Sustainable Neighborhoods Gatherings

December 4, 2008:

Old Louisville Sustainable Neighborhood Organizing Potluck
6 PM Thursday, December 4th, 2008
1274 S Floyd, #2, Louisville, KY, USA 40208

Gathering to meet folks interested in organizing sustainable neighborhoods associations in Louisville, particularly in the Old Louisville area.

For more information call 502 432 7690 or email eternal3rdparty AT yahoo.com

Here is the Agenda from the first Old Louisville Neighborhood Potluck - Feel free to use this and other materials from this website ( www.sustainableneighborhoods.blogspot.com ) and resource list in building your own sustainable neighborhood or ecovillage group.

Agenda For Old Louisville Sustainable Neighborhood Organizing Meeting
Tuesday, December 4, 2008

Neighborhood Sustainability With Process in Mind

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www.sustainableneighborhoods.blogspot.com

Welcome
Introductions
Name, Neighborhood - Sustainable Idea or Project
Ecovillages and Sustainable Neighborhoods - Quick Overview

What is a Sustainable Neighborhood?
Discussion

Ideas
Ecovillages
Neighborhood Democracy
Living Machines
Placed Based Sustainable Neighborhoods Groups
Green Mapping
Urban Gardens and Urban Ecology
Neighborhood Ecology Tours
Cooperatives and other forms of organizations
Demonstration sites

Networking
Where do we go from here?
People and Places - Including our neighbors
Sister Neighborhoods
Building the Green Institute and other support systems

Next?
The long now
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The initial action outcomes from the December 4 meeting include:

1) Confirmed the organization of the Old Louisville Green Neighborhood Group
2) Scheduled next potluck and meeting for 6 pm, Tuesday, January 8, 2009 at 1370 S Third St, Louisville, KY, USA 40204
3) Started an Ecovillage Design Education ( http://gaiaeducation.org ) action / learning project for the neighborhood
4) Began exploring alternative currency, cooperative, and other neighborhood sustainable economics models
5) Formed a Living Machines working group ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_machines ) aimed at providing demo units in neighborhoods throughout the region.
6) Started a community communications project with notes and documentation from Old Louisville Green going towards powerpoint, web and other media outreach for the January meeting.
7) Confirmed interest in Green Institute neighborhood training, Green Convene networking and Sustainable Louisville community organizing.
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December 8, 2008:

Ever Green - Sustainable Neighborhood Organizing Meeting -
Clifton/Crescent Hill/Clifton Heights Neighborhoods network
Monday December 8th @7pm

Location:

Earthenirvana
2132 Frankfort Ave.
Louisville, KY 40206
Located on Frankfort Avenue right behind the Bike Couriers Bike Shop. Where the railroad tracks cross Frankfort. We face the Clifton Center
(502) 690-4224

RSVP: earthenirvana AT gmail.com
More info: http://www.earthenirvana.com/menu.htmlLink
Here are informal notes from the last meeting: The November Ever Green meeting was a great success, filling the conference room at Earthenirvana to overflowing with neighborhood activists who share a common commitment to sustainability in these neighborhoods that cover the major watersheds above the Butchertown confluence of Beargrass Creek.

Neighbors at the meeting committed to establishing sidewalk recycling bins on Frankfort Ave., and to exploring the use of green maps as tools for everyone in the neighborhood to participate in neighborhood planning and action for sustainability. Matt Martin of Earthenirvana committed to placing the first few bins, Pat Brinson will be following up with contacting Metro Council, and David Silverman will be working on sustainable community maps for the next meeting.

Many other ideas were discussed, from the need for open and inclusive self organizing rather than more traditional forms as a model for Ever Green, to actions neighbors can undertake now, such as orcharding, edible landscaping, shared composting, co-op housing beekeeper training, solar retrofit, energy efficiency improvements and so on, to those activites which will require political commitment and longer term planning, such as light rail and more. Another action emerging from the meeting is to followup on the Community Ecology model for total recycling developed this winter, with members of FABA (Frankfort Av. Business Association) and SBCN (Sustainable Business and Community Networks) taking the lead.

Neighbors will continue to meet and take steps towards sustainability, to be further developed into action items in coming weeks.
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December 9, 2008

Highlands Green Sustainable Neighborhoods Organizing Network Meeting
Louisville, KY USA

5:30 - 7 PM Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Ray's Monkey House
1578 Bardstown Road, Louisville,, KY USA 40204
502 459 4373

The Potluck will be followed by a meeting of the Green Convene -- Neighbors are invited to stay for that gathering and for the bluegrass jam later that night.

Contact: Josh Wilcox, 860 358 1283 or Lisa Carlon Underhill, enviroecoculture@bellsouth.net

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6 pm Saturday, December 13 , 2008

Eastern Jefferson County and Oldham County Gathering: Pee Wee Valley Green - Sustainable Neighborhood Organizing Meeting / Potluck

212 Elm Ave,
Pee Wee Valley KY 40056
Contact: Angela Kortz Funke, 502 241 4631 / 502 241 8250, kortzfunkeatty@cs.com

A holiday potluck on greening our neighborhood and community -- What you can offer, what the community can do.

