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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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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

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.

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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.

[ 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

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Wednesday, April 3 — 6pm –Sustainable Urban Planning
Thursday, April 4 — 4pm — Pearl Farmers Market Opens
Thursday, April 12 — 6pm — Pearl Farmers Market Kickoff Celebration
Saturday, April 14 — 12pm — Climate Action Day

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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 . . .
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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)

[ 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.

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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. . .
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