The Vashon Greenmap edition #1 is IN PRINT, and we're ready to celebrate!
Saturday Dec. 12th, from 3:00–5:00 on the Village Green, come dance to local music and see Where's Green, at the Vashon Greenmap Community Release Celebration! Feast your eyes on the Electric Vehicle Showcase, and pick up your very own Vashon Greenmap—the one and only community-created map!
We recently completed our second program, held Sept. 11 – 13 at Steve Roache’s pottery studio at the Beall Greenhouses (thanks to Beall owners Nancy Foster and Scarlett Moss, and to Steve). Institute for Social Ecology (ISE) co-founder Dan Chodorkoff, long-time core faculty Grace Gershuny, and current ISE Director Brian Tokar all flew to Vashon from Vermont to offer talks and workshops; and long-time ISE associate and former Teaching Assistant for Murray Bookchin, Lloyd Strecker, drove up from Monte Rio, California.
This year we launch SEEDS Seattle as well with our Seattle Mobilization for Climate Justice, on September 19th, 2009, at the Cascade People's Center, 3-7 pm. This event is offered free to all, and is designed as a lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on December 2, 2009.Event occurs on 09/19/2009 from 03:00 PM to 07:00 PM.
SEEDS September Harvest
This September the Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS) is offering a dynamic series of events to help us envision and actualize a just and sustainable future.
This year SEEDS has brought its Weekend Workshops together around two interrelated but distinct issue areas, in the form of two day-long programs. The first program, which begins on Saturday, Sept. 12, focuses on the way in which social ecology may further develop and inform activism within the growing climate justice movement. The second program, on Sunday, Sept. 13, is focused on a redefinition of community development that culminates with a roundtable discussion on community self-management.
The radical and comprehensive approach of social ecology has much to offer those attempting to respond to the triple crises of peak oil/rapid climate change/economic instability and inequity. Thus far, the responses have generally been too little and too late, if not entirely in the wrong direction--as with the diversion of corn crops to ethanol production.
At the same time, our current notions of “development” both in this country and internationally, have led to increasing poverty, hunger, disparity and oppression, as well as increasing environmental degradation.
Revolving around the world-wide issue of Climate Justice, with our sights set on December's UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the Seattle SEEDS Study Group is now scheduled to debut later this month. Our first Study Group will meet September 27th at Caffe Fiore, Ballard, WA. Following that first meeting, plan to join together once a month thereafter.
SEEDS Update: Digging Roots and Beginning to Sprout
Last August following our successful inaugural weekend of public talks and workshops, the core planning group of the Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS) held a half-day retreat and developed an action plan: a full schedule of events for 2008. This plan includes a mixture of public educational forums and on-going community projects.
The Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS) began its public phase of the Vashon Greenmapping Program on Saturday, August 23, at the Farmer’s Market on the Village Green. For the next several weeks we will have an interactive display that will explain the concept and goals of greenmapping, and that will invite your participation in nominating current ecological and culturally significant resources on Vashon, as well as green sites or projects you would like to see in the future. Please stop by and help us create a map that encourages an ecologically wise and sustainable future for the Island.
