The Louisville Sustainability Council (LSC) is a public private partnership that works to engage and collaborate with the community, and facilitate the achievement of Louisville's sustainability goals.

The LSC hosts events, connecting partners, collecting and providing data, and facilitating community Action Teams. The LSC is an independent nonprofit organization formed in 2012, based on the work and recommendations of the Leadership Louisville Bingham Fellows Class of 2010, to promote sustainability in Louisville. The Council works collaboratively with Metro Louisville's Office of Sustainability as a community engagement partner.

Emily Chandler is the Interim Executive Director of the Louisville Sustainability Council. Emily was a founding board member of the LSC and served as Secretary of the Board of Directors. She was also a founding board member of the Green Convene, and currently serves as an ex-officio board member

Shorter Presentations

What Makes Lyft So Powerful?

DJ Bowers, Driver/Mentor/Recruiter/Driver Marketing Team with LYFT

Sustainability Qualities of Airbnb

Janice Tharaldson

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:

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!

Thursday, November 6 from 6 - 8 pm

Ali's Louisville? Making A Compassionate City

An Intergenerational Conversation

Swain Student Activity Center, 2100 South Floyd St

Order tickets via Eventbrite

The Muhammad Ali Institute will again gather people from a wide range of life experiences and perspectives to grapple with operationalizing compassion in the city. This is the third year of the Institute's leadership around the inclusion of all voices in Louisville's Compassionate City movement. This year we will focus on youth access and opportunity by hosting two conversations.

Session I was held on November 1st and focused on youth and youth voice facilitated through a youth forum. We wanted to ensure that we had youth as not only part of Session II but also create a space where their voice, speaking to their issues, was dominant.

Session II will be an intergenerational conversation that will bring university, community members, along with some youth from Session I together to identify issues and start the process of finding solutions of issues raised during discussion.

Saturday, November 8, 7 pm

kRi and Hettie Concert and Celebration

First Unitarian Church, 809 S. 4th St.

Everyone is invited to attend this concert and opening ceremony featuring music, inspiration and meaningful moments with local recording artists and peacemakers kRi and Hettie in celebration of the launch of the second year of their Power of Music Project (aka POMP).

"kRi and Hettie's The Power of Music Project Concert and Opening Celebration" features new music and poetry from kRi and Hettie (described by WFPK DJ Laura Shine as "unique, blending hip hop with folk, gorgeous vocals, and deep lyrics") along with performances from some of the young singer songwriters of the Power of Music Project.

Adding to the pleasure of the evening will be contributions from Harry Pickens.

This concert celebration is hosted at First Unitarian Church, 809 South Fourth Street in downtown Louisville. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Show starts promptly at 7:00 pm.

Tickets are available at BrownPaperTickets

Any remaining tickets will be available at the door.

Saturday, November 8, 6 to 8 pm

OWL PROWL

Louisville Nature Center, 3745 Illinois Avenue, 40213

Join naturalists Susan Wilson and Chris Bidwell at the Louisville Nature Center for an Owl Prowl. The evening will begin with a brief, interesting presentation followed by the "prowl."

Cost - LNC members, $4 per person or $12 for group of 4 or more: Non-members, $5 per person, or $20 for group of 4 or more. Note: This hike is limited to 15 participants.

For more information, or to register for any of our events:

E-mail Jessica Wheatley at jwheatley@LouisvilleNatureCenter.org

or call us at (502) 458-1328

Sunday, November 9

Louisville TimeBank Potluck Dinner

Highland Community Campus, 1228 E. Breckinridge 40204

Open to anyone interested in learning more about the Timebank!

Potlucks are a big part of the TimeBank community. We come together to share food, fun and build community all at the same time. Members get to know each other, and people who are not members can learn a bit about timebanking from chatting with our members at the potluck. Many exchanges get set up at our potlucks too!

This will be a great potluck to join because there will be many creative members exhibiting their art or craft work for sale or for Time Credits. If you are a member and are interested in participating in the Art and Craft Showcase, you may simply show up by 4:00 to set up. Please do bring your own table. .

Parking is behind the building. The entrance is also on the back of the building off of Barrett.

Please sign up here for what to bring!

Tuesday, November 11 at 5:30pm

8th Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture:

"From Freedom Summer to Ferguson:

Why we need a new culture of belonging"

with Dr. john a. powell

Belknap Playhouse, 1911 S. 3rd Street

The lecture will be delivered by Dr. john a. powell, professor of law, African American studies and ethnic studies at the University of California Berkeley. Read more on the Anne Braden Center website.

