Cultivating Connections Recommends:
Events for Metro Louisville - September 2012 Edition
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Sunday, September 2
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Cool Harvest:
Food, Faith and Climate
Unity of Louisville
757 South Brook Street
Food connects us to some of the most important questions of our time. It connects us to personal and communal issues issues that are often linked to not just environmental sustainability, but also to social justice and spiritual fulfillment.
Today we know our food system is one of the leading contributors of greenhouse gas pollution, and that as a result, the food choices we make - individually and as a society - affect not only our health, but the health of the planet and all of Creation.
This program explores the realities, the possibilities and our responsibilities around food, faith and our environment.
It will be presented by Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light staff members
Mark Steiner and Aaron Tornes.
The presentation includes the 30 minute documentary
Nourish: Food + Communty hosted by Cameron Diaz
For more information on
Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light's Green Sheep Gatherings click here. |
Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, September 5 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road))
20 minute presentation
Beyond Farmers Markets:
Eating local in Louisville
Sarah Fritschner Louisville Farm to Table's (LFtT) mission is to increase the capacity of the local food system by working to increase production, marketing, distribution and sales of Kentucky edible agriculture products and to meet the demand of Louisville's market for local foods.
The work includes brokering deals and relationships, creating public forums to identify and overcome barriers to progress, and working with institutions such as Jefferson County Public Schools. The goal is to make the flow of Kentucky-grown products into the city more seamless, giving easier access to the folks who are interested in procuring local products."
Sarah is former Courier-Journal Food Editor, and works with the City of Louisville to bring local healthy food to markets in our community as part of the mayor's "Healthy Hometown" initiative. 5 minute presentations
Dayna NeumannEVP Marketing + Strategy FetterGroup and Co-Director for Do Something Green Stephen BrownArtisan Rain Barrels and Their Uses
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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 I Stand with the Sisters
Prayer Vigils
Tuesday, September 11, 5 - 6 pm
at these three locations
Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville
St. Raphael, Louisville Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral, Bardstown Theme Supporting the Sisters in Words and Deeds
Read Sr. Patricia Farrell's wonderful address to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (" Navigating the Shifts").
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September 15, 9 am 1 -pm
Greening the Highlands:
Responsible Recycling and Green Fair
St. Paul United Methodist Church
2000 Douglass Blvd
Electronics Recycling by 2trg: Accepting all e-waste including cell phones, computers, monitors, printers, ink cartridges, copiers/fax machines, video equipment, wires/cables/cords, PDAs, stereo components, other electronic items not suitable for landfills such as batteries and CFL light bulbs (additional $5 Recycling fee for TVs and CRT monitors)
Paper/Document Shredding by A+ Paper Shredding (Up to 2 boxes/bags accepted per vehicle)
Green Fair includes vendors, exhibits, demonstratons, give-a-ways, and hourly showings of Nourish, Dirt!, and Blessed Earth in St. Paul Youth Center and The Common Cup.
12noon presentation
Cool Harvest:
a program exploring the connections
between food, faith and climate
$5 Suggested Donation per vehicle to benefit
Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light, and Highlands Community Ministries
For more information, contact either Carrie Burns (cburns@stpaulchurch.net) or David Garvin (dgarvin@stpaulchurch.net) or call (502)-459-1595.OurEarthNow Presents
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Monday, September 17, 6:00 pm
Social Change Book Club
Priceless Money:
Banking Time for Changing Times
by Edgar S Cahn
Heine Bros. Coffee 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews.  . A TimeBank has recently been started in Louisville with three main goals:
Strengthen the fabric of our community. Networks are stronger than individuals.
Serve people and give a means to serve.
Establish new relationships and meet real needs of our community members.
Time Banking invites neighbor-to-neighbor volunteerism and values people equally for the help they give. One hour of service earns one "Time Dollar." Time Bank members trade their Time Dollars to "buy" help for themselves, to send help to family members, friends, church and community programs, and/or to acquire needed products or services, free or at a discount.
Although simple in theory, Time Banking calls for rethinking the value of volunteers and unleashes the abundance of care and compassion that out- performs any help money can buy.
In the process of TimeBanking, people get to know and trust their neighbors, establishing caring relationships that can help reweave the fabric of our communities, and replace our culture's over-reliance on individual financial security.
The TimeBank organization had its origin to the thinking of
Edgar S. Cahn, founder of Time Dollars and TimeBanking.
Priceless Money is available as a free download or for a $10 donation to TimeBanks USA here
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Tuesday, September 18 at the at 6:30 PM General Meeting Program: Know Sierra Club, Know Ourselves
Clifton Center (cliftoncenter.org) Please join us Tuesday, September 18 at the Clifton Center (cliftoncenter.org) at 6:30 PM (not 7:00) for a different kind of meeting. There will be a time for socializing and snacks, there will be a "special guest," but there will be no main speaker! Instead we will have a facilitated discussion to learn about "big" Sierra Club, what it's up to, and how we at the local level fit in.
We hope people will share their club experiences and their opinions about current club activities. Is there anything special you want to do? There will also be an opportunity to express your wider concerns for the world. The idea is for the questions and concerns of the participants to determine the direction of the discussion. So come learn from each other and about each other, and, in so doing, help build community.
Again, this meeting begins at 6:30 PM, a half-hour earlier than usual.
It is free and open to the public.
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 Saturday, September 22 7pm
Autumn Equinox Sacred Celebration
Between the Breaths
Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church 4936 Brownsboro Road
Our Autumn Equinox celebration will celebrate and explore this unique time of the year and all the gifts that come with the harvest.
At the same time we will explore and celebrate the equinox as the time in between - when Earth's axis is tilted neither towards or away from the sun, the moment right in between the out breath of summer and the in breath of winter.
This is the moment between the breaths.
Join us as we come together in story, play, song, poetry,
art, stillness and movement.
Sacred Celebrations are a collaborative effort between artists, seekers, 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.
Sponsored by Cultivating Connections in Collaboration
with Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church
www.cultivatingconnections.org
cultivatingconnections@insightbb.com
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The New Cosmology and Universe Story
Four Sunday sessions: September 23, 30, October 7, 14
12:30 am to 3:30 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
located in "the Barn" 1924 Newburg Road
The recent discovery of the birth and evolution of the universe represents a dramatic change in human self-understanding. We humans are just waking up and beginning to consider what it means to be part of a universe that is alive. In down-to-earth terms, this course examines the shift that is taking place in our understanding of the world, the opportunities it presents to the human community, and the implication it has for people of faith.
Four Sunday sessions: September 23, 30, October 7, 14
Time: 12:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Fr. Joe Mitchell, CP
Suggested donation is $75. No one is refused for lack of funds.
For more information, email info@earthandspiritcenter.org or call 502.452.2749.
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Don't Miss
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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