Green Calgary

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: Sustainable Gift Giving

Event Date(s): Tuesday November 20, 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

TBD

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: Winterizing the Home

Event Date(s): Tuesday October 16, 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

TBD

Green Calgary Community Rain Barrel & Composter Event - First Calgary Financial, Signal Hill Branch

Event Date(s): Saturday September 15, 2012 - 9am - 1pm

We are excited about our new format events for 2012.  The City of Calgary Water Services and First Calgary Financial have generously provided sponsorship which will enable us to stage a series of Community events this year.  Here’s what we’ll have to offer this spring and summer: • 10 community events and a one day truckload event (April-September) • Subsidized prices on all rain barrels and composters • A new “Tandem Barrel” that will make hooking up multiple barrels as easy as can be! • Experts on hand to give you the best advice in installing and using your products • Barrelman staff on site to custom fit your new barrel, or repair an old one • Prepay in advance, or pay on the day of sale.  Watch for details in mid-March. Click HERE for more sale dates and locations

Contact Info

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Location

First Calgary Financial
Signal Hill Branch
5732 Signal Hill Centre SW
9am - 1pm

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: The Lost Art of Canning

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

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

TBD

Green Calgary Community Rain Barrel and Composter Event - First Calgary Financial, Shawnessy Branch

Event Date(s): Saturday August 18, 2012 - 9am - 1pm

We are excited about our new format events for 2012.  The City of Calgary Water Services and First Calgary Financial have generously provided sponsorship which will enable us to stage a series of Community events this year.  Here’s what we’ll have to offer this spring and summer: • 10 community events and a one day truckload event (April-September) • Subsidized prices on all rain barrels and composters • A new “Tandem Barrel” that will make hooking up multiple barrels as easy as can be! • Experts on hand to give you the best advice in installing and using your products • Barrelman staff on site to custom fit your new barrel, or repair an old one • Prepay in advance, or pay on the day of sale.  Watch for details in mid-March. Click HERE for more sale dates and locations

Contact Info

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Location

First Calgary Financial
Shawnessy Branch
110 - 70 Shawville Blvd, SW
9am - 1pm

Green Calgary Community Rain Barrel and Composter Event - First Calgary Financial, Beddington Branch

Event Date(s): Saturday August 11, 2012 - 9am - 1pm

We are excited about our new format events for 2012.  The City of Calgary Water Services and First Calgary Financial have generously provided sponsorship which will enable us to stage a series of Community events this year.  Here’s what we’ll have to offer this spring and summer: • 10 community events and a one day truckload event (April-September) • Subsidized prices on all rain barrels and composters • A new “Tandem Barrel” that will make hooking up multiple barrels as easy as can be! • Experts on hand to give you the best advice in installing and using your products • Barrelman staff on site to custom fit your new barrel, or repair an old one • Prepay in advance, or pay on the day of sale.  Watch for details in mid-March. Click HERE for more sale dates and locations

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Location

First Calgary Financial
Beddington Branch
8220 Centre Street N
9am - 1pm

Level One Beekeeping Course Get your hands in a hive!

Event Date(s): June 23th and 24th

Oh wow! Here we go again!

Year 3 of A.B.C’s Beginners Beekeeping Workshops and we are offering our first summer offering, with a hands-on beekeeping component oon June 23rd and 24th!  We are going to be having the course at Calgary’s own urban farm, The AREA, this year. In June, Eliese Watson will be teaching you everything you need to know about honeybees, their health, urban management practices and seasonal care!

Eliese has been beekeeping all over North America, mentoring with Corwin Bell in Colorado and Sam Comfort in upstate New York (not to mention some bees on rooftops of NYC), and is a passionate and well-versed beekeeper for top-bar hive and warre management. Plus, with the development of The Communtiy Hive, we are gaining more ground for you to access swarmed bees and find mentors and new beekeeper eager for helpers!

Register ASAP! the courses fill up fast, and you dont want to miss this one! The course comes with full snacks and hot organic lunches (with dietary concerns respected and made primarily with local food) as well as Beekeeping in Western Canada text book ($30 value).  Click here to register!

