December 17, 2002

Tuesday, 3-5 p.m.

Walkable Communities Presentation

Mary Brogan Museum

Kleman Plaza

350 South Duval Street

 

Dan Burden, a nationally recognized authority on bicycle and pedestrian facilities and programs, will present information on  developing, promoting and evaluating alternative transportation facilities, traffic calming practices and sustainable community design.

 

For more information:

 

Jennifer Z. Carver, AICP
Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Planner
Tallahassee-Leon County Metropolitan Planning Organization
300 S. Adams Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32301
(850) 891-8090  S/C 280-8090
carverj@talgov.com   Fax: (850) 891-8734

December, 2002

December 13&14

Alternative Christmas Market

 

Christ Presbyterian Church

2317 Bannerman Road

Friday, December 13th 6:00-9:00

Saturday, December 14th 8:00-1:00
 

Shopping online available now.

 

http://www.alternativemarket.org

December 10, 2002

Tuesday, 7 p.m.

Lake Jackson Ecopassage Alliance First Meeting

 

A meeting has been called on December 10th for concerned citizens to show their support of the Lake Jackson Ecopassage. This meeting will mark the creation of the Lake Jackson Ecopassage Alliance, a group of concerned citizens whose mission is to increase public awareness and support for construction of a wildlife ecopassage at U.S. Highway 27. Over the last 33 months, the Lake Jackson Ecopassage Project Team has saved over 8,000 turtles and hundreds of other species.

 

Tuesday, December 10th at 7:00 pm

Leon County Cooperative Extension Agency

615 Paul Russell Road

Tallahassee

Call (850) 562-3093 for details

 

For more information, contact: Lake Jackson Ecopassage Alliance, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1100

 

http://www.lakejacksonturtles.org

December 6, 2002

Friday, 7:30  p.m.

Tallahassee/Red Hills Independent Media Center (IMC) Collective First Meeting

128 Diffenbaugh Bldg, FSU

 

Topics to be discussed:

 

What is "Indy Media?"

Information on the Tallahassee/Red Hills IMC

Description of Working Groups

Open Discussion on the IMC

Website Demonstration

Upcoming Events and Announcements

 

For more information: Click Here.

November 29, 2002

Buy Nothing Day

 

Sponsored by Adbusters

http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/

"United We Spend?" United Let's Don't.

If enough jammers turn their disaffection into resistance for just one day, November 29 could mark the delivery of a landmark social message. More than a million people will celebrate 11 years of opposition on the unofficial "opening day" of the Christmas frenzy. Play this one right and we will make Buy Nothing Day 2002 a global event on par with Earth Day.

November 23, 2002

Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

The Gift of Giving Benefit Concert

 

"Environmental Troubadour" Dale Crider to Perform

 

Dale Crider will be among the widely known musicians performing in “The Gift of Giving Concert” at the Monticello Opera House. His career as a folk musician and educator is well known by way of his straight forward lyrics blended into bluegrass, folk and gospel rhythms, a unique form of “edu-tainment” on Florida’s environment. Crider lives in a swampy salt marsh, in Paines Prairie (Alachua County), in a self-built cypress and pine stilt home. Both his home and lifestyle are among the ways he actually lives the eco-wise approaches he has taught for so many years.

The event is a benefit for the Florida Public Interest Foundation. Tickets are available at Chez Pierre,Beethoven & Company and through the Foundation Web site at http://www.forthepbulic.net/ as well as through the Opera House. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Doors open at 7:00 PM for a Silent Auction, with a Dance Exhibition scheduled for 7:30 PM and the Concert to begin at 8:00 PM. Pam Laws, Del Suggs and others will also perform as part of this one-of-a-kind program.

 

For more information contact Westa Bryant 850-997-1341

http://www.forthepbulic.net/

November 23, 2002

Saturday, 5:30 p.m.

Grassroots School Soup and Music Benefit

 

5:30 Food ($3 or whatever you can afford), 7p.m. music ($5 or whatever you can afford).

 

Scott Campbell and friends, Avis Berry, Harvest Gypsies, and others. Come eat, enjoy, and support one of the oldest schools in the U.S. based on those (radical?) twin principles of... freedom and democracy

November 21, 2002

Thursday, 7 p.m.

