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Watershed Council presents "Release Me"
at its regularly scheduled meeting, September 8th, 5:30 p.m. at the Resource Center
This short documentary shows the effects of the Matilija Dam on our coastal ecosystem.
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Farmageddon The Unseen War on American Family Farms
Saturday, Sept. 10th 4:30 pm Ojai Theatre
Admission $7
All proceeds go to
Farmer to Consumer
Legal Defense Fund
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Save the Date!
October 23
A Valley Wide Discussion
Invitation from
Supervisor Steve Bennett
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Board of Directors
Caryn Bosson
Noel Douglas
Dale Hanson
Kerry Miller
Kathy Nolan
Deborah Pendrey
Tyler Suchman
Sabrina Venskus
David White
Ojai Valley Green Coalition
327 East Ojai Avenue
Ojai, CA 93023
(805) 669-8445
ojaivalleygreencoalition.org
This e-newsletter is produced by the Communications & Publicity Committee
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Advancing a green, sustainable, and resilient Ojai Valley
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Tickets on Sale Now!
Green Home & Building Tour
with Kick-Off Reception
the Evening Before
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The Ojai Valley Green Coalition kicks off its 3rd Green Home & Building Tour with a reception on Friday, September 30, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the beautiful Besant Hill School campus. The reception features guest speaker Nicholas Deitch, senior principal of Main Street Architects. Nick is a sought after speaker for his vision and philosophy on sustainable community planning and building. Ojai mayor, Carol Smith, will also present appreciation plaques to our tour site owners
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The reception will showcase Besant Hill student musicians, Casa Barranca organic wine, and local organic fare prepared by Chef Terri. Most of the menu will come from Peter Wilsrup,a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farmer cultivating food crops on Besant Hill School land and Mano Farms, also a CSA and featured in the Home & Building Tour brochure.
Then on Saturday, October 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Ojai Valley Green Home & Building Tour offers a self-guided tour of four green-built homes and one commercial site with identified eco-friendly features. The designers and contractors will be present to answer your questions.Nissan's new LEAF electric car will also be on view at one of the sites with a representative to answer questions.
Running concurrently with the tour will be a Green Home Show held on Ojai Valley Inn & Spa's Ojai Avenue property next to the Rotary Community Park. This show will provide visitors with a display of sustainable-living merchandise and information, and will be free to the general public.
The tour and show are sponsored by Southern California Edison, Allen & Associates, the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, the Ojai Valley News, Ojai Community Bank, Team Nissan, Modular Lifestyles, Natural Awakening, Kerry Miller Designer/Builder, Sol Haus Design, California Solar, and Jane Carroll Design. Tour tickets may be purchased online at www.OjaiValleyGreenTour.com for $10; the evening reception is $25 ($20 for those with paid Green Coalition memberships). For further information, call (805) 669-8445 or visit www.OjaiValleyGreenTour.com.
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Members Invited to Join in Annual Cleanup Day  Green Coalition to Partner with the California Coastal Commission on September 17th On Saturday, September 17 from 9 a.m. through noon, join in as we partner with the California Coastal Commission in its 27th annual Coastal/Creek Cleanup Day. That morning we'll remove litter from various locations around the Valley. Volunteers are asked to sign in at 8:45 a.m. at the Libbey Park lower tennis court parking lot off S. Montgomery St. in Ojai.
The annual Cleanup Day will be taking place at more than 750 locations around the state, and will result in 1,100 miles of the California coastline, as well as another 1,000 miles of inland shorelines, being cleared of trash and debris by volunteers.
The Coastal Commission estimates that 80 percent of the debris on California beaches originates from inland and then washes out to the ocean. Last year more than 80,000 volunteers collected more than 1,200,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from California's beaches, lakes, and inland waterways.
Coastal Cleanup Day takes place every year on the third Saturday of September, is the nation's premier volunteer event focused on the marine environment, and offers a way for students, neighbors, families, and service groups to join together, have fun, and show community support for the stewarding of shared natural resources. For further information on this event, call (805) 669-8445 or visit www.OjaiValleyGreenCoalition.org. Click here for county wide information and locations.
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Village Alchemy:
Transforming Spaces into Places
How do we shape public spaces
into gathering places?
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Mark Lakeman
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The Ojai Valley Green Coalition presents an afternoon with Mark Lakeman and Marisa Auerbach from CityRepair.org, Portland, Oregon. The event happens Sunday, September 25th, 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Chaparral Auditorium, 414 E. Ojai Avenue, Ojai, CA. There is a suggested donation of $5.00.
Join us for a fascinating presentation with Mark Lakeman and Marisa Auerbach about projects and "lessons learned" in Portland, Oregon, that we can apply to creating a more interactive community for the Ojai Valley. Placemaking is a multi-layered process within which citizens foster active, engaged relationships to the spaces they inhabit. The landscapes of our lives shape those spaces in a way that creates a sense of communal stewardship and lived connection (or not) within the Ojai Valley.
This is most often accomplished through a creative reclamation of public space: projects which take the form of benches on street corners where neighbors can sit, rest and talk with each other; kiosks on sidewalks where neighbors can post information about local events, needs and resources; and street paintings in the public right-of-way that demonstrate to all who pass through that this is -- a Place -- inhabited, known and loved by its residents.
A question & answer session will follow the presentation. Help us help the Ojai Valley move further forward as a green, sustainable and resilient PLACE.
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National "Move To Amend"
activist David Cobb to speak on
Corporate Personhood
 If you've ever heard the term "corporate personhood" and wondered what it meant, it may surprise you to learn corporations have been considered "persons" for over 100 years, and the Supreme Court has often used "personhood" status to give corporations more power and rights than you have. That's the message activist David Cobb will share in a community forum on September 15th in Ojai, as part of a national tour organized to support a US Constitutional amendment defining "persons" as living human beings only.
The legal distinction is not trivial. For decades, corporations have used "personhood" as an effective loophole to advance their bottom line at the expense of the environment and local community control. The problem is getting worse. Dozens of court decisions have helped corporations undermine environmental laws and interfere with their enforcement, and in some situations even require taxpayers to compensate corporations for the cost of cleaning up corporate damage to the environment.
Many communities are starting to organize to confront corporate threats to local economies and natural resources. David Cobb will provide information about the issue and discuss how Ojai can join this national movement. His one-hour presentation will be followed by a question and answer period, when local residents can share their experiences and suggestions.
Thursday, September 15 at 7:00 p.m.
Matilija Junior High Auditorium, 703 El Paseo Road, Ojai
$5 suggested donation at the door
This event is hosted by the Ojai Valley Democratic Club
For more information contact Bill Haff or see Facebook
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