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Shakespeare and the Urban Experience

2008-05-28T22:55:22Z

What does Shakespeare have to do with the urban experience? You might be surprised. New blog at http://www.urbanparadoxes.com/flaneur.html.

Comments always appreciated.

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Does SF have a soul? (PD James, Blake, Celtic Christianity and The Soul of the City

2008-05-22T20:01:41Z

Actually the subject heading is the subtitle of a new post, "The Soul of the City" at http://www.urbanparadoxes.com/flaneur.html
Not strictly about San Francisco ... but it should make one ask, "Does San Francisco have a soul?"

Also a review of PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLIC SPACES: THE NEW YORK EXPERIENCE at http://www.urbanparadoxes.com/review.html

And while you are at it, why not check out the entire web site (http://www.urbanparadoxes.com)? It is all new as off April 1 of this year.

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URGENT: SF BAY GUARDIAN request

2008-05-19T22:12:21Z

My name is Ian Ferguson and I'm a writer with the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

We're looking to do a story on freeganism/dumpster-diving.

Would you be willing to disclose the locations of your top 5 or so dumpster dives, as well as your bottom 3 (especially those that pour bleach over their waste, or other similarly egregious deterrents)?

Post here or shoot me an email: fergusonian@berkeley.edu

Thanks. Best.
Ian

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Raising Awareness

2008-03-29T13:26:17Z

Hey tribers,

I am wondering what opinions exist out there on the concept of raising awareness of an issue? It could be any issue, but lets say the issue of sustainability.

Do you think that raising awareness campaigns are farcical?
Do you think that they don't serve any purpose?
Do you think that raising awareness at the individual level is a key strategy to bring about a change?

.......................and whatever else.

I personally, believe that raising awareness of an issue is the beginning of a process of reflecting in individuals. I am wanting to know what others feel.

Kalas

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CBC Walk/Bike California 2007 Conference in Davis, CA

2007-08-01T19:00:24Z

Tuesday-Friday, September 11-14, 2007
University of California at Davis, Memorial Union/Freeborn Hall

http://www.walkbikecalifornia.org/index.htm

This year's theme is Safe and Healthy Communities.

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

Politics, Advocacy and Culture: Addresses current advocacy campaigns, examines political and cultural trends and the place of walking and bicycling in California and the United States, analyzes the legal and societal standing of pedestrians and bicyclists and attitudes about individuals with disabilities.

Education and Outreach Programs: Addresses youth, adult or elderly bicycle or pedestrian education, physical activity promotion, motorist education and safe routes to school and safe routes for seniors programs.

Facilities: Addresses pedestrian and bicycle planning, design and implementation issues at intersections and along roadways, innovative plans or projects, accessible designs/universal access, innovative trail design and implementation factors, safe routes to school, safe routes to transit, safe routes for seniors, traffic calming and community-based planning.

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sustainability questions

2007-07-19T20:57:56Z

Hello sustainable folks!
Please help out a fellow tribester and take a minute to express your views on sustainable shopping (men and women - even if you hate shopping). I am taking a marketing class and put this survey together for my project. Just a minute of your time will help me out. Thanks!
<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BPuPj4Hl2OetfrRGIuVjzA_3d_3d">Click Here to take survey</a>

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one step closer to an online urban magazine

2007-04-02T18:15:19Z

Hi,

With the launch of the newly formatted <a href="www.urbanparadoxes.com">Urban Paradoxes</a> web site Urban Paradoxes has moved one step closer to launching its online urban magazine.

While I encourage you to click on and follow the links, those of you who are creatively-minded need to check out <a href="www.urbanparadoxes.com/funfactory.html">The Fun Factory</a> page. Particularly read the note at the bottom of the post.

RSS feeds are available for each page. After you check it out, I would love to hear your comments, thoughts, and ideas.

Thanks,
Frank

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Radiant Heating for Homes in California - Truly Efficient?

2007-02-20T23:52:01Z

I'm currently designing a home in Calistoga which is to employ green design strategies...

I've always considered the Holy Trinity of Sustainable Building to be:
1. Grey Water
2. Solar Panels
3. Radiant heating

However when it comes to radiant heating, is it really the most efficient approach or are we being brainwashed as designers by the hype? Consider the following: In the east coast, radiant heating is a no-brainer as you typically would leave a system running for long periods of time during the cool weather seasons.

But in California, our temperature fluctuations are so drastic; it's oftentimes cold at night and hot during the day. So if we install a radiant heating system won't the homeowner be constantly turning the system off and on to the point where the system becomes inefficient from a green building perspective?

What do you think?

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Groovin Urban Alliance for Sustainability Holiday Party in SF Dec. 12th!!

2006-11-28T21:29:24Z

It's time for the super groovy, extra special....

URBAN ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY Holiday Party
& UAS-ENPN Merger Celebration!!!!

Seasons Greetings, Allies!

You are cordially invited to our annual conscious celebration of the
holiday season. This time we are doing it in style at 111 Minna Gallery
with food, drinks, entertainment and the most excellent people--you! And
we have even more reason to rejoice--as of this very month, the
Environmental Non-Profit Network (a project of Craigslist Foundation) has
merged into UAS! 2007 seems alight with possibility and sustainability, so
join us in celebrating our collective efforts in 2006 and the many
solutions and successes to come!

The When and Where:

Tuesday, December 12, 6-10:30pm
111 Minna Gallery

111 Minna St.
San Francisco CA 94105
map: http://tinyurl.com/y9fs3g

Don't miss:

DJ Alex Theory
Live music from Estas
Insight from Darian Heyman of Craigslist Foundation
(www.craigslistfoundation.org)
Spoken word by Trathen Heckman of Daily Acts
(www.dailyacts.org)
Food and drinks by Juicy Lucy
Cash Bar
Snacks, fellowship and general merriment

$5-$15 suggested donation. Bring a friend and wear your best smile.

Visit www.sfuas.org for info on what UAS is all about (it's not completely up to date as we're working on our NEW and amazing site, but you can get the gist. Soon you'll be able to visit us at www.uas.coop - that's part of the extra special part)

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Garden Cities

2006-11-22T19:25:58Z

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29 | ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES
DAVID DOBEREINER, Architect; Author, The End of the Street
at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club

GREENING CITIES IN RESPONSE TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS

The last two centuries of industrial activity have propelled society while simultaneously threatening some life forms and the environment. How do we strike an eco-balance? Eliminating fossil fuel use is only part of the answer, says Dobereiner, who will present a vision of high-density, medium-rise "garden cities."