Native American Awareness Month Event

Presented by the American Indian Student Union
180 Bellamy Building on the FSU campus.

A teach-in on hemp and the DEA raids on the Ogala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation. Also more on the economical, historical, engineering, and environmental aspects of hemp. Co-sponsored by FSU NORML & Environmental Service Program.

For more information: bigrico@hotmail.com

November 21, 2002

Thursday, 7 p.m.

Florida In Song and Image

Doug Gauss

Wakulla Public Library, Crawfordville

 

Sponsored by The Florida Humanities Council's Speakers' Bureau

Free and open to the public

November 19, 2002

Tuesday Morning, Early

Leonid Meteor Storm

 

According to the NASA article below, many North Americans can expect to see between 500-1000 "shooting stars" an hour at the peak.

 

For more information click here.

 

For audio information click here.

November 18, 2002

Monday, 7:30 p.m.

Art, Nature and the Environment

Mark Messersmith

Unitarian Church

2810 N. Meridian Road

 

Mark Messersmith is an artist with a vision -- an environmental vision.  Reviewers of his work seem confounded by the richness of his images but they agree that his work is a voice for the wonder of Nature and a rebuke of civilization's incessant tearing at its fabric.

Carol Leake, who works in the world of art writes:  "The leading characters in his paintings are the indigenous fauna of his adopted state of Florida -- herons, bobcats, alligators, snakes, . . .";  and "The theme of environmental violation is evident throughout his work, the immediacy of his bravura brushwork reinforcing the urgency of his thematic material."

Mark, accompanied by one or two his paintings, will talk to us about this unique fusion of environmental awareness and artistic sensibility.

November 16, 2002

Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Organics and Sustainable Living Conference
Featured speaker: Joel Salatin

Iraloke Farms

Salem, Florida

For detailed information click here.

November 13, 2002
Wednesday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Planning for the Future of the Florida Panhandle

Sponsored by the Panhandle Citizens Coalition

Panama City Civic Center - Free

 

"Strategies for planning and promoting quality development is a must for everyone interested in planning in the Panhandle.  If you are a city or county commissioner, planning commission member, planning staff member, or an interested citizen, this workshop is for you."

 

Topics Include:

 

Conservation Planning

The Past and Future of the Florida Panhandle

The Business Side of Conservation

Affordable Housing

Effective Planning Partnerships

 

The event is being held in conjunction with the Florida Main Street Conference, Nov 13-15.

For more information or to register, call 1000 Friends 850-222-6277

November 12, 2002
Tuesday 7 p.m.

Rural By Design: Maintaining Small Town Character

 

Nationally recognized speaker Randall Arendt will speak to promote the idea of conservation subdivisions.

 

Monticello Opera House

Southwest Corner of Courthouse Circle

Monticello, Florida

Sponsored by Tall Timbers Research Station

 

For more information: 893-4153 Ext. 228

November 9, 2002
Saturday 4 -6 p.m.

Global Warming: Causes, Consequences, & Tallahassee's Response

 

Temple Israel's Ruby Diamond Social Hall

Mahan Drive

 

For detailed information click here

October 30, 2002
Wednesday 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Water Wars

Sponsored by the Big Bend Environmental Forum

 

City Hall Chambers

300 S. Adams Street

For more information contact:

Bob Henderson 575-6610

bob@rkhenderson.com

October 29, 2002
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

Capital Casades Trail Open House

 

Who: The Trust for Public Land and Greenways, Inc.
What: Community Open House on the Capital Cascade Trail project
When: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 from noon to 7:30 pm
Where: At the Korean War Memorial on the corner of Gaines Street and Suwannee Way.  
 

For more information: Contact: Anne Nelson, the Trust for Public Land, (850) 222-7911, ext.18, or at anne.nelson@tpl.org.

October 21, 2002
Monday 7:15 p.m.

Studying the Apalachicola River System

Guest speaker: Skip Livingston

 

Unitarian Universalist Church

2810 N. Meridian Road

For more information contac:

Ben Fusaro 297-2052 or 644-4414 (w)

October 16, 2002
Wednesday 12 Noon

World Food Day Teleconference

"Hungry Farmers:A National Security Issue For All"

FSU Student Life Bldg. Theater

133 S. Wildwood Dr.

 

The teleconference begins at 12 noon. Presentations from local organizations will follow from 1-2 p.m. The last hour of the teleconference resumes at 2 p.m. with call-in questions for Dr. Michael Lipton, founding Director, Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex, England.

