Contributed by: Tim Olsen
The 3rd annual Harvest Festival will take place on Saturday September 24, 2011 from 11am-3pm at the Lowell Elementary MST playground in downtown Sioux Falls. Urban Agriculture Initiatives Inc. will host the event with inflatable toys and free food and beverages donated by Cross Pointe Baptist Church in Sioux Falls with music entertainment provided by Dakota Productions from Lennox, SD. Local organizations including the Boy Scouts, SDSU Extension, Sanford Health, Sioux Falls Fire and Rescue, Sioux Falls police department, Health Connect, and Augustana College will also be present. Student –led tours of A Growing Place teaching garden will be featured with children from Lowell Elementary on hand to answer questions about what they are learning and how the garden affects their life. If there are additional non-profit groups or service organizations that would like to be involved please call Cindy A Heidelberger Larson at 201-5549 or email cindyalarson@gmail.com for more information.
Produced by award-winning filmmakers Josh Tickell and Rebecca Tickell, “FREEDOM” started out as a documentary about the recent Gulf Coast oil spill disaster.
It became something very different.
“[The film] ‘FREEDOM’ makes a completely compelling case that by converting our dependence on oil to a literally homegrown source of energy, we achieve several goals. First, we improve our economy by spending energy dollars here; second, we create more jobs; third, we base our energy needs on a renewable resource (corn and biomass); and fourth,
we reduce our impact on the environment,” says reviewer
Patrick Robinson of the West Seattle Herald.
To promote the film, the husband-and-wife team, who also produced the Sundance Film Festival’s Award-winning documentary, “Fuel,” are now on a three-month, 30-city “North American Clean Energy Tour” in their fully customized Freedom Bus, a “green” constructed, highly energy efficient vehicle that showcases the latest biofuel-efficient advanced fuels along with wind, solar and water technology.
Contributed by: Whitney Parks, Koch Hazard Architects and Steven Matzner
Augie Green, Augustana’s student-led environmental club, and POET, the world’s largest ethanol producer, present the FREEDOM Film Tour, featuring an investigative documentary on alternative fuels and a full size, ethanol-burning bus covered in solar panels and wired with high-tech learning tools, which will roll through campus on Monday, Sept. 19.
The FREEDOM Bus will be located outside the Morrison Commons from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The film, “FREEDOM,” will be shown at 7 p.m. in Kresge Recital Hall.
The bus and the film are free and open to the public.
Contributed by: Natalie Eisenberg
Plain Green 2011 Speaker line-up and schedule have been released for this year’s conference on October 14! Check out details at http://plaingreen.org/
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