Upcoming Events

What: Group Meeting
When: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 @ 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Guelph Unitarian Church - 122 Harris St.

This is the third meeting, hosted in part by the members of the Meadowview intentional community. Open to everyone!

When: Thursday, February 11, 2010 @ 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Where: Wellington Centre for Continuing Education, Rm 8 & 9, 1428 Gordon St. Guelph

How does solar energy work and how do you set it up? This course covers the different kinds of solar systems that are available, and how the average home, cottage or business owner can decide if their location is optimal for solar. It also provides information about the Green Energy Act, how it affects solar, and why solar is now a great financial investment. Accessing government rebates for installing solar will also be discussed.

Class instructor is Douglas Prest, MBA and Professional Engineer, who will answer these questions and any others you may have regarding this environmentally friendly topic!

To register, contact:

Wellington Centre for Continuing Education
1428 Gordon St.
Guelph, ON N1L 1C8
519-836-7280

What: Book Launch
When: Friday, February 12, 2010 @ 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Ed Video Media Arts Centre, 40 Baker Street, Guelph

Interested in moving beyond our current climate destroying industrial agriculture? Consider the 'food sovereignty' movement - a political economy remarkably free from petroleum product dependence through biodiverse and mixed farming systems.

Leigh Brownhill will speak on land, food and freedom at an Ed Video book launch on Tuesday February 2 at 7 pm, along with Seth Tobocman.

For more information, see the Ed Video website:
Ed Video Events Page

What: Seed Exchange and Exhibit
When: Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Where: Evergreen Seniors Centre, 683 Woolwich St. Guelph

The Guelph Enabling Garden presents Seedy Saturday, a community seed exchange, sale, sustainable gardening exhibit.

Speakers:
Extending the food growing season with cold-framing techniques: Kyla Dixon-Muir of Toronto's Riverdale Meadow Community Garden - 2-2:30 PM
Seeds of Diversity Seed Library Project: Lea Tran of the Guelph Enabling Garden - 4-5 PM

Transition Guelph will have a display promoting the Sharing Backyards program.

Admission is pay what you can
Guelph Enabling Garden - What's Happening

When: Friday, March 26, 2010 @ 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Where: Dublin Street United Church, 68 Dublin St. W., Guelph, Ontario

Sacred Wisdom Centre and Knowself Services, supported by the Guelph Seminar, present

DREW DELLINGER: Poet, scholar and activist from California giving an inspired talk on “The Confluence of Cosmology, Ecology and Justice” based on the ecological vision of Thomas Berry and the social justice vision of Martin Luther King Jr.

$20 in advance -$25 at the door (tickets available at the The Bookshelf)
(No one turned away for lack of funds)

See also the following event on Saturday, March 27.

When: Saturday, March 27, 2010 @ 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Where: Ecology Villa, Ignatius Jesuit Retreat Centre, Guelph, Ontario

$50 in advance -$55 at the door plus G.S.T. if space permits. Immediately following the workshop, Jim Profit Executive Director of the Ignatius Jesuit Centre, will lead a Cosmic Walk with Drew through the Stations of the Cosmos dedicated to Thomas Berry.

(50 Persons Maximum)

Drew Dellinger is a poet, teacher, writer and speaker who has inspired minds and hearts around the world, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology and compassion. He is also a consultant, publisher and founder of Planetize the Movement Press.

Dellinger has appeared at over 700 events across the U.S., U.K. and Australia. He has spoken and performed at numerous conferences--including Bioneers, the Green Festival, the Dream Reborn and the Parliament of the World's Religions--as well as colleges and universities, poetry venues, protests and places of worship. He has shared podiums and stages with luminaries such as Alice Walker, Cornel West, Thomas Berry, Matthew Fox, Eve Ensler, Paul Hawken, Ani Difranco, Chuck D, Danny Glover, Julia Butterfly Hill, Brian Swimme, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and many others.

For more information, please contact Barbara.Susan.Booth@sympatico.ca

For more information on Loyola House, please visit:
www.loyolahouse.ca/about/about.html

Please check back often for information about Transition Guelph community events, workshops, film nights, public talks, meetings, picnics, potlucks and much more!