Cultivating Connections Recommends
August 2011
Upcoming Events for Metro Louisville
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, August 3 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located in the Barn behind St Agnes Church 1924 Newburg Road)
20 Minute Presentation -
The Brown-Forman Sustainability Journey
Rob Frederick, VP, Director, Global Responsibility, Brown-Foreman
Brown-Forman has become a leader in the corporate responsibility. It's first corporate responsibility report -Our Long Term Perspective (2007-2008), won wide acclaim for the candid way in which it addressed the company's most material issue (alcohol responsibility). Rob shares the success and challenges of Brown-Forman's sustainability journey and what it is like to lead change from the inside of a beverage alcohol company.
5 Minute Presentation-
The Kentucky Green Party
Phil Ardery
The Kentucky Green Party came into existence during the Founding Statewide Convention held in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, on Saturday, July 23, 2011. Phil was there and will report briefly what happened and what's next for the party. The Green Party is pro-environment, pro-working people, pro-diversity, and pro-peace.
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 Fifth 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
to the Earth and Spirit Center
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Tuesday, August 16 at 7 pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club General Meeting
Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Street
just off Frankfort Avenue
Did you know that the University of Louisville was 61st on Sierra Club's "Cool Schools" national list of 2010? Please join us Tuesday, August 16, for a program lead by Justin Mog, Ph.D., Assistant to the Provost for Sustainability Initiatives at the University of Louisville. Dr. Mog will discuss the many ways UofL is working to be more healthy and sustainable.
Dr. Mog came to UofL in August 2009 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a Masters (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) from the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His graduate research focused on assessing the sustainability of international rural development projects, and his studies took him to Ghana, Costa Rica, and the southern Philippines as a Fulbright scholar in 2001. He continued this work from 2005-2008 when he lived with his wife in Paraguay working on sustainable rural development efforts with the U.S. Peace Corps and Plan Paraguay. He strives to lead by example and minimize his own environmental impact - he is a car-free vegetarian with a fully solar-powered home where he grows the majority of his food. Dr. Mog was profiled by UofL Today (http://php.louisville.edu/news/news.php?news=1553) and was recently featured on the cover of The Courier-Journal with his wife as a "Lean & Green" couple. Admission is free and open to all.
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Wednesday, August 17 - 7 pm a Screening of Dive! The Film - Living Off America's Waste at the Passionist Earth and Spirit Center located in the barn behind St Agnes Church 1924 Newburg Road 
Inspired by a curiosity about our country's careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, the multi award-winning documentary DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles' supermarkets. In the process, they salvage thousands of dollars worth of good, edible food - resulting in an inspiring documentary that is equal parts entertainment, guerilla journalism and call to action. Find this event on FaceBook 
See the trailer on the Dive! Website (click here)
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Friday, August 19 7:00 pm
Monthly Drumming Circle
at The Earth and Spirit Center
(located in the Barn behind the Passionist Monastery 1924 Newburg Road)
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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Heine Bros. Coffee Chenoweth
Social Change Book Club 4.0 An independent gathering furthering learning on social change. As an education historian and former assistant secretary of education, Ravitch has witnessed the trends in public education over the past 40 years and has herself swung from public-school advocate to market-driven accountability and choice supporter back to public-school advocate. With passion and insight, she analyzes research and draws on interviews with educators, philanthropists, and business executives to question the current direction of reform of public education. Ravitch analyzes the impact of choice on public schools, attempts to quantify quality teaching, and describes the data wars with advocates for charter and traditional public schools. Ravitch also critiques the continued reliance on a corporate model for school reform and the continued failure of such efforts to emphasize curriculum. Conceding that there is no single solution, Ravitch concludes by advocating for strong educational values and revival of strong neighborhood public schools. For readers on all sides of the school-reform dialogue, this is a very informative book. 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. |
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Best selling author Marianne Williamson, Conscious Evolution author Barbara Marx Hubbard, Son of Man author Andrew Harvey, and Dr. Gladys McGarey, the mother of wholistic medicine, join Spiritual Cinema director Kell Kearns for a thought provoking, challenging new look at the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Filmed in The Holy Land with dramatic tableaus of Jesus, The Magdalene and the disciples, the film brings to light the latest scholarship on the historical Jesus. What emerges is the pivotal way-shower of humankind teaching in word and example that the Kingdom of God is here among us now. Love, giving and forgiving represent the character of the true human being, the child of God. Radical self trust in a trustworthy universe is the path to unity with the divine creative source.
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Saturday August 27
6:21 pm - 10:21 pm
CONNECT at Bernheim
Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest
Clermont, KY
CONNECT is a collision of art, music, science and technology around Lake Nevin at night. It's an indescribable experience. You have to be there.
On Saturday August 27 from 6:21 p.m. to 10:21 p.m. Lake Nevin will be ABLAZE with creativity. The event intends to open a creative dialogue between artists, scientists, naturalists, lunatics, sustainability advocates and progressive thinkers, all gathered in nature. The effect will ripple beyond the effort.
The experience is designed to provide adults with new perspectives on art, science, beauty and the world around us: · Light projected onto mist · Films screened on shimmering trees · Floating fire sculpture · Experimental music orchestra conducted by nature · Kinetic sculptures powered by water from whiskey barrels · Grilled food including vegetarian options · Beer You get the picture. Be there. Bring a friend. Bring three. Suggested entrance donation: $5 per person For more information 502-955-8512 or on the web at www.bernheim.org/connect |
Save the Date
Saturday September 10 10 am - 4 pm
True Love: Practices in Compassion for Self & World -
A Day of Communal Rest and Reflection
 
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