Roots Market and Cafe is an innovative approach to local foods, providing year-round access to fresh foods, workshops and other food-friendly activities. Read more about them here: http://www.localrootswooster.com/AboutUs.html

Or see for yourself Nov. 20th from 7 to 9 pm

140 S. Walnut St. in Wooster; 330-263-5336

for more events, see: http://www.localrootswooster.com/Events.html

The Tuscarawas County Sustainability Network presents…

Do you have acreage that you are managing? Are you wondering what sustainable and profitable solutions exist for your forest? The Tuscarawas County Sustainability Network, in partnership with Kent State University at Tuscarawas, will present a free Sustainable Forestry and Non-timber Forest products workshop on Thursday, November 12th, from 7 to 8 pm, in the Science and Advanced Technology Center room 113. To register, contact the Office of Continuing Studies and Community Development at 330.308.7434. Walk-ins are welcome, but registration is preferred.

Presenting will be Mr. Randy Clum, Owner of Clum Forestry Consultants and Dr. Randi Pokladnik, PhD in Environmental Studies and President of the Roots of Appalachia Growers Association.

Mr. Clum worked for the ODNR division of Forestry from 1979-1997, and now owns his own consulting company. He received the 2007 Harrison County Forest Stewardship Award and the 2009 Tuscarawas County Conservationists of the Year award.  Born and raised in the mesophytic forests of Appalachia, Dr. Pokladnik’s studies have focused on restoration ecology and non-timber forest products.

September 26th, 1 pm

at Amanda’s House.

RSVP to 330-343-2516 or tuscsustainability (at) gmail.com

Bring a dish and friends!

Presented by Jennifer, from The Wilderness Center

September 15th, 7:30 pm at KSU Tuscarawas in the Auditorium

Trying to sort out the ‘clean coal’ debate? Here are some fact sheets about Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) plants, being touted as ‘advanced energy’:

http://www.energyjustice.net/coal/igcc/

 
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
by Derrick Jensen

Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?

Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions presented had to do with personal consumption—changing light bulbs, inflating tires, driving half as much—and had nothing to do with shifting power away from corporations, or stopping the growth economy that is destroying the planet? Even if every person in the United States did everything the movie suggested, U.S. carbon emissions would fall by only 22 percent. Scientific consensus is that emissions must be reduced by at least 75 percent worldwide. 

Or let’s talk water. We so often hear that the world is running out of water. People are dying from lack of water. Rivers are dewatered from lack of water. Because of this we need to take shorter showers. See the disconnect? Because I take showers, I’m responsible for drawing down aquifers?Well, no. More than 90 percent of the water used by humans is used by agriculture and industry. The remaining 10 percent is split between municipalities and actual living breathing individual humans. Collectively, municipal golf courses use as much water as municipal human beings. People (both human people and fish people) aren’t dying because the world is running out of water. They’re dying because the water is being stolen. 

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It’s that time again! Last Saturday of the Month drum circle at the Amphitheatre on Deis Hill in Dover, from 9-12. This time we’ll be cooking out, so bring some things to share and we’ll break bread at noon! Hope to see you there!

Bring instruments and your selves!

Come join us at the Farmer’s Market from 3-7 at the Fairgrounds for a Make-your-own-instrument and Jam! session. We will have many recyclable materials to work with, though please bring your own as well if you’d like.

Also, volunteers are needed to staff the TCSN booth at the Market during this time as well.

Contact 330-343-2516 for more info or to volunteer

We hope to see you at

Countywide’s June 10, 2009, CAP meeting!

Thank you for your interest in the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility’s Citizens Advisory Panel. Your participation is greatly appreciated and we look forward to the opportunity to meet and discuss some of the issues that concern our neighbors.

*Please join us for our next meeting at 

Countywide Landfill Remediation Trailer

3619 Gracemont Street SW

East Sparta, Ohio 44626 

Wednesday, June 10, at 6:30 p.m.

Refreshments will be provided.

Please RSVP by Monday, June 8, to 330.874.3855 or Jeff Kraus (krausj@repsrv.com).

SUSTAINABILITY  AND  RECYCLING 

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 

OR 

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 

Sign Up for the District’s  

E-mail Registry at 

www.timetorecycle.org 

offered by the Joint Solid Waste Management District

Click here for flier download: 2009-teacher-workshop-flyer-1