December 18, 2004
Saturday evening

Birdsong Nature Center Winter Solstice Celebration

November 20, 2004
Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory Tour

 

This family oriented tour of the Marine Lab will visit the aquarium and the "living dock". Join us for an opportunity to see and handle seldom-seen marine animals and learn about the mechanics required to maintain marine life.
This tour will be limited to 40 participants.

 

For more information, directions and to reserve a spot contact: Ed Gartner at 386-6543 by November 18.

November 26, 2004
Friday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Earth Spirit Walk

A Conversation With Nature

Location: Leon Sinks

7 miles south of Tallahassee on U.S. Hwy. 319

 

The Earth Spirit Walk is a unique way to re-connect with the Earth. It’s not a hike; it’s not a time to be overwhelmed learning the plants and animals of the area. It is a chance to connect to nature in a new way: through body, mind, and spirit. A mix of short walks, solo time for observing and reflecting, and short talks with fellow walkers gives you the opportunity to bond with nature. And to quiet your busy self so you may hear the messages whispered by your true self and nature. Leave the walk re-inspired by your sacred connection to fellow humans and all creatures of the Earth community and committed to live a better, happier life. Who knows, you may even be ready to take on the hectic activities of the holiday season. [More]

 

Limited to 12 participants (Registration required)

 

Contributions Appreciated

 

Co-Leaders: Mike Brezin and Barry Fraser

 

For more information and/or to register:

Mike Brezin 386-6767

http://www.heartoftheearth.org/earthspirit.htm

November 19, 2004
Friday. 7:30 p.m.

 

Friday At the Movies” Film Festival

 

Click Here for Film Schedule

Motor

 

The controversy surrounding off-road motor vehicles using public lands.

DeFelice outlines both sides of the debate with viewpoints from motorized-use advocates, public lands managers, and environmentalists, but projects a firm belief in the conservation of public lands and its resources throughout. The film suggests that people need to start taking responsibility for the protection of National Forests and National Parks in America.

 

Awards:
Best of Category, EarthVision Environmental Film and Video Festival
Merit Award, 23rd International Wildlife Film Festival Finalist
Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film Festival
Vermont International Film Festival

November 13, 2004
Saturday, 9 a.m.

Walk For Wakulla Springs

 

Location: City Hall

 

Description: Friends of Wakulla Springs and others are sponsoring a "Walk for Wakulla Springs," beginning with a rally at 9:00 a.m. in front of City Hall. We’ll take a long walk, "following the water" 6 miles to Munson Slough on Crawfordville Road. Along the way, state geologists and biologists will interpret the interconnected system’s geology and hydrology at the Cody Scarp, Church Sink, and Munson Slough. Buses will transport walkers from Munson Slough to Wakulla Springs for picnic, exhibits, and talks at the springs. Buses will transport walkers back to City Hall leaving every half-hour.

November 7, 2004
Sunday, 3-7 p.m.

Chez Pierre: Celebrating Our Home Between Two Rivers

 

Chez Pierre Restaurant, 1215 Thomasville Rd.

 

Come sit on the lawn or porch of one of Tallahassee's favorite restaurants, and enjoy the sounds of the Sir Charles Trio and some of your favorite Red Hills writers.

 

For more information: Call 222-0936

http://www.redhillswritersproject.org/events.cfm

November 6, 2004
Saturday, 8 a.m. - Noon

Between Two Rivers Author Event:

Tour the Wade Tract Preserve with Tall Timbers Biologist Jim Cox

 

Location: Meet at the Publix on Bradfordville Road at 8 a.m. and carpool.

 

Description: Take advantage of this rare opportunity to tour the Wade Tract, a magnificent 200-acre Preserve near Thomasville, Georgia--one of only a very few old-growth stands of longleaf pine remaining in the South.

 

Limited to 20 participants.

