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Events and More for Metro Louisville - July 2015

Affirming Connections between Planet, People, Power and Possibilities

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Wednesday the 1st * Louisville Sustainability Forum: Permaculture Overview
Tuesday the 7th - Thursday the 9th * Global Compassion Summit
Monday the 13th * Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Chapter Meeting
Wednesday the 15th * Compassionate Louisville Town Hall Meeting
Saturday the 18th * Backyards for Butterflies at Louisville Nature Center
Monday the 20th * Social Change Book Club: The Triple Focus
Monday the 27th * Louisville TimeBank Orientation
Tuesday the 28th * Greater Louisville Sierra Club Annual Picnic
Save the Date - August 25th * Community Conversation: Earth and Compassion
Explore the Louisville Nature Center
Thanks to Sky and Angie for the Cosmic Spirit Walk!
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Wednesday, July 1st, 12 - 1:45 pm
Louisville Sustainability Forum
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road)
 
Permaculture Overview
Marsha Finley and Vaughn Zeller, Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) holders
Permaculture is a creative design process based on whole-systems thinking that uses ethics and design principles. It guides us to mirror the patterns and relationships we find in nature and can be applied to all aspects of human habitation, from agriculture to ecological building, from appropriate technology to education and even economics.
 
Permaculture uses these patterns to work with nature to create systems for meeting human needs while reestablishing humankind's connection to the natural world. By adopting the ethics and applying these principles in our daily life, we can make the transition from being dependent consumers to becoming responsible producers. This journey builds skills and resilience at home and in local communities that will help us prepare for an uncertain future with less available energy.

All Electric Cars   
Don Feeney, Electric Vehicles of Louisville

Planta Claus
Doug Lowry, 15Thousand Farmers

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!

 



Tuesday - Thursday, July 7-9
Global Compassion Summit
On the Internet

The Compassion Games is excited to be partnering with the Shift Network in the first online Global Compassion Summit, and we warmly welcome you to join us!
Do you sometimes wonder how you can deal with the suffering in your own life, let alone the suffering of the world? We know it's easy to get overwhelmed and feel as though there's nothing you can do to get relief.

That's why we're looking forward to The Shift Network's free online Global Compassion Summit, taking place July 7-9, 2015. This special event features leaders in the growing compassion field - including Karen Armstrong, Congressman Tim Ryan, Matthieu Ricard, Roshi Joan Halifax, Dr. James Doty, Kristin Neff, Dacher Keltner, and others - all respected experts who illustrate that through compassion, you can be with suffering - your own and others' - with kindness, grace and a little playfulness.

You can sign up for free here!
 


Monday, July 13, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Jefferson County Chapter Meeting
First Unitarian Church, 809 S 4th Street

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is a community of people, inspired by
a Vision, building New Power and a better future for all of us. Together,  we organize for a fair economy, a healthy environment, new safe energy and an honest democracy.

Join us for our monthly chapter meeting! We'll hear from chapter members who participated in the We Are Kentuckians member exchange in Southeast Kentucky. There will also be a screening of an Appalshop documentary about Evelyn Williams, an African American community organizer from Southeast Kentucky and early KFTC leader. Come learn and share with us!

Click here to learn more about the member exchange


Wednesday, July 15 at Noon
Compassionate Louisville Town Hall Meeting 
University of Louisville School of Medicine 
Kosair Charities Clinical and Translational Research Building
505 S. Hancock 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, congratulate the newest Compassion Laureate, share how Compassionate Louisville is encouraging compassionate action, and 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.



Saturday, July 18 10 - 11:30 am
Backyards for Butterflies
Louisville Nature Center
3745 Illinois Avenue, across from the Louisville Zoo

The Jefferson County Master Gardeners will share their knowledge of butterfly natural history and conservation in this fun and educational program. Various plants will be shown and discussed about how they attract and support these beautiful insects in our gardens. The Monarch butterfly will be displayed and a small number that have been bred in captivity will be released in the Louisville Nature Center Sensory Garden. This species is common worldwide, but the population in the Eastern U.S. is in decline due to the use of milkweed-killing herbicides in American agriculture and the logging of sacred fir forests in Mexico.

