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Every Mon and Sat, 10am -12pm. Brodick/Feltham/Bow Parks (Saanich) Invasive Species removal. Volunteers needed. Training, gloves, and tools provided. No dogs please. For directions call Judy 472-0515
Every Wednesday and Sunday, 9am Bird Walks with naturalists, Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary, 3873 Swan Lake Rd. Margaret Lidkea 479-0211
Every Wed, 1-3pm Haliburton Community Organic Farm work parties. 741 Haliburton Rd. www.haliburtonfarm.org
Every Wed, 7pm Oneness Wednesdays. Living a Life of Compassion in Action, with Cedona Holly. Free or by donation. Church of Truth, 111 Superior St. Linda: 250-380-6383 http://cotvictoria.ca
Every Sat, 7am VNHS Saturday morning birding. Call 250-592-3381 on Fri or Sat for location. Rick 250-652-3326.
Every Sat, 9-12pm Beacon Hill Park Ivy Pull. Volunteers welcome. Cornelia 250-920-3556
Every Sat, 1:30pm Tour of Merve Wilkinson’s Wildwood Forest near Ladysmith. Jay 250-245-5540
Every Sat, 5pm. EcoReality Coop site tour, followed by potluck, movie or presentation. Salt Spring, http://www.EcoReality.org/Meetings 250-653-2024
Every Sun, 10-4pm O.U.R. Ecovillage weekly Sunday work parties. 250-743-3067. www.ourecovillage.org
Every Weekday - Help stop the seal slaughter! Join Dave Shishkoff with Friends of Animals if you have a spare hour during the week around lunchtime. Dave @ FriendsofAnimals.org
Week One
Thur 2, 2-4pm SLUGS Youth Workshop "Native Plants and Non-Timber Forest Products" Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre 1216 North Park St. $5 Youth Ages 14-19. Register by calling 250-386-9676 or office@compost.bc.ca
Thur 2, 7pm "Full Signal" Award Winning Documentary on The Cell Phone Industry: Profits and Your Health . North American ambient electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emissions are 10-100 times greater than the Salzburg, Austria standard. Citizens Against Un-Safe Emissions . By donation. www.FullSignalMovie.com. James Bay Community Centre 140 Oswego. 250-388-3847
Thur 2, 7pm Green Landlords - solving the Rubik’s Cube of energy efficiency in rental properties. Speaker Guy Dauncey, BCSEA. Emerging Green Builders, Burnside Gorge Community Centre, 471 Cecelia Road. RSVP to egbvictoria@gmail.com
Sun 5, 1-4pm Join CRD Regional Parks guest naturalist Michael Dunn to explore hidden treasures on the way to the Mt. Parke Regional Park summit (Mayne Island). Bring a snack and water and wear sturdy shoes. Meet Kim Road access. 250-478-3344 crdparks@crd.bc.cawww.crd.bc.ca/parks
Week Two
Tue 7-Sat 11 Birds at Sea Art Exhibition. Westcoast Room Victoria Conference Centre. 10-6 pm Tuesday, 12-7pm Wed-Sat.
Tue 7-Sat 11 Seabirds - Linking the Global Oceans. World Seabird Conference. 900 participants from 40 countries. Victoria Conference Centre, www.worldseabirdconference.com
Thur 9, 7pm Ocean of Wings Festival of Seabird Films. $15. Victoria Conference Centre.