Cost: $10

November 6, 2004
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Ramp build

 

Location: WeMoonSpirit

1816 Mahan Drive, next to the United Church

 

We will gather to complete the railings and boardwalk that will enable our disabled participants easy access to events at WeMoon Spirit. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided.

 

For more information contact: Agnes McMurray 877-0256

amrose@nettally.com

November 1, 2004
Monday, 8 p.m.

Lake Ella Candlelight Vigil

 

Non partisan non sectarian candlelight vigil for the election process to be held at Lake Ella. Music.

 

For more information contact: Diana 349-2011

October 25, 2004
Saturday, 9-4 p.m.

Candidates Environmental Forum

Location: City Hall Commission Chambers on the second floor.

 

Sponsored by The Big Bend Environmental Forum (BBEF) and the League of Women Voters

 

A candidates' forum for Monday, featuring congressional, state legislative, and local (soil and water conservation) candidates.

 

BBEF is an alliance of local environmental and growth-management organizations. The environmental forums are usually the best attended of the candidates’ forums. By being present and asking good questions, citizens demonstrate to the candidates their concerns for protecting clean water and air, preserving green space, and promoting smart growth and natural resource management over urban sprawl.

 

For more information: Call Kent Wimmer at 523-8576.

kwimmer@fs.fed.us

October 23, 2004
Saturday, 9-4 p.m.

Monarch Butterfly Festival

 

Location: St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge

 

Tours, exhibits on butterfly gardening and tagging, music, food, gifts, plants, butterfly tent and more!

 

For more information: Call Robin Will at 925-6121

http://saintmarks.fws.gov/events.html

October 15, 2004
Friday. 7:30 p.m.

 

Friday At the Movies” Film Festival

 

Click Here for Film Schedule

Southbound: Logging In the Southeast

 

Examines logging in the southeastern US and the controversy over chip mills.

This video documents the quiet move over the last several years by multinational wood products companies from the heavily logged National Forests in the Pacific Northwest to the mostly privately owned, recovering forests of the southeastern United States. The video examines the controversy surrounding the proliferation of high-capacity chip mills, which are used to convert the diverse hardwood forests of the region to raw wood fiber for export.

October 14, 2004
Thursday, 7 p.m.

Sense of Place Study Group

 

Location: The Healing Center, 847 Park Avenue 
 

Organizational meeting for the 8-week session, developed by The Northwest Earth Institute. This course focuses on consciously developing an intimate relationship with our place and helps understanding the bioregional perspective. All welcome.

 

For information: call Mike Brezin at 386-6767 or Barry Fraser at 877-9115.

cbreez@infionline.net

For detailed study circle information, click here.

October 9, 2004
Saturday, 10 a.m. - Noon

Between Two Rivers Author Event:

Monarch Butterfly Festival and Author Signing

 

Location: Native Nurseries, 1661 Centerville Road

 

An author event featuring Susan Cerulean, Ann Morrow and others, with biologist David Cook.

 

For more information:

http://www.redhillswritersproject.org/events.cfm

September 25, 2004
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

Between Two Rivers Author Event:

Upland Ecology of the Tallahassee Red Hills with Bruce Means

 

Location: Meeting Spots: Meet at 8:30 to carpool at SunTrust Bank Bank at 2051 Thomasville Road (just north of Betton Road) or at Tall Timbers Research Station on Leon County Road 12 OR meet at Tall Timbers Research Station at 9:00 AM.

Description: First stop, Pebble Hills Plantation. Walk through native longleaf pine/wiregrass forest and talk about its fire ecology, animal life, and importance to the Southeastern U. S. Coastal Plain. After examining the ridge-top longleaf pine ecosystem, drop down into a small creek drain and examine the hardwood forests in the stream valley, and the wetlands ecosystems in the stream bottom. Walk through the stream bottom and into a very amazing surprise. Second stop, back at Tall Timbers Research Station to examine shortleaf pine/loblolly forests and finally bottomland hardwoods in Woodyard Hammock.

