Heart of the Earth Calendar Archives

2006

December 13, 2006 
Wednesday, 7 p.m.

Location:

Collins Public Library

Peak Oil of Tallahassee Meeting

 

For more information contact: Jeff Bastian

bastianj@capitalweb1.com

 

December 12, 2006 
Tuesday, 6-8 p.m.

Location:

Tallahassee City Commission Chambers

(2nd floor, City Hall, 300 South Adams Street)

Lake Jackson Ecopassage Public Meeting

 

From Matt Aresco:

 

The public meeting is to present the results of the Project Development and Environment Study (PD&E) and to provide an update on the status of the project.   You will have the opportunity to provide your written comments that will be part of the final report.  I urge you to attend the meeting as your presence and comments are very important to the Florida Department of Transportation and Capital Regional Transportation Planning Agency.  If you live outside of Tallahassee, and cannot attend the meeting, you can email your comments on the project to karen.waterman@kimley-horn.com.  It would be very helpful if you would write in support of the preferred design alternative of a
wildlife wall and four culvert system.   I look forward to seeing you
on Tuesday evening.

 

For more information: http://www.lakejacksonturtles.org

December 8, 2006
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie 

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Cost: Free (Donations appreciated)

Chased By the Light

 

Chased by the Light: A Photographic Journey with Jim Brandenburg is an hour long inspiring documentary that tells the story of how one of the world's greatest nature photographers immersed himself in a Zen-like exploration of his craft and the untamed landscape of the rugged north woods.

 

Undertaken at the pinnacle of his career, it was a project motivated by his desperate need to renew his creativity and reconnect with natural settings that had been the primary sources of his inspiration.

 

For 90 days Brandenburg took only a single picture each day-one click of the shutter. The stunning images generated unprecedented reader interest as a National Geographic magazine cover story and as the best-selling book of his career.

 

The documentary is inspiring, the videography is stunning, the music is stirring. All combine as a feast for the senses and the soul.

December 3, 2006 
Sunday, 4 p.m.

Location:

Turkey Hill Farm

3546 Baum Road

Anniversary Gathering & Dinner for Slow Food Tallahassee

 

For more information: info@slowfoodtallahassee.org

http://www.slowfoodtallahassee.org

December 2, 2006 
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Location:

Crescent Moon Farm in Sopchoppy

BioDiesel Workshop

 

For more information: Jennifer Taylor 850-412-5260

sustainable_development2010@yahoo.com

December 2, 2006 
Saturday

Location:

305 Artemesia Trail
Madison, FL

Christmas Open House at OTooles Herb Farm

 

For more information: 850-973-3629

http://www.otoolesherbfarm.com/

November 25, 2006 
Saturday

Location:

Apalachicola

Apalachicola River Expo

 

The Apalachicola Riverkeeper will hold its first annual River Expo in Apalachicola. This will be a fund-raising and education event at the historic Cotton Exchange on Water Street in Apalachicola and on the river; it will include boat trips, local seafood, a live auction and a 5K run.  

 

Also, the Apalachicola Museum of Art at the corner of 5th Street and Avenue F will hold its grand opening with the exhibit APALACHICOLA RIVER: An American Treasure that evening.

 

For more information: (850) 653-8936

Riverkeeper@ApalachicolaRiverkeeper.org

http://www.ApalachicolaRiverkeeper.org

November 18, 2006 
Saturday

Location:

19635 US Hwy. 19N
Thomasville, GA 31792

Open House - Sweet Grass Dairy

 

For more information: (229) 227-0752

http://www.sweetgrassdairy.com/

November 13, 2006 
Monday, 4 p.m. till dusk

Location:

Lawn outside of EATZ Cafeteria, under the trees

Garden Market

Bringing a selection of fresh seasonal, locally grown produce

 

Come and meet your local farmers from Wheeler's Farm, Crescent Moon Farm and The Big O Farm.

