Heart of the Earth Calendar Archive

Heart of the Earth Logo

Heart of the Earth Calendar Archives

June 4, 2010

7-9 p.m.

Location: 2700 Apalachee Parkway : across from Samrat

Tallahassee Shambhala Meditation Group

Eat ( good food), Pray ( Loving-Kindness Meditation), Love ( Buddha Boys music, Readings from UnspOILed, art-making: Mandala board)

August 28-30, 2009

Location: All Saints Cinema, 9181/2 Railroad Avenue

Movie: Earth Days

�Earth Days� is certainly a cautionary tale, but it also illuminates the
historical fact that positive changes in social attitudes, technological
possibilities and political determination can take place very rapidly if
the will exists to make it happen. We were halfway there a generation
ago, but then we lost our way. As we at last begin anew to tackle our
many environmental challenges, it�s vital to know how we arrived at
this predicament and what lessons from the past we can draw upon
in facing an uncertain future.
(2009. Not rated. 102 minutes. A Zeitgeist Films release)

Friday, August 28 at 6 PM and 8 PM
Saturday, August 29 at 5 PM and 7 PM
Sunday, August 30 at 5 PM
$7 general admission � $5 TFS members � $5 students with ID

For more information: 386-4404
www.tallahasseefilms.com
email: filmnews@tallahasseefilms.com

April 2-4, 2009

8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: Wakulla Springs State Park & Other Various Locations

Wakulla Wildlife Festival

What began as a welcome back songbird festival has grown into a three-day celebration of Wakulla County�s natural environment and rich heritage. The annual Wakulla Wildlife Festival will be held April 2-4, 2009. Although many premium guided tours visit significant natural and cultural sites throughout the area, Wakulla Springs State Park remains the hub of the festival.

Activities are free with park admission, as are seven shows and programs at Wakulla Springs State Park on Saturday between 8:30 am and 4:00 pm. Among these is a presentation regarding common butterflies that thrive in the Florida Panhandle, a discussion about pitcher plants, and a cave diver�s view of the largest submerged cave system in the United States.

For more information:

http://www.wakullawildlifefestival.org/

August 16, 2008

Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Location: Miccosukee Land Co-op Community Center

Constellation for the Earth

Facilitated by Norine Cardea

We've been born into a time of crisis on Earth, and we are called upon to clearly and powerfully respond. The Earth Constellation provides a new way of aligning with the deeper forces of unfolding life, and our new heroic journey of compassion and love.

All are invited to be part of the group that gathers. Some participants will observe and hold the sacred space. Some will be involved as representatives�for the bioregion, water, humans, culture, for life, for death, etc. By agreeing to be a representative you give voice to one aspect of the field. And by our intention, the field-- always present-- becomes visible. From silence, the representatives begin to perceive sensations. From these sensations, knowledge emerges and is embodied. We may explore the role of conscience and loyalties, acceptance of fate, and the loss of innocence. The constellation may also reveal entanglements that inhibit the flow of love, and show the hidden orders of the greater soul.

Please join us for this magical event!

For more information: Call 224-8485 ex. 1

May 10, 2008

Saturday, 3-10 p.m.

Location: Tall Timbers

                 13093 Henry Beadel Drive



Apalachicola Riverkeeper Annual Riverkeeper Roundup

The Apalachicola Riverkeeper is bringing to the Tallahassee area, some of the best of a series of award-winning environmental films from the Wild and Scenic Film Festival (sponsored by Patagonia). The three-hour program includes a matinee showing for children plus two screenings for all ages (same program at two different times). We encourage you to attend all the showings as well as participate in the raffle, auction, and oyster and seafood fest.

Tickets will be sold at the door based on availability but due to limited seating we strongly suggest purchasing in advance to ensure admission! All advance purchased tickets will be entered into a special prize drawing.

For more information: 850-653-8936

http://www.apalachicolariverkeeper.org/events.htm

   Directions and Map

March 22, 2008

Saturday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Location:

Riversprings Middle School, 800 Spring Creek Highway, Crawfordville, FL

Green Living and Energy Expo

Discover hundreds of the best products and services that promote sustainability.
Find ways to create a simple, healthy life.

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

March 16, 2008

Sunday, 4 p.m.

Rural Lifestyles Walk

Heart of the Earth council member Doug Alderson, is offering a ''Rural Lifestyle Walk" through the Spiral Garden community in Woodville. Come stroll through the community and view examples of gardens, passive solar housing design, rainwater collection and simple lifestyles. You'll walk with Doug on a network of trails made through county land purchased after flooding several years ago, through forests, old fields and along sinkholes.

Doug is an experienced hiker, backpacker, and nature guide, and is sure to make this a wonderfully enjoyable and informative experience.

If interested, contact Doug Alderson at dougalderson@comcast.net for more details.

February 21-24, 2008

Location:

St. George Island, Florida

Women In Time: A Training

Facilitated by Norine Cardea, Susan Cerulean and Velma Frye

Heart of the Earth council members Norine Cardea, Susan Cerulean and Velma Frye are offering a retreat training for women who would like to deepen their connection with the sacred work we can do on behalf of our world in this time of climate change, and economic and social turmoil. Please consider joining us!

Velma Frye will guide you into songs she composed specifically for sacred pauses: before dawn, dawn, mid-morning, noon, late afternoon, sunset, and after dark. You may choose to sing a sacred pause a few times a day or all seven.

With Susan Cerulean, we will use journaling, dreamwork, and movement to connect with tide, moon, and place. We will work with our senses and bodies to remember the stories we hold.

Through ritual and guided group work, Norine Cardea will invite you to explore the unique gifts that you alone bring to our world. She will assist you in coming to the edge of what scares you to explore the possibility of living your purpose more fully.

Let's come together to claim our place in this time on Earth, this time of the year, and this time in our lives.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

We will gather for two-and-a-half days and three nights in a beach-front house on St. George Island. We will eat simple, nourishing food, and be outside as much as possible.

Arriving: 5-7 p.m. Thursday, February 21, 2008

Beginning: 7 p.m.Thursday, February 21, 2008

Ending: 11 a.m. Sunday, February 24, 2008

Cost: $475 Includes tuition, lodging in a double or triple room, seven meals (Friday breakfast through Sunday breakfast)

Note: We will interview each applicant to create a safe, confidential group for this training. Then, you will secure a place in this training by sending a non-refundable deposit of $175:

For more information:

Velma Frye, 1507 Atapha Nene, Tallahassee, FL 32301

Balance due: February 14 ($300)

For more information:
Norine Cardea 850.224.8485, Ext. 1
www.susancerulean.com 850.216.2016
ww.velmafrye.com 850.942.4849

�I look into my heart for the wisdom to live this day well.
Macrina Wiederkehr, Seven Sacred Pauses

November 29, 2007

6:45 p.m.

Location:

Room 101 Carraway (geology) Building, FSU campus

Directions:
Carraway Building is near the corner of Woodward and Tennessee Street. Might be best to park on the NORTH side of Tennessee and walk over. Carraway Building is just South of the Florida Geological Survey building which is exactly on
the South West Corner of Tennessee and Woodward.Carraway Building is just north of (across the sidwalk from) the FSU bookstore/parking deck.

Presentation by Cynthia Barnett author of

"MIRAGE: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern US"

Sponsored by: The FSU Departments of Oceanography and Geology
The FSU Environmental Services Program and Heart of the Earth

�MIRAGE: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern US�
By Cynthia Barnett

Florida�s parched swamps and sprawling subdivisions set the stage for a look at water crisis throughout the American East, from water-diversion threats in the Great Lakes to tapped-out freshwater aquifers along the Atlantic seaboard.

Part investigative journalism, part environmental history, Mirage shows how the eastern half of the nation � historically so wet that early settlers predicted it would never even need irrigation � has squandered so much of its abundant fresh water that it now faces shortages and conflicts once unique to the arid West.

Told through a colorful cast of characters including Walt Disney, Jeb Bush and Texas oilman Boone Pickens, Mirage ferries the reader through the key water-supply issues facing America and the globe: water wars, the politics of development, inequities in the price of water, the bottled-water industry, privatization, and new-water-supply schemes.

In the twentieth century, all Americans footed the bill for enormous dams and reservoirs that subsidized development in the bone-dry west. Barnett shows how in the twenty-first, U.S. taxpayers, whether they know it or not, are funding huge new waterworks such as desalination plants to quench the population shift underway to the nation�s Sunbelt.

From its calamitous opening scene of a sinkhole swallowing a house in Florida to its concluding meditation on the relationship between water and the American character, Mirage is a compelling and timely portrait of the use and abuse of freshwater in an era of rapidly vanishing natural resources.

For more information: jchanton@mailer.fsu.edu

http://www.cynthiabarnett.net/book.html

October 15, 2007

7:30 p.m.

Location:

United Church, 1834 Mahan Drive

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

"Biofuels � Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?"

Presenter: Ben Fusaro, Master of Wildlife Conservation, FSU Adjunct Professor of Math.

Sponsored by Big Bend Sierra Club

Biofuels in the form of food crops as corn, wheat or soybeans to make ethanol has economic consequences that will force marginal peoples into starvation. On the other hand, scrap wood and used cooking oils could serve as fuel.

An example will show how many trees it takes to feed even a small (30 MW) electric power plant. We will also look at a concept called embodied energy that was developed by UF systems ecologist H.T. Odum. It provides a way to estimate the environmental cost of a fuel or food by expressing it in terms of the number of solar units it takes to produce it.

Burning such biofuel favorites as elephant grass and Arundo donax is a modern version of primitive slash-and-burn practices. These were sustainable practices for small populations living in a large, green landscape. The current agribusiness approach calls for continued cutting and burning of grasses that are grown on the same site, while providing water, fertilizer, and protection (insects/disease). The challenge is to examine the sustainability of such an approach.

For more information contact: Ed Gartner 386-6543

October 5, 2007

7-9 p.m.

Location:

Indianhead Acres
1518 Atapha Nene
(Magnolia South from New Leaf, turn left at Toochin Nene, first right on Atapha Nene, 4th house on right 1518. Park on the street. Look for Christmas lights on the lamppost).

                   You Are Invited!!

Heart of the Earth Dessert Potluck and Movie

Movie: Expedition: Kissimmee River

The restoration of the Kissimmee River is a huge undertaking to bring balance back to nature. In the Spring of 2007, a kayaking and hiking expedition was undertaken from Orlando to Lake Okeechobee to highlight the restoration. Ride along for the epic journey in an eye-opening one-hour documentary from Central Florida News 13 and Bright House Networks. Our own Doug Alderson took part in this expedition! He will be at the screening to add his personal story and answer questions.

