Cultivating Connections Recommends:
Events and More for Metro Louisville - February 2013
Affirming Connections between Planet, People, Power and Possibilities
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Sunday, February 3
11 am
We Are the Ties that Bind Us
Enjoy this Special Sunday Service at Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church featuring story and song with
Mark Steiner
and
kRi 'n' hettie
  When my soul needs remindin'to leave my fear far behind andtrust in the truth and in kindnesscause we are the ties that bind uslet we remind uslet we remind uslet we remind uslet we remind usJoin as we celebrate the ties that bind us in story and song.Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church is a progressive religious community with a diverse membership that welcomes folks of all backgrounds, beliefs, and lifestyles. Ours is not a dogmatic, but a pragmatic faith. We may not share the same ideas, but we do share a common way of relating to others and our world that includes justice, compassion, kindness, and respect. It is in this spirit of openheartedness and openmindedness that we eagerly open our doors to you. Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church 2231 Payne Street, Louisville, KY 40206 
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, February 6 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road)
Water and Sustainability
Gordon Garner, Vice President, Water Business Group, CH2M HILL
Climate change will have a significant impact on the sustainability of water supplies in the coming decades. A new analysis, performed for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), examined the effects of global warming on water supply and demand in the contiguous United States. The study found that more than 1,100 counties --
one-third of all counties in the lower 48
-- will face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as the result of global warming. More than 400 of these counties will face extremely high risks of water shortages.
Gordon will speak about climate change and other challenges to how we use and abuse our water resources. He will suggest what we can do individually and collectively to promote conservation and improve water quality.
Shorter Presentations
We Are the System: Reflections on Social Sustainablity and the Louisville Food Economy Rachel Brunner and Laura Stricklen, Presbyterian Hunger Program Get on the Bus for I Love Mountains Day
Mark Steiner - Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light
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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Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light invites you to join us
in Frankfort on
Thursday, February 14th
Starts at noon
in support of KFTC's
I Love Mountains Day
Let's walk our talk in solidarity. Let's be heard as one voice saying:
"We love our Kentucky mountains and want them and their culture protected!" and
"We want clean, just energy now!"
"I Love Mountains Day" is a great community experience that can recharge and invigorate. It's even better (and greener) on the Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light bus!
This march and rally continues the calls on Governor Beshear, our state legislative leaders, and our leaders in Washington D.C. to serve the public interest and care for creation by ending mountaintop removal and working towards a clean energy future that supports good, safe jobs and healthy communities.
Once again, KIPL is helping to organize the participation of faith communities including connecting them with a grant source for free customized banners. Let us know if you are organizing folks from your community and would like to get your own banner.
Invite your family, friends and faith community.
While donations are appreciated,
KIPL is providing the bus transportation at no cost to you.
Details available by clicking here.
Reserve your seat by clicking here.
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Sunday, February 17Join the Forward on Climate Action in DCA Rally to Influence Energy Policy and Stop the Keystone XL PipelineWashington D.C.
Our Kentuckiana Group at the November 2011 Action at the White House
(not pictured: 12,000 fellow citizens)
Cultivating Connections, Cumberland Chapter of Sierra Club, and 350 Louisville are jointly sponsoring an effort to achieve maximum Kentuckiana participation at this important climate change awareness rally in Washington DC, on Sunday, February 17 by coordinating transportation and housing (see sign-up details below).
In his inauguration address, President Obama made an unexpected and powerful commitment to addressing the dangers of climate change. We must show the President our appreciation for this commitment and provide him with the political capital he needs to fulfill it. One great way to do this is by showing up at the "Forward on Climate" rally with voices and signs raised in support of the President and in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, a project which has come to symbolize human abuse of air and earth.
So on Presidents Day weekend, let's take to the streets of Washington DC by the thousands to form a massive human pipeline, and to tell the President that we expect him to begin the commitment he made in his inaugural address by rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Sign-up details: If you plan to participate, please send an email to louisville350@yahoo.com. We will try to place you in a ride-share or bus, and possibly assist with lodging. Also, if you can answer "yes" to either of the following questions, please include those responses in your reply.
a. Would you be willing to rent, on your own credit card (subject to reimbursement), a full-size van or a mini-van?
b. Would you be willing to drive your personal vehicle to DC as a ride-share vehicle? If so, what is your vehicle's size and seating capacity?
Thank you.
Drew Foley
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Bill Moyers Interviews Anthony Leiserowitz about
"Breaking the Silence on Climate Change." Click here to watch. |
Monday, February 18 6:00 pm
Social Change Book Club
Creating Innovators:
The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World by Tony Wagner
Heine Bros. Coffee 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews.
When information is ubiquitous and free, and when basic education is available to billions of people worldwide, only one set of skills can ensure this generation's economic future - the capacity for innovation.
What are the skills of innovators? Why is innovation so critical to America's future-and to the future of the planet? What must parents, teachers, mentors, and employers do to develop the capacities of many more young people to be the innovators that they want to be-and that we need them to become? What do the best schools and colleges do to teach the skills of innovation? What are some of the most forward-looking employers doing to create a culture of innovation?
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World addresses these questions through in-depth profiles of young innovators and the adults who have made a difference in their lives, as well as vivid descriptions of innovation-driven classrooms and places of work.
The Social Change Book Club is now in its seventh year of monthly meetings.
The Social Change Book Club is open to everyone who is interested in understanding, participating, leading, or supporting social change. Each month we select a book and get together to discuss. Selections rotate among three themes: social changes, how we work with others to make change happen, and the inner qualities needed to bring change into the world.
