Cultivating Connections Recommends:
Events and More for Metro Louisville - July 2013
Affirming Connections between Planet, People, Power and Possibilities
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Tuesday, July 2 9:00am - 3:30pm
Our Place in the Universe
Exploring, Understanding and Caring about our future
A Summer Workshop for High School Students
This workshop is about the vibrant possibilities emerging from a new worldview. Learn about the stunning shift in our understanding of the universe and our place within it. See the world and your life through a new lens.
We live at a remarkable time in the history of humanity. Modern science has equipped us to understand how the universe has evolved - and will evolve. You'll learn that we don't live in a mean- ingless, mechanical universe, but one that changes and creates capacities to reinvent itself in new ways ... but not without our help.
Instructor Fr. Joe Mitchell helps explain that while humans may be a unique dimension of the Earth, we belong to a web of life - we are not separate from Earth, and each of us has an important role to play.
Reserve your place in advance.
Email info@earthandspiritcenter.org
Call 502.452.2749
Cost: $20 paid by June 25; $30 after June 25 Includes lunch and refreshments.
Scholarships are available upon request.
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, July 3 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road)
Featured PresentationFord Sustainability Greg Long, P.E.,Environmental Engineer Ford Louisville Assembly Plant
 Sustainability efforts at Ford address both product and manufacturing. For products, Ford has adopted a strategy of recycled content, vehicle weight reduction, direct injection turbo charged engines and hybrid powertrains. Facility efforts focus on energy efficiency, waste to landfill reductions and water use. This presentation will focus on a partnership between Ford and the Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District to address the problem of combined sewer overflows. Mr. Long joined Ford Motor company in 1996 as Manager of Environmental Compliance for the Louisville Assembly Plant. This position includes air, water and waste related environmental compliance for a 3 million square foot, 3600 employee facility located in Louisville Kentucky. Shorter presentations
Maintaining Water Quality Inside The Home
Ruth Lancaster, Instructor For Water Technology Institute At WKU
Network Center for Community Change (NC3)
Dana Jackson, Executive Director
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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Monday, July 15 6:00 pm
Social Change Book Club
Radical Openness by
Anthony D. Williams and Don Tapscott
Heine Bros. Coffee 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews.
We have entered a new era - one characterized by openness - in which our world and our relationships have become increasingly interconnected. It's difficult to say what this new age of collaboration will mean. But in our July book, Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success, authors Anthony D. Williams and Don Tapscott explore some of the questions and and uncertainties ignited by this new era. Their big question: what this will mean for the boundless inventiveness of the human mind?
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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Sunday, July 21 at 11 am
The Depths of Our Sensitivity
Sunday Service
with Mark Steiner
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Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church
2231 Payne Street
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.
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Thursday, July 25, 6:00 PM Greater Louisville Sierra Club Picnic
 featuring Congressman John Yarmuth
Louisville Nature Center 3745 Illinois Ave
Please come to our annual picnic on Thursday (no, not Tuesday!), July 25, at 6 pm. We're excited to host Congressman John Yarmuth as our special guest
and speaker (barring a congressional emergency).
Please come greet him and thank him for the great work he is doing.
Not only are we having a great speaker on a different day of the week, but we're also in a great...and different...location: Louisville Nature Center, 3745 Illinois Avenue, across from the Louisville Zoo. We all love Hogan's fountain, but variety is the spice of life, right? Also, if it's very hot (hmmm...what are the chances of that?),
we'll have a chance to cool down indoors.
One thing that will not change: The meal will still be a potluck, with Greater Louisville Sierra Club providing a main dish and a main drink. So please bring a dish of your choosing to share with everyone. Also, you are invited to bring your own reusable eating ware.
Now in his fourth term, John Yarmuth represents
Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District..
We hope you'll join us for this special event!
Our programs are free and open to the public.
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Sunday, July 28 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Louisville Celebrates Collective Liberation
Carl Braden Memorial Center, Inc.
3208 West Broadway
Join us in Louisville, on Sunday, July 28, 2013,
Anne Braden's 89th birthday,
as we celebrate the release of
" Towards Collective Liberation:
anti-racist organizing, feminist praxis,and movement building strategy"
by Chris Crass.
Drawing lessons for social justice organizing through personal story telling and
case study interviews of leading anti-racist organizations,
Chris Crass gives us a book that Robin D. G. Kelley,
author of Freedom Dreams: the Black Radical Imagination,
describes as "essential reading for anyone who believes
a different Revolution is possible."
Harsha Walia, co-founder of No One Is Illegal, explains
"His essays and interviews provide tremendously valuable and concrete lessons
for all those deepening social, political, economic, and spiritual change."
"Collective Liberation" also includes a chapter by Louisville's own
Carla F Wallace outlining history and analysis of the Fairness Campaign.
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What Do We Want? Clean Energy!
When Do We Want It? Now!
  
Thanks to everyone who showed up for the June 20th "Energy for Change" march and rally. We were over 2000 strong making it the largest environmental justice rally in Kentucky history.
Standing there that day it was an amazing sight to see so many gathered in solidarity, so many committed to clean energy, healthy communities and a sustainable economy that works for all.
The Unitarians and Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light
did a great job!
Our work has just begun.
Holding a vision for a just tomorrow,
Mark
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Building our Capacity for
Innovation, Creativity & Emergence
Co-Learning Connection is regular online conversation and webinar
that seeks to help leaders, churches and presbyteries
cultivate creative and innovative ecosystems for the emergence of
new Christian communities, social Innovation and church transformation.  August Series
Hosting Emergence:
Principals, Patterns and Practices
This five-part series is designed for those seeking to create the conditions for creativity, innovation and emergence within themselves, their organizations and within their larger communities. Join us on these five Thursdays in August as we build a co-learning connection.
August 1st Thriving In Chaos:
Leadership In High Complexity Contexts
August 8th Theory U:
Leading From The Future As It Emerges
August 15th 6 Breaths Process:
From Idea to Action to Movement to Change
August 22nd The Conversation Arts:
Open Space, Conversation Café & World Café
August 29th Harvesting and Debriefing Practices:
What is becoming clear?
If you have further questions or would like more information please contact us.
Jud Hendrix 502-235-3250
judhendrix7@gmail com
Howard Mason
HowardMason@newpossibilitiesassociates.com
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Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance Trainings
Saturday, August 3 and 4
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cincinnati, OH 45202  This training is an amazing opportunity for anyone ready to make the commitment, to learn high-level action organizing skills, and become a leader in your community in the fight against climate change.
We'll train you to organize your own Pledge of Resistance action in your community (or play key supporting roles in your local action if you live in a major city) and train others
to safely engage in civil disobedience within a firm commitment
to the principles of non-violence.
These skills will be invaluable as you continue to advocate for climate action
and justice beyond the Keystone XL fight.
Training will be all day Saturday and Sunday, ending at 5 pm each day. Please plan to attend both days. Venue is TBA. Click here to sign up.
A group from Louisville is going up.
Email Drew if interested in ride sharing.
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Friday, October 4 Public Talk
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
Saturday, October 5 Invitation Only Workshop
The Space Between Stories:
Sacred Economics and the Possibilities for a New Paradigm
with Charles Eisenstein
Sponsored by Cultivating Connections
Read Charles' recent essay the Cynic and the Boatbuilderon the Reality Sandwich website | | A New Story of the People: Charles Eisenstein at TEDxWhitechapel |
Event details to be announced soon! |
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