Food: Bring a dessert to share. Yum Yum.

RSVP: mcbridemb@hotmail .com ( for chair count)

For more information: 561-1466

October 2, 2007

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Location:

Wakulla Public Library

4330 Crawfordville Highway (U.S. 319)

Crawfordville, FL

Wakulla's Missing Link

Sponsored by the Wakulla Watershed Coalition

After 17 years of exploring, divers with the Woodville Karst Plan

Project have found the missing link between Wakulla Springs and

Leon Sinks. See the video about these daring expeditions. Talk

with the divers who braved the caves. Learn what you and your

family can do to protect your vital underground drinking-water

conduits.

Free admission and refreshments.

For more information: 850-273-0278

info@wakullawatershed.com

www.wakullawatershed.com

September 8-9, 2007

Location:

Turkey Hill Farm

3546 Baum Road

Organic Fruit Production and Management Workshop

This two-day workshop is offered in collaboration with Turkey Hill Farm, Crescent Moon Farm, and FAMU StateWide Small Farm Programs.

The Organic Fruit Production and Management Workshop will demonstrate how you can use organic, sustainable methods to grow fruit in your own backyard, garden and farm- take the knowlege home where you live

For more information contact: Turkey Hill Farm, Louise Devine.
Cost: $40.00/person

turkeyhill@earthlink.net

http://home.igc.org/~divine/index.html

June 30, 2007
Saturday

Location:

Laymoyne Art Gallery

Love Your Mother: A pictorial discourse on our environment

For more information: http://www.lemoyne.org/exhibit_schedule.html

June 21, 2007
Thursday, 7 p.m.

Location:

United Church, 1834 Mahan Drive

Explore the story of the Cosmos.

Strive to understand more clearly our role in the Earth community.

Ask questions that will shed light on this moment in history and begin to create the map that will lead us into an unknown future.

Together share our concerns and, most importantly, our sense of awe at this miraculous, unfolding life.

For more information: (850) 561-1466 or ncardea@comcast.net

May 11, 2007
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Cost: Free (Donations appreciated)

American Values, American Wilderness

In AMERICAN VALUES: AMERICAN WILDERNESS, a diverse group of Americans, including a teen-age daughter of Cambodian refugees, a children's book author, a cancer survivor, a Native American tribal chairman, inner city kids, and the late Christopher Reeve, among others, share their values for wilderness. Their experiences and hopes are interspersed with photography of some of the beautiful wild lands that have captured their hearts; as a place of sanctuary for animals and plants, the source of clean air and water, a place for challenge and spiritual renewal, and as a legacy for future generations. A labor of love for Christopher Reeve, the late actor donated his time and energy to this film - one of his last on-screen appearances before his death in October 2004.

"The independent project, produced and distributed by Missoula, Montana-based High Plains Films, features "ordinary Americans" in spectacular natural settings talking about what the idea of wilderness means to them. The real-life cast of American Values is deliberately diverse, challenging Outside and Adventure magazines' portrayal of nature as the domain of Tactel- and Lycra-clad Yuppies. Native Americans, Latinos, African Americans, and the children of Cambodian refugees reminisce about their experiences in wilderness and how important open spaces "as free from human intervention and oversight as possible" are to their identity and quality of life. At the end of its quiet, captivating hour, American Values has redefined wilderness as neither a commodity nor a luxury, but a public good that belongs to us all."

April 14, 2007
Saturday, 10-12 p.m. and 12-3 p.m.    Click Here for photos of the event.

Location:

First Presbyterian Church Courtyard, 110 North Adams Street 10 � Noon , and Lake Ella and other locations TBA Noon � 3:00

Step It Up National Climate Action Day Rally

On April 14, people are rallying in hundreds of communities across the country to ask Congress to finally do something about bringing us into a clean energy future. In support of the first big nationwide rally against global warming, Heart of the Earth is sponsoring a specially designed �Ark�, a mobile display, and will join with First Presbyterian Church youth to highlight the impact that global warming will have on our community when rising sea levels make refugees of the people and animals that inhabit Florida�s vulnerable coastline.

Polls show that 70% of people are aware that climate change is happening but feel dwarfed by the size of the problem and powerless to effect any meaningful change. On April 14th, tens of thousands of Americans will make a difference by gathering all across the country at meaningful, iconic places to call for action on climate change. They will hike, bike, climb, walk, swim, kayak, canoe, or simply sit or stand with banners with a call to action:

�Step it up Congress! Cut carbon emissions 80% by 2050.�

Come join us in this first ever, National Climate Action day to learn more about climate change and what you can do to make a difference. Be a part of history and have some fun doing it. We also would like to you join us for a group photo at 11:45.

For more information: (850) 561-1466

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

http://www.stepitup2007.org

April 13, 2007 POSTPONED!!!
Friday. 7 p.m.

This movie is being postponed to a future date due to efforts due to the Step It Up Rally on Saturday and the need for preparation time.

   Friday Night Movie

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Cost: Free (Donations appreciated)

When Enough Is Enough

The United States imports more oil from Canada than from Saudi Arabia, or any other country. Oil companies in Canada are now producing 50% of their oil from tar sands deposits. In Alberta, this form of oil extraction completely destroys the boreal forest, the bogs, the rivers as well as the natural landscape.

WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH? tells a David-versus-Goliath story of a small Native band battling major oil companies over development of the Peace-Athabasca delta in Alberta. Underneath one of the greatest freshwater deltas on earth is one of the richest oil deposits in the world.

This documentary examines the world's limitless thirst for oil and how a small Cree band found itself in the fight of its life. World-renowned scientist David Schindler joins the band, casting a warning about the plunder of resources.

Film Schedule

March 17, 2007
Saturday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Location:

Riversprings Middle School, Crawfordville

Florida Big Bend Green Living and Energy Expo

Free workshops and exhibits at Riversprings Middle School in Crawfordville highlighting ways to reduce your impact on the environment while also saving money and time by becoming an �EcoConsumer�. Get tips on how to make your home energy efficient, check out the latest in hybrid and alternative vehicles, and learn how organic foods can make a difference for your family. Participate in a light bulb exchange by bringing one incandescent bulb and receive one free compact fluorescent bulb replacement, while supplies last. Door prizes, silent auction, children's activities, and more!

Click here for Expo Flyer (pdf)

Click here for Expo Brochure (pdf)

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

March 9, 2007
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Cost: Free (Donations appreciated)

My Father's Garden

An emotionally charged documentary about the use and misuse of technology on the American farm. In less than fifty years the face of agriculture has been utterly transformed by synthetic chemicals which have had a serious impact on the environment and on the health of farm families. This film tells the story of two farmers, different in all details, yet united by their common goal of producing healthy food.

One of the farmers is the father of the filmmaker. Herbert Smith was a hero of his age: dedicated, innovative, a champion of the new miracle sprays of the 50s. His fate is the heart of this film. The other, Fred Kirschenmann of North Dakota, is a hero for our age. Faced with a shattered economy and the devastating environmental effects of conventional chemical farming, Fred steered his land through the transition to organic farming. Twenty years later, the Kirschenmann farm is a thriving testament to ingenuity, hard work, and a reverent understanding of nature.

Fred proves that sustainable agriculture is a viable alternative on any sized farm and that we can bring health and beauty back to the garden.

March 8, 2007
Thursday 7 p.m.

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Music by Carrie Hamby and Friends

Rising Tide Roadshow

The Spring Roadshow takes a popular education approach to organizing for climate justice, employing art, music, theatre, science, story-telling, bike culture, and video, Organizers travel the continent in a bus powered by recycled veggie oil, bringing the struggle for justice and sustainability to community centers and college campuses around the continent.

For more information: wendy@quartermoonimports.com

http://risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/category/front-page/

February 10, 2007
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Location: St. Marks Wildlife Refuge

                 1255 Lighthouse Road in St. Marks, Florida

First Annual Wildlife Heritage Festival

Come learn about our outdoor �roots� and what outdoor opportunities exist today for adults and children alike. There will be many exhibits set up to showcase outdoor activities and clubs. Some booths will offer items for sale and others will have information and activities. The Refuge Association will provide a free hotdog lunch while supplies last. It will be a great way to spend time with the family.

Admission to the event will be the regular admission price to enter the refuge.

For more information: (850) 925-6121

February 9, 2007
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Cost: Free (Donations appreciated)

Walking the West

A New Zealander and an Irishman, quit their jobs, cash in their savings and walk 2,626 miles from Mexico to Canada along one of the longest and most challenging foot trails in the world, the Pacific Crest Trail.

Their route takes them through some of the most spectacular scenery in North America, including California's deserts, the alpine lakes and granite peaks of the Sierra Nevadas, and the massive volcanoes and temperate rainforests of the Cascade Mountains.

Walking a challenging pace of 21 miles a day for 4.5 months, they must cross the Canadian border before winter storms hit the Cascades. The ordeal forced one of them to quit just 60 miles before the finish. This epic adventure is an exhilarating antidote to the predictability of modern life.

February 5, 2007
Monday, 5;15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Location: Corner of Buck Lake Road and East Mahan Dr.

Gathering for the Community

A gathering to raise awareness and help promote the values of our community.

Preparation for the clearcutting and bulldozing of 70 acres of forest and hills at buck lake road and east mahan for falls chase commercial development begins this week. It should be all cleared and leveled by the end of next week.

Please join us and let our corporate and political leaders know this

type of development is no longer acceptable. We want planning that incorporates a long term vision for our environment ...and we want to raise consciousness to people passing by.

"Honk if you love trees.''

For more information contact: Georjean Machulis at 850-878-5774.

January 22, 2007
Monday, 7:30 p.m.

Location:

United Church

1834 Mahan Drive (north side, just west of Blairstone Road)

Diane "D.K." Roberts, The Magnolia Bay Monstrosity

Diane Roberts was born in Tallahassee in a family of a long line of Floridians. She got a BA in English and an MA in Creative Writing from FSU, and a PhD in English from Oxford University. Diane has been a journalist for 25 years, having begun her career as "D.K. Roberts" on the old Flambeau. She is a political columnist for the St Petersburg Times, a contributing editor for the Oxford American magazine, a contributor to the Op-Ed page of the NY Times, and has written two books on the South. Diane recently left her professorship at the University of Alabama to become Professor of English at FSU.

