Local Earth Social ~ Garbage Warrior ~ Friday, March 1st

The Local Earth Collective invites you to join us for our monthly social on the 1st Friday of every month at the World Beat Center! (March 1st / 6:30-10:30PM)

Intention – Coming together as community to celebrate, learn, share, educate & inspire! Each month will have a theme focused on a specific element of sustainable community development & healthy lifestyle.

Eat some tasty food made with love… laugh with old friends… and get to know new eco-minded friends in San Diego!  The World Beat Center serves delicious vegetarian food.  We will also have a food sharing table, so please feel free to bring an organic vegetarian potluck item to share if you wish!

The element of community we are focusing on for March is ‘Shelter’.  Several local organizations that are doing great work in this area will be joining us to give a short presentation on their current projects (4 Walls International & Rebuild Global).  After the presentations we will show the movie Garbage Warrior – “The epic story of radical Earthship eco architect Michael Reynolds, and his fight to build off-the-grid self-sufficient communities.”

This is a ‘leave a positive trace’ event and we ask that every possible effort is made to create no waste… so please use reusable containers for food and beverages… the Earth thanks you!!!

Event Details

• Friday – March 1st, 6:30-10:30PM
• The Word Beat Center / 2100 Park Blvd, San Diego 92101
• Local Earth Members / FREE (Sign agreement & $1/month or 1 hour community service/month)
• Non-members / $2 (suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds / volunteer options)

Share Facebook event link here!

Event Schedule

6:30 – 8:00 PM / Social (any, all or some of the following)

• Socialize with old friends and make new ones!
• Share healthy local organic vegetarian food
• Tables, booths, presentations and conscious conversation focused on topics of health & sustainability
• CommUNITY Expression Session – A creative container & open-mic for local musicians, poets and artists.  We specifically invite, welcome and appreciate expression that is focused on healthy connection to nature and community

8:00 – 8:30 PM / Presentations from local organizations

• 4 Walls International
• Rebuild Global

8:30 – 10:00 PM / Film / Garbage Warrior

• Renegade architect Michael Reynolds and his green disciples have devoted their time to advancing the art of “Earthship Biotecture” – passive, solar, off-the-grid, sustainable housing. Earthship n. 1. passive solar home made of natural and recycled materials 2. thermal mass construction for temperature stabilization. 3. renewable energy & integrated water systems make the Earthship an off-grid home with little to no utility bills. Biotecture n. 1. the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their sustainability. 2. A combination of biology and architecture.

10:00 – 10:30 PM / Community Discussion

• We will discuss the film and what projects we can support as a community to ensure a more healthy & sustainable approach to creating local homes and buildings.

a manifesto of encouragement

right now:
There are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing of your happiness.

Someone you haven’t met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.

Someone is writing a book that you will read in the next two years that will change how you look at life.

Nuns in the Alps are in endless vigil, praying for the Holy Spirit to alight the hearts of all of God’s children.

A farmer is looking at his organic crops and whispering, “nourish them.”

Someone wants to kiss you, to hold you, to make tea for you. Someone is willing to lend you money, wants to know what your favourite food is, and treat you to a movie. Someone in your orbit has something immensely valuable to give you — for free.

Something is being invented this year that will change how your generation lives, communicates, heals and passes on.

The next great song is being rehearsed.

Thousands of people are in yoga classes right now intentionally sending light out from their heart chakras and wrapping it around the earth.

Millions of children are assuming that everything is amazing and will always be that way.

Someone is in profound pain, and a few months from now, they’ll be thriving like never before. They just can’t see it from where they’re at.

Someone who is craving to be partnered, to be acknowledged, to ARRIVE, will get precisely what they want — and even more. And because that gift will be so fantastical in it’s reach and sweetness, it will quite magically alter their memory of angsty longing and render it all “So worth the wait.“

Someone has recently cracked open their joyous, genuine nature because they did the hard work of hauling years of oppression off of their psyche — thisluminous juju is floating in the ether, and is accessible to you.