November 29 | 11:30 a.m., Check-in | 12:00 p.m., Program
Commonwealth Club office, 595 Market St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco
Free for Members, $15 for Non-Members
Directions to The Club http://commonwealthclub.org/directions.html
Program Organizer: Kerry Curtis
Co-sponsored by Northern California Chapter of Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility

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Ideas for rainforest magazine

2006-10-27T00:22:58Z

Hi UAS tribe,

I thought to put this one out to you guys....

Here's my newly launched web magazine: http://mariri.net

For our upcoming blog page, I'm looking for:
- quick article ideas about things people can do every day which will help save the rainforest. Green tips for the rainforest....
- products, books, music etc to review that are related to the rainforest, or are sustainable rainforest products. Yes, I love Guayaki!

Any other ideas to improve the rainforest experience:
- creative commons audio, video?
- how to make the site more interactive?

Also looking for volunteers/ interns: editors, writers, creatives, technogeeks. Your feedback and creative visioning most appreciated.

Cheers,

Lorna

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your thoughts on an urban magazine, please

2006-10-21T12:09:08Z

if you were to publish an edgy, intelligent urban magazine what would you want to see in it? do you think there is a need for such a magazine on a national level?

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ReadyMade Magazine Looking for Green Tips

2006-10-07T02:16:24Z

I LOVE ReadyMade Magazine http://www.readymademag.com Last year's Green Issue was great. Here is your chance get your green tips or info about your geen business or organization published.

ReadyMade's Green Issue is on deck and we're on the lookout for clever power-preserving fixes for windows, doors, solar panels, heaters, and pipes. In this issue, energy-efficient redesigns reign, so if you've got solutions to share, we're all ears. Send your best and brightest our way.shana@readymademag.com

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Newly Updated Seafood Watch Card

2006-08-05T14:46:12Z

Find the Seafood Watch Card particular to an area of the United States or there is an all region card too
http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp

The rest of this I cut and paste from a recent email.

The Seafood Watch Pocket Guide is a great tool when you’re choosing what seafood to buy. But to use the guide, you need certain information – where did a fish come from? How was it caught? – and sometimes that information is hard to find. It’s not always on the package, and the person behind the counter doesn’t always know it either.
But by asking questions, you are sending a powerful message, a message that you care about where your seafood comes from and how it is farmed or caught. This message is affecting change, and we have evidence to prove it.

• In a survey of 26 restaurants and businesses in the Monterey Bay area, half said they had changed their business operations after learning about the Seafood Watch program or receiving requests from customers for sustainable seafood.
• In a survey of pocket guide users, 86 percent said they had chosen not to buy certain seafood because of environmental concerns.
• In the same survey, almost 80 percent said they now buy less of some type of seafood because of the pocket guide recommendations.

With over 8 million pocket guides in circulation since the program began over 5 years ago and nearly 6,000 people on our newsletter distribution list, the collective efforts of all of us together is powerful. In the next few e-newsletters we will highlight the major successes we've accomplished together. Please consider submitting your own success story online and joining our Seafood Advocate program to receive additional outreach tools.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_consumers.asp

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Recommeded Reads

2006-07-01T22:47:26Z

On the eve of the Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, it seems appropriate to recommend the following reads for the ecologically conscious, anti-capitalistic and anti destruction in the name of development.

These books focus specifically on India, but the themes remain the same, the arguments and issues are 'global'.

1. The Greater Common Good - Arundhati Roy
2. The violence of the green revolution - Vandana Shiva
3. Staying Alive - Women, Ecology and Development - Vandana Shiva
4. Power of politics - Arundhati Roy

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Digital Be-In Tribe

2006-03-30T02:31:22Z

Thought you folx on SFUAS would want to know that SFUAS is a sponsoring org of the Digital Be-In Event, April 22, in San Francisco.

We're jumpstarting some threads in advance of the event on the digitalbein tribe. Drop by and post your thoughts.

main site w/full event info:
be-in.com

on Tribe:
digitalbein.tribe.net

Ciao

Twist

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Bay Area Green Business Program

2005-12-27T19:21:03Z

Has everyone heard of the BA GBP? It is a program run by local governments and other partners to assist and recognize businesses that want to be environmentally friendly. This is a great way to find businesses that have green values. You can see all the businesses that are officially Green and learn more about the program at http://www.greenbiz.abag.ca.gov/. Ask your favorite businesses to sign up for the program, too!
Ilana

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Interior Tropical Plants and Flowers

2005-12-27T12:32:24Z

Design, install, and maintain interior tropical plants and flowers for corporate buildings, hotels, restaurants, ect. Provide short and long term rentals,lease or purchse options, elaborate holiday displays, and special event packages. Network with architects, interior designers, Green Building members, facility managers, and more. Our mission is to enhance the quality of occupants working environment by bringing nature indoors. Recent studies show most people spend up to 90% of their time indoors, with long term exposure to chemical vapors that have major threats to health. Evidence shows plants can indeed clean the air and improve overall moral in the workplace.

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SFUAS developing Services and Membership Model

2005-10-20T01:47:28Z

Here's to start a discussion on membership and services. I'm not done with this, but it's a start.

MEMBERSHIP
If you want to develop a more sustainable relationship with your environment (human, animal, and inanimate,)
If you believe that doing so requires the acknowledgement of the fundamental interrelatedness of all life systems on the planet, and
If you're ready to get to work right here and,
then you need to join the San Francisco Urban Alliance for Sustainability!

We're a dynamic group of committed entrepreneurs, friends, visionaries, neighbors, and pragmatists working to create an organization of sustainability activists right here in San Francisco. We've been hosting mixers and networking events for several years now to catalyze a movement for sustainability, and have met with much enthusiasm and encouragement in the process. The next stage of development is upon us. We see the potential for an organization, which develops sustainability support services for individuals and businesses in San Francisco, to be not just successful but revolutionary in nature.

If not us, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?

Invest in SFUAS so that we all can invest in sustainability together.

Our vision is to build an organization which is also an alternate economy regulated in the interest of local sustainability. Our members will develop the vision and help to execute it, and we will have staff to coordinate the execution and to fill in the gaps created when organizational demands exceed membership supply. The basic commodity to be exchanged in this economy is not cash, but the skills and energy of individual members of the SFUAS community. "What do you have to share" is the basic question you should ask yourself when considering what role you will play in SFUAS. However, in developing a concept around which a membership organization can be built, there is always a recourse to and need for cash, and so the default membership fee is expressed in dollars, and is expected to be paid in dollars for new members while the value of their contributions can be evaluated.

