Funky Friday Farmers Market at BADSEED - A MUST ON FRIDAYS IN THE CROSSROADS - Oct 22, 2010

Howdy Friends and Farm-Fresh Junkies -

This is Farmer Brooke and I am literally on my last leg! Farmer Dan and I have spent the last 2 months (and in particular) the last 72 hours madly stretching fence, hanging gates, and securing our new property for the arrival of our livestock. We got way behind schedule and were forced to bring our goats and our guardian dogs onto the new property before the fencing was actually finished! We have been on 24 hour watch, working into the night, and sleeping like icicles in our car without access to water, toilets, or anything half-way sophisticated. But don't worry!!! The goats and the dogs are well-watered and well-fed. It is only the farmers who suffer. Dan and I have a running joke that everyone eats on BADSEED Farm accept the Farmers! I gotta say, this is an all-time "high" for Dan and I. In the four years that I have been farming, I have officially reached the most exhaustive and stressed-out point in my career........(and this is coming from a girl who spent most of her first season crying & screaming in the field over failed crops!). But, rest assured, I will make it through the week somehow and still manage to harvest a plethora of mouth-watering morsels for this Friday at the BADSEED Farmers Market from 4-9 PM. For now I will do my best to make the remainder of this market e-mail half-way coherent!!! Here we go:

Are you super bummed out that the Farmers Market season is coming to a close?? Back to the soul-sucking supermarket, right?? WRONG!!! The BADSEED *Winter* Farmers Market will be chock-full of locally and sustainably produced foods all winter long. We will have gourmet mushrooms, all natural meats, free-range eggs, artisan sheep's milk cheese, cool-weather crops, mean greens, canned goods, organic/micro-roasted coffee, rustic breads, and wholesome sweet treats every Friday through February!!! The summer market will officially continue until our Pre-Thanksgiving Day Market on November 19th. This is our biggest market of the year and cannot be missed!! After that we switch over to the Winter Market at which point we close at 8 PM instead of 9. Take note! As the weeks march on, more and more Winter Vendors will be present with new and yummy home-grown products. You will probably remember some of them from last year. I will introduce them as they come along!! Be sure to support these farmers! It takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to NOT take the winter off and instead produce and market your goods year round. Without this kind of dedication, local/organic goods would not be available in the winter months. We at the BADSEED are very proud to be offering them. Kansas City has some lucky eaters!!

This week's New Vendors:

We have a couple "winter die-hards" starting this week whom you had the pleasure of meeting last year.

First off we have Alice and Marvin Huenefeld from Western Hills Produce in Wellington, MO. They will have wonderful free-range eggs and a variety of produce. Their real specialty is Alice's incredible baked goods made from wheat she grows and grinds herself!!!....as well as homemade jams and jellies from her homegrown fruit. And that's not al!! Marvin is a heck of a wood carver. He will have wood turned items from trees raised on the farm. His work is incredible. Truly unique!

Secondly, the wild woman Kim Wells of Wells Family Farm in King City, MO will be rippin' it up with her certified organic grass-finished beef cuts. Kim is a hell of a lady and she knows her beef!! She'll be sure to keep things lively all winter long. You cannot miss her. She'll be the one in the cowgirl hat and neon turquoise eyeliner. (....you gotta love Kimmy and her cows)

Also - the fresh FIGS will be present again this week!! Curtis and Brenda Langewisch and Aaron Riekhof raise these luscious fruits on the family farm near Higginsville, MO. They are to die for and go excellent with goats cheese and honey....mmmmm....

***Sexy Veggie of the Week***

This week's runner-up is Oasis Gourmet Turnip!

Ooooh baby.....and you thought you didn't like turnips! These devastatingly delicious gals can be eaten' raw like an apple!! Oasis is a gourmet variety that has a fine white flesh that is crisp and sweet with a faint spice and refreshing bite. They aren't at all tough and woody like cooking turnips which is why they lend themselves so well to fresh-eating and slicing on salads. That being said, they do well in the ole' sauce pan or roaster. My favorite turnip dish is a classic: Creamed Turnips. I use local butter, farm-fresh milk & cream, and organic unrefined sugar. It is to die for.

This week's grand-prize-winner (drum roll please) is the totally bangin' Japanese Sweet Potato!!

