Class! Taming Energy and Water Waste

Don't miss the last session in a 4 part series on Saving