Green Calgary

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: Sustainable Gift Giving

Event Date(s): Tuesday November 20, 2012 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

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All Healthy Homes Sustainability Series events are fundraisers for the Healthy Homes program. When you purchase tickets you not only help us continue the work of the program, but you get to take home some fantastic information! We thank you for your support. 

Contact Info

If you want to be contacted when details and tickets are available, please put the name of the event into the subject line of an email and send it to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Location

TBD

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: Winterizing the Home

Event Date(s): Tuesday October 16, 2012 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

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All Healthy Homes Sustainability Series events are fundraisers for the Healthy Homes program. When you purchase tickets you not only help us continue the work of the program, but you get to take home some fantastic information! We thank you for your support. 

Contact Info

If you want to be contacted when details and tickets are available, please put the name of the event into the subject line of an email and send it to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Location

TBD

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: The Lost Art of Canning

Event Date(s): Saturday & Sunday in September 2012

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All Healthy Homes Sustainability Series events are fundraisers for the Healthy Homes program. When you purchase tickets you not only help us continue the work of the program, but you get to take home some fantastic information! We thank you for your support. 

Contact Info

If you want to be contacted when details and tickets are available, please put the name of the event into the subject line of an email and send it to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Location

TBD

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: Plant Forage and Lunch

Event Date(s): Saturday June 9th

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All Healthy Homes Sustainability Series events are fundraisers for the Healthy Homes program. When you purchase tickets you not only help us continue the work of the program, but you get to take home some fantastic information! We thank you for your support. 

Contact Info

If you want to be contacted when details and tickets are available, please put the name of the event into the subject line of an email and send it to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Location

TBD

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: Permaculture, Small Space Gardening and more…

Event Date(s): Tuesday May 15, 2012 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

SAVE THE DATE! More details to follow soon…

All Healthy Homes Sustainability Series events are fundraisers for the Healthy Homes program. When you purchase tickets you not only help us continue the work of the program, but you get to take home some fantastic information! We thank you for your support. 

Contact Info

If you want to be contacted when details and tickets are available, please put the name of the event into the subject line of an email and send it to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Location

Hillhurst United Church
1227 Kensington Close, N.W
Calgary, Alberta T2N 3J6

Sustainability Book Club - Agile City, James Russell

Event Date(s): Wednesday, May 9, 2012 @ 6:00–7:30 pm

From Fall to Spring, join the discussion of new and groundbreaking titles. Sponsored by Pages Bookstore, Sustainable Calgary, The Arusha Centre, EcoLiving Events, Green Calgary and Thrive.

THIS MONTH’S BOOK:

Agile City, James Russell

Contact Info

403-283-6655

Location

Pages Books, 1135 Kensington Road NW

Books Available at Pages, accepting 25% Calgary Dollars

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: Spring Cleaning - Tips and Tools from the Experts

Event Date(s): Tuesday April 17, 2012 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

SAVE THE DATE! More details to follow soon…

All Healthy Homes Sustainability Series events are fundraisers for the Healthy Homes program. When you purchase tickets you not only help us continue the work of the program, but you get to take home some fantastic information! We thank you for your support. 

Contact Info

If you want to be contacted when details and tickets are available, please put the name of the event into the subject line of an email and send it to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Location

Hillhurst United Church
1227 Kensington Close, N.W
Calgary, Alberta T2N 3J6

The 2012 Garden Show at Spruce Meadows

Event Date(s): Saturday April 14th and Sunday April 15th

A weekend packed with things to see, do, learn, smell and grow! This annual event brings together over 10,000+ gardening and outdoor living enthusiasts complete with vendors, speakers from across Canada, local gardening experts, hands-on activities, how to clinic demonstrations and more!

Featured Speakers:           

SATURDAY -  April 14th

Annelise Doolaege - Tropicana on the Prairies

Bob Bors - Top Secret Propagation Tips

June Flanagan - Edible Plants for the Prairies

Bob Bors - Favourite and Future Fruits

SUNDAY -  April 15th

Brian Minter - Taking Our Gardens to the Next Level

Rob Sproule - Edible Container Gardens

Mike Byland - The Modern Garden

Contact Info

For tickets and details please click HERE

Location

Spruce Meadows

Sustainability Book Club - Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food, Wendel Berry

Event Date(s): Wednesday, April 11, 2012 @ 6:00–7:30 pm

From Fall to Spring, join the discussion of new and groundbreaking titles. Sponsored by Pages Bookstore, Sustainable Calgary, The Arusha Centre, EcoLiving Events, Green Calgary and Thrive.