Damn these gals are good! The Japanese sweet potato has hot pink skin and stark white flesh. The texture is dense and rather gourmet in comparison to your typical orange-fleshed variety. I compare the flavor to roasted marshmallows when cooked!! I personally use the orange-fleshed Beauregard's for pies and the white-fleshed Japanese for practically everything else. I adore them. Lately (before the 72 hour marathon that is) Dan and I have been eating Japanese Sweet Potato Hash for breakfast with blue cornmeal pancakes and sunny-side-up eggs straight from our gorgeous hens. A "big farmer breakfast" like that gives us the strength to endure long days in the dirt digging the many taters' still in the ground!! We will have plenty available this week and more to be dug for the future. **Japanese sweet potatoes don't store as well as the Beauregard so eat em' up before too long!!

Pictures are attached. You know the drill - print them out, blow them up, & plaster them all over the men's room!!

This week's organic offerings:

BADSEED Farm, Brooke Salvaggio & Daniel Heryer (South KC) www.badseedfarm.com

*Japanese Sweet Potatoes!!! (white-fleshed, taste like roasted marshmallow!!)

*Beauregard Sweet Potatoes (orange-fleshed, very sweet)

*SEX IN A BOWL Signature Salad Mix!! (limited quantities, come early for this one)

*Sexy Saute Mix!!!! (a gourmet mix of sexy cooking greens with hints of garlic chives and aromatic herbs)

*BABY MUSTARD GREENS (spicy, tender, and oooh sooo good)

*Arugula!! (peppery and perfect)

*King Kale

*Gourmet Oasis TURNIPS!! (eat em' raw like an apple)

*ORGANIC APPLES!! (in "Red Delicious")

*Assorted sweet and medium spiced PEPPERS (could be the last of the season...stock up!!)

*Purple Ruffles BASIL

*Red Velvet OKRA (long, velvety, burgundy pods that rock your frying pan like no other)

Herb"N"Gardener, Lew Edmister (Westside, KCMO)

From the Lips of Lew:

"i'll still have a big ole bunch of filets beans this week folks. right now i'm surprised everday i look out there and something is still growing. i'll have a good bunch of arugula, some arugula mix and a nice bunch of asian mustard greens. those funky looking okra stalks i drag down to market are for decor, not for eats. tough eats, huh? i'll also have more smoked peppers, but no smoker.

don't forget to sign up for the rustic bread csa. this will be the last week i'll pursue signups. i haven't gotten as many as i thought i would, but enough to proceed, which is what i'm doing. i'll just have to go down a different path."

Bigg Blue Farm, Stan & Carmen Biggs (Mosby, MO)

*Heirloom Winter Squash !!!! (including Butternut, Acorn, Carnival, Spaghetti and the totally amazing BLUE HUBBARD!!!)

*Green Beans

*Purple Top Turnips!! (first of the Fall)

*Beautiful Bell Peppers (all colors)

*Candy Onions

*Zucchini and Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash

*The last of the Tomatoes!!!!

*SWEET POTATOES!!!

*French Breakfast Radishes and Cherry Belle Radishes

*Mean Greens in Oriental Mix, Tendergreen Mustards, Siberian Baby Kale, Tatsoi, and Arugula

PJ's Mushroom Farm, Paul & Judy Miller (Warrensburg, MO)

*Shitake Mushrooms!!

*Oyster Mushrooms!!

*Farm-Fresh Brown Eggs

*Hand-made rugs & stained glass items (from 100% recycled materials)

Parker Farms, Tom and Paula Parker (Richmond, MO) www.parkerfarmsmeats.com

**Free-Range Chicken available this week!

*A variety of 100% grass-fed beef and all natural pork including:

*Pork Brats

*Pre-cooked Chipotle Brats (with cheese and cranberries)

*Pre-cooked Franks (both hot and mild)

*Spare Ribs

*T-Bones

*Roasts

*Rib Steaks & Ribeyes

*Ground Beef and patties for the grill!!

**Ground Lamb

**Homemade soy based candles and gourd birdhouses (compliments of their lovely girls who grew the gourds on the farm!!) as well as embroidered Tea Towels and homegrown Teas in orange, chocolate, lemon balm, spearmint, and peppermint!!!! Samples available.

