Transition Mar Vista/Venice: Powerdown Day

Calendar

HELLO! We invite you to explore the resources and links posted here. For information about Transition Mar Vista/Venice's events, please check (and like!) our Facebook page:

facebook.com/TransitionMarVistaVenice

ONGOING

Good Karma Garden Project: Pay-it-forward edible gardens
Email transitionmarvista@gmail.com for location information

Westside Produce Exchange: One Saturday per month
To join and find out the date of the next exchange,
e-mail westsideproduce@gmail.com

Our Time Bank: Check OTB's Web site for schedule of events and monthly potluck
Visit ourtimebank.com for details and date of next potluck

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center: Check Sivananda's Web site for class
schedule and special events
sivanandala.org

OF INTEREST TO MEMBERS

The Guerrila Gardener
Our friends at the Argonaut spotlight Sunshine Partnerships
and other urban farmers

Urgent Gardening: A Citizen Yogi's Call to Action
The Argonaut profiles Swami Omkarananda

A New Parkway Vision for Culver City
Transition Culver City members mobilize to produce a compelling film
about sustainable alternatives to wasteful grass parkways

Oneness Media Wins Best Healthy Cities Short Film Award
The New Urban Film Festival recognizes Stephon Litwinczuk's documentary
about TMV/V

Link to PAST EVENTS

8/7/09

Powerdown Day

EVENT: Saturday, August 22
at the Learning Garden at Venice High School, corner of Venice Boulevard at Walgrove (enter on Walgrove)

Build a Solar Cooker
9:00am–noon
Make a portable solar cooker with cardboard and foil with Joanne Poyourow of Environmental Changemakers. Please RSVP if you would like to make a cooker. There are only 20 places available, with a $15 materials fee. You are welcome to watch or help someone else. Written instructions will be provided so you can make your own at home.

Use Your Solar Cooker
noon–3:00pm
Various seasoned solar chefs will present the art and science of cooking a meal with the sun. It is amazing how many dishes you can make using this slow cooking method.

While the food is cooking we will do some karma yoga in the garden or you can learn how to can, pickle or preserve some of the excess produce from the garden with David King, the garden master. Take home a jar of your favorite pickles. (There will be a small materials charge if you choose this option.)

Celebrate Vidya's Birthday
5:00pm til dark
The real party begins! A solar-cooked feast! Feel free to join us and bring a contribution to the vegetarian potluck meal. Music provided by David King on his powered-down guitar. No gifts! Bring a story to share about what is was like in the '50s when Vidya was a little girl. We will continue until dark... or until the candles run out.

Please RSVP 310-822-9642

Vidya Chaitanya is director of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Marina del Rey. She gardens daily at the Learning Garden and is on the core team for the Transition Los Angeles and Transition Mar Vista initiatives.

Transition Mar Vista/Venice