Fresh, seasonal, locally grown produce currently* available includes:
tatsoi, mizuna, boc choi, turnip greens, arugula, collard greens, cucumbers, basil, eggplants, bell peppers, lettuces, pumpkins, Seminole squash, Italian green beans, and the last of the seasons' watermelons, okra and pears.

*Produce availability changes weekly, so please plan to visit your Garden Market to check out the latest harvest.

The Garden Market is being conducted in collaboration with Florida A & M CESTA Cooperative Extension Program, Statewide Small Farm Programs.

For more information contact:  Dr. Jennifer Taylor at (850) 412-5260 or Jennifer.Taylor@famu.edu

Special cooking demonstration provided by:
Justin Timineri, Executive Chef

Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

November 12, 2006 
Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m.

Location:

On the Lawn at the Black Dog Cafe at Lake Ella

Ninth Annual Feed the Community Festival

Sponsored by Locally Owned Tallahassee

Locally Owned Tallahassee is committed to our community and has been the proud sponsor of the "Feed the Community" festival since 1997.  Over the years, we have raised many tons of food and thousands in cash donations to help our neighbors in need.  All proceeds from this festival support the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Bring your canned/dry food donations to this special event, which includes entertainment, food, arts & crafts, and a Sidewalk Sale featuring local businesses.

For more information: http://www.locallyownedtallahassee.com/feedthecommunity.cfm

November 12, 2006 
Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Location: Turkey Hill Farms

Directions: 

Take Hwy. 90 EAST past I-10, past Mack Bros. Nursery and then look for BAUM ROAD on your LEFT. There is East Mahan Auto Repair/U-Haul Rentals on that left too. Turn LEFT on Baum Road follow down a 1/2 or less and look on the LEFT for Turkey Hill Farm.

Farm Day Tour

 

For more information: turkeyhill@earthlink.net

November 10, 2006
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie 

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Cost: Free (Donations appreciated)

Texas Gold

 

TEXAS GOLD follows the adventures of one of the most dedicated – and unlikely muckrakers of this generation. Diane Wilson -- mother of five, fourth generation fisherwoman, Public Enemy No. 1 in Calhoun, County Texas. From Wall Street to the front lawn of CEO Warren Anderson multi-million dollar mansion on Long Island, all the while chased by Texas Rangers charged with bringing her to justice, Diane pursues a reckless industry with a soft drawl, dogged determination and her own special brand of southern bad-ass fisher woman humor.

 

TEXAS GOLD profiles the brave and ballsy actions that have earned Diane Wilson the title of "unreasonable woman": waging multiple hunger strikes, starting up a business bottling toxic water taken from a superfund site – which she creatively labeled and sold back the crude brew to the tycoons whose heedless business practices had polluted the water -- sinking her own shrimp boat on top of a toxic discharge site, and being convicted for trespassing after chaining herself to an ethyl oxide tower at her local Union Carbide plant and unfurling a banner emblazoned with "justice for the victims of the Bhopal disaster".

November 8, 2006 
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Location:

Unitarian-Universalist Church of Tallahassee 

2810 N. Meridian Road, Room L

Presentation: How homeowners can solve the electricity shortage in Tallahassee

Presenter: Kirk Vincent

 

As the residents of Tallahassee debate construction of a new coal-fired power plant, one might ask if it is possible to reduce the need for power-plant electricity to the point that the new plant is not necessary. Kirk will attempt to answer this question using his personal experience in reducing the energy budget, and the atmospheric carbon budget, of his own home. His house was built in 1929 and, although charming, was a blatant energy hog. He installed a geothermal (aka "ground source") heat pump for heating and cooling the building, insulated the walls, installed solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, and installed solar hot water panels. Although his "experiment" is not totally complete, he does have enough data to discuss the environmental and economic implications of the PV panels and the geothermal heat pump he installed in his home in Boulder CO , and speculate on their use in homes like ours in Tallahassee .

 

For more information: etoaksford@earthlink.net

October 28, 2006
Saturday, 7-9 p.m.

