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Concert for Carrie Dickerson Foundation-Saturday, Aug 8th-Tulsa

Cheryl — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:47:22 +0000

Tickets on Sale TODAY!!! Limited seating folks, don’t be left out on this one! Intimate concert with Brian Haas celebrating the release of “Petting Sounds”, his improvised symphony for solo piano recorded at the historic studio where the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” was captured for posterity. (Brian Haas is the remaining founding member of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey) Brian is generously performing to raise funding for the Carrie Dickerson Foundation’s work to promote clean and renewable energy sources and to inform the public about the continuing dangers and economic pitfalls of nuclear power plants.
Saturday, August 8, 2009 Fellowship Congregational Church
2900 S. Harvard, Tulsa, OK
5:00 to 8:00pm
5:00pm to 6:30 PM – happy hour with wine, punch, light buffet, live music & silent auction
Program begins 6:30pm
Brian Haas performs at 7:00pm
Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door
Tickets available online at
http://www.ticketst orm.com/event/ brianhaasalbumre leaseshow/ fellowshipcongre gationalchurch/ tulsa/2403/
You can also get tickets at Starship, Dwelling Spaces and Under The Mooch.
Contact info@jfjo.com or outpostomega@ sbcglobal. net for more info.

Cob strawbale workshop looking for attendees-Abused Woman’s Sanctuary

Cheryl — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:57:02 +0000

We are holding workshops to help others learn about building with cob
and strawbale. We are holding cob/straw bale workshops that are planned for March or
April 2009. We will be building small cottages to provide housing to single
moms and battered women. There are also a few out buildings to
complete also. This is a 10 day workshop that will cover beginning to end
construction of cob/strawbale cottages which is fairly new concept that I would like to use for their R value of up to R70 for our sometime frigid climate. Campgrounds will be provided to all students.
The fee for this course is $500 with a deposit of $250 to be sent to
reserve your spot. This fee is to cover our costs for the foundations and for our
instructor. We get our homes built for our women, and you get to learn about the wonderful building technique of cob and strawbale together!
We will be doing instruction on the old ways of mixing with feet and
also the newer way of using a backhoe and cement mixers so this is a course that is more up to date with technology. Free Wanderer’s End Farm T-shirt to all attendees!
http://wanderersend .org/workshops. aspx

Oklahoma Food Coop Seeks Producers

Leslie — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:03:28 +0000

Attention Oklahoma Farmers & Ranchers!

Producing for a LOCAL marketplace can be an additional source of revenue for your farm or ranch. Here’s our story. I could sell a TON of Oklahoma grown potatoes every month at $1.25/lb. Also 2500 pounds of corn on the cob, 300 heads of cabbage, 1100 pounds of tomatoes (both paste and slicing), 600 pounds of carrots, 600 pounds of fresh peas and beans, 300 bunches of cooking greens, 600 heads of lettuce, 725 pounds of onions, 300 pounds of summer squash, and 500 winter squash. I need 750 pints of berries, 300 pounds of apricots, 600 pounds of apples, and 300 pounds of pie cherries. And 100 pounds of cornmeal, 400 pounds of dried beans, 660 gallons of milk, 80 pounds of hull-less oats and 700 dozen eggs.

That’s what my “grocery list of unmet demand” at the Oklahoma Food Cooperative looks like based on membership surveys in the fall of 2007. Our sales increased more than 100% each year, 2003-2007. In 2008, we expect to sell a million dollars of local food and non-food products, and by 2012, we will sell one million dollars a month–if the production for the local market is there.

Download this letter from the Oklahoma Food Cooperative to read more about how to become a Producer.

Oklahoma Food Cooperative Needs Producers!

