PowerUp-NC

Power Palooza August, 18th 2007

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POWER-PALOOZA Making it Easy to Make a Difference from Noon to 10 p.m Saturday, August 18th! The Miner's Foundry parking lot will be transformed into an outdoor energy efficiency and community solutions extravaganza complete with clean energy vendors, exhibitions, workshops, keynote presentations, musicians jammin' for the planet and an outdoor theater for a film finale under the stars. And, let's not forget the FREE fresh grilled veggie kabobs from local gardens, as well as alternative cars, eco-scooters, the beer and wine garden, kid's activities and much more.

A groovy list of some of the vendors you will find:

Keynote speaker- Michelle Long from Sustainable Connections
Raffle for a Toyota Prius car (to support the GSVD Foundation for Arts and Science)
Energy efficiency and solar workshops
Energy efficiency auditing demonstrations
Solar Power
Green building supplies
Wind powered turbines
State or the art storm windows
Ethanol-powered motorcycles
Bio-fuels
Solar ovens
Eco-scooters
Local car share
Energy Co-operative
Carbon neutral credits
Junk mail reduction
Recycling
Buy Local campaign information
Nevada County raised beef
Organic farming
Worm bins
FREE veggie-kabobs
Music, organic beer and wine
Kid's eco activities

Plus much, much more

TIMES

12-5pm Energy Efficient Workshops
3-8pm Energy Celebration with clean energy vendor booths, kids? activities, music, food, exhibits and more
3-6pm Michelle Long of Sustainable Connections will speak about how to green up Nevada County
8:30-10pm The grand finale film presentation under the stars to inspire us on our global cooling journey toward clean energy and sustainable alternatives!

The goal of this event is to support our community in its endeavor to reduce its carbon footprint and implement local alternative and community solutions to rising energy/fuel costs and global warming. Invite your friends and neighbors and come discover the community's clean energy future!

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"I FEEL CALLED UPON TO..."

At the end of the Global Cooling Café participants were asked, “What do you feel you are CALLED upon to do?” Below are a collection of those answers.

In the next two days we will be contacting the “point person” for each of the following action items. It will be up to the point person to contact those who originally signed up at the café on the same “action item” card. If you did not sign up for anything and would like to please call 530-470-8642 or email staff@powerup-nc.org. We will assist you in contacting the point person for the action item(s) you are interested in…

I FEEL CALLED UPON TO (Action Item):

Work with the Clean Power Co-op to conduct a program to help Seniors change to CFLs in the fall
Continue doing New Hope Transfusion Presentations
Support clean energy education and outreach
Help with the upcoming Power Palooza
Build soil to hold more moisture (which will hold more carbon)
Teach about the Powers of the Universe/Brian Swimm’s Work
Advocate for and hand carry energy saving proposals to GV and NC Council
Replace my 17 year old VW which gets 40 mpg with a newer, much more reliable, 40 mpg.
Make solutions to climate change a part of my every day language and inspire others to do the same
Have schools conduct an “energy audit; a contest that kids can work with their parents on (maybe do the Low Carbon Diet)
Join or form an Eco-Team to use the Low Carbon Diet Plan Book to reduce personal footprint
Develop a permaculture display in the ag building at the county fair to show/demonstrate how to live relatively sustainably in the county (low carbon footprint)
Work for carpooling to Nevada County Schools and reduce emission of vehicles waiting to pick-up children
Help plan more Cooling Cafes
Make it easier for more people to use bicycles around town for daily transportation
Get a “Green Link” on NC and GV Chambers of Commerce
Get and use a sturdy clothes line
Develop a source food for my chickens from my homestead
Build a center for sustainable living to teach people about nature and how to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle. In particular, an eco-friendly garden
Spread practical solar ovens building and cooking skills to Nevada County
Write an occasional article for the Union
Put together an intergenerational café
Let our elected officials know that we’re “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore”
Hear and see positive movement in the non-choir
Get involved in more grassroots politics
Create a spiritual growth retreat on the environment and our care for the earth
Continue to tell people one-on-one ways that they can make positive changes
Act as a resource and model

Welcome to the Global Cooling Cafe Blog

2007-05-21T15:22:00.000-07:00

The Cool Community Team would like to thank you for attending the first of a three part series of Global Cooling Cafes. This is where the change begins. This is where we rise up to meet the greatest challenges of our day.

To build this new future we are looking for a community of everyday heroes. People just like us. Willing to try new innovations or bring back some of the ol’ tried and true methods.

We need a new vision for our future and the Global Cooling Café and this blog provide the forum to do just that. Please feel free to express your ideas, projects and dreams. Think big and in fresh ways! We believe that if given the chance mankind can do anything and a new planetary vision can start right here, right now, with us. In the words of Alice Walker, “We are the change we have been waiting for.” So let’s get on with it…

Let’s start cooling the planet.

With great hope,

The Cool Community Team

Global Cooling Cafe - your ideas?

2007-05-18T19:59:00.000-07:00

Please share them in the comments...