Ukiah Climate Action Festival & Block Party

See Program below...

Mark your calendar to be part of the international 10/10/10 Global Work Party day by attending the Ukiah Climate Action Festival on October 10, 10am to 10pm, at the Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse, 107 So. Oak St. in downtown Ukiah. Learn about actions we can do locally to help solve the global climate crisis.

Ukiah Climate Action Festival is a free community event featuring a full day of activities, including: Poetry Reading & Poetry Open Mic; Speakers; Live Music; DJ Dance; Bike Rally; Vegetarian Food; tabling & displays by Environmental Groups; Kids activities; Block Party on Church St.(between Oak and School); and more! The Ukiah Climate Action Festival is a green, vegetarian, family-friendly, alcohol-free, multi-generational, event happening 10am to 10pm.

Participants still desired for:

* Environmental organizations to table, just show up with your own table, chair.
* Kids eco art and crafts during Block Party activities, See Debora or Lisa at event.
* Chalk Artists for sidewalk chart art path on Church and School Streets (to
Tierra, the other 10/10/10 Ukiah event). See Larry at event.

To participate or for more information, contact Larry Sheehy at 707-485-7072 or Sandy Turner at 707-391-4734. We have a Facebook event page!

Ukiah Climate Action Festival & Block Party is sponsored by Cloud Forest Institute, and is hosted by the Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse, Watershed Poetry Mendocino, and Together We Can! Mendocino. This event is the ecology component of this years' Watershed Poetry Mendocino festival. The main poetry component this year is 'Watershed Poetry Mendocino 2010: The Map Readings,' organized by Ukiah's Poet Laureate, Theresa Whitehill on Oct. 9th at Nelson Family Vineyards. 2:30 pm-5:30 pm, 550 Nelson Ranch Road, Ukiah. More info at: www.coloredhorse.com/WritingPoetry/PoetryEvents/

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Ukiah Climate Action Festival & Block Party, Oct 10, 10am-10pm

Festival Schedule (inside Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse):

10am - Opening Blessing: Clayton Duncan, affiliated with the Pomo, Yuki, Cahto and Maidue tribes of California

10:15am-10:30am - Mari Rodin, City Councilwoman, City of Ukiah, Welcome Presentation.

10:30am-1pm - Poetry Readings & Open Mic Poetry

* 10:30-10:40: Roberta Werdinger
* 10:40-10:50: Daniel Morford
* 10:50-11:00: Dhani Yarber
* 11:10-11:20: Jenny Burnstad
* 11:20-11:30: Leslie Sheridan
* 11:30-12:00: Open Mic
* 12:15-12:45: Raging Grannies, Music
* 12:45-1:00: Richard Kaderli, Music

Speakers: 1pm-4 pm

* 1:00-1:10: Daniel Essman, Poetry
* 1:10-1:20: Robin Rule, Poetry
* 1:20-1:40: Dr. Wendell Sjoblom, City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (CTTB)
Environmental Science instructor, "What skeptics Believe about Global
Warming and why"
* 1:45-2:15: Jessica Clark of the Ukiah High School Hillside Farm and Lucy
Neely of The Gardens Project speak about agricultural renewal in Ukiah,
engaging youth in creating their future, and what it is like to be young
in this small town.
* 2:15-3:00: Dan Barth, Music
* 3:00-3:20: Charles Cresson Wood, Mendocino Coast Transition Towns, "A
Process for Your Inner Transition" with Powerpoint presentation.
* 3:20-3:30: Alisha Pegan and Christine Chang, student representatives of
Developing Virtue Secondary School - Talk on Youth and the Green Lifestyle
* 3:40-4:00: Rev. Heng Sure, Director, Berkeley Buddhist Monastery - Talk
with puppet show conveying green lifestyle message.

Live Music: 4pm-8pm

* 4:00-4:30: Jerry Krantman
* 4:45-5:20: The Julian Trio
* 5:30-6:10: Alyra Rose
* 6:15-7:00: The Cleavers
* 7:00-7:45: Acorn & Woozle

DJ Dance: 7:45pm-10pm
* With DJ Roberta Werdinger, Host of "Maps and Legends" on KZYX FM

Activities in Clubhouse:
* Developing Virtue Secondary School students providing: Wall Poster to write or draw messages to the Earth or pledges of green living; "Green Pledge" sheet; Green Products booth: and help with event greening.
* Future Work Party sign-up table
* Conversation Cafe/Small Group Discussions
* Free makeovers by Mia Berrettini (of Dr. Berrettini's Mendocino
Minerals) with theirs and Teens Turning Green products.
* Remote radio broadcasting & webcasting by KMEC Radio
* Voter Registration table
* Environmental Groups literature table