Cob/Bale Workshop Pictures

admin — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:57:28 +0000

Greenbuilding Resources List

Leslie — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:18:12 +0000

Natural building includes many types of methods and materials: adobe, strawbale, cob (clay/sand/straw), papercrete, bamboo, rammed earth, and others. Natural building is defined by the use of plentiful local and marginally processed natural materials to build a structure and its systems (water, energy, waste, recovery) with the most neutral ecological footprint. Natural building also includes the footprint of the building over its entire life span. Natural building costs are usually far less than conventional building, but labor costs (often including the owner-builder’s own labor) are higher.

Green building also often includes engineered structural materials such as ICFs, SIPs, green roofs, FSC-certified lumber, etc., as well as eco-friendly finishing materials such as cellulose insulation, low-VOC paints, recycled-glass countertops, and bamboo flooring. Green building focuses heavily upon using less energy after construction is complete, reducing energy use for the lifetime of the building. Green building costs are often perceived to be higher, but when planned well, may be less than conventional building.

This list has been compiled by and for Sustainable Green Country, a non-profit volunteer organization based in NE Oklahoma.

Download Natural and Green Building Resources

Go!Green 2007: Home Edition 2

Leslie — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:26:42 +0000

April 28, 2007
8:00 am	to	5:00 pm

Interested in alternative sustainable construction methods?
Want to know more about recycling?
Are you building a new home or remodeling an existing one?
Want to maximize energy efficiency?

If you answered “yes” to any of the above, this is the event for you!

2007 Go!Green: Home Edition 2

8 am – 5 pm, Saturday, April 28, 2007

Tulsa Technology Center, Lemley Campus

3420 S. Memorial Dr., Tulsa, OK

FREE and Open to the Public

Whether you are planning to build a new home, make home improvements, or just want to lower your energy bills, this is the event for you! You will learn about:

Your home as a natural heating & cooling system
Green home
Recycling construction waste
Solar design
Selecting a sustainable architect/contractor
Cob buildings
Water conservation in homes
LEED for homes
Saving green

Join us April 28 as we address a broad range of issues that will have a positive impact on you, your home, and our environment!

Go!Green Informational Flyer

Go!Green Informational Flyer – page 2

Sustainable Green Country April Events

Leslie — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:37:59 +0000

Sustainable Green Country

April Events

Wednesday April 3 — 6pm — Sustainable Urban Planning

Chapman Room 252 at University of Tulsa

Thursday April 4 — 4pm — Pearl Farmers Market Opens

6th & Peoria at Centennial Park

Thursday April 12 — 6pm — Pearl Market Kickoff Celebration

Sustainable Green Country Monthly Meeting

6th & Peoria at Centennial Park

Saturday April 14 — 12pm — Climate Action Day

18th & Boulder at Veterans Park

Wednesday April 18 — 5:30pm — SGC Green Drinks!

Main & Brady at Lola’s

Friday & Saturday April 20 & 21

Oklahoma Sustainability Network Annual Conference

National Weather Service Center at Norman, OK

Friday April 27 — 10am — SGC Coffee Chat

15th & Rockford at Coffeehouse on Cherry Street

Saturday April 28 — 8:30am — Go!Green

34th & Memorial at Lemley Campus of

Tulsa Technology Center

Upcoming SGC Events

May 9-12 – Sacred Activism & the Power of Inclusion

May 12-19 — Natural Building Workshop w/Cob & Strawbale

May 16 – SGC Green Drinks!

May TBA – Free Film Screening: Kilowatt Ours

May 25 – SGC Coffeechat

Visit our website for more information on these events as well as information about many other sustainability events:

www.SustainableGreenCountry.org

March 2007 Update

keeshi — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:45:10 +0000

Hello Sustainable Green Country,

Last week we had such a great response from the community showing their support for our Buy Fresh,Buy Local campaign! We were grateful for Rich Fisher on NPR, to host SGC and Kamyar Enshayan to talk about the local food initiative in green country. We have been in the organizing stage gathering our goals and objectives for the Tulsa metro area, and will be launching our actual campaign in May. Stay tuned and as always feel free to contact us for questions on how to participate as an advocate supporting our local food systems.

