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Saturday Dec 18 – 2:00 pm – Omni CenterJoin Facebook Live event here tomorrow at 2:00 pm.Livestream the Bees!At this workshop Entomology PhD student and wild bee researcher Olivia Kline will give a presentation on the importance of native bees to the local ecology and agriculture. Olivia will give an overview of the results of her research into the surprising variety of wild bees and their critical role as pollinators. She will discuss ways to promote bee populations through native plants and habitat. We will also look at simple ways to build a wild bee house for your yard.   We’re limiting […]

Saturday Dec 18 – 2:00 pm – Omni CenterEntomology PhD student and wild bee researcher Olivia Kline will give a presentation on the importance of native bees to the local ecology and agriculture. Olivia will give an overview of the results of her research into the surprising variety of wild bees and their critical role as pollinators. She will discuss ways to promote bee populations through native plants and habitat. We will also look at simple ways to build a wild bee house for your yard.   We might also say that we’re limiting the in-person participants to 20 people (masked and […]

View “The Boys Who Said No” and Roundtable DiscussionView the movie Dec 10-12Gather for the discussion on Dec 12 As Congress debates the future of the draft right now, please join us on Human Rights Day weekend for an online screening of the film and a discussion about how we can take lessons from the past to support today’s resisters. “The Boys Who Said “No” – Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Judith Ehrlich, The Boys Who Said NO! tells for the first time the inspiring story and impact of the draft resistance movement. REGISTER HERE   When you register, you will receive a link to […]

Climate Change Forum: Arkansas in the Time of Climate ChangeArkansas Agriculture: Water, and DicambaDec 5 – 1:30 pm – zoom link belowReal issues facing Arkansas today. Continuing the series on environmental issues here in Arkansas. Our choices also impact climate change and environmental damage. This session comes out of the 2021 Audubon EnviroPolicy Summit;AgriPanel held just a couple weeks ago.Two Hot Issues in Arkansas Agriculture: Water & Dicamba  14.5 million acres of Arkansas’s land resources are considered active farmland. One of the state’s most important economic drivers, agriculture, is also directly connected to Arkansas’s natural environment. In this session, the panel will […]

Changes in a Good DirectionIntroducing Alex and Rachel Alex Tripodi has been a member of Omni Board of Directors for over two years now. Maybe you remember the story of how his workplace closed down when covid started and he founded MayDay Community Kitchen for his own sanity and to feed others who were struggling. At the time, Alex told us “Peace will look different in the world my generation is facing. We need to think about how we do our work differently because if my generation is going to be part of this, they’ll want to see practical results.” […]

Join the campaign Facebook group for Omni partner Arkansas Nonviolence Alliance to learn more and see how you can help. This is a Campaign Celebrating the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (TPNW), and Calling for the University of Arkansas to Terminate its Nuclear Weapons Program with the Honeywell Corporation, and for Global Nuclear Weapons Abolition. It also highlights the complicity of the University of Arkansas Dept of Engineering in designing components for nuclear weapons in collaboration with Honeywell International. It’s also interning UA students with Honeywell. Do those students know they are designing weapons of mass destruction?   Nuclear Weapons of […]

What’s the Buzz About?A Wild Bee WorkshopSaturday Dec 18 – 2:00 pm – Omni Center Entomology PhD student and wild bee researcher Olivia Kline will give a presentation on the importance of native bees to the local ecology and agriculture. Olivia will give an overview of the results of her research into the surprising variety of wild bees and their critical role as pollinators. She will discuss ways to promote bee populations through native plants and habitat. We will also look at simple ways to build a wild bee house for your yard.   We might also say that we’re limiting the […]

Picking Your Role in the World We Want ” …what will you do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver asked that in her poem The Summer Day.You may have noticed that the world is getting serious now. At least it is for lots of people. If you don’t need to feel that way yet you’re among the very fortunate. At this point though, it’s only possible to ignore the problems we face with serious effort, so escaping “serious” is not a reality for anybody.. This is the moment when it’s time to decide whose job it is […]