Vision For Vashon - A New Outlook

The Vashon Island Food Summit...for people who eat

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VashonFoodSummit.org

•Our "Food for Thought" Documentary Film Festival on Saturday, Feb. 27
•Pre-conference events--like the Tofu Factory Tour and special events at Thriftway
•The great lineup of workshops on March 6 and 7
•The demonstrations and displays that will be overflowing with information about food
•Our inspiring Opening (Friday evening) and Keynote (Saturday evening) Addresses
•How to pre-register and be eligible for some GREAT door prizes
•Volunteer opportunities to have fun making it happen!
•A Contra Dance on Saturday night!

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...get CERT trained

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Who from your home will be on Island when/if a disaster strikes?
Bring them with you and become “CERT”ified together.
Know what to do and know they know what to do.
An emergency can happen anywhere to anyone.
You can use these proven skills at a college campus, business, places of travel, and at home whenever and wherever needed.
Knowledge and practice brings confidence of action.
Learn to be aware, lead, follow, and respond
…get CERT trained
To register or for more info – Fridays –Mar 19 – May 7, 6-10pm
certvashon@yahoo.com or Saturdays – May 1, 8am – 4pm
206.463.4558 or VIFR Training Center
contact your nearest CERT member No Fee

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Carbon sequestration at Island Center Forest

Forty volunteers planted 1,200 tree seedlings at Island Center Forest in one of the most interesting King County habitat restoration projects. Part of a collaboration with King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, the University of Washington and Friends of Island Center Forest, a barren “borrow pit” site has become a cutting-edge demonstration project where researchers will study the use of compost and its ability to capture and store carbon while rebuilding the fertility of degraded soils. Click Text Here

Are you ready to put the fun between your legs?

Bristol and Copenhagen Nov 24th – Dec 09th

An irresistible new machine of resistance will be launched during the COP15 UN summit protests in Copenhagen. Made from hundreds of old bicycles and thousands of activists' bodies 'Put the fun between your legs: Operation Bike Bloc' is a collaboration between Climate Camp (www.climatecamp.org.uk) and art activist collective The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (www.labofii.net).

Infamous for touring the UK recruiting a rebel clown army, running courses in postcapitalist culture, throwing snowballs at bankers and launching a rebel raft regatta, the Lab of ii’s creative visions will combine with the Climate Camp’s logistical genius, radical politics and capacity for mass mobilization to engineer an entirely new form of civil disobedience.

Bike hackers, welders, activists, artists and engineers will team up to design the resistance machine in Bristol, UK. It will then be built and launched in Copenhagen as part of the Climate Justice Action mobilizations. The Bike Bloc will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance tool, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival. We invite you to put the fun between your legs and become the bike bloc.

If you want to help design and build the prototype come to the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol between the 24th – 29th November (http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/538). Or join us in Copenhagen, at the Candyfactory (http://bolsjefabrikken.com) to build the final design and train up for the action (6th – 15th December). On the 16th of December the Bike Bloc will swarm through the streets during the Reclaim Power action for climate justice. (www.climate-justice-action.org).

If this doesn’t inspire you to book your trip to Copenhagen, maybe our promo video will provide the spark you need (best watched in HQ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZtUTk6Iz2E

www.funbetweenyourlegs.info

bikebloc@climatecamp.org.uk

follow us on twitter: fbyl

Tel: +44 (0) 7847909906

Event occurs on 11/24/2009 from All Day to .

Help Publicize the Peoples Summit

Thank you for helping to publicize the People's Summit, taking place in less than a month! We hope you will forward the below calendar announcements to help us spread the word via your newsletters, list-servs, announcements at events, and other networks!

Please also join the People's Summit Facebook Group, and ask your friends to join too! Here is the link: www.facebook.com/groups/create.php?customize&gid=201089093355#/group.php?gid=201089093355

We will also have posters for the People's Summit at the end of this week - please let us know if you can help distribute them! Thank you!

