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The World Peace Diet Lecture with Dr. Will Tuttle
Friday, September 5, 2008

Join Mercy For Animals for an informative lecture by Dr. Will Tuttle, who will present the main ideas in his groundbreaking and provocative book, The World Peace Diet. It is the first book to make explicit the invisible connections between our meals and our broad range of problems -- psychological, social, and spiritual, as well as health and environmental.

Dr. Tuttle offers powerful ways we can all experience healing and peace and contribute to a positive transformation of human consciousness.

Vegan snacks will be provided.

Where:     Cleveland Heights Library, 2345 Lee Rd. Cleveland Hts OH
When:       6:00 p.m. vegan snacks,  6:30 p.m. lecture begins

"Use The World Peace Diet as a guide to empower yourselves and others in making dietary choices that are powerful beyond what you can possibly imagine."  Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist and founder, Circle Of Life Foundation

"The World Peace Diet is one of the most provocative books I've ever read. This is a deep book, aglow with insights that penetrate and expose the complacency of a culture that has strayed painfully far from compassion."        John Robbins, noted author

"Will Tuttle brings a priceless perspective -- not only to the planetary crisis confronting us all, but also to powerful ways we each can affect it. This book is radiant with his learning and his compassion."      Dr. Joanna Macy, author, Coming Back To Life

"I am grateful for this powerful and cogent book. It has stretched my thinking (and heart) about animals, compassion, and our society."   John Mackey, founder, Whole Foods, Inc.

Visit www.worldpeacediet.org for more information.

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Dr. Lawrence Krauss, Director, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, Case Western Reserve University, will speak at the City Club on August 13th about Sciencedebate2008.

Fee. Contact the City Club at (216) 621-0082 for additional information or reservations.

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Cleveland Social Venture Partners invites you to an education forum on "Philanthropy and Early Childhood Development," a discussion of the importance of high quality child care and education featuring special guest Jill Stamm, Ph.D., co-founder of the New Directions Institute for Infant Brain Development, a grantee organization of Social Venture Partners Arizona.

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• The “Toad-ily Frogs” exhibit opening this Friday at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History is part of the “Year of the Frog” initiative devoted to helping save amphibians from extinction.
• The success of the Towpath Trail will be determined by how many tendrils it sends into Cleveland neighborhoods. Four Near West neighborhoods—Tremont, Ohio City, Clark-Metro and Stockyards—look to repeat the new Treadway connector at Train Avenue, site of a buried tributary to the Cuyahoga River known as Walworth Run.
• We all live in a watershed—the land area draining into a river or lake. This weekend, be a steward of your watershed by joining the year’s biggest volunteer clean up effort: the 19th annual RiverSweep. As part of the upcoming Cleveland Bicycle Week, participants are encouraged to bike to the event.

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Spring has returned to Northeast Ohio, and with it flocks of migratory birds. As numerous species of birds return to the area, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo will celebrate their arrival with International Migratory Bird Day.

Go beak-to-cheek with some of the Zoo’s birds during Get-Close programs, learn about the migration journey at the Migration Station, make bird feeders out of recycled plastic bottles and take them home to hang in your backyard or try to eat like a bird with a game of Be the Beak.

This year’s theme is Habitats: From Tundra to the Tropics. The goal is to raise awareness about bird conservation issues and how people might create or sustain environments that support birds.

Bioneers 2007 was an enlightening and genuinely entertaining lifestyle and sustainability conference—“bringing to town” speakers with insight about how we can move society toward a sustainable path.

David Cooperrider, the Fairmount Minerals Chair in Social Entrepreneurship and founder of the Business as an Agent of World Benefit center at Case, kicked off local events by sharing his experience at a UN summit and with Fortune 500 corporations like Chardon-based Fairmount Minerals.

“At the summit, Kofi Anan reached his hand out to the world’s business leaders and said ‘let’s unite the power of the markets with the best of human ideals,’” Cooperrider said. “I’m embarrassed to say our management schools are not keeping up with the way senior management at major corporations are thinking about this.

“Where the highest human strengths are nurtured is where human evolution happens. Most people look at a deficit rather than the history of what was done right. We need to move into thinking the world is a gift to be discovered rather than a machine that is broken.”

Cooperrider described how the mining sands company embraced sustainability as “a driver of innovation,” and was awarded Most Ethical Business by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He shared an example of Fairmount’s closed-loop sustainable business model: Fairmount takes the “spent” sands from engine part molds and ships it to corn farmers for fertilizer to produce biodiesel.

At an affordable green housing session, panelist Marge Misak, director of the Cuyahoga Community Land Trust said: "people think there's no shortage of affordable housing in Cleveland. Actually, we have a lot of low-cost housing in bad shape with poor indoor air quality."

The Cleveland EcoVillage Green Cottages and Cogswell Hall, both in the Detroit-Shoreway area, and Emeritus House and ValleyView Hope VI were discussed as examples of affordable green housing projects in Cleveland.

Bioneers is going to be a tremendous event; starting this Friday, you’ll have a chance to hear the premier speakers on sustainability describe what the future will look like.

