Paul Hawken Lecture!
Wednesday, June 20. 8:00 p.m. Kepler’s. 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
Paul Hawken, one of the world’s most influential environmentalists, reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity. His book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. This is a movement that has no name, leader, or location, but is organizing from the bottom up and emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide. Blessed Unrest is a description of humanity’s collective genius and the unstoppable movement to re-imagine our relationship to the environment and one another.
NYC: Engineers Without Borders
NY Education Committee Meeting
Tuesday, June 19 6:30 – 7:30 pm. Phebe’s Tavern & Grill. 359 Bowery (4th St)
Are you interested in sharing engineering with local middle school and high school students? Would you like to work on a skill training day for members of our EWB-NY professional and college chapers? EWB-NY’s newly forming Educational Committe would like to invite you to get involved!
Current efforts include the following:
-Development of Project Month lesson plans that will be available online.
-Forming relationships with a local schools for future efforts.
Our first meeting will be at Phebe’s Tavern & Grill. If you are interested, you may RSVP to Shannon Flanagan at shannonpflanagan@yahoo.com. Thank you!
Greening Cities Lecture – Filled Up!
Saturday, June 23rd 10am – 1pm
UC Berkeley Extension: 95 Third Street, at Mission, San Francisco
Visionary architect David Dobereiner’s lecture about Greening our cities has filled up! But if you want to learn more, you can sign up for his class:
Ecological Cities: The class familiarizes students with strategies for creating a sustainable built environment for people and nature through the reshaping of the built human infrastructure, using principals and methods grounded in ecology and whole-systems thinking. Basic ecocity theory is presented, as well as an overview of the city in evolution, the city today, and a step-by-step method for building the low-energy, sustainable city of tomorrow.
The course runs 6 Saturdays from July 21 – Aug 25. 9:30 – 12:30 pm.
Have a great week!