Tulsa Community Garden Association and Sustainable Green Country partnered last Saturday offering an ‘Organic Garden ‘Workshop. Over 150 participated! We were delighted with the day. Wonderful, healthy refreshments were provided by Wild Oats, so popular that only crumbs remained! Thank you Valerie! Planning Committee members with TCGA were Nancy Moran, Diane Askins, Donna Vogelpohl,and Justin Pickard. Planning Committee members with SGC were Chad and Noelle Settle, Keeshi Ingram, Alan Moyer, and head organizer, SGC Vice-President, Leslie Moyer. Outstanding job! So many questions were asked all during and at the end of each session, free seeds, and Organic Gardening magazines were given to all the participants, as well as very interesting vendor displays. It is inspiring to see so many new gardeners interested in organically grown food!

We are still progressing with the Pearl Farmers Market, a new market for Thursday evenings from 4:00-8:00p.m. If you grow a garden and would like to participate as a vendor, we will be offering a meeting this Wednesday at 1:30p.m. Call Leah Pickard, market manager, 743-8698 for location, or email me and we will fill you in on the details.

Be sure and check out this month’s issue of Tulsa People, which focuses on green living in our community. One of our SGC founders, Keeshi Ingram, is highlighted there. Working with natural materials, her deep green effort will bring a Cob(earthen building)/ Straw Bale workshop in May. Check out our website www.sustainablegreencountry.org to pre-register.

Mark your calendar for April 20 &21 to attend our Oklahoma Sustainability Network state conference held in Norman.

We hope we will see you at our monthly meeting on Thursday. (Details below)

Sustainably yours,

Rita Scott

President, Sustainable Green Country

918.640.5408

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Sustainable Green Country’s March Events

Thursday, March 8
Sustainable Green Country Monthly Meeting
Topic: Water quality & stewardship presentation by Cheryl Cheadle,
State Blue Thumb Coordinator: “Connection Before Protection”
6:00 – 7:00 SGC Steering Committee Meeting
7:00 – 8:00 Cheryl Cheadle
Free & open to the public
Location: Central Community Center at Centennial Park
1028 E. 6th St, Tulsa, OK

Wednesday, March 21
Green Drinks!
5:30 pm
Lola’s at the Bowery, corner of Brady & Main, Tulsa
[Note: this repeats the third Wednesday of every month.]

Friday, March 23
Coffee Chat
10:00 am
Coffeehouse on Cherry St, 1502 E 15th St, Tulsa
[Note: this repeats the fourth Friday of every month.]

Thursday, March 29
Free Film Screening: “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
http://www.sustainablegreencountry.org/main/?p=86
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Where: University of Tulsa, Business Administration Hall room 219
(see website for directions & a campus map)

Saturday, March 31
Early registration deadline (with discount) for cob workshop in May

Sustainable Green Country Upcoming Events

Watch our website & email list for details!
http://www.SustainableGreenCountry.org

Thursday, April 5
New Pearl Farmer’s Market opens
Centennial Park, 6th & Peoria
4:00 pm

Thursday, April 12
Sustainable Green Country Monthly Meeting
Topic: Kickoff Celebration for Pearl Farmers’ Market
6:00 – 8:00 Kickoff Celebration
Free & open to the public
Location: Centennial Park, 6th & Peoria

Wednesday, April 18
Green Drinks!
5:30 pm
Lola’s at the Bowery, corner of Brady & Main, Tulsa
[Note: this repeats the third Wednesday of every month.]

Friday & Saturday, April 20 – 21
Okahoma Sustainability Network (OSN) State Conference
Norman, OK
Details: http://www.oksustainability.org

Friday, April 27
Coffee Chat
10:00 am
Coffeehouse on Cherry St, 1502 E 15th St, Tulsa
[Note: this repeats the fourth Friday of every month.]