For more information contact: Ben Fusaro at 297-2052

January 17, 2007
Wednesday, 6:45 - 9 p.m.

Location:

Tom Anderson and Mary Beth McBrides House

1518 Atapha Nene

Heart of the Earth Potluck Dinner

Join with us and others in deepening our community and our commitment to this precious earth and each other. This will be a time to relax, share good food and meet others who share your concerns for the earth, as well as a wonderful way to learn more about Heart of the Earth and how you might get involved.

What to Bring: Dish to share, a plate for yourself. Utensils, cups and drinks will be provided.

Directions: Magnolia South from New Leaf Market, left on Toochin Nene ( you've gone too far if you see Jim Lee), first left is Atapha Nene, 4th house on right: 1518. Park on the street, come up steep driveway.

RSVP 561-1466 ( for chair count)

January 13, 2007
Saturday, 3 p.m.

Location:

St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Education Cabin (near visitor center)

Voice of the Everglades: Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Portrayed by Betty Jean Steinshouer, independent scholar and Chautauqua performer. Follow the matriarch of Miami (portrayed by Betty Jean Steinshouer) as she begins her crusade to restore the Everglades.

This Road Scholar program is free and open to the public - sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and hosted by the St. Marks Refuge Association.

And, earlier that same day, same place, you are invited to lunch at the St. Marks Refuge Association Board of Directors'

Winter Chili Cook-Off Party.....11:30 am - 1: 30 pm

(Vegetarian chili available too)

For more information, contact: Robin Will, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, 925-6121

January 12, 2007
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Cost: Free (Donations appreciated)

Razing Appalachia

This film explores the controversial issue of mountaintop removal mining by following a grassroots fight to stop the process in West Virginia.

In the misty folds of the Appalachian mountains lies Pigeonroost Hollow, in Blair, West Virginia. With its narrow creek and crawdads, its wild ginseng and raccoons, Pigeonroost looks as it might have a century ago -- a woody haven tucked away from time and technology. But for how long? And at what price?

In May 1998, Arch Coal, Inc. announced it would expand its Dal-Tex strip mine just above the small town of Blair. But lifetime residents said too many had already been bought out or chased away by the giant mine, and that Arch Coal's planned expansion was the final threat to their once-tranquil way of life. Forty families -- where there were once 300 -- stayed in Blair.

RAZING APPALACHIA is the story of their remarkable fight -- against the second-largest coal company in America, against the know-nothing state political leaders and, unhappily, against the 400 union miners whose jobs were on the line.

January 11, 2007
Thursday 7 p.m.

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Cost: Free (Donations appreciated)

Movie: The Yogis of Tibet

Hosted by Friends of Drepung Gomang Monaster

Heart of the Earth

Tallahassee Progressive Center

This documentary film follows the lives and practices of Yogis in Tibet, people who have spent their lives in rigorous and secret training in order to gain the ability to exert control over their bodies and minds. Living exceptionally isolated lives, Yogis have been relatively unstudied by outsiders in the past.

For more information: 3KPRPT@nettally.com

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
Docum� 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, Montr�al
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

December 11, 2005
Sunday, 5-7 p.m.

Location:

The Wilderness Way

On Woodville Highway just south of Capital Circle

Reception for the book release of:

Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida�s Big Bend Coast

by Doug Alderson

Come celebrate the release of Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida�s Big Bend Coast by Doug Alderson at a special reception at The Wilderness Way. Doug, a member of the Heart of the Earth Council, will show slides and be on hand to autograph books.

The book, published by the University Press of Florida, is the first comprehensive guide to Florida�s Big Bend Coast, one of America�s longest and wildest continuous wetlands. It interweaves history, folkways and environmental information with colorful tales of a sea kayaking journey from the Aucilla River to the town of Suwannee.

A larger event is being planned for late January, but this will be the only pre-holiday reception.

December 9, 2005
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Oil On Ice

OIL ON ICE is a vivid, compelling and comprehensive documentary connecting the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to decisions America makes about energy policy, transportation choices, and other seemingly unrelated matters. Caught in the balance are the culture and livelihood of the Gwich'in Athabascan Indians and Inupiat Eskimos and the migratory wildlife in this fragile ecosystem.

OIL ON ICE exposes the risks of oil extraction in this extreme environment. What happens if another oil spill occurs on the coastal plain or under an ice-covered Beaufort Sea? How can one rationalize development of irreplaceable wilderness areas or ignore the cultural survival of indigenous populations? Already, Eskimo residents and leaders of the North Slope Borough are criticizing the impacts of oil development to their lands and seas. Gwich'in Indian residents of Arctic Village, on the southern boundary of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, fear their community's caribou hunting will be severely impacted by oil development in the Refuge.

OIL ON ICE also examines the effects that improved fuel efficiency standards for vehicles and development of alternative sources of energy will have on this nation's oil consumption. The issue of oil extraction from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge brings into sharp focus the broader debate over energy conservation vs. unbridled consumption. It also dramatizes the choice between technologies based on fossil fuels and those that draw upon renewable, efficient, and non-polluting energy resources.

November 21, 2005
Monday, 4:30 p.m.

Location: North Monroe St., past I-10, in front of the Old Sam�s Club

Rally and Press Conference to stop Another Wal-Mart in Tally

Join your neighbors in protecting our environment, local businesses and quality of life!

For more information and a complete listing of events visit www.progressivecenter.org or call Sally McCabe 562-5423 / Rich Templin 566-4348

November 18, 2005
Friday, 7 and 10 p.m.

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Fair Trade Party and Film Screening, The Hidden Face of Globalization

November 17, 2005
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Movie: Wal-Mart; The High Price of Low Price

Sponsored by The Independent Business and Community Alliance (IBACA) and the Tallahassee Film Society.

Ticket Price: $4.00 for IBaCA and TFS members, $% in advance or $6 at the door. Tickets can be purchased in advance at Quarter Moon on North Monroe at Lake Ella or by emailing IBaCA (wendy@locallyownedtallahassee.com)

November 14, 2005
Monday, 6-9 p.m.

Location: Oak Ridge Elementary School, 4530 Shelfer Road

Public Input Meeting - Leon County

The Tallahassee-Leon Country Planning Department is seeking public input in developing a prioritized list of issues that should be addressed by local governments in the next 5-7 years through the Comprehensive Plan.

A series of public meetings to identify and prioritize the issues is
being conducted (see schedule and locations below). The priorities will be presented to the city and county commissions in the form of the Comp Plan's Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR).

This is a tremendous opportunity for us to speak forthrightly about
issues pertaining to environmental protection, mass transit,
neighborhood preservation, alternative energy development, etc. YOU DONOT NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE COMP PLAN IS OR HOW IT WORKS TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE MEETINGS. While the city and county commissions will decide upon and approve the final list of prioritized issues to guide comp plan revisions, if they deviate from the public input significantly, the Dept. of Community Affairs, by law, will "grill" them as to why they deviated from the public's opinions and can withhold approval of the comp plan revisions.

For more information contact: Mike Brezin at 386-6767 or email:
cbreez@infionline.net

November 13, 2005
Sunday, 9 a.m.

Location: Meet at the Publix parking lot on the corner of Crawfordville Highway and Capital Circle to car pool.

Sandhills Walk

Take a stroll through some of the most scenic longleaf forests that remain on the Apalachicola National Forest. We�ll visit two sites off Wallace Road, view red-cockaded woodpecker recovery efforts, and marvel at the rolling hills, fall wildflowers, cypress ponds and wiregrass expanses.

For more information contact: Doug Alderson dougalderson@comcast.net

November 13, 2005
Sunday, 12-5 p.m.

Location: On the lawn by the Black Dog Caf� at Lake Ella

8th Annual �Feed the Community� Festival

Sponsored by the Independent Business and Community Alliance

Local Music!
Marvin Halleck on Jazz Piano
Scott Campbell
Moon Pie Fever
Zydeco Zoo
TZ Jonz and the Ontological Elephants

Local Restaurants!
The Uptown Caf�
Higher Taste
Soul Vegetarian
Taste Budz
Barb�s Gourmet Brittles

Local Prizes!
The best raffle ever with prizes from your favorite businesses in Tallahassee.

Local Fun!
Children�s Carnival, Open Air Market, Community Organization Info Tables.

Help Your Neighbors! Admission to the event is a donation of non-perishable food items. Fill a sack of food to donate to Second Harvest Food Bank!
Financial donations to Second Harvest Food Bank will also be accepted for admission.

For more information: http://www.LocallyOwnedTallahassee.com
(850) 385-1553

November 11, 2005
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

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?

November 6, 2005
Sunday, 3:30 - 7:30 p.m.

CELEBRATE WAKULLA SPRINGS!
Benefit concert and show

Location: Wakulla Springs State Park

Sponsored by Heart of the Earth and Friends of Wakulla Springs State Park.

Featuring renowned Florida folk musicians:

Jeanie Fitchen

Dale Crider with Carrie Hamby

Velma Frye

Plus slide show presentation by acclaimed Florida Nature Photographer John Moran.

Get your tickets at:

Tallahassee Nurseries

Native Nurseries

Crystal Connection

Trail and Ski

Purple Martin Nurseries

Maclay Gardens

Tattered Pages

Just Fruits and Exotics

Wakulla Springs

At the door

$25 contribution includes park admission, concert, show and food.
Children under 12 free.

All proceeds go to the Friends of Wakulla Springs for education, outreach and protection of our beloved Springs.

Contact Crystal Wakoa at cwakoa@earthlink.net if you would like more information or if you would like to co-sponsor this exciting event.

October 30, 2005
Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

Birdsong Nature Center

Birdsong Fall Nature Festival

Join us for a day in the country to celebrate nature and autumn! Bring a picnic, a blanket or chairs, and celebrate with your friends and family. We hope to attract visitors who have never been to Birdsong before and let them experience the place for themselves and perhaps they will want to return to walk the trails, visit the Bird Window or attend a program and become members. We also want to give our current members an opportunity to be with their families, see friends, and just enjoy a fall afternoon together in one of their favorite places.