Organizationally, there are several basic functions to be performed by the various parts of SFUAS. The members will need to provide feedback to questions of priority and value in order to do the regulating of the local economy. So, one basic function, performed by or coordinated by the staff, is information gathering and processing. Another function of SFUAS is to help individuals and businesses to go about their daily business in continuously more sustainable ways. This is service providing, and does not stop at membership, though by the very nature of membership members will be able to better benefit from services which require SFUAS to have information about the recipient of a service in order for the service to be administered effectively.

The framework is still developing, and this is really just the initial membership drive. Our brainstorming has produced the following results for membership packages with associated services. Whether or not you think it's the perfect solution for you right now, we ask that you make the investment in the system. With your help and participation, we hope to provide real value to the members of our community. See which package is right for you. All costs are negotiable, provided as guidelines to help you understand how much energy SFUAS will be putting into your success as a member of the sustainability community. In kind contributions are acceptable (think barter and volunteer time, with receipts.) Talk to us about it.

All memberships are tax deductible pending our 501c3 determination, so hold on to your receipts for FY 2006 tax returns! We are currently fiscally sponsored by Global Exchange, so if 501c3 is required by your organization, you can send your money that way (which we have established for preliminary grant requests) though it would cost us 7% of your membership dues to do so.

1) Introductory Membership

Benefits:

Access to our resource sharing networks
Priority access to our work- and play-shops: designed to help you learn how to live more sustainably
Personal consultation and assessment services of a sustainability organizer
Membership in SFUAS buyer's club at 10% above cost
Voting rights in SFUAS decision making process
Access to SFUAS discussion forums
Access to skill development/job training programs
Full access to our online searchable resource guide
Limited participation in resource allocation decisions
Personalized sustainability maps
Cost:

$5/mo. or $25 for 6 months
some of your time and knowledge,
participation in prerequisite programs
2) Committed Membership

Benefits:

As introductory membership, plus:
Membership in SFUAS buyer's club at cost
Personalized Resource Guide
Possible Health Insurance with participation in preventive health programs
Negotiated reduced waste removal fees with participation in waste reduction and redirection programs
Access to SFUAS organizational development and business meetings
Priority access to skill development/apprenticeship/job training programs
Intensive Personalized Sustainability consultations and assessments
Cost: $25 per quarter = $100 per year

3) Associated Business Membership

Benefits:

Membership in SFUAS buyer's club at 10% above cost
Provide basic support services
Provide high quality referrals for job openings
Limited promotion through SFUAS literature and on website
Ridesharing organization/transportation plan for employees
Neighborhood Sustainability map for your employees and your business
Priority consideration in Convergence Center designs
Cost: $15 per month or $80 per six months

Note that one benefit is also a cost, and not optional: you must open your business practices up to the scrutiny of the SFUAS assessment team. Both as a tool for your business to improve the sustainability of its practices, and as a screening mechanism for would-be sustainable businesses whose sustainability doesn't hold up under scrutiny, the assessment processes is crucial to SFUAS's credibility and effectiveness. The results of the assessments will be publicly available, but will not contain trade secrets or such which seriously undermine the competetiveness of an individual business.

4) Invested Business Membership

Benefits:

Membership in SFUAS buyer's cooperative at cost
Intensive Personalized Sustainability Consulting Services
Provide advanced support services, including volunteer recruitment, apprenticeship program development, legal advice, technical advice, etc.
More intense promotion through SFUAS lierature and events, and on website
Access to Convergence Center development meetings and priority placement in Centers
Cost: $80 per quarter = $320 per year

5) Free Membership: the services we will strive to provide to the community at large

Benefits:

Emergency help in times of crisis (housing, finances, medical care, social support)
Support local arts and culture
Support of collaborative project development
Limited access to free resource guide - online and print
Develop an effective framework for advancing Sustainability in SF (SFUAS!)
Access to SFUAS networking events and mixers!
Promotion of sustainability events
Limited access to resource sharing networks
Promotion of sustainable behaviors and resources (free stuff and Sustainability Service Announcements)
Creation of media supportive of sustainability
Support for urban gardening/permaculture projects
sustainability helpline

Also in there, Networking and group building services (domestic groups, tribes, etc.) as well as poling of resources for collective project work, and effective civic participation facilitation (rating and comparing the activities of organizations, governmental agencies, and corporations in our area and providing a framework to collectively address concerns we have with the picture that develops).

So, membership is about services, but services go beyond membership.

I hope this isn't posted too hastily... hope it provides a good jumping off point for discussion. I'll revisit and summarize later.

Jeff

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Volunteers needed for Power to the Peaceful

2005-08-31T04:30:01Z

Anyone available to volunteer for SFUAS on Sept 10th in GG park? We will be representing in a 36ft biodome this year.

Volunteer orientation date coming later this week.

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The Really REALLY Free Market!

2005-07-26T20:18:13Z

The Really REALLY Free Market!
The Last Saturday of EVERY Month!
Dolores Park 12-4pm
website: www.reallyreallyfreemarket.org
email: reallyfreemarket@...

What is The Really REALLY Free Market?
It's like a large community-wide garage sale, except everything is
FREE! Yes, that's right, FREE! Everyone is invitied to bring things to
GIVE AWAY!

So this is like bartering or trading, right?
Nope. Bartering and trading go something like this: I've got this
great shirt here, what can you offer me for it?
The RRFM goes something like this: I've got this really great shirt
here. I don't really wear it anymore, but I'd hate to see it go to
waste. Do you want it? Great! Here, it's yours!

Why would i want to do a thing like that?
Because you have to many things already! Because you're just going to
throw it away anyway. Because it FEELS GOOD! Do you have things
cluttering up your home? Maybe some stuff that you don't use anymore,
but you know that someone else would probably love. One person's trash
can truly be another person's treasure!

What should I bring?
Bring *your thing* to the RRFM, whatever that is! Material goods, food
or drinks, a service to provide, a skill you have that you want to
teach to others, a performance, or anything else!

What if I don't have anything to give away?
Everyone has something to give to others. The RRFM isn't just about
giving away *stuff.* What is it that you do? Why not come to the RRFM
and find a way to do it for others, except this time for free just for
the fun of it. As a gift to others, as a gift to yourself. It's a way
of reclaiming meaning in your job, to give it as a gift, unmediated by
commerce.