Environmental Groups tabling inside Clubhouse:
* Teens Turning Green
* CARE: Compassion for Animals, Respect for the Earth
* Developing Virtue Secondary School/CTTB
* Mendo Time Bank
* Mendocino Environmental Center
* KMEC Radio
* Together We Can! Mendocino
* Solar Living Institute

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Block Party Schedule (outside on Church St.):

* Students Walk for Climate Change, lead by the Developing Virtue Secondary School students, from Talmage to the Clubhouse (leaving CTTB at 9am)
* Mark House of Ecology Action/GROW BIOINTENSIVE leads a workshop on
composting. Bring your curiosity and your questions. Time TBA
* Community Bike Ride, Begins at 12:45 pm
* Basic Bicycle Maintenance workshops, 11:30 am and 2 pm, provided by Dave of Dave's Bike Shop
* Solar Oven Display & Q and A with Carol Cox
* Food provided by the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
* And more TBA.

Environmental Groups tabling on Church St. Block Party:
* Biomass Working Group
* Yokayo Biofuels
* Ecology Action/GROW BIOINTENSIVE
* 2 Mile Challenge
* Walk and Bike Mendocino
* Solar Living Institute
* And more TBA.

Hosted by Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse, Watershed Poetry Mendocino and Together We Can! Mendocino. Sponsored by Cloud Forest Institute.

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Other 10-10-10 Global Work Party events in the area:

* Transition Lake County: Great Unleashing Party!, Clearlake, 11am-6pm, contact Nils at 707-928-0159, www.transitionlakecounty.org

* Solar Living Action Day, Hopland, 4pm-10:10pm, contact Kieran, www.solarliving.org

* WHAT - Walk for Personal, Community, and Planetary Health, Willits, 9:30am-12:00pm, contact Jed at 707-459-5505, http://whatwalk.ning.com/

* 10-10-10 Global Work Party at Tierra, 312 N School St., Ukiah, time TBA, contact Nicole, 468-7936, tierra@artgardenwine.com

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Event Greening at the Ukiah Climate Action Festival:

Please help us to make Ukiah Climate Action Festival & Block Party GREEN!
Students from the Developing Virtue Secondary School will be helping attendees with event greening.

* Ride your walk, bike,or carpool to Climate Action Festival Ukiah.

* Bring your own REUSABLE COFFEE MUG to our event. We will also have
compostable cups available.

* Create a festival bag (or backpack). In your reusable bag, put a cloth
napkin and your OWN REUSABLE SERVINGWARE. Although we will have
compostable utensils at Climate Action Festival, using your own utensils
is far more sustainable.

* Bring your own REUSABLE BAGS for literature or other free things you
might pick up at the festival.

* Use the recycling and composting bins at the event. Let’s get as close
to ZERO WASTE as possible. Think before you throw - there will be signs
that will help you to separate your recyclables and compostables.

* Do you have an ELECTRIC CAR? There's an electric car charging station on
Oak St. at corner of Standley St. (Post Office parking lot), a block away
from the Clubhouse.

* Don’t forget to bring your OWN REUSABLE WATER BOTTLE. No bottled water
will be available at the festival, but here are water fountains and taps
at the Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse.

* And lastly - if you're traveling from afar, how about buying some CARBON
OFFSETS to cover your trip to the festival? Go to
www.nativeenergy.com, www.terrapass.com, or www.carbonfund.org.

For excellent Event Greening information, see www.green-mary.com/

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Message from Sandy Turner, Mendocino Environmental Center board member:

Hey Everyone,

I have mentioned to some of you that local people are planning a Ukiah event for the Global Work Party day on 10-10-10 which is being organized globally by 350.org. From what I've heard, the 350.org events around the world last year formed the biggest mass movement event in history. I encourage you to get involved in making the Ukiah Climate Action Festival & Block Party an event that will be remembered in Mendocino County for decades.

I am helping to organize this event, along with Lisa Mammina, Larry Sheehy and others, and we would love to hear from you to learn how you and other community members can make this event into a fantastic success. Many of you know Lisa, the owner of the Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse. She and the other organizers are making a BIG effort to get young people involved since they are the ones who will be living on this planet the farthest into the future and therefore have the most at stake.

