Three different film programs on consecutive Saturdays in February with a focus on three topics reflected by the feature and short films showing that evening. February 11th will feature films speaking to the theme of Environmental Justice.
All events are suggested donation to CRWP. After each film program local leaders will be speaking to the topics raised by the films in order to better frame our local conversation and perspective.
This event will address the intersection of environmental policy and social justice and will explore the way that environmental racism applies to current events. This form of injustice Ian at the base of many recent events, including Standing Rock and the Flint Water Crisis.
The panelists are: Jessica Garraway, Vivian Choi, Nicole Eknitphong, Cliff Martin
Sponsored by: Saint Olaf Environmenal Coalition, Intersectionality House, Wendell Berry House
Join us on November 5th for a Clean Energy/GOTV Canvass!
Join us on Saturday November 5th as we Get Out The Vote for our clean energy candidates and our local community solar program. We know this election is an important one, especially when it comes to winning back Congress and our state legislature. In order to make crucial progress on climate and clean energy we need to make sure our champions and supporters get elected on November 8th, but we want people to engage on election day and beyond!
We’ll be doorknocking throughout our community to remind folks to vote and to give them more information about local clean energy programs like Community Solar Gardens. We will be meeting at the Angie Craig office at 205 Water Street in Northfield MN, there you will receive a script, clipboards, maps and logistics for rides to neighborhoods around our community. Please bring a vehicle if you are willing to help with shuttling amazing volunteers.
You can sign up to claim a shift here! Don’t worry if you’ve never done this before, we’ll make sure you have all you need for a successful day of community engagement!
You can also find the link to sign up here- https://goo.gl/forms/42S83ObBDPOlF2Og1
Please feel free to share this email and invite your friends and neighbors to join us!
Thanks a bunch!
Come spend the morning bud-capping and doing tree tube maintenance in the lower Arboretum to protect our young trees from hungry deer!
Meet at the lower Arboretum entrance near the Iron Bridge at 9:00am. To get there follow Canada Ave north along the eastern edge of the Arboretum. The parking area is just before you get to 320th Street West.
If you do not have transportation from Carleton’s campus to this event please RSVP to Matthew Elbert (melbert@carleton.edu) to schedule meeting him at the Arboretum Office. Deadline for RSVP is Wednesday, November 9th.
Wear close-toed shoes and long pants, bring a water bottle and the layers that you need to dress for the weather. Make sure that all clothing you bring are things that can get dirty.
Work gloves and equipment are provided.
Northfield Mayor Dana Graham and his challenger, City Council Member Rhonda Pownell, will face off in a debate at Carleton sponsored by the CCCE and Northfield Initiative. Students and audience members will have the opportunity to submit questions that will be asked by moderators to the candidates. The debate will be held on Wednesday, November 2 at 7pm in the Great Hall. This event is open to the public.
It’s Time: No Dakota Access Pipeline!
Come to Bridge Square Friday Oct 28th 6pm
Bring your Signs- Banners- Flags and any resources you have to give Standing Rock Water Protectors risking arrest. (In response to the escalation of police and the 140 people that were arrested this past weekend)
6p- We will gather to take Petition Pictures, record a song or two– fill out stamped post-cards to Obama, find out how to stay connected to the sacred stone camps and sign a local petition for renewable energy.
6:20- we will hear remarks from folks that have been there and action steps that we can do here at home. Share resources and money in support- and websites to stay connected by giving what we can.
Kids’ Climate Carnival to Send Message to Washington
Kids Carnival Saturday November 12, 9:00-12:00; Montessori School on North Hwy 3. Download a Poster and help spread the word!
Fun hands-on activities for kids to be climate heroes, while adults jot a postcard about climate change concerns to our Senators, to be hand-delivered for Climate Education Day the following week. Refreshments, games, and prizes from local merchants. Contact: CCLnorthfield@gmail.com or visit www.CCLnorthfield.org
Note: Postcards can be filled out and dropped off at the library, Northfield Senior Center, and local churches in the weeks prior to carnival. Contact: CCLnorthfield@gmail.com or visit www.CCLnorthfield.org
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The local chapter of environmental advocacy group Citizens’ Climate Lobby will host a family-friendly ‘Kids’ Climate Carnival’ on Saturday November 12 from 9:00-12:00pm. There will be a variety of hands-on creative activities for kids, games with prizes from local merchants, educational displays on climate change solutions, and an opportunity for adults to fill out postcards, that will be hand delivered to our legislators in Washington, asking for action on climate change.
“This event is all about the good things being done to solve climate change. We’ll have fun activities that show kids how they can be a climate hero in our community. While kids are playing and learning, adults are invited to jot a note to our Senators and Congressperson on postcards which will be personally delivered the following week during Climate Education Day in Washington”, explained Alan Anderson, one of the organizers.
In the weeks leading up to the ‘Kids’ Climate Carnival’ there will be several postcard stations around town, including the library, Northfield Senior Center, and at local churches, where Northfielders can fill out a postcard and drop it in a basket to join the others traveling to DC.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is an international non-profit group with over 300 chapters in the US that focus on passing a revenue-neutral carbon fee with 100% of the net revenue returned directly to households. Independent studies show this will reduce greenhouse gas emissions 52% below 1990 levels within 20 years while creating jobs, growing the economy and saving thousands of lives due to reduced air pollution. For more information visit: www.CCLnorthfield.org
If you go: Come Sat. Nov. 12, any time between 9:00 and 12:00 pm. Stay for 15” or more!
To: The Montessori School at 340 Montessori Court, Northfield (across from DQ and John Deere) No cost to participants.
Come join us for an evening of prayer and contemplative reflections Monday Oct 10th from 7pm-8pm at the Friends Meeting House, 512 Washington St. Northfield Mn. The hour will include prayers from the community, a brief report from the sacred stone camps at Standing Rock. We will conclude with a procession to the river. Vigil Oct 2016 Poster
Stop down at Riverwalk on Saturday Oct 8th from 9am – 1pm for more information about Community Solar and how you can make a difference.
Sean Sherman, owner and CEO of The Sioux Chef, is a chef and indigenous foods educator. Oglala Lakota born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Sherman has been cooking in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Montana for the past 27 years. In the last few years, his main culinary focus has been on the revitalizing indigenous foods systems in a modern culinary context. Sherman has studied on his own extensively to determine the foundations of these food systems which include the knowledge of Native American farming techniques, wild food usage and harvesting, land stewardship, salt and sugar making, hunting and fishing, food preservation, Native American migrational histories, elemental cooking techniques, and Native culture and history in general to gain a full understanding of bringing back a sense of Native American cuisine to today’s world. In 2014, he opened The Sioux Chef as a caterer and food educator to the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area. In 2015 in partnership with the Little Earth Community of United Tribes in Minneapolis, he and his business partner Dana Thompson designed and opened the Tatanka Truck, which features pre-contact foods of the Dakota and Minnesota territories. Sherman and his vision of modern indigenous foods have been featured in many articles and radio shows, along with dinners at the James Beard Foundation in Milan and also Slow Foods Indigenous Terra Madre in India. The Sioux Chef team’s mission is to help educate and make indigenous foods more accessible to as many communities as possible. The title of his presentation is “The New Native American Cuisine.”