THIS MONTH’S BOOK:

Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food, Wendel Berry

Contact Info

403-283-6655

Location

Pages Books, 1135 Kensington Road NW

Books Available at Pages, accepting 25% Calgary Dollars.

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: Organic Veggie Gardening for Beginners

Event Date(s): Tuesday March 20, 2012 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Planning your first vegetable garden this summer and wondering about how to get started?

Green Calgary’s Healthy Homes program has teamed up with Kathleen Van Ihinger from Harmonic Herbs Farm to bring you an evening of Organic Veggie Gardening for Beginners.

Learn about choosing seeds, planting, site and soil preparation, and about vegetable varieties that thrive in Calgary.

Kathleen is co-owner of Harmonic Herbs Farm where she strives to grow and raise the majority of her family’s food organically on 12 acres in central Alberta. Harmonic Herbs provides open-pollinated, short-seasoned seeds and niche herbal teas for Albertans. Kathleen is former Acting Director of Green Calgary and former Cooking Class Director and Buyer for Community Natural Foods.

We know Kathleen’s passion for plants and enthusiasm for all things seedy will leave you feeling inspired!

Where: Hillhurst United Church, 1227 Kensington Close N.W.

When: Tuesday March 20 from 7pm to 9pm

Tickets: $10 for Green Calgary Members, $15 for General Admission.

Click HERE to register.

All Healthy Homes Sustainability Series events are fundraisers for the Healthy Homes program. When you purchase tickets you not only help us continue the work of the program, but you get to take home some fantastic information! We thank you for your support. 

Contact Info

If you want to be contacted when details and tickets are available, please put the name of the event into the subject line of an email and send it to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Location

Hillhurst United Church
1227 Kensington Close, N.W
Calgary, Alberta T2N 3J6

Seedy Saturday March 17th 2012

Event Date(s): Saturday March 17th 2012

Put this in your calendar! The 2012 Seedy Saturday will be held on March 17th 2012. Please check out this website regularly for more details or to volunteer!

Calgary Seedy Saturday

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Sustainability Book Club -Trouble with Billionares, Linda McQuaig

Event Date(s): Wednesday, March 14, 2012 @ 6:00–7:30 pm

From Fall to Spring, join the discussion of new and groundbreaking titles. Sponsored by Pages Bookstore, Sustainable Calgary, The Arusha Centre, EcoLiving Events, Green Calgary and Thrive.

THIS MONTH’S BOOK:

Trouble with Billionares, Linda McQuaig

Contact Info

403-283-6655

Location

Pages Books, 1135 Kensington Road NW

Books Available at Pages, accepting 25% Calgary Dollars.

Level 1 Beekeeping Course- Calgary

Event Date(s): Saturday March 10th and Sunday March 11th, 2012

A.B.C is pleased to offer a Level One Beekeeping Certificate for hobbiest beekeepers in an urban and rural setting. The 16 hour intensive program will offer everything you need to know to begin beekeeping. The course is taught by Patty Milligan of Lola Canola Honey in Bon Accord, AB. Her experience as a small scale beekeeper over the last decade has stemmed a fountain of information on the practice of beekeeping. Course includes textbook and resources.

Bring a note book, and pen!

Contact Info

Cost: $280.00 available HERE

Location

TBA

Colony Collapse Disorder or Human Collapse Disorder?

Event Date(s): Saturday, March 3, 2011

Want to know more about the challenges facing honeybee populations locally and globally? This presentation will review industrial practices of beekeeping and the impacts of these actions on the honeybees.

Many people are aware of the impacts of industrialized farming tactics and its impacts on the quality of food that we are eating, but do you know its impacts on honeybees? The Presentation Colony Collapse Disorder or Human Collapse Disorder will take a look at industrial practices of beekeeping and the adverse effects it is having on honeybee health and survival. We will also examine the controversial issue of scientific research and the search for a cure for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and agrichemical funding supporting this research. We will also go over the movements taking place in Europe and here in Calgary to combat these problems and hope for the future!