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Location

Green Calgary Community Rain Barrel and Composter Event - First Calgary Financial, Northgate Branch

Event Date(s): Saturday July 21, 2012 - 9am - 1pm

We are excited about our new format events for 2012.  The City of Calgary Water Services and First Calgary Financial have generously provided sponsorship which will enable us to stage a series of Community events this year.  Here’s what we’ll have to offer this spring and summer: • 10 community events and a one day truckload event (April-September) • Subsidized prices on all rain barrels and composters • A new “Tandem Barrel” that will make hooking up multiple barrels as easy as can be! • Experts on hand to give you the best advice in installing and using your products • Barrelman staff on site to custom fit your new barrel, or repair an old one • Prepay in advance, or pay on the day of sale.  Watch for details in mid-March. Click HERE for more sale dates and locations

Contact Info

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Location

First Calgary Financial
Borthgate Branch
455- 36th Street NE
9am - 1pm

A.B.C’s Open House and Potluck Come and see the bees!

Event Date(s): June 16th, 2012 Time: 12-4pm

As you may know, the honeybees from the Community Hive Collab. Purchase come in May 13th, 2012. So, about a month after their arrival, I am offering a chance to see how they are doing!

On June 16th, 2012 from 12-4pm, Eliese Watson and A.B.C will be offering open house to come and view the bees, ask questions, and maybe do some hive manipulations with both Top Bar and Langstroth hives, like adding supers, maybe making a split, or observing queen cells. A.B.C has extra hats and veils, so come out and see the bees fly around and learn a bit more about how to keep bees in the city of Calgary!!

Register here

Cost: $15
Location: The AREA, 1119 10 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 0S8

This is a potluck event, so please bring something to share! There will be heaps of honey to try and maybe some mead to sample!
Note: Please bring a long sleeved white shirt, and some plastic dishwashing gloves if you would like your hands covered when handling bees, but that is not necessary as the bees are gentle as can bee!

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Location

Green Calgary Community Rain Barrel and Composter Event -First Calgary Financial Business Solutions

Event Date(s): Saturday June 16, 2012 - 9am - 1pm

We are excited about our new format events for 2012.  The City of Calgary Water Services and First Calgary Financial have generously provided sponsorship which will enable us to stage a series of Community events this year.  Here’s what we’ll have to offer this spring and summer: • 10 community events and a one day truckload event (April-September) • Subsidized prices on all rain barrels and composters • A new “Tandem Barrel” that will make hooking up multiple barrels as easy as can be! • Experts on hand to give you the best advice in installing and using your products • Barrelman staff on site to custom fit your new barrel, or repair an old one • Prepay in advance, or pay on the day of sale.  Watch for details in mid-March. Click HERE for more sale dates and locations

Contact Info

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Location

First Calgary Financial
Business Solutions
830 - 1st Ave NE
9am - 1pm

Queen Rearing Workshop 2012 Bill Stagg comes to YYC in June!

Event Date(s): Saturday June 16 and Sunday June 17 / 9am to 5pm each day

2011s Queen Rearinq workshop was a blast! Taught by Sam Comfort of Anarchy Apiaries, NY, the course was hands on and informative. This year we hope to offer the same great program but this time, taught by Bill Stagg of Sweetacre Apiaries BC. Not only is Bill the beekeeper that the Community Hive Collaborative Purchase receives its bees from but, Bill has a lot of beekeeping know-how! Bill has spent three years working for different commercial beekeeping operations, pollinating crops in the North Okanagan and the Fraser Valley and has also worked for a stock producer raising and selling queen bees and nucleus colonies. Bill then successfully completed the Bee Masters short course at SFU and the John Gates ‘Queen Rearing Course’. Shortly thereafter Bill took on employment with the Ministry of Agriculture as the local bee inspector for the Shuswap area.