Please just show up if you are interested--no RSVP, commitment, etc. It is great when people have read the book, but that is not a requirement to come and discuss.
We got this going because there is a lot to learn about how to make social change happen, and people who are interested in changing the world need opportunities to share stories and experience community with others who care.
Hosted by Howard Mason
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Tuesday, February 19, 7:00 PM Greater Louisville Sierra Club
"The 2013 Kentucky General Assembly in Regular Session:
What's in store for the environment?" Clifton Center 2117 Payne St Please join us Tuesday, February 19 as we welcome Tom Fitzgerald for our annual Kentucky legislative update. We'll learn about the good, the bad, and the ugly of our current state legislative agenda. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about what's going on in Frankfort and what we can do to make a difference. Our program begins at 7:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.  Tom FitzGerald has been Director of the Kentucky Resources Council since 1984. KRC is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization providing free legal, strategic and policy assistance to individuals, organizations and communities concerning environmental quality and resource extraction issues.
Fitz received the Environmental Quality Commission Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002; the Henry R. Heyburn Public Service Award, UK College of Law in 2003, the Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission Biological Diversity Award in 2003, the inaugural Professional Achievement Award from the University of Kentucky College of Law Alumni Association in 2008, and the 14th Heinz Award in the Environment Category in 2008. He was named a "Connector" by the Louisville Leadership Center in 2010, and was named a "SuperLawyer" in 2010 and 2012 by his peers in the areas of environmental, energy and land use law. He received the 2012 Brennan-Haly Award from the University of Louisville Department of Political Science.
The Greater Louisville Sierra Club meeting is at the Clifton Center 2117 Payne Street (www.cliftoncenter.org) and will begin at 7:00 p.m.
Our programs are free and open to the public.
Free and open to the public.
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March 4, 5:30 pm
"Violent Economic 'Reforms' and
the Growing Violence Against Women"
with Vandana Shiva  U of L, Swain Student Activities Center Multipurpose Room
Reception to follow Free and open to the public Vandana Shiva is a philospher, environmental activist, author and eco-feminist based in Delhi, India. The many awards she has received include the Sydney Peace Prize in 2010 and the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She has fought for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food and has contributed intellectually and through activist campaigns to the fields of intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics, and genetic engineering. Dr. Shiva suggests in her article, "Empowering Women," that a more sustainable and productive approach to agriculture can be achieved through reinstating a system of farming in India that is more centered on engaging women. She advocates against the prevalent "patriarchal logic of exclusion," claiming that a woman-focused system would change the current system in an extremely positive manner.
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Save-the-Date * Plan to Join the Choir
Sunday, April 21 4 pm
Peace Education Program's
Be the Change Community Choir and Concert
Led by Cynthia Fletcher * Featuring Harry Pickens
 at First Unitarian Church, Louisville
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Save the Dates
* Dalai Lama Engaging Compassion * Louisville * May 19 and 20 *
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Cultivating Connections recommends Sacred Economics . . .
Save the Dates
Friday, October 4 and Saturday, October 5
Cultivating Connections presents
Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Community in An Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme-but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.
Visit Charles' website | | Watch this video on Sacred Economics |
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2013 The Space Between Stories an essay by Charles Eisenstein
Every culture has a Story of the People to give meaning to the world. Part conscious and part unconscious, it consists of a matrix of agreements, narratives, and symbols that tell us why we are here, where we are headed, what is important, and even what is real. I think we are entering a new phase in the dissolution of our Story of the People, and therefore, with some lag time, of the edifice of civilization built on top of it. Continue reading.
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Integral & Inspirited Leadership:
Cultivating the Inner Capacity for Transformative Leadership
A Monthly Webinar * Every Second Thursday  The Enneagram is a powerful psychological and spiritual tool for self awareness and personal growth which are two primary aspects of Inspirited leadership.
If you do not know your Enneagram number you are encouraged to take a short test here. The Enneagram Series
February 14th
Session 1: Enneagram & Leadership: An Introduction
April 11th
Session 2: Working With Your Core Number: The Gold and Shadow
May 9th
Session 3: Archetypes and Leadership
Rev. Jud Hendrix, a seven on the Enneagram, has been working with with the Enneagram for over 10 years in workshops, coaching, spiritual direction and organizational development.
For more information on this webinar or if you are interested executive coaching, spiritual direction, Enneagram retreats and/or workshops please contact him. For more information and links to register click here. Jud Hendrix
(502)-235-3250
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Do We Need Deeper Levels of Sensitivity
a Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light Blog
by Mark Steiner
he end to the environmental crisis rests, in part, with humanity's ability to exist in the world with deeper sensitivity. Our future may well be, as much as anything, reliant on our ability to experience the world with deep awareness of, and empathy for, the entirety of creation.
After all, our senses are our best indicator of what is going on in the world and we very much need to know what's going on in our bodies, in our culture and in our larger environment. We need to experience and feel so that we can best determine our response.
This shift to living with a deeper sensitivity is likely a huge feat for us considering the prominent presence and power in our culture of ideas like "toughen up", "walk it off", and "I don't care". It seems we have been shutting down just at the time we need to be waking up
To read the rest click here.
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We Still Need Your Help on Netflix
Turns out that it isn't as easy to get onto Netflix as we hoped, but the good news is that we still have a chance-- we just have to keep the pressure (i.e. DVD queue requests) coming fast and furious. You've been VERY responsive to our previous calls for Netflix support. Can you keep the love flowing a little longer? Once we're over the hurdle and get in there, then the Netflix recommendation engine will hopefully get the film (and all the ideas IN the film) out far and wide. More details here. |
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