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Seventy-five percent of the world’s fresh water is stored in glaciers, but scientists predict climate change will cause some of the world’s largest glaciers to completely melt by 2030. What effect will this have on our daily lives? With global warming falling low on a national list of American concerns, it’s time to take a deeper look at what could be a global calamity in the making.
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We now have RAIN BARRELS FOR SALE! Ready to hook up to your downspout. 55 gallons of free rain water! Good for the planet, good for your gardens. Made from re-purposed 55 gallon food grade barrels. Easy to connect multiples. $75 each. Call us at 804.231-7767 or email lisa@tricyclegardens.org to arrange pick up!
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Join in the planning of the newest Community Garden in Richmond, at the Chimborazo Playground Park (between 29th & 31st Street, just south of Broad Street) in Church Hill. Regular meetings are held the second Tuesday of every month. The next meeting is Monday July 13th, 7pm, at the East District Initiative Building 1st Floor Conference Room, corner of 25th Street and M Street. See you there!
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OK, it’s hot! Summer is steaming in that Richmond kinda way. Your gardens are heaving with veggies that you need to share. What else are you going to do with all those zukes and cukes? Here’s your chance to show ‘em off. Join us for the new “THAT POTLUCK!”, the last Sunday of every month, starting June 28th, 6-8pm. The first one is at Scuffletown Park, in the Fan, between Strawberry St., Stuart Ave., Stafford St.,and Park Ave.
Check our website for future locations. The July 26th “THAT POTLUCK!” will feature a tomato tasting featuring your homegrown tomatoes.
Celebrate the magnificence that is homegrown food, and the magnificence of the growing community of urban gardeners. Please bring a dish to share, and plates and utensils if you can haul that much. Donations of extra silverware will be collected for future gatherings. YUM!
Thanks to the Friends of Scuffletown Park–with a sweet veggie patch! Garden on!
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In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat — stunning aerial photographs in his series “The Earth From Above,” personal interviews from around the globe featured in his web project “6 billion Others,” and his soon-to-be-released movie, “Home,” which documents human impact on the environment through breathtaking video.
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Check it out!
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Monday, June 8th, 7-9pm, Libby Park House in Church Hill, (28th & E. Franklin)
Join in the planning of the Chimborazo Playground Park Community Garden! We will be installing a new community garden and need your input and involvement. Join the local agriculture movement and let’s make our park lush and productive and diverse! Check out www.imaginechimbo.org. Get dirty!
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Check out these amazing photos from a community garden project in downtown Newark, New Jersey called Brick City Urban Farms. We love sub-irrigated planters!
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Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question “CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?”
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
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Michael Pollan is one of the nation’s leading writers and thinkers in this country on the issue of food. He is author of several books about food, including The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and his latest, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. In light of what he calls the processed food industry’s co-option of “sustainability” and its vast spending on marketing, Pollan advises to be wary of any food that’s advertised.
Sunday, Jul 5
Light Rain
Currently: 66˚ F
Feels Like: 66˚ F
Hi: N/A˚, Lo: 63˚
Tonight: 63˚
Sunset: 8:34 PM
Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
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