Cultivating Connections Recommends:
Events and More for Metro Louisville - October 2013
Affirming Connections between Planet, People, Power and Possibilities
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, October 2, 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road)
Featured Presentation
Project Warm
Frank J. Schwartz, Director
Since 1982 Project Warm has provided free weatherization services for people who meet the eligibility criteria, including both home owners and renters. We also provide Energy Management Workshops throughout the Louisville Metro area. Our annual Blitz service project enlists over 600 volunteers who work in teams to winterize homes of seniors and disabled residents.
Currently, Project Warm is in the process of re-visioning our earlier years of training volunteers in the art of energy repair. In collaboration with YouthBuild Louisville, we want to establish a training center at their site on Preston Street for this purpose.
Investing with Sustainability and Social Impact
Andy R. Loving, Financial Activist and Certified Financial Planner at Just Money Advisors
Learning to Connect the Dots-
Snapshot of a Big School District Tapping Into Sustainability
Debra Osoffsky, Family Resource Center Coordinator
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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Friday, October 4, 7pm
Charles Eisenstein Speaks on
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
First Unitarian Church, 809 South 4th Street
"Our hearts know that a more beautiful world is possible;
but our minds do not know how it's possible".
This presentation with Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Community in an Age of Transition explores the special historic moment of our times, the transition to a world that works for all - and how we can participate in its emergence. Join us, for a challenging and inspiring exploration of the dynamics of what Joanna Macy has called "The Great Turning".
"I consider Charles Eisenstein one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time. Rarely have I met a person who combines such philosophical and spiritual depth with such practical insights into the cultural and institutional origins of the potentially terminal dysfunctions of modern society - and the potential solutions." - David Korten, author of The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
With special guest Harry Pickens, music from kRi and Hettie and
the launch of an Idea Incubator (details below)!
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Saturday, October 5, 10am -5pm
The Space Between Stories
a workshop with Charles Eisenstein
First Unitarian Church, 809 South 4th Street
Participation is strictly limited and only a few seats remain.
Email us as soon as possible to reserve yours.
Many people sense that the multiple crises of today share a common root. All of them come from an invisible mythology: a Story of the Self and a Story of the People that holds us separate from each other and the world. In this gathering, we will see clearly how this mythology generates the dominant institutions of our civilization, as well as the structures of our own lives.
We will touch upon our innate knowledge that a more beautiful world is possible. We will see how to draw power from that knowledge. We will tap into a larger framework of cause and effect than the old story recognizes, so that we can envision and accomplish what once seemed impossible.
We will begin to clear the invisible habits of Separation that limit our power as healers and change agents. And we will experience the convergence of the worlds of spirituality and activism -- a necessity when we understand that the roots of the present crisis go all the way to the bottom.
Utilizing multiple modalities, this workshop will crystallize the "next step" in the transition into a New Story.
Sponsored by Cultivating Connections
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Saturday, October 12, 8am - 5:30pm
Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference
Kentucky Country Day School, 4100 Springdale Road
The 14th annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference is for people and organizations who care about where their food comes from....and that their daily repast is ethically and sustainably raised or grown and harvested. This year's conference will focus on the topic of Food, Sustainability and Justice and features:
* Barton Seaver is working to restore our relationship with the ocean, the land, and with each other-through dinner. As the Director of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program at the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health, his work is unified by the belief that food is a crucial way for us to connect with the ecosystems, people, and cultures of our world.
* Wenonah Hauter author of Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America
* Dr. Michele Morek is the Coalition Coordinator for UNANIMA
The cost is $35 Register at here. Sponsored by the Sierra Club along with many others
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Tuesday, October 15 7:00 pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club Presents
Getting there.
Transit's place in a sustainable Louisville and in a sustainable world.
with Geoff Hobin of TARC
The Clifton Center 2117 Payne Street
Please join us Tuesday, October 15, for a timely program on public transit in Louisville.Geoff Hobin will lead us in a conversation centering on important questions such as howdoes transit fit into our transportation and land use picture? How does it fit intoLouisville's future? What challenges and opportunities is TARC facing? The talk willlook at the impact of land use development on transportation choice and moreparticularly, on transit's effectiveness.Geoff Hobin is a public servant. He administers grants and manages the capitalimprovement program for the Transit Authority of River City (TARC). He takes stewardshipof the Federal and local dollars he oversees very seriously and always looks for waysto get the 'biggest bang for the taxpayer's buck.' He has managed projects to reduceTARC's energy consumption, lower its emissions, and, in general, to help the agencybecome more efficient.
The program begins at 7:00 p.m. and is held upstairs at The Clifton Center.
Our programs are always free and open to the public.
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Thursday, October 17, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Network Night
Meyzeek Middle School
828 S Jackson St
* Connect with your Neighbors
* Network with Opportunities
* A Family Dinner Will Be Served
* Make Change IN Your Community
Experience the energy of the Network with:
* New and Good
* Partner Shout Outs
Click Below For the Network Center for Community Change's
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Monday, October 21, 6:30 pm
Social Change Book Club
Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity
by Keith Sawyer
Heine Bros. Coffee, 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews  Our October book, Zig Zig is by Keith Sawyer, who has studied with one the world's foremost creative experts, Mihaly Csikszenthihalyi. Sawyer draws from his research of the creative journey, exceptional creators, creative abilities, and world-changing innovations to create eight-steps to increase one's creative potential. Sawyer discusses practices of highly creative people (such as learning to ask better questions when faced with a problem), demonstrates how to come up with better ideas, and explains how to carry those ideas to fruition.
