Events and More for Metro Louisville - February 2014

Affirming Connections between Planet, People, Power and Possibilities

Premiere Film Screening of "Appalachia 2050"

Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Street, Louisville

$5 suggested donation

This new documentary film by Ralph Davis features interviews with Eastern Kentuckians affected by coal mining practices. Louisville author Sam Avery will facilitate a post-screening discussion featuring the filmmaker and individuals featured in the film.

Appalachia is a region that has been widely mythologized in popular culture, but rarely has there been an attempt to speak to residents about what they want their home to become. 'Appalachia 2050' asks local leaders in a variety of fields about the half-century War on Poverty, to get their views on what has gone right, what has gone wrong, and what needs to be done now to finish the job by 2050.

On "I Love Mountains Day" concerned citizens of all ages come together to call attention to the scale of destruction created by mountaintop removal coal mining in Kentucky and the need to begin a just transition to a more diverse, sustainable, and thriving economy in the mountains.

Noon - Gather at the Kentucky River

12:30 p.m. - March from the river to the capitol steps (about 1/2 mile)

1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. - Rally on the capitol steps
   
For more info: 502-589-3188, alicia@kftc.org

https://www.kftc.org/events/i-love-mountains-day-2014

 

 

 

  

Friday, February 28, 6 pm thru Noon Sunday, March 2

A Journey Exploring Individual and Community Wholeness

with Marilyn Stoner & Doug Van Houten

You are invited to join a circle of concerned hearts to call pieces of our soul life back home. As we engage in the process of weaving our lives back into wholeness, our time together will include:

    * Expressing our grief over losses to our individual and community wholeness

    * Opening up to our stories of loss, hope and joy

    * The use of the creative processes of art, music and movement

    * Focused time alone in nature

    * Soulcentric dreamwork and guided imagery

    * Council, ritual and celebration

Click here for more details.

For registration call or email Marilyn or Doug at:

marilynstoner@fastmail.fm (502) 456-1502

doug@dougvanhouten.com (502) 472-6563

At Harrods Creek Farm near Louisville, Kentucky, we will listen to the story of The Wounded Fisher King and Parsifal and in allowing the ancient wisdom of this tale to enter into our psyche and bodies, we will explore the terrain of where our personal story and wound intersects with the world's wounding story as we are experiencing it daily. We will dive deeply into what quest we are being called forth to seek.  We will ask the question "What IS the Holy Grail?"  and what power does it have to beckon knight after knight into far reaching realms seeking its presence?

Local food is an ecosystem - our rural neighbors grow our food, we pay them, and we eat it.  Purchasing this food within our community gets us close to a complete local loop - but we are missing one step.  How do farmers and urban gardeners get the nutrients they need to make a soil vibrant and viable for organic agriculture?  As those of us who have attempted to grow food know, not all soil is created equal.  Most farmers purchase a variety of products - from decomposed chicken manure, to synthetic fertilizers, to raw milk, in order to keep their crops growing strong on the same soil each year.  What if these farmers could feed their plants an all-local diet, just like we city folks have the option to eat all the scrumptious local food we desire.

Our key to closing this local food loop is called Community Composting (as seen in Vermont, Oregon, California, and Maine).  

Recycling our organic waste as a community is simple, and for all of Earth's history this natural process has fueled the growth of new organisms and the creation of resources that we use to power our civilization (oil).   Now that we have cities with a concrete floor, we have to piggyback the natural decomposition process with some sustainable technologies and create an economically viable operation in which we collect, compost, and sell back the organic waste that is produced in our city.  Then, our local food ecosystem will be closed, and we will be one step closer to a city which sustains beyond peak oil and climate change.  

A group of collaborators and investors are currently in the process of modeling a community composting facility, which we intend to construct at 600 Meriwether Avenue.  We would love for any interested party to reach out and become a part of this process.  

Consider becoming an organic waste liberator today and help Louisville FEED THE DIRT - get involved at www.FeedTheDirt.org or email josh@feedthedirt.org.

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