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Building Ecology Forum
Holidays or Celebrations

On-Going Events
Weds		Introduction to Sustainable Environmental Systems / Principles of Ecology	$7.50-$35	Oakland, CA
Tues		Ecological Design, Installation and Maintenance	$7.50-$35	Oakland, CA
Fall		The EcoDwelling BA & MA Program		Santa Rosa, CA
2nd & 4th	Weds	Permaculture Study Group	Free	Oakland, CA
Mon- Fri	1/14- 2/21	Photovoltaic Design Online	$500	Internet
Sun- Fri	1/27- 3/7	Solar Home Design	$500	Internet
On-going		Solar Living Institute Workshop Series — Workshops on renewable energy and alternative construction, including: photovoltaics, wind, strawbale, energy efficiency, hybrid adobe, passive solar, biodiesel, hydrogen fuel, wastewater.	Varies	Real Goods Solar Living Institute, 13771 S. Highway 101, Hopland. Info: 707/744-2017, http://www.solarliving.org.
Monthly		Simplicity Forums	Free	Berkeley, PaloAlto, San Francisco, San Rafael
Wkends		Environmental Design	$7.50-$35	Oakland, CA
1st Sun Month		Sustainable Buildings Tour	$5/car	Los Altos Hills, CA
Singular Events
Wed	5	Think Green: Green Remodeling Workshop	Free	Berkeley, CA
Fri-Sun	7-9	Human Rights Watch International Film Festival	$4-$7	Berkeley, CA
Wed	12	Visionary Dinner: Savor the sustainable table and be inspired!		Atlanta, GA
Wed-Sat	12- 15	Greenprints Conference		Atlanta, GA
Thu	13	Building Ecology Forum - StoreWars: When Wal-Mart Comes To Town	$3-7	San Francisco, CA

On-going Activities

Monday - Friday
January 13th - February 21st

$500, Online

Photovoltaic Design Online
Learn how to design a complete solar electric (photovoltaic) power system without leaving your home. This Internet-based course includes text, CD-ROM reference materials and Internet resource links. New for 2003 are video and audio clips, and an expanded section on grid-tied systems. This course is comprehensive, and very similar to our classroom-taught PV workshop. Topics Include: - PV Applications - Basics of Electricity - PV System Components - Solar Site Analysis - Energy Efficient Appliances - Stand-alone PV System Sizing - Component Specification - System Costs and Economics - PV/Generator Hybrid System Sizing - Grid Tie PV System Sizing "The course did exceed my expectations. It has shown me in a well structured way how to size and select systems for various tasks/ locations, with confidence now. The course website was informative, well laid out and easy to navigate. Well worth every penny. Thank you." - Tony Batchelor. Course Participant, December 2002.
For more information contact Solar Energy International, PO Box 715 • 76 S. 2nd. St. • Carbondale, CO 81623
Tel: 970-963-8855 • fax: 970-963-8866 www.solarenergy.org

Sunday - Friday
January 27th – March 7th

$500, Online

Solar Home Design
This Internet course focuses on how to build energy efficient, sustainable solar homes. During this six-week course, everyone from the serious owner-builder to the professional contractor will learn up-to-date strategies for sustainable new home construction and remodels. Natural building (earth and straw construction) will be presented along with case studies of progressive building projects. Topics Include: - Lessons Learned - Design Principles - Heat Transfer - Building Science - Super Insulation - Super Windows - Solar Site Analysis - "Green" Building & Healthy Homes - Passive Solar - Solar Hot Water & Electrical Independence - Natural House Building "The course exceeded my expectations. The materials were well written and organized. The presentation was very attractive and user-friendly. I am more accustomed to dealing with information in this field in a much more raw and unfinished condition." - Linda Pinkham, Managing Editor, Home Power magazine. Instructors: Rachel Ware and Johnny Weiss
For more information contact Solar Energy International, PO Box 715 • 76 S. 2nd. St. • Carbondale, CO 81623
Tel: 970-963-8855 • fax: 970-963-8866 www.solarenergy.org

Wednesdays

7:00-10:00pm, $7.50 to $35, Room D 247, Merritt College, Oakland, CA

Introduction to Sustainable Environmental Systems / Principles of Ecology
ENVST 11 Code: MO279 3 units Cross listed as: BIO 13-Principles of Ecology - Code: MO280 Lec.
Team taught by the Environmental Studies faculty. This overview of how the natural world works covers everything from the beginnings of life to the latest environmental technologies and issues. Excellent text, short field trip. Satisfy your Biology General Education requirement. Required for all Environmental Certificates and Degrees.
For more information about Fall 2002 classes call (510) 436-2600

Tuesdays

6:30-9:30pm, $7.50 to $35, Meets at the Environmental Center Self-Reliant House

Ecological Design, Installation and Maintenance
EMART O48NB Code: M0745 0.5 to 3 units/ Robin Freeman Lec Tuesdays, field days to be arranged Watershed workshops. Green building.