Location:

Unitarian Universalist Church, 2810 Meridian Road

(west side, about 1/ 4 mile north of John Knox Road)

"Forever Wild", a free concert by Jim Stoltz

 

Jim Stoltz, who lives in Montana, has devoted his life and music to wildlife protection.  He drives around the country giving benefit concerts.  Jim's goal is to move his audiences to become active in protecting wildlife and wildlife habitat. 

 

This Wildlife Troubadour has walked over 25,000 miles carrying his message.

 

For more information contact: Ben Fusaro 297-2052

October 23, 2006
Monday, 7:30 p.m.

Location:

United Church, 1834 Mahan Drive

(On the north side of Mahan, just west of Blairstone Road.)

"Mushrooms of the Big Bend"

Presenter: Bill Petty

Sponsored by Big Bend Sierra Club

 

Bill has been collecting, photographing and writing about mushrooms for 18 years.  He will help us appreciate the recent spectacular display of mushrooms, their growing habits and secret lives. He periodically leads mushroom walks during which participants collect, identify, and sample edible species.

 

For more information contact: Ben Fusaro 297-2052

October 21, 2006 
Saturday, 1-4 p.m.

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Environmental Alliance of North Florida

 

Environmental Alliance of North Florida - EANoF (Enough!) is a regional association of individuals and groups joined together in strength and solidarity to find and implement solutions to protect natural North and North Central Florida from further pollution, habitat and wetlands destruction, unsustainable practices, and unbridled and unplanned growth.

 

For more information contact: Barry Parsons (850)-973-3351 barryandjudy@hotmail.com or hopeforcleanwater@yahoo.com 

October 13, 2006
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie 

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

 

This film focuses on Cuba's transition from an industrial petroleum-based society to a sustainable society, as a result of their loss of petroleum when their source, the Soviet Union, collapsed.

 

The goals of this film are to give hope to the developed world as it wakes up to the consequences of being hooked on oil, and to lift American's prejudice of Cuba by showing the Cuban people as they are. The filmmakers do this by having the people tell their story on film. It's a story of their dedication to independence and triumph over adversity, and a story of cooperation and hope. Several Cubans expressed the belief that living on an island, with its natural boundaries, breeds awareness that there are limits to natural resources.

 

"Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film. Cuba survived an energy famine during the 1990's, and how it did so constitutes one of the most important and hopeful stories of the past not just of individual achievement, but one of the collective mobilization of an entire society to meet an enormous challenge."

                    Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, Powerdown

 

For more information on this film:

http://www.communitysolution.org/cuba.html

October 7, 2006 
Saturday. 7 p.m.

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

BikeWalk Blues Fest, 2006

A fundraiser to help make Tallahassee a more bikeable and walkable community.

 

Performances by Veronika Jackson and Bogazedi
Tickets $10 available at your local bike shop

 

For more information: http://bikewalknetwork.net/

September 18, 2006
Monday, 7:30 p.m.

Location:

United Church, 1834 Mahan Drive

(On the north side of Mahan, just west of Blairstone Road.)

"Education and Environmental Awareness"

Presenter: Greg Ira, Director of the Office of Environmental Education in the Florida DEP

Sponsored by Big Bend Sierra Club

 

Greg developed a field-based, environmental programs for teachers & students, "Learning In Florida's Environment" (LIFE).  This program partners DEP with a local school district. The goal is to increase student achievement and teacher professional development in the environmental sciences. Over 500 middle school students participated in LIFE programs during 2005-2006.   
 

The Big Bend was one of the LIFE sites. A 100 students from Riversprings Middle School went through a series of water quality field labs in Wakulla Springs State Park.  Fifteen eighth-graders were given special training so that they could lead 85 seventh graders through their scientific paces.  He will demonstrate some of the Wakulla Springs experiments.
 

