The Kentucky Association for Environmental Education (KAEE) is committed to ensuring that all Kentuckians have the opportunity to learn about and connect with the environment where they live and to actively participate in building healthy, sustainable communities. KAEE serves as the statewide membership-based nonprofit organization for environmental education in Kentucky. KAEE has served as Kentucky's leader in environmental education for 38 years, promoting and influencing environmental education on national and statewide levels.

Mark Young has worked in the field of parks, natural resources and environmental education for more than 30 years, serving the cities of Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio. He provides consulting services with Parks Forever Consulting in Louisville, which develops park master plans and environmental education programs.

Shorter Presentations
Stan Siegwald, Director of Policy & Planning with Dare to Care

David Neville, Owner Capstone Produce Market - Capstone Farms
on Sellin' Ugly Tomatoes & Kids Eatin' Spinach

Now in its seventh 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!

Wednesday, October 1st

Network's Nuns on the Bus Tour

We the People, We the Voters

Shively Area Ministries (4415 Dixie Highway) at 10 am

Americana Community Center (4801 Southside Drive) at 2 pm

Town Hall for the 100% - Hotel Louisviile (120 West Broadway) at 7 pm

NETWORK's Nuns on the Bus is headed on the road again! This year, we'll be driving so "We the People" can stand up against big money in the 2014 midterm elections.

We the People, in order to form a more perfect union, must:

Vote: Strong voter turnout overpowers the influence of big money in politics. Dollars can't vote, you can.

Encourage Others to Vote: When we encourage people to vote, we make sure that the voices of the 100% are heard. Urge and help others to vote.

Hold Candidates Responsible:

When we demand that candidates commit to policies that benefit the 100%, we can all hold them accountable when elected. When the people vote, politicians listen.

Make your voice and the voices of the 100% heard this midterm election!

When "We the People" vote, politicians will:

Mend the Wealth Gap, Enact a Living Wage

Craft a Faithful Budget that Benefits the 100%

Secure Healthcare for All

Protect Immigrant Rights

Promote Nonviolent Solutions to Conflict

Visit their website and/or on Facebook

Saturday, October 4th 10 am - 11:30 am

Earth Art Adventures:

Louisville Nature Center, 3745 Illinois Avenue

Discover how easy it is to seek and find art inspiration everywhere! Experience the excitement of connecting with your world and creating amazing art. People of all ages will delight in using their imaginations and finding hidden pictures in the landscape.

Participants will learn to "draw on nature", photograph, print and craft art images and learn to share inspired stories.

Bring your friends and family and join in all the fun!

No previous art experience necessary.

COST: LNC Member and volunteers: $3/person, $15/groups of 5 or more; Non-members: $5/person; $25/groups of 5 or more.

Pre-registration is required by October 4, 9:30am. Limited to 30 participants.

For more information or to register please contact Judy Gardner by email at jgardner@LouisvilleNatureCenter.org or by phone at (502) 458-1328.

Tuesday, October 7, 12 pm

Compassionate Louisville Town Hall Meeting

WaterStep, 825 Myrtle Street

Experience compassion in action.

Each month we invite you on a pilgrimage to discover the city's
often hidden compassion gems.

Once at the site, we will:

share the mission of the host organization;

celebrate the newest organizations to have adopted a compassion resolution;

share how Compassionate Louisville is encouraging compassionate action;

provide a forum for you and others to share their compassionate actions.

Everyone is invited! Bring a Friend! No RSVP required.

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.

Visit the Compassionate Louisville Website.

We ask: 'What does compassion want for Louisville?'

Tuesdays: October 7, 14, 21 and 28 6 -7:30 pm

Spiritual and Ecological Insight from
Thomas Merton and Rachel Carson

with Vanessa Hurst

Bellarmine University

Thomas Merton, a Cistercian monk, and Rachel Carson, a scientist, recognized the interdependence of life. Using selections from both writers, we'll explore how being aware, identifying spots of time, and recognizing the holy in the ordinary are integral to expanding ecological and spiritual consciousness. We'll identify points of connection and discover new ways of being in relationship with all of creation. Recommended (but not required) reading: New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton and Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson.

Registration information online

Friday, October 10 6 pm

Saturday, October 11 8 am - 5 pm

15th Anniversary

Healthy Foods Local Farms Conference

Real Homeland Security: Food, Health, and Community

Harvest Dinner Friday, 6pm at Jefferson Community and Technical College

The Harvest Dinner will take place on Friday, October 10 at the Kentucky Country Day School. This dinner will feature local and seasonal foods prepared by Chef Christopher Rosier and Kathy Foster. Greater Louisville Sierra Club will be selling beer and wine at the dinner.