A couple years ago, I read a long, descriptive report called Climate Code Red put out by a couple of well respected Australian environmentalists, in which they said that it will take an effort the size of the Allied Forces during WWII for at least that many years to prevent the disastrous effects of Global Warming that are quite likely in our near future. 350.org was started by Bill McKibbin, who has been trying to wake up the public to the dangers of Climate Change for a couple of decades now. In my opinion, the prospects seem slim for today's young people to have a healthy planet to live on that includes the vast majority of the species that are still alive today by the time the mid-point of this century rolls around. The millions of people invloved with 350.org and other like-minded organizations might be able to shift the power and direction of industrial civilization enough to turn the tide. We'll see, but in the mean time, the future is probably not set in stone and YOUR participation vs. your non-participation might make a huge difference. I hope you check out the 350.org website. It has some cool stuff on it. You might be inspired by the creative things people are doing around the planet.

We are currently getting the word out to as many people, youth organizations, environmental groups, green businesses, media outlets, and others so we can have a fantastic turnout. I encourage you to contact Lisa, Larry or myself to let us know how YOU can help.

As the radical union organizer, Joe Hill, said almost 100 years ago just prior to being executed for a crime he didn't commit, "Don't mourn, organize!"

Sandy Turner
391-4734 or 485-1290, peace@pacific.net

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10 days of climate change related local events via Mendocino Coast Transition Towns....

Thanks to Charles Cresson Wood of Mendocino Coast Transition Towns for
this information. Charles is a speaker at Ukiah Climate Action Festival &
Block Party.

Come join us for 10 days of climate change related events, to be held along the Mendocino Coast, in synchronization with 350.org. 10-10-10 is a world-wide work day, an invitation to get out and do something constructive to reduce our carbon emissions. We multiplied that by ten. We can multiply our impact when we join together...

More details will soon be posted on the Mendocino Coast Transition Towns web site, but for now, please mark the events of interest in your schedules. A special thanks goes out to Sarah Bodnar, on the Mendocino Coast Transition Towns Initiating Group, for putting this schedule
together.

From Charles Cresson Wood for the Initiating Group, Mendocino Coast
Transition Towns, www.transitionmendocinocoast.org, 707 937 5572

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ONE DAY IS NOT ENOUGH. We want to do more! We need to do more!

10 Days, 10+ Ways to Reverse Climate Change, Beginning on 10-10-10,
Organized by Mendocino Coast Transition Towns

* 10/10 Dig In -- Support community-based agriculture for a petroleum-free diet WORK PARTY! We'll build new beds and compost piles & plant cover crops + Enjoy a fresh garden meal after a good day's work! 1-4 pm at Noyo Food Forest Learning Garden, Fort Bragg High School

* 10/11 Reflect -- Inner Transition Empowers Us to Make Outer Transitions.
7:30 pm at Mendocino Recreation Center, Discussion led by Charles Cresson
Wood

* 10/12 Forage -- Wildcrafting: Mushroom Foraging Walk with Ryane Snow.
10 am at Stanford Inn Lobby, Mendocino, $10 Limited space, RSVP 937-0461

* 10/13 Go Solar -- Solar Power Your Home & Transportation 7 pm at
LOCATION TBD Presented by Steve Heckeroth (see web site for additional
details)

* 10/14 Watch -- “The Future of Food” Film examining the dangers of industrial agriculture, 7 pm at Matheson Arts Center, Mendocino High School, $5 Donation

* 10/15 Vote -- The impact of 'Corporate Personhood' on Climate Change,
with Tom Wodetzki (a presentation) + view a compelling political art show:
“Bandits, Pirates & Outlaws,” 7 pm at Lost Coast Culture Machine gallery,
190 E. Elm St., Fort Bragg

* 10/16 Plant -- Native Plant Restoration in Otis Johnson Park, 1– 4 pm, Meet at Laurel Street Entrance to Otis Johnson Park, Fort Bragg

* 10/17 Learn -- Community-based Energy Projects: Ukiah's Woody Biomass
Plant, Presented by Judy Harwood, Mendo Futures, 11 am-12:30 pm at Caspar
Community Center, Caspar

* 10/17 Hydrate -- Home water catchment: conservation & natural filtration
systems,3- 5 pm at 16460 Buttonwillow Ln., Fort Bragg (off Boice Ln., east
of Hwy 1), Limited Space, Please RSVP with Bruce Broderick 964-7856

* 10/18 Build -- Bike Education event with the Bike Collective,
LOCATION/TIME TBD (check web site for details)

* 10/19 Zero Gas -- Peak Oil, Climate Change & Kicking the Petroleum Habit (a presentation), 7:30 pm Mendocino Recreation Center, Mendo, Presented by Charles Cresson Wood

Do More! Join one of our 10+ Working Groups to build a sustainable and
resilient local community! See web page for details.
www.transtionmendocinocoast.org

Questions? Call Sarah 964-1660