Bring: water, sunscreen, hat, lunch (if you wish); wear long pants!

 

For more information and/or to reserve a spot, contact:

Mike Brezin at (850) 386-6767 or

cbreez@infionline.net

September 22, 2004
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. 

Between Two Rivers Author Event:

Fall Equinox: Reading at 621 Gallery

 

Location: 621 Gallery, Railroad Square

 

An author event featuring Red Hills writers Ann Morrow, Sharon Rauch, and Julie Hauserman.

 

For more information:

http://www.redhillswritersproject.org/events.cfm

September 18, 2004
Saturday, 1-3:30 p.m. 

Between Two Rivers Author Event:

Dive into Wakulla County Water Issues with Crystal Wakoa

 

Location: Crystal Wakoa's sinkhole, Crawfordville

 

Description: We’ll learn about karst geology; look at a map of sinkholes, springs, and rivers in the Woodville karst Plain; and talk about water bottling proposals in Wakulla County. We’ll also float in the sinkhole, swim, play, and enjoy each other’s company.

 

Limited to 12 participants.

Cost: $10

Bring: bathing suit and towel

 

For more information and/or to register:

(850) 656-5506

http://www.redhillswritersproject.org/events.cfm

September 17, 2004
Friday. 7:30 p.m.

 

Friday At the Movies” Film Festival

 

Click Here for Film Schedule

Water's Journey:

Hidden Rivers of Florida

 

WeMoonSpirit
1816 Mahan Drive, next to the United Church

 

Over 8 billion gallons of water a day burst forth from Florida's springs....the most unique concentration of springs on the planet. At one time it was thought to be an endless supply, but now the demands are starting to exceed availability.

 

Using state-of the-art high definition equipment and techniques, viewers are transported to a wondrous world portrayed from the point of view of a molecule of water. We join a team on a daring journey into the Floridan Aquifer – to find out what’s going wrong. As the team follows the connective path of water through the landscape, their discoveries lead viewers on a thrilling adventure about the miraculous course that water takes, and the places we don’t want to believe it goes.

It is a dramatic visual journey that follows the connective path of water through the landscape – above and within the earth.

 

Awards:

Nominated as a finalist in the Best Earth Sciences Category at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival

September 17, 2004
Friday. 7:30 p.m.

"Pale Male"

Location: Amtrak station (Leon County Community Room), 918 Railroad Avenue

Sponsored by the Tallahassee Film Society

 

The film, narrated by Joanne Woodward, is an urban love story. High above New York's Central Park, a truly remarkable event unfolds as a bold and daring red-tailed hawk takes up residence. Affectionately known to locals as  "Pale Male," the hawk courts, breeds, and hunts as its devoted urban fans root for its survival. After unexpected perils, triumphs, and tragedies, onlookers gaze in rapt anticipation as the hawk's chicks prepare to take their first tentative flight from a nest on the ledge of a luxury apartment building.  "Pale Male" is a rare glimpse of the survival techniques of one of nature's great predatory creatures. 

 

For more information: (850) 386-4404

http://www.tallahasseefilms.com

September 11, 2004
Saturdaty 3-8 p.m. 

FESTIVAL: Between Two Rivers

 

Location: Tall Timbers Research Station

 

A festival featuring readings from the Red Hills writers, and local entertainment including Sammy and Sandy Tedder with Jerry Evans, Carrie Hamby and friends, Mickee Faust players, giant puppets and more. Food for sale, exhibits, wagon tours, bring lawn chairs and blanket, picnic on the grounds.

 

For more information:

http://www.redhillswritersproject.org/events.cfm

August 28, 2004
Saturday, 2-4 p.m. 

Between Two Rivers Author Event: Tattered Pages Bookstore

 

Location: Tattered Pages Bookstore, Crawfordville, FL.

 

Book signing and readings by Donna Decker, Crystal Wakoa, Saundra Kelley, Jack and Anne Rudloe

 

For more information:

http://www.redhillswritersproject.org/events.cfm

August 28, 2004
Saturday, 5-7 p.m. 

