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Join us for our monthly celebration of community, health and sustainability! The Local Earth Collective gathers once per month to share delicious organic food, creative local projects, conscious conversation and thought provoking films. We laugh… we share ideas… we commune as friends and a collective working towards a common goal… a healthy and happy world!
Each month we offer a film or presentation from a local organization dedicated to positive change on this planet! At times the current social and environmental challenges our world is facing can feel overwhelming. When we come together as friends and community we remember that anything is possible when we work together! Together we are raising the Collective consciousness!
Please bring your friends, a positive attitude and a smile (and maybe an instrument?!). There will be live local music for you to enjoy while eating delicious organic food from the Coop Deli. This is a ‘leave a positive trace’ event, so we kindly ask that everyone brings their own reusable drinking vessels. Our intention is that these gatherings inspire positive social change and create no waste. We look forward to laughing, learning and celebrating as community with you!
5:30 – 6:30 PM Social / Deli / Balcony (live local musicians)
6:30 – 8:30 PM Inspirational and Educational Community Event (either a film and/or presentation from a local organization followed up with community discussion)
With Love ~ The Local Earth Collective
Local Earth Social / First Fridays Monthly
Time/Day – Friday, August 3rd @ 5:30 – 8:30 PM
Location – People’s Food Coop in Ocean Beach
4765 Voltaire Street, San Diego CA 92107
(link: http://goo.gl/maps/Hsh5)
Contact – sandiego@local-earth.org
a little update/overview from last nights gathering… (once again… thanks for sharing your commUNITY spirit & creativity!)
Local Earth Collective Poster – for next weeks Soular Powered event : next Tuesday we will be meeting at People’s as usual… we will try to meet at first in the community room @ 6:30 if it is not occupied by another group… then we will most likely migrate out front, outside by the benches to work on our Local Earth poster for the Soular Powered event next Wednesday (http://www.facebook.com/events/285121361575079).
We invite you and friends to bring your creativity and any ‘earthy’ materials you would like to add to the poster. We are looking for a cool piece of scrap wood (flat and somewhat smooth) for the base of the poster… and then anything else earthy you think may go well on the display (ie. wildflowers, pinecones, shells, wood etc.). We would greatly appreciate bringing any miscelanious extra supplies you may have… paints, glue, glue guns, brushes, markers etc.
The overall vision/intention of the poster/display is connecting community in a fun, sustainable and celebratory fashion! Optimal health in relationship to self, community & nature!
Local Earth Collective Membership: we discussed a simple 1$ per month LE membership fee. In the discussion we felt like it may support the feeling of really being part of the collective and contributing. At first this would not really generate much $$’s, yet it may provide us with a few dollars for simple little projects… or we could save and put towards a larger project. Also, there are something like 4 million people in this general area… think of the possibilities of the Local Earth Collective becoming even a small percentage of that?! We could actually raise a decent amount of $$’s for great community projects!!!
Local Earth Collective T-shirts – We have been discussing many t-shirt ideas for around a year or so now. Let’s make this happen! We’ve gotta start thinking about how many we think we should make in the first go’round. What are the best/most sustainable materials and processes we can use? Let’s put our collective thinking caps on and come up with a game plan to create some swweeeeet t-shirts!
Local Earth Collective – CommUNITY H’art Project – We have done 2 of these thus far… we get a BIG peace of blank canvas (8×10 foot or so)… we meet up at a friends art studio… with some tea, music and paintbrushes… and let the collective creativity flow! we just set some overall intention and inspiration for the art peace… and then as communty co-create whatever flows thru… whatever it is we want to share! We will start thinking about dates and potential venues for this project soon!
Love & Gratitude to you all!
Joshua
We invite anyone and everyone in the San Diego area who is interested in creating a healthy and sustainable community to join us every Tuesday (6:30 PM) at People’s Co-op in the community room.
We are currently in the process of creating a simple grassroots community organizing platform called the Community Resilience Program. We want this program to be co-created by the collective wisdom and creativity of our local community! This means we NEED YOU and YOUR WISDOM! WE believe in the COLLECTIVE! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
The Weekly Transition is a perfect way to get involved in our local community! Join a creative team of active citizens working to create a healthy, happy, and sustainable world!
