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Where: YWCA, 525 N. Bonita Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85745

FREE WORKSHOP

This FREE workshop is your guide to straight forward sustainable business practices.
Obtain Tucson Electric Power’s available incentives which can pay as much as 90% of the installed cost on select efficiency measures

• Become a Certified Green Business through the City of Tucson
• Increase your bottom line through decreasing your utility costs
• Connect with resources to help pay for efficiency upgrades
• Receive technical expertise and free energy, water, waste and pollution prevention audits
• Learn techniques to reduce energy consumption, waste generation and pollution prevention

Register in advance here or call us 520-620-1241

To help identify Connectors in your neighborhood, take the survey here: http://surveys.netform.com/pimaconnectssurvey/

The survey must be completed before May 31, 2010.

Local chefs cook meals with produce from local gardens at a fundraiser
for Kim Fox’s travels from 4 to 6:30 p.m., Sunday, May 23. $25 to $75.
Mercado San Agustin 100 S. Avenida del Convento. Call 461-1106, or
visit theoriginalhoe.blogspot.com for more information.

Sara Jones of Tucson CSA will make dessert, and Amy Schwemm of Mano Y
Metate will make mole. Rachel Yaseen of The Organic Kitchen and
Justin Dixon of Mercado Sunday Dinners will also be cooking.

TUCSON’S LOCAL FOOD AMBASSADOR

Kim Fox, a Tucson micro-urban farmer and food activist dedicated to
community education and local food production, is embarking on a new
adventure! Up until now, Kim has been busy designing urban sites for
food production and distribution. Her community education programs
focus on local food production, soil science, food security and
health. Now that summer is here, she’s hitting the road with her bike,
and an open plate and mind!

Kim is an observer of and participant in local and international food
ways. She has traveled to 25 countries working on small farms and
urban gardens, visiting farmers’ markets, participating in food
culture and customs, and observing local food production and
distribution methods. Beginning in June 2010, Kim will travel by
bicycle across Europe engaging with people who manage urban and rural
farms, gardens, farmers’ markets, food banks, seed banks, and public
and private agencies in order to exchange perspectives and information
on local sustainable agriculture. In particular, Kim will study and report on
seed saving, climate change consequences, GMO issues, sustainable farming
and urban gardening techniques, and seek to collect recipes straight from the kitchen.

Her community in Tucson and beyond can learn with her, via internet updates
on her blog, at www.theoriginalhoe.blogspot.com or on Facebook “Kim Fox Food Trek 2010.” Your donations or in-kind support will ensure that fresh and enriching ideas, beyond the American perspective, will benefit our community’s local-sustainable food system.

To contribute to her trip or for more information, visit her blog or
contact her at theoriginalhoe@live.com or 520-622-1917. Become a food
trekkie!

WAYS TO MAKE YOUR
BUSINESS GREEN

320 N. Commerce Park Loop, Sentinel Building
Sabino/Rillito Rooms

Experts will discuss:
♦ How to improve your bottom line through sustainable business practices.
♦ What it really means to be “green,”
♦ How your company can reduce material & energy waste,
♦ How going green cuts costs.
♦ Information about available rebates and other support programs

This workshop will be conducted by a representative from the City of Tucson Office of Conservation and Sustainable Development. Representatives from Tucson Electric Power, and Tucson Water will also be on hand to share their resources.
Advance Registration is required. Cost: $49

Call 520-620-1241 for more
information or to register

Catalina State Park, 11570 N. Oracle Road.

Citizens for Solar invites everyone to come and join in the fun of the 28th Annual Tucson Solar Potluck and Exhibition. This is the longest continuously running solar potluck in the world. See practical, innovative solar energy in useful action. People will be cooking food in dozens of types of solar ovens. Enjoy solar powered music during the afternoon and into the evening. Taste solar cooked food, see photovoltaic solar electricity generated, feel solar cooling, and see solar powered technology.

Although solar cooked snacks will be provided all day, the solar potluck feast begins around 5:00 p.m. Either bring your solar oven and cook with us or bring a dish to share and join in the fun.

Join The Watershed Management Group in celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.  Earth Month events include:

• April 10th: Green Streets Block Party, 4pm to 7pm
• April 10th: Street Painting Event, 10am to 1pm
• April 17th: Samos Neighborhood Green Streets Workshop, 8am to 1pm
• April 18th: Green Streets Bike Tour, 10am to 2pm
• April 24th:  WMG Co-op Extravaganza, 8am to 12pm
• April 24th: WMG Co-op Bazaar, 12:00pm to 2pm

BECOME PART OF THE CHICKEN REVOLUTION!
RAISE CHICKENS IN YOUR BACKYARD

Come to the workshop teaching all aspects of raising chickens for meat and egg production ($20)

rsvp 622-1917 $20