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Solar training at Pima College

Friday, August 29th, 2008

[ August 30, 2008; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Pima Community College  is offering two classes this fall on basics of solar PV installations. One is on West Campus,  starts Aug 30 and runs Saturday mornings for 3 hours for 12 weeks  (TEC198TD: Photovoltaic Installation Training.) The other will run in October and November on Saturdays and Sundays for 5 weeks at the East [...]

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Will we have enough? Recapping the UA Water Conference

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

On June 24, Sustainable Tucson Core Team members Susan Williams and Bob Cook attended the Water Resources Research Center’s (WRRC) 2008 conference, entitled “The Importance of the Colorado River for Arizona’s Future.” This article is their report of the conference, which first appeared in Tucson Green Magazine in August 2008
There is one notion that everyone [...]

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Greening the Desert (video)

Friday, July 11th, 2008

“You can solve all your pollution problems and supply-line needs through a garden.”
Permaculture turns Middle East salt flat into sustaining harvest.

[Longer version: Making of interview before and after]

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Green Building Seminars (w/Desert Green Builders)

Friday, May 30th, 2008

[ June 24, 2008; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. August 13, 2008; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ]
Free “Green building” seminars!
Currently two are scheduled:
June 24th, 6:30 PM, at Councilmember Nina Trasoff’s ward 6 office on East First Avenue.

???????? August 13th, 6:30 PM, at Councilmember Rodney Glassman’s ward 2 office on East Speedway.

The seminars are open to anyone, but seating is limited to about 20 people per [...]

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Tour Solar Thermal Facility

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

[ May 28, 2008; 8:00 am to 11:00 am. ] SOLAR THERMAL FACILITY TOUR

Tour the Arizona Public Service Solar Thermal facility at Red Rock (35 miles north of Tucson).
It is a one-megawatt plant.

Tour is being arranged with APS by John Kromko….
Carpool group to leave Tucson at 8AM, Wed., May 28.
Expected to return by 10:30/11 am.

RSVP to John via email: jkromko [at] dakotacom [...]

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“Gas Hole” — Documentary & Fundraiser @ the Fox

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

[ May 2, 2008; ]
Support clean energy by going to the movies…

This Friday, May 2, the Fox Theatre will be showing a screening of the documentary “”Gas Hole””.
And proceeds from the movie will go to the PAG Clean Cities program to advance outreach and education of the use of alternative fuels in the region.

As gas prices continue [...]

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What to do about world food crisis?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

(From the Desmoines Register)
Food shortages are suddenly front-page news, but they are not new. Hundreds of millions of people were left starving or malnourished last year, and this has been going on for decades. The only change is that it has become more difficult for the institutions that control the global food chain to manage [...]

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Contribute to the Joint City County Water Study

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The City of Tucson and Pima County invite your early input into the recently launched Joint City/County Water and Wastewater Planning Study. They invite you to share your input on how to make the study process open, inclusive and transparent by submitting your suggestions to us in writing or by attending the upcoming meetings. Also [...]

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Regional Water Study meeting

Monday, April 21st, 2008

[ April 23, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] NOTICE OF MEETING

City / County Water & Wastewater Study Oversight Committee
(Also known as the Regional Water Study Oversight Committee)

Pursuant to A.R.S. 38-431.02, notice is hereby given to the members of the above-named Study
Oversight Committee and to the general public that the Committee will hold a meeting open to
the public on:

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
6:00 P.M.
Manning [...]

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Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis

Monday, April 21st, 2008

by Al Gore, TED  April 8, 2008
In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights [...]

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