Greg Ira spent two years at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and then went to Prescott College, AZ where he received a B.A. in Environmental Studies.  He then got an M.A. from the University of Hawaii, in Urban and Regional Planning. After a tour of duty with the
Nepal park system, Greg returned to the USA and joined the Florida DEP in Spring 2000.

 

For more information contact: Ben Fusaro 297-2052

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

September 14, 2006

Location:

Leroy Collins Public Library

7 p.m.

Sponsored by Peak Oil Tallahassee

For more information on this showing contact: Jeff Bastian at 224-5862 or bastianj@capitalweb1.com

September 8, 2006
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie 

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Paradise With Side Effects

 

A documentary following two women from Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”, a remote region in the Himalayas, on a “reality tour” of London to see what life in the West is really like. The tour, sponsored by the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), exposes the women to aspects of modern urban life – homelessness, old-age homes, massive garbage dumps – that contrast sharply with the idealized media and advertising images that colonize people’s minds in the “less-developed” parts of the world.

 

Claus Schenk originally made this film for German and French television. It provides fascinating insights into the pressures facing non-Western people as they confront the global economy. Conversations with Helena-Norberg-Hodge, Director of ISEC, reveal the thinking that lies behind the organization’s cutting edge work.

With stunning footage of Ladakh, this is a valuable resource for anyone concerned about the spread of the consumer culture and the ensuing destruction of the planet’s cultural diversity.

August 17, 2006 
Thursday, 6:30-9 p.m.

Location:

City Hall Commission Chambers on the second floor

The Big Bend Environmental Forum (BBEF)

Candidates Forum

 

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

 

BBEF would like you to consider questions or issues that you want the candidates to address.

 

Don't miss:

• The best attended candidates forum in the region

• Learning where the candidates stand on environmental and growth management issues

• A chance to ask candidates questions that concern you

• The opportunity to help shape our community

For more information: www.bbef.org or www.econa.org

August 16, 2006 
Saturday, 9-11:30

Location:

Wakulla Springs Lodge

Community Workshop: Saving Wakulla Springs

Sponsored by the Tallahassee Democrat

Learn how you can make a difference. Identify issues. Raise questions.

Choose from one of three sessions:

• Yard and Home Solutions

• Septic Tank Solutions

• Development Solutions

Workshop is free. Tickets available only at the Tallahassee Democrat lobby during business hours. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

 

For more information: Contact Tallahassee Democrat (850) 599-2100.

August 13, 2006 
Sunday, 2-6 p.m.

Location:

American Legion Hall

Lake Ella

Get Slapp* Happy!

Sponsored by Concerned Citizens of  Wakulla

Benefit for the Wakulla Defense Fund

 

SLAPP stands for “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.” These suits are brought against citizens who express their opinions at public meetings, write letters to the editor, and exercise their First Amendment rights. Three Wakulla County citizens were recently SLAPPed by a developer, and the proceeds of this event will help pay their legal bills.

 

Music by Carrie Hamby and Singing Biscuit, and speakers Diane Roberts and Julie Hauserman. Door prizes, games, contests and much more.

 

For more information: slapphappyinfo@earthlink.net

July 14 and 15, 2006 
Friday and Saturday

5:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.

Location:

All Saints Cinema, 918 and 1/2 Railroad Avenue
(inside the Amtrak railroad station)

Movies: Double Feature

Sponsored by the Tallahassee Film Society

The Birdpeople

 

This wonderful 61-minute documentary explores: a loosely-knit community of birdwatchers in New York's Central Park; ornithologists with their specimen collections at a dozen different natural history museums; bird banders gingerly extracting birds from mist nets and collecting data in upstate New York; six people searching for a nearly extinct bird in a Louisiana bayou: these are the strands that are woven together by  "The Birdpeople" as it documents a passionate fixation. Part culturalhistory, part self-reflexive anthropology, by turns humorous and elegiac,  "The Birdpeople" examines the pleasures and problems of looking and naming, and investigates the social construction of nature, centered on ornithology and its amateur counterpart, bird watching.