Guided Nature Walks
Bird Window Visits
Children's Activities
Annual Meeting of the Members
St. Francis Wildlife Animal Display
Live music throughout the day

Country Store Bakery Booth
Lemonade and Popcorn Stand
Chickadee Corner Gift Shop
New: Vendor Booths

Admission: $5 Adults, $3 Children

Please register for all programs by calling or emailing Bernice Elkins: (229) 377-4408, 1 (800) 953-BIRD, or birdsongnc@aol.com

October 29, 2005
Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Location: Unitarian Universalist Church

                 2810 N. Meridian Road

Tour of Energy Efficient Homes

Sponsored by:

Heart of the Earth

Clean Air Coalition

Big Bend Climate Action Team

Global Climate Change Action Group of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee

Registration Fee includes bus tour, speakers, lunch, and visits to see
multiple types of solar thermal water heating, use of photovoltaic
cells for electricity with and without net metering, passive
energy-efficient designs and materials. Take cues from these
neighbors, learn about City loans and rebates, and some
energy-efficient measures used by the City. Leave with ideas of how
to reduce your electric bills by choosing more energy-efficient
appliances, designs, and materials.

Registration Fee: $35
Send check with name, address, e-mail, and phone number to:
Heart of the Earth, c/o Kelly Bryan, 2013 E. Indianhead Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32301

For more information, call Bob at 576-1617 or leave message and phone number at 216-8400 and expect a return call from Lucyann.

October 21, 22 and 23, 2005
Friday, 7:30-9 p.m.

Location: FSU Union Green

Saturday, 7-9 p.m.

Location: Unitarian Universalist Church

                 Meridian Road

Sunday, 4-6 p.m.

Location: The Progressive Center

                 1720 South Gadsden Street

"The Mountaintop Removal Road Show"

Featuring:

Julia (Judy) Bonds - winner of the 2003 Goldman Environmental Award

Janice Nease, Executive Director of the Coal River Mountain Watch

Patty Sebok, Office Manager of the Coal River Mountain Watch

This moving presentation exposes the myth of clean coal, as the three coal miner's daughters explain coal's effect on their world from cradle to grave. Officers of the Clean Air Coalition will be present to answer questions about the proposed North Florida Power Plant.

October 21, 2005
Friday, 7:30 p.m.

Location: The Progressive Center

                 1720 South Gadsden Street

International Campaign for Justice in Juarez and Chihuahua

For more than a decade, the cities of Chihuahua and Juarez, near the US-Mexico border, have been killing fields for young women, the site of over 400 unsolved femicides. Despite the horrific nature of these crimes, authorities at all levels exhibit indifference, and there is strong evidence that some officials may be involved. Impunity and corruption has permitted the criminals, whoever they are, to continue committing these acts, knowing there will be no consequences.

Activists from Chihuahua and the Mexico Solidarity Network, struggling against a decade-long string of largely unresolved femicides and injustices in the maquiladora sector of Mexico, will speak in Tallahassee. Alma G�mez Caballero, a teacher by trade, who has a decades long history of participation in student, peasant, and womens� movements in the state of Chihuahua, will speak on the struggle to end the femicides and injustices in the maquiladora sector. Macrina C�rdenas de Alarcon, the Legislative Coordinator of the Mexico Solidarity Network in Washington, DC, will discuss the economic and social context in which the femicides occur.

For more information: msn@mexicosolidarity.org

October 17, 2005
Monday, 7 p.m.

Location: Park Avenue Library -- Room A

"Protecting Our Fragile Gulf Coast"

Speaker: Kristina Jackson, Florida Sierra Club Conservation Organizer

Kristina Jackson believes that poor policy and lax enforcement have contributed to the degradation of the Gulf Coast. This includes the decline of the Gulf fisheries and the habitat they depend on, as well as unusually heavy red tides. This situation deserves urgent attention because the environmental and economic health of Florida depends on these coastal resources. She will discuss these, and related issues and suggest remedies to restore the Gulf Coast to a healthy system.

Kristina Jackson has a BA in wildlife ecology and an MS in wetlands ecology, both from the University of Florida. She worked for Florida Defenders of the Environment and has also taught environmental science in the public schools.

For more information contact: Ben Fusaro at 297-2052.

October 14, 2005
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Movie

Two Movies and Educational Forum on Coal Plant Referendum

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Movie 1: Lovins on the Soft path: An Energy Future With a Future

"We're in the position of somebody that can't keep the bathtub full because the water keeps running out. Before we buy a bigger water heater, we ought to get a plug." Amory Lovins

Hunter and Amory Lovins are the foremost proponents of an energy policy that concentrates on efficiency and the appropriate use of renewable energy sources such as the sun, wind, and water. The Lovinses call this the "soft path" and argue for its practicality as opposed to the "hard path" which favors increased energy production and the use of coal and nuclear power.

Movie 2: We Are All Smith Islanders

The first film to examine the effects of global warming on the Chesapeake region, this documentary depicts the impact of climate change on watermen, urban residents and farmers as well as on tourism and biodiversity. Solutions to halt and ultimately reverse changes to the climate are advanced. Extremely relevant for all coastal communities.

Discussion of the film and Powerpoint presentation and update on the coal plant and of the major issues.

September 30 and October 1, 2005
Friday, 9:15 p.m.

Saturday, 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Movie: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Sponsored by the Tallahassee Film Society

This lovingly made documentary details the relationship of Mark Bittner with a flock of San Francisco-based wild parrots. Thanks to some surprising turns of events that turn the doc from a simple Discovery Channel special into something humorous, bittersweet and even grief-stricken, you will find yourself loving the screeching feral creatures as much as their on-camera human friend does.

Tickets are $6 general admission and $4 TFS members and can be advance-purchased at 386.4404. Additional information on the film can be found at www.tallahasseefilms.com or by visiting: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424565/

August 22, 2005
Monday, 7:30 p.m.

Location: Park Avenue Library -- Room B

Big Bend Sierra Club Monthly Program

"Dirty Rotten Scandal on the Fenholloway"

Presenter: Linda Young, SE Regional Director, Clean Water Network

For more information contact: Ben Fusaro at 297-2052.

July 15, 2005
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Film Festival

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Click Here for Film Schedule

Note: Due to the unavailability of "Thirst", the movie originally scheduled for showing, we will be showing the following film:

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

July 22, 23, 24, 2005
Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Location: Amtrak Station on Railroad Avenue

Movie:The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Sponsored by the Tallahassee Film Society

This lovingly made documentary details the relationship of Mark Bittner with a flock of San Francisco-based wild parrots. Thanks to some surprising turns of events that turn the doc from a simple Discovery Channel special into something humorous, bittersweet and even grief-stricken, you will find yourself loving the screeching feral creatures as much as their on-camera human friend does.

Tickets are $6.00 general admissions, $4.00 for TFS members.

For advanced tickets call 386-4404

www.tallahasseefilms.com

June 27, 2005
Monday, 7:30 p.m.

Location: Park Avenue Library -- Room A

Gasoline-Electric Hybrid Car Experience

Big Bend Sierra Club Monthly Program

Speaker: Dr. David Edelson

David has owned a Toyota Prius since 2003. He will discuss gasoline-electric hybrids, their performance, and the future of these vehicles. After the indoor part of his presentation we will go out for a close-up look at his Prius. Hybrid cars get far better mileage than gasoline-only cars. While the hybrid concept has been around for a long time, recent developments in battery technology, electric motors, and electronic controls make the hybrid competitive with the standard gas-burner.

David Edelson has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Yale University. He worked at Bell Labs on computer simulation methods for combustion systems. He joined FSU as Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1985. Dr. Edelson is a member of several national science and engineering societies and is active in the Tallahassee Scientific Society. He is now Special Assistant to the Dean of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

For more information contact: Ben Fusaro 297-2052

June 18, 2005
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Location: The Round House - on US27N near the
                 Lake Jackson boat ramp (about 2.5 miles north

                 of I-10)

�Live� Art for Lake Jackson

The Lake Jackson Protection Alliance invites you to view artists inspired by Lake Jackson as they work �LIVE� to raise funds for the protection of our lake.

Please come and visit us while several artists including local renowned artists Ann Kozeliski with Sapphire Rose along with fellow members of the Swamp Buddha Sumi-e group and Mark Fletcher with Turtle Hill Clay Studio actually work �LIVE� and create artwork in support of Lake Jackson.

Turtle and Lake Jackson Eco-passage display by Dr. Matt Aresco. Live local fish aquarium by Twilight Fish Conservancy.

There will be food, drinks and numerous exhibits of Life from Lake Jackson, including turtles, fish and native plants.

For more information:

www.LakeJacksonAlliance.org

Flyer

June 17, 2005
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Film Festival

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Click Here for Film Schedule

What the Bleep Do We Know - The Movie

WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?! is a new type of film. It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality.

The film�s underlying concept is of the interconnectedness of all things.

[More]

Flyer

June 11, 2005
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Location: The Round House - on US27N near the
                 Lake Jackson boat ramp (about 2.5 miles north

                 of I-10)

�Live� Art for Lake Jackson

The Lake Jackson Protection Alliance invites you to view artists inspired by Lake Jackson as they work �LIVE� to raise funds for the protection of our lake.

Please come and visit us while several artists including local renowned artists Ann Kozeliski with Sapphire Rose along with fellow members of the Swamp Buddha Sumi-e group and Mark Fletcher with Turtle Hill Clay Studio actually work �LIVE� and create artwork in support of Lake Jackson.

Turtle and Lake Jackson Eco-passage display by Dr. Matt Aresco. Live local fish aquarium by Twilight Fish Conservancy.

There will be food, drinks and numerous exhibits of Life from Lake Jackson, including turtles, fish and native plants.

For more information:

www.LakeJacksonAlliance.org

Flyer

May 20, 2005
Friday. 7 p.m.

   Friday Night Film Festival

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Click Here for Film Schedule

Planet Neighborhood

Part 3

Community

How can citizens effect change in their own communities? This program explores a variety of new approaches and grassroots efforts--transforming a toxic waste threat into a revenue generating eco-enterprise; creation of a "living machine," an ingenious system that uses fish, bacteria, clams, snails and plants to clean waste water; and, experiments in sustainable technology where one industry's waste becomes another's resource. We see how citizens have been able to effect change and explore the new technologies that have empowered them.

[More]

May 13, 14, 15, 2005
Friday, Saturday, Sunday

2nd Annual Tallahassee Wildlife Festival

Three Days of Wild Events

The purpose of the Tallahassee Wildlife Festival is to promote the unique natural beauty of our region and of all its inhabitants, as well as to raise funds for and awareness of the St. Francis Wildlife Association

Friday, May 13th, 2005, 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Wild Thing Gala
Tallahassee City Hall, 300 S. Adams Street

Live Birds of Prey Program from Florida Audubon Birds of Prey Center and St. Francis Wildlife. The most diverse collection of remarkable raptors you will likely ever see in one place: Bald Eagle, Crested Caracara, Burrowing Owl, Red-tailed Hawk, Great Horned Owl, and many more!

