Thursday, Dec 7th 2006, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
First Thursday hosts an evening of Global Problems,
Business Solutions
presented by Phil Kranenburg, EFM graduate (W/shop class 1) and managing director of Kranenburg Capital Management. Phil believes businesses need to be environmentally conscious while making a profit.
His photo presentation stresses the importance of business solutions to problems like global warming, peak oil, water shortages and pollution.

Where: at the Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership/MarinSpace
555 Northgate Drive, San Rafael (across from Sears Auto Center)

Thursday, Nov 30th, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Campaign for Marin is sponsoring an evening:
Decoding the Marin Countywide Plan.

The Campaign group is an ad hoc coalition of Marin environmental organizations pushing for tighter land-use and environmental restrictions in the draft Countywide Plan.

EFM's H/L members, Nona Dennis and Kathy Cuneo, have long been involved in the draft Countywide Plan process, serving as EFM representatives in writing “Community Marin” which sets forth the environmental “vision” for the County and is guiding the Campaign.

Alex Hinds, Marin County Community Development Director, and Terry Watt, consultant to the county on the Countywide Plan, will describe the Countywide Plan process and contents.

Speakers and their topics:
Barbara Salzman (Class 6) Marin Audubon Society, Natural Resource Protection.
Gordon Bennett (Class 21) Sierra Club Marin Group, Agriculture and Creeks
Marge Macris, Sierra Club Marin Group, Commercial Development and Traffic
Tim Rosenfeld, Marin Conservation League, Energy and Green Building
Where: San Rafael Corporate Center, 750 Lindaro Street, San Rafael.
Sign Up or get more information by contacting Ann Thomas at athomas1@pacbell.net or (415) 924-9559

Tell ALL your friends to spread the word about the
2007 Workshop Series training program beginning Feb 3rd for 7 Saturdays through Mar 24th, 2007, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. (Holiday on February 17)

EAC (the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin) offers the Jerry Friedman Scholarship annually to a West Marin resident to take the EFM Traditional Training Program. There was no recipient this year, for Class 34, making the scholarship available to a Workshop Series applicant from West Marin.

It's Thanksgiving and time to SLOW DOWN to appreciate and savor the bounty from our local farmers and producers.

Thirty producers of Marin County, organized by Helge Hellberg (W/shop class 1), ED of Marin Organic, went to Turin, Italy, in October for Terra Madre 2006 a gathering of Slow Food farmers, breeders, fishermen, artisan food producers, cooks, academics and policy makers from 150 different countries sharing ideas and customs to build what Alice Waters called "a global counterculture" in her address during the opening session.

Come and hear all about it:
Report From Terra Madre: A New Vision for the Future
on Thursday Dec 7th, 7pm
Where Dance Palace Church Space, Point Reyes Station

Join Marin Organic for these December events:

Saturday, Dec 9th, 11am - 3pm
Ecological education at Commonweal Garden
Pre-registration is required. Tickets are $20, Marin Organic members attend for free. Meet Penny Livingston and James Stark as you tour the Commonweal Garden in Bolinas.

Saturday, Dec 16th, 11am - 4pm
Garlic Cleaning at Marin Roots Farm
This is a free event and pre-registration is required. Jesse Kuhn needs a hand cleaning garlic in his beautiful rustic barn. Marin Organic will supply hot drinks, tasty garlic treats, and Arann Harris will play his guitar.

For both outings, contact Paige at (415) 663-9667 or paige@marinorganic.org with any questions and for registration.

First Thursday hosted a successful ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORS NIGHT on Nov 2nd. Five of the authors were old time activists and had lots of stories to share. Everyone sold some books, and in some cases took away orders for more. Here are, from L to R, Phyllis Faber (H/L member), Marty Griffin (H/L member), Kimberly Rider (Class 32) John Hart, Nancy Kittle, and Amy Meyer.

John Hart & Nancy Kittle have a new book featuring, amongst others, Phyllis Faber, co-founder of MALT
Legacy: Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders

Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world, wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. Where do you sit on the Global Rich List?

With the movie version of Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation released last week, watch The Meatrix 2.5 to whet your appetites for the "All-American Meal".
At the cliffhanger conclusion to The Meatrix II, Moopheus was being dragged off to certain doom at the Happy Farms Slaughterhouse. Find out what happens.

Bruce Bowser, Class 25, EFM Trainer Class 26/7, was sworn in as Conservation Alternate to the Sanctuary Advisory Council of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. He also serves the boards of EAC and the Bolinas Community Land Trust.
Annan Paterson, W/shop Class 2, has been appointed President of Sustainable Novato while Ed Mainland, Class 29, continues to serve as Secretary of the Organization
Mairi Pileggi, Class 31, has been appointed Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Dominican University and of the Marin Women's Resource Center. She welcomes donations of books or material for the resource center. Email mpileggi@earthlink.net
David Yearsley, Class 26, Executive Director of Friends of the Petaluma River, launched the Petaluma Riverkeeper program in 1998. David tells us the fund-raising campaign to meet a $10,000 “challenge grant” ended in success, besting their goal by $390
Tom Borello, Class 29, owner of PICS camera store in San Rafael, certified for the 2nd successive year as a Marin Green Business. If you need any photography help, Tom specializes in teaching his beginning digital photography customers how to use their new cameras. He has also completed the Master Gardening training program.