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PLACER NATURE CENTER ACKNOWLEDGED!

PlacerSustain Acknowledges the Placer Nature Center as the most active community organization that is using our web portal to inform the public about Center events and program activities!  All local organizations and individuals with sustainability interests benefit from aggregating traffic in a community portal.  The PlacerSustain website supplements the outreach from each organizations individual websites and newsletters.  In the case of the Placer Nature Center, visit their website at

Annual Membership Drive

PlacerSustain is on an calendar year membership cycle.  All the basic PlacerSustain member rights and privileges are free.  The work that is being done, which is considerable,  is primarily  being accomplished by volunteers.

"Resilience" -- A Blog Article by Susan Szpakowski

This is a link to an article by Susan Szpakowski that was published on the ALIA Insitute website.  The articles header is "

A New Sustainable Communities Learning Network for Local Government

[THIS IS A COPY OF NEWSLETTER MATERIAL PROVICED BY THE CONSERVATION STRATEGY GROUP.  The program consists of the using of a peer learning network, like PlacerSustain, to support local government consideration and application of sustainability practices]

New: Sustainable Communities Learning Network

EVENT: "Thriving Together" -- Training for Transition: Building Resilient Communities

[THIS IS A COPY OF AN EMAIL NOTICE ON THE UPCOMING "BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES" WORKSHOP IN SONOMA.]

Thriving Together & Living Mandala Present:

Sonoma County Passion Showcase at the Arlene Francis Center!

When: Saturday, February 18, 8p-12a

Where: Arlene Francis Center, 99 6th Street, Santa Rosa, CA

* County-Wide Celebration of Creativity!

- Saturday Evening of the "Training for Transition: Building Resilient Communities" Weekend Workshop

Featuring:

EVENT: PlacerSustain February Meeting -- Tour of Zero Waste Operations at HP!

MEETING NOTICE

PLACERSUSTAIN MONTHLY MEETING

ZERO WASTE AT HP

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Hewlett-Packard Roseville

8000 Foothills Blvd.

Roseville CA 95747

Farm Business Planning Course

[THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE COURSE NOTICE EMAIL]

 

Farm Business Planning Course

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Dates: February 9, 2012 - March 15, 2012

EVENT: "The Last Crop" -- February 7, 2012 at the State Theater

[THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE LAND TRUST EMAIL NOTICE THAT WAS PROVIDED BY ED ARMSTRONG]

Placer Land Trust is hosting a screening of "The Last Crop" a film about one farm's effort to protect what they have built over 30 years of working the land and serving fresh, local, healthy food to their community. 

The Evening Includes:

Reception 7:00-7:30

Sugar Bowl Resort Environmental Awareness Day -- February 4, 2012

See the attached PDF flyer on this event.  Sugar Bowl is looking for vendors and local green organiztions to participate in the event.  The booth is free and free lift tickets for the day are provided to the participants.  This notice was sent by Tommy Rogers, a BPI home energy auditor that attended several PlacerSustain energy events, and who is now the Energy Conservation Lead for the Sugar Bowl Resort.

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