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!
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.
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.