For 14 years, the American Lung Association has analyzed data from air quality monitors to compile the State of the Air report. The report grades cities and counties affected by the most widespread types of air pollution (ozone "smog" and particle pollution) recorded over a three-year period, and details trends for metropolitan areas over the past decade. The report ranks also both the cleanest and most polluted areas in the country.

The nation's air quality is over-all much cleaner, especially compared to just a decade ago. Still, over 131.8 million people-42 percent of the nation- live where pollution levels are too often dangerous to breathe. Despite that risk, some seek to weaken the Clean Air Act, the public health law that has driven the cuts in pollution since 1970.

This training is required if you do want to risk arrest or

to fill any non-arrestable role in a Louisville Pledge of Resistance action.

Sunday, March 9, 2:00pm - 7:00pm

Highland Baptist Church 1101 Cherokee Road Louisville

Richard Cizik Sr. * Claire McGowan * Rabbi Joe Rapport * Camille Helminski

GreenFaith, Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light and

the Passionist Earth and Spirit Center

Social Change Book Club

Cultural Creative is a term coined by Ray and Anderson to describe people whose values embrace a curiosity and concern for the world, its ecosystem, and its peoples; an awareness of and activism for peace and social justice; and an openness to self-actualization through spirituality, psychotherapy, and holistic practices.  

Cultural Creatives do not just take the money and run; they don't want to defund the National Endowment for the Arts; and they do want all people to get a fairer shake--not only in the United States, but around the globe.

On the basis of Ray and Anderson's research, about 50 million Americans are Cultural Creatives, a group that includes people of all races, ages, and classes. This subculture could have enormous social and political clout, the authors argue, if only it had any consciousness of itself as a cohesive unit, a society of fellow travelers. The husband and wife team wrote the book "to hold up a mirror" to the members of this vast but diffuse group, to show them they are not alone and that they can reshape society to make it more authentic, compassionate, and engaged. It is an idealistic call for a new agenda for this century.

Tuesday, March 18 at 7:00 pm

Bluegrass Pipeline with Amy Boone

Please join us on Tuesday, March 18, 7:00 p.m. at the Clifton Center for a timely and important program on the Bluegrass Pipeline and opposition efforts here in Kentucky. The proposed pipeline would carry natural gas liquids (NGLs), a hazardous material that's exported or used in the petrochemical company. If constructed, the pipeline would carry NGLs from the Marcellus and Utica shale formations in Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania to the Gulf coast. The controversial pipeline brings many risks to our land, water, and families here in Kentucky.

Leading us in a presentation about the risks and concerns of the Bluegrass Pipeline will be Amy Boone, a native of Nelson County who grew up next door to the Abbey of Gethsemani.  Amy became involved in pipeline opposition efforts after discovering pipeline stakes on family land and has been actively involved in landowner education efforts, lobbying for eminent domain legislation, and other grassroots activities.  She will share her personal journey and struggles to keep the pipeline off of land that has been in her family since the early 1900s. We hope you'll join us for this important conversation. Our programs are always free and open to the public.

First Unitarian Church, 809 South Fourth Street

Sacred Celebrations are designed to offer an opportunity to strengthen our awareness of the sacredness of creation and to nurture our connections to each other, to other species, and to the planet as a whole.

Sacred Celebrations are

Wednesday, March 26 @ Noon
 Children's Commons Building, 1100 E. Market Street

Through intention and social innovation, Compassionate Louisville creates and celebrates a community and world becoming more and more compassionate.

The mission of the Partnership for a Compassionate Louisville is to champion and nurture the growth of compassion.

Support this important initiative from
friend and neighbor Tim Darst