Cultivating Connections Recommends
May 2011
Upcoming Events for Metro Louisville
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, May 4, 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located in the Barn behind St Agnes Church 1924 Newburg Road)
20 Minute Presentation
Barry Zalph - Rolling Toward Sustainability
Barry will present a three-phase federal policy proposal to make personal transportation in the U.S. healthier for our ecosystem, our bodies, and our society, while facilitating further steps toward a sustainable transportation system.
Barry has worked on resource conservation and environmental protection since the early 1970s, most recently as cofounder and executive director of Bicycling for Louisville. Barry will invite us to help refine the ideas, spread the message, and build the movement necessary to bring the proposal to fruition.
5 minute PresentersDave Klotz - Bluegrass Hydroponics has hydroponic equipment to grow plants, herbs, vegetables, or even mushrooms. They have organic fertilizers and sustainable growing supplies for growing food all year round. Jill Maurey - 15Thousand Farmers helps create, empower, and inspire 15,000 new, sustainable, neighborhood backyard/front yard farmers in Louisville to feed their families and themselves and to give away.
Their models uses simple and easy instructions, checklists, materials and ongoing support provided through local growers and resources that will provide everything needed to start growing food in our yards, on decks or in community gardens.
Food & drink:
Heine Bros. provides us with Heine Bros. coffee. Feel free to bring a bag lunch, but know that the Barn opens its doors to us at 11:30 a.m. -- no earlier. If you'd like to prepare extra food or drink to share with others, that is always welcome!Now in its Fourth year the purposes of the Louisville Sustainability Forum are:1. We hold and promote the intention of sustainability for Louisville.2. We establish and nourish relationships that strengthen community and create change.3. We create a space for discussion that inspires, motivates and deepens our ability to catalyze social change.Please park in St. Agnes Church lot and walk back behind the church
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Friday, May 13 Annual Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light Dinner
Theme: Roll Up Your Sleeves - Stories of Action and Hope!
Saturday, May 14 Climate Change and Faith Workshop
Exploring a variety of simple changes you can make to reduce your carbon footprint
Friday May 13 6:30 pm
Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light Annual Awards Dinner
featuring Sr. Paula Gonzalez.
Her topic will be: Roll Up Your Sleeves - Stories of Action and Hope!
Tickets are $25 Click Here for Tickets
This year's annual Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light Dinner will feature guest speaker Sr. Paula Gonzalez, a pioneer in the faith based response to global warming and co-founder of the Ohio Interfaith Power and Light Chapter.
Saturday May 14 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Climate Change and Faith Workshop with Sr. Paula Gonzalez
Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church 318 West Saint Catherine St
Cost $45 Click Here for Tickets
As we move into the 21st Century we humans face enormous challenges and must make some critical choices. In particular, the choices made during the next decade about how to power our future will have long-lasting effects on human history. This workshop affirms that through increasing energy conservation and efficiency and with a serious move toward renewable energy our society can experience a true renaissance - and each of us an 'energized faith'. Join us as we explore ways to cut your energy use in half and look at a variety of simple changes you can make to reduce your carbon footprint - in eating, in driving, and in shopping. For information and tickets - www.kentuckyipl.org or email mark@kentuckyipl.org
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Monday, May 16, 6pm
Social Change Book Club 4.0 The Social Animal The Hidden Sources of Love Character and Achievement by David Brooks
Heine Bros. Coffee Chenoweth
Social Change Book Club 4.0 An independent gathering furthering learning on social change. This is the story of how success happens. It is told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. It is a story about how they grow, push forward, are pulled back, fail, and succeed. Distilling a vast array of information into these two characters, Brooks illustrates a fundamental new understanding of human nature. A scientific revolution has occurred; we have learned more about the human brain in the last thirty years than we had in the previous three thousand. The unconscious mind, it turns out, is most of the mind. It is not a dark, vestigial place but a creative and enchanted one, where most of the brain's work gets done. This is the realm of emotions, intuitions, biases, longings, genetic predispositions, personality traits, and social norms: the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made. The natural habitat of The Social Animal. The Social Change Book Club is open to everyone who is interested in understanding, participating, leading, or supporting social change. Each month we select a book and get together to discuss. Selections rotate among three themes: social changes, how we work with others to make change happen, and the inner qualities needed to bring change into the world. People just show up if they are interested--no RSVP, commitment, etc. It is great when people have read the book, but that is not a requirement to come and discuss. |
Tuesday, May 17 at 7:00 pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club May General Meeting
with Special Guest Tony Arnold on "Wet Growth"
Clifton Center This program is free and open to the public.Please join us Tuesday, May 17 as we welcome Professor Tony Arnold, Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use, Professor of Law, and Chair of the Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. Professor Arnold's program will be "Wet Growth", addressing the integration of land use, water quality, and water conservation to protect watershed health and integrity. Tony Arnold is an internationally recognized scholar in the environmental regulation of land use, water, and property. Arnold's books include Wet Growth: Should Water Law Control Land Use?, Fundamentals of Modern Property Law, 6th ed. (with Rabin, Kwall, and Kwall), and Kentucky Wet Growth Tools for Sustainable Development: A Handbook on Land Use and Water for Kentucky Communities (with Norton and Wallen). Much of his current work is on watershed planning and management. We will meet downstairs at the Clifton Center, on the corner of Clifton Avenue and Payne Street, just off Frankfort Avenue, at 7:00 p.m.
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Friday, May 20 Pitch-In Supper 6:00 pm Film Screening 7:00 pm Spiritual Movie Night Butterfly The Julia Butterfly Hill Story 
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Unity of Louisville
757 South Brook Street
Living 180 feet off the ground in an ancient redwood tree for over two years, Julia Butterfly Hill captured the hearts and minds of the world by showing us that one person can make a difference.
Wolens' interviews over two years, including six nights with Hill on her 180-foot high platform, reveal an intensely spiritual and articulate woman determined to accomplish her goal. We get a sense of the awesome beauty of her days and nights lived in an ancient tree, of the horror of being assaulted by lumber company helicopters, and of the strangeness of fierce media scrutiny seeking out a woman in a tree.
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Friday, May 20 7:00 pm
Monthly Drumming Circle
at The Earth and Spirit Center
(located in the Barn behind the Passionist Monastery 1924 Newburg Ave)
Ho Drummers,
Join us for a community drum circle to make in-the-moment music. No musical experience necessary! Bring your percussion instruments. Co-operation and collaboration are the glue to a community drum circle. The results can be those magical musical moments where one powerful voice is crafted out of the many. Dancers are welcomed too!
When we as a community drum together, sharing our spirit in the form of rhythm, it changes our relationship for the positive. As we play together, we give ourselves a rhythmical massage, an emotional release and a healing!
Ample parking is available in a parking lot just to the left of the monastery. Alongside the monastery, take the sidewalk which will lead behind the monastery to the large red-brick barn with green awnings.
(Please do not park in front of the Barn, use one of the big lots out front by the monastery. thanks)
Doug Van Houten
502.472.6563
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Saturday, May 21 7:30 pm
WORLD PEACE COFFEE HOUSE
A celebration of human creativity and
innovative visions of social change
St. Matthews Episcopal Church
330 North Hubbards Lane
$5.00 donation
Hosted by singer-songwriter
Michael Kessler
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