Here is the outline for A.B.C’s Queen Rearing Course 2012: The purpose of this course is to develop competency and to educate hobby beekeepers in the art of rearing quality Honey Bee Queens for personal use or for sale. Click here if you would like to see the course outline and register!

Contact Info

Location

When: June 16-17th
Time: 9:00-5:00pm
Cost: $225.00
Where: Chiron Farms Calgary

Healthy Homes Sustainability Series Presents: Plant Forage and Lunch

Event Date(s): Saturday June 9th Edworthy Park walk) and Hillhurst United Church kitchen (lunch) 10AM to 2:30pm

Join Green Calgary and Julie Walker of Full Circle Adventures for a plant identification walk and cooking class! What we commonly think of as “weeds” often have considerable nutritional and medicinal benefits, and could play a larger role in fortifying our diets with tasty, very local foods (many of them can be found in our own backyard).

Julie will help us learn to identify some of these valuable plants at Edworthy Park (we’ll meet on the north side of the bridge beside the Angels Cafe 4105 Montgomery View NW), and afterward we will gather together at the Hillhurst United Church kitchen to cook up and enjoy our bounty. 

This class has VERY limited capacity - only 14 tickets will be sold. Please register early to ensure your spot.

Tickets: $60 General Admission / $50 Green Calgary Members / All tickets include lunch Tickets available in advance only through Eventbrite http://rethinkyourweeds2012.eventbrite.com/

Contact Info

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Location

WALK: Edworthy Park - Meeting Spot at Angels Cafe 4105 Montgomery View Northwest
LUNCH: Hillhurst United Church, 1227 Kensington Close, N.W

Green Calgary Community Rain Barrel and Composter Event - First Calgary Financial, Oakridge Branch

Event Date(s): Saturday June 9, 2012 - 9am - 1pm

We are excited about our new format events for 2012.  The City of Calgary Water Services and First Calgary Financial have generously provided sponsorship which will enable us to stage a series of Community events this year.  Here’s what we’ll have to offer this spring and summer: • 10 community events and a one day truckload event (April-September) • Subsidized prices on all rain barrels and composters • A new “Tandem Barrel” that will make hooking up multiple barrels as easy as can be! • Experts on hand to give you the best advice in installing and using your products • Barrelman staff on site to custom fit your new barrel, or repair an old one • Prepay in advance, or pay on the day of sale.  Watch for details in mid-March. Click HERE for more sale dates and locations

Contact Info

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Location

First Calgary Financial, Oakridge Branch
70 - 2580 Southland Drive SW
9am - 1pm

Green Calgary Community Rain Barrel & Composter Event - First Calgary Financial, Transcanada Branch

Event Date(s): Saturday June 2, 2012 - 9am - 1pm

We are excited about our new format events for 2012.  The City of Calgary Water Services and First Calgary Financial have generously provided sponsorship which will enable us to stage a series of Community events this year. 

Here’s what we’ll have to offer this spring and summer:
• 10 community events and a one day truckload event (April-September)
• Subsidized prices on all rain barrels and composters
• A new “Tandem Barrel” that will make hooking up multiple barrels as easy as can be!
• Experts on hand to give you the best advice in installing and using your products
• Barrelman staff on site to custom fit your new barrel, or repair an old one
• Prepay in advance, or pay on the day of sale.  Watch for details in mid-March.

Click HERE for more sale dates and locations

Contact Info

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Location

First Calgary Financial, Transcanada Branch
510 - 16th Ave NE
9am - 1pm

Permaculture Design with Adrian Buckley from Big Sky Permaculture

Event Date(s): Thursday May 31st, 2012. 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Community Natural Foods Presents:  Permaculture Design with Adrian Buckley from Big Sky Permaculture

Join Adrian Buckley of Big Sky Permaculture for a one-hour talk on permaculture design! Permaculture is a completely solutions-orientated design science approach to creating every facet of sustainable human settlement. Discover your untapped potential for creating immense positive change starting at your back door!