Saturday, April 28
Go Green Forum
Details TBA

Other Groups’ Upcoming Events

For details about these, and other events, check our “Community Calendar”: http://www.sustainablegreencountry.org/main/?page_id=3
And, as always, contact SGC to add your event to the Community Calendar:
Communications@sustainablegreencountry.org

March 6 OR 7: Train to become a volunteer naturalist; Oxley Nature Center
March 7: Resource Management Conference (Tulsa)
March 10: Oklahoma Farmers Market Alliance Mtng (OKC)
March 10: Oklahoma Hunger Summit (OKC)
March 10: Women in Agriculture & Small Business (Stillwater)
March 10: Sustainable Bartlesville Organizing Meeting (Bartlesville)
March 10: “My Own Backyard” Workshop (Jenks/Glenpool)
March 12: North Eastern Oklahoma Beekeepers Assn Mtng (Tulsa)
March 13: Great Garden Soils/Compost class @ OSU Extension (Tulsa)
March 15: “Basic Training” workshop for food business entrepreneurs (Stillwater)
March 16: Farm to Cafeteria & Food Policy Conference (MD)
March 16: OK Horticultural Society presents Ken Druse (Tulsa)
March 17: Little Dixie Poultry Club Show (McAlester)
March 18: Ozark Folk School begins (AR)
March 20: Trees & Shrubs Class @ OSU Extension (Tulsa)
March 20: Tulsa Audubon Society Meeting (Tulsa)
March 22: Women’s Lambing Season Programs begins (AR)
March 24 & 25: M.E.T. Household Pollution Collection Event (Tulsa)
March 24: Growing Your Own Organic Food Workshop (Tulsa)
March 25: NAHB Green Building Conference (St. Louis)
March 27 & 28: Conversations on Community Renewal (Midwest City)
March 27: Growing Black, Blue and Red Berries Class @ OSU Extension (Tulsa)
March 27 & 28: Sustainable Agriculture Training: Pastured Poultry and Organic Vegetable Production (TX)
March 29: Livestock School, Sam Noble Foundation (OK)
March 29 & 30: Drought Management Workshops (Freedom, OK)
March 29: Green Country Sierra Club Annual Auction, Wine & Cheese Party (Tulsa)
March 30 – 31: Big Bee Buzz – NEOBA Conference (Tulsa)

General Meeting- Natural Building

keeshi — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:16:05 +0000

February 8, 2007
7:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

What is Natural Building? Come hear about some of the ideas behind this movement, and see a slide show about building in cob and with earthen plasters.

Location: Centennial Park Center
Time: 7pm

SGC February 2007 MEMO

keeshi — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:27:59 +0000

Reading an article written by Jon Frank, an eco-gardener he states, “It is important to have a vision of where you want to go and what you want to achieve.” In addition, “Get a roadmap. A roadmap is an indispensable requirement when starting a journey to an unfamliar destination. Once we have established our starting point and our final destination, the roadmap helps us plot our course of action.” Sustainable Green County has a vision of focusing on the inteconnection of the rural, with the urban, for a healthy vibrant, community. We want to support our local farmers and producers who grow our food, which sustains us. In taking action, we have partnered with the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture to launch a campaign called Buy Fresh Buy Local. After two community meetings, we have now formed a steering committee. What dedication! Subfreezing temperatures and heavy snow did not postpone farmers, businessmen, nonprofits, and passionate participants. We are mapping a successful campaign. In addition, SGC is sponsoring a new farmer’s market at 6th and Peoria in Centennial Park, in the Pearl Neighborhood, and it will be called The Pearl Farmer’s Market. This could be a hybrid market, in that we are encouraging community gardens, students, and urban gardeners to particpate. Starting in April, SGC will be taking our monthly meetings to the farmers market and park, having outdoor educational exhibits such as a solar cooker demonstration, composting, and more. This roadmap has the potential to radically change the way we live, eat, work and play! We welcome your participation. Contact us for more information.

