work Party at Strawberry Creek Lodge East Bay
3/20/2010 Friends of Five Creeks Work Party in Eastshore State Park East Bay
3/20/2010 Author Event: "Succulent Container Gardens" East Bay
3/20/2010 Seminar: A Better Remodel Using Tax Rebates and Incentives East Bay
3/20/2010 White-Crowned Sparrow Habitat Restoration San Francisco
3/20/2010 Workshop: Composting and Vermicompost East Bay
3/20/2010 Volunteer: Creekside Habitat Restoration with SPAWN North Bay
3/20/2010 Workshop: Seed Saving and Seed Swap San Francisco
3/20/2010 Conference: Healthy Harvest -- Field to Table Sacramento County
3/20/2010 Workshop: Advanced Beekeeping Mendocino County
3/21/2010 Film Screening: Taking Root -- Green Belt Movement of Kenya San Francisco
3/21/2010 Class: Backyard Chicken Care South Bay
3/21/2010 Poetry Reading and Release Party at Urban Ore Ecopark East Bay
3/21/2010 Class: Backyard Beekeeping East Bay
3/21/2010 Film Screening: "CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil" South Bay
3/21/2010 Program: Sheep to Shawl East Bay
3/21/2010 Rainwater Harvesting for Urban Gardeners East Bay
3/21/2010 Activity: Edible and Useful Plants Hike East Bay
3/21/2010 Annual Meatout Celebration San Francisco
3/21/2010 Cooking Class: Vegetarian Tamales East Bay
3/21/2010 Slideshow and Walk: Learning All About Our Native Lilies East Bay
3/22/2010 Class: Green Employee Engagement San Francisco
3/22/2010 Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards and Water Expo South Bay
3/22/2010 Transition SF Community Meeting San Francisco
3/22/2010 Promoting Corporate Responsibility through Shareholder Activism East Bay
3/22/2010 Seed Swap: Richmond Grows East Bay
3/22/2010 - 3/27/2010 Friends of Five Creeks Week of Restoration East Bay
3/23/2010 Presentation: The North Concord BART Plan San Francisco
3/23/2010 Discussion: Is Your God Green San Francisco
3/23/2010 Talk: Pollinators & Native Plant Gardens South Bay
3/23/2010 Conference: NCRA Recycling Update East Bay
3/23/2010 Speaker: Antonia Jushasz on "Tyranny of Oil" South Bay
3/23/2010 EcoTuesday: Featuring Pamela Gordon San Francisco
3/23/2010 Lecture: Linking Deep Scientific Research to the Real World Marin County
3/23/2010 - 4/13/2010 Climate Change Action Workshop Series (Tues) East Bay
3/23/2010 César Chávez Commemoration at the Tuesday Berkeley Farmers' Market East Bay
3/23/2010 Water Conservation Showcase San Francisco
3/23/2010 Talk: The Future of the Arctic San Francisco
3/23/2010 - 5/25/2010 Merritt College Lectures on Natural Building at the Ecology Center East Bay
3/24/2010 A Taste of North Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto: Benefit for Food & Social Justice East Bay
3/24/2010 Film & Discussion: "Loaded Visions" East Bay
3/24/2010 Haitian Music Benefit Performance San Francisco
3/24/2010 Talk: Zero Net Energy and Whole Building Retrofit Options for Affordable Multifamily Housing East Bay
3/24/2010 Learn How to Facilitate Your Own Climate Change Action Group East Bay
3/24/2010 Class: Water Conservation Techniques for Your Garden South Bay
3/24/2010 Class: Natural Building For a Non-Toxic Home East Bay
3/24/2010 Film: "Dirt! The Movie" (Oakland) East Bay
3/25/2010 Panel: Empire, Power, and Propaganda East Bay
3/25/2010 Talk: Joining Forces to Build Smarter Peninsula
3/25/2010 Critical Animal Studies Film & Artist Lecture Series: Sunaura Taylor East Bay
3/25/2010 Environmental Health Legislative Training East Bay
3/25/2010 Dinner and Program: Finding Connection in Nature East Bay
3/25/2010 Meeting: Tri-Valley Cares East Bay
3/25/2010 Women's Bike Traffic Skills 101 Classroom Workshop - Emeryville East Bay
3/25/2010 Can We Achieve a Sustainable Future? The Role of Green Chemistry East Bay
3/25/2010 Class: Drip Irrigation Design and Installation South Bay
3/26/2010 Film & Discussion: "The Most Dangerous Man in America" San Francisco
3/26/2010 A Tool Day Workshop: An Overview of the Tool Lending Library San Francisco
3/26/2010 SPAWN Native Plant Nursery Workday North Bay
3/26/2010 Benefit for East Bay Food Not Bombs East Bay
3/26/2010 Compost Give-away at Berkeley Marina for Berkeley Residents East Bay
3/26/2010 Volunteer: Berkeley Youth Alternative Gardens East Bay
3/26/2010 CA Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) Workshop on Surface Water Sacramento County