Contact Info

www.communitynaturalfoods.com

Location

Community Natural Foods
10th Avenue Market and Café

ARUSHA Presents: Meet Author and Activist Judy Rebick

Event Date(s): 7pm, Tues. May 29, 2012. Doors open at 6.30pm

Judy Rebick’s new ebook: “OCCUPY THIS!” Book Launch

Judy Rebick is a long-time feminist and social justice activist who recently held the CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University. She is the author of Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political (Penguin 2009) and founder of Rabble.ca. During the 1990s, Judy was the co-host of the national TV Show Newsworld on CBC. 

COME AND JOIN ARUSHA for an evening of interactive dialogue with Judy Rebick around the issues of her new ebook, ‘Occupy This!’

“The Occupy movement says there’s no democracy when a tiny elite has so much power and the vast majority are struggling to survive. We have to change the system. Top to bottom.” ~  An excerpt from “Occupy This!”

Contact Info

Location

Common Room in the Old Y Building #223 - 12th Ave SW Calgary

Run for Biodiversity! Help us Run WILD for Food and Farmers in 2012!

Event Date(s): Sunday May 27, 2012

Are you a Runner or a Walker?

Are you looking for a way to have some healthy fun with family or friends, and make a contribution to a cause you believe in? Then, we may have just the right thing for you! We’re looking for runners and walkers to Run for Biodiversity in the Scotiabank Calgary Marathon, half marathon, 10 km, 5km or kids marathon.

  * All R4B-Calgary runners and walkers who commit to raising $100 will receive a specially-designed Run for Biodiversity T-shirt in appreciation for their fundraising efforts. 
  * As a special thank you, the first 10 R4B-Calgary participants will be registered for free!

Where will Donations go?
All donations will go to support USC’s work in Nepal. Our R4B-Calgary goal is to raise $5,000 to support the community-based agricultural, biodiversity and environmental initiatives of our local partner, the Self-Help Initiatives Program (SHIP).

SHIP is working in extremely challenging conditions, helping farming families to survive and thrive in the remote Himalayan district of Humla, a 20-day’s walk to the nearest road!

Why Run for Biodiversity?
On May 22, USC Canada joins millions of people around the world in celebrating International Biodiversity Day. Biodiversity is all about food and farmers. It’s the earth’s life-support system, and nature’s brilliant insurance policy against disaster. If something fails, there’s a back-up plan: Biodiversity! Much is at stake for us all, and in a real sense, USC is helping farmers plant the Seeds of our very Survival

Thanks for Making a Difference!
Thanks to your generous support, USC Canada is able to help Nepalese farmers grow more food for their families, and to bring about lasting change in South Asia.

Please feel free let others know about this too. We’re hoping this year’s Run will have “legs!”

Contact Info

If you’d like to support USC’s work with seed-saving farmers in this way, please send an email to David Rain at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Location

Swarm The Closet: $6.00/bag clothing sale - A fundraiser for A.B.C

Event Date(s): May 26th, 2012 10am-4pm

A close friend of mine, and A.B.C’s, Bev Jamieson, has made an incredible offer that we could not refuse. As owner of Urban Thrift, a local thrift store which supports the sorting and distribution of clothing and toy donations to aid programmes in Haiti, Bev is always looking for a way to give back. Bev decided last year to take the lunge, quit working the typical 9-5 and dig his heels in to make a living doing something more for the environment and the community; take on a thrift store business! Click here to read on…
 
SWARM THE CLOSET: $6.00 A BAG CLOTHING SALE
$6.00 for as many clothes as you can fit in to a grocery bag!

1000’s AND 1000’s of items to choose from!

Mens and Womens Clothing ONLY!

Clothing donated by UrbanThrift and their Twice Trendy Charitable Program Proceeds go to A.B.C Apiaries and Bees for Communities, urban beekeeping programming

Contact Info

Location

Old Y Downtown Calgary, 223 12 Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta T2R 0G9

Calgary Horticultural Society - SPRING 2012 PLANT SHARE

Event Date(s): Saturday, May 26, 2012 / 9:00am to 12 Noon RAIN OR SHINE!

