Archive for the 'Community Projects' Category


Green Audit: Congregation Initiative Workshop

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Faith communities of the greater Tucson area are coming together to fight global warming. On this coming Earth Day, April 22, 2008, leaders from various faith groups will be offering a workshop for Tucson faith communities to reduce our carbon footprint.
This all-day workshop at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church (3809 East 3rd Street) will focus [...]

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Have excess fruit or vegetables on your property?

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Either donate your excess grown produce OR simply have your resource added to the database.
Iskash*taa is an inter-generational group of refugees from Africa and Tucsonan volunteers harvesting approximately 20,000 lbs. of fruits and vegetables each year from backyards and local farms and redistributing to refugee families from many countries and other Tucson organizations that assist [...]

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Farmers Markets in the Tucson Area

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Farmers Markets (in the Tucson Area)
Sunday
- Civano Artisans and Farmers Market - Civano Nursery, 5301 S. Houghton Road. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays. 248-9218.
- St. Philip’s Plaza Farmers Market - 4280 N. Campbell Ave. 8 a.m.-noon Sundays. 918-9811.
Tuesday
- Community Food Bank Farmers Market, 3003 S. Country Club Road. 8 a.m.-noon Tuesdays. 622-0525.
Wednesday
- Downtown Farmers [...]

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Plant trees, disband the army, work together: the Tuscan way of surviving collapse

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

From the highly recommended website: transitionculture.org
Plant trees, disband the army, work together: the Tuscan way of surviving collapse by Ugo Bardi.
Rob writes: Ugo Bardi is a Professor at the Dipartimento di Chimica at Università di Firenze in Italy, and is also President of ASPO Italy, who so ably hosted ASPO5 in Pisa earlier [...]

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