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EcoMetro Events Through March 13

EcoMetro Guide East Bay Thursday, March 5, 2009 06:56 PM
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Live: Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (BASIL) 10th Annual Seed Swap
Potluck supper, hoe down, music, home-grown garden seeds, and the company of fantastic local gardeners!  Learn about seed saving and the Library. BASIL is a project of the Ecology Center. Cost - food and seeds to share or $10 donation. For more information call  Info: 510-658-9178, or email terricompost@yahoo.com.
March 7, 6:30 - 9pm
Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave, near Dwight Way, Berkeley
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Live: Designing with Native Plants
This workshop will help you recreate your outdoor living space by integrating native plants to create a thriving, drought-tolerant garden. We will learn about the advantages of using native plants, selecting plants, and garden design techniques. For details, please visit the website. Instructor: Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich, JocelynAlyssa Garden Design.
March 7, 10am - Noon
Ploughshares Nursery, 2701 Main Street, Alameda
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Live: Bookmaking with Recycled Materials
Come learn how to make a book using coptic binding and creatively recycled materials. We'll make books that can be used as scrapbooks, blank books, and journals; all materials provided. Class is limited to 8 students. Must call or email to pre-register. Please specify when registering if ASL interpretation is requested, (at least 10 working days in advance). Cost is $15 general, $10 Ecology Center members, no one turned away for lack of funds.
March 7, 10am - 1pm
Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave, near Dwight Way, Berkeley
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Go: The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Comes to the Bay Area
Come experience adventure filmmaking at its best! REI is pleased to host these special evenings of award-winning adventure films from the 2008 Banff Mountain Film Festival. Now in its 33rd year, this international film competition is held every November in Banff, Alberta, Canada. This year’s tour features a collection of the most inspiring, thought-provoking, environmental, and action-filled mountain films, submitted to the 2008 festival.  For details and ticket prices, including the lists of films to be shown each night and the complete schedule of Bay Area REI screenings, visit www.rei.com/berkeley or call REI Berkeley’s Customer Service Department, (510) 527-4140.
March 7 & 8, 7pm
Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley
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Play: Family Fitness Fun, Albany YMCA
What better way to get in shape than with your family. Each Sunday in March at the Albany YMCA, you and your child can get fit and have fun together. Children grades K-6th and their parents. Check out the flyer on our website for more details. Sunday classes include: Family World Beat; Group Games; Yoga; Indoor Soccer and Fitness Blast, respectively. Cost: $2 child and $3 parent, Pre-registration is encouraged. Class size limited.
March 8, 15, 22 & 29,  11 - 11:45am
Albany YMCA, 921 Kains Ave, Albany

Go: Hands-on Bicycle Classes
Join an REI bike technician to learn how to maintain your bike in excellent working condition. The class will cover flat repair. All you need to bring is your bike and tools. We’ll provide the expert guidance.
March 8, 11am – Noon
REI,1338 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley
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Eat: National Nutrition Month Cooking Demonstrations at the Tuesday Berkeley Farmers' Market
Cooking demonstrations, free samples, and free copies of recipes that are easy, delicious, inexpensive, & seasonal. Cooking Demonstration by Joy Moore, healthy food activist, founder of Farm Fresh Choice, & KPFA Radio personality; HuNia Bradley, Co-Manager of Farm Fresh Choice & Chef/CEO of HuNia's Divine Soul Kitchen. Sponsored by the Berkeley Nutrition Coalition in cooperation with the Network for a Healthy California (a state program promoting healthy active families through the daily eating of fresh fruits and vegetables). The Berkeley Farmers' Markets proudly accept EBT food stamp cards and WIC farmers' market nutrition program vouchers.
March 10, 2 - 7pm
Tuesday Berkeley Farmers' Market, Derby St at Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley
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Eat: Lamorinda Green Drinks
Lamorinda Green Drinks is an informal opportunity for local businesses and residents that are interested in green practices and sustainability to socialize, network and learn from one another. We welcome anyone who is working to make their workplace or home more green, and who wants to share ideas about how to reduce our impact on the environment.
March 10, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Moraga Barn, 925 Country Club Drive, Moraga

Live: Reclaiming Buried Treasure in Treacherous Times
A Collaborative Conversation on Wise Ways to Work Sustainably. Join fellow green business practitioners for a timely opportunity to reclaim and co-create wiser ways to work sustainably, with ourselves, with our colleagues, and with our communities. Expect a practical, meaningful, and stimulating evening! Register Here. Pre-registration ends March 10,  at 6pm. Space limited! Please RSVP early. $15 pre-registered SBA Members. $20 pre-registered non members.
March 12, 5:30 - 8pm
Center for Sustainable Communities, 2105 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley
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Play: Next Green Rheem Film Night - Who Killed the Electric Car
Join us in celebrating the launch of ClimatePath with organic beer sampling from Bison Brewery, wine tastings, light appetizers, music from Dodge's Sundodgers,  and a free screening of Who Killed the Electric Car at the historic Rheem Theater in Moraga. We'll wind down afterwards with apres-film sweets and coffee!  If you'd like to attend,  RSVP to an open Evite from ClimatePath.
March 12, 6pm
The Historic Rheem Theater, 350 Park Street, Moraga

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