Who runs the RRFM?
Well, the RRFM consists of the sum of its participants. The gift you
bring to the event, helps create what the event is for others, just as
what others bring to the event, creates what the event is for you.
That said, there are some folks who came together to help create the
structure for the RRFM to work. But it is our hope that soon enough,
our role within the RRFM will be the same as everyone else's. That is,
that each of us decides our own level of involvement.

The RRFM is yours!
Take advantageous of that. Make it what you want it to be! If you want
to see something happening at the RRFM that isn't already happening,
than make it happen! If you want to see more people coming to the
RRFM, help spread the word! Send emails to your friends, make and
distribute flyers (make your own or download them from the website),
talk to people about the RRFM.
----
Please help us keep the RRFM a 100% FREE and non-commercial event.
Once a month, let's come together and forget about trading, bartering,
and money. Leave the business cards at home and remember the joy of
giving for the sake of giving. Help us keep Dolores Park clean. If no
one takes what you brought, please bring it home with you. If you like
what you just read, get involved! Come to the RRFM! Bring your own
gifts to share! Spread the info, and get more people involved! The
RRFM takes YOU to make it happen.

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Experimental Structure - Looking for Site

2005-07-06T06:47:39Z

I have a structure made of hyperbolic paraboloids (ala Jacobs) - it will be ferro-cemented and enclosed - pictures can be found in my photo album. I am looking for a site to locate this project. I will pay for all construction related expenses. The ambition is primarily to work with this versatile form in a semi-practical (i.e. habitable) manner as opposed to past sculptural efforts. Collaborative ideas are encouraged, especially those having an ecological or artistic bias.

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United Nations World Environment Day!

2005-06-01T01:04:08Z

A free celebration in San Francisco & Opening Ceremony for the United Nations World Environment Day!

Please come to San Francisco on June 2nd this Thursday and join mayors from 100 cities around the world, Koffi Annan, Governor Arnold and the citizens of the city of San Francisco for a massive day of music and over 60 companies displaying cutting edge renewable energy technology WIND, BIOFUELS, HYDROGEN, SOLAR, OCEAN ENERGY, ENERGY CONSERVATION AND MORE.

It is the 34th United Nations World Environment Day. The event will be powered with renewable sources of energy as well.

Its all taking place outdoors at San Francisco's Civic Center and will also feature an incredible line up of free music plus the world’s largest renewable energy exhibit in history and also the largest collection of alternative fuel vehicles in history.

The opening ceremony starts at 9:00am sharp - please be there for this important start to World Environment Day!

Featured Speakers Are:

MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM
TERRY TAMMINEN (Cabinet Secretary for the Governor)
JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL (Author, Activist)
JOSH TICKELL (Author, Filmmaker. Biodiesel America)
STEPHANIE FAN (Buddhist, Healing of the planet)

In addition to the music here on the flyer, other performers include:

GREEN POWER GIRL (Superhero, Environmental Activist)
EARTHCAPADES (Environmental Vaudeville)
ENDANGERED SPECIES PUPPET SHOW

...and Vendors of fine organic foods will be on hand for your morning (and all day) fix!

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Upcoming Event: Greenhouse Jam - Jun 2 at Fort Mason

2005-05-19T18:36:16Z

Hi Everyone.

On Thursday, June 2, we will host the Greenhouse Jam, part of our
Sustainability Mixer Series and a component of the United Nations
World Environment Day (WED). Established by the U.N. General Assembly
in 1972, WED is hosted every year by a different city and commemorated
with an international exposition through the week of June 5.

The Greenhouse Jam, from 7:00 - 10:00 at the Fort Mason, will bring
together an international community of mayors, political activists,
non-profiteers, and green entrepreneurs, as well as people of all
ages, professions and backgrounds in an unparalleled networking
opportunity.

Inspiration is contagious! As part of the event, SFUAS is producing
an electronic slideshow that will showcase to real-life
SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS* here in San Francisco and the Bay Area. It
should be a one-of-a-kind opportunity to direct attention to what is
ACTUALLY happening and not just being talked about. Best of all - we
are looking for your help to provide the content! This is your
opportunity to show off your solution to a worldwide audience and get
the word out!

*What is a SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTION
Solutions are those activities, endeavors, businesses, practices and
habits that harmonize our living systems with natural cycles and
strong sensitivity to environmental concerns with a focus on
self-sufficiency. They can be big (e.g., bio-fuel collectives) or
small (e.g., home worm bin) or anywhere in between. Here are some
examples of what we'd all like to see:

- innovative building designs
- green businesses in action
- alternative energy systems
- local organic gardening and food distribution
- rain water collection
- grey water systems
- rooftop gardens
- community workshops
- social justice activities

Every solution you can think of - be creative!

What do we need from you?

Please send us slides that exhibit your solution:
- Powerpoint format
- Drawings, digital photos, your name, etc.
- 1-2 slides per individual, business or organization
- 10-30 slides per sponsor**

Please send all materials to Kevin Bayuk kevinbayuk@yahoo.com

** Contact Kevin Bayuk 415-999-5354, (kevinbayuk@yahoo.com
{mailto:kevinbayuk@yahoo.com}) for sponsorship opportunities.
Sponsoring the event is an excellent way to direct targeted attention
to your green business or organization. In addition to exposure
through the slide presentation your organization will be promoted as
an event sponsor.

Please pass this message on to everyone you know that might have
some content to add to the show and please come and celebrate with us
on Thursday June 2nd!!

Thanks,

The SFUAS Team
www.sfuas.org {http://www.sfuas.org}

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ScrapHouse San Francisco: Volunteers needed 5/31-6/5

2005-05-10T00:39:05Z

Howdy. As part of World Environment Day, a team of green builders, architects, engineers, city officials and artists are blitz-building a 850 sq ft exhibition home in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza. And...we're building it entirely out of scrap and recyled materials while doing our level best to get as many LEEDS points as possible.

We'll be open to the public June 1-5 and need docents to help educate our vistors on green building and re-use issues.

Docent training will take place the last week of May. Docents will need to be available for several shifts during the first week of June.

If this sounds good to you, please send a letter of interest to rachel@scraphouse.org, and include daytime and evening contact information.

Thanks!

Rachel

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What projects are you working on?

2005-04-20T23:14:23Z

Are you working on a sustainability or community project?
Tell me more?
What needs, challenges that you face?
How are you working to address them?
Let's share, explore and connect

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Village Building Convergence

2005-03-30T17:38:54Z

http://vbc.cityrepair.org/vbc5/

This event looks amazing!! I am planning to go, and planning right now to fly up, but am open to the idea of carpooling -- a long (10 hr) but green and mountainous drive.