2nd and 4th Wednesdays

7 pm - 9 pm., Free, Temescal Branch Library, 51st and Telegraph, Oakland.

Permaculture Study Group
Together we will study the principles of permaculture, an ethical design system for self-reliant living. Permaculture studies natural systems and works to integrate water, people, animals, land, plants, agriculture, technology, and community in order to create productive and beautiful environments. We will be using Bill Mollison's Permaculture Design Manual (available on the reference shelf at the Ecology Center or on loan from the library) and will be reading through the chapters, clarifying and discussing the principles, and hopefully coordinating work days where we can apply our designs. YEAH! All those who are interested are welcome. 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month. The 10/19 and 11/13 meetings will have alternate locations.
Call for details. Info: Ocean Rose, 510/601-6548, biancaocean@whale-mail.com.

Monthly

Free
Peninsula: 3rd Tuesday of every month, Palo Alto Friends Meeting, 7:30
Berkeley: 3rd Thursdays, Claremont Branch, Berkeley Library, 7:00
San Francisco: 4th Thursday, Presidio (Thoreau Center), 7:30
Marin (Starts in Jan): 1st Tuesdays, San Rafael (Unitarian Congregation of Marin), 7:30

The San Francisco Bay Area Simplicity Forums
Simplify Your Life: Work Less, Consume Less, and Live More!

Moderated by Cecile Andrews, author of The Circle of Simplicity
For more information call 415 409 5105 or cecile@simplicitycircles.com www.cecileandrews.com

Wednesday
February 5th

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Builders Booksource 1817 Fourth Street, Berkeley

Planning on Remodeling? Think Green . . .

Use healthier building materials
Lower your utility bills
Reduce home maintenance
Minimize construction waste

Ann Edminster, Architect, Design Avenues, will present ways to incorporate green building materials and methods into your home remodeling and improvement projects.
For more information, call Wes Sullens at (510) 614-1699 or visit www.stopwaste.org

Friday - Sunday
February 7th - 9th

$4-7, Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA

Dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Human Rights Watch, the largest U.S.-based international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization continues their outreach with the third Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (HRWIFF) in the Bay Area offering eight provocative films which help put a human face on threats to individual freedom and dignity, and celebrate the power of the human spirit and intellect to prevail.

Friday, 2/7
	7:30pm	Steven Silver¹s THE LAST JUST MAN	where Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire, the 1994 leader of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, precisely recounts how 800,000 lives may have been saved had his pleas for intervention been heeded.
	9:15pm	SWEET SIXTEEN, the latest insightful film by Ken Loach	Opening in Greenock, a rundown town near Glasgow, follows teenage Liam as he struggles to prepare for the release of his ex-heroin addict mum from prison.
Saturday, 2/8
	2:00pm & 5:00pm	Belgian filmmaker Thierry Michel¹s IRAN, VEILED APPEARANCES	depicting contemporary Iran at a turning point in it¹s history. (a discussion and reception follow the first showing at 2:00pm). A compelling and insightful documentary on life in modern-day Iran, 23 years after the Islamic Revolution.
	7:00pm	AUGUST, from one of Israel¹s most political and humorous filmmakers. Avi Mograbi	He despises the month of August. With its heat, stagnation and sense of impending disaster, it epitomizes everything that is hateful about life in Israel. So he sets out to document the month by making a film consisting solely of violence, bickering and anger¹. Mograbi perfects his highly authored, docu-fiction storytelling, to paint a searing portrait of the psychological state of Israelis.
	8:35pm	the Italian filmmaking team of Alberto Vendemmiati, Fabrizio Lazzaretti, and Giuseppe Petitto have produced AFGHANISTAN YEAR 1380	a remarkable journal of life under the bombs after September 11. In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the filmmakers felt a special responsibility to use the trust and knowledge they had gained in making their first film to report once again on conditions inside Afghanistan. With unsparing detail the plight of ordinary Afghans is seen through the prism of the independent medical relief group, Emergency.
	Immediately following Afganistan Year 1380	GAZA STRIP. by James Longley	A refreshingly unfettered look at the Israeli-Palestinian situation in the occupied territory of Gaza. In January of 2001, American director James Longley traveled to the contested region to film his first documentary GAZA STRIP. The film is an extraordinary and painful journey into the lives of Palestinians struggling with the day-to-day trials of the Israeli occupation. Filmed in verité style and without narration, Gaza Strip at last gives voice to a population largely ignored by mainstream media.
Sunday, 2/9
	5:00pm	BLUE VINYL, by Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award winning-cinematographer Daniel Gold	Helfand's parents' decision to re-side their house with this seemingly benign cure-all for many suburban homes turns into a toxic odyssey with twists and turns that most homeowners wouldn¹t dare to take. BLUE VINYL garnered the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, first prize for best documentary at the 2002 Bermuda International Film Festival, and the audience awards from the 2002 Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema and 2002 Santa Cruz International Film Festival and 2002 Environmental Messenger of the Year. Discussion with filmmaker Judith Helfand to follow screening.
	7:30pm	JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE, directed by Academy Award nominee Jonathan Stack (Angola Prison Rodeo; The Farm) and Jon Osman	an intense and pointed documentary that explores the high incidence of police brutality in New York City in the mid-to-late 1990s under the administration of Mayor Rudolf Giuliani. The film centers on the deaths of two teenage Puerto Rican boys, Antonio Rosario and Hilton Vega, who were shot and killed by police officers during a conflict in the Bronx. Although the police report called it "justifiable homicide," independent investigations by pathologists, the Civil Complaint Review Board (CCRB), and an eyewitness reveal that the boys were shot multiple times, in the back, as they were lying face-down on the floor of an apartment, unarmed.