The objective of the Plant Share is for Society members to share excess plant material with other members and provide information about plants, their cultures and habits. Plant advisors are on hand to answer questions.

The success of the Plant Share depends on plants and participation. If you’ve never participated before, plan on attending this year.

You can still join in the fun, even if you don’t have plants to share:
Plants can be purchased for $2.00 ea - see full explanation of processes in the “How it Works” link below. Please remember, plants must be in good condition, plants that are not in good condition will not be accepted.

In addition to plant sharing, you can enjoy the on-site vendors, socialize over coffee and cookies, and share gardening knowledge with other enthusiastic gardeners!

REMEMBER - Be sure to carefully label all your plants (common name, mature height, colour) PRIOR to arriving, this helps speed up the check-in process. Also, please review Alberta’s Invasive Plant Council’s plant list.

Any plants brought that appear on this list will be turned away.

Contact Info

For more information, to become a member and participate in this fabulous event, please visit this website for details:

www.calhort.org

Location

On the grassy field west of the Society office at 208 - 50 Ave. S.W.

Green Calgary Community Rain Barrel and Composter Event - Woodcreek Community Centre

Event Date(s): Saturday May 26, 2012 - 9am - 1pm

We are excited about our new format events for 2012.  The City of Calgary Water Services and First Calgary Financial have generously provided sponsorship which will enable us to stage a series of Community events this year. 

Here’s what we’ll have to offer this spring and summer:
• 10 community events and a one day truckload event (April-September)
• Subsidized prices on all rain barrels and composters
• A new “Tandem Barrel” that will make hooking up multiple barrels as easy as can be!
• Experts on hand to give you the best advice in installing and using your products
• Barrelman staff on site to custom fit your new barrel, or repair an old one
• Prepay in advance, or pay on the day of sale.  Watch for details in mid-March.

Click HERE for more sale dates and locations

Contact Info

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Location

Woodcreek Community Centre
1991 Woodview Drive SW
9am - 1pm

Seven Simple Lifestyle & Nutrition Tips That Can Change Your Life

Event Date(s): Thursday May 24th, 2012 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Community Natural Foods Presents:  Seven Simple Lifestyle & Nutrition Tips That Can Change Your Life with Brad King, M.S., MFS

Nutritional researcher, performance nutritionist and best-selling author, Brad is the creator of the Ultimate line of supplements.  Effective nutrient supplementation can often be the missing piece of your metabolic puzzle.  Brad’s Ultimate supplements and lifestyle recommendations are designed to support & optimize metabolism at the cellular level - resulting in abundant health, energy and longevity

Contact Info

www.communitynaturalfoods.com

Location

Community Natural Foods
10th Avenue Market and Café

ARUSHA Presents: Free Clothing Swap

Event Date(s): Friday May 18 6-10pm or Saturday May 19 10-4

Donate items or better yet bring items to swap. Donations can be dropped at the Old Y Friday May 18 6-10pm or Saturday May 19 10-4.

Sponsored by the Calgary Creative Clothing Swap - a proud Take Action Grant recipient.

Contact Info

Location

The Old Y Centre, 223 - 12 Ave SW.

Ready, Set, Grow!

Event Date(s): Thursday May 17th, 2012 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Community Natural Foods Presents:  Ready, Set, Grow: Ideas for growing vegetables in the Calgary Garden with Donna Balzer

New to gardening? Start with a guff-free approach and discover what’s practical, what’s needed, and where to start. Already gardening? You’ll find out if that over-the-fence advice really makes sense. If you’ve always wondered whether to test your soil or how to make raised beds, this talk is for you.

Join Donna Balzer, award winning media personality,  blogger and author of three books. Her Bugs & Blooms television show, originally aired on HGTV, still brings comments from fans and her seasonal CBC Garden phone-in show is popular across Alberta. Her latest book is No Guff Vegetable Gardening.

Contact Info

www.communitynaturalfoods.com

Location

Community Natural Foods
10th Avenue Market and Café