Someone just this second wished for world peace, in earnest.

Someone is fighting the fight so that you don’t have to.

Some civil servant is making sure that you get your mail, and your garbage is picked up, that the trains are running on time, and that you are generally safe.Someone is dedicating their days to protecting your civil liberties and clean drinking water.

Someone is regaining their sanity. Someone is coming back from the dead. Someone is genuinely forgiving the seemingly unforgivable. Someone is curing the incurable.

You. Me. Some. One. Now.  (~unknown)

Local Earth CommUNITY Building & Equinox Celebration! (Sept. 22nd)

Vision:  Creating a healthy, happy & sustainable world!

---

Join us to celebrate the fall equinox on September 22nd!  This is a community building event with many fun, inspiring and educational activities to participate in!  There will be hands-on workshops and presentations from 1:00 – 7:00 PM focused on permaculture, sustainability, healthy lifestyle, natural building, organic agriculture, resource management, local currency and renewable energy.  This is a fun-raising event to kick-off and support the San Diego CommUNITY Gardening Project!

In partnership with the World Beat Center supporting the International Day of Peace, September 21st.

Cost:  Sliding suggested donation $10-20 (no one turned away for lack of funds).  We also highly value any time, energy, love and material supplies that participants would like to contribute to the cause.

Volunteer:  Please let us know if you are available to help with the logistics of this event.  With so much to do we could use help before, during, and after the big day. (email to join us: collective@local-earth.org)

CommUNITY Partners:
The Soular Power System (www.thesoularpowersystem.com)
Indie Yoga (www.indieyogasd.com)

---

 

***Schedule***

Saturday, September 22nd @ The World Beat Center / 1:00 – 11:00 PM

Address: 2100 Park Blvd, San Diego, 92101

1:00 – 7:00 / Tables, hands-on workshops & presentations from Local Earth and other local organizations promoting sustainable living practices and systems.

1:00 – 1:30 / Opening Ceremony / Red Warriors / Native American Drumming & Prayer
1:45 – 4:00 / Generation Wake Up Experience
4:00 – 5:00 / Yoga w/ live music
5:00 – 6:00 / Soular Panel / Community Discussion
6:00 – 7:00 / Live Drumming & Dance
7:00 – 11:00 / Live Music, Performance & Celebration

• 7:00 – Sister Speak (www.sisterspeakmusic.com)
• 8:00 – Royal Heart (www.RoyalHearthMusic.com)
• 9:00 – Bateke Beat (www.batekebeat.com)

---

Community / Workshop / Activity / Education Zones (throughout whole event)

• Food
• Water
• Energy
• Shelter
• Economy
• Resource Management
• Community Building / Art

---

Ways for partner organizations/companies/people to collaborate & build community!

• assist with planning & collective vision for the event
• promote the vision & work of your organization at a table in the community zone
• host an interactive workshop
• volunteer at the event
• provide an item or service for the silent auction/raffle
• come to the event & spread the good word to your network!

Guidelines for participation…

• our intention is to create a ZERO waste / Positive Trace Event
• please bring your own re-usable cutlery & drinking container (there will be yummy food provided by the World Beat Center Cafe)
• if you or your organization are presenting/tabling please be conscious of what types of materials and resources you are using
• please limit printed materials and use recycled paper with earth-friendly inks
• pack-it-in / pack-it-out

Open-Source Web Development for Local Earth Platform

An invitation to the open-source web development world to collaborate and co-create the Local Earth Communications Platform! Creating a healthy, happy and sustainable world! WE believe in the collective!

CLICK IMAGES FOR INFORMATION!!!

Welcome Home…

Welcome to the Local Earth Collective!  

A social movement of global citizens cultivating healthy, happy and sustainable local communities!  The Local Earth Collective inspires healthy lifestyles in relationship to self, community & Planet