 

Birdy, Diary of a Hummingbird Family

 

We see intimate secrets of this ultimate super-mom and beautiful
hummingbird and the impact of her tiny family on the filmmaker's life.

 

Further information can be obtained at www.tallahasseefilms.com or by phoning 386-4404

June 30 and July 1, 2006 
Friday and Saturday

5:45 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Location:

All Saints Cinema, 918 and 1/2 Railroad Avenue
(inside the Amtrak railroad station)

Movie: Coastlines

Sponsored by the Tallahassee Film Society

 

Overview:

 

Returning earlier than expected, Sonny finds that things have not changed much since he left...except that the Vances owe him $200,000 for his time in jail and, not surprisingly, they don't seem anxious to pay up. Sonny's close childhood friends Deputy Sheriff, Dave Lockhart, and his Nurse Practitioner wife, Ann, live the kind of quiet, rural life that defines this community, their commitment to each other unchallenged. It is exactly the kind of life Sonny longs for.

Other than that, life on the Gulf Coast continues as it has for decades. Shrimpers still take to the dark waters at night to lure their catch; oystermen tend the shallow beds that stretch on for miles; the pelicans, cranes and dolphins play languidly at the water's surface.

But the smell of development dollars permeates the air, and the ambitions of Sonny's former crime partners threaten to overwhelm the local world. The Vances' want Sonny out of the way. While Dave tries to protect Sonny (and Ann tries to heal him), isolation, desire and regret threaten to overtake all three and Sonny's drive toward both self-destruction careens explosively out of control.

"Coastlines" stars Timothy Olyphant, Josh Brolin, Sarah Wynter, and Josh Lucas. "Coastlines" was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. Viewers will recognize much of the Forgotten Coast in which the film was made.

 

For more information: http://www.tallahasseefilms.com/

June 26, 2006 
Monday

7:30 p.m.

Location: United Church, 1834 Mahan Drive

 

"Manatees, Motorboats and Mortality"

Sponsored by Big Bend Chapter of the Sierra Club

Presenter: Pat Rose

 

Pat Rose will bring us up to date on efforts to protect Governor Jeb Bush's favorite mammal, the manatee.  In 2005, 80 manatees, out of a population of 3000, were killed by watercraft. (To put this in perspective, it is like having 400,000 Floridians killed by vehicles.)  Agencies are being pressured to open the floodgates of waterfront development, without adequate checks and balances.  Don't miss this chance to get a first-hand report from someone who has dedicated his life to fending off the despoilers of the natural treasures of Old Florida.

 

For more information call Ben Fusaro 297-2052

May 22, 2006 
Monday 7:30 p.m.

Location:

United Church

1834 Mahan Drive

Presentation: Mercury is in the Air

Sponsored by the Big Bend Sierra Club

Speaker: Dr. Bill Landing

 

Dr. Bill Landing is a Professor ofEnvironmental and Marine Chemistry in the Department of Oceanography at FSU. He has a B.S. degree in Chemistry, an M.S. degree in Chemical Oceanography, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry. His research interests include the cycling of trace elements and heavy metals in both natural and polluted

environments. Landing was a principal investigator in the Florida Atmospheric Mercury Study, and is currently monitoring rainfall mercury deposition in the Pensacola watershed. Dr. Landing will share his research on mercury contamination.

 

For more information, contact: Ben Fusara at 297-2052

May 12, 2006
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie 

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Being Caribou

The film of the threesome’s epic 1000-mile (1500 km) journey with the caribou and what they saw, called ‘Being Caribou’ is an NFB production made from the footage Leanne shot on the 5-month experience.

The migrating caribou guide Heuer, Allison and George Bush across three mountain ranges, icy rivers, and past wolves and hungry grizzlies emerging from their dens. Surrounded by skittish caribou waiting to birth in their sacred calving grounds, the threesome become hostages in their tent for the 10-day calving season, crawling on their bellies for water, peeing in cups inside the tent, and never speaking over a whisper for fear of disturbing the caribou.