Environment 2004 Garden Party

 

Location: Home of Lance and Carol Block
                 3010 Thomasville Road

 

Do you want to:
--do something good for the natural environment of Florida and the nation?
--end George W. Bush's assault on the environment and public health?
--emphasize the vital issue of the environment in the Presidential election?

 

Environment 2004 is a new national political organization dedicated to direct advocacy -- in the 2004 Presidential campaign -- for the environment, conservation, and public health. 

 

Minimum $50 donation requested

 

For more information and to RSVP: 850-443-4966

http://www.environment2004.org

August 23, 2004
Monday, 7-9 p.m.. 

Big Bend Environmental Forum

 

Location: City Hall commission chambers

 

BBEF is an alliance of local environmental and growth management organizations. This environmental forum is usually the best attended of the candidates forums. Citizens by their presence and good questions need to demonstrate to the candidates their concern for clean water and air, preserving greenspace and promoting smart growth over urban sprawl. BBEF would like you to be considering the questions or issues that you want the commissioners to address.

 

For more information contact: Bob Henderson at 575-6610 

bob@rkhenderson.com

July 30, 2004
Friday, 7:30 p.m. 

"Tibet: City of the Snow Lion"

R A Gray Building Auditorium 

500 South Bronough Street 

(Home of the Museum of Florida History)

 

$6.00 for general admission; $5.00 for Tallahassee Film Society members and museum foundation members.
 

One of the finest documentaries to be released in this or any year,  "Tibet: The Cry of the Snow Lion" is a breathtakingly comprehensive account of the history and ongoing plight of the titular Central Asian nation which, for more than a half-century now, has suffered under the occupation and brutal rule of the People's Republic of China.

Narrated by Martin Sheen,  "Tibet" begins in the present with what seems to be smuggled video of protests and atrocities committed only a few years hence. Eyewitness narration gives it bone-chilling resonance, generating an almost unbearable sense of urgency even before the opening credits run. Having sufficiently disarmed their viewers at the get-go, filmmakers Tom Peosay, Sue Peosay and Victoria Mudd proceed to offer a methodical account of Tibetan cultural and religious history with an emphasis on the Chinese invasion, the Dalai Lama's exile and recent Chinese efforts to forcibly colonize and modernize the region. Firsthand accounts and expert testimony from the likes of renowned Buddhism expert Prof. Robert F. Thurman are supplemented by extensive film and video footage depicting the resiliency of the longsuffering Tibetan people throughout five agonizing decades of repression and genocide.

 

 For more information contact: John Fraser at (850) 386-4404 filmnews@tallahasseefilms.com

July 27, 2004
Tuesday, 7 p.m. 

Workshop To Save The Trees

Capital Medical Society

1204 Miccosukee Road

 

Heart of the Earth is working to protect the trees in our community.  Over the next several months, we plan to approach our City and County Commissioners to talk with them about our concerns for the green spaces and native trees and vegetation.  Our goal is to educate each Commissioner about the loss our community is suffering as we lose these spaces, explore alternatives to deforestation and to discover where each Commissioner stands on this environmental issue.  The purpose of the workshop is to update you and invite you to join these teams that will approach the Commissioners.

 

This will be a great opportunity to learn more about the issues and to become actively involved in the project. 

 

For more information contact: Robin McDougall at robin@capmed.org or 877-3251

July 22, 2004
Thursday, 7:30 p.m. 

Ecuador , Sierra Club and Population: Making the Connections

Speaker: Annette Souder

Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee

2810 North Meridian Road, Room L

 

Guest speaker, Annette Souder, is a senior Washington representative of the Sierra Club’s Global Population and Environment Program. Learn how population solutions have made a difference in the lives of families in three communities in Ecuador . Social time begins at 7:00 p.m. , followed by the talk at 7:30 p.m.