Bring your stories of what you are doing or would like to do to green your household or business, and ideas for the neighborhood. Bring examples, photographs, drawing - what you're doing, what you'd like to share.

We'll have good food and good conversation, with examples and ideas from:

Sustainable Louisville Working Group - Greening neighborhoods and growing ecovillages

Kim Robertson, LMT - Massage therapy and accupressure for self care; Starting winter gardens.

Grace Koenig - Realtor, Co-Founder, Amazing Grace Natural Food Store - Growing sustainable business and living green

Philip ? - Building your own biomass stove for home heating

Others invited - Have something to share? RSVP to Angela Kortz Funke, 502 241 4631 / 502 241 8250, kortzfunkeatty@cs.com
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December, 2008 TBA
Park DuValle Sustainable Neighborhood Organizing Meeting
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December, 2008 TBA
Smoketown Green - Sustainable Neighborhood Organizing Meeting
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December, 2008 TBA
Butchertown Green - Sustainable Neighborhood Organizing Meeting
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December, 2008 TBA
Germantown Green - Sustainable Neighborhood Organizing Meeting
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December, 2008 TBA
Portland Green - Sustainable Neighborhood Organizing Meeting
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January, 2008, TBA:
St. Catherine Street Neighborhood Association Sustainability Committee
Louisville, KY, USA
Contact: Steve Sizemore, 502 290 7623
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January, 2008 TBA
Sustainable Neighborhoods Organizing Workshop
Louisville Free Public Library, Main Branch
Fourth and York Streets
Louisville, KY, USA

Contact: Brent Tennel 502 619 4352
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Sustainable Neighborhoods Organizing Workshop Sunday, November 16, 2008

The November Sustainable Neighborhoods Organizing Workshop was a great success, despite the cold, and future events are now being planned (see the description below).

Thanks to the Brickhouse for hosting and organizing the event, and to the 40 plus people from all over Louisville who braved the cold to come together to learn from each other how we can organize sustainable neighborhood networks that work for our community and the planet.

The raw footage from the event has been posted at the Brickhouse site, and we look forward to making more of the event proceedings and outcomes available in time through the Adena Center.


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Here's the original announcement for the workshop:


WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY AND HOW DO WE GET THERE?

NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY WITH PROCESS IN MIND.
The Brick House community center, in conjunction with the Adena Institute and other community partners and organizations, is hosting a workshop on neighborhood sustainability and urban ecovillage organizing

Sunday, November 16th
2 - 5 pm
@ The Brick House
1101 S. 2nd Street
Louisville, Ky
40208

John Baker, Clifton Community Council
Mark Isaacs, AIA, Legacy Homes (invited)
John Gilderbloom, Ph.D., Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods, University of Louisville
Doug Lowery, Beechmont Neighborood
Shameka Parrish-Wright, Community Activist, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
David W. Silverman, Executive Director, Adena Institute
Jack Trawick, APA, Executive Director, Center for Neighborhoods
Kelly Thompson, Metro United Way (invited)

(Organizational Info for Identification)


About the workshop:

We are moving towards ecological societies, with great opportunities to build a positive future:

Neighborhood democracy, renewable energy, real economic development, sustainable businesses, healthy local food, stronger families and social connections, and ways to act locally and globally everyday for a world that works for everyone.

  • What are your challenges in greening your neighborhood?
  • How are you and your neighbors crafting neighborhood sustainability?
  • How do we create urban ecovillages now?
    This is an action-learning workshop, so we will have an opportunity to collaborate on real issues in Louisville neighborhoods. Participants will have the opportunity to work in groups on sustainability organizing and urban ecovillage planning for your block or neighborhood.

The workshop will highlight sustainability theory and organizing strategies, with brief case studies from Louisville and around the world, exploring the following questions and opportunities for action:

  • How have successful sustainable community organizers changed their neighborhoods for the better?
  • What are the challenges raised by the transition to sustainable societies?
  • How does sustainability organizing differ from and connect with traditional neighborhood organizing?
  • How do neighborhood ecovillages grow?
  • How do we measure our sustainability successes and failures?
  • How do we collaborate effectively and keep learning and action moving forward?
  • What resources are available to support neighborhoods moving towards sustainability?

Not only is this a discussion, it is a forum for all those who are interested, as well as a springboard for project-oriented groups to come together and actually achieve realistic goals.


Please attend, bring a friend or colleague, forward this announcement, and join us in exploring how to support community efforts to green our neighborhoods.

Free and open to the public.

Donations Welcome! Donations to the Sustainable Neighborhoods Workshop will go to support the sustainability efforts of Brickhouse and the Adena Institute.

Correction: Please note that the Center for Neighborhoods is not a formal sponsor of the event, as early fliers indicated.
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