PFA Theater: General Information 2575 Bancroft Way Berkeley, California 510/642-1412 (office) 510/642-5249 (tickets) Admission Prices: General--$7.00 BAM/PFA members--$5.00 UC Berkeley students--$4.00 UCB Faculty and Staff--$5.00 Senior citizens (65 and over)--$4.50 People with disabilities--$4.50 Children (12 and under)--$4.50 Additional feature--$1.50 For more information visit the Festival Website at www.hrw.org/iff

Wednesday
February 12th

Atlanta, GA

Visionary Dinner: Savor the Sustainable Table and Be Inspired!
Southface Energy Institute and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce present the 2003 Visionary Dinner on February 12, 2003 at 6 p.m. Enjoy Fetzer wines and sensuous, organic courses created by nationally renowned chefs. Wine country chef John Ash, Larry Ammons of Bang Restaurant and the Hyatt Regency Atlanta chefs' creations will demonstrate delicious possibilities on the sustainable front. The dinner also includes keynote speaker Lester Brown who is founder of Worldwatch Institute. According to the Washington Post he is "one of the world's most influential thinkers."
For more informationvisit www.southface.org or call (404) 872-3549 .

Wednesday - Saturday
February 12th -15th

Atlanta, GA

Greenprints Conference
Sustainable Communities by Design Greenprints fosters the Southface mission to promote sustainable homes, workplaces and communities. The conference presents quality learning opportunities for those 'new' to being green and advanced practitioners of green building. Greenprints provides a dynamic forum for design and construction professionals to interact with experts, discover alternatives and implement solutions that will guarantee an ecologically sustainable future. The 2003 conference will include more than 25 sessions led by practitioners and visionaries committed to changing the way we think about architecture, energy and transportation in the 21st century. Now Greenprints offers over 70 expert presenters, a Solar Workshop, Green Design Charrette, Master Speakers, a Green Tradeshow and advanced how-to sessions that provide tools to help you and your team achieve sustainable goals.
For more information visit www.greenprints.org or call (404) 872-3549 for more information.

Thursday
February 13th

Building
Ecology
Forum

Top

6:00 pm reception, 6:30 pm lecture, Donation $3 - $7
PG&E's Pacific Energy Center, 851 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103

ADPSR's Building Ecology Forum:
Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town
co-sponsored by Pacific Energy Center
A film by Micha Peled dipicting the struggle over a new Wal-Mart in the town of Ashland Virginia.

At any given moment there are towns around the country where residents are battling the PR professionals and huge budgets of Wal-Mart or some other big-box chain over the hearts and minds of the local town council members. These battles determine the quality of life in the town for years to come, but they also leave behind divided communities and at times neighbors who no longer speak to each other. These accounts rooted around in my head for weeks. That's how I knew that the story I wanted to tell would focus on the residents of one town, facing an uphill battle with high stakes and unknown outcome. I was there to record events as they unfolded without control over the end of my story.

You may register by phone (415-973-7268), fax (415-896-1290), or via the internet (www.pge.com/pec).

Nor Cal ADPSR, PO Box 9126, Berkeley, CA 94709-9126 Phone: 510-273-2428 Email:adpsr@aol.com