permaculture

[Davey <daveyisdavey@yahoo.com>]

join us this Sunday: 

Historical Monument #157 is pleased to announce a great event coming up on 
Sunday, March 13th....
 
Common Vision's Fruit Tree Tour is making a stop at HM157 in Lincoln Heights 
-- 
they'll be planting an orchard in our yard and putting on an 
educational/inspirational performance for the neighborhood starting at 
2:00pm. 
Afterward, we'll be celebrating into the night with plenty of live 
entertainment 
with bands-o-plenty. Common Vision has "in the last 6 years, the Fruit Tree 
Tour 
Program has directly impacted 45,000 students, transformed over 150 low 
income 
schools and community centers into abundant orchards with the planting of 
over 
3,500 fruit trees" and all while traveling on the world's largest vegetable 
oil 
powered caravan. 
 
Please join us!
 
Sunday's Schedule:
2:00pm – Common Vision Tree Planting Party www.commonvision.org
4:00pm - Emmy Award-Winning Common Vision 
Performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZlLe4uGDV4
4:30pm – 1:30am - Bands:
Sleepy Owl Love Tribe www.myspace.com/neverplayinstruments
Grandma Dirt www.myspace.com/grandmadirt
Sam Broido www.myspace.com/sambroido
Pam Shaffer www.pamshaffermusic.com/
unfunky Folks www.myspace.com/unfunkyfolks
Homesick Elephant www.myrecordlabel.com/homesickelephant
Las Cafeteras www.myspace.com/sonlascafeteras
Liv Carrow www.myspace.com/livcarrow
Nick Nace www.myspace.com/abriefviewofthehudson
 
Common Vision is a group that works with schools and neighborhood communities 
to 
educate and inspire environmental action through performance and hands-on 
activity. Their visit to HM157 is part of the group's annual Fruit Tree Tour 
which has transformed hundreds of schools and communities into abundant 
orchards 
by planting over 4,300 fruit trees.
 
A $5 donation is suggested (kids are free!) HM157 is located at 3110 North 
Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90031



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> From: coordinator@cban.ca
> To: cban-e-news@cban.ca
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:21:07 -0500
> Subject: [cban e-News] Conservatives delay vote on motion for a moratorium  
>   at Agriculture Committee meeting
> 
> Conservatives Block Vote on Moratorium on GM Alfalfa.  Write your MP  
> today! http://www.cban.ca/alfalfaction
> 
> UPDATE MARCH 10, 2011
> 
> Conservative Members of Parliament purposefully delayed a vote on the  
> motion for a moratorium on GM alfalfa at today's Agriculture Committee  
> meeting! A full hour was spent discussing the motion for a moratorium  
> without a vote ever being called. First, Conservatives protested  
> putting the motion ahead of others but the Chair, Conservative Larry  
> Miller, allowed the GM alfalfa motion to be debated. Then the  
> Conservatives delayed with their comments until the meeting time ran  
> out. The Liberals, NDP and Bloc members all support the moratorium so  
> if the vote had happened today, the motion would have been approved  
> and the motion would have passed to the House of Commons for a vote!  
> The motion will be debated at the next Committee meeting which could  
> be March 22. 16 members of the public, including farmers, attended the  
> Committee meeting on March 10 to witness Conservative delay tactics  
> first hand.
> 
> TAKE NEW ACTION
> You can write to your Member of Parliament today in one new easy  
> letter by going to http://www.cban.ca/alfalfaction
> 
> You can also write to the Conservative members of the Agriculture  
> Committee in one new easy letter at http://www.cban.ca/alfalfa
> 
> THE IMPACT OF YOUR ACTIONS
> 
> The motion for a moratorium is a direct result of your actions:
> - Over 13,000 of you wrote to members of the Agriculture Committee  
> over the past 6 days!
> - Your actions all last year to support Bill C-474 made this motion  
> happen - Tens of thousands of people wrote to their MPs about Bill  
> C-474 and GMOs.
> - 126 organizations and companies have signed on to the statement  
> against GM alfalfa.
> 
> For more information, updates and other action options including a  
> petition to send to your MP see http://www.cban.ca/alfalfa
> 
> BACKGROUND
> 
> Why is alfalfa important? In addition to export markets for processed  
> alfalfa products, alfalfa is used as a forage crop in pastures and as  
> hay for high-protein feed for dairy cows, beef cattle, lambs, and  
> pigs. It is a natural source of nitrogen to fertilize the soil, making  
> it particularly important for organic farming. Alfalfa can play a role  
> in producing your milk, eggs, honey, meat, grains and even vegetables!  
> Alfalfa is pollinated by bees and other insects, making it easy for GM  
> contamination to spread. Alfalfa is also a perennial crop meaning that  
> each new GM alfalfa plant can grow and produce viable seed for several  
> years.
> 
> What is the motion? The motion that passed the Committee today asks  
> the government to place a moratorium on approving the herbicide  
> tolerant Roundup Ready alfalfa until the Government completes public  
> research: �(a) into Canada�s ability to ensure the genetic integrity,  
> production and preservation of a diversity of genetically modified  
> organisms (GMOs), non-GMO and organic alfalfa production; (b) the  
> ability of Canada�s handling and transportation system to ensure  
> segregation of forage seeds and detection of genetic co-mingling in  
> alfalfa seeds and hay; (c) the development of industry-led, third  
> party audit and verification systems;�
> 
> Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator
> Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN)
> Collaborative Campaigning for Food Sovereignty and Environmental Justice
> 431 Gilmour Street, Second Floor
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2P 0R5
> Phone: 613 241 2267 ext. 25
> Fax: 613 241 2506
> coordinator@cban.ca
> www.cban.ca
> 
> Support the Moratorium on GM Alfalfa! Take action at 
> http://www.cban.ca/alfalfa
> 
> Donate today to support the campaign! http://www.cban.ca/donate
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> http://www.cban.ca/About/CBAN-e-News
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