Darby Minow Smith, a fifth generation Montana rancher and first generation environmental journalist, will speak at the Harvest Dinner about why the food movement and mid-size farmers need each other. She writes about where the two works collide for online green magazine Grist. Musical entertainment will be provided by John Gage.

Tickets for the Harvest Dinner will be sold separately and are available here.

Saturday, 8am - 5 pm at Country Day School

Real Homeland Security: Food, Health and Community Conference

Featured presentations

Will Harris, President, White Oak Pastures

Daniel Tucker, Author of Farm Together Now

Darby Minow Smith, Grist Magazine

Daphne Miller, MD, Author of Farmacology

and

Wendell Berry, Farmer and Writer on
Ensuring Real Homeland Security:
Strengthening the Relationship Between Agriculture, Food, and Health

Tickets and details for the conference here.

Saturday, October 11am - 3 pm
Louisville Grows presents:

Citizen Forester (101) Training

Shelby Park Community Center, 600 E. Oak Street

Help Louisville Grows rebuild the city's urban tree canopy through our Love Louisville Trees project. Learn about tree-planting technique, tree identification and maintenance during a half-day training session facilitated by a Certified Arborist. The citizen foresters manage a team of volunteers at planting sites to make sure everyone knows what to do and how to do it. Citizen foresters are usually people who are interested in environmental stewardship, but anyone with the passion to create a greener Louisville through tree plantings is encouraged to join the team.
In its first year, the Citizen Forester program trained a record 90 individuals on how to properly plant trees so they could assist the Louisville Grows staff foresters at community planting events.

Training Schedule:
11:00-12:30 Powerpoint presentation by Chris O'Bryan,
Owner of Limbwalker Tree Service and President of the Kentucky Arborist Society.
12:30-1:00 lunch provided
1:00-3:00 tree planting demo

More information here!

Saturday, October 11, 10 am - 2 pm

Happiness in Healthcare

Portland Promise Center - 1831 Baird Street

Proudly Sponsored by: Compassionate Louisville Healthcare Constellation

and Kentuckiana Holistic Nurses Association

Welcoming: everyone who is engaged in healthcare service and

those who help our community get and stay well!

Enjoy: art, music, storytelling and a World Cafe.

Joining the Celebration:

Harry Pickens - Master of Ceremonies

Dr. Robin Youngson - Founder of Hearts in Healthcare

Dr. Clifford Kuhn - "The Laugh Doctor"

kRi and Hettie - Musical Guests

Howard Mason - World Cafe Facilitator

Event is free and open to the public

Tickets are limited and required!

Saturday, October 11, 10 am - 3 pm

The 2014 Louisville Solar Tour

Louisville KY

The Louisville Solar Tour showcases the solar technologies your neighbors are using to drastically reduce monthly energy bills, reduce harmful carbon emissions, and enjoy rich tax credits and cash incentives as they improve their property values. It can be experienced in groups by bus and bike or as a self-guided tour.

Sponsored by Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light (KIPL), Louisville Climate Action Network, and Kentucky Solar Energy Society. More details at KIPL website.

Saturday, October 11 10 am

Time as Money Film Screening

Louisville Science Center, 727 West Main Street

Time As Money: A Documentary Film About Time Banking, will be featured
here in Louisville at the International Film Festival! Director Lenore Eklund will
be attending from Portland Oregon and many Louisville TimeBankers will
be on hand to answer questions about being a member in the Louisville TimeBank
and how it makes a difference in their life!

Watch the film trailer

Time As Money Documentary Trailer

Tickets are available from the Louisville's International Festival of Film website.

Beginning Tuesday, October 14th

Earth Art Afternoons

The Louisville Nature Center, 3745 Illinois Avenue

Children ages 7- 10 will have a wonderful time exploring art as it presents itself in Nature. They will learn to see in an "Art-see" way, discovering the fun and creative ways of "Mother Nature". Discovery will eventually lead to capturing images in photos and using imagination and creativity, transforming them into
1 of a kind creations. Snacks are included.

Tuesdays 4:00-5:30 - October 14, 21, 28 (session1)
Tuesday 4:00-5:30 - November 4, 11, 18 (session 2)

Members $30 a session, non- members $36 a session

Single afternoon registration $15

Deadline for registration Monday Oct 13 before 4:00 pm for session 1 and Monday November 3 before closing for session 2

For registration or more information please contact LNC
at 502-458-1328 or lnc@bellsouth.net.

Thursday October 16, 4 - 7 pm

Louisville Map Jam

Java Brewing / Safai Coffee 1707 Bardstown Road

Come join in on making our Louisville Sharing community visible by participating in The Shareable Map Jam! Help us update our map from last year, along with putting new sharing projects and businesses on the Louisville Map! Can't make this date? There will be an online form as well soon to make sure that we have all of Sharing Louisville represented!

