Marin County is holding a CCA (Community Choice Aggregation) Workshop, open to the public, Thursday, June 22, 3:30 pm, Board of Supervisors' chambers, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael.  All Marin advocates of community choice will want to attend.  Six years after Marin's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to back State CCA legislation that eventually became AB 117 (2002) and opened the door to community choice state-wide, we're now finally getting closer to CCA in Marin.

Many of you have seen Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth"  now playing at Sequoia Theater in Mill Valley.  The film motivates us all to look for ways to greatly scale up non-carbon renewable power and energy efficiency to cut greenhouse gas emissions. CCA offers a democratic clean-power option that has great potential for coping with what the film calls "a planetary emergency".  Finally -- a solution that's commensurate with the scale of the problem.

Sustainable Backyard Workshop: Home-scale, Applied Permaculture. Every 2nd and 4th Saturday from July 8th through October 29th Sustainable Fairfax is conducting a hands-on workshop in the backyard of what will become the Sustainability Center at 141 Bolinas Road. The course will teach sustainable methods for use in backyards, community gardens, or public green space using applied permaculture principles and practices.

It will be taught by Permaculture practitioners from Sentient Landscape and other instructors and will include: design, water catchment, drought tolerant plants, composting, family gardens, food plants, plant guilds, habitat plants, non-toxic pest control, and natural building.  All classes are held from 9am-3pm. Click here for more information...