Reminder: Social Action film today and April 30/Garden Build in LB

[Sarah Klepner]

Bidder 70 

1475 W, Front Street, Lincroft (Unitarian meetinghouse)

Sunday, April 21, 6 pm 

"The choice you are making today is what side are you on".- TD 

Bidder 70 centers on an ingenious and effective act of civil disobedience protecting land from oil and gas drilling. In 2008, University of Utah economics student Tim DeChristopher committed an act which would redefine patriotism in our time- igniting a spirited movement- and which challenges us in the present to redefine justice, and our role in achieving it, for ourselves.  

Discussion afterward  lead by Lynn Dash, of the Climate Change Action Team. She says: Tim acted with the understanding that climate change is a burden on the shoulders of his generation.  What can we do to slow down Business as Usual of fossil fuel dominance?  What is our obligation to stand up for the climate in which civilization developed? How does the history of civil disobedience apply to what some term, the greatest moral & ethical challenge of our time?

Co-sponsored by the Climate Change Action Team. Contact: Dan Ciaglia 732-284-6312 or Lynn Dash,ld...@comcast.net. Want to carpool? Call 312-388-2011

Permaculture: The Growing Edge

Q and A with Sean Walsh (M.A., Sustainable Landscape Planning), afterwards

Tuesday, April 30, 7 pm   1475 W. Front Street, Lincroft (Unitarian Meetinghouse)

 Community Room  Light refreshments served.

Permaculture: The Growing Edge (45 min) is an antidote to environmental despair, a hopeful and practical look at a path to a viable, flourishing future. The film introduces us to a sustainable system of earth care that offers solutions to many of our grave environmental problems and a hopeful, proactive vision of change with inspiring examples of projects based on this holistic, waste-free approach to living which truly borders on miraculous. Started in the 70s, permaculture now has a worldwide network of skilled ecological designers, teachers, food growers, natural builders, environmental activists and visionaries.Contact: Dan Ciaglia 732-284-6312 (to carpool, 312-388-2011)    

From Lisa Bagwell:  contact lisa_b...@yahoo.com

Garden Build

Saturday April 27 from 8-4pm at the corner of Liberty Street and Union in Long Branch NJ

Here is a list of items we can use for the build: 

Cardboard-lots of it! (pile up at the back of the property)

Straw 

Bagged leaves

Dried grass clippings

Compost

Good soil (any old bags lying around?) 

Nice wood pallets

Perennials (divided from your yard!) 

Vegetable seed (old stuff is all right)

Wheelbarrow

Shovel

Rake

Gloves

Water

Your back

Cardboard, Straw, bagged leaves and dry grass clippings can all be piled up at the back of the property to be used on the day. 

As the weather warms and you clear your yard take note of those plants you can divide out and bag up any leaves we can use to build soil. 

Thanks to the Master Gardeners of Monmouth County. They will be donating several varieties of fruit trees to be planted on the property. Also to be planted are trees from the NJ Tree Foundations Arbor Day program. There may be extra trees to spare if anyone is interested. 

Thank you all for your interest and support and I look forward to meeting you in the garden. 

Please contact me if you have any questions (lisa_b...@yahoo.com)

Thanks!