Spectacular footage and intimate video diaries give a glimpse into a landscape and a way of ‘being human’ that create a journey never before undertaken. The experience transforms the team leaving them to try and convey their story to Senators on Capitol Hill one short week after returning with the caribou to their winter range in the Central Yukon.

April 14, 2006
Friday. 7 p.m.

Cancelled!!

The showing of this movie is being postponed due to it being scheduled during Easter holidays!!

   Friday Night Movie 

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

The Next Industrial Revolution

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 at DesignTex...and it's part of what architect McDonough and his partner, chemist Michael Braungart, call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.'

April 8, 2006 
Saturday, Noon to 4 p.m.

Location:

Damayan Gardens at Lichgate

5th Annual Garden Gourmet Benefit

 

This year's Garden Gourmet Benefit will be held on April 8, 2006 at the beautiful garden at Lichgate. The festivities will be from noon to 4pm, and we will feature gourmet offerings and cooking demonstrations from various Tallahassee restaurants, in addition to live music and children's activities.

Fabulous music will be provided by Scott Campbell, Blue Moon and Carrie Hamby. Also featured will be cooking demonstrations from Kool Beanz, Taste Budz, Tymes Remembered, and Rebecca Babbitt. As always, expect a wonderful gourmet lunch prepared by local chefs and other local restaurants, including Samrat, Higher Taste, and Slow Foods Tallahassee.

In addition to raising money to help fund Damayan's projects, this event provides an opportunity for our community to come together to celebrate the beauty of Lichgate and the glory of our educational showcase garden in Springtime.

Tickets for the event are $20 per person. Children under 12 are free with a paying adult. 

 

For more information: http://www.damayan.org/

April 8, 2006 
Saturday, 8 p.m.

Location:

Mickee Faust Club in Railroad Square

“Howling in the Kudzu”

 

Tallahassee writer Julie Hauserman celebrates twenty years of writing about Florida on April 8 with a one-night only show, “Howling in the Kudzu” at the Mickee Faust Club in Railroad Square.

Hauserman, a former reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, The Tallahassee Democrat, The Stuart News and other papers, will perform short radio essays about life and politics heard on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, The Splendid Table, and Florida Public Radio’s Capitol Report.

The audience will also get treated to some political material that didn’t make it on the air during these treacherous times of constipated public discourse.

The show is at 8 pm and costs $5. All proceeds go to the Mickee Faust Club. Tickets will be sold at the door only. The band Eclectic Acoustic will play beforehand and during the intermission. A cash bar will be available.

Hauserman has won many awards for her work, including the Institute for Southern Studies’ Investigative Reporting Prize, and “writer of the year” honors from the Sierra Club, Audubon, Florida League of Conservation Voters and the Florida Wildlife Federation. She has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1991 for her stories about pollution in Florida’s Fenholloway River, and in 2001 for her stories about arsenic leaking out of pressure-treated lumber all over America. She won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards’ top environmental prize for her work on the arsenic stories.

Besides her newspaper journalism, Hauserman’s work has been published in Family Circle, Water’s Edge, Hip Mama, and several Florida anthologies, including The Wild Heart of Florida, The Book of the Everglades, and Between Two Rivers.

April 8-9, 2006 
Saturday and Sunday

Location:

Pebble Hill Plantation in Thomasville

Fourth Annual Pinewoods Bird Festival

 

The Pinewoods Bird Festival showcases the magnificent natural beauty of the Red Hills region. Field trips led by staff at Tall

Timbers Research Station and Georgia DNR provide unique looks at ongoing research projects involving the redcockaded woodpecker, Bachman’s sparrow and bobwhite quail.

 

It is a great opportunity to see why the Red Hills region is called "One

of the Last Great Places" on earth by The Nature Conservancy. Pebble Hill Plantation is approximately 4 miles south of Thomasville on Hwy. 319.