"We have a history of not just the police, but the state, the law enforcement agencies, disrespecting black life. And it's disrespected in hundreds of ways. ... We live in a system in which black life is devalued. ... We still have not come to full recognition of blacks and other people as full citizens, as full people. We literally do not see a number of young black men as human beings." -john a. powell

Thursday, November 13 at 12 pm

Compassionate Louisville Town Hall Meeting

Kentucky Center for the Arts, 501 West Main 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?'

Earth Art Adventures

Idea Incubator

Thursday, November 13 from 7 - 8:00 pm

St. Matthews Episcopal Church (330 N. Hubbards Lane)

Want to help a great idea flourish in the world?

Join us as we gather to offer our ideas, connections and suggestions in support of the exciting emergent art form that is Earth Art Adventures.

With Earth Art Adventures participants discover how easy it is to seek and find art inspiration everywhere! They experience the excitement of connecting with their world and creating amazing art. Learn more at the Cultivating Connections website.

On Thursday, November 13th, 7 pm at St. Matthews Episcopal Church (330 N. Hubbards Lane) community members will share in a short presentation from inventor Will McCullough laying out the ideas and methods behind Earth Art Adventures.

His presentation will be followed by a brief articulation of what is needed to move this project forward.

The rest of our time together will be spent brainstorming and exploring the possibilities. The process is much like our previous Idea Incubator but - this time we are putting forth just one project.

Please do come and help Earth Art Adventures find the connections and resources it needs to flourish!

Questions?: cultivatingconnections@twc.com 502-897-2721

Monday, November 17 6 pm

Social Change Book Club explores

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership:

Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

by Ron Heifetz, Marty Linsky with Alexander Grashow

Heine Bros. Coffee, 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews

Our November 17 book, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World by Ron Heifetz, Marty Linsky with Alexander Grashow, focuses on thinking and working in profoundly changing complexity. With its comprehensive and systemic approach to assessing the situation and yourself, and then taking action, it draws also from the experiences of people committed to advancing what they care about most.

We live in a time of danger and opportunity. Individuals, organizations, communities and countries must continuously adapt to new realities to simply survive. Wanting more, wanting to thrive even under constantly shifting and often perilous conditions, people in all sectors are called upon to lead with the courage and skill to challenge the status quo, deploy themselves with agility, and mobilize others to step into the unknown.

Heifetz, Linsky and Grashow have distilled the learning from their combined sixty-plus years of leadership consulting, teaching and training around the globe into a practical hands-on guide to making your leadership both more effective and more powerful.

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, November 18, 7 pm

Greater Louisville Sierra Club

Hank Graddy on the Clean Water Act

Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Street

Clean Water Act: Is The Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Why do the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits fail to eliminate the discharge of pollutants?

Hank Graddy will answer those questions. Hank has agreed to chair the Cumberland Chapter Water Committee. He will talk about the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), enacted 40 years ago this December 16. He will describe the intent of both laws, and the reality that the goals set forth in the laws have not been met. He will offer his suggestions for Louisville and Kentucky to make more progress toward the "zero discharge" goal of the CWA and toward the "source water protection" goal of the SDWA.

Hank has held a number of positions within the Sierra Club. He was an organizer of the Kentucky River Watershed Watch, Salt River Watershed Watch, and the statewide Watershed Watch in Kentucky program. Hank is an attorney from Versailles, Kentucky, a graduate from Washington and Lee University and the University of Kentucky School of Law. He, Randy Strobo, and Tom FitzGerald are part of the legal team representing the Sierra Club and others against US EPA concerning the Kentucky selenium and nutrient water quality standards.

Our programs are free and open to the public. Please join us.

Are you Interested in being part of the new Compassionate Louisville group

focusing on Compassion and Earth?

Join us for the second gathering of the still forming

"Earth and Compassion" constellation on

Thursday, November 20th 6:00 - 7:30 pm

at Central Presbyterian Church

(318 West Kentucky Street near Memorial Hall)!

The focus for this session -

"What is your vision for a Louisville living out of a deep compassion for Earth"

The "Earth and Compassion" constellation's 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.

Please consider joining us in this endeavor.

On November 11, 2011 Mayor Greg Fischer adopted a resolution declaring Louisville a Compassionate City. Compassionate Louisville is a group of citizens working to support and realize that vision. We believe that by exploring the question: "What does Compassion want for Louisville," we create a world and a community that is becoming ever more compassionate.