 

For more information:

http://www.worldfoodday.org

October 10-13, 2002
Begins Thursday 10 a.m.

The St. Joe Wildlife Sanctuary presents the second annual Florida Panhandle Birding and Wildflower Festival, held in Port St. Joe.

Guided tours, lectures, vendor displays, and educational displays will be features of the three day festival.
 

For detailed information, click here

October 7, 2002
Monday 10 a.m.

Greenpeace "Rolling Sunlight" Solar Truck

Press conference and photo opportunity in front of the "Rolling Sunlight," a truck that features 256 square feet of solar panels, enough power to energize three energy efficient homes.

For detailed information, click here.

September 29, 2002
Sunday 2:00 pm 

2nd Session Seeking the Truth, Working For Change

Crystal Connection

 

The NO DENIAL environmental thinkshop.

FREE from the North Florida Woods, with barry & judy.

 

For detailed information, click here.

September 23, 2002
Monday  7 pm 

"Sense of Place" Study Circle 
At the Healing Center, 847 Park Avenue 
Organizational meeting for the 8-week session, developed by The Northwest Environmental Institute. This course focuses on consciously developing an intimate relationship with our place and helps understanding the bioregional perspective. All welcome. For information email barry@heartoftheearth.org or call 216-8400.

For detailed information, click here.

September 22, 2002
Sunday 2:00 pm 

Seeking the Truth, Working For Change

Crystal Connection

 

The NO DENIAL environmental thinkshop.

FREE from the North Florida Woods, with barry & judy.

An exploratory 4-workshop series on refining perspective and productive action. The objectives are awareness and perceptual focus. The goal is identifying ways to help turn the world away from the war system and the economics of environmental destruction. Interactive. Videos.

Four Sunday afternoons in succession, starting 2pm Sunday, September 22nd at CRYSTAL CONNECTION. The film MINDWALK will be used as a point of reference in the first 2-hr. session. Possible extended series with Florida-based speakers.

September 22, 2002
Sunday 11:55 pm 

Autumn Equinox

Call barry and judy ( 850) 973 - 3351 for additional info. Or just show up.

September 17, 2002
Tuesday 5 pm 

Leon County Commission Meeting: EcoPassage Under Highway 27

For detailed information, click here.

September 7, 2002
Saturday 3:00 pm 

"Get out the Vote" Political Revival: A Celebration of Life

Miccosukee Land Co-op Community Center

September 5, 2002
Thursday 7:00 pm 

Eco-Team Beginning in the Killearn Lakes Neighborhood

on Thursday, September 5th at 7 p.m.

An eco-team is a structured four-month program to help a small group of friends, family and neighbors to put environmental knowledge to work in their lives. email lucyann@heartoftheearth.org or call 216-8400.

For details, click here.

August 29, 2002 

Environmental Candidates Forum 
City Commission Chambers, 6:30-9 pm Check out who stands for what-make sure your vote is an informed one.

For details, click here.

August 26 to September 4, 2002

World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg 
10 years after the Earth Summit in Rio it's time to put take some concrete steps implementing the Agenda 21. Keep up with what's happening at www.johannesburgsummit.org

August 26, 2002

 Monday 6-7:30 pm

Capital Cascade Trail

Community meeting with nationally-recognized greenways expert Chuck Flink. All are welcome.

 

Myers Park Community Center

912 Myers Park Drive

 

For details, click here.

August 22, 2002

Thursday 7:00 pm

"The Book of the Everglades" Book Signing

R.A. Gray Building Auditorium
Museum of Florida History
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee

Questions? Call Susan Cerulean at 216-2016

 

For detailed information, click here.

July 28, 2002 

Upper Ochlockonee River Paddling Trip 
For more info call The Wilderness Way at (850) 877-7200

http://www.thewildernessway.com

July 9, 2002
Tuesday  7:00 pm

Call for Neighborhood Eco-Team Leaders
Coffee shop "Java Heads", Railroad St., just north of the tracks Learn about a program that brings neighbors together, saving money and changing life styles. All welcome. 
E-mail lucyann@heartoftheearth.org or call 668-1364.