In the sustainability sphere, I recommend two free, public events coming up this week:
1) Austin Permaculture Guild’s talk/presentation on intentional community, co-housing, eco-villages. Slides, video, discussion.
Date/time: Wednesday March 12, 7pm
Place: Habitat Suites Hotel, 500 E. Highland Mall Dr.
More info: 512-619-5363 / www.permie.us
2) Reception to kick off Edible Estates Regional Prototype Garden #5, [...]
The Austin Permaculture Guild is having its next Permaculture Basics Weekend this spring, May 17-18. Class is all day both days, and will include lecture, discussion, and group exercises. For more information, check out www.permie.us
Hope you’ll join us! It’ll be fun! Oh, I should mention, I’m going to be one of [...]
So here I am in the downtown library, not my neighborhood SoCo branch. Downtown library is nice, big, clean, well-stocked (full of language tapes among other things!), but NOISY. First there’s some French woman on a cellphone, recounting her woes at length in detail to the customer-service flunky of some vacuum-cleaner-bag [...]
(Written on my student’s take-out cup from Starbucks): “So called ‘global warming’ is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air and water, improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles, kick-start 21st-century industries, and make our cities safer and more livable. Don’t let them get [...]
JewishFarmer (of Casaubon’s Book) and Miranda over at Simply Living have launched a “riot for austerity” (a phrase borrowed from George Monbiot, author of Heat — How To Stop the Planet from Burning). In a nutshell, JewishFarmer and Miranda have challenged themselves, and anyone else who’s interested, to make [...]
Hey Austin Area “listeners”: Got plans tomorrow? Yes, you do! You’re coming to the Sustainable Shoppers Ball. It’s at the Toney Burger Center (near intersection of Westgate and Jones) from 9:00 am to sometime in the afternoon. (1 pm, 2 pm, or 3 pm, depending on who you ask.) It’s alongside [...]