Let me know if you're interested.

Love
Caitlin

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Gathering to view Arlington West

2005-03-29T06:43:51Z

Hello! I hope you are all doing very well. I had an amazing weekend, mixing a satsang with Adyashanti, a deep cry at the traveling memorial for the U.S. soldiers and civilians who have died in Iraq at Civic Center, Eyes Wide Open, and then a rowdy and short visit to the Anarchist Bookfair to catch Ward Churchill and meet some new folks. Just my cup of tea for a Saturday!

It was so moving seeing the installation of 1,528 boots in front of Civic Center representing the lives of the soldiers lost in Iraq since 2003. There were parents from some of the soldiers there and they read all of the names, I just wept and meditated for a few hours, it was really powerful. I thought of everyone I know and I wished they could have been there. I bought a documentary of the memorial in Santa Monica called Arlington West to show for the Global Awareness Forum this week. It is basically lots of brief interviews on people's thoughts and reactions to the growing number of crosses that honor the fallen U.S. soldiers on the beach. Its about an hour, plenty of time for discussion and a prayer/meditation circle to end the evening. Please bring a dish for the potluck and RSVP if you wish to attend. You can reach me at 415-312-0038 or 415-665-9644 or email me to let me know you are coming and for directions. Hope to see you there!

I will be posting the next few in advance so you can put them in your calendar! I will need to change them to Tuesdays for awhile so the next two are on Tuesday April 12th and Tuesday April 26th. I am thinking of showing a talk with various speakers on nuclear weapons redevelopment and a powerful speech from Cornell West on race relations, politics, culture, etc. I am hoping to get my copy of The Corporation from my KPFA donation soon and show that. Any suggestions of things you would like to see is welcome! If you have anything to share let me know. Also, please bring a $5 donation as I need to cover the cost of the films and CDs I have purchased to share.

See you soon!
Eve

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Invtiation to the Global Awareness Forum

2005-02-08T03:07:26Z

Hi everyone, I host a gathering every other week with a friend where we watch politcal/environmental/social justice videos and have a potluck! Anyone in the Bay Area is welcome to join us, please do call me first so I can meet you over the phone. Here's the info:

Hi everyone!

I will be hosting the next Global Awareness Forum at my house this Thursday, February 10th from 7:30-10:00. We will have a potluck and social time from 7:30-8:00 and then watch "The Sorrows of Empire" with Chalmers Johnson (also the title of his latest book). This is a really amazing and informative talk giving lots of background and perspective on current politics, the war and the U.S. empire building plans. It is 107 minutes so we will begin promptly at 8:00 and have a brief break then resume. We will have a discussion following the talk if time allows and there is interest. Please contact me for directions at 415-665-9644. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Yours,
Eve Libertone

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eco-building in E bay

2005-02-07T06:34:27Z

LaunchPad, a new 12,000 square foot arts-activist-learning space in Oakland, is building a 50-seat ampEartheater of cob/strawbale. we're working 10-5 this sat-sun the 12th and 13th. we'll have lunch and music (bring your instrument/CDs) for volunteers.

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Join SF UAS this Sunday for Holiday Potluck/Mixer

2004-12-07T23:55:41Z

Greeting Everyone,
We would like to invited you to join us this Sunday for "OH OH OH" Organic Holiday Potluck/Mixer, another one of SFUAS GreenHouse Sustainability Series

Sunday December 12th
at SOMAsala Community Space
465 10th St @ Bryant (across from Costco)
5-9 PM

Let's get together and enjoy an evening of conversation and
networking over a delicious home-cooked organic, vegetarian potluck feast! Rub elbows and share food with your local eco all-stars. Guest of Honor includes Darien Hayman, Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation.

Our mixer events this year have been a smashing success, thanks for all your feedback and support! We've all worked our butts-off all year long bringing about some major eco-social-revolutionary change - Now its time to kick back, hang out and celebrate! We deserve it! This event will be less of an organized program and allow more time for free form wining and dining.

Help us make this a real potluck by bringing a dish to share. Please keep it vegetarian and use as many organic ingredients as possible. Please RSVP, and let us know if you can bring a dish or not, and if you are visionary enough, what it is you will be bringing. We will have extra food because we know not everybody will be able to bring something.

5-6:30 Snacks & Mixing
6:30-7:30 Dinner
7:30-9 DJ/Live music

DONATION $0-10 With food or drink to share
DONATION $10-20 Empty handed but full heart
(proceeds will help SFUAS continue its mission & host more events for
Sustainability Community)

Please RSVP! unite@sfuas.org or call
415-820-1456

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SF UAS September News

2004-09-20T19:04:41Z

Greetings. Probably the single most difficult part of our contemporary experience involves healing the broken spaces between time past, present and future. Malcolm X left us with a reminder of how deeply this discontinuity can cut:

"Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or culture also becomes a dead people."

Conversely, though, wholeness converges on the moment and, like a ubiquitous snow, falls across all time and space. This wholeness is accessible right here:
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Indeed, from small acts great patterns emerge. Many people left their ancient paths and came here to the United States, to San Francisco, to participate in the Industrial Age. Those already here were forced away from their path. In either case, much of importance was forgotten. Now we are remembering. This issue reflects a good deal of activity that leads to and stems from this healing process, across the past, present, and
future, and into the moment of our work. We'll close with both a discussion of how these works combine for amazing results and also with an invitation to share from your experience.

In this issue:

== NoBAWC Rocked!
== What's shakin' in San Francisco
== Sister Spaces. The Web scene from our siblings at large.
== We, SFUAS. News of our organization's becoming.
== How to share the love. Growing our community.
== Synergy

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The NoBAWC (pronounced 'No Boss') Bay Area Worker Cooperative Conference and Festival held last weekend at the Women's Building in the Mission District of San Francisco was a huge success. Workers from all over Northern California converged to meet each other, network, play, skill-share and learn the history of the cooperative movement. One of the many highlights of this colorful event was the Saturday night variety show and fundraising auction. Coop comedians, Susan and Riddle, from Rainbow Grocery, kept the audience in stitches as they wooed them to bid on items donated by local coops to raise funds for NoBAWC. The comics were interspersed with live performance from coop bands Folk This, Wolverine, Urban Warrior, The Cooperative, and Smirk. We topped it off with a show stopping performance by the newest NoBAWC member, The Lusty Lady.