One of the forms this exploration has taken is the formation of groups (or constellations) focused on Compassion and Healthcare, Compassion and Organizations, Compassion and Practice, Compassion and Youth Education, Compassion and Seniors, and Compassion and the Arts.

Hosted by Mark Steiner, Cultivating Connections

cultivtaingconnections@twc.com 502-897-2721

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

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

Cost: sliding scale $175 - $225
A non-refundable deposit of $50 will hold your place.

YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER as space is limited

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

Friday, November 21 at 7:30 pm

Soulful Sundown - "Thankfulness"

Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church

4936 Brownsboro Rd

Details to be announced.

Sunday, November 30 at 8 pm

8th Anniversary Celebration of

Church on the Rocks

Heads Up Pub, 3308 Preston Hwy 40213

WOW 8 Years ya'll. Come on out and have a great time celebrating this wonderful anniversary. 8 years is a long spread for an open mic, and it has been all of you who have made it great. Come on out and show how great we can really be. More info to come.

Performance sign up list is out at 7:30.

Save the Date

Sunday, December 21 at 7 pm

Winter Solstice Sacred Celebration

The Womb of Winter

Unity of Louisville

Longtime Cultivating Connections friend and collaborator Jud Hendrix is launching some great new endeavors for those seeking a deeper more meaningful life

In * With * Out

Resources for Cultivating Integral Lives and Global Leaders

Integrating Global Wisdom...

For the first time in human history, we have access to the wisdom, cultures, traditions and practices of all major human civilizations - premodern, modern and postmodern. They are now available for our integration and growth.

IN-WITH-OUT applies these traditional and emerging insights to the cultivation of three essential areas of our lives: the inward journey of self-awareness, the communal journey of healthy relationships and the outward journey of creativity and compassion. These three areas inform an integral approach to personal and social transformation.

IN-WITH-OUT utilizes two learning tracks:

1) Integral Life Track - Conscious living emerges from integral practice. This learning track explores the latest resources and information related to personal growth and development.

2) Integral and Global Leadership Track - The world needs healthy, conscious and wise leaders who can creatively and compassionately engage in addressing today's complex problems. This learning track explores the principles, patterns and practices of effective and agile leadership in a global context.

Here's a link to the details!

Jud is also offering Leadership Development and Executive Coaching.

Integral Coaching awakens leaders to what is possible when they become clear, aware and can integrate the many dimensions of themselves into their work. Through supporting an intentional inward journey, cultivating healthy relationships and developing the outward capacities of effective leadership, we provide a holistic approach to human growth and development. We also help organizations create environments where people consistently challenge themselves to higher levels of personal excellence and learning.

Jud Hendrix has degrees in Psychology, Human Relations, Theology and is currently working on a PhD in Education and Social Change. For more than 20 years, Jud has worked in supporting the inward, communal and outward journeys of individuals and organizations.

Jud Hendrix 502-235-3250 judhendrix7@gmail.com

New Possibility Associates http://www.newpossibilitiesassociates.com

Engaging Compassion
Through Intent and Action

a new book from Louisville's Vanessa Hurst

Engaging Compassion Through Intent and Action shares resources and reveals clues to building and sustaining a personal, compassion-centric bridge. We begin by laying a strong foundation of awareness and sinking life pillars of being present, understanding our self, living with curious daring, and taking a long look at our life into that foundation. Our bridge's cables are mindfulness practices that anchor us in the moment and help us to release life stressors. We lay our bridge's deck through our intent and action.

Ready to engage compassion? Use the ideas and tools presented to gain an expanded awareness of your self. Develop a greater understanding of the underlying reasons why you react and respond to the world. Using the process of RI2 (reflection, introspection, and integration) shift from a place of fear-filled reaction to a place of compassionate response. The result? A compassion-centric life bridged through the alignment of your intent with your actions.

Vanessa Hurst, author of Engaging Compassion Through Intent And Action, is a member of the Coordinating Circle for Compassionate Louisville. She writes for Contemplative Journal and facilitates retreats, workshops, and seminars regionally. Vanessa holds a master's degree in Natural Health. As a practicing contemplative for over 21 years, compassion shared with her self, others, and all of creation is the natural rhythm of her life. In her practice as an intuitive healer and spiritual mentor, Vanessa understands that living with compassion is the foundation of healing both individuals and the world.

Print book available @ Amazon or by special order from your local bookstore

Ebook available in Kindle, iBook, and Nook format

Contact Vanessa for information about her programs and retreats or to schedule a Compassion Conversation & Book Signing.

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502-897-2721
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