 

For more information: http://www.pinewoodsbirdfestival.com

March 31, 2006 
Friday, 6:30 p.m.

Location:

Kleman Plaza

300 South Duval Street

Apalachicola River: An American Treasure

 

The Apalachicola Riverkeeper and the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science are pleased to present the premiere of “Apalachicola River: An American Treasure,” a media project that includes a collaboration by four renowned, award-winning Florida artists; filmmaker Elam Stoltzfus, fine-art photographer Clyde Butcher, photojournalist Richard Bickel, and musician Sammy Tedder. The film explores the rich history of the area and captures the faces of the people who live and work along its waterways. You can view clips from the film and preview some of the photos at www.apalachicolaamericantreasure.com. Please come to enjoy the food, fun and film!
The evening will include:
Speakers including Governor Jeb Bush, Senator Bob Graham,
and DEP Secretary Colleen Castille
Musical performance by Sammy Tedder
Low Country Boil Gulf Shrimp Dinner
Live Auction
Door Prizes
Book signings by Richard Bickel and Clyde Butcher
You may order advance tickets on-line, at www.abark.org no later than March 27, 2006. Tickets are $45 in advance and $50 at the gate per person, including dinner and drinks, a musical performance, a live auction, and film premiere. Children under 12 are $10.00.

 

Funds generated by this event will support the important work of the Apalachicola Riverkeeper to provide stewardship and advocacy for the protection of the Apalachicola River and Bay.

 

For more information: 850-653-8936

http://www.abark.org

March 20, 2006 
Monday, 7:30 p.m.

Location:

United Church in Tallahassee 1834 Mahan Drive

2006 Legislative Issues with Rep. Curtis Richardson

 

The Big Bend Group welcomes guest speaker the Honorable Representative Curtis Richardson (Democrat, District-8, Gadsden/Leon). Rep. Richardson was first elected to the Florida House in 2000. As an advocate for environmental and public

health protections and a member of the House Judiciary Committee, he is a steady voice and vote for maintaining citizens’ rights to amend the constitution. Richardson has also been the front runner to introduce legislation that would ensure that wetlands throughout the Florida Panhandle be protected from renegade development. Come learn how the majority in the Legislature is systematically taking away the rights of citizens and how the "Initiative Process" is under fire again in this legislative session. Chapter lobbyist Susie Caplowe will provide

updated information on the 2006 legislature, and we also hope to have another special guest legislator share the meeting with us. Come plug in and turn on to the Florida Legislature—located right here in the Capital City. 

 

For more info call Ben Fusaro, 297-2052. Program held at, but

not sponsored by, United Church.

March 10, 2006
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie 

        Double Feature!!

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

No Room to Move

No Room To Move explores the effect of urban sprawl on sensitive wildlife in Florida - developers entomb tortoises as they construct homes, and speeding cars kill bears as they cross Florida’s busy roads. This thirty-minute documentary also examines how Florida could accommodate the needs of its wildlife and its growing human population through a development model known as The New Urbanism.

Florida’s population is growing by nearly three residents every five minutes - the equivalent of a new city each year. Consequently, eighty thousand acres of rural lands are lost yearly.

The program also features interviews by Laurie Macdonald (Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club); and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (Architect, and Author of Suburban Nation).

The End of Surburbia

The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary.

The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia?

February 20, 2006 
Monday, 7:30 p.m.

Location: United Church, 1834 Mahan Drive

The Trees of Tallahassee
Sponsored by the Big Bend Sierra Club

Speaker: Stan Rosenthal, UF / Leon County Forester

Our county forester will tell us how to help protect and renew the remnants of the primeval forests of the Tallahassee region. His special interest is the creation and maintenance of greenways. These are crucial antidotes for the ever-spreading, encroachment of impervious surfaces. Greenways are biological sanctuaries whose natural geometry and diversity provide a relief from the linearity and concrete of urban structures. Canopies and green cover, wildflower meadows and trails, wildlife refuges and corridors --all are part of a Greenway.

