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Dear ,
Welcome to another issue of our member newsletter, we hope you enjoy the new format. Your contribution to the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association contributes to our success and we thank you for your continued support. Together we are making a difference.
Kellie Falbo - Executive Director
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Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now!
Keynote Speaker at the Fair
Saturday, September 15th at 2:00pm
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Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer
of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news
program airing on 500 radio and television stations in North America.
Time Magazine named Democracy Now! In its "Pick of the Podcasts."
Goodman and her brother, journalist David Goodman, co-authored Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, and the New York Times best seller The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them.
Goodman's reporting on East Timor and Nigeria has won numerous awards,
including the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for
International Reporting, and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award. She
has also received awards from the Associated Press, United Press
International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Project
Censored.
Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S.,
Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR stations, low power FM,
College and Community Radio stations as well as Public Access TV and
PBS stations, and on both TV satellite networks -- DISH Network channel
9415 Free Speech TV, 9410 Link TV, and on Direct TV channel 375.
Democracy Now! is also available at democracynow.org. She recently
began a weekly syndicated column with King Features.
Michael Shuman, Author and Economist
Saturday, September 15 at Noon
 Michael
Shuman is vice president for Enterprise Development for the Training
and Development Corporation (TDC) of Bucksport, Maine. A noted
economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur, Shuman is widely
recognized for his research into the economic advantages of small-scale
businesses in an era of globalization as well as the often over-looked
benefits of building local economies in an era of big-box retail
chains. He has authored, coauthored, and edited seven books, including
The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global
Competition and Going Local: Creating
Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age.
In recent years Shuman has overseen a variety of projects, including
the design of a small-business, venture-capital fund in New Mexico and
the development of CommunityFood.com, a Web site that provides
marketing support for small-scale family farmers. He also organized
university-government-business collaborations in both St. Lawrence
County, New York, and the Katahdin Region of Maine to study
opportunities for import replacement.
Shuman serves as a senior editor for the recently published
Encyclopedia of Community. He is a cofounder and active participant in
the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and a founder
of Bay Friendly Chicken, a community-owned company located in
Salisbury, Maryland.
Peggy O'Mara, Publisher of Mothering Magazine
Sunday, September 16 at Noon
 Peggy O'Mara has gained international celebrity as publisher, editor, and owner of Mothering magazine. A dynamic speaker, she has lectured and conducted workshops
in conjunction with organizations such as the Omega Institute, Esalen,
La Leche League International and Bioneers. She has appeared on
numerous television and radio programs and has been featured in
national publications including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Mother Earth News, and Utne Reader. She is the mother of four adult children.
Peggy is the author of Having a Baby, Naturally: The Mothering
Magazine Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth, Natural Family Living: The
Mothering Magazine Guide to Parenting and A Quiet Place: Essays on Life
and Family.
Mothering is the magazine of natural family living and has provided a voice for alternative parenting ideas since 1976. Mothering
has been ahead of the times in the coverage of natural pregnancy,
normal birth, informed choice in regards to circumcision and
vaccinations, alternatives in education, commercialism and many other
parenting-related issues.
Check our website regularly to find out who our Fourth Keynote Speaker will be!
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| Be Local Coupon and Network Book
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Given the success of the Be Local Coupon Book (over 2400 copies sold since our mid-September launch!), the second edition of Be Local Coupon & Network Book is under development. Please recommend locally-owned, independent businesses that you want to see in the book, and better yet, personally refer us to business owners whom you know would like to participate. Email belocal@SustainableLivingAssociation.org.with name and nature of business, and owner contact information. Thanks!
Only a few hundred Be Local Books remain at local outlets, get your collector's copy now: http://www.sustainablelivingassociation.org/belocal/outlets.html |
| NEW Local Living Economy Network
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As of March 2007, the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association affiliated with the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), a North American alliance of 48 independently operated local business networks with more than 15,000 members. We share their vision of a sustainable global economy made up of local living economies that build long-term economic empowerment and prosperity through local business ownership, economic justice, cultural diversity, and environmental stewardship.
We have begun actively building our own Local Living Economy Network
(LLE Network). LLE Network members are locally-owned, independent
businesses committed to the "triple bottom line" - that is, they
measure success by their positive contribution to community and impact
on the environment as well as money earned.
We are currently
inviting merchants, farmers, trades people, professionals, cafés,
restaurants, arts groups, health practitioners, and others to join us.
The LLE Network will act to
ˇ Encourage local purchasing by consumers and businesses
ˇ Create opportunities for business leaders to cooperate toward best practices
ˇ Advocate public policies that support and sustain community-based businesses
Email BeLocal@SustainableLivingAssociation.org for more information on the LLE Network. |
| Be Local Community Gatherings
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Be Local Community Gatherings are underway! We are in search of a stable regular meeting space, so if you have ideas please let us know. We would like to host a gathering in mid-May to keep evolving the "building block" sector groups. Then for the mid-June meeting, our four people traveling to the 5th Annual Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) conference in UC Berkeley from May 31- June 2 will report back - promises to be a lively evening!
If you want to be on our Be Local Gathering email list and you currently do not receive email announcements, please contact us at: BeLocal@SustainableLivingAssociation.org |
| Poudre Canyon Highway Clean-Up
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RMSLA adopted a three-mile stretch of highway
in the scenic Poudre Canyon in Fort Collins, Colorado in January of
2006.
Our next highway clean up is scheduled for April 29th from noon to 1pm. Our area includes the small town of Poudre
Park and we also clean-up the river bank on this stretch.if you would
to take part in this activity, please contact us in advance at: Kellie@SustainableLivingAssociation.org
Our 2007 highway clean ups are scheduled for: April, June, August, and October - Dates to be determined |
Three Penny Opera by Open Stage Theatre
Special Viewing for RMSLA Members & Friends
Friday May 25th, 8:00pm
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All tickets sold will directly benefit the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association! The colorful, exotic musical saga of Mack the
Knife, Polly Peachum and the gritty underworld of Soho as seen through
the eyes of two 20th century geniuses, The Threepenny Opera is
a revolutionary musical theatre masterpiece, first performed in Berlin
in 1928. Brecht's brittle, sardonic tale creates a world of beggars,
thieves and prostitutes, and Weill's jazzy, inventive score captures
the ironic tone of the lyrics. Derived from The Beggar's Opera, written by John Gay in 1728, The Threepenny Opera creates a stunning, cabaret world that, eighty years after its premiere, remains an outrageous and cunning satire of society.
Location:
Lincoln Center : Mini Theater 417 W Magnolia Fort Collins, Colorado
Tickets:
$20 each, a fundraiser for RMSLA
To purchase:
Contact our Fundraising Coordinator today! Or call 970-224-FAIR (3247) |
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Mark your calendar for the 8th Annual Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair on September 156h & 16th. Until then, we will do our part to continue helping people make healthy sustainable choices in their lives.
To The Future,
Kellie Falbo, Executive Director
Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association
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The Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair in Fort Collins, Colorado is the largest event of its kind in the Rocky Mountain region.
This Fair is a solution driven event with the distinguishing quality to move people towards powerful and profound choices in an effort to stave off complacency about issues affecting
our world.
Over the last seven years nearly 34,000 people have been inspired by our programs on renewable energy, environmental and social responsibility, green building, sustainable living practices, alternative vehicles & fuels, natural health, organic agriculture, local economies and more.
As a hands-on, family oriented event, the Fair features keynote speakers, 150 exhibitors, 35 workshops, demonstrations, Planet Youth, Zen Zone, entertainment, food and a beer garden.
See you there! |
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