The conference itself was equally vibrant with 18 workshops on all different aspects of cooperative development from how to start a coop to how to train personnel and facilitate anti-oppression training within a coop. Much was shared and learned and there are only bright things to come for local coops. The bay area has the largest concentration of worker
owned cooperatives in the country and it is only going to keep growing. Participants were enthusiastic about the event continuing as a yearly event. Anyone interested in getting involved please contact info@nowbawc.org or call 510-549-1514

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Oct 1-3 @ Laguna Honda Hospital

SFUAS and SF Permaculture Guild are co-sponsoring an Introduction to Permaculture Design Weekend Course October 1-3 Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco

Permaculture is a design system driven by the core ethics of:
- Care for the Earth
- Care for the People
- Re-Distribution of Resources.
It employs sustainable and ecologically sound ways to create living conditions in harmony with nature and our environment.

This one-evening and two-day introductory course combines fun, theory and practical experiential learning . The topics will include Permaculture Ethics, Design Principles and Techniques, Urban Permaculture, Site Analysis, Organic Gardening Techniques, Water Use, Alternative Economics,
and more.

Suggested donation of $50 will pay for the basic operating costs of the course as well as membership with the SF Permaculture Guild.

To register, visit www.sfuas.org/registration.html

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Saturday, October 9, 1-4pm @ San Francisco Culture Center

4th Annual Earth Charter Community Summit
"Creating a Better World: Our daily actions make a difference!"

Saturday, October 9, 1-4pm
SF Culture Center
2450 17th St@ Potrero
415.990.7740 for directions
www.earthcharter.org
www.earthchartersummits.org
(Sign-on in support of the Earth Charter!)

Keynote by Global Exchange co-founder Kevin Danaher

Three hands-on Workshops:
*Smarter Energy Use at Home
*Shopping for a Green Household
*Composting at Home to Save our Environment

The Earth Charter is a "People's Treaty" for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world based on recognition of the inter dependecnce of all life.

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Tuesday Oct 12 @ Herbst International Exhibition Hall
The Natural World Museum & SFUAS present DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE VENTURES

Natural World Museum and SFUAS join forces to launch Designing Sustainable Ventures," part of the SFUAS monthly GreenHouse Sustainability Series." Explore the issues of ethics and profit through both the experiences of sustainable business and non-profit leaders and also through group interaction.

Event facilitiators include leaders from Guayaki Yerba Mate, Social Fusion, New Leaf Paper, Urban Permaculture Guild, Craigslist Foundation, San Francisco Green Festival, and Off the Grid Consulting.

***FREE TICKETS TO GREEN FESTIVAL, ORGANIC TREATS BY LOVEMORE GOURMET,
A PROJECT RESOURCE WALL, A PROJECT LOTTERY AND MORE!***

Tuesday October 12, 2004
6:00PM 10:00PM
$15 limited presale
$20 limited general
$25 at the door

Herbst International Exhibition Hall
Building 385 Moraga @ Montgomery
(south of the bowling center, off Arguello)
San Francisco Presidio
FOR MAP: www.fortmason.org/directions

BUY YOUR TICKETS ONLINE:
www.acteva.com/booking.cfm

www.sfuas.org
unite@sfuas.org
415.820.1456

www.naturalworldmuseum.org
info@naturalworldmuseum.org
415.378-4097

Limited scholarships are also available.
CONTACT: intern@naturalworldmuseum.org or dima@sfuas.org

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Sister Spaces

Try a free two week trial offer for GreenBusiness.net discussion list! (Regularly $8/month). Available exclusively through this SFUAS newsletter.

This discussion list is filled with like-minded entrepreneurs and
professionals who understand the unique challenges presented by running and working for a green business.

Here you can share your thoughts, learn from others, brainstorm, develop partnerships, share best practices, generate ideas for new businesses, network, learn what is working for others, discover cost saving practices,
forge alliances, refine strategies to increase profits, get feedback, and
much more.

So, if you know somebody who is on the fence about joining, or have been thinking about somebody to tell but haven't told them yet, fee free to pass along this e-mail/link. Let them know SFUAS referred you...

www.greenbusiness.net/freetrial.html

CONTACT: Jason Trout (jason@greenbusiness.net)

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How to share the love. Growing our community.

ACTIVATE! SFUAS is looking for Active members to help the organization. Help with grant-writing/funding research, the programs team, general help (organizational, database, outreach) and more.
CONTACT: info@sfuas.org

VOTE! Strengthen your voting power by registering you and your friends to vote. Go to www.registerandvote2004.org to register. Please take
your time to keep, and excercise!, your freedom of voice.

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It should be obvious from this edition of the NewMoon that the people that compose Alliance are doing a great deal of work throughout all the spheres of human life, from the home to the shop and within both the community and the continent. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts and you are
invited to participate as you can. Our small works add up and then become something bigger than you and me. One thing that makes all these individual works ultimately emerge as something beyond their individual scope is synergy. Two processes that share certain characteristics or that produce complimentary inputs and outputs may form a synergy, which in
turn finds its complimentary process and so on....

The San Francisco Urban Alliance for Sustainability observes and
facilitates synergy in the Bay Area. It is perhaps our greatest
contribution. Given that our individual works contribute to a whole greater than the sum of their parts, we'd like to highlite examples of synergy from our member's works.

If you are involved in an endeavor where synergy plays a part, please send me a note describing what you are doing. These endeavors may happen within a single system -- a home, a company -- or they may occur amongst
systems, such as is the case where people from different homes may share a ride to work or where people from two different companies share space, labor, inputs/outputs or services. Synergy may take place across the full
spectrum of our lives -- in the details, where we plunge our fingers into a bucket of dirt, or across the broadest swathes of existence, so... look everywhere.

We'll publish an exemplary couple of these in the next NewMoon.

peace,

thomas@sfuas.org

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SF GreenFestival Nov 6/7

2004-09-08T02:00:00Z

Early notice for those who are not in the know already. The SF GreenFestival is coming and we need all Bay Area folks to come on out and show support for Green industries. Last year rocked with 20,000 friendly conscious attendees. This year we get to step it up...

My company Swirlspace Hempwear will have a booth right next to the Kitchen Table Networking Area #935.

Official After Party across the street is shaping up to be awesome as well, 1200-person capacity! Fashion show, Live music, DJ's...more info to come...

http://www.greenfestivals.com

PEACE

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New SFUAS site is up

2004-09-08T01:38:11Z

Check out www.sfuas.org for news and updates

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documentaries

2004-09-04T18:56:15Z

I am very interested in environmentally related documentaries - specifically not those that show the obvious downer side to the world's problems but those that also show solutions from the perspectives of business and everyday life (and perhaps politics). So far I highly recommend:

1. the next industrial revolution with bill mcdonough
2. the corporation

Does anyone have any more recommendations? Please let me know.

