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for December:

Big Picture TV

THANK YOU!

Dr. David Suzuki
In his talk at the Cascadia Convergence Kick-off on Friday, October 26, 2007 he gave one unforgettable illustration of what exponential growth means - one key understanding about the urgency of humanity's current problems. He used the idea of a bacterium doubling once a second in a test tube of food material. Suppose a quarter of the food material was used up at 58 seconds, and the bacteria are happy thinking they still have 75% of their resources. How long before all the food in the test tube (read planet) is used up?

Then the smart bacteria scientists come up with a way to produce 3 whole new worlds of food. How many more seconds does it take to use up those 3 new worlds?

THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO ATTENDED, IT WAS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS.

Many seeds were planted, many ideas germinated and many relationships formed over the those 24 hours and the energy continues to grow. This is good, there is hope in our own exponential growth!

Now please get involved to nurture and augment the weaving!

E-mail inquiries@sustainablecascadia.org or contact anyone involved.

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Book recommendation for December:

Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed
By Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman and Michael Quinn Patton

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Strategy Potlucks and Brainstorm for 2009 Agenda

A new social order is arriving! Or at least an energy shift. What part will you play? What role will Sustainable Cascadia have?

Join with us for the remaining four of the series of six low-key potluck gatherings – come, and bring your friends. Please send this invitation on to your networks. We will get together on the following 3 dates before the inauguration, 3 dates after and before Greenfest, and one after Greenfest to celebrate what we accomplished and learned:

Thursday November 20, 2008
Thursday December 11, 2008
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Saturday and/or Sunday March 28-29 Greenfest
Thursday, April 2, 2009

During those 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. gatherings at Goods for the Planet you will bring your passions, knowledge and affiliations and weave them into a shared purpose. Together we will make ourselves ready for an offering for Greenfest on the weekend of March 28-29, 2009 that will continue to evolve throughout the year. Goods for the Planet is at 525 Dexter Ave North, Seattle, WA 98109

We would like to have a team of 30 or more so that people can partner on the Greenfest weekend, get in for free, and each one need only spend an hour or less at a Sustainable Cascadia table. The rest of the time can be enjoyed taking in the myriad other offerings and free samples that will be available.

RSVP soon to Tatiana at tcattand@balleseattle.org
Send questions to Malcolm at malcolm.best@alum.mit.edu

The Sustainable Cascadia Core Team
Malcolm Best, Tatiana Cattand, Ken Cousins, Derek Hoshiko, Leah Mitchell

Eat Local Now! A Hands-On Festival

The "Eat Local Now! A Hands-On Festival" event held on Saturday, September 13, 2008, at University Heights Center was a success! We plan to do it again (with more than 6 weeks lead time).

We enjoyed a local foods dinner outside in the plaza area and the weather was perfect.

For the first time, Eat Local Now! brought a skill-building, knowledge sharing event on the food cycle: from gardening to planting, growing, harvesting, cooking, composting, processing, transportation, and local food economy.

This was be a unique “hands-on festival” with learning opportunities about local food and the local food system. People learned how to weave local foods more into the fabric of their life, whether it was a new concept to them or they had been doing it for years.

Please contact info@balleseattle.org if you have questions or are interested in helping organize, sharing your knowledge, partnering, or volunteering. Eat Local Now! A Hands-On Festival is presented by Sustainable Cascadia, BALLE Seattle, and Rolling Fire pizza.

We will add more information as it becomes available on the Eat Local Now! website at http://www.eatlocalnow.org.

Tatiana Cattand, Staff Volunteer, BALLE Seattle.

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