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THE NEW NORMAL: AN EVENING WITH DAVID WANN
Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m.
Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St.
 Author David Wann will speak and sign his new book, The New Normal: An Agenda for Responsible Living, co-sponsored by Transition Colorado.
The New Normal predicts that in the emerging era, production and consumption will no longer be the defining characteristics of civilization; cultural richness, efficiency, cooperation, expression, ecological design, and biological restoration will be.
"In The New Normal, David Wann maps out a future without dependency on fossil fuels, cheap goods or processed food. He offers steps to deeply transform our resource-dependent routines to self-reliant, more fulfilling lives that are easier on our planet. This book provides both the vision and the actions needed to change the status quo" ~ BookPage
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PERMACULTURE COURSES
AND WORKSHOPS
 LYONS PERMACULTURE 101, THE ELEMENTS: #4 FIRE, Jan. 15, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Walt Self Senior Center (335 Railroad Ave.) moving to Jen-Lo Farm (5125 Ute Highway), Lyons. Work with Fire, Your Stories in Place, prepare for deep Permaculture immersion, core work: Permaculture design for catastrophe, first-responding, Transition EDAP, Web of Resilience, Group clay piece, learn raku pit firing, World Café: Prep for resilience Workshops open to the public. Print registration form to reserve your spot, download here. Cost is only $10 per session, shared by Transition Lyons and Lyons Parks and Rec. RSVP REGISTRATION and Check NECESSARY, send printed form and check to Coco Gordon PO Box 225 Lyons CO 80540. Instructors: Coco Gordon, certified with Bill Mollison 1997, and Jennifer Murnan, certified in Boulder with Sandy Cruz. Co-sponsored by Lyons Dept of Parks and Rec, Transition Town Lyons and Water Mark of Lyons Permaculture is fulfilling the newly updated Comprehensive Plan implementation of town sponsored Permaculture and Transition education with exciting core teaching and hands-on experience.
 PERMACULTURE IN OUR VALLEY AND FOR THE WORLD, Jan. 16, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m., Friends Meeting Hall, 1825 Upland Ave., Boulder. Permaculture is about designing for balanced and sustainable human settlements. Join the flow that is focused on solutions. Informational talk and video by Zia Parker, director of Willow Way PC and 2010 Design Course students. Info available on 2011 Permaculture Design Course.
 PERMACULTURE THROUGH THE SEASONS, Mar. 12 - Oct. 9, Boulder. Yes, the 8-month extravaganza continues! Plan now! Observe the seasons unfold in Front Range cities, high plains and mountains through the lens of permaculture, giving depth and perspective to design work. Participants will tour sites, engage in hands-on seasonal projects, create designs for resilient local systems, explore "perennial culture," and take tangible steps towards sustainable food, shelter, energy and community. The extended length of the course allows time to digest permaculture concepts, and creates a foundation for community projects. Permaculture is the art of creating living ecosystems that imitate nature to provide food, fuel and shelter. Using innovative and indigenous agricultural techniques as well as appropriate technologies, course participants will learn to move towards living sustainably. Through multifaceted learning techniques-hands-on projects, tours, slide shows, exercises, lectures and readings-students will acquire knowledge of Permaculture Design for our Rocky Mountain bioregion and beyond. Instructors: Sandy Cruz, Barbara Mueser and Jason Gerhardt,and guests Becky Elder, Marco Lam, and many more! Click here to download flyer. Click here for suggestions for paying for the course (including a half-scholarship and work/study opportunities. $250 Discount for super early birds (by January 12th). ˝ scholarship to be awarded by the Boulder Odd Fellows Lodge. Course size is limited, and we are already receiving registrations, so reserve your space soon. Click here to download registration form. For more information, call 303-459-3494. Sponsored by Transition Colorado.
 2nd ANNUAL LYONS PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE, Mar. 13 - Apr. 3, Lyons Farmette, Lyons. The Lyons Farmette, Schey's Bouquets and YummyYards are thrilled to offer a two-week Permaculture Design Course Certification. The course features an intensive 82-hour immersion into permaculture principles and ecological design, featuring 14 diverse, dynamic and experienced Colorado permaculture teachers, including Jerome Osentowski, Marco Chung-Shu Lam, Adam Brock and Pavlos Stavropoulos (co-facilitated by Laura Ruby and Erin Schey). Through a combination of lecture, discussion, hands-on activities and on-site group design projects, you will learn how to observe ecosystems and design regenerative systems that provide food, energy, shelter and community. Engage in the revolutionary act of self-empowerment and discover how to build resilient human communities that care for the earth, provide for people and create a surplus for all to share. Click here for more information and application.