Stan will tell us about his involvement in recent efforts to develop greenways. He will also give pointers on the care and feeding of backyard trees and on plantings that attract wildlife. He will also warn us about certain attractive but invasive trees and shrubs that work around the clock to threaten native plants.

Come with your questions and observations concerning the Florida oaks, pines and other species that you have -- or would like to have -- on your property and in your neighborhood. 

For more information call Ben Fusaro 297-2052..

February 10, 2006
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie 

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

The Corporation

 

THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change

January 22, 2006
Sunday, 2-4 p.m.

Location: United Church

                 1834 Mahan Drive

Book Release and Signing

Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida's Big Bend Coast

Author: Doug Alderson

 

 

Please join us for a celebration of Florida’s Big Bend Coast and the release of Doug Alderson’s book. We’ll have speakers, a photo presentation, and more.

Waters Less Traveled, published by the University Press of Florida, is the first comprehensive armchair guide to this region, introducing readers to Florida's frontier past and evolving future. Interweaving history, folkways, and observations from life in the great outdoors, Doug Alderson tells tales of his travels by sea kayak along the Big Bend Saltwater Paddling Trail, which runs from the Aucilla River to the town of Suwannee. He retraces the footsteps of famed naturalist John Muir in Cedar Key, shares little-known stories of backcountry feuds that rivaled the Hatfields and McCoys, uncovers amusing theories as to why mullet jump, and invites salty local characters to share the spotlight.

"You’ll find no more trustworthy guide to take you through time and wild nature … highly recommended." –Susan Cerulean, author of Tracking Desire: A Journey After Swallow-Tailed Kites

"A visceral, seminal work … Shares many of the keen insights of Aldo Leopold’s classic, Sand County Almanac." –Michael Wisenbaker, Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources

"Alderson has the knack of telling a good story and also excels in painting evocative word portraits of Florida’s natural world. And, he has a talent for writing funny. This is, in fact, one of those rare books that will often have the reader laughing out loud as he turns the pages." Jim Huffstodt, author of Everglades Lawmen

January 13, 2006
Friday. 7 p.m.   Friday Night Movie 

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Thirst

Is water part of a shared "commons", a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded in a global marketplace? THIRST tells the stories of communities in Bolivia, India, and the United States that are asking these fundamental questions, as water becomes the most valuable global resource of the 21st Century.

A character-driven documentary with no narration, THIRST reveals how the debate over water rights between communities and corporations can serve as a catalyst for explosive and steadfast resistance to globalization.

 

Awards:

National PBS Broadcast on "POV"
The Chris Statuette, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
CINE Golden Eagle Award
Documè Prize, Cervino International Film Festival, Italy
First Place, EarthVision Enviromental Film Festival
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Hot Docs, Toronto
Seattle International Film Festival
Vermont International Film Festival
United Nations Association Film Festival
Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
Planet in Focus, Toronto International Environmental Film Festival
Amnesty International Film Festival, West Hollywood
Public Citizen Water Justice Film Festival
Gimli Film Festival
Taos Mountain Film Festival
Bioneers Moving Image Film Festival
The Green Film Festival, Washington DC
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival
TERRASCOPE, Montréal
Plymouth Independendent Film Festival
Dallas Video Festival
Global Visions Film Festival
Amnesty International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Olympia Film Festival
Seoul Labor Film Festival
Environmental Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
World Social Forum Film Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
Kaohsiung International Labor Film Festival, Taiwan
Bangalore Film Society - Water Film Festival
Marin Environmental Film Festival
Catalonia International Environmental Film Festival, Spain
EcoCinema, Athens, Greece
EcoCine (International Environmental Film Festival), Costa do Sauipe, Bahia, Brazil
Muddy River Environmental Film Festival
World Community Film Festival
MountainTop Film Festival, Waitsfield, VT