Feature Event: Widely Acclaimed "Florida, Magnificent Wilderness," an orchestrated slideshow by Nature Photographer, James Valentine with music by Velma Frye and the Breathing Earth Orchestra, Nature Sounds by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

* Wildlife Displays
* Live music
* Celebrity M.C.'s
* Surprise Guests
* Elegant dinner
* Silent and live auction featuring wildlife and nature art, trips and estate jewelry
* Photography exhibit and sale by Featured Artist, James Valentine.

Saturday, May 14th, 2005, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wildlife Art in the Park
Ponce de Leon Park, N. Monroe Street and Park Avenue

* About 45 white tents featuring a unique blend of original arts and fine crafts, with wildlife and nature themes
* Wildlife Displays and Programs
* Environmental Organizations
* Local Nature Authors
* Children's Activities
* Live Music
* Delicious Breakfast and Lunch Dishes

Sunday, May 15th, 2005
Walk on the Wild Side

Wildlife-viewing Field Trips to see and learn about native birds, manatees, butterflies, etc. with canoeing, kayaking and hiking in local and regional natural areas led by wildlife biologists and naturalists. Box lunches available.

For more information and tickets contact: Sandy Beck at 850-528-0823 sandybeck@stfranciswildlife.org

www.TallahasseeWildlifeFestival.com

May 14, 2005
Saturday, 9 a.m. - Noon

Lake Jackson Ecopassage Field Trip

Location: Boat Landing, US 27 North (on the right about 3.75 miles north of I-10)

Did you know US 27 North recently had the highest rate of road killed turtles in the world?!? Come meet the guy who is out to save Lake Jackson�s turtles (and other wildlife), Matt Aresco. Walk the temporary fence with Matt as he tells us about the ecopassage project and to see migrating and nesting turtles. We�ll also walk nearby dry areas of Lake Jackson to learn about karst lake ecology and the Lake Jackson restoration effort. Special guest Ann Morrow will give a reading from her Lake Jackson chapter in Between Two Rivers.

Suggested contribution: $10

For more information contact: Mike Brezin at 386-6767 or cbreez@infionline.net

April 25, 2005
Monday, 7:15 p.m.

Location: Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee

                  2810 Meridian Road

The Wakulla Springs Caverns

Presenter: Dr. Tom Kincaid

Sponsored by Big Bend Sierra Club and the UUCT Green Sanctuary Committe

Dr. Todd Kincaid, hydrogeologist and cave diver, will talk about the source of the Springs, the conveyance of its waters, and remarkable discoveries in underwater caves. Divers have recorded depths of over 300 feet and have mapped twelve miles of tunnels. They have squeezed through dangerously narrow passages and discovered vaulted chambers a third of a football field wide and 17 stories high. This primeval system, with its fossilized mastodon bones might one day be a candidate for eighth Natural Wonder of the World.

For more information contact: Ben Fusaro at (850) 297-2052.

April 23, 2005

Friday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: Native Naturals Farm

7500 US 19 South
Lamont, Florida

Thriving, Building Capacity � Planting the Seeds for Change: An Eco-Agriculture Workshop Series

Workshop Title: Biodynamic Methods-BIODYNAMICS FOR FARMERS, GARDENERS, and LANDSCAPERS

An innovative hands-on workshop offered for the first time in this area.

Participants will learn biodynamic farming; introduction and background of biodynamic farming system, how to get started, benefits of biodynamic farming, how to establish compost, and other managements, and details from Gunther Hauk, Co-Founder and Program Director of The Pfeiffer Center for Biodynamics and Environmental Studies.

Workshop registration fee: $50.00/person

Registration Deadline: April 07, 2005

Lunch will provided.

For more information contact: Jennifer Taylor (850) 412-5260

Jennifer.Taylor@famu.edu

April 22, 2005

Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Location: Native Naturals Farm

7500 US 19 South
Lamont, Florida

Thriving, Building Capacity � Planting the Seeds for Change: An Eco-Agriculture Workshop Series

Workshop Title: Organic Beekeeping Practices For Healthier Bees

Learn the importance and how to establish/maintain an organic
beekeeping operation. Hands-on demonstrations.
Facilitator: International Speaker, Gunther Hauk Co-Founder and Program Director of The Pfeiffer Center for Biodynamics and Environmental Studies in Chestnut Ridge, NY.

Workshop registration fee: $50.00/person

Registration Deadline: April 07, 2005

For more information contact: Jennifer Taylor 850 412-5260

Jennifer.Taylor@famu.edu

April 16, 2005
Saturday, 12-4 p.m.

Location: Lichgate, 1401 High Road

                 Near the Tharpe St. Intersection

Garden Gourmet Benefit

This year, food will be provided by restaurants including Kool Beanz, Taste Budz, Higher Taste, Uptown Cafe, Cypress, El Chico, Honeytree, and the Black Dog Cafe. You'll enjoy a gourmet lunch under the shade of Lichgate's majestic oak tree, while listening to live music by The Etruscan Pals and Dos Divas, Tacomos, members of the Panhandle String Band, and Tom Stratton.

As always, there will be fun activities for the children, as well as a silent auction with artwork, jewelry, and gift certificates from local merchants. All proceeds from the silent auction and ticket sales will benefit the Damayan Garden Project.

Tickets are $20 a person, $35 a family, and can be purchased at Quarter Moon or the All Saints Produce Market. You can also e-mail us for tickets or more information.

For more information: (850) 222-4825

http://www.damayan.org

April 15, 2005
Friday. 7 p.m.

Friday Night Film Festival

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Click Here for Film Schedule

Planet Neighborhood

Part 2

Work

Environmental challenges surround the places in which we work and the cars we use to get there. Featured are a look at "sick building syndrome" and the design of new office buildings for the 21st century; a visit with a chemical plant that has found solutions for controlling waste emissions; and a survey of new trends in automobiles and auto-recycling.

[More]

April 14, 2005
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

Location: Tallahassee Progressive Center

                  1720 S. Gadsden St.

Women Constructing a Fair Global Economy: Fair Trade, Globalization and Human Rights

Sponsored by the Mexico Solidarity Network

The program will:

--Discuss threats to indigenous communities, especially women, such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas, NAFTA, Plan Puebla Panama, and the corn and coffee crisis in Mexico.
--Discuss human rights abuses in Mexico, their relationship to globalization and how indigenous communities are working to end the abuses and impunity.
--Promote a sustainable model of international trade based on economic justice
--Discuss the leadership of women in fair trade cooperatives
--Offer weavings and traditional handicrafts made in women's cooperatives for sale to raise money to improve the living conditions in communities.

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

April 10, 2005

Sunday, 2 p.m.

Location:

United Church in Tallahassee

1834 Mahan Drive

Reading and Book Release

Welcome back celebration for swallow-tailed kites! Susan Cerulean's newly published book, Tracking Desire: A Journey After Swallow-tailed Kites (University of Georgia Press), will be available for purchase and signing.

April 9, 2005
Saturday

Pinewoods Bird Festival

The third installment of the Festival will take place at Pebble Hill Plantation.

For more information: Visit www.pinewoodsbirdfestival.com for details.

April 2, 2005
Saturday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Apalachicola Savannas Field Trip

Location: Meet at Westwood Shopping Plaza, Pensacola St.

This is Springtime Tallahassee weekend, so join us on a natural Tallahassee springtime day.

Feast your eyes on the incredibly diverse flora and fauna of the wet grasslands of the Apalachicola National Forest near Sumatra. We�ll explore this land of insectivorous pitcher plants and sundews, wildflowers galore, ANCIENT hatrack cypress, and the surrounding forest of longleaf pines, wiregrass, red-cockaded woodpeckers, and ephemeral ponds.

Wilson Baker, Renowned botanist and all around good guy will lead the trip. The trip is structured, so those who wish can return to Tallahassee after lunch.

Suggested contribution: $10

For more information contact: Mike Brezin at 386-6767 or cbreez@infionline.net

March 23, 2005

Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Location: FSU's Oglesby Union Green

Sponsored by the Service Learning Program

FSU Earth Day Fair Presentations

This event will feature displays and tables by local environmental groups as well as FSU academic departments and organizations.

For more information contact: Joe Anson (850) 645-1726

eaidman@admin.fsu.edu

March 20, 2005

Sunday

4-6:30 p.m.

Corner of Desoto Park Drive and Lafayette Street

One block west of The Moon

Heart of the Earth Equinox Celebration and Cultural Constellation

Our three-part pledge is central to the mission at Heart of the Earth. To understand more about what it means to become native to this place, we will celebrate the Equinox, Sunday, March 20 beginning at 4:00 . The equinox is the time midway between the first day of winter and the first day of summer when day and night are equal, and the season turns from winter to our glorious spring. As we sense ourselves as part of the complex and ever-changing web of the natural world in which we reside, we will share thoughts, music and ritual. All are welcome.

The second part of the event will be a Cultural Constellation. This is based on the therapeutic work of Bert Hellinger called Family Constellation work, a very effective type of brief therapy with significant results for individuals and families. The concepts will be extended to explore our lives embedded in culture. We have chosen the site of the first European encampment in this region; in the winter and spring of 1539-1540, Spaniards and Native Americans first encountered each other.

We have all inherited the consequences, good and bad, of that moment. And-- in the same way that a dry pile of leaves can reveal the shape of a spiraling wind-- constellations can help illuminate the field in which we, as a community, operate. We will observe what becomes visible through this process. It is both possible and necessary to align ourselves further with respect and love for this remarkable place and for each other, and this event is an offering to that possibility.

For more information contact: Norine Cardea at 224-8485

March 19, 2005
Saturday, 9a.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: YMCA Camp Indian Springs

Annual Camp Indian Springs Work Party

The schedule for the day will be arrive by 9:00 am, a lunch will be provided at 12:30; and finish up by 4:00 pm. Several teams and team captains who head up each project. The date was picked in cooperation with FHP who provide many volunteers for our work party as well.

