Cultivating Connections Recommends June 2012
Events for Metro Louisville
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, June 6 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road))
20 minute presentation
Wild Ones Native Plants, Natural Landscapes Portia Brown, President of Kentucky Chapter Portia will discuss the use of native plants in landscapes, and elimination of alien invasive plants that are taking over our parks, open spaces, and even our neighborhoods, crowding out useful native plants that help absorb water, reduce erosion, and provide proper nutrition for birds and wildlife. She will suggest plants with very long roots that can help absorb water, retaining it for future droughts, and suggest plants that may be used to replace the devastating invasives that are causing so many problems.
5 minute presentations
Code Red
Jody Johnson, Public Information Officer
Louisville Sustainable Living Fair
Mark Steiner, Coordinating Committee Member
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.
Food & drink:
Heine Bros. provides us with Heine Bros. coffee. Feel free to bring a bag lunch. If you'd like to prepare extra food or drink to share with others, that is always welcome!
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Friday, June 15 7pm
Killowatt Ours Film Screening
Highland Green Building
1401 Bardstown Road
Kilowatt Ours is a documentary by Jeff Barrie that has become a national movement to promote energy conservation, efficiency and renewable energy.
Kilowatt Ours is also a non profit organization advocating for conservation power plants in every community in America. They provide resources for homes, businesses, schools and communities to begin their journey to energy savings.
This film screening is open to the public and is being offered on a donation basis.
Hosted by OurEarthNow
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Saturday, June 16 * 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Moving Through the Universe Story
A Workshop Exploring the Universe's Journey through Movement at 1741: A Collabotory for Social Innovation 1741 Frankfort Avenue  Offering a whole new spin on dancing with the stars! Facilitated by Jen Straub and Mark Steiner Fee: $40 * Participation is strictly limited. Register today to hold your spot! 502-897-2721 or cultivatingconnections@insightbb.com |
Monday, June 18, 6:00 pm Social Change Book Club
Political Mind by George Lakoff Heine Bros. Coffee 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews. For June, our book is Political Mind by George Lakoff. As our national argument about which candidates will be elected and whose ideas will dominate, it is helpful to understand how the arguments are being made. Lakoff, a neuro scientist, shows that political discourse arises from a process of conceptual and metaphorical framing which ultimately is grounded in the way the brain works, and that an understanding of this process is essential for successful political campaigns.
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.
Please just show up if you 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. We got this going because there is a lot to learn about how to make social change happen and people who are interested in changing the world need opportunities to share stories and experience community with others who care. |
Tuesday, June 19 7pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club presents
Art Williams of KCC
Clifton Center 2117 Payne Street
Please join us as we welcome Art Williams, Executive Director of the Kentucky Conservation Committee. KCC is a 35 year old Kentucky non-profit focusing on energy, environmental, and natural resources issues, including land conservation and biodiversity. Art's program will focus on KCC's mission and its role in building coalitions to address healthy and sustainable improvements and growth throughout our Commonwealth. This program is free and open to the public.
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Wednesday, June 20, 7 pm Summer Solstice Sacred Celebration at 1741: A Collabotory for Social Innovation 1741 Frankfort Avenue Sacred Celebrations are a collaborative effort between artists, spiritual leaders, and activists who come together to create fun, reverent and relevant programs affirming our connections to the sacred, to each other, and to our world.
Join us as we come together in story, play, dance, song,
poetry, art and movement. Our Summer celebration honors our relationship with the sun by exploring her story through the story of the universe. This program is inspired by the Journey of the Universe film written by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker.
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Saturday, June 23, 5pmWorship and Collective Meal
"Bodies in Movement for the Health of All Creation"
at 142 Crescent Hill Ave
(back building and grounds of Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church)
 How is your body a temple of the Spirit?
What movement are you called to make for the health of the earth?
How does God ask you to stretch and reach, to increase endurance,
flexibility and strength?
How does the health of your body affect the health of the world's body?
How does the illness in the earth's body show up in the health of the world's poorest populations or most vulnerable creatures?
In prayer, praise, movement, reflection, art, music and more we will worship God, explore how God calls us to become the body of Christ, to bend our bodies towards justice, to transform the church into a more flexible, strong, enduring body for the Spirit's movement in the world. Come, let us worship God!
Optional collective meal begins right after worship, approx 6pm-
all are welcome to stay and share
For more information, and/or check out our blog
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Friday, June 29, 5 pm - 9 pm
6th Annual Louisville Sustainable Living Fair
Features 50 "Green" Exhibitors
Rastetter Avenue
(between Payne Street and Frankfort Avenue)
The Louisville Sustainable Living Fair makes the hard choices sustainability represents easier by exposing participants to a wide variety of local environmentally friendly businesses, organizations and technologies in a street fair environment.
Among the more than 50 participating vendors and exhibitors are:
· groups supporting the local and vegetarian food movement;
· groups supporting change around climate and energy consumption;
· groups seeking to create a more resilient and sustainable city;
· groups working for conservation
· green retailers, local manufacturers and more
This is a free event and is open to the community
The Louisville Sustainable Living Fair is sponsored by
Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church
www.cliftonuu.orgwith
Sustainable Clifton Committee
(of the Clifton Community Council)
and
Cultivating Connections
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