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Toolbox for Sustainable City Living WORKSHOP!

Posted by: Jean Pockrus Jean Pockrus on Nov 18, 2009

SAT. NOV. 21, 5-7 pm
TOOLBOX FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING WORKSHOP
with Rhizome Collective co-founder Scott Kellogg
$10-15 (sliding scale admission)
Surreal Estate, 15 Thames Street, Brooklyn, NY
Participation in this 1.5 - 2 hour workshop will give attendees a better understanding of ecological processes and help to develop literacy in the environmental sciences.

Topics covered in discussion include:
? Struggles for land
? Gentrification
? Energy decline, city futures and climate justice
? DIY air purification
? Veggie oil biofuels
? Natural construction methods ? strawbale, clay, woodchip
? Soil building and asphalt removal
? Bioremediation (cleaning contaminated soils using plants, fungi and biological processes)
? Urban chickens and microlivestock
? Aquaculture (ponds, plants, fish and algae)
? Passive solar and bicycle windmills
? Restoring brownfields

See ?Toolbox for Sustainable City Living ? A Do-It-Ourselves Guide? by Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew for more info on these topics

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