Welcome to the Local Earth Collective… Welcome Home!
Location: People’s Coop (Ocean Beach)
4765 Voltaire Street, San Diego, 92107 (please do not park in the parking lot so shopping customers can park there… or buy some yummy food to bring to the gathering!)
Time: Every Tuesday @ 6:30 PM
Contact: Josh Alvord (josh@local-earth.org)
The Local Earth team wishes you an amazing 2012 filled with community celebration, health, happiness & sustainability!
Food & Film (Saturday, February 11th – 4:00 PM / IC Gardens Vista)
Join us and our friends from Ecofficiency.org who will be presenting “2012: A Time for Change” – An uplifting documentary by writer and producer Daniel Pinchbeck; with a focus on the opportunity for a consciousness shift and solutions to help transform our current society into a more self-sustaining culture.
Transition Town Study Group (8 week study group beginning February 15th – Vista)
Welcome to ‘Seeds of Transition’! We help support, organize, coordinate and facilitate weekly Transition Town study groups. The focus is creating sustainable, resilient and localized communities that are less dependent on fossil fuels.
Transition Tuesdays (weekly)
A casual and fun evening of discussion about the health & resilience of the local community. This is held at fun public location where participants can enjoy a snack, tea, coffee or beer while discussing local projects & issues.
Awakening the Dreamer Symposium (March 25th – Vista Library)
Another symposium coming up at the Vista Library – 700 Eucalyptus Avenue. It is a free 4-5 hour multi-media, fun, practical, philosophical, and inspiring look at our place in the world. Completely free, nothing for sale, and not religious.
Local Earth Festival
This March begins the first chapter of the Local Earth Festival in Costa Rica (March 2013)! A portion of our team will be spending the month of March scouting out the site and logistics for next years festival! This is an exciting new project that is just beginning… our logistics/planning team is currently forming. If you are interested please contact us!
Updates of recent community action…
We completed our 2nd Transition Town Study group. Around 20 amazing folks came together every Tuesday night to discuss local issues of community resilience, health and sustainability. Our first community action group sprouted from this study group; check out theLocal Economy group! The Buena Vista Watershed group also sprang from this gathering.
We completed our 1st Treekaya Roots Immersion (Organic Gardening & Composting Workshop). Mark Boyko – ‘Papa Earth’ guided 10 community members in preparing healthy organic soil, planting basics, efficient irrigation systems & various composting methods.
We hosted several fun community gatherings with great organic local food, thought provoking films & inspiring discussion! We also facilitated our first Awakening the Dreamer Symposium!
If you would like to receive updates of community projects and activities please see our website! (www.localearthsandiego.org) If you click the little button over on the side ‘Join Local Earth’… you will automatically be notified of upcoming events.
Thank you so much for all you are… and all you do to help make San Diego such an amazing community! Let us become a progressive global leader in local communities that live with intention and respect; to the Earth and one another. “We are the one’s we’ve been waiting for” – Hopi Elders.
Wishing you a beautiful February full of Love!
The Local Earth San Diego Team
Greetings!
Our friends Jesse and Chrissy from Ecofficiency.org will be presenting “2012: A Time for Change“
On the link, you’ll also find directions to IC Gardens.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Cutty & Jana
Local Earth Monthly Gathering – See Calendar for Details
Join us for a fun, casual and inspiring afternoon/evening of delicious locally grown food, ecologically conscious conversation and thought provoking film! Meet like-minded friends in the community… share ideas… share laughs… and share yummy food! Each month’s film will be in some way guided towards creating healthy and resilient local communities.
If you can’t make it for the potluck, join us for the film… or vice-versa. The first several hours of the afternoon/evening is social/potluck time; after which we will begin the film. This is a ‘leave a positive trace’ event, so we kindly ask that everyone brings their own reusable cutlery, plate and drinking containers. Our intention is that these gatherings inspire positive social change and create no waste. We also ask that a sincere effort is made to bring vegetarian dishes that are created with locally sourced organic ingredients. We want to eliminate as many ‘food miles’ and chemically/petroleum-based pesticides as possible. We look forward to celebrating local community resilience with you!
This Month’s Details
Date/Time/Location: See Calendar for Details
Local Earth Collective / San Diego 