*S.Cushman & Lathrop residents Community Meeting (on sustainability) Jan. 19th, Saturday 2:00 – 3:30 pm JPJones Community Development Center 2400 Rickert St. 24th avenue and South Cushman
*Goldstream Sustainable Community Round Table Study Group Feb. 13th, Wednesday, 7:00 – 8:30 pm Ken Kunkel Community Center Goldstream Road, near Ivory Jack’s
*University Sustainable Community Round Table Study Group Feb. 17th, Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 pm UAF, Gruening Building, Room 208
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Many thanks to the Cold Climate Housing Research Center, the Northern Alaska Environmental Center and the Fairbanks Community Foodbank for helping to publicize Jan. 13th and Jan. 19th’s Sustainable Community Round Table Study Groups. All of you are helping making this possible!
*South Cushman & Lathrop Community meeting (on sustainability) Jan. 19th, Saturday, 2:00 – 3:30pm, JPJones Community Development Center
*Goldstream Sustainable Community Round Table Study Group Feb. 13th, Wednesday evening, 7:00 – 8:30, Ken Kunkel Community Center
*University Sustainable Community Round Table Study Group Feb. 17th, Sunday afternoon, 1:00 – 5:00, UAF Gruening Bldg., Room 208
Future locations will be scheduled; co-facilitators are needed, please read the Natural Step for communities by Sarah James & Torbjorn Lahti
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* The Sunday University Sustainable Community Round Table Study Group met from 1 to 6PM on Sunday the 13th.
*Some innovative ideas as well as some good old standards were brought forward. The notes will be posted here as soon as is possible.
*THANK YOU to all participants, special thanks to Mike and Ritchie Musick for the inspiring Natural Step presentation!
*We will start posting the amazing list of links we have planned ASAP, so please start leaving comments with your favorite sustainability related links to build it up!
*The next meeting for the University Group will be February 17th, UAF location tba when it is properly scheduled.
* The first South Fairbanks Sustainable Community Round Table Study Group meeting will be held on Saturday, January 19th at the J.P. Jones Community Developement Center. We are excited! More details coming!
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In October of last year, Torbjorn and Sara were keynote speakers at the Sustainable Northern Shelter Conference in Fairbanks. The Cold Climate Housing Research Center, who hosted the event, has posted the audio and video of their presentations. This is a great way to gear up for the meeting this weekend.
Click here to hear Sarah’s Presentation.
Click here to hear Torbjorn’s Presentation.
To watch the Opening Ceremony of the conference which includes presentations by both Sarah and Torbjorn copy this full address
mms://catstream2.cat.uaf.edu/cchrc/1_heringopeningkeynotes.wmv
paste it into the address bar of your web browser and press Enter.
We hope to see you Sunday!
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*This Sunday, January 13th 1:00 – 6:00pm
*University of Alaska Fairbanks, Gruening Building, Room 208 (Between the Wood Center and Signer’s Hall)
*Agenda: welcome, announcements, brief presentation on The Natural Step, by Mike Musick, discussion & work session
*Topics: recycling & resource management, public education, green business & economics, transportation, energy, land use, transportation, building efficiency and others
*Notebooks and pens provided. Please bring dry erase markers for the marker boards, flip charts/markers, laptops
*Could someone please bring a 2 large coffeepots, tea, and condiments? Please bring your mug!
*Contact Suzy or Kraig for more info: 479 – 2345 or 460 – 1130, polarsolar@gmail.com
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