For more information and to RSVP, contact: A.L. "ALF" Ferreira at 850-926-3361.

alferreira@tallahasseeymca.org

March 19, 2005

Saturday, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Location: Turkey Hill Farm 3546 Baum Road. Tallahassee

Thriving, Building Capacity � Planting the Seeds for Change: An Eco-Agriculture Workshop Series

Workshop Title: Saving Our Seed/The Basics of Seed Saving

An exciting hands-on workshop to support community sustainability and seed saving of organic, heirloom, and local seeds. This workshop will provide advice from expert seed saver, Cricket Rakita, Coordinator of The Save Our Seed Project/Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. Cricket will provide detailed seed saving demonstrations for production of quality organic and heirloom produce.

The workshop participants will learn the benefits of saving seeds for farm or garden uses. The participants will also learn how to save seed for value added market. Hands-on demonstrations.

Registration Deadline: March 05, 2005
Workshop Registration: $25.00/person.

For more information contact: Jennifer Taylor 850 412-5260

Jennifer.Taylor@famu.edu

March 18, 2005
Friday. 7 p.m.

Potluck dinner is postponed!

Friday Night Film Festival

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Click Here for Film Schedule

Planet Neighborhood

Part 1

"Planet Neighborhood," is a three part series looking at the latest in energy saving technology and good design.

Hosted by architect Bill McDonough and producer of "The Next Industrial Revolution," it could hardly be more optimistic. In an enthusiastic tone, McDonough poses the question, "Wouldn't it be great if we could live more comfortable and healthier lives while saving money and the environment?" And instead of preaching what might be, this series shows us examples of what is actually being done in topics as far reaching as industrial waste cleanup to a homeowner's efforts to reduce energy consumption and utility bills.

Home

Homeowners, architects, builders and an inventor utilize green technologies and innovative design in the construction of new homes and the retrofitting of the old; while residents of one small town show how simple it is to incorporate composting into daily living.

We journey from Plymouth, Mass., where a high-tech "house doctor" is helping one family retrofit a drafty, energy-draining older home, to Austin, Texas, where architects and builders are joining forces to create a series of brand new "green" homes. Also on tap is a visit with "superwindow" creator Roy Gordon and a tour of Bellport, Long Island, whose citizens have become fanatical composters in an attempt to resolve a mounting garbage crisis.

[More]

March 12, 2005
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Big Bend Coastal Environments Field Trip

Location: Meet at Wachovia Bank, 3400 S. Monroe St. (at Paul Russell Rd.)

Join Between Two Rivers author and noted coastal and marine naturalist, Anne Rudloe, on a hike-slog-pull the nets adventure. This walk lets you experience first-hand the sunny wide-open forest of the endangered longleaf pine ecosystem, the dark water and feathery green foliage of a cypress pond, the diversity of life along the shores of the coastal estuaries and tide flats, the sweep of the salt marshes, the bizarre creatures of the sea grass beds, and an ongoing ecological restoration research project. In just a few hours, we�ll experience most of the different coastal ecosystems of Florida. Please register at least two days before trip. Limited to 20 adults.

Suggested contribution: $10

For more information contact: Mike Brezin at 386-6767 or cbreez@infionline.net

March 8, 2005
Tuesday, 7 p.m.

Florida Trail Association Program

Location: 325 John Knox Road, Building F-100

"Linda's Backpacking Tales"- FTA's Linda Patton will show slides and discuss several of her backpacking adventures over the last few years.

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

February 26-27, 2005
Saturday and Sunday

Apalachee Audubon Field Trip

Payne's Prairie. Leaving early Saturday, returning Sunday night. Plan on a five mile hike. Camping or local motel.

For more information: Call Marvin Collins by February 11th 850-224-9549 and leave a message. He will provide details for accommodations and transportation.

February 21, 2005
Monday, 6:45 p.m.

Big Bend Sierra Program

Topic: TBA

Location: Fringe Benefits Management Co.

For more information contact: Ben Fusaro at 297-2052 or check their web site. www.florida.sierraclub.org/bigbend

February 23, 2005
Wednesday

Apalachee Audubon Membership Program

There has been a major effort for a number of years to establish a population of Whooping Cranes in Florida. This has included heroic efforts to lead a migrating flock to Florida using ultra light airplanes - and it's working!

Pat Casselberry, former President of Citrus County Audubon, will describe efforts to protect Florida's growing flock of migratory and resident Whooping Cranes.

February 18, 2005
Friday. 7 p.m.

Friday At the Movies� Film Festival

Location:

Tallahassee Progressive Center

1720 S. Gadsden Street

Click Here for Film Schedule

The Friendship Village

THE FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE is a documentary film about an international group of veterans who are building a village in Vietnam for children with Agent Orange-related deformities.

Built on a former rice paddy near Hanoi, the Vietnam Village of Friendship stands not only as a symbol of peace and reconciliation, but as a testament to the potential for all people to come to terms with the past, heal the wounds of war, and create a better world.

[More]

February 19, 2005
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Global Warming Climate Change Conference

Sponsored by Green Sanctuary Committee and Heart of the Earth

Location: Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee

2810 North Meridian Rd.

Global climate change is potentially the most disruptive issue facing human society in the 21st century. Keynote speakers will be Dr. Jeff Chanton, the Hon. Bob Rackleff (invited), and Rev. Katherine Jesch. The speakers will make presentations and take part in a panel discussion. Join us for a full morning of study, discussion, and intelligent sharing.

A donation of $10 per adult and $5 per youth (age 20 and under) is suggested. Registration includes continental breakfast, which begins at 8:15 a.m. Child care will be available on request.

For more information and to register: contact Michele Hope at michele_hope@yahoo.com or call 894-0976

February 19, 2005
Saturday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Alum Bluff and Apalachicola Ravines Field Trip

Location: Meet at closed Wachovia Bank (right side of Thomasville Road, just north of Betton Road and Mulvaney�s)

Come gaze out over the mighty Apalachicola River at one of the greatest changes in physical gradient in Florida � Alum Bluff. Not only that, we�ll visit several sites in the upper Apalachicola basin to get up close to the many endemic plants and unique topography that define this "Garden of Eden" area. Our fearless leader, Steve Leitman, has worked on water management and environmental conservation issues on the Apalachicola River for the past 25 years. The hikes will be strenuous and hikers will have the option to go at it for either a whole day or half the day.

Suggested contribution: $10

For more information contact: Mike Brezin at 386-6767 or cbreez@infionline.net

February 13, 2005
Sunday, 1-4:30 p.m.

Workshop: Entering The Sanctuary Of Our Hearts: Building A Culture Of Peace Within And Without

Location: WeMoonSpirit, 1816 Mahan Drive

Heart of the Earth Council member Mary Beth McBride presents a series of workshops for Winter/Spring: 2005.

Working with our Energy Fields, each workshop will focus on the Four

Principles of Inner Peace:

COMMUNITY, COOPERATION, NONVIOLENCE AND WITNESS

This is a series of three workshops to be presented from February through April.

Each session will include instruction on our energy fields and its relationship to peace; exercises to clear, balance and align our energies with the path of peace-making; meditation and time for question/answer.

These sessions can be taken alone or as a series. Different exercises will be presented at each one.

Session 1: Sunday, February 13th, 1 - 4:30 p.m. Personal Peace.

For more information contact: Mary Beth McBride at 561-1466.

February 13, 2005
Sunday

An Evening with Senator Bob Graham and Dale Crider

Location: Tall Timbers Research Station in Tallahassee

Apalachicola Bay & Riverkeeper (ABARK) invites you to join us for An Evening with Senator Bob Graham and Dale Crider, a fundraising event to be held at Tall Timbers Research Station in Tallahassee. Funds raised will benefit the grass roots environmental work of ABARK. Sen. Graham, will speak on his extensive experience as one of the Apalachicola's strongest environmental supporters. In addition, acclaimed folk musician Dale Crider will entertain us with his songs of Florida, its unique wilderness and wildlife. Crider has been interviewed by ABC's Ted Koppel and has performed on various national broadcast and cable networks. There will also be music with Barley Thar, a Silent Auction and Tours of the Beadel House.

And don't worry about going home hungry. No event celebrating the great Apalachicola would be complete without a wide variety of local seafood such as Apalachicola Oysters, Shrimp, Low Country Boil, and Gumbo. All food and drinks are included in the cost of $50 per person. Children under 10 will be admitted free of charge.

For more information: Call Roger Martin at 850-670-5470 or e-mail roger@abark.org

www.ABARK.org

February 12, 2005
Saturday, 7:30 a.m.

Apalachee Audubon Fieldtrip

Location: To carpool, meet at the Wachovia Bank on North Monroe (across from Fairgrounds) at 7:30 a.m. or the St. Joseph State Park entrance on Cape San Blas at 9:30 a.m. EST

Bradley Smith will show us important bird areas around St. Joseph State Park. This is one of his favorite areas and we should see good birds and other wildlife and match them to their habitat.

February 8, 2005
Tuesday 7 p.m.

Florida Trail Association Program

"Hiking In Wakulla Springs Park

Location: 325 John Knox Road, Building F-100

Sandy Cook, manager of Wakulla springs State Park, will discuss the Park's unique features, wildlife and, hiking opportunities. The talk will include information about newly purchased property and soon-to-be added trails that will connect to other State trails.

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

January 29-30, 2005
Saturday, 7 p.m.

Sunday, 3 p.m

Tallahassee Film Society

R.A. Gray Building Auditorium, 500 S. Bronough Street

Indigo

Indigo is a film about redemption, grace and the healing powers of a new generation of sychic and gifted "Indigo" children. Indigo tells the story of one family's three fateful hoices that result in bankruptcy, jail, and their estrangement and total dissolution. Through the healing and psychic powers of the family's youngest member - Grace, a ten-year-old "Indigo" child - the family finally has a chance.

Indigo is about taking responsibility for the choices we make. It's about the thin line that separates success from failure, and love from regret.

Tickets are $10 and may be purchased from: Crystal Connection, 1233 Apalachee Parkway, 850-878-8500; or Unity Eastside, 656-1678; or Unity of Tallahassee, 562-5744; or from Judee Pouncey at kaleidoscopemagazine@comcast.net or 850-514-4843.

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

March 20, 2004
Saturday, 7-9:30 p.m.

Spring Equinox Celebration And Special Prayers For Our Waters

1314 Montbatten
Directions: Magnolia South from New Leaf to Jim Lee Road, turn Left. Turn Left on Montbatten, Ellen's house on left. Park in Driveway or on street.