Bread Of Life Bakery, The Crowther Family (Stewartsville, MO) www.breadoflifebakery.net

*sandwich breads

*savory breads

*sweet breads

*specialty treats (vegan as well)

**ALL MADE FROM 100% Locally Grown, Organic Wheat!!!!

***PLUS + Gluten-Free Breads and treats from the "Sweet Sisters" new line of baked goods!!!

Puddin' Head Coffee, Harry Lee, (Raytown, MO) www.puddinheadcoffee.com

HARRY WILL REALLY BE HERE THIS WEEK.....he has been gone for the last three. Yay Harry!! We missed you.

*Only the BEST fair-trade/organic/micro-roasted coffee in town!!

Get yourself some beans or grab yourself a mug.

COFFEE BY THE MUG IS ONLY $1.00!!!!

ARTISAN GOAT CHEESE from Goatsbeard Farm

Aged & Fresh varieties including Prairie Bloom (a bloom-rind crotin style cheese with a rich and creamy center), Taum Sauk (a distinguished and nutty, appropriately aged, raw milk cheese), Osage Orange (a European-style muenster with a beautiful washed rind),Moniteau Blue (only the best damned blue on the planet), Herb Crusted Chevre (a delightful fresh cheese in a flavorful herb crust),Walloon (a delightful raw milk, aged cheese that tastes like a young Manchego!!) and Greek-style Feta (residing in a salty brine that will make your head spin....sooo good)

Certified Organic Flour from Heartland Mill

Freshly ground & locally grown whole wheat flour, whole wheat pastry flour, unbleached all purpose white flour, malted all purpose flour for bread baking, & blue corn meal !!! A bakers dream.....

RAW HONEY!!!....YES!! Les Miller (our wicked honey man) will be a buzzin' this Friday with that godly golden nectar and bees wax to boot!

nd, of course, Kombucha Mushroom Tea (Brooke's home brew)

Sip while you shop!

Remember:

LIVE NUDE VEGETABLES!! and other organic delights...

EVERY FRIDAY AT BADSEED

Yours Truly,

Brooke

- farmer and mistress of the BADSEED

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NILES GARDEN MARKET - Tuesday Evenings - 4-7pm - KCMO

ORGANIC FARMERS MARKET

in KCMO

Niles Garden Market

Tuesdays

at

1911 E 23rd Street

(close to Garfield Ave)

Kansas City, Missouri

Come to our market Today from 4 to 6:30 at Niles Home for Children, 1911 E 23rd Street.

We have okra, Anaheim and bell peppers, kale, Thai basil, chard, butternut squash, garlic, collards and green beans. There are strawberry plants too if you want to dig them.

Here is some information on our garden followed by some general information on Niles Home for Children. We would love to have some volunteer help. In addition to our current garden we are also trying to restore an additional third acre plot that was a parking lot. I hope this information helps.

Thanks

Marty Kraft 816-333-5663

Sustainability Aspects of Niles Garden
At Niles Home for Children

Organic Niles garden, while not certified organic we try to follow the requirements for an organic garden. Organic means that we use remedies for controlling pests that are much less harmful to the environment and less harmful to the people who eat our produce. We use substances like Bacillus thuragensis which is a bacteria that eats worms that eat plants or diatomatious earth, the silica shells of ancient diatoms whose razor sharp edges slice into the insects bodies and dry them out.

No-Till Beds It is said that a third of the world’s carbon could reside in the soil. The soil is a huge carbon sink that could hold the carbon from much of the carbon dioxide that is currently in the atmosphere causing global warming. By not tilling we prevent the soil bacteria from eating carbon rich substances like glomalin and releasing CO2. We also add glomalin producing micorizzal fungi to the roots of plants that form associations with these fungi.

Honoring the Real Gardeners In a handful of soil there are more organisms that there are people on earth. Through the interaction of these billions of “workers” soil is created and made healthy for plants. We must study the ecology of the soil in order to maximize the efforts of these tiny helpers. It behooves us to understand soil ecology and build and maintain healthy soil.

Nature Areas We have a large understory area where native plants are being reintroduced so our residents, staff and visitors can see natural ecosystems in action. We also have a prairie plant area that attracts butterflies and beneficial insects including pollinators that help our garden plants reproduce.