Thur 9, 2-3pm Youth SLUGS Youth Workshop "Fall Garden Crops" Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre 1216 North Park St. $5 Youth Ages 14-19. Register by calling 250-386-9676 or office@compost.bc.ca
Sat 11, 9:30—3:30pm Water as Sacred - How can First Nation Elders’ teachings on the sacredness of water be applied to further generations? With Jane Marston MA & Darlene Sanderson PhD. Queenswood, 2492 Arbutus Rd. $85 incl lunch. earthliteracies@shaw.ca 250-220-4601 www.earthliteracies.org
Sat 11, 11-2pm Art in the Park Francis at King Regional Park (Saanich). Join a CRD Regional Parks interpreter to create nature inspired activities and crafts that are sure to get you excited about the beauty of the natural world. Nature Centre off Munn Road. 250-478-3344 crdparks@crd.bc.cawww.crd.bc.ca/parks
Sat 11, 2-4pm Composting Basics. Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre 1216 North Park Street. $15 Non-Members $10 Members. Register by calling 250-386-9676 or office@compost.bc.ca
Sat 11, 2-4pm Basics of Honey Beekeeping. Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre 1216 North Park Street $15/$10. Register by calling 250-386-9676 or office@compost.bc.ca
Sat 11, Third Annual EcoDoc Doc Production , with speakers Nicole Sorochan, Cyrus Block, Tom Shandel, Karen Hurley, Will Horter. MediaNet 250-381-4428 $175/$150 #106 -2750 Quadra http://media-net.bc.ca/
Sun 12, 10-4pm. Farmstead Cheesemaking workshop. Simple techniques that can be reproduced at home or on the farmstead. $120. Foxglove Farm. Salt Spring www.foxglovefarmbc.ca
Week Three
Mon 13, 10-Noon Greening your Small Business, with Maureen Cureton, Vancity Green Business manager. By video-conference, http://bit.ly/aoBhQi $10.00
Tue 14—Oct 5, 10-12pm Teilhard de Chardin wrote that there is a need for a new humanity, a new spirituality and a new mysticism, with Bill Wilson, SJ Ph D. $75.00 drop in $20. Friend’s Meeting House 1831 Fern St. Victoria. earthliteracies@shaw.ca 250-220-4601 www.earthliteracies.org
Tue 14, 7:30pm Wolverines: A Story of Ecological Myths and Economic Realities, with wildlife ecologist Dr. Jason Fisher. VNHS. UVic Fraser 159.
Wed 15, 3.30 – 4.30 pm Bigger Pipes or Greener Communities? A Hydrological Assessment of using Low Impact Development to Mitigate Future Flooding, with Chris Jensen, UVic Department of Geography. Pacific Climate Seminar Series. UVic Soc Sci & Maths A120. Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) www.pics.uvic.ca
Wed 15 - Oct 27, + Sat 18. Introduction to Urban Homesteading, with Geoff Johnson. More food, water and energy can be harvested and cycled in the city. $150+HST. UVic Continuing Studies http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/aspnet/Course/Detail/?code=ASSD002 or 250-472-4747.
Thur 16, 2-4pm Youth SLUGS Youth Workshop "Cheese Making" Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre 1216 North Park St. $5 Youth Ages 14-19. Register by calling 250-386-9676 or office@compost.bc.ca
Thur 16, 23, 30 6-9pm + Sat18, 1-4pm Introduction to Herbal Pharmacy. Francis/King Regional Park (Saanich). Preregister by Sept. 10th. $30 + tax. 250-478-3344 crdparks@crd.bc.cawww.crd.bc.ca/parks
Fri 17, 9-4pm 10th Annual Conservation Connection Forum at Royal Roads. Sessions on fundraising and planned giving, land use planning on First Nations land, linking academic research with conservation initiatives, Open Space session, and “big picture” politics and local conservation with Elizabeth May, Rob Fleming, Keith Martin, and more. See www.hat.bc.ca or call 250 995-2428.
Sat 18 to Sun 26 Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup engages thousands of Canadians to clean up their local shorelines. For more information and to register, go to www.shorelinecleanup.ca.
