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Earth Day on Bainbridge Island! A Ten-Year Tradition!
Learn, play, celebrate...and get your hands dirty! Be a good steward of the Earth! Sustainable Bainbridge joins many other local organizations and individuals to bring you a wide array of Earth Day events. Highlights include: Pritchard Park weed pulling, T&C Annual Community Fair, food gardening with Ann Lovejoy, films, book readings and more.

Link here for an amazing list of events now through April 26.

Tuesday, April 14
Michael Shuman- Author of Going Local and Small Mart Revolution
7:00pm - 8:30pm, Trinity United Methodist Church, 6512 - 23rd Ave NW, Ballard

Nationally recognized author, attorney, economist, & NPR radio guest Michael Shuman will speak on the timely topic of engaging local communities into collective action during these trying economic times and present solutions for keeping dollars in our community.

Tickets are $10 ($15 day-of), and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/61112

Thursday, April 16
Stormwater Workshop -- "Fixing Puget Sound" Series
7pm, Stillwaters Environmental Center, 26059 Barber Cut Off, Kingston

Spend an evening learning about the problems and solutions of stormwater runoff. You will be part of an interactive experience of transforming a watershed from pristine to inhabited. Discussion will focus on water quantity, water quality and what we all can do for clean runoff. Participants will receive a "Clean Runoff Kit". The speaker is Mindy Fohn, Water Quality Manager, Kitsap County Public Works, Surface and Stormwater Management Division. The cost is a suggested $20 donation.

Contact: Stillwaters Environmental Center at 360-297-2876

Saturday and Sunday April 25 & 26
Matinees that Matter: "FLOW" ~ 5:00 p.m. both days
$9 all seats; Historic Lynwood Theatre, 4569 Lynwood Center Rd. NE

FLOW is an award-winning investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?" Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions and new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.

Post-film discussion with Susan LaSalle, Board Member, Corporate Accountability International.

Contact: info@SustainableBainbridge.net or 842-4439 or 842-4439.

Saturday, April 25
Awakening the Dreamer / Changing the Dream
10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Suquamish UCC, 18732 Division Street, Suquamish

Awakening the Dreamer Symposium is a profound inquiry into a bold vision: to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on Earth. The symposium will begin with a welcome by Leonard Forsman, Suquamish Tribal Chairman. It is presented in partnership with the Pachamama Alliance.

Suggested donation, $20: includes a lunch prepared by Judith Weinstock and her students from West Sound Academy - locally grown & organic. Advance registration is required: please send a check to Sound Spirit, P. O. Box 318, Suquamish, WA 98392, or call the Church office at 360-598-4434.

Sunday, April 26
Yard Waste Amnesty Days
8:00am- 4:00pm, Emu Composting Facility, 7890 Ecology Road
(between Kingston and Hansville off the Hansville Highway)

Residents may bring yard waste for free disposal. There is no volume restriction for homeowners. Commercial businesses and landscapers or commercial haulers will be charged at normal rate.

For more information please visit www.kitsapgov.com/sw and click on Yard Waste Amnesty Days.

Monday and Tuesday, April 27 & 28
Sociocracy: Introductory Workshop (I and II) with John Buck, author of: We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy
7-10pm, Greenwood and Fremont

Dynamic Governance, also known as Sociocracy, is a cutting-edge system of running organizations that uses systems and chaos theories. Organizations using this model are powerful, flexible, efficient and fun. Using old and new forms of structure and decision-making means it is a hybrid of efficiency and equality. Dynamic governance was developed in Holland, is beginning to be known in the U.S. and Canada. $20 per night (or whatever you can pay). Attend one or both nights.

Contact:Tim Anderson - 206.604.8284 or link here to Register

MAY

Monday, May 4
Sustainable First Monday: Water Conservation - It Begins with Us!
7-9 pm, Bainbridge Commons, 402 Bjune Drive SE (Waterfront Park)
Sponsored by Sustainable Bainbridge. Free.

Join us as we explore simple and affordable ways to conserve water inside and outside the home. Presentations by Cara Cruckshank (Bainbridge Island Watershed Council and the Natural Landscapes Project), and sustainable residential designer Molly McCabe, AKBD (Sustainable Bainbridge) will share a variety of water-saving actions and resources. In addition, Jalyn Cummings with the City of Bainbridge Island will present information on the joint project between the City and United States Geological Service (USGS) designed to help us assess our ground water resources-How much ground water does our island have? How much will we have in the future? Bring your curiosity and you own cup for tea!

Contact: info@SustainableBainbridge.net or 842-4439.

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