Click here for information about Shareable and Map Jams going on around the world

Watch this video about map jams!

#MapJam 2014

Last year's map that was created at the Map Jam-

there is more to add, and information to update!

Friday, October 17 7:30pm

Soulful Sundown

Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church

4936 Brownsboro Rd

Details to be announced.

Saturday-Sunday October 18-19, 1-6 pm daily

Louisville Climate Leadership Summit

First Unitarian Church, 809 S Fourth St

RSVP now!

Today, there is unprecedented momentum in the effort to stop fossil fuels and win climate justice. However, with most of our attention focused on fighting short-term battles, we often forget to ask the question: What would the world look like if we won?

"Change the Course," a new program from Rainforest Action Network (RAN), is an invitation to dig deep and think hard about what it would actually take to stabilize the climate and create a just transition to a post-carbon future.

To launch this program, RAN is holding a series of "Climate Leadership Summits" in cities across the country...and Louisville is one them! These workshops will crowd-source a detailed vision of what a sustainable and just future would look like for our region - and develop the strategies and tactics that will get us there.

RSVP now as we strengthen and grow local groups and prepare our movement to take action together, with our end goals in mind. All are welcome, but registration is required. Point of Contact is bdrewf@yahoo.com/502-644-0659.

Sunday, October 19 at 3 pm

Partying for Prevention

featuring kRi and Hettie

Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Street

Partying for Prevention is a celebration of the community violence prevention efforts in Louisville hosted by the Center for Women and Families. The concert features local vocal artists kRi & Hettie. Learn about what agencies are doing in our community to work towards a violence free future.

Tickets are $20

Call 502.581.7211 with questions.
Find this event on Facebook.

Monday, October 20 6 pm

Social Change Book Club

Radical Inclusivity:
Expanding Our Minds Beyond Dualistic Thinking

by Jeff Carreira

Heine Bros. Coffee, 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews

This month the Social Change Book Club explores Radical Inclusivity, moving beyond simplistic dualistic thinking. In this short book, Jeff Carreira explores experiences that arise out of directly recognizing that everything is always included as part of some larger whole. That larger whole is itself included in yet another whole. This recognition of profound holism gives us a glimpse into a new possibility in consciousness and a way of thinking that moves us beyond dualistic comparison of opposites.

The writing style is personal, fluid, fast moving, and at times poetic because a new consciousness can best be articulated through words that point us to a reality that lies beyond words. This book is meant to start an inquiry that will inspire you to embark on a profound investigation of your own experience.

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

HowardMason@NewPossibilitiesAssociates.com

www.NewPossibilitiesAssociates.com

Tuesday, October 21, 7 pm

Greater Louisville Sierra Club

People's Climate March Recap, Reflection, and Action Plan

with Nick Johnson

Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Street

Please join us Tuesday, October 21, 7:00 p.m. at the Clifton Center, when we hear from Nick Johnson, who will report on The People's Climate March, billed as the largest single event on climate, that took place September 21st. This massive march in Manhattan featured tremendous collaboration among many groups from around the world, including the Sierra Club. Nick travelled with our Kentucky delegation and will give a first-hand account and testimonial, including photos and action plans.

Nick became involved in sustainability issues while studying Conflict at DePauw University. He returned to his hometown of Louisville and received a degree in political science from the University of Louisville. While at UofL, Nick continued his work on sustainability issues and helped reinvigorate the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition, where he served as the Louisville delegate. Nick is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Greater Louisville Sierra Club.

Our programs are free and open to the public.

October 24 -26

"Global Inspiration Meets Local Innovation"

2014 Bluegrass Bioneers Conference

A Bioneers Resilient Communities Network Event

The World We Want and How to Get There

In partnership with the annual National Bioneers Conference and the Center for Interfaith Relations, this year's Bluegrass Bioneers pairs compelling national Bioneers presentations with local experts and projects. Interspersed with world-renowned thought-leaders delivered from the national conference, we will be hosting live keynotes and presentations spotlighting exceptional local initiatives.

Three Days - Three Locations

10/24 @ UofL 10/25 @ JCTC 10/26 @ Bellarmine

Bluegrass Bioneers will be held over three days at three different schools:

October 24th at the University of Louisville (capping off their Sustainability Week), October 25th at Jefferson Community & Technical College (featuring a Re-skilling Fair), and October 26th at Bellarmine University (in conjunction with their Pete Seeger activism event "For Pete's Sake").

Featured events include: local farm to table dinners, a re-skilling fair, facilitated group discussions, and live entertainment. Themes to be explored include: Compassion, Culture, & Eco-Justice, Food & Farming, Women's Leadership, Youth Leadership, Ecological Design, Eco-Nomics, and Art & Performance.

