Filmed on four continents, featuring esteemed scientists and working farmers and ranchers, Symphony of the Soil is an intriguing presentation that highlights the role of healthy soil in creating healthy planets that nurture healthy humans living on a healthy planet.
Film & Speaker Series: SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL
Filmed on four continents, featuring esteemed scientists and working farmers and ranchers, Symphony of the Soil is an intriguing presentation that highlights the role of healthy soil in creating healthy planets that nurture healthy humans living on a healthy planet.
Film & Speaker Series: TRASHED
TRASHED is a provocative investigation of the fastest growing industry in North America – the garbage business. Is there a better model? Actor Jeremy Irons guides us through both the problems and solutions.to pressing environmental problems.
Film & Speaker Series: TRASHED
TRASHED is a provocative investigation of the fastest growing industry in North America – the garbage business. Is there a better model? Actor Jeremy Irons guides us through both the problems and solutions.to pressing environmental problems.
July Garden Tips
Here are some tips for managing your garden as the July heat ramps up.
Save for next year: Mark the plants that you will be collecting seed from with ribbon or string. Choose the strongest, healthiest plants. For plants with delicate seeds, wrap cheesecloth around the seed pods to collect seeds before they disperse naturally.
Keep mulching! Continue to add wood chips or other mulch to retain moisture and regulate temperatures.
Get a Jump on Fall: Start or set out your starts for fall crops like cauliflower and broccoli, kale and bok choi.
Sow beans and late-season squash.
Start your beets, carrots, and chard.
Be patient: As hard as it is when the garden looks a little sparse, try to hold off installing new perennials, especially natives, until the fall.
Water first-season natives: Make sure newly-planted natives, even drought-tolerant ones, receive some supplemental water in this heat. Once established, these plants may need little to no supplemental water, but while they’re developing their root systems, they will need some help. Your efforts will be rewarded with tough, drought-tolerant plantings in the following years.
Community-Building and Resilient Living
The below resources are dedicated to creative and committed change towards resilient living
Thriving Resilience: http://thrivingresilience.org/
This website is a “connector” meta-network hub co-hosted by a collaborative of movement leaders, telling the story and weaving the collective wisdom of the field. It is intended to inspire and inform resilience change agents and to catalyze stronger coherence and collaboration within the North American meta-movement.
City Repair: http://www.cityrepair.org/
The City Repair Project is group of citizen activists creating public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the places where they live.
The Ecology Center: http://ecologycenter.org/
The Ecology Center is a 43-year-old nonprofit organization, located in Berkeley, California, that focuses on the environmental impacts of urban residents. We address issues through educating, creating community momentum, building infrastructure to make change easy, and spreading positive solutions through convening and advocacy. Our core issues include waste and consumerism, food and farming, climate change prevention and resiliency, and sustainable living. – See more at: http://ecologycenter.org/about/#sthash.RUGz5lhy.dpuf
Bay Localize: http://www.baylocalize.org/
Bay Localize inspires and supports community leaders in building equitable, resilient communities. We confront the challenges of climate instability, rising energy costs, and recession by boosting regional capacity to provide for everyone’s needs, sustainably and equitably. We achieve this by equipping local leaders with flexible tools, models, and policies that strengthen their communities.