Solar Waterfall Although our pond is not a natural feature the attractive waterfall is powered by a solar panel atop our outdoor classroom gazebo. The panel demonstrates that power can be generated from sunlight, avoiding the use of fossil fuels.

Watering system Our watering system minimizes the use of water for growing food. We use a thick straw mulch that holds the moisture in the soil while creating a rich environment for our soil organisms to operate. We also use drip tape that lets water seep out under the mulch where it won’t evaporate into the air.

Food in a Food Desert Niles Home for Children is located in what has been called a food desert. In order to find fresh and nutritious food on sale, nearby residents must travel at least two miles. You can get liquor five blocks away. A high percentage of our neighbors must rely on public transportation so it is just not practical to shop where good food is available. To that end we have been offering a Tuesday afternoon market from 4 to 7 PM on our lawn at 1911 E 23^rd Street.

We Demonstrate and Teach Sustainable Skills and Values Our residents, staff, volunteers and visitors get to see a working garden that produces food for the community passing on skills and knowledge that makes us all more secure. Niles Home for Children, through our garden, offers volunteer opportunities, tours, workshops and internships to people in the larger community as well as to our youthful residents. See videos of our garden at http://www.youtube.com/organotill Please let others know about us.

Marty Kraft 816-333-5663

NILES HOME FOR CHILDREN – CES II newsletter July 2010

Niles Home for Children is a licensed, accredited day and residential treatment facility located in the urban core of Kansas City, MO. Its 127-year history of caring for troubled and at-risk children began in 1833 when an African-American bricklayer named Samuel Eason opened his heart and his home to orphaned neighborhood children. Over the years, Niles has evolved from an informal orphanage to a formal treatment program for children and youth suffering from mental and emotional illness, but the concept of “Home” is still central to what we do. Today, Niles serves about 150 youth annually, in three programs:

· Safe, intensive Residential Treatment for children in severe crisis;

· Day Treatment/Alternative Education for children whose disruptive behavior keeps them from succeeding in conventional classrooms;

· Substance Abuse prevention or treatment, depending on previous use.

The children in Residential Treatment, ages 7-17, suffer from acute depression, bi-polar disorder, PTSD and other mental and emotional illnesses. Most often, they have been profoundly traumatized by abuse, neglect or abandonment, and many of them have been removed from their homes by the State for their own safety. With Niles’ multi-layered therapy and low staff-to-resident ratio, they can usually be released to a less restrictive environment in 3-12 months.

The Day Treatment children attend Niles Prep Behavior Management School in grades K-12. Typically, these youth are referred to Niles by public and charter schools because of their very disruptive behavior. Upon arrival, they are typically performing 2+ years below grade level, so academic remediation and integrated therapy in a supportive environment are both essential to success.

All these high-risk children are tested for substance use when they arrive and are assigned to either the prevention or the treatment program. All of Niles’ skilled and caring professionals work together to achieve the agency’s mission “to meet the mental health and educational needs of high-risk children and their families, empowering them to become confident and contributing citizens.”

• • Some of our garden practices can be seen at

• http://www.youtube.com/organotill

see also
http://KCNoTill.org/

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Sustainability Announcements - Greater KC via Kaw River Valley (Lawrence, KS)

WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS
19 October 2010

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ECO RADIO KC ¤ WEEKLY ECOLOGICAL ISSUES RADIO SHOW
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 12:00noon-1:00pm ¤ on Kansas City Community Radio
Listen at KKFI-FM 90.1, or on web-streaming at http://www.kkfi.org/

On Eco-Radio KC this week, host Reenie Carmack will be interviewing local author and alternative healer Phyllis Cronbaugh about "Erasing Personal History". Ms. Cronbaugh maintains that by blending quantum physics, traditional knowledge, and spirituality a person can change their past and open doors to the future. Supposedly, indigenous peoples have used such a technique for millennia.

On Friday at 9:30am, listen as the Bioneers radio series presents one of their award winning shows.
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SUNFLOWER COAL-FIRED ELECTRIC PLANT ¤ FINAL COMMENT DEADLINES
Written comments: Saturday, 23 October 2010
Public Hearing: Monday, 25 October 2010, 2:00pm
Capitol Plaza Hotel (Sunflower Ballroom), 1717 SW Topeka Blvd., Topeka KS 66612
You may send comments more than once, if they're about different aspects.

