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Networking The Environment:

 in Community / Current Events / Ecology / Environment

How Chemicals Connect Environmental Issues Fri Nov 9 – 6:00 pm – St. Paull’s Episcopal Join multiple generations of environmentalists. grass-roots activists and environmental career professional of all ages and aspects of environmental work… Please come meet and greet each other, trade stories and find out how chemicals run through environmental issues. Speaker Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski, Director of the Endocrine Distuption Exchange She has a dynamic message uniting all disciplines. Meet Carol at https://endocrinedisruption.org/ Co-spsoring groups include: Citizens Climate League, OMNI Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology, Arkansas Public Policy Panel, and Ozark River Stewards. Waste-free meal provided. RSVP requested […]

Death Fest 2018

 in Community / Current Events / Ecology

Death Fest 2018 Oct 29-Nov 1 at The Four of Wands 440 N. College, Fayetteville What is “green burial?” Is it legal? Why is it appealing to people? There are people here who can answer your questions and tell you about the lovely new natural cemetary now taking shape in Washington County. Full schedule here: www.Death Fest 2018 facebook: Be A Tree Green Burial Education

A John Prine Tribute

 in Benefit / Community / Current Events

November 1. $5.00 cover, refreshments served Donations benefit OMNI Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology Musical tributes from: Brenda and Steve Basking, Dennis Collins and Lori Holyfield, Gary Cooper, Marty and Melody Mortenson, James Nicholson, Walter Schmidt, Elizabeth Scott, Susan Shore and Michael Cochram, Buddy Schute, Still on the Hill, Dale Stokes, and Diana Welch. AWESOME! Seating is limited. For advance donations to reserve a seat, please text or call Walter Schmidt at 720-771-4634, or OMNI at omni@omnicenter.org,

OMNI Please Help Save Markham Hill

 in Community / Current Events / Ecology

From: Lisa Orton lisa_m_orton@yahoo.com Subject: Help Save Markham Hill Dear OMNI, Please excuse me if I have already told you about this. Friends of Markham Hill (many in my neighborhood and others in Fayetteville) are trying to save Markham Hill from development. It is 144 acres of wooded land within the City. Would you and your friends be willing to sign our petition? The details are in the petition. If the link below does not work, please go to change.org and search or browse on Save Markham Hill. Thank you so much. Sincerely, Lisa Orton Save Markham Hill!

Ballot Issues Forum

 in Community / Current Events

League of Women Voters Thurs Oct 11 – 6:00-8:00 pm — Don Tyson’s Center Several critical ballot issues will appear on November’s ballot. But many Arlansans don;’t know enough about them to make informed decisions. that’s where the League of Women Voters comes in. This is one of their sterling events that lay out issues in a non-partisan frame that benefit everyone. Be informed this year. Come and hear from knowledgeable leaders with all the inside information you need. Location: Don Tyson Center for Agricultural Sciences at 1371 W. Altheimer Drive in Fayetteville

Special Showing ! “Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution”

 in Climate / Community / Current Events / Ecology

Trailer and more info at https://happeningthemovie.com/ DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT Most Americans understand and accept the reality of climate change. Nonetheless, many of us feel uncertain about what we, as individuals, can do. For many of us, solutions to climate change seem out of reach, out of scale and fatally entwined in partisan politics. Meanwhile, the clean energy revolution is quietly underway. Electricity generated from wind and solar is increasingly more affordable than electricity generated from fossil fuels, and the growth curve for the generation and storage of renewable energy now resembles the exponential curves seen with the advent of radio, TV […]