Cultivating Connections Recommends:
Events for Metro Louisville - August 2012 Edition
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, August 1 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road))
20 minute presentation
Kentucky Environmental Foundation
Deborah Payne, Energy and Health Coordinator
The Kentucky Environmental Foundation (KEF) is dedicated to securing solutions to environmental problems in a manner that safeguards human health, promotes environmental justice, preserves ecological systems and encourages sustainability.
5 minute presentations
Refinishing vs Replacing
Jon Harbridge, owner
Growing Sunflower Sprouts
Mark Forman, Board President Breaking New Grounds
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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 Sunday, August 5 1 pm - 4 pm
Really Really Free Market
Tyler Park
Hosted by Our Earth Now 
See Our FaceBook Event
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 I Stand with the Sisters
Prayer Vigils
August 7, 5 - 6 pm
at these three locations
Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville
St. Raphael, Louisville
Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral, Bardstown
Come to whatever site which you are most comfortable.
At the request of the national vigil coordinators, all vigils will be singing the same song. We do need someone at each site who can video the singing and email it to the national coordinators so it can be assembled into a music video. We'll surprise you with the song.
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 OurEarthNow Presents
Gasland Screening
Saturday August 18, 7:00 pm
at the Mammoth
744 South 13 Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40210
Come see GASLAND-- the groundbreaking documentary highlighting the dangers to groundwater aquifers caused by hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", a form of natural gas drilling. Visions of flaming water faucets and dying cattle, dogs, and aquatic animal and plant life make it clear in the film that fracking may have catastrophic results for a region's drinking and agricultural water.
We will also be showing Josh Fox's new post-GASLAND 18-minute short film, THE SKY IS PINK, after the feature.
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Monday, August 20, 6:00 pm
Social Change Book Club
Stop Stealing Dreams: What Is School For?
by Seth Godin
Heine Bros. Coffee 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews.  . Stop Stealing Dreams is a manifesto, a series of provocations, ones that might make us go "Ouch" and ones that Godin hopes will resonate and provoke global conversations, particularly on the question that leads us to re-envisioning: "What are schools for?", "Do schools today offer a good education; one that allows for and enables dreams to be fulfilled?"
His intention: To create a new set of questions and demands that parents, taxpayers, and kids can bring to the people they've chosen, the institution we've built and invested our time and money into.
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.
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 Center For Neighborhoods presents the Green Institute
Monday Evenings 6:00 - 8:30 pm
August 20th - November 12th
United Crescent Hill Ministries
150 S. State St. (off Frankfort Avenue)
The Green Institute is an environmental leadership-education program established in 2012 by the Center For Neighborhoods, a non-profit civic organization. The Green Institute equips neighborhood leaders with the skills and resources needed to improve the environmental, social and economic resilience of their communities.
Facilitated by Ben Evans
(director of YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip)
and Alex Molina, Urban Planner
The Green Institute is generously funded by
the Green Triangle - Metro Council District 9.
Click HERE for a registration. To view the Green Institute brochure, click HERESpace is limited.
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 Greater Louisville Sierra Club General Meeting
The Clean Water Act after Forty Years
Tuesday, August 21 7:00 pm Clifton Center * 2117 Payne St
2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, the nation's law for protecting our most irreplaceable resource. Every person deserves clean water - it is vital for our health, communities, environment and economy. Please join us as we welcome Randy Strobo. Randy will look at our accomplishments and challenges over the past 4o years and how the Clean Water Act has impacted Kentucky and our local community.
Randy Strobo joined the law firm W.H. Graddy & Associates in August of 2008. His primary areas of practice include environmental, civil, administrative, and appellate litigation across a range of issues including permitting and regulation, industrial pollution, land use, planning and zoning, personal injury and property damage, conservation planning, agricultural preservation, air/water quality, energy, and historic preservation. Mr. Strobo has recently served as an environmental consultant at Yale University, Diageo Inc., the Environmental Investigation Agency, the Watershed Watch of Kentucky, and as a Coca Cola World Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Management at North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
This program is free and open to the public.
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 Buddhism and the
Response to Global Warming
Saturday, August 25 * 10:30 am - Noon
Drepung Gomang Institute
411 North Hubbards Lane (near Westport Road)
As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility towards others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it. ~Dalai Lama
This program explores Buddhist connections to climate change and the environmental spirituality movement. Through a combination of video, quotes, presentations, reflection, and deep sharing we will engage each other in an exploration of the call to live compassionately with planet earth and her larger community.
Open to the public. Donations welcomed.
Presented by
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Save-the-Dates
 Mountain Top Mining Tour
September 7 and 8th
The Social Justice group at Church of the Epiphany in Louisville (the Advocates for the Common Good), is organizing a Mountain Top Removal Bus Tour leaving at 8 am Friday, September 7 and returning early evening on Saturday, September 8th.
Fr John Rausch is leading the tour which will include discussions with some of the local people (and possibly some health professionals) regarding the effects of MTR on Earth and on the people living there.
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Coming this Fall
Journey to Wholeness:
Navigating with the Nature-Based
Map of the Psyche
On private land near Louisville, Kentucky
October 26 - 29, 2012
with Rebecca Wildbear & Doug Van Houten
This program is being offered
thru Cultivating Connections in collaboration with Animas Valley Institute
For more information about the program or how to register please call
Doug at 502-472-6563
or Rebecca at 435-691-3021
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