Because Kansas Gov. Parkinson and the Legislature cut an inside deal that took from the Kansas Department of Health & Environment power to act on behalf of Kansans, the KDHE is now acting on behalf of the EPA. Several months ago, the KDHE held public hearings on the Sunflower Electric Power permit application, and received over 4,600 comments. But Sunflower Power had submitted faulty data on air pollution dispersion, so the KDHE has opened a second public comment period.

To submit a comment about the permit request by Sunflower to build a coal-fired electric generating station in Holcomb, submit it by 23 October. Use one of the following options:

• Send e-mail to sunflowercomments@kdheks.gov
• Mail written comments to: KDHE Bureau of Air, Attention Sunflower Comments, 1000 SW Jackson St., Suite 310, Topeka KS 66612-1366
• Present comments verbally or in writing at the hearing on 25 October, 2:00pm
  

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THE FACE OF WIND ENERGY TO COME ¤ MASDAR/WIND-STALK

These "Wind Stalk" electric generators are conceptual, but based on a set of systems that already exist and work, and take clues from the way the wind sways a field of wheat, or reeds in a marsh. The model wind farm consists of 1203 stalks, 55 meters high, anchored to the ground on concrete bases that range between 10 to 20 meters in diameter. The stalks are made of carbon fiber reinforced resin poles, 30 cm in diameter at the base and 5 cm at the top. The bases that support the poles are laid along the site following a logarithmic spiral, the kind we see in the center of a sunflower.

Within each hollow pole is a stack of piezoelectric ceramic discs. Between the ceramic disks are electrodes. Every other electrode is connected to each other by a cable that reaches from top to bottom of each pole. One cable connects the even electrodes, and another cable connects the odd ones. When the wind sways the poles, the stack of piezoelectric disks is forced into compression, thus generating a current through the electrodes.

In addition, each concrete base is a hollow chamber that houses a torque generator which converts the kinetic energy of the swaying poles into electrical energy by means of forced movement of fluid through current generating shock absorber cylinders. Energy storage is achieved by pumping water to an upper chamber while the wind blows, and then releasing it through electric turbines into a lower chamber when the wind is not blowing. More info and pictures at Masdar/Wind-Stalk | Atelier DNA.
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CULTIVATING SUSTAINABLE SOILS IN PERMACULTURE ¤ 5TH LECTURE
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 6:00-9:00pm - $$$
Matt Ross Community Center, 8101 Marty St., Overland Park KS 66204

Steve Moring of Vajra Farm Permaculture Center will focus on living soils and how biologically diverse soils support life. This session will examine basic soil types, their chemistry, nutrient cycling, and the dynamics of soil organism interaction. Also covered will be the basics of building productive soils without petrochemical inputs, and innovative soil amendments including biodynamic techniques. This lecture is the fifth in a nine-session permaculture lecture series, presented every week. The lecture will be followed by a viewing of the Geoff Lawton film "Introduction to Permaculture Design, part II". Preregistration is required, and a percentage of the fees will support the Kaw Permaculture Collaborative and it's parent organization, the Sustainability Action Network. For more information contact Steve Moring at (785)691-7305 or <smoring@grasshoppernet.com>
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FOOD NOT LAWNS ¤ COMMUNIVERSITY CLASS #2305A
Wednesdays, 20 & 27 October and 3 & 10 November 2010, 7:00pm - $$
UMKC School of Medicine, Theatre C, 2411 Charlotte St., Kansas City MO 64108

Grow food not lawns! Increase local food security, improve your diet, beautify your surroundings, build community, reduce pollution and energy use (It takes 87 calories of fuel to transport one calorie of perishable fresh fruit from west coast to east coast). As supporters of the Food Not Lawns national movement, we will hold five sessions dealing with topics that include whole system design, garden preparation, permaculture, water-wise gardening, seed saving, planting, and free resources. Presenters include master and highly-qualified gardeners. Class fee is $18, plus $5 for materials. Register at Communiversity online registration. Bring a picture ID. Limit 30. More info at Food Not Lawns KC, or <steve@prairietrading.com>.
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CHINA BETTING IN THE NEW "GREAT GAME" ¤ EURASIAN ENERGY FRONT

"By 2013, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong will be cruising to ever more dizzying economic heights courtesy of natural gas supplied by the 1,833-kilometer-long Central Asia Pipeline. And in a few more years, China’s big cities will undoubtedly also be getting a taste of Iraq’s fabulous, barely tapped oil reserves, conservatively estimated at 115 billion barrels, but possibly closer to 143 billion barrels."