Additionally, the book includes practices and techniques for learning how to tap into ones' creative power. These research-based techniques show how to ask deeper questions, see the world in new ways and develop novel ideas.
The Social Change Book Club is open to everyone who is interested in understanding, participating, leading, or supporting social change. 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.
Hosted by Howard Mason
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 Oct. 21-29, 2013
UofL Sustainability Week!
Offering over a full week of events celebrating and raising awareness!
There are far more programs than we can list here so visit their website!
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Friday, October 25, 5pm - 9pm
7th Annual Louisville Sustainable Living Fair
Rastetter Avenue between Frankfort Avenue and Payne Street
Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church will host another Louisville Sustainable Living Fair on Friday, October 25th from 5pm - 9pm on Rastetter Avenue between Frankfort Avenue and Payne Street. It's cosponsored by the Clifton Community Council, GreenList and the Bluegrass Bioneers Conference.
This free community event is offered in conjunction with the Frankfort Avenue Trolley Hop and features sustainable local businesses, organizations and technologies, live entertainment and more. For more information or to inquire about being a vendor email, Elizabeth Coyle at 502-548-3410.
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Friday, October 25 - Sunday, October 27
Bluegrass Bioneers Conference
Jefferson Community Technical College
Bluegrass Bioneers is the local partner of the National Bioneers conference which takes place annually in San Rafael, CA. Bioneers look to nature to solve our environmental and social problems for more resilient and abundant communities. Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other, and future generations.
The local Bluegrass Bioneers shares the recorded National Bioneers' inspirational keynote speaker presentations and rounds out the event with innovative regional live speakers, demonstrations, workshops, field trips, food, ecotainment, and calls for action.
Peter Bane, author of The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country, editor of The Permaculture Activist, teacher, and consultant will be the Friday evening live keynote on Oct. 25th, presenting "Food Sovereignty and the Path to a Prosperous Future."
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Save the Date:
NoKXL Pledge of Resistance "On-Notice Rally"
Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 12:00 noon
601 West Broadway, outside the Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse
Come support those who are announcing their readiness to engage in civil disobedience if the Keystone XL pipeline is approved. Stand in solidarity with concerned citizens across North America.
Bring your signs and voices in support of a thriving world and against the ravages of fossil fuel extraction and use.
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Save-the-Date
Friday, November 8, 7pm
The Power of Music a benefit concert with
the inspiring and talented kRi and Hettie
supporting the Healing Music and Education Program
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Saturday, November 9, 2:30 pm
Idea Incubator on the Gift Economy,
a New Story of the People & Related Topics
1741: A Collaboratory for Social Innovation, 1741 Frankfort Avenue
Join us for an exciting Idea Incubator inspired by
Charles Eisenstein's October 4th presentation.
Creating and embodying a new Story of the People and the ideals of a Gift Economy will take all of us, playing many roles: dreamers, visionaries, thinkers, tinkerers, builders, healers, nurturers. Most of all, it will take a community that interconnects us to hearten one another and move our best collective vision to fulfillment.
To support that process, Cultivating Connections will host a do-it-ourselves event called an Idea Incubator on November 9. The Idea Incubator connects two groups of people: those with compelling ideas to foster the necessary societal transformation; and those seeking ways in which to participate in that transformation. It helps to match social innovators with the help they need to bring their visionary ideas to fruition. It also builds our hope in our collective ability to emerge into wholeness.
For more information about making a presentation visit Barry Zalph at his table after Charles' talk or email Cultivating Connections.
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The New Economy: Meet Slow Money Kentucky
Slow Money Kentucky is network of community members who are investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered. Connecting investors to the places where they live, creating vital relationships and new sources of capital for small food enterprises.
Slow Money Kentucky is a sponsor of the October 4 presentation with Charles Eisenstein "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible" where they will be answering questions and sharing literature at their table.
Slow Money Kentucky is part of the national Slow Money movement which believes the following:
In order to enhance food security, food safety and food access; improve nutrition and health; promote cultural, ecological and economic diversity; and accelerate the transition from an economy based on extraction and consumption to an economy based on preservation and restoration, we do hereby affirm the following Slow Money Principles:
I. We must bring money back down to earth. II. There is such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too big, finance that is too complex. Therefore, we must slow our money down -- not all of it, of course, but enough to matter. III. The 20th Century was the era of Buy Low/Sell High and Wealth Now/Philanthropy Later-what one venture capitalist called "the largest legal accumulation of wealth in history." The 21st Century will be the era of nurture capital, built around principles of carrying capacity, care of the commons, sense of place and non-violence. IV. We must learn to invest as if food, farms and fertility mattered. We must connect investors to the places where they live, creating vital relationships and new sources of capital for small food enterprises. V. Let us celebrate the new generation of entrepreneurs, consumers and investors who are showing the way from Making A Killing to Making a Living. VI. Paul Newman said, "I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer who puts back into the soil what he takes out." Recognizing the wisdom of these words, let us begin rebuilding our economy from the ground up, asking: What would the world be like if we invested 50% of our assets within 50 miles of where we live?
What if there were a new generation of companies that gave away 50% of their profits?
What if there were 50% more organic matter in our soil 50 years from now?
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