[GreenNotes] GreenNotes 1/8/2008 (supplement)
Tom Brown
tbrown at michiana.org
Tue Jan 8 15:38:41 PST 2008
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PROGRESSIVE CALENDAR (new postings)
* Jan 10 - Solar panel installation certification class
* Jan 12 - SJVGreens Congress (supplement to last issue)
* Jan 15 - Sea Change: Reversing the Tide
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ST. JOE VALLEY GREENS CONGRESS
The local Greens meet at least once per year to set goals, empower working groups and committees to realize the goals and review our effectiveness since the previous Congress. Greens often hold two Congresses each year.
This Congress we will screen a film, share a meal, review our previous goals and set new ones. The public is welcome. Please let us know you are coming.
Where: Weikamp Hall, room 2170, IUSB
When: January 12, 2008; 10 AM to 6:00 PM including noon meal
Who: Public is invited to join us
Why: Review previous goals and plan for the next 6-12 months
The schedule for the Congress:
10:00 AM - Lobbying 101. Robin Beck's mini-workshop on lobbying.
12:00 - Potluck lunch, movie and discussion:
"An Unreasonable Man" (Ralph Nader) or
"American Blackout" (Cynthia McKinney)
1:00 PM - Open the Congress to members and guests.
6:00 PM - Adjourn Congress.
Agenda for the Congress (order is flexible):
* welcome newly joining members
* elect officers
* review relationship to the IGP/IGPCC/GPUS
* should we lobby to reform Indiana ballot access law
* split the SJVGreens' functions into separate entities
- St. Joseph County Green Party (partisan)
- St. Joe Valley Greens (non-partisan)
- Green PAC (partisan)
- Green Foundation (non-partisan)
* move the GreenTV catalog to the web
* reorganize GreenTV
* create a demonstration web portal
* organize a non-partisan web portal working group
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SEA CHANGE: REVERSING THE TIDE
Please help spread the word about this event and come to it yourself!
Sea Change: Reversing the Tide
Tuesday, January 15th 2008
Where: 7:30 pm,
Host: Indiana University South Bend
Venue: Northside Recital Hall, NS 158
Time: 7:30 PM
Cost: Free and open to the public!
Info: (574) 520-5564 (Dr. Deb Marr) or 520-4402 (Dr. Scott Sernau)
http://www.seachangeinstitute.org/
Should everything dance to humanity’s tune, or does such a self-important view lead to the destruction of life on earth?
This question is addressed by the performance piece SeaChange: Reversing the Tide. By combining the knowledge of science with the wisdom of poetry Roger Payne and Lisa Harrow argue compellingly that man is not the overseer of life but an integral part of life’s complex web, and that our survival requires that we attend not just to our own wellbeing, but also to the wellbeing of the entire web of life.
Written and performed by Payne and Harrow, and including the poetry of Shakespeare, Shelley, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, and others, SeaChange: Reversing the Tide offers an exposé of the consequences of humanity's current indifference to natural laws.
The audience emerges with a clear understanding of humanity's role in the natural world and of the urgency of our need to start living sustainably.
Payne and Harrow were featured on National Public Radio’s “Science Friday” program in June of 2007. Roger Payne is a renowned Marine biologist, and Lisa Harrow, an award-winning actress known for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and her work in films and numerous BBC and American TV shows. Roger Payne is best known for his discovery (with Scott McVay) that humpback whales sing songs, and for his theory that the sounds of fin and blue whales can be heard across oceans. He has been featured in over 40 documentary films for television and co-wrote and co-directed the IMAX film Whales.
This event is free and open to the public. It has been sponsored by Indiana University South Bend, a grant from the Indiana Humanities Council, Memorial Hospital Foundation, North American Signs, and Stanley Clark School.
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SOLAR INSTALLATION CERTIFICATION CLASS
We are worldwide distributors of United Solar Ovonic (Uni-Solar) and our main office is here in South Bend. We have a Uni-Solar installation certification class on January 10th from 10am - 3pm with lunch included and a tour of a local "green' home. There is a $150 charge for the class that can work as a credit when you buy any solar modules from us with a total over $1,000. Below is an email we sent out to our dealer network that explains what is new in solar and a little about our training session.
Anyone interested in attending this class can contact me:
Nathan Vogel
Inovateus Development
Nathan at inovateus.com
574-968-4424 x4504
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SOLAR WAREHOUSE SALE
Greetings,
As the year is coming to an end, we are cleaning out our warehouse getting ready for a busy 2008. Remember that we are always here to answer your questions and provide any information needed. The solar revolution is underway and Uni-Solar gets you *15-20%* more power than any other cell on the market.
In case you haven't heard, there have been some great triumphs in the past few months with solar:
- The City of Berkley, California approved an incentive to pay 100% of
the up front cost on residential installations
- January 1st 2008, a 50% Louisiana state incentive goes into effect
and Florida residents can recieve up to $20,000 back for residential
installs
- The current energy bill in Washington hopes to require all utilities
to use 15% renewable energy by 2020....just 12 years away! They will have no
choice but to buy power at a favorable rate from commercial and residential
installations.
- The Midwestern governors met to push standards for 25% renewable
energy in MI,OH,WI, IN, MN by 2025
- Google issued a press release stating it's intentions to buy a
Gigawatt of renewable energy- enough to power the city of San Francisco.
- We made an agreement with 1 Star Energy, making us the front runner
in the region for large commercial installations (click on link below)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071115/clth096.html?.v=62&printer=1
You have the front seat to a product that has the best response in low-light
conditions, is light weight, flexible,durable, easy to install,
aesthetically pleasing, adheres to metal roofing, EPDM, TPO...and the list
goes on. The world is changing fast- don't let it pass you by.
There have been many updates to our website www.inovateus.com Please check
out the new pictures and data. Included are many files worth checking out.
On behalf of team Inovateus, we wish you a very safe and happy holiday!
Thanks,
Nathan Vogel
Inovateus Development
Director of Research
Nathan at inovateus.com
574-968-4424 x4504
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KEY VALUES OF THE GREENS
1. Ecological wisdom
2. Social justice
3. Grassroots democracy
4. Nonviolence
5. Decentralization
6. Community-based economics
7. Feminism
8. Respect for diversity
9. Personal and global responsibility
10. Future focus
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St. Joe Valley Greens, South Bend, IN
http://www.sjvgreens.org/
mailto: tbrown at sjvgreens.org or khardy at sjvgreens.org
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