 

Sponsored by Sierra Club's Big Bend Group and UU Green Sanctuary Committee.

 

For more information contact: Steve Urse at 385-2864 or surse2@earthlink.net, or call the church office at 385-5115.

July 16, 2004
Friday. 7:30 p.m.

 

“Friday At the Movies” Film Festival

 

Click Here for Film Schedule

Turning Up the Heat

WeMoonSpirit
1816 Mahan Drive, next to the United Church

This film explores the problems posed by, and possible solutions to, global warming.

There is an overwhelming consensus among scientists that we are increasingly warming the planet in ways that could prove catastrophic.

GLOBAL WARMING questions why nothing has been done about an issue as serious as this, despite the broad consensus at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio and warnings from scientists and environmentalists that it poses a major threat. Guests include Henry Kendall, Nobel laureate in physics, and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Sheila Copps.

The program examines how human activity has contributed to recent unusual heat waves, floods and droughts around the world, and looks at some of the ingenious solutions that are now being developed to alleviate these problems.

At the Earth Summit heads of state pledged to take immediate action to reduce pollution in their own countries. Our goal: In the year 2000 our greenhouse emissions would be back to 1990 levels....but the levels have continued to climb.

In GLOBAL WARMING David Suzuki asks whatever happened to that commitment to change?

July 19, 2004
Monday, 6-9 p.m. 

Forum on the Leon County Greenways Plan

Sponsored by the Big Bend Environmental Forum

Tallahassee City Hall Commission Chambers

 

This event is being held so the public may review, ask questions about and comment on what greenways have been protected and where the County would like to conserve greenways in the future. The forum's hosts are the Apalachee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association and the Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department

 

For more information:

http://www.tfn.net/BigBendEnvForum/email.htm

July 13, 2004
Tuesday, 7-9 p.m. 

Birdsong Nature Center Presentation

Apalachee Chapter of Florida Trail Association

325 John Knox Road, Building F-100 in Tallahassee (U.S. Forest Service, National Forests in Florida conference room)

 

Kathleen Brady, Director of Birdsong Nature Center, will provide an audio-visual presentation about Birdsong and the events and activities that take place at the 660-acre center in Grady County, Georgia.

 

For more information contact: Terry Tenold 523-8575 or Paull Kirkpatrick 894-3224

http://apalachee.florida-trail.org/

 

For information on hiking/canoeing trips:

http://apalachee.florida-trail.org/activities.htm

June 25, 2004
Friday, 8 p.m. 

Robin's Original Musicals

WeMoonSpirit
1816 Mahan Drive, next to the United Church

 

Local musician and Heart of the Earth Council member, Robin McDougall, will be performing her original compositions. Expect the performance to last approximately one hour.

 

Donation requested: $3.00 which will be donated to WeMoonSpirit.

June 26, 2004
Saturday, 7 p.m. 

Movie: Iron Jawed Angels

WeMoonSpirit
1816 Mahan Drive, next to the United Church

 

Hillary Swank stars in this inspiring account of the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Focusing on the two defiant women, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), the film shows how these activists broke from the mainstream women's-rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920.  Discussion follows screening  Norine Cardea and Kate Chanton.  Bring a pillow or a back jack!

 

For more information: Norine Cardea 224-8485

June 21, 2004
Monday, 7 p.m.

Development vs. Natural Systems:  The Fight for Florida’s Water Resources

Presenter: Eric Draper, Policy Director of Audubon of Florida

Democratic Club of North Florida

214 South Bronough Street

 

Last year communities throughout North Florida responded to proposed water policy changes by defending the concept of local sources first. As population grows in Atlanta and South Florida, new proposals will be offered to take water from our springs and rivers to accommodate growth elsewhere.  Draper will discuss current water policy, changes that are necessary to protect water supplies and the politics of defending local water sources. Expect a few hard jabs at what W is doing to destroy our environment and why he needs to be retired.

