Tag Archives: book event

Soda Politics Book Launch: An Evening with Marion Nestle, 11/4/15

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Soda Politics Book Launch: An Evening with Marion Nestle, 11/4/15
It’s been one year since Berkeley passed the groundbreaking soda tax. The efforts of that campaign is recognized in a new book Soda Politics by a national thought-leader on public health policies, Marion Nestle. She will be giving a free talk in Berkeley this Wednesday evening at the David Brower Center, make sure you get… Read more »

Wasted: A Green Noir Mystery, 10/8/15

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Wasted: A Green Noir Mystery, 10/8/15
Go back to the dark days of the “recycling wars” at this event with former Ecology Center board member, John Byrne Barry. He’ll be sharing his new novel, Wasted, featuring a murder in the “Recycle Berkeley” yard, Thursday, October 8th at the Ecology Center. While the book is fiction, we’ll pull out some real… Read more »

Create Your Own Water-Wise Home and Landscape, 3/26/15

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Create Your Own Water-Wise Home and Landscape, 3/26/15
From reusing greywater, to collecting rainwater, to installing waterless composting toilets, simple alterations can transform our home water systems. A recent study found that households saved an average of 15,000 gallons a year after installing greywater system! This presentation will teach you how you can transform your own home so it conserves and reuses our… Read more »

Random Kindness and Community Resilience with Paloma Pavel, 12/9/14

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Random Kindness and Community Resilience with Paloma Pavel, 12/9/14
Join us for the launch of the 20th anniversary edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty and the new Random Kindness Community Resilience Project. Author Dr. Paloma Pavel will be presenting a multimedia program on building community resilience and radical hope in the face of systemic violence on a national and global climate… Read more »

Rinya & Indian Canyon Children’s Book Party, 12/6/14

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Rinya & Indian Canyon Children's Book Party, 12/6/14
The Ecology Center and sitio tiempo press are pleased to present a program this Saturday, from 2-4pm, for children and parents to explore local Ohlone and Chumash culture, language, and stories! John Poole wrote Rinya while he was teaching full-time as a science teacher at Malcolm X Elementary School. This courageous story of a boy… Read more »