Sat 18, 9am 5th Annual Run for the Mountain to raise funds for Mount Benson land acquisition. Hundreds of runners and walkers in 6km walk/run around Westwood Lake at the base of Mount Benson. Contact Paul Chapman www.nalt.bc.ca 250-714-1990
Sat 18, 9-noon 10th Annual Gorge Waterway Cleanup. Each year, more than two tonnes of debris is retrieved from the Gorge shoreline and waters, improving habitat for local wildlife and making a more beautiful area. Volunteers still needed to clean sections of the Gorge Waterway from Bay St. Bridge to Tillicum St. Bridge. Burnside Gorge Community Centre. Gillian Rowan, 250-388-5251. www.burnsidegorge.carec-bgca@shaw.ca
Sat 18, 10-4pm O.U.R. Ecovillage Fundraising Dinner and presentation with Carolyn Herriot at O.U.R. Ecovillage, during the Cowichan Wine and Culinary festival. RSVP 250-743 3067
Sat 18, 11am Don’t Panic, Grow Organic, with Carolyn Herriot. Saanich Pesticide-Free Gardening Series, Ross Room Pearkes Rec Centre, Tillicum.
Sat 18, 1-2:30pm Time to Put Up the Paddle, Witty’s Lagoon Regional Park. For First Nations people and early settlers, the upcoming winter could mean either comfort or bare survival. Join CRD Regional Parks guest naturalist Joe Percival to explore the strategies they used to get through to spring. Meet Nature Centre off Metchosin Road. Bus #54 or #55. 250-478-3344 crdparks@crd.bc.cawww.crd.bc.ca/parks
Sat 18, 1:30 pm Life After Pesticides: Beautiful Yards and Healthy Gardens, with Linda Gilkeson. Saanich Pesticide-Free Gardening Series, Ross Room Pearkes Rec Centre, Tillicum.
Sat 18, 2-4pm Chickens in the City. Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre 1216 North Park St. $15/$10. Register by calling 250-386-9676 or office@compost.bc.ca
Sat 18, 7pm Six Degrees Could Change the World. National Geographic TV Special on devastating climate change impacts. KNOW TV (Channel 4 in Victoria)
Sun 19, 10am Paddle to the Premier: Stop the Site C Dam. Stand in solidarity with the Treaty 8 First Nations and the Peace Valley to say no to the Site C Dam, and send a message to the government - Keep the Peace River as it is. The flooding of over 100 km of an important river valley is neither clean nor green. Front steps of the Legislature in Victoria. Speakers include David Suzuki, Joe Foy, First Nations leaders from Treaty 8.
Sun 19, 10-2pm Car-Free Sunday - Victoria's Secrets Cycling Tour. Meet Centennial Square; bring a lunch. 20 easy kilometres. GVCC
Sun 19, 10:30 - 3pm Hartland Happening! CRD Fifth Annual Hartland Open House, Hartland Ave (off West Saanich Road). Enjoy the fun; play with mini-machines in the giant sandbox; take a guided tour of the landfill; climb aboard monster machines like dump trucks, tractors and bulldozers and take pictures of your little ones. Shuttle buses from Camosun College's Interurban Campus to Hartland.
Sun 19, 1-5 pm, Feast of Fields, Parry Bay Sheep Farm, 4335 Lindholm Rd. Metchosin. Melanie Banas. 250-381-8113. $85. Children 7-12 $15. Children 6 and under free. www.feastoffields.com
Sun 19, 6:30pm Flavours of the West Coast. Launch of new 13 episode TV series, CHEK TV, Cedarwood Productions. Local sustainable food production.
Tue 21, 7:30pm Interesting Ferns And “Fern Allies” of BC, with Adolf & Oluna Ceska. Swan Lake Nature House. Admission free
Wed 22, 7pm Fresh: New Thinking About What We’re Eating. Open Cinema upbeat documentary in collaboration with FoodRoots.ca. Discussion with Trevor Walker (Plenty Epicurean Pantry), Sol Kinnis (City Harvest), Linda Geggie (CRFAIR Coordinator and Lifecycles founder). Local organic food, beer & wine; door prizes; popcorn. Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad St (elevator access), $10 suggested donation. Doors open at 5.30. www.opencinema.ca (250) 381-4428.
Wed 22, 7pm Autumn Equinox Celebration - Finding Inner Balance in a Changing World with Transition Victoria's Heart and Soul Group. Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street. Free or by donation. Linda: 250-380-6383 or http://cotvictoria.ca
Wed 22, 7:30pm Birds of Vancouver Island, with Mike Yip on a photographic journey off shore of Vancouver Island. In 2006 he spent 13 days at sea on a fishing boat sighting albatrosses, shearwaters, and the first sighted and documented Lesser Nighthawk in BC. UVic Fraser 159
Thur 23, 7:30pm Resilience Series: Personal and Cultural Evolution, with Edward Butterworth. $5-10 suggested donation. B.C.G.E.U Auditorium, 2994 Douglas St. Well Foundation: 250-384-8236, chrisbullock@shaw.ca
Thur 23 – Sat 25 Growing Food for Family. $225. Foxglove Farm. Salt Spring www.foxglovefarmbc.ca
Sat 25, 11am-3pm Hawk Watch, East Sooke Regional Park. Experts with spotting scopes will be at the viewpoint above Beechey Head. 250-478-3344 crdparks@crd.bc.cawww.crd.bc.ca/parks
Sat 25, 2-4pm Seed Saving. Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre 1216 North Park St. $15 Non-Members $10 Members. Register by calling 250-386-9676 or office@compost.bc.ca
Sun 26, 9:30-2:30pm VNHS Juan De Fuca Pelagic Birding on the Fantasea II - shearwaters, murrelets, auklets, jaegers, Northern Fulmar, Tufted Puffin, many species of gulls, phalaropes, and other pelagics. $60. Ann Nightingale 250-652-6450
Sun 26, 11-4pm Eat Here Now! Victoria Harvest Fest, Centennial Square. Great food, music, kids area, many local growers with “buck-a-bite” tastings. www.victoriaPublicMarket.com
Sun 26, 11-4pm Saanichton Village Association 2nd Annual Community Picnic, Saanichton Green (Next to Polo Park)
Week Five
Mon 27, 7:30pm VNHS Whales, Satellites, and Cold Lunches on the Edge of Antarctica. Presentation by Charles Short, who studied Antarctic killer whales and humpbacks. UVic Fraser 159.
Mon 27, 10pm Homo Toxicus. Montreal filmmaker finds 110 chemical contaminants in her body. KNOW TV (Channel 4 in Victoria)
Mon 27 – Fri 1. Growing Food for Market. Nuts and bolts workshop, perennial and annual crops. echniques and strategies of a successful market farmer. $285. Foxglove Farm. Salt Spring www.foxglovefarmbc.ca
Wed 29, Oct 2 (Field Trip). Oct 6. Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems: Creating Local and Global Sustainability, with Lorenzo Magzul and Cheryl Bryce. Indigenous people practicing and reinstating indigenous food practices $60+HST. UVic Continuing Studies http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/aspnet/Course/Detail/?code=ASSF020 250-472-4747.
Thur 30 - Sat 2 Compost Educator Volunteer Training. $100, $85 reimbursement on completion of 30-hour practicum. Become a trained volunteer for our centre while learning about composting systems, organic gardening and more! office@compost.bc.ca
Thur 30, 12– 1:30pm Conversations on the New Cosmology of Thomas Berry. Our conversations focus on what it means for humans to know this story as our own story. With Bill Wilson, SJ PhD. Friend’s Meeting House 1831 Fern St. Victoria. earthliteracies@shaw.ca 250-220-4601 www.earthliteracies.org
Thur 30, 5:30pm Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, with Visionary author and lecturer Dr. David Korten. Transformational Lecture Series. Sets out a framework for an economy designed to bring humans into balance with Earth's biosphere, equitably share the wealth of our common human heritage, and make democracy a living practice. Free for Cascadia Green Building Council members; $10 for non-members. Antechamber at City Hall, 1 Centennial Square, Victoria.
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EcoNews provides this electronic version of the
newsletter without charge even though it costs around $1,100 CDN
to produce each month. If you can help by making a donation, whether
$5 or $100, that would be most welcome.
Please feel encouraged to repost.