 

 For more information contact: Dave Jacobsen
385-6504

June 21, 2004
Monday, 7:15 p.m.

TAPP (Think About Personal Pollution) Campaign

Presenters: Nancy Miller and Steve Urse

Sponsored by Sierra Club's Big Bend Group 

Take action to improve water quality through your own effort, one yard and one landscape at a time. Their objective, via the TAPP (Think About Personal Pollution) Campaign, is to slow the flow of water from our yards and to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use. This campaign will encourage people to realize their part in the problems with water quality and then take action by changing a few small things they do in their daily lives, particularly in their yards.

TAPP is a project of the Ochlockonee River Soil and Water Conservation District funded by an EPA grant through the Florida DEP.

Location: Fringe Benefits Management Corp.

3101 Sessions Rd.

 

For more information and directions contact: Ben Fusaro at 297-2052 or 644-9171

 

http://www.tappwater.org

June 18, 2004
Friday. 7:30 p.m.

“Friday At the Movies” Film Festival

                   Click Here for Schedule

Beyond Organic
The Vision of Fairview Gardens

A model of community supported agriculture in the midst of suburban sprawl.

BEYOND ORGANIC tells the story of this amazing farm and its long battle to survive in the face of rapid suburban development. It explores the efforts of Ableman and his staff to diversify the farm, open it to educational tours for thousands of people -- especially schoolchildren -- and defend it against angry neighbors, hostile public officials and developers eager to re-zone the land for condominiums. It draws a sharp contrast between community supported agriculture and conventional chemical farming, and it calls on organic farmers to remember basic principles, including fair labor practices, as their farms grow in size and power.Fairview Gardens is an urban farm located in Goleta, California, right in the middle of some of the most expensive real estate in the U.S. Managed for the past two decades by visionary farmer/photographer, Michael Ableman, this 12-acre organic farm has become a model of sustainable food production and community involvement, as well as an inspiration for thousands of people all over the world.

Cost: Free (Donations appreciated)

June 6, 2004
Thursday, 6-9:30 p.m.

Capital Cascade Trail Community Workshop

Florida Department of Transportation Auditorium

605 Suwannee St.

 

The purpose of the second community workshop is to hear public input and solicit ideas about this six-mile stretch from Leon High to Munson Slough that will help transform Tallahassee's urban core.

 

As quoted in the Tallahassee Democrat, "the trail has the potential to become emblematic of the capital city, blending nature, history and good planning principles that encourage more walking, bicycling and other recreational pursuits."

 

For more information:

http://www.blueprint2000.org

May 21, 2004
Friday. 7:30 p.m.

“Friday At the Movies” Film Festival

 

Click Here for Schedule

 

Film: "Store Wars"

            When Wal-Mart Comes To Town

 

WeMoonSpirit
1816 Mahan Drive, next to the United Church

 

This film looks at the impact on a small town when Wal-Mart plans to build a mega-store there.

In the US, Wal-Mart opens a new mega-store every two business days. This is the story of the impact of discount chain stores on American towns and cities, and on our society as a whole.

 

STORE WARS follows events in Ashland, VA, over a one-year period, from the first stormy public hearing that galvanizes residents' opposition till the Town Council takes a final vote on the proposed Wal-Mart store.

 

Arguments for the store (tax revenues, low prices, jobs) and against it (destroys small town character, traffic, low-end jobs) are articulated and hotly debated. The cast of characters includes the mayor and Town Council members who will eventually make the decision, Wal-Mart representatives and the "Pink Flamingos," the grassroots citizen group opposed to the store.

 

STORE WARS does not single out Wal-Mart, but rather highlights its position as the icon of the Big Box industry. While offering a critical view of this industry, the film presents fairly all viewpoints on this controversial issue.

