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preparation

HarvestFest: A Food Preserving Workshop with Annie Cardinaux and CityGrowers

Event info: Friday 10 September 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Looking for some inspiration to preserve some tomato sauce or other sweet tastes of summer? Join us for this food preservation workshop where we will learn various methods of preserving tomatoes and other produce. You can also order a case of hyper-local organic tomatoes to pick up at the workshop through City Growers. Visit http://citygrowers.wordpress.com/bulk-tomatoes/ [...]

Tagged as: community, food, preparation, urban sustainability

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Winterizing Workshop: Making a more efficient home

Event info: Friday 6 November 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

With November fast approaching, homeowners and renters alike begin to anticipate the frozen pipes and leaky windows of winter, as well as the financial strain of keeping the winter’s cold at bay. As part of our continuing Urban Sustainability Series, the JP Forum joins with the Massachusetts Municipal Association to present a 1-hour workshop on [...]

Tagged as: climate, DIY, energy efficient, environment, greening, preparation

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“Sustainable City Living” Talk with Scott from the Rhizome Collective

Event info: Friday 3 October 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

With a warming globe and diminishing oil, it is critical that we begin to live with a dramatically different way. Bike-power, rain water collection, permaculture and relocalization of our communites are just the beginning. We will discuss the creative methods that “urban environmental stewards” have been testing out to live within the earth’s limits and [...]

Tagged as: climate, community, DIY, environment, greening, preparation, social movements

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“Everything’s Cool” Documentary and Discussion with Ross Gelbspan

Event info: Friday 25 January 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist 6 Eliot St. Jamaica Plain, MA EVERYTHING’S COOL is a film about America finally “getting” global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo- [...]

Tagged as: climate, environment, preparation, urban sustainability

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“Turning the Climate Corner” with Ross Gelbspan

Event info: Friday 4 January 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Friday, January 4th at 7:00pm First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist 6 Eloit St, Jamaica Plain, MA The Global Warming debate has come into the national spotlight in recent years with many politicians and celebraties taking it on as their core issue. We constantly hear about new scientific evidence leading to the same conclusion [...]

Tagged as: climate, environment, preparation, report-back

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