For more information contact: Mary Beth McBride 561-1466

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

�Friday At the Movies� Film Festival

Film: �

"Another World Is Possible�

World Social Forum Gathering, 2002

Unitarian Univeralist Church of Tallahassee
2810 Meridian Road

Click Here for a summary of this film.

This is the third of three films in Heart of the Earth�s film series on globalization. The first two films were shown in January and February and proved to be informative and thoughtful experiences for all those who attended. There will be popcorn and refreshments and, if you wish to participate, small group discussion following the film. Dubravko Kakarigi, who attended this event, will speak briefly after the movie about his experience and what we here in Tallahassee can do to continue to promote the principles of the World Social Forum.

Please join us for this award-winning film, and please pass the word of this event on to your friends. You will learn a lot and it will a fun and informative evening!

For more information contact: Barry at 668-1364 or MaryBeth at 877-0797

March 18, 2004
Thursday, 8 p.m.

Patch Adams, M.D.
Clown Diplomat of Gesundheit! Institute

Sponsored by Southern Springs

Monticello Opera House

For more information call: 878-8643

http://www.southernsprings.org

March 13, 2004
Saturday

Guided Nature Trail Hike

Bald Point State Park

Bonnie Allen, a ranger at the park will lead the hike along with Carol Schneier, a plant botanist, will help help identify the plants along the way. Carol has been working with the park to develop their plant list and this will be the first time she's there during spring flowering.

For more information contact: Bonnie Allen, Resident Park Ranger bonnie.allen@dep.state.fl.us

850-349-9146

March 6, 2004
Saturday

Nature Hike at Aspalaga

Sponsored by the Florida Trail Association

The Florida Trail Association (FTA) is sponsoring a spring nature hike at Aspalaga in west Gadsden County . The hike will be led by a guide from The Nature Conservancy. Participation is limited.

For more information contact: Howard Pardue 850 523-8525 for reservations.

February 21, 2004
Saturday

Aucilla Sinks Hike

Sponsored by the Florida Trail Association, Apalachee Chapter.

Begin at Goose Pasture Road and hike south about 4.2 miles on the FNST along the unique sinks section of the Aucilla River. Limit: 16 people.

For more information contact: Charlene and Vic Danart (850) 997-1818

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

February 21, 2004
Saturday, 9 a.m. - Mid-afternoon

Trail Workday at Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve

FSU Environmental Services Program

Help repair trail erosion atop Alum Bluff. Work site has spectacular scenery overlooking the Apalachicola River and its wooded floodplain. Some heavy lifting. No experience required. Bring lunch and water. Meet at the preserve office.

For more information: SGAEnvironmental@admin.fsu.edu

February 22, 2004
Sunday, 11 a.m.

Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Economic Globalization

Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee (UUCT)

2810 N. Meridian Road

Members of the Economic Globalization Study Circle, a weekly activity of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee (UUCT), will conduct a service titled "Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Economic Globalization." The service is based on the Statement of Conscience on Economic Globalization adopted at the 2003 Unitarian Universalist Association's General Assembly and on the many books, tapes, and articles read by UUCT's Economic Globalization Study Circle. The message will cover inequities of power, global policymaking, moral ambiguities of economic globalization, and challenges for action.

For more information: Call 385-5115

February 20, 2004
Friday. 7:30 p.m.

�Friday At the Movies� Film Festival

Film: �The Emperor�s New Clothes�
Myers Park Administration Bldg.
912 Myers Park Drive
Look for the signs to direct you to the viewing room.

This is the second of three films in Heart of the Earth�s film series on globalization. The first film was shown at the end of January and proved to be a wonderful experience for all those who attended. Unlike the first film, which was shown in a small group format, we are making this available to the community at large by presenting it at the Myers Park facility. There will be popcorn and refreshments and, if you wish to participate, small group discussion following the film.

Please join us for this award-winning film, and please pass the word of this event on to your friends. You will learn a lot and it will a fun and informative evening!

For more information contact: Barry at 668-1364 or MaryBeth at 877-0797

February 20, 2004
Friday

Living Waters Premiere

Museum of Florida History (R.A. Gray Building Auditorium

The much-anticipated documentary film about
Florida's state aquatic preserves will premiere on the opening night of Seven Days of Opening Nights, Florida State University's annual festival of fine and performing arts. Living Waters: Aquatic Preserves was produced by Blountstown's Elam S. Stoltzfus. Photographs by Clyde Butcher, who worked with Stoltzfus on the project, will be on display.

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

February 16, 2004
Monday

The Making of National Geographic Documentary Films: King Rattler

Speaker: Bruce Means

Cairo Kiwanis Club at the Whigham Community Center (school lunchroom)

"Between Two Rivers" contributing author Bruce Means will be speaking at the Cairo Kiwanis Club at the Whigham Community Center (school lunchroom) on the Making of National Geographic Documentary Films: King Rattler regarding the How the Whigham Roundup Can Profit from Becoming the Whigham Rattlesnake Festival. He has published numerous scientific research papers, reports, and popular articles and is presently co-authoring a book, "Priceless Florida," on the ecology of Florida. He co-produced and starred in two, hour-long National Geographic Explorer documentaries ("King Rattler" & "Quest for the Rainbow Serpent"), and has been featured in three episodes of the "Snake Wrangler" series on National Geographic Channel.

For more information:

http://www.brucemeans.com/

February 16, 2004
Monday, 7:15 p.m.

Water, Population and Food

Presenter: Dr. Bill Burnett

Sponsored by the Big Bend Chapter of the Sierra Club

Dr. Burnett will explain how human population growth puts enormous pressures on our fresh water supplies and our food production.

Location: Fringe Benefits Management Corp.

3101 Sessions Rd.

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

February 15 and 17, 2004
Sunday and Tuesday; See times below

Science, Spirituality, and Ecological Responsibility

Speakers: Connie Barlow and Michael Down

Sponsored by Unitarian Univeralist Church of Tallahassee Green Sanctuary Program

2810 Meridian Road

Speaking Dates and Times:

Sunday, Feb 15 at 9:45 a.m.

"We are Stardust, Science and Spirituality" by Connie Barlow

Sunday Service, Feb 15 at 11:00 a.m.

The Epic of Evolution: A Bridge for UU Spiritual Diversity by Connie Barlow.

Tuesday, Feb 17 at 7:15 p.m.

"The Great Work of Ensuring a Just, Healthy, Sustainable World" by Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd.

Connie and her husband, Michael Dowd, regard themselves as "evolutionary evangelists," speaking for free at colleges and grade schools during the week,
as well as churches and retreat centers on weekends and evenings. For just under two years, they have lived entirely on the road, supported by numerous people offering home hospitality, and earning a living by selling books after their talks.

Connie Barlow is the author of 4 popular science books. All her books and magazine articles present the evolutionary and ecological sciences in deeply meaningful ways. Her 2001 book, The Ghosts of Evolution, was Amazon.com's top recommended science book for several months.

For more information: Call 385-5115

http://www.thegreatstory.org/home.html

http://www.nettally.com/uuct/gs/gs.htm

February 14, 2004
Saturday, 8 p.m.

Apalachee Tortoise Birthday Party

Mickee Faust Clubhouse in Railroad Square

The Apalachee Tortoise Newspaper is celebrating its One Year Anniversary this month!

The Tortoise would like to invite all its readers, supporters and friends to come and join us for a community-get-together and party.

Featuring the Swamp Rock & Blues of BOGAZEDI

Tasty treats provided by our gourmet sponsors

If you are not familiar with this publication, please take a look at their website to learn more about it and to find out where you can obtain a free copy. This is a Tallahassee independent newspaper that offers news and events you will not find in other publications. A must read!

For more information:

www.apalacheetortoise.org

February 14, 2004
Saturday, 8:15 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Beach Cleanup at Dog Island

Dog Island Conservation District In cooperation with The Nature Conservancy

Dog Island is a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico at the eastern edge of Apalachicola Bay in Franklin County, Florida. Work will be on the island's beaches and at The Nature Conservancy's Jeff Lewis Wilderness Preserve. There are no bridges to Dog Island. Volunteers will meet at the ferry dock in Carrabelle at 8:15 for a free water taxi ride to the island, and will return to the ferry dock by 5 p.m. Some heavy lifting. Bring lunch, water, and dress for all weather conditions.

For more information: SGAEnvironmental@admin.fsu.edu

February 11, 2004
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

Book Reading
621 Gallery

621 Industrial Drive in Railroad Square

A new series of readings sponsored by Anhinga Press and the Apalachee Review. The evening's theme is "Writing about the Natural World" and features Red Hills writers Sue Cerulean and Jack Rudloe reading some of their most recent works.

January 31, 2004
Saturday, 9 a.m.

St. Joseph's Bay State Buffer Preserve

FSU Environmental Services Program

Meet in front of Moore Auditorium.

Help with clearing debris out from cut lines in the woods so that the volunteer fire crew has a clearing when they do controlled prescribed burns. There will be a botanist there assisting all who volunteer and educating the crew about the ecosystem.

Please RSVP to SGAEnvironmental@admin.fsu.edu

January 26, 2004
Monday, 7:15 p.m..

"Reminiscences of Native Plants in the Landscape"

Natural Gardens of North Florida

Speaker: Gil Nelson, author and botanist

This illustrated talk will focus on the indigenous plants of several natural communities, including mixed hardwood forests, longleaf-wiregrass habitat, pine-palmetto flatwoods, wet prairies and savannas.

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

January 24, 2004
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Arbor Day Tree Planting

Sponsored by Arbor Green

Lake Elberta Park

Off Bradford Road just south of Jackson Bluff

This site is being developed into a park similar to Lake Ella. Volunteers need for this joint effort by the City and County to plant 150 trees.

The city digs the holes! Volunteers just roll the trees into the holes, fill them in a mulch them.

Please bring: Shovel

Gloves

Drinking Water

For more information contact: Master Gardeners at (850) 487-3004 or e-mail Stan Rosenthal

stanr@mail.co.leon.fl.us

January 24, 2004
Saturday

Sopchoppy River Hike

Sponsored by the Florida Trail Association, Apalachee Chapter.

Walk the Florida Trail along this wild, scenic river. Winter is a good time to enjoy the cypress trees.

For more information contact: Paul Kirkpatrick (850) 891-4295

paullkt@aolcom

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

January 17, 2004
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.

Voluntary Simplicity Study Circle Introduction

Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee
2810 Meridian Rd.