 

Awards:
Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival
Gold Plaque, Chicago International Television Competition
CINE Golden Eagle
Bronze Plaque Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
Jury Citation, New Jersey International Film Festival
Singapore International Film Festival
South by Southwest Film Festival
Dallas Video Festival
IMAGE Atlanta Film & Video Festival
Magnolia Film Festival
Port Townsend Film Festival
Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
Conscientious Projector Film Festival
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital

May 17, 2004
Monday, 7 p.m.

Green Empire

Author, June Wiaz

 

June Wiaz is the co-author of "Green Empire: The St. Joe Company and the Remaking of Florida's Panhandle", a recently published book that examines the intersection of one of the most ambitious players in Florida's real estate market, the St. Joe Company, with the state's last frontier--the quiet natural spaces of the Panhandle.

 

June Wiaz has worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and wrote an environmental column for The Tallahassee Democrat.

 

Sponsored by the Big Bend Chapter of the Sierra Club

 

Location: Fringe Benefits Management Corp.

3101 Sessions Rd.

 

For more information and directions contact: Ben Fusaro at 297-2052 or 644-9171

 

http://florida.sierraclub.org/bigbend/

May 13, 2004
Thursday, 8-4 p.m.

Wakulla Springs Scientific Symposium

Sponsored by the Florida Geological Survey

Wakulla Springs Scientific Symposium
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
3900 Commonwelath Blvd.
Conference Room A
Thursday, May 13th 8-4 p.m.

No fee, but you must register by April 30th.

 

For more information contact: Gary Maddox 850-245-8511

April 25, 2004
Sunday, 11 a.m. 

Earth Day Service
“The Great Turtle Mother Myth and the Interdependent Web”
With guest speaker Jack Rudloe and guest musician Carrie Hamby

 

Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee
2810 North Meridian Road

April 25, 2004
Sunday, 2-6 p.m. 

Tallahassee Wildlife Festival

Chez Pierre

Thomasville Rd.

 

With Jim Fowler, music, wildlife artists, animal exhibits, nature authors, silent auction, kid's activities, surprises.

$20 adults/$10 children

 

For More information:

http://www.stfranciswildlife.org

April 24, 2004
Saturday, 6-10 p.m. 

Earth Day Benefit Concert

FSU Union Green

Sponsored by FSU Environmental Services Program

 

An Earth Day Benefit Concert with DJ Dirty Digits and Soular System.  There will be raffles, be planting flowers, and spreading the word about issues affecting the environment. Catered by Moe's Southwest Grill.

 

For more information: SGAEnvironmental@admin.fsu.edu

April 23, 2004
Friday, 7:30 p.m. 

"Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy" Working with Time"

R A Gray Building Auditorium 

500 South Bronough Street 

(Home of the Museum of Florida History)

 

This is a film about a man wholly absorbed in the moment. He wanders woods and riverbanks, finding materials and playing with them, fitting them together, piling them up, weaving them, creating beautiful arrangements that he photographs before they return to chaos.
 

Note: This film is expected to sell out. Pre-order by calling 386-4404 or visiting the website of the Trust For Public Land.

 

http://www.riversandtides.com

April 22, 2004 

Earth Day

April 19, 2004
Monday, 7:15 p.m. 

Population and Sprawl

Guest Speaker: Thorbjoern Mann

Sponsored by Sierra Club Big Bend Group

Location: Fringe Benefits Management Corp.

3101 Sessions Rd.

 

The speaker will suggest some unusual solutions to the challenge of sprawl. Some of these ideas were triggered by his experience as a consultant on the Southgate Project.

 

For more information and directions contact: Ben Fusaro at 297-2052 or 644-9717

April 16, 2004
Friday. 7:30 p.m.

“Friday At the Movies” Film Festival

Film: "The Next Industrial Revolution"

With William McDonough

WeMoonSpirit
1816 Mahan Drive, next to the United Church

 

"Could you design a system for me that produces billions of pounds of finely  hazardous toxic material and puts it in your soil, your air, and your water every year? Could you design a system for me that measures your prosperity by how much natural capital you can dig up, cut down, bury, burn, otherwise destroy? Could you measure productivity by how few people are working? Could you measure progress by your number of smoke stacks, and, if you're  especially proud, put your names on them? Could you require thousands of complex regulations to keep us from killing each other too quickly? While you're at it, produce a few items so highly toxic they will require thousands of generations to maintain constant vigilance while living in terror. Can you do that for me? Is this ethical? Is this an ethical design assignment?"