2011 WILLOW WAY PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE, Apr. 15 - Oct. 9, Willow Way Permaculture Herb Farm, 6481 N 63rd St., Niwot. Our certificate Permaculture Design Course spans our high-altitude growing season, providing a wide-ranging learning experience that reflects the diversity inherent in the Rocky Mountain Front Range. Learn how to work with the wisdom of nature to create resilient systems in which both the yield and the fertility are upheld for future generations. Click here for details. Click here for video.
 PERMACULTURE DESIGN THROUGH THE SEASONS, Pikes Peak Region, Southern Colorado, Apr. 16 - Nov. 20. The time is now to Care for the Earth, Care for Community and Care for Ourselves. We will meet the third weekend of every month, April through November, 2011. Come learn the ethics and principles of Permaculture. Design techniques, natural building basics, urban homesteading and renewal, rainwater harvesting basics, appropriate technology, bio-systems and much, much more will be covered through the course. Students of Permaculture work to heal ourselves, heal our communities and heal the land, using nature as pattern. We have a variety of class sites and interesting field trips, hands-on demos and a wonderful community of great teachers! Two weekends will have camping opportunity during the hot summer season. Students will actively participate in planning and designing a site in order to integrate the principles, ethics and the Permaculture design techniques. If design interests you, get certified and design for the future! Come learn with us! Contact Brian Fritz, 720-838-7131, tt.manitou@gmail.com, Pikes Peak Permaculture.
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 CLASSES, WORKSHOPS
AND RELATED EVENTS
 BE NEW IN THE KITCHEN (AND HEALTHY TOO), Jan. 13 - Feb. 10 (Thursdays), 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Erie Community Center Kitchen, Erie. Mary Collette Rogers (Healthy Eating Coach, Cooking Instructor, Master Kitchen Organizer) is offering a series of five cooking classes. Session One, Jan. 13 - Feb. 10. Registration: $115 residents, $145 non-residents. Registration fee includes free copy of Take Control of Your Kitchen. For more information see www.EverydayGoodEating.com, or call 303-443-0353.
 HEART AND SOUL CHECK-IN-GET-TOGETHER, Jan. 14, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., 11093 Zephyr St., Westminster. A lot has been going on with the economy, oil prices and climate change in the last year. How is everyone doing in light of recent events and the news? Are you worried about your preparations for the future? Are you wondering what others are doing and more importantly...feeling? Let's get together for a "check-in", share what we've been experiencing and get some community support. If you're new to Transition, please come--we'd like to meet you! Please RSVP here. Send me a direct message if you have questions. Hosted by Margaret Emerson, co-initiator of Transition Westminster/Arvada/Broomfield. 303-460-9841 for more information.
 A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO COMMUNICATING SUSTAINABILITY, Jan. 14, 1505 University Blvd., Boulder. A CU Boulder Environmental Center Sustainable Practices course. This course provides students with practical skills for the effective communication of sustainability for large organizations (public, non-profit, and businesses) and methods which foster a collaborative environment. Students will learn how to communicate with a variety of audiences. Pre-registration required. This course is designed for the working professional who desires practical training in sustainability, or would like to work in the sustainability field. Complete 10 courses and receive a CU Boulder certificate in Sustainable Practices. Call 303-492-7438 for details.
 TRANSITION COLORADO SPRINGS JANUARY POTLUCK, Jan. 15, 5:00 - 10:00 p.m., North Corona, Colorado Springs. Bring a dish to be passed around. Drinks if you want something special. Teas and coffee available for hot drinks, and water for cold. Email Margaret Beers Oliver to get directions.
 SOIL, SOIL AMENDMENTS, AND COMPOST, Jan. 16, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder. Good gardens begin with healthy soil. Kristine Johnson, a soil scientist, will detail the facts and fallacies surrounding building gardens for vegetables and fruits. Kristine will touch on the importance of balancing nutrients, care of ongoing gardens, newest discoveries, damage that can occur to garden soil, etc. Again, this is the time to ask all the thorny questions that swirl around this subject. Organized by Boulder Culinary Gardeners.
 BLUE GOLD: WORLD WATER WARS (documentary), Jan. 16, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m., 723 Main Street, Longmont. A film made by Food and Water Watch. This is a free event, but donations will be gratefully appreciated. Synopsis: Throughout the world, our limited fresh water supply is being polluted, diverted, pumped, and wasted. Blue Gold follows numerous examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to local protests at grade schools. Watch the film and learn more about an issue nobody can afford to ignore. Call 720-255-7373 for more information.
 BROOMFIELD COMMUNITY CONTRA DANCE AND DRUMMING CIRCLE, Jan. 16, 3:00 - 8:00 p.m., Crescent Grange, 7901 W. 120th Ave., Broomfield. Drumming Circle 3:00 - 4:15 p.m.: Free. Bring any percussion instrument and join the fun. We will also drum for a while during the dance break at about 6:30PM. Contra Dance: $10 at the door. Lesson 4:15 p.m. Dance from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Teacher: Don Studinski. Caller: Helle Hill. Band: Tuney Loons. Great fun dancing. No experience necessary! Live band! Dancing is where the JOY is. Sponsored by CFOOTMAD (Colorado Friends Of Old Time Music And Dance) in cooperation with Transition Westminster/Arvada/Broomfield (rebuilding community resilience and self-reliance) and Crescent Grange. Curious? Check out Contra dancing on-line at www.cfootmad.org.