3/27/2010 Compost Give-Away at the Berkeley Farmers' Market East Bay
3/27/2010 Women's 2020 Leadership Caucus: Facing the Climate Crisis, Collaborating for Solutions Marin County
3/27/2010 Workshop: Flashy Flowerpots East Bay
3/27/2010 Workshop: Gardening From The Ground Up East Bay
3/27/2010 Speakers: Stories From the Freedom Movement San Francisco
3/27/2010 Workshop: High-Performance Plants for Low-Water Gardens East Bay
3/27/2010 Really Really Free Market San Francisco
3/27/2010 Workshop: Basic Backyard Composting East Bay
3/27/2010 Class: Design Your Own Spring Victory Garden San Francisco
3/27/2010 Greywater System Workshop South Bay
3/27/2010 Sustainable Spring Festival -- Fairfax North Bay
3/27/2010 SCRAP Workshop: Braided Rug and Basket Making San Francisco
3/27/2010 Class: Water Conservation Techniques for Your Garden South Bay
3/27/2010 Class: Grow Your Own Salad East Bay
3/27/2010 Class: Growing Great Tomatoes Peninsula
3/27/2010 Walk: El Cerrito's Hidden Paths, Urban Paths and Mid-Century Marvels East Bay
3/27/2010 Solar Electricity For Your Home Seminar East Bay
3/27/2010 Habitat Restoration for Mission Blue and San Bruno Elfin Butterflies Peninsula
3/27/2010 Workshop: Composting and Vermicomposting East Bay
3/27/2010 Volunteer: Creekside Habitat Restoration with SPAWN North Bay
3/27/2010 Class: Organic Gardening 101 East Bay
3/27/2010 Class: Urban Food Production San Francisco
3/27/2010 - 2/27/2011 4-Seasons Permaculture Certification Course in Bolinas North Bay
3/27/2010 Class: Pests & Pesticides (to use or not) East Bay
3/27/2010 Is Nuclear Power a "Clean" Energy Source In Response To Climate Change? East Bay
3/27/2010 Free Neighborhood Plant Exchange East Bay
3/28/2010 Rain Garden Design & Build Workshop Marin County
3/28/2010 Workshop & Field Trip: Learning All About Native Lilies East Bay
3/28/2010 Class: Design A Salad and Herb Garden East Bay
3/28/2010 Class: Beginning Beekeeping San Francisco
3/28/2010 Class: Bees and Backyard Beekeeping with the Kenyan Top Bar System East Bay
3/29/2010 Lecture: Fossil Fuel + Dependance = Security Risks? San Francisco
3/29/2010 Film Screening: Flow, For Love of Water East Bay
3/29/2010 - 4/2/2010 Monkey Business Spring Break Camp East Bay
3/29/2010 - 4/2/2010 Spring Camp: Sarah's Science Streams Camp East Bay
3/30/2010 Critical Animal Studies Film & Artist Lecture Series: Vasile Stanescu San Francisco
3/30/2010 Film Screening: "John L. Walker: Striving For Equality" East Bay
3/30/2010 Creeks, Dunes and Watersheds -- A Short History of San Francisco's Waterscape San Francisco
3/31/2010 Women and Water: Solutions for Community Resilience East Bay
3/31/2010 Film & Discussion: "The Greater Circulation" East Bay
3/31/2010 - 6/5/2010 Class: Urban Permaculture Design Certification Course San Francisco
3/31/2010 Discussion: Bay Area As Incubator San Francisco
3/31/2010 Class: Cheesemaking 101 East Bay
4/2/2010 Panel Discussion: Food, Culture and Identity in a Global Society East Bay
4/2/2010 Good Friday Demonstration at Livermore Lab East Bay
4/2/2010 Workshop: Decorating Your Panoramic Sugar Eggs San Francisco
4/2/2010 - 6/25/2010 Exhibit: Edible Art (Works from the Artists of Edible East Bay) East Bay
4/2/2010 SPAWN Native Plant Nursery Workday North Bay
4/3/2010 Workshop: Creating Year-Round Edible Gardens East Bay
4/3/2010 Sick Plant Clinic East Bay
4/3/2010 Class: Medicinal Plants of California Peninsula
4/3/2010 Party: Taste for Artisans East Bay
4/3/2010 Pier 94 Wetlands Restoration Workday San Francisco
4/3/2010 Class: Chinese Plants for Food and Medicine San Francisco
4/3/2010 Workshop: Container Gardening East Bay
4/3/2010 Urban Permaculture as a Tool for Community Empowerment and Social Justice East Bay
4/3/2010 Class: Tomatoes with Fred Hemple of Baia Nicchia East Bay
4/3/2010 - 6/5/2010 Earth Cafe - Spring Series 2010 North Bay
4/3/2010 Workshop: Composting and Vermicompost East Bay
4/3/2010 Class: Growing Tomato Transplants from Seed Santa Cruz County
4/3/2010 Volunteer: Creekside Habitat Restoration with SPAWN North Bay
4/3/2010 Class: Solar Power Basics San Francisco
4/3/2010 Workshop: Home Repair and Maintenance for Women SF Bay Area
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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