This year's pre-recorded national speakers include: Naomi Klein, Eve Ensler, Paul Stamets, Wallace "J." Nichols, John Warner, Severine von Tscharner Fleming, John A. Powell, Manuel Pastor, and Terry Tempest Williams.

For all the details and ticketing information on the Louisville event,
please visit the Bluegrass Bioneers website

www.bluegrassbioneers.org

Saturday, October 25 12 - 3 pm

Really Really Free Market

Jefferson Community and Technical College, 109 E. Broadway

Like a yard sale, but everything is free.

Bring things you want to give away and take home things you
would like to have.

Part of Bluegrass Bioneers!

Sunday, October 26 11 am - 4 pm

For Pete's Sake: A Call to Action

Activist Fair and Concert

Frazier Hall, Bellarmine University

In partnership with "Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression", and "Bluegrass Bioneers" the Bellarmine Faculty for Social Innovation will be hosting a a day of activism in tribute to the legendary folk musician and activist, Pete Seeger. Events include:

1) "Teach-Ins" on the topics of civil rights, labor rights,
peacemaking, and environmental justice

2) An activism fair with participating organizations
from across the region

3) A screening of the speakers at
the National Bioneers Summit Conference

4) A Pete Seeger tribute concert featuring local musicians

The event is located in Frazier Hall and is free and open to the public.

We have a wonderful collection of 32 organizations participating in the Activist Fair! Representatives from those organizations will be staffing tables with information on how to get more involved in making our community and world a better place!

From 3:00-4:00 p.m., a musical salute to Pete Seeger
will be held in the Amy Cralle Theater on Bellarmine's campus.

John Gage (famed local musician and activist) will host an impressive lineup of musicians to memorialize the music of Pete Seeger including:

the Troubadours of Divine Bliss

Kri N Hettie

Carol J. Kraemer

Misha Feigin

Fernando Moya

John Paul Wright

The show will be recorded as part of the Kentucky Homefront Performances radio series broadcast by Louisville's WFPK (FM 91.9) radio station!

Save the Dates for November

Growing Toward Wholeness:

For Personal and Cultural Transformation

with Doug Van Houten & Marilyn Stoner

Friday, November 21, 6:00 p.m. thru Noon, Sunday, November 23, 2014

Crestwood, Kentucky

Cost: sliding scale $175 - $225 A non-refundable deposit of $50 will hold your place. Full payment is due November 1.

YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER as space is limited

The journey to wholeness is one of the greatest tasks of a human life and is never finished - there is always more learning, healing and growing. It is this journey toward wholeness that ultimately takes us deeper into our true identity where we can discover the greatest truths for ourselves in this lifetime, as well as to actualize our full humanity. Jung tells us that all of our struggles and symptoms contain seeds of potentials to be actualized, when they are worked with they become achievements - new integration - "the dark night of the soul" turns into illumination.

Like all things in nature the human psyche has a natural tendency toward wholeness. All of creation gifts us with resources that often go unrecognized and underdeveloped. Cultivating these resources is the key to deeper healing, flowering forth into our truest self, and for embodying our unique genius. Reclaiming these innate aspects of the Self can help one to go beyond the alleviation of personal woes and empowers one to wake up and to rise up, AND to become genuine and better-equipped agents for cultural change.

Each of us is vulnerable on our growing edges - you are invited to join a circle of concerned hearts to give voice to these vulnerable edges. As we engage in this process together we will:

* Cultivate our innate human resources

* Delve into our fragmentation

* Flesh out our unique gifts

* Create art, music and movement

* Spend focused time alone in nature

* Employ soulcentric dreamwork and guided imagery

* Engage in council, ritual and celebration

To register or obtain more information you may contact
doug@dougvanhouten.com (502) 472-6563 * marilynstoner@fastmail.fm (502) 456-1502

Compassionate Louisville Updates

Compassion and Earth

"In a city where our mayor reads Wendell Berry's nature-based soul poetry on the riverside, it makes sense that the Compassionate Louisville initiative would include Compassion and Earth among its focuses.

On Sunday, September 28th, the Compassion and Earth Constellation was launched as a dozen of us gathered to explore "What Compassion Wants for Earth." A primary goal will be to bring compassion for Earth and the more-than-human world to the forefront of our city's journey towards becoming a Compassionate City. We will be gathering again in November. Send us an email if you'd like to be involved." cultivatingconnections@twc.com

Read Compassionate Louisville's cohost Tom Williams' Courier Journal editorial

"Celebrating Compassion in Louisville"

Explore what a compassionate city might look like and respond now to the invitation to share your vision!

This information brought to you by
Cultivating Connections

www.cultivatingconnections.org

cultivatingconnections@twc.com
502-897-2721
Louisville, Kentucky

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