Unlike the U.S. that squandered "more than a trillion dollars on an illegal energy war in Iraq, China simply used its state oil companies to get some of the energy it needed by bidding for it in a perfectly legal Iraqi oil auction. And China had the good sense not to get bogged down in an infinite quagmire in Afghanistan, but rather made a direct commercial deal with Turkmenistan and built itself a pipeline to provide much of the natural gas it needs."

"Twenty-eight percent of what’s left of the world’s proven oil reserves are in the Arab world. China could easily gobble it all up. Saudi Arabia controls 13% of world oil production, [and] it has become one of Beijing’s major oil suppliers. Chinese companies have invested a staggering $120 billion in Iran's energy sector over the past five years. Already Iran is China’s number two oil supplier, accounting for up to 14% of its imports.

"Currently, Turkmenistan sells its gas to: China via the world's largest gas pipeline (40 billion cubic meters per year), Russia (10 billion cubic meters per year, and Iran (14 billion cubic meters per year). The fact that Turkmenistan has committed its entire future gas exports to China, Russia, and Iran means the virtual death of various trans-Caspian Sea pipeline plans long favored by Washington and the European Union." Read more at China Betting and Bluffing in the New Great Game.
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TRANSITION TRAINING WORKSHOP IN OMAHA
Friday-Sunday, 22-24 October 2010, 6:30pm-9:00pm Fri., 8:30am-5:30pm Sat.-Sun. - $$$
Columbans Retreat Center, 1902 Calhoun Street, Bellevue, NE 68005

The Transition movement was begun by Rob Hopkins in Great Britain Transition Towns, and in the U.S. is coordinated by Transition US based in Sebastapol CA. The focus is for local communities to transition from fossil fuel dependency to local resilience by tapping into their citizens' own genius and creativity. There currently are 74 transition initiatives in the U.S., and hundreds around the world. This training in Omaha will be conducted by the founders of Transition Colorado, Lynette Hanthorn and Michael Brownlee. For more info and to register go to http://www.transitionomaha.org
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BIONEERS REGIONAL CONFERENCES

The national Bioneers Conference in San Rafael CA may be over, but there still are several regional ones coming up. The regional ones have more of a local focus, but with added electronic presentations from the national conference too. For the full list go to - Bioneers beaming to regional conferences. The nearest ones to the Kansas City/Lawrence area are:

• Bluegrass Bioneers - 2010, Louisville KY, 22-24 October
  
• Northland Bioneers - 2010, St. Paul MN, 23-24 October
  
• Colorado Bioneers - 2010, Boulder CO, 5-7 November

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LAWRENCE ELECTRONICS RECYCLING EVENT
Saturday, 23 October 2010, 9:00am to 1:00pm
Free State High School (north parking lot), 4700 Overland Drive, Lawrence KS

Electronics devices typically contain toxic heavy metals like lead and mercury and cadmium, and precious metals like silver and gold. If recycled properly, these metals can be materials feed stock for new industrial processes, not to mention saving production costs, and keeping them out of the landfill.

This one day event will provide Lawrence residents and businesses a way to conveniently recycle old, unwanted electronics equipment. Items accepted for recycling are computer monitors, desktops, laptops, keyboards, printers and other peripherals, televisions, copiers, scanners, telephones, cell phones, pagers, fax machines, VHS/DVD drives, hand held devices, and small appliances like micro wave or toaster ovens. There is a recycling fee for computer monitors ($10.00) and televisions ($15.00). There are no charges for other electronic equipment. Items not accepted are large appliances such as refrigerators and AC units. Fees may be paid by cash or check.

