Green Buckeye

The Columbus Earth Day: A Year in a Day event benefits while you have fun at Little Brothers April 19.

The concert lineup includes:

• Billy Zenn and The Ringers


• Medicine Wheel


• railroads and clearcuts


• Miranda Sound


• Stretch Lefty

Admission is free, which makes it easy to kick in a couple of bucks as a donation. A portion of Sierra Nevada sales will go to support the event, too.

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Joseph Fiksel at the OSU Center for Resilience forwarded this message to the SRCO listserv:

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Environmentalists say that one way to lower your carbon load on the planet is to eat food that is produced close to home. They say that eating spinach that was grown 20 miles from home instead of 2000 miles from home means that less energy was expended in getting that spinach to you.

If you like the idea of eating locally, check into Restaurant Widow's post on community supported agriculture (CSA) in Central Ohio. Lisa provides a nice explanation of what CSA is, what you might expect from a local farm's CSA program, and a wonderful list of local CSA farmers.

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If you read Treehugger, you may have heard of the green social networking site called Fivelimes. At Fivelimes, you can add and rate sustainable products, services, and businesses. The big news is that the folks at Fivelimes have added Columbus to their list of cities!

To get the ball rolling, I added The Northstar Cafe to the list for Columbus. So far, that's the only thing there that's Columbus-based. I invite you to surf over to Fivelimes and help build the list of all that is green and good in Central Ohio!

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Over at the Columbus Green Building Forum, Meera Parthasarathy and company are laying the foundations for the practice of green building design. If you're a building industry professional in Central Ohio and don't know about the CGBF, you owe it to yourself to check them out!

If you're interested in energy modelling for LEED buildings, CGBF is sponsoring a workshop on eQUEST software. Details and registration are on the CGBF web site, of course.

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Neil Drobny of KFCB points us to the April 2 issue of Fortune, which features green business as "what could be the business story of the 21st century."

Note to my doubting little brother: I told ya so!

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One of the many hats I wear is that of an organization development (OD) and process consultant. This week I'm attending a conference of OD people with a deep interest in "whole system change" methods. These are participative methodologies that typically aim to get lots of organizational or community stakeholders into conversations with each other on a topic that is intended to shift the organization or community in a new desired direction. (The shorthand used to describe this is "getting the whole system in the room.")

While the conference's primary focus is on the methods themselves, there are strong secondary currents emerging around the questions of "how can we best contribute our process knowledge and skills to issues that matter" and "what issues matter most?"

It might interest you to learn that global climate change has been identified many times throughout the conference as one of the issues that matter most. Today seven conference attendees from four continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America) convened a special breakout session to share sustainability success stories from their communities and ideas for spreading those stories.

It's always exciting to discover people who want to share their talents to contribute to the greater good. What are people in your field doing about climate change concerns? I'd love to hear about it!

(Photo by Nancy White)

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There's a brand new environmental web site for kids from WGBH. It's so new that there isn't a ton of content yet. So far there's an introductory "Episode One" animation and links to other kid-friendly sites.

Apparently, the site is one part of the wish of photographer and TEDPrize winner Ed Burtynsky.

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Interested in publicly demonstrating your concern over global climate change? Join the folks at Step It Up 2007 for a rally at the Ohio Statehouse April 14.

According to Step It Up 2007 web site, the Statehouse rally is one of 784 similar events planned in 48 states right now.

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