 FARM AND RANCH PANEL DISCUSSION, Jan. 19, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., Monarch High School, 329 Campus Drive, Louisville. Boulder County Parks and Open Space would like to invite you to attend and participate in a panel discussion of farmers and ranchers working in Boulder County to discuss their agriculture operations and experiences. The night will start with a facilitated discussion involving our panel of farmers and ranchers. After the discussion we will have a Question and Answer period with questions drawn from the audience. We hope you'll be able to attend the event.
KICKOFF/ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING FOR TRANSITION GOLDEN, Jan. 20, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m., Golden Oldy Cyclery & Sustainability, 17224 West 17th Place, Golden. A first Transition Golden meeting will be held at the Carbon Negative Home/Victorian Cycling Museum of Steve Stevens in Golden. Located at 17224 West 17th Place in the Rimrock section of Golden on the South Slope of South Table Mountain, the home is 1/2 mile from NREL's west gate. In attendance will be Michael Brownlee and Lynette Marie Hanthorn of Transition Colorado. Social Hour will be 6:00 - 7:00 before the meeting ... folks can bring nibblies / refreshments to share. Meeting will run from 7:00 until ~ after 8:00. I will share a bit of House Conversion to Net Zero and Beyond as well as offer short tours after. I would appreciate an idea about levels of attendance, to be sure to have an adequate stock of chairs. Steve Stevens, 720-497-1100.
 CORPORATE CULTURE: CREATING A SUSTAINABLE WORKPLACE, Jan 21., 1505 University Blvd., Boulder. A CU Boulder Environmental Center Sustainable Practices course. This course includes a review of the methods corporations use to define and implement their corporate cultures, looking at both successful sustainable cases and problematic case studies. Students will identify values underlying corporate cultures, understand how culture affects the "triple bottom line" of sustainability, and define and defend their own ideas of successful sustainable corporate culture. Pre-registration is required. This course is designed for the working professional who desires practical training in sustainability, or would like to work in the sustainability field. Complete 10 courses and receive a CU Boulder certificate in Sustainable Practices. Call 303-492-7438 for details.
THE CORPORATION CONVERSATION/RELOCALIZATION GAME, Jan. 29, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Gill Foundation, 315 East Costilla Street, Colorado Springs. Transition Town Manitou Springs is offer
 ing a day-long workshop that will allow us all to come together and have an investigation and conversation related to the influence of 'corporations' in our lives: personally, collectively, culturally, economically. Along with informing ourselves more fully about corporations and corporate influence, we will be playing a group game I like to call "The ReLocalization Game." We will take the list of Fortune 100 corporations (Walmart, Exxon Mobil, etc, etc) and examine what products and services they are providing to our community. We will investigate to see what value and what cost these services and products are bringing to our communities. We will then experiment with seeing if we can eliminate the product or service being provided and 'relocalize it,' that is, to replace the same service or product locally. Call 720-838-7131 for more information.
WINTER HOLIDAY PARTY/POTLUCK, Jan. 30, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m., 314 Crystal Hills Blvd., Manitou Springs. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Permaculture and Transition Town Manitou Springs, at the home of Karen Kanode and Jim Stellick. All are welcome! Please bring a dish to pass around. Please label your dish appropriately ex: vegan, a meat dish, non-gluten etc. We want to honor everyone's tastes, preferences and diets. Drinks will be provided (if you would like alcoholic beverages please bring them). Please bring your own place setting and silverware. Host will provide coffee/tea and cups. Bring a re-gift (book or movie as suggestions) if you want to participate in a re-gift exchange! Please call 720-838-7131 if you need more information or directions.
 BOULDER COUNTY AGRICULTURE FORUM (BCAF), Feb. 1, 5:00 p.m., Radisson Conference Center, 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont. The CSU Extension office in Longmont is coordinating with and taking input from NRCS, FSA, Boulder Valley and Longmont Conservation Districts, City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks, and the Boulder County Farmers' Markets to offer the "Boulder County Agriculture Forum. The BCAF will bring together ag producers, ag professionals, input suppliers, equipment dealers and other stakeholders in production and commercial agriculture in Boulder County. It will feature a display/trade show area, cash bar, free dinner and presentations from producers and ag professionals. There will be plenty of time to socialize with old and new friends, visit businesses, network, and learn about the wide variety of commercial agriculture in Boulder County. The program is free to producers in Boulder County and each may bring one guest. Co-sponsored by Transition Colorado.
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