Organizational meeting for 9-week session. The Northwest Earth Institute developed these courses to develop practical actions for a sustainable world.

Voluntary Simplicity addresses the distractions of modern society that keep us from caring for ourselves, our relationships, and our environment and how we can counteract them in our daily lives.

[Click here] for detailed information.

For more information contact: Kathie Mackie

uuct@nettally.com
Phone: 850 385-5115

January 17, 2004
Saturday

Hike the Torreya Trail

Sponsored by the Florida Trail Association, Apalachee Chapter.

Hike the 7-mile loop trail, in Torreya State Park, among the tall trees of the Apalachicola River flood plain, through longleaf pine woods and hilly hardwoods.

For more information contact: Steve Haley (850) 216-1764

kneadtorelax2002@yahoo.com

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

January 15, 2004
Thursday, 5 - 8:30 p.m.

Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan

Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library
200 West Park Avenue

Help make Tallahassee-Leon County a great place to BIKE and WALK.

Help shape the projects & programs for the Tallahassee-Leon County Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan

Come to a Community Open House focusing on What Needs to be Done? A Presentation of The Draft 2025 Needs Plan for review and refinement

For more information contact: Jennifer Carver, Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Planner, Tallahassee-Leon County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) at (850) 891-8090

carverj@talgov.com

January 13, 2004
Tuesday, 7-9 p.m.

Peace Frog On the Trail

Sponsored by the Florida Trail Association, Apalachee Chapter.

Tom Triscik, aka Peace Frog and presently a Florida Trail crew chief, will give a slide presentation on his 2002 Appalachian thru-hike.

325 John Knox Road, Building F‑100

U.S. Forest Service, National Forests in Florida conference room

For more information contact: Terry Tenold (850) 523-8575 or David Rohe (850) 523-8524

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

January 10, 2004
Saturday, 9 a.m.

Wading and Shore Birds of the Gulf Coast

Identification Workshop

Sponsored by Wings Beat South.

FSU Marine Lab at Turkey Point

For beginners or those who want to refine their birding skills.

$50 fee includes handouts and snacks. (BYO lunch)

For more information contact: Larry Thompson at (850) 942-0058

lvthompson@earthlink.net

December 27, 2003
Saturday

Ninth Annual Phipps Park Holiday Hike

A leisurely all-day event hiking the entire 8-mile trail. Bring lunch.

For more information contact: Linda Patton 850-668-4334

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

December 12-13, 2003
Friday and Saturday

Alternative Christmas Market

Christ Presbyterian Church

2317 Bannerman Road

Phone: 850-668-7922

Friday, December 12th 6:00-9:00

Saturday, December 13th 8:00-1:00

December 14, 2003
Sunday

St. Mark's River Paddle

An easy, little-over a half day paddle on this lovely spring-fed river. Encounter the occasional bald eagle, osprey, long-horn steer and a gator here and there. $50 single kayak $35 pp tandem/canoe, $25 own boat + $2.50 launch fee pp.

For more information: (850) 877-7200

http://www.thewildernessway.com/

December 6-7, 2003
Saturday and Sunday

Alternative Christmas Market

John Wesley United Methodist Church

1738 Old St. Augustine Road, Tallahassee, FL 32301.
Phone: 850-877-1738

December 6th - 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

December 7th - 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

December 6, 2003
Saturday, 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

December 3, 2003
Wednesday, 7 p.m..

Voluntary Simplicity and Globalization Study Circles Introduction

Healing Center

847 Park Ave.

Organizational meeting for 9-week sessions to begin after the holidays. The Northwest Earth Institute developed these courses to develop practical actions for a sustainable world.

Voluntary Simplicity addresses the distractions of modern society that keep us from caring for ourselves, our relationships, and our environment and how we can counteract them in our daily lives.

Globalization explores the roots, processes and impacts of corporate globalization and actions individuals can take to promote an alternative vision for a just and sustainable world. All welcome.

[Click here] for detailed information.

For more information contact:

Sue Cerulean 216-2016 sue@heartoftheearth.org

Barry Fraser 668-1364 barry@heartoftheearth.org

December 2, 2003
Tuesday, 4-7 p.m..

Trust for Public Land Open House

Sponsored by the Trust for Public Land and Leon County Parks and Recreation

The focus of the workshop will be to present ideas for park facilities along the mile-long corridor that follows Munson Slough. Participants will be able to see the work that has been completed on the greenway project so far, provide comments on the project design and meet Chuck Flink, president of Greenways, Inc., a North-Carolina-based firm providing guidance and technical assistance for the greenway. Everyone is welcome, and refreshments will be provided.

For more information contact: Anne Nelson, Trust for Public Land, at 222-7911, ext. 18 or Karen Stuhmer, Leon County Parks and Recreation at 488-0221.

November 27-30, 2003
Thursday-Sunday

Thanksgiving Hiking/Camping Trip To Panhandle

Camp at St. Joseph Peninsula State Park.

Paddling and walking tours on St. George Island, Apalachicola, St.Vincent Wildlife Refuge, and Dog Island.

For more information contact: Bob Nied 904-737-6726

rmnied@aol.com

November 20, 2003
Thursday, 7 p.m.

North Florida Naturalist Lecture

Speaker: Jim Cox, Tall Timbers Research Scientist

Talk will be about the recently completed Florida Breeding Bird Atlas. The atlas maps the breeding distributions of more than 220 bird species in Florida, took six years to complete and involved 1,150 Florida birders.

Leon Count Extension Service

615 Paul Russell Road

November 17, 2003

Monday, 7:15 p.m.

Florida Sinkholes - Windows Into the Aquifer

Guest Speaker: Jim Stevenson, Florida DEP

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

November 15, 2003

Saturday

Hike: Garden of Eden Trail

An educational tour of the unique ecosystem and short talks by the manager for the Nature Conservancy's NW Florida program on what makes this region special and efforts to protect it.

Limited to 16.

Sponsored by the Big Bend Chapter of the Sierra Club

For more information contact: Stuart Juengst, 850-269-2336.

stu@mindspring.com

November 14, 2003
Friday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

America Recycles Day

Florida Capitol Building

Bring items such as hard-bound books, printer or toner cartridges, cell phones, rechargable batteries and CDs for recycling.

Sponsored by Florida DEP

For more information contact: DEP 245-2112

November 10, 2003
Monday, 7 p.m.

Starhawk

Global Justice: Another World Is Possible

Location: Florida Ballroom at FSU

Fee: FREE � All are welcome.

But what would it look like, how would it function, and how do we get there from here? Starhawk discusses the global justice movement, what it stands for and what it wants, and examines the issues and actions surrounding the upcoming Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting in Miami.

Sponsored by the Center for Participant Education at Florida State University

For more information: http://www.magnoliacircle.org/starhawk.htm

November 9, 2003
Sunday, 2-5 p.m.

Starhawk

"Non-violent activist training and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)"

Unitarian Universalists Church, 2810 North Meridian Road

Capacity: Limited to 75 people

Fee: Sliding scale donation request $5-20, you decide where you slide. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Sponsored by Magnolia Circle

Learn the theoretical and practical applications of strategic non-violence. Training is focused for those attending the demonstrations at the FTAA meeting in Miami in late November, but open and useful to all non-violent activists.

Make pre-registration checks payable to: Dragonwing's Cottage

Pre-Registrations should be mailed to:

Dragonwing's Cottage

P.O. Box 5441
Tallahassee, FL 32301

For more information: http://www.magnoliacircle.org/starhawk.htm

November 9, 2003
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. or 2:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Cooking Class Benefit for St. Francis Wildlife

Create a gourmet,vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner, from appetizer to dessert, with Higher Taste Vegetarian Cafe & Bakery.

$50 includes hands-on class, dinner, and child care (wildlife program, art, stories and snacks�ages 5 and up). Limited to 8 per session.

For more information and to register: sandybeck@stfranciswildlife.org

http://www.stfranciswildlife.org/calendar

November 8, 2003
Saturday

Full Moon Adventure Hike

Enjoy a short hike in the moonlight followed by refreshments and a campfire. Ghost Stories? Eleanor Klapp Phipps Park

Sponsored by the Apalachee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association.

For more information: Linda Patton 850- 668-4334

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

November 1, 2003
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Bat House Build and Picnic at Myers Park

The goal is to build about a half a dozen bat houses with materials furnished by the Twilight Group of the Big Bend Chapter of the Sierra Club. Please bring tools, and a potluck to share.

Sponsored by the Big Bend Chapter of the Sierra Club

For more information call: 850-350-3525

jamisonl@mailer.fsu.edu

October 25, 2003
Saturday

Aucilla River Hike

Hike the Florida Trail along the Aucilla River from County Road 14 to the rapids and return.

Sponsored by the Apalachee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association.

For more information: Walker Banning 850-878-2270

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

October 20, 2003
Monday, 7:30 p.m.

Arundo Donax and Other Not-So-Wonderful Exotics

Guest speaker: Kathy Burks, Bureau of Invasive Species, Florida DEP

Kathy will discuss the current controversy over the proposal to generate fuel sources via large plantings of Giant Reed, Arundo donax. She will also provide updates on some of north Florida's more famous invasive exotics, such as the Chinese tallow tree, Japanese climbing fern, Japanese honeysuckle, Chinese privet, and the Chinaberry and mimosa trees. Kathy will then identify a few other new and potentially damaging invasive species.

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

October 12, 2003
Sunday

Shepherd Springs with Liz and Turtle Bob

Paddle along the bay thru the marsh into a creek that takes you to an undisturbed paradise (and we would like to help keep it that way!) Then hike to the spring and into one of the last remaining old cabbage Palm hammocks in North Florida. Truly a special place.

For more information: (850) 877-7200

http://www.thewildernessway.com/

October 7, 2003
Tuesday, 7 p.m.

Free Trade Area of the Americas(FTAA) Speakers

FSU'S Oglesby Union's University Ballroom

FTAA Speakers Tour: Speakers from a Mapuche community in Chile, Zapotec community in Mexico, and a member of the Mexican Solidarity Network discuss the havoc the FTAA will cause in their communities and environment in addition to the rest of the Americas.

This event is being organized by CPE, AISU, SUPJ, and
Amnesty International. The national sponsors include; the American Lands Alliance, Alliance for Responsible Trade, Forest ethics, Mexico Solidarity Network, & Witness for Peace.

For more information contact: Jonathan Luna aquamono@hotmail.com

October 4-5, 2003
Saturday and Sunday

Cumberland I