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Tax
Incentives, Grants, and Loans |
When it's tax time it's time
to save yourself some green. It might be a little late for
this 2007, but don't we all try to plan a little better for
next year!
The
Sierra Club has made it little easier to find
those tax incentives, grants, and loans that help save
energy by making it ore affordable. Dig
through this! |
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Announcing the End Junk Mail Campaign by
folks at the New American Dream.
Click for more, or rather hopefully, less: Junk
Mail Independence!
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This April 14th, thousands
will proclaim how they feel about our warming world. Politicians,
the media and the sceptical public need a true picture of
the collective passion.
Bioneer speaker and leading luminary Bill McKibben
is launching the campaign to action.
Visit: Step
It Up 2007 |
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Something a little more practical than our
normal feature, but it is the time of year to stock up on
supplies for the year.
TheGreenOffice.com is
an online retailer of nearly 40,000 office products, envisioning
an industry where human and ecological health are the sole
byproducts of operation. |
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Home
Ground: Language for an American Landscape
For Home
Ground: Language for an American Landscape writer
Barry Lopez brought together "forty-five poets and
writers from across the country to create more than 850
original definitions for terms like cutbank,
flatiron, yazoo, monadnock, gulch, birdfoot delta, detroit
riprap, and paternoster lakes."
The
result? A landmark work of language, geography, and folklore. |
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Do you like short films with a message?
In their a recent project, Media
That Matters offers a collection of shorts on food and
sustainability. Explore our food system and watch school
kids rap about fresh food. Media
that Matters- Good Food |
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Michigan
CSA Cycle Tour 2006
Michelle
Ferrarese and Marty Heller have been on their bicycles
since June when they left Ann Arbor Farmer's market to
visit as many Michigan CSA's as possible. They have kept
us posted with a blog and photos. They will also be presenting
at the Great Lakes BIONEERS Conference on October 20-22.
Visit
their tour site: CSA
Tour 2006 |
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The Water
Festival in Mackinaw City
August 19th: Here's the recipe: To make the
Water Festival happen, first we put together a big concert
with the finest and freshest of Great Lakes music... Then
we invite local grassroots non-profit water groups, local
leaders and folks from all over to discuss Great Lakes issues...
Learn more: Water
Festival
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Midwest
Social Forum: July 6-9th
Milwaukee will be host to Midwest
Social Forum 2006, an annual regional gathering of
grassroots organizations, community activists, artists,
workers, educators, students, and others committed to social
justice movement building. The Forum will take place at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union.
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Laughter Yoga
Workshops
2005 Conference goers were introduced to the
energy of Laughing
Yoga in the Sunday morning gathering. Presenter, Gail
Robinson, continues to practice & instruct the art of
purposeful laughter, holding workshops throughout the year.
Visit www.LaughingMatters.us to
learn more.
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Allied
Media Conference: June 23-25
"From Truth To Power...because being
right is not enough." The 2006 Allied
Media Conference. was held June 23-25, 2006 in Bowling
Green, Ohio. visit their web site to learn more and how you
can get involved. Michigan's independent media movement needs
contributors. In Traverse City, www.radioanyway.org. Or,
see long time Bioneer supporter, Grand Rapids Institute for
Information Democracy. www.griid.org
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Grand Traverse Bay-
Freezing by
Decades
(click for larger image) |
Season
Creep: Warming Climate in Michigan
Global Warming is changing Michigan. Click
through to Season
Creep for more information.
Bob Russell, of the Neahtawanta Center, wrote
about the findings in the Neahtawanta Center's newsletter, Gatherings.
Read it here: Contending
with Change (PDF) |
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2006 BIONEER
Plenary Releases New Book
Michael Pollan's new book, The
Omnivore's Dilemma, "follows industrial
food... from the source to the dinner plate."
Michael Pollan, is also the author of The
Botany of Desire and A Place of My Own, and
is a plenary speaker at this year's BIONEERS
Conference.
Interview: Here and
Pollan on Science Friday: Here
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BIONEERS Radio
Series: Revolution from the Heart of Nature
The Award winning BIONEERS Radio Series is
in its sixth
installment. It is Free to all radio stations-- please
encourage your local station to program the the radio Series.
Information for programming is available at: Free
to All Stations
As well, other BIONEER podcasts are available
for free subscription at: BIONEERS
Podcasts
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Water
Stories: Water affects everything
2005 Keynote speaker, Carl
Ganter, recently announced the release of Water
Stories- A multi-media exploration of the global & personal
impact water has on a full range of human conditions. Ganter
worked on the project through the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental
Change & Security Program. |
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Environmental
Literacy: Where We Are
The National Environmental Education & Training
Foundation 2005 report "Environmental
Literacy in America" is now available as a PDF download.
It is a poignant overview of environmental literacy in the
United States and shows that public comprehension complex environmental
subjects is very limited, & discusses the role of the media
in environmental education.
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Early
Signs: Reports from a Warming Planet
The radio program Living
on Earth is running a
current series of reports from places where global warming has
already brought change. From diminished polar ice to disappearing
equatorial glaciers. The series includes a focus on culture,
economics as well as the physical environment. Listen online
at: Early Signs |
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Reclaim
the Future: Green-Collar Jobs, Not Jails
"The path to peaceful streets and true community
safety is not more prisons, but ecologically sound economic development." The
crossroads are meeting in the current initiative by the Ella Baker
Center title: Reclaim
the Future.
Click here for a transcript & discussion guide:
The
Crossroads: Where the Hope Is (PDF) |
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Chiapas
Water Project
Launch
of the Chiapas
Water Project by a group of Northern Michigan
residents, has started the Chiapas Water Project that asks
a basic question; "How
much does it cost to supply a Mayan family in Chiapas with clean
running water?" Coming off of a successful campaign,
they are beginning to raise money for future water projects
in villages in Chiapas, Mexico.
Read a local article and
visit their Web site for more information: www.chiapaswaterproject.org |
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Permaculture
Talk & Workshop
on Edible Forest Gardening
Dave Jacke, of Edible
Forest Gardens, spoke at the Michigan Small Business
and Technology Development Center. "Gardening Like the
Forest: Home-Scale Ecological Food Production", followed
the next day with a workshop. This Great Lakes Bioneers
Conference Event
was sponsored by SEEDS and ISLAND
Dave Jacke's web site: www.edibleforestgardens.com |
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