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Looking for Volunteers for Oct. 12 Sustainable Business Mixer

2004-09-02T04:09:40Z

Oct. 12 SFUAS and Natural World Museum
co-hosting another event in sustainability series "Designing Sustainable Ventures" at Fort Mason center.
Stellar speakers, yummy snacks, and a free ticket to Greenfest for those who pay to get in ..
There are a few work-echange opportunities, below are some of them ..
- Food Prep
- Food Donations organizer
- Setup and Breakdown

This is a great opportunity to plug in, and make quite a few connections. Email dima@sfuas.org, if you would like to volunteer.

More information on the event coming soon ...

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SF UAS Newsletter

2004-08-18T00:33:41Z

Greetings,

The San Francisco Urban Alliance for Sustainability (SFUAS) is publishing its first monthly newsletter since last Spring, when we announced the EarthDay event at Cellspace (http://www.cellspace.org).

It was a beautiful event. Music, dancing... learning, connecting, growing. The stuff that dreams are made of.

And like a good dream it was both the product and progenitor of a great deal of activity. Winter planning gave way to a flurry of Spring intercourse, which is in turn yielding Autumnal fruits throughout the Alliance and the life that composes it.

This newsletter seeks to communicate both the logistics and also the spirit of that cultivation. Our forthcoming community-driven website will allow us to publish together on the SFUAS website. The editor's job will change to something more like a facilitator. Until then, e-mail your feedback, stories and information about SFUAS members (individuals and organizations) and our collective activities to me: thomas@sfuas.org. I look forward to hearing from you.

In this issue:
-- Cultivating the Fruits of Our Labor: SFUAS Events and Projects
-- Upcoming Events and Projects
-- Sister Spaces. Websites and Zines from Our Siblings at Large.
-- Evolving: News of Our Organization's Becoming.
-- Growing our Community

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The Fruits of Our Labor: SFUAS Events and Projects

In this section:
-- Earthday @ Cellspace
-- Permaculturing the Commons

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Earth Day @ Cellspace Rocked!

On April 22nd, SFUAS hosted the Earth Day event "Planting Seeds of Change." Hundreds of Attendees found kindred spirits and invigoration even as we were reminded to expand our understanding of our composition and strategies.

The music was diverse, ranging from a shamanic opening to festive Gypsy play and belly dancing. During the convocation, we were reminded that sustainability is more than energy efficiency: we were challenged to reach out to and embrace the Indigenous peoples as we plan SFUAS activities.

If you wonder how SFUAS, itself a network, fits into our larger ecology of eco-minded spirits, Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange made an inspirational point worth considering: We know that the ship is sinking, though others might realize it. What we are doing in response is building another ship. When the time comes, we'll pull up along side the sinking ship and not only offer passage, but "good music and drinks" as well.

The evening closed with everyone's forming a collective yogic lotus blossom.

Thank you to everyone who made this beautiful event possible. Special thanks go to our speakers, Malaika Edwards of the Peoples' Grocery, Tanya Einhorn of Urban Forage, the San Francisco Department of the Environment, Kevin Danaher Global Exchange, and everyone at the information tables.

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Permaculturing the Commons

Recently, Lindsay Wilson and Hillary Strobel completed the first phase of a permaculture-based garden project at 111 Jones St. Apartments, an affordable housing complex in the Tenderloin, San Francisco. This gardening project focused on the rehabilitation of a grassy mound located in the complex's courtyard and freed a once-guarded space to support both a spiral herb garden and a walkway for residents.

The project stemmed from a SFUAS/SF Permaculture Guild Introduction to Permaculture course that was held at 111 Jones St. in February of 2004, and that was taught by Dima Novomeiski, Craig Moreland, Sebastien Bacharach and Valera Reznik. As a constructive project to apply their newly discovered permaculture knowledge, the participants of this workshop broke up into groups and created plans for the rehabilitation of the courtyard.

This project has flourished with the volunteer support and donations of many people: the Boys and Girls Club, Laguna Honda Hospital, Building Resources, HANC (Garden for the Environment), St Anthony's/Petaluma Farms, volunteers Jym and Laila, Noli and Roger and the staff and residents of Mercy Housing and 111 Jones Street.

Note: This project stemmed from our last Introduction to Permaculture workshop. Attend the next workshop! See details below.

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Upcoming Events and Projects

In this section:
-- Changing the Way We Work: (NOBAWC) Bay Area Workers Cooperatives Conference and Festival, Sept. 10-12
-- Introduction to Permaculture Workshop, Oct. 1-3
-- Our Third Signature Sustainability Event, Oct. 12
-- Serving at the Green Festival, Nov. 6 & 7

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Changing the Way We Work

NOBAWC Conference and Festival (The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (pronounced No Boss!)
Friday-Sunday, September 10-12 Women's Building 3543 18th St

NoBAWC, an organization of worker cooperatives in the SF Bay area, will be celebrating the success of their community of economic enterprises for the first time in San Francisco. This conference and festival will offer an opportunity for the general public to be introduced to the contributions of these truly alternative economic institutions. Everyone is invited to learn more about worker ownership and management.

The event will take place at the Woman's Building at 3543 18th Street in San Francisco (between Valencia and Guererro Streets.) Doors open at 7pm on Friday.

Note: Preceding that weekend the Red Vic will present a three-day film festival featuring films about cooperatives - September 7, 8 and 9.

To learn more about these NoBAWC opportunities, visit http:/www.nobawc.org or call 510-549-1514

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Introduction to Permaculture Workshop Co-sponsored by SFUAS/SF Permaculture Guild, Oct 1-3

SFUAS and the San Francisco Permaculture Guild are co-sponsoring an Introduction to Permaculture Design workshop October 1-3 @ Laguna Honda Hospital. Learn ethics and practices of eco-design and alternative economics in an intimate and re-creational setting. We'll post more about this in our next issue, but spaces are limited and we encourage you to express your interest and questions to craig@sfuas.org

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Our Third Signature Sustainability Event, Oct 12

Oct. 12 SFUAS will host the third event in the signature sustainability event series. The October 12th event, co-hosted together with Natural World Museum (http://naturalworldmuseum.org) will offer exploration into designing sustainable ventures, stellar speakers and networking opportunities. More info in our next newsletter. The are several volunteer opportunities available. Please contact dima@sfuas.org if you would like to help with this event.