Electronic recycling will be provided by Extreme Recycling, Inc. http://www.extremerecyclinginc.com/ recycling the E-waste in accordance to Federal and Kansas Electronic Waste Processing Regulations. The event is sponsored by the City of Lawrence Waste Reduction & Recycling Division http://www.lawrencerecycles.org/
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GREEN SCENE SUSTAINABILITY SHOW
Saturday, 23 October 2010, 9:00am-3:00pm - FREE
Border Star Montessori School, 6321 Wornall Rd., Kansas City MO 64113

This event will include booths on solar energy, energy auditors, urban gardening, energy efficiency contractors, etc. There will also be seminars on getting your home ready for winter, urban gardening, solar power, and more. Border Star Montessori School PTA will also have a kids area with recycle art and face painting. For more info contact <rjones@greencatservices.com>.
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NATIONAL SMALL FARM TRADE SHOW & CONFERENCE
Thursday-Saturday, 4-6 November 2010, 8:00am-5:00pm - $$
Boone County Fairgrounds, Columbia MO

The USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program will be hosting this the largest annual small farm trade show in the United States. There will be more than 30 "Farmers Forum" talks, with sessions 25 to 55 minutes long, and covering topics like composting, beneficial bees, agroforestry, heritage turkeys, community gardens, local food systems, freshwater shrimp farming, weed control with goats, elderberries, and much more. To register, call "Small Farm Today" at (800)633-2535, write National Small Farm Show, 3903 W Ridge Trail Rd, Clark MO 65243, or see http://www.smallfarmtoday.com for more information.
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LAWRENCE SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD
Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 5:30pm
Recycling and Resource Recovery Annex, 320 N.E. Industrial Lane, Lawrence KS

The November agenda is unavailable to date. The S.A.B. meets monthly to discuss any and all aspects of furthering sustainability policies and practices by the City of Lawrence government and private persons. The public is welcome. Minutes are finalized in about a month after each meeting http://www.lawrenceks.org/wrr/envadvisoryboard
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KANSAS CITY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION
Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 4:00-6:00pm
Mid America Regional Council, Rivergate Center 2nd floor, 600 Broadway, KC MO

The Environmental Management Commission promotes environmental awareness and resource efficiency to the City's leader and staff, to assist the progress of Kansas City toward sustainability. Members of the general public are encouraged to attend and observe meetings and to join and participate in its efforts. More information and the EMC April 2009 minutes are available at http://www.kcmo.org/manager.nsf/web/emc
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LAWRENCE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 6:00pm
Public Works Conference Rm., City Hall Ground Floor, 6th & Massachusetts St.

The agenda will include: revisions to bicycle parking downtown, and more. The Committee works to improve bicycle safety and awareness through education of motorists and non-motorists, develops bicycle plans and maps, and advises the City and County Commissions on bicycle priorities and needs. The agenda and information can be downloaded at Bicycle Advisory Comm | agendas & minutes.

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The SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK, Inc. is a Kansas not-for-profit organization. DONATIONS ARE APPRECIATED, and checks can be mailed to P.O.Box 1064, Lawrence KS 66044. Our mission is to advocate and organize societal scale action to address sustainability issues. The triple crises of Energy-Ecology-Economy are building so rapidly that large scale action is needed immediately and methodically to overcome institutional barriers and advance public policy that preserves ecological sustainability. Our focus is to build a relocalized economy-ecology in concert with the Transition Town movement occurring in many other communities. To join the Sustainability Action Network please contact us at <paradigm@ixks.com>

Our current projects include:
1) Transition Kaw Valley - initiating transition to a relocalized post-carbon economy, and municipal level Peak Oil response planning.
2) Kaw Permaculture Collaborative - developing skills and resources for poly-cropping sustainable food production.
3) Energy Conservation & Renewables - advancing a green economy through decentralized technologies and regulations, for conservation and renewable energy.
4) Land Consortium - organizing interested stakeholders to acquire prime farmland in the urban fringe for land-based economic development and regional food security.
5) Water Rights and Watersheds - protecting the water commons, the source of all life, from privatization and contamination, and restoring our watersheds.
6) Electric & Human Powered Vehicles - promoting neighborhood electric vehicles and utility tricycles, including infrastructure and pro-active regulations.
7) Weekly Sustainability Announcements - informing and encouraging others to become active in the Sustainability Action Network, or other action driven groups.
8) Collaboration with sister organizations - such as: The Light Center eco-village; Kaw Valley Food System farm-based economic development; Citizens for Responsible Planning; Films for Action; Kansas River Valley Growers fighting for local water rights; national efforts by the Sustainable Energy Network; KC Metro groups like the Kansas City Food Circle and the All Species Project, etc.

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