First, beaming into Cleveland via satellite, are presenters who figure prominently in moving society toward a more sustainable path. Folks like Van Jones—whose work in Oakland to forge a green "New Deal" coalition so that kids who are now prison fodder will help create a zero-pollution economy, harvest the sun and heal the land instead—share inspiring lessons for Cleveland. Other examples include sustainable business guru Jay Harman, an award-winning inventor and CEO of PAX Scientific, presenting “Designing the next Golden Age”, and Paul Anastas explaining how he “fathered” green chemistry.

Also, check out dozens of local workshops; hear or participate in efforts to enrich community, body, mind and spirit. Just a small sample of the local workshops:

• “Connecting the dots in our local food community” with Darwin Kelsey , Director, Countryside Conservancy, Beth Knorr, Amalie Lipstreau, Chris Norman, and Stephanie Webb.
• “Defining a holistic transportation system for Northeast Ohio” with John McGovern, Clean Fuels Program Coordinator, Earth Day Coalition, Mandy Metcalf, Ecovillage Coordinator, Kevin Cronin, ClevelandBikes and Ryan McKenzie, City Wheels
• Chefs in the know Doug Katz, chef/owner of Fire will offer the latest information about selecting seafood responsibly, and prepare a dish using local seasonal products.
• Plastics from plants, junk, and anything but oil and gas The present state of the art, the future potential, and pitfalls associated with replacing petrochemical feedstocks for plastics. David A. Schiraldi, associate professor and Stuart Rowan, both from the Dept. of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University.

Feed your mind, then unwind with yoga sessions from Atma Center, Tia Chi, films, live music, tours of the Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbine exhibit, Dike 14 Nature Preserve, the triple-bottom line experience in the Cuyahoga Valley and more. Click here for the full list of presenters and workshops, and to register.

This Fall, The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District will be co-sponsoring the 2nd Annual Habitat Stewards Workshops.  Adult volunteers will become certified as Habitat Stewards and will be equipped with the knowledge to help residents in their communities transform their schools, worksites, and backyards into wildlife habitats. 

The 24 hours of training is taking place beginning the evening of Monday September 17, 2007 and continuing Monday and Wednesday evenings 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. until  October 3, 2007  at the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District offices at 6100 West Canal Road Valley View, Ohio.  Instruction will also take place on Saturdays September 22nd and September 29th from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Certified stewards will be requested to complete 30 hours of volunteer service upon completion of the course. Registration fee is $50.00 per person and includes an instruction manual and numerous resource materials, two Saturday and evening classes of instruction and certification upon completion.

            Wildlife Habitat subjects to be included in the sessions include: four components of establishing a Natural Wildlife Habitat, use of native plants, how to attract wildlife such as birds, butterflies, and amphibians, establishing a rain garden in a habitat, composting and other topics.

To register contact the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District office weekdays at 216-524-6580 X10 or visit our website at www.cuyahogaswcd.org.

This Fall, The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District will be co-sponsoring the 2nd Annual Habitat Stewards Workshops.  Adult volunteers will become certified as Habitat Stewards and will be equipped with the knowledge to help residents in their communities transform their schools, worksites, and backyards into wildlife habitats. 

The 24 hours of training is taking place beginning the evening of Monday September 17, 2007 and continuing Monday and Wednesday evenings 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. until  October 3, 2007  at the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District offices at 6100 West Canal Road Valley View, Ohio.  Instruction will also take place on Saturdays September 22nd and September 29th from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Certified stewards will be requested to complete 30 hours of volunteer service upon completion of the course. Registration fee is $50.00 per person and includes an instruction manual and numerous resource materials, two Saturday and evening classes of instruction and certification upon completion.

            Wildlife Habitat subjects to be included in the sessions include: four components of establishing a Natural Wildlife Habitat, use of native plants, how to attract wildlife such as birds, butterflies, and amphibians, establishing a rain garden in a habitat, composting and other topics.

To register contact the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District office weekdays at 216-524-6580 X10 or visit our website at www.cuyahogaswcd.org.

This Fall, The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District will be co-sponsoring the 2nd Annual Habitat Stewards Workshops.  Adult volunteers will become certified as Habitat Stewards and will be equipped with the knowledge to help residents in their communities transform their schools, worksites, and backyards into wildlife habitats. 

The 24 hours of training is taking place beginning the evening of Monday September 17, 2007 and continuing Monday and Wednesday evenings 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. until  October 3, 2007  at the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District offices at 6100 West Canal Road Valley View, Ohio.  Instruction will also take place on Saturdays September 22nd and September 29th from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Certified stewards will be requested to complete 30 hours of volunteer service upon completion of the course. Registration fee is $50.00 per person and includes an instruction manual and numerous resource materials, two Saturday and evening classes of instruction and certification upon completion.

            Wildlife Habitat subjects to be included in the sessions include: four components of establishing a Natural Wildlife Habitat, use of native plants, how to attract wildlife such as birds, butterflies, and amphibians, establishing a rain garden in a habitat, composting and other topics.

To register contact the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District office weekdays at 216-524-6580 X10 or visit our website at www.cuyahogaswcd.org.