Rita Scott

President,Sustainable Green Country

918.640.5408

Sustainable Green Country’s February Events

Tuesday, February 6
Free Film Screening: “Who killed the Electric Car?”
7:00 pm
Nightingale Theatre, 1416 E 4th St, Tulsa
http://www.sustainablegreencountry.org/main/?p=32

Thursday, February 8
Sustainable Green Country Monthly Meeting
Topic: Introduction to Natural Building; slideshow and presentation
Central Community Center at Centennial Park, 1028 E. 6th St, Tulsa, OK
http://www.sustainablegreencountry.org/main/?p=38
6:00 – 7:00 SGC Steering Committee Meeting
7:00 – 8:00 Introduction to Natural Building
Free & open to the public

Saturday, February 17
Free Film Screening: “An Inconvenient Truth”
7:00 pm
Yoga Ideas
208 E Broadway, Drumright, OK
http://www.sustainablegreencountry.org/main/?p=56

Wednesday, February 21
Green Drinks!
5:30 pm
Lola’s at the Bowery, corner of Brady & Main, Tulsa
[Note: this repeats the third Wednesday of every month.]

Friday, February 23
Coffee Chat
10:00 am
Coffeehouse on Cherry St, 1502 E 15th St, Tulsa
[Note: this repeats the fourth Friday of every month.]

Sustainable Green Country Upcoming Events

Watch our website & email list for details!
http://www.SustainableGreenCountry.org

Saturday, March 3
Organic Gardening Seminar
Sponsored by Sustainable Green Country & Tulsa Community Garden Association
TCC Northeast Campus
9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Thursday, March 8
Sustainable Green Country Monthly Meeting
Topic: Water quality & stewardship presentation by Cheryl Cheadle, State Blue Thumb Coordinator “Connection Before Protection”
6:00 – 7:00 SGC Steering Committee Meeting
7:00 – 8:00 Cheryl Cheadle
Free & open to the public

Wednesday, March 21
Green Drinks!
5:30 pm
Lola’s at the Bowery, corner of Brady & Main, Tulsa
[Note: this repeats the third Wednesday of every month.]

Friday, March 23
Coffee Chat
10:00 am
Coffeehouse on Cherry St, 1502 E 15th St, Tulsa
[Note: this repeats the fourth Friday of every month.]

Free Film Screening: March date & location to-be-announced
“The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”

Thursday, April 5
New Pearl Farmer’s Market opens
Centennial Park, 6th & Peoria
4:00 pm

Friday & Saturday, April 20 – 21
Okahoma Sustainability Network (OSN) State Conference, Norman, OK

Saturday, April 28
Go Green Forum

Other Groups’ Upcoming Events

February 2 & 3: Wisdom Weekend with Andrew Harvey & Jim Garrison
February 6: Alternative Cropping and Tillage Seminar (Ponca City, OK)
February 8: Oklahoma Association for Environmental Education Environmental Education Expo
February 8: No-Till Workshop & SPARC Annual Meeting (Ft. Cobb, OK)
February 8: Tulsa County Extension course for beginning farmers: Green Acres begins
February 9 & 10: Farm Management Conference for Women (KS)
February 9-11: Oklahoma Farmers Union State Convention (OKC)
February 10: Oklahoma Native Plant Society Indoor Outing 2007 (OKC)
February 12: NE OK Beekeepers Association Meeting
February 16: Early-Bird Registration Deadline for NAHB National Green Building Conference (MO)
February 17: Soil Management Class at Tulsa Garden Center
February 20: Tulsa Audubon Society Meeting (butterflies & moths)
February 22: TCC Class: The Bountiful Vegetable Garden (preregistration required)
February 22: Better Backyard Berries class, Collinsville Library
February 22: Sierra Club monthly meeting (green roof technologies)
February 24: Community Garden workshop (Okmulgee, OK)
February 25: Global Warming Lecture, Hardesty Library
February 25-27: Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts State Meeting (OKC)
February 25-28: Practical Tools and Solutions for Sustaining Family Farms Conference (KY)