Come help us celebrate the miraculous natural phenomenon of the annual Monarch migration by releasing the butterflies into the Sensory Garden. Cost: $5 per person   Appropriate for ages 5 and up.

 
Monday, July 20 6 pm
Social Change Book Club Presents
The Triple Focus: A New Approach to Education
by Daniel Goleman and Peter Senge       

Grand scale and small scale change accelerates all around yet awareness oftern eludes us. The changes are either too big or too slow for us human beings to really grasp. Meanwhile kids grow up in a world of unprecedented technological, social and ecological change. How can these young citizens, consumers and future decision makers be helped to navigate this complex world? How can today's children be helped to develop into happier, calmer and more mature students, succeeding in their lives and contributing to vital societal changes? That is the question put forward in this mini-book.

Goleman and Senge argue that the response lies in developing three crucial skill sets: focusing on ourselves (self awareness), tuning into other people (empathy and caring), and understanding the larger world (systems thinking). This is the triple focus: inner, other and outer. Evidence tells us that these skills work in sync: stimulating one will also develop the others. Together they are a powerful predictor of academic success and personal well being.

An article by the authors on Triple Focus is available here.

Hosted by Howard Mason

 
  

Monday, July 27, 6 - 7:30pm
Louisville TimeBank Orientation 
Highlands Community Campus 1228 E Breckinridge 40204

Come to our New Member Orientation if you are thinking of joining or if you've just joined recently. We'll answer any questions you might have about getting started with The Louisville TimeBank, and empower you to start exchanging services with other members! These gatherings are offered monthly on the fourth Monday.

Explore frequently asked questions here.

Click here for a detailed map- GPS takes you to the wrong location sometimes.


  
 Tuesday, July 28, 6 pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club Annual Picnic
Louisville Nature Center, 3745 Illinois Avenue, across from the Louisville Zoo.  

Our special guest and speaker will be Jonathan Miller, former Kentucky Secretary of Finance & Administration and former Kentucky State Treasurer.  

Weather permitting, we'll again plan to eat outside at the Nature Center. However, we will have the option of cooling off or eating indoors, if necessary. As usual, our meal will be a potluck.  Greater Louisville Sierra Club will provide two main dishes (one meat, one vegetarian) and one main beverage.  Please bring some food of your choosing to share. Also, we ask that you bring your own reusable eating/drinking ware.  Sorry, alcoholic beverages are not permitted.

Jonathan Miller is a past winner of UK's Public Service Sustainability Award as well as a winner of the U.S. Green Building Council's President's Award. Jonathan successfully promoted energy efficiency initiatives while State Treasurer, and he currently is providing leadership on the Energy Project Assessment Districts effort in Louisville, which is before the Metro Council for approval. 

Our programs, including our picnic, are free and open to the public.
We hope you'll join us for this informative program.

Save-the-Date

Community Conversation Exploring
"What Does Compassion Want for Earth?"
Tuesday, August 25 from 5:30-8:30 pm
at the Louisville Nature Center
3745 Illinois Avenue, across from the Louisville Zoo


And More - Beyond Events


 

The Louisville Nature Center is a truly unique community resource offering wonderful opportunities for nature study and recreation--right in the heart of the city!

The public is invited to bring a lunch and relax at their picnic tables or under the covered gazebo, walk the garden space, hike trails through the 41 acre Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve, and/or check out their a one-of-a-kind bird blind.

Other unique attractions include: a native wildflower garden and pond that attracts seasonal butterflies, wildlife exhibits, Beargrass Creek watershed exhibit, a meeting room, a nature gift shop, and a library--a great place to do research and spend some time indoors when the weather is too hot, too cold or rainy to study nature outside.

The Louisville Nature Center mission is to provide nature education and encourage stewardship in an urban forest. They are located at 3745 Illinois Avenue near the Louisville Zoo.  For additional details and a programming schedule visit their website.

Louisville Nature Center Promo by Bloom Media Club
Louisville Nature Center Promo by Bloom Media Club



  Thanks and appreciation to Sky and Angela Yeasayer for
creating, installing and sharing the Cosmic Spirit Walk.

What a great gift to the community.
What a wonderful contribution to our
Summer Solstice Celebration!

Like the Cosmic Spirit Walk on  Facebook!


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