Contact Info

Tickets are $15 in advance HERE, or $20 at the door. Refreshments will be served after the presentation

Location

Calgary Canoe Club, 6449 Crowchild Tr SW

Kirkobeeo to Come to Alberta- 2012

Event Date(s): March 2012 - Date TBD

A.B.C is bringing Kirk Anderson, a.k.a Kirkobeeo, to Alberta in March 2012! With keynote speaking engagements in the works for Calgary, Red Deer, and Edmonton, you will be able to hear whats happening in urban beekeeping from the metropolis of Los Angeles! Kirk is the founder of Backwards Beekeepers (arguably one of the largest communities of urban beekeepers in North America) and a passionate and innovative caretaker of honeybees!

Kirks Bio

Kirkobeeo started beekeeping in 1970 in Utah. He ordered his first package of bees from the Montgomery Ward catalogue. Since then, he’s had beehives intermittently, but he always “loved those bugs!”

In 1999, Kirk got the bee fever again. Since he now lived in Los Angeles in an apartment with no yard, he had to find a spot for a beehive. He located a nearby community garden and put a beehive in it. He discovered that beekeeping had gotten complicated since he last had beehives. It was expected that all sorts of chemicals and medications had to be put in beehives to handle mites and such. He disagreed with this idea. He knew it was much better to let the bees be bees. He researched beekeeping and found the writings of Charles Martin Simon, who talked about beekeeping backwards and small cell honeycombs. He also found Michael Bush and Dee Lusby, who practiced this same sort of beekeeping. He began handling his hives using these concepts. He had a couple of hives in the community garden, but he needed more room so he could start more hives. He borrowed a bright idea, put up a website and posted that he needed people to “sponsor a beehive” in their backyard. To his surprise, not only did he get sponsors, he also got people who said, “We don’t want to sponsor a hive, we want to become beekeepers!”

He began teaching others small cell, backwards beekeeping. These new beekeepers formed the group Backwards Beekeepers and started a Backwards Beekeepers Yahoo! group (which now has 650 members). Backwards Beekeepers in the LA area now number in the hundreds. Beekeepers in other parts of the country are also becoming Backwards Beekeepers. Currently, Kirk mentors new beekeepers, tends his 25 beehives and sells chemical-free honey whenever his bees supply it.

Contact Info

More details and ticket info will be posted HERE

Location

TBD

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: Your Green Baby- Creating a Healthy Nursery….

Event Date(s): Tuesday February 21, 2012 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Are you expecting or have a young baby? Interested in sustainable, healthy options for babyhood? Join experts Lindsay Ross from Babes in Arms and Riva Mackie from Riva’s The Ecostore as they discuss all things green baby.

Wondering about cloth diapering or babywearing? Get started with Lindsay Ross’ engaging and informative talk on babywearing basics, and find out why most of what you’ve been told about cloth diapering is incorrect! With Lindsay’s guidance you will have a chance to interact with the different cloth diapering and babywearing systems to find out which one is right for you.

Have you been reading about the toxicity of mattresses and cribs? Wondering about which paint to use in the nursery? Riva will help participants of this workshop navigate the ins and outs of creating a green nursery. Samples of sustainable materials will be available to help you get started right away!

Where: Hillhurst United Church, 1227 Kensington Close N.W.

Tickets: $10 for Green Calgary Members, $15 for General Admission.

Click HERE to register.

Contact Info

Location

Hillhurst United Church
1227 Kensington Close, N.W
Calgary, Alberta T2N 3J6

Level One Beekeeping Certificate- Calgary

Event Date(s): Saturday February 11th and Sunday February 12th, 2012

A.B.C is pleased to offer a Level One Beekeeping Certificate for hobbyist beekeepers in an urban and rural setting. The 16 hour intensive program will offer everything you need to know to begin beekeeping. The course is taught by Patty Milligan of Lola Canola Honey in Bon Accord, AB. Her experience as a small scale beekeeper over the last decade has stemmed a fountain of information on the practice of beekeeping. Course includes textbook, resources, hot lunch and snacks.

Contact Info

Cost: $280.00 purchased HERE

A.B.C is now accepting 25% of the cost in Calgary Dollars! Please e-mail me if you are interested in using the local currancy! Check out http://www.calgarydollars.ca for more information. Please bring a pen and a notebook. Lunch, snacks coffee and tea are included

Location

TBA