Coal Hard Truth Forum

Monday, February 13, 7-9 pm
Olympia Center, Room A
222 Columbia Street NW, Olympia

Learn about protecting Thurston County from up to twenty 1.5 mile long coal trains per day! Find out about a proposed dirty coal export project in Whatcom County that would dramatically affect our community and how you can help prevent it from happening.

What are our risks if Peabody Coal (the largest coal company in the world) and SSA Marine are allowed to transport up to 50 million of tons of coal through Thurston County on rail to send to Asia via Cherry Point just north of Bellingham? Join with fellow community members on Feb. 13th and be informed about some of the long term negative and destructive impacts this proposal could have on our entire region.

You'll learn about:

Harvesting Clean Energy: Bringing Agriculture and Clean Energy Production Together

Monday, February 27, 7-9pm,
MIXX 96 meeting room, State & Washington, Olympia

featuring Clark Gilman from Climate Solutions

The Harvesting Clean Energy program works from the position that the clean energy revolution has begun, that there are signs of progress all around us, and that publicly-funded incentive programs are both in our common interest and hugely helpful in allowing rural businesses and farms to adopt renewable energy generation and energy efficiency projects.

There are new financial models evolving to match a new distributed energy system. These include community financing and ownership, utility feed in tariff's, builders or developers capitalizing renewables on new construction, and carbon offsets.

Sponsors:
Climate Solutions: http://climatesolutions.org/
Transition Olympia - Climate Action

Sustainability Summit: Unleashing our Creative Genius

Saturday, April 14, 9-4
South Puget Sound Community College

with Keynote Speaker, Author David Korten

Join us at the kickoff of our transition to a resilient, sustainable and more hopeful future. At the Summit we will:

• CONNECT with our community
• LEARN what our community needs
• ENVISION a better future
• UNLEASH our creative genius
• CELEBRATE positive action

Registration opens in March.

Our response to climate change, peak oil, and economic instability is going to look more like a party than a protest march! We envision a future with less oil that is preferable to our present oil-powered world. We choose local resilience over oil dependency. A growing number of individuals, organizations, and community leaders think that it is not only possible, but essential, that we realize this vision.

Do you have a positive and hopeful vision for a sustainable and resilient future?

Do you want to make our community stronger and more united?

Do you want to join a group of people whose answers to both of these questions is an ecstatic, "Yes!"?

Then the Alliance for Community Transition welcomes you! We are working to create an event that will bring our community together to celebrate, network, and begin an action plan for a just, sustainable, and resilient community. We invite you to contribute to and participate in the planning of the Sustainability Summit. We need you to bring your creativity, vision and experience with our local community. We need you to help us spread the word.

For more information, Contact Barb at 878-9901 or barb@scavezze.com

Partners:

• BRICK (Building Revolution by Increasing Community Knowledge, SPSCC student organization)
• Enterprise for Equity
• Garden Raised Bounty (GRuB)
• Northwest EcoBuilding Guild (NWEBG)
• SPEECH (publisher of South Sound Green Pages)
• Sustainable South Sound
• The Sherwood Press
• Thurston Climate Action Team (TCAT)
• Thurston County Progressive Network (TC Pro-Net)
• Transition Olympia - Climate Action (TOCA)