Seattle+10 Organizing Committee

THE PEOPLE'S SUMMIT Nov 27-29 WTO+10: Global Justice Forward! On Nov 30th the World Trade Organization (WTO) will host a "restart" meeting in Geneva – 10 years to the day from when we shut down the WTO! On Dec 7th, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change opens in Copenhagen. These are uncertain times and much is at stake: Join us to reclaim and amplify our voices with the vision we have for a healthy planet and people. Let's harness the spirit of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle with a renewed commitment to move global justice forward! Friday Nov 27 through Sunday Nov 29: three days of plenaries, workshops and a cross-sector strategy session, held at Seattle University, New Hope Baptist Church & Town Hall.

Confirmed speakers: Leo Gerard, United Steel-Workers President, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, Dena Hoff, National Family Farm Coalition & Via Campesina, Eric Holt-Gimenez & Annie Shattuck, Food First, Rev. Robert Jeffrey, Black Dollar Days Task Force, David Korten (When Corporations Rule the World, Agenda For a New Economy), Thea Lee, AFL-CIO, Sylvia Orduño, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and National Planning Committee, U.S. Social Forum, The Yes Men.

Workshop topics: Building a New Economy, Fighting for Trade & Climate & Food Justice, Battling Poverty, Resisting the Green & Blue Revolutions, Immigrant Rights, Your Right to Protest, Grassroots Media, Art & Activism, Building anti-racist movements, Youth Organizing, Direct Action Organizing, Cross Border Organizing...and more!

All events FREE or by donation; no registration required. Volunteers needed! Learn More... www.seattleplus10.org Or call 206.405.4600

Event occurs on 11/27/2009 from All Day to .

Put the fun between your legs: Become the bike bloc

Bristol and Copenhagen Nov – Dec 09

An irresistible new machine of resistance will be launched during the COP15 UN summit protests in Copenhagen. Made from hundreds of old bicycles and thousands of activists' bodies 'Put the fun between your legs: Operation Bike Bloc' is a collaboration between Climate Camp (www.climatecamp.org.uk) and art activist collective The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (www.labofii.net).

Infamous for touring the UK recruiting a rebel clown army, running courses in postcapitalist culture, throwing snowballs at bankers and launching a rebel raft regatta, the Lab of ii’s creative visions will combine with the Climate Camp’s logistical genius, radical politics and capacity for mass mobilization to engineer an entirely new form of civil disobedience.

Bike hackers, welders, activists, artists and engineers will team up to design the resistance machine in Bristol, UK. It will then be built and launched in Copenhagen as part of the Climate Justice Action mobilizations. The Bike Bloc will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance tool, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival. We invite you to put the fun between your legs and become the bike bloc.

If you want to help design and build the prototype come to the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol between the 24th – 29th November (http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/538). Or join us in Copenhagen, at the Candyfactory (http://bolsjefabrikken.com) to build the final design and train up for the action (6th – 15th December). On the 16th of December the Bike Bloc will swarm through the streets during the Reclaim Power action for climate justice. (www.climate-justice-action.org).

If this doesn’t inspire you to book your trip to Copenhagen, maybe our promo video will provide the spark you need (best watched in HQ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZtUTk6Iz2E

www.funbetweenyourlegs.info

bikebloc@climatecamp.org.uk

follow us on twitter: fbyl

Tel: +44 (0) 7847909906

Event occurs on 11/24/2009 from All Day to .

Public presentation on Quartermaster Harbor Nitrogen Management Study – November 19, 2009

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The expected outcomes of this study are recommendations for policy changes in the 2012 King County Comprehensive Plan update for nitrogen management on Vashon-Maury Island. The policy recommendations will be transferable to similar rural areas in Puget Sound where inputs of nutrients from small streams, On-Site Septic systems and direct ground-water discharge flow are impacting the receiving waters.

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