Green Calgary

Ready, Set, Grow!

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.

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ARUSHA Presents: Free Clothing Swap

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.

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Seven Simple Lifestyle & Nutrition Tips That Can Change Your Life

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

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

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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Calgary Horticultural Society - SPRING 2012 PLANT SHARE

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.

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

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

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

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ARUSHA Presents: Meet Author and Activist Judy Rebick

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!”

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Permaculture Design with Adrian Buckley from Big Sky Permaculture

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!

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

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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