April, 2009

Action Alert 4/28/09

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
--RAW MILK bill is moving - CALL NOW! --Current Use Program in Jeopardy! - ACTION Needed! --Rural Vermont ANNUAL MEETING - WEDNESDAY NIGHT! --Other Rural Vermont Events --Other Upcoming Events...

Online videos for beginning farmers, from Cornell

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

USDA listening tour on NAIS

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
By Drovers news source | Thursday, April 16, 2009 Article Here...

Good News for Change

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

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Three Sisters - Gardening for Sustainability

Thursday, April 16th, 2009
May 21, 2009
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

Dry corn, dry beans and winter squash, a guild of sustaining foods. Grown in the Americas for thousands of years, sustains culture and the soil. Come learns how to plant, save seeds and store theses precious foods that can help us become self-sufficient in home grown food.
@ AllTogetherNow! Community Art Center in East Montpelier

Health Care is a Human Right! Rally

Thursday, April 16th, 2009
May 1, 2009
12:00 pm

Friday MAY 1st HEALTH CARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT! RALLY Statehouse Lawn,
Montpelier at Noon. More than seventy organizations have endorsed this effort and local organizing committees are mobilizing for the rally in
almost every county of the state. The event will include speakers, music,
street theater, giant puppets, and even a
Dump-the-Insurance-Companies-Dunk-Tank! For more info, contact
www.workerscenter.org/healthcare, info@workerscenter.org, (802) 861-2877.

Energy Rally @ Statehouse

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
April 29, 2009
10:00 amto3:00 pm
Renewable Energy Fair
Wed, April 29
(on the Statehouse lawn West)
featuring Greenpeace's Rolling Sunlight
AND/OR
Vermont Yankee: an On-going Catastrophe
 Mock Evacuation
(on the Statehouse lawn East)
11 am: Press Conference
12 pm: Lunch Lobby in Statehouse

Natural Timberframing Workshop

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
June 20, 2009 10:00 amtoJune 21, 2009 10:00 am

With Josh Jackson and Ben Graham in Montpelier
Time and exact locations TBA
For more info call 802-454-1167
or click http://transitionvermont.ning.com/events/natural-timberframing

We will focus on using round timbers in structural frames. The workshop will cover bubble and plumb line(French) scribing methods and look at different options for natural enclosures towards Passivehaus standards. These include strawbale, light clay and cellulose walls. We will cut the frame using traditional and modern hand tools.
This is an intermediate skill level workshop for those with some woodworking experience.

Picturing Harmony

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Any and all ideas you have for improving society are important. This survey is focused on ideals - your ideals.

First a bit about you...
  1. this info is optional
Time to get creative!
 

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