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Serving at the Green Festival, Nov 6 & 7, 2004, at San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center

We will be hosting Kitchen Table area at the Green Festival
(http://greenfestivals.com) on November 6th and 7th here in San Francisco. The Green Festival promises to be a "two-day party with a serious [and life-affirming] purpose" this year, so mark your calendars. Festivals are great to attend and typically offer a good experience to those who participate in them, so consider helping with the kitchen table as an opportunity to participate in this experience. Contact dima@sfuas.org to volunteer.

Bonus! Get a FREE pass to the Green Festival for attending the SFUAS mixer on October 12th. Details in our next issue.

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Sister Spaces. Related Websites and Zines

"One Love Lifestyles" Issue #2 will be out in (Late) August. This is an opportunity to read and sponsor a publication that has supported/published
our mission.

If you'd like to advertise your business in a publication with a distribution 10,000 strong (with plans to distribute in green lifestyle stores nationwide), check out
http://www.onelovefamily.org/images/magazine_cover.jpg and contact Harold @ greenlife@photon.net, or call:
530-938-1125, Office
707-799-7235 cell, for Harold, or
1-800-242-0363 ext 5563 to leave a message

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Evolving SFUAS. News of our organization's becoming.

SFUAS activities are becoming numerous and demanding enough that a separate space would help things runs more smoothly. Consequently, if anyone knows of cheap or free office space available to non-profit starts up like SFUAS, please contact dima@sfuas.org

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Growing our community.

* Endorse SFUAS by coming to our website and filling in the questionnaire.
* Participate in our activities.
* Attend our events and sign up on our e-mail list. Consider taking the Introduction to Permaculture Workshop!
* Help with your expertise in any of our undertakings, specifically with
facilitation, grant writing, real estate development and city planning.
* Become a contributing member by offering your time, resources, and
funding.

~Stay tuned for more news coming at you every New Moon

We look forward to your feedback, stories and ideas. Forward them to thomas@sfuas.org or call us at 415.820.1456

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SFUAS is Recruiting - a Sustainability Business Mixer Coordinator

2004-05-18T22:04:35Z

Our vision is creation of a monthly sustainability business mixer to bring together pioneers, visionaries, students and community to network, pool resources, share and learn from each other.

We have done a few successful events in the past, and have all information at hand.

We are looking for someone who'd be interested in spearheading this piece of the project (at least for next 6 months).

Your mission would be to ogranize and coordinate monthly mixer events for sustainable businesses in SF Bay Area (Speakers, Activities, Promotions, etc.)

We have done several events in the past, and will train you (if needed) and provide information on the logistics (space, food, contacts, etc), as well as pool of volunteers to support the project.

We estimate this to be a 10-12 hours/month committment.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please provide information about yourself as well as your interest and vision in SFUAS as well as this piece in particular.

You can email the bits to unite@sfuas.org

Peace

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Aikido Activism -- please consider and comment

2004-05-18T21:56:50Z

I've been working on the concept of taking activism from a position of relative economic weakness to relative economic strength. The idea is that if corporations wield such great power, why not cleverly co-opt them and transform their focus into more progressive, sustainable directions?

The point is not simply a more progressive service or product goal of the corporation, it is whole underlying capitalist philosophy, behavior and objective of the corporation.

Can a "for profit" corporation have activism as one of its primary goals? Sure, but few do. Imagine the different funding situation for progressive causes if more did?

Can a corporation embrace an entirely new model of Aikido Activism? Yes it can; but it will be helpful to consider and advance the concept, and to consider special cases such as IP Aikido Activism (using intellectual property exclusionary rights towards Aikido Activism rather than the traditional direction in which IP is applied -- maximizing profit, usually myopically to other social and environmental issues).

The essay on "Aikido Activism" is posted at the tribe by the same name ( http://aikidoactivism.tribe.net/ ), but please message me if you'd like an MSWord version with intact endnotes and graphics (these get lost cutting and pasting into Tribe).

And thanks SFUAS for your Cell Space event and for your other activities. I met a couple of you there, and hope to have a chance to get involved with you somehow.

Spidey

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Seeking 501.c.3 fiscal sponsor

2004-05-13T22:43:29Z

Does anyone have a contact with organization that can provide 'fiscal sponsorship' to another non-profit group?

Thanks,
D.

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Need a volunteer to do some typing work

2004-04-26T21:10:29Z

Hi, folks.
We are looking for someone to volunteer to enter the information from Earthday's Project Lottery into an excel file.
To be published as part of the project database on SFUAS site.
It shouldn't take more than 2 hours of work.

Let me know if anyone is up to it.

Thx,
Dima

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We need volunteers - Earthday April 22 @ Cellspace 6:30pm - 1am

2004-04-13T21:09:42Z

Hi everyone.
We are hosting the Earthday Mixer and Celebration @ Cellspace
on Thursday April 22 and we need volunteers to help
make snacks, setup, decorate, breakdown, etc.

If anyone is up for it, send me a message or email unite@sfuas.org

Here is a link to the flyer: http://www.sfuas.org/uas_flyer_eday.jpg

Ciao

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town squares

2004-03-11T09:06:46Z

in designing the city
hi i would like to say how great it is when the people can meet and be out in the street in a safe and healthy mannor...
here is a great exmaple:
http://www.mexicocity.com.mx/coyoa2.html
this is a great zocalo or town square in southern mexico city i had the pleasure of visiting some years ago... it was filled with people on the warm nights and a market place was happening...the people selling their crafts and things, with entertainment and joyful being.
here in oakland we have a few places like and i wonder if you need a permit to entertain or vend there...
in sf is union square and the civic center lawns sixteenth street bart and 24th

what a great communities we could enliven all over the world with cirqious love and play and enrich all of our lives by allowing the marketplaces to thrive once again...
it is also great when the natural water systems can be designed to flow through, the psychological benefits of flowing water are amazing...
bless

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eco-city magazine available

2004-02-20T05:53:25Z

hey sfuas!
i found a magaizine called eco-city which
was a project of Joel Cayford for some time
at is at
http://www.ecocitymagazine.com/space.htm
could this be of interest of sfuas to take on as a project?
he said:
Thanks for this. Yes - I ran out of energy for the site.
> Concentrating now on: www.watermagazine.com
> It was fun while it lasted. Ecocitymagazine - I'd like someone else
> to pick it up!

so it is available and perhaps could be of use...
everything about it could be the changed, but research and premise may remain...
a web-based thing?
no paper!
eco-web zine
sat nam
daisy

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