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September: Youth Activism

Join the youth crew at Sustainable Earth: Carnegie Mellon University's group of environmentally concerned students. Be inspired by the words of Van Jones and connect with the next generation of environmental leaders.

Details: Monday, September 21st, 6pm. Location on CMU's campus - Posner Hall Room 146 (Posner Hall is the Tepper School of Buisness) - located at the corner of Tech Street and Frew Street. Click here for map

August: Know Farms, Know Food

Come down to the farm! Braddock Farm that is. Join Grow Pittsburgh for a tour of the Braddock Farm. Stay with us for a showing at Will Bullock, a young leader from Boston that has been a leader of the famed Food Project farm. The screening will be held at the Unsmoke System Gallery.

Details: August 17th, starting at Braddock Farm (1000 Braddock Ave in Braddock) at 6pm. We will move to Unsmoke System Gallery after the tour (if you're running late - 1137 Braddock Avenue).

July: Supporting a Local Economy

Join the 3Rivers Bioneers and STARTUP! for a Monday of Local Economy. STARTUP! is a newly forming local enterprise school that is embracing the concept of a sustainable local economy.

Details: July 27th, at GTECH's office (214 N Lexington Street, North Point Breeze - in Construction Junction's complex), 6pm.

June: Working With Nature, Not Against

Bioneers Monday with SEEDS, East Liberty Development, Inc, and Conservation           Consultants Inc.

Featuring a screening of Bioneers' Janine Benyus and her presentation: Nature's 100 Best.

Join us as we learn about smart design, using nature's methods. Specifically, we'll learn about methods to address stormwater problems that are prevalent in Pittsburgh.

The details: June 29th, 2009, 6pm at CCI's office (64 South 14th Street on the Southside). Light refreshments will be served

The event is free and open to all. For questions, please contact Maureen at mocopeland@3riversbioneers.org

What is biomimicry?

Biomimicry is an innovation method that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's time-tested patterns and strategies, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies---new ways of living---that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul.

For more information about biomimicry and Janine Benyus, visit www.biomimicryguild.com

May: Bioneers Monday with Legacy Arts Project
May 18th, 2009    6:00pm
Bedford Hope Center - 2305 Bedford Avenue, Hill District

Legacy Arts Project provides a creative outlet for youth in Pittsburgh to express themselves while learning respect for the natural environment. They sponsored a hugely successful event called Junk-a-new in December. Junk-a-new reclaimed a traditional Caribbean celebration and transformed it into a vehicle to raise consciousness and encourage participation of inner-city residents in the greening of America through the arts.

In addition to a talk about Legacy Arts, there will be a special screening of Sarah Crowell and the Destiny Arts Group at the Bioneers Conference in 2008. Q&A, discussion, and refreshments from Tana Ethiopian restaurant will follow.

April: Bioneers Monday with Friends of the Urban Forest
Monday, April 27
6:30 pm

Kelly Strayhorn Theater - 5941 Penn Avenue, East Liberty

Taking Root: A Tale of Wangari Maathai tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Price Laureate (and Univeristy of Pittsburgh alum) Wangari Maathai, whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy.  A performance by Vanessa German will follow the movie, and light refreshments will be available.

March: Bioneers Monday with Burgh Bees

Monday, March 30
6:30 pm
Schenley Park Cafe & Visitor Center
(101 Panther Hollow Road in Oakland, right across from Phipps Conservatory).

The evening's featured guests will be Burgh Bees, a group of four local beekeepers who are teaching residents about the art of beekeeping. Check out the group in the Post-Gazette.

Featuring a screening of a talk by the leading authority on bees and colony collapse disorder, Dennis van Engelsdorp
Enjoy light refreshments and a honey tasting
Learn about the eclectic work of Burgh Bees
Join the growing Bioneers community
This event is free and open to the public

About the speaker:

"Imagine if one of every three cows died. The National Guard would be out." It's a grim premise, but a favorite of Dennis vanEngelsdorp, who in 2008 watched the same percentage of bees vanish in North America. A leading apiarist, vanEngelsdorp knows the disturbing consequences of the bee die-off. Colony collapse disorder (its official name) is complex and mysterious, driven by pesticides, toxins and disease, and threatens not only the existence of the insect but also the food they pollinate -- a third of what we eat.

February: Bioneers Monday with GTECH and Steel City Biofuels 

Monday, February 23, 2009
6:00 pm - 8:00pm

Hosted by GTECH and Steel City Biofuels
at their offices next to Construction Junction
214 N. Lexington Avenue in Point Breeze (15208)

Watch a screening of Bioneers speaker and activist Clayton Thomas-Muller
Learn about the work of GTECH and Steel City Biofuels
Enjoy discussion and free refreshments with others interested in environmental justice, energy issues, and activism

About the speaker:
Clayton Thomas-Müller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Manitoba, is an activist for indigenous self-determination and environmental justice with ten years' organizing experience. His many achievements include helping create the Urban Aboriginal Youth Multi Purpose Center Initiative, a fund that sponsors Aboriginal youth initiatives across Canada, representing indigenous groups at many major UN conferences and international summits, and serving as native energy organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. He is currently a health human resource research officer with Canada's National Aboriginal Health Organization. Clayton is also a gifted poet and spoken-word performer.

For more information about Mr. Thomas-Muller and his past & present projects:

Indigenous Environmental Network

Canada's National Aboriginal Health Organization

Urban Aboriginal Youth Multi Purpose Center Initiative

For more information about local event hosts:

GTECH Strategies

Steel City Biofuels