"We, all of us, are designers. We all have intentions. We need a new design assignment. Design a system that doesn't produce any hazardous toxic material, and put it in your soil, your air, and your water. Measure prosperity by how much natural capital you can put into constant closed cycles that are healthy and propitious, and measure progress by how few  buildings you have that have smokestacks. How about buildings that have no pipes? Not little pipes -- no pipes. Imagine designing a system that doesn't require any complex regulations, because you're not trying to kill each other, and that does nothing to create intergenerational remote tyranny. Wouldn't that be more interesting?"
                                   William McDonough
 

Summary of the film:

While some environmental observers predict doomsday scenarios in which a rapidly increasing human population is forced to compete for ever scarcer natural resources, Bill McDonough sees a more exciting and hopeful future.

In his vision humanity takes nature itself as our guide reinventing technical enterprises to be as safe and ever-renewing as natural processes.

Can't happen? It's already happening...at Nike, at Ford Motor Company, at Oberlin College, at Herman Miller Furniture, and atDesignTex...and it's part of what architect McDonough and his partner, chemist Michael Braungart, call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.'

 

"The model for the Next Industrial Revolution may well have been right in front of us the whole time: a tree."

 

To read more about this revolutionary concept:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98oct/industry.htm

April 3, 2004
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

2nd Annual Pinewoods Bird Festival

Pebble Hill Plantation

Hwy 319 Near Thomasville

• Field trips to ancient longleaf pine forests (with many trees  >400-years old)

• Research field trips where participants will help band Red-cockaded Woodpeckers, quail, and Bachman's Sparrows

• The Georgia Southern University Raptor Show

• Hummingbird banding in the Pebble Hill Butterfly Garden

• Field trips to Birdsong Nature Center
  Hourly field trips to mature pinewoods on Pebble Hill Plantation

• An expanded kid's activity area sponsored by the Thomasville Wildlife Arts Festival

• Lectures on Georgia hummingbirds and butterflies

• Wildflower trips on Pebble Hill Plantation
  Main House tours on Pebble Hill

• Botanical tours through Pebble Hills gardens

• Prescribed burn demonstration

For more information contact:

 

Jim Cox
Tall Timbers Research Station
13093 Henry Beadel Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32312
(850) 893-4153 ext. 251
jcox@ttrs.org

http://www.pinewoodsbirdfestival.com/

April 3, 2004
Saturday, 9 a.m. 

Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee

Green Sanctuary Committee

Gulf Specimen Marine Lab

Panacea

A 3-hour tour by Jack and Anne Rudloe of the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab Aquarium, the dock and the marsh. For all ages.

$9.00 per person and children under 3 free.

 

For more information call: Pam Hoskins at 893-5039.

pvhoskins@aol.com

March 20-25, 2004
Saturday - Thursday

Suwannee River Paddle Tour

Designed to coincide with the Springfest at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, March 25-28. Set up base camp at the Spirit of the Suwannee on Saturday, then shuttle to the Okefenokee to begin downriver adventure of 88 mile paddle in five days/four nights. Limited to 12 paddlers.

Final confirmation by February 20.

 

For more information contact: chuck at 904-241-1322.

chuck.utter@thehaskellco.com

March 21, 2004
Sunday, 7 p.m.

Benefit Concert for Southern Springs

Women's Wisdom: Welcoming In the Spring

United Church in Tallahassee

1834 Mahan Drive

 

Featuring singer-songwriters Amy Fradon, Paula Held and Carrie Hamby.

 

For more information call: 878-8643

http://www.southernsprings.org