03
Jun
Free workshop on growing medicinal herbs
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Blue C Community Garden in Los Osos will offer a free workshop on how to grow medicinal herbs in your home garden on Saturday, June 20 at 1:00 p.m. The workshop will be led by Hope Merkle, manager of Los Osos Valley Nursery and Tyann Linden, who has been using herbs, homeopathy and flower essences... Read More
03
Jun
Longtime Central Coast activist to speak in SLO June 11
Central Coast Bioneers kicks off its 2015 Critical Conversation Series with a talk and book signing by Paul Relis, the founding Executive Director of Santa Barbara’s Community Environmental Council. Relis’ book, Out of the Wasteland, takes readers on a journey of the environmental frontier, starting with the birth of environmentalism in Santa Barbara, into the... Read More
03
Jun
Congressional Climate Message Day
Nine hundred Citizens’ Climate Lobby volunteers will be meeting with elected officials on Capitol Hill on June 23, lobbying for carbon fee and dividend legislation to address climate change. CCL’s meetings will be even more successful if people contact their one representative and two senators and declare their support for congressional action on climate change.... Read More
10
May
Important Sierra Club General Meeting May 27
John Diodati, SLO County’s Paso Basin District Project Manager, will talk about Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (but were afraid to ask). This meeting is free and open to everyone (not just Sierra Club members). John will cover what the state now requires through the SGMA to protect... Read More
10
May
Guerrilla Gardening Club opens new thrift shop
Guerrilla Gardening Club, a nonprofit operated in Morro Bay by Taylor Newton, teaches gardening skills to young people looking for direction and community in their lives. The Club takes on public gardening projects in the Morro Bay area. Their mission: To turn nothing into everything. To cultivate our home land. To think and be one... Read More
10
May
Come to the May 12 BOS Hearing on the Las Pilitas Quarry Appeal
The February decision by the San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission to deny the Las Pilitas Quarry has been appealed to the Board of Supervisors. The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, May 12 at 9:00am in the County Government Center, 1055 Monterey Street at Santa Rosa. The Department of Planning and Building has recommended the... Read More
06
Apr
Ecologistics CEO serving as grant advisor for The Pollination Project
Stacey Hunt, CEO of Ecologistics, Inc., has been selected to join the Environmental Sustainability Team for The Pollination Project as a grant advisor. Stacey and her team review ten grant applications per month and make decisions on whether to fund the proposed projects. Founded by Dallas entrepreneur Ariel Nessel, the Pollination Project began as an... Read More
06
Apr
Ecologistics board grows to six
Green Groundswell blogger Linda Poppenheimer has joined the Board of Directors of Ecologistics as its sixth member. Linda lived most of her life in Southern California with a brief sojourn to Tempe, AZ where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture from Arizona State University. After returning to California, Linda embarked on a... Read More
06
Apr
Tenacity pays off for SLO Clean Energy
Some day when you turn on your computer and it is powered by locally generated 100% renewable energy, you will have Mladen Bandov, Eric Veium, Scott Mann and June Cochran to thank. After years of hard work, these four tireless and dedicated members of the SLO Clean Energy Leadership Team have finally gotten the attention... Read More
16
Mar
Warren Brush, founder of Quail Springs Permaculture Oasis to speak in SLO
Warren Brush, a local leader in the Permaculture movement, will make two appearances in San Luis Obispo later this month. Brush is a certified Permaculture designer and teacher, as well as a mentor and storyteller. For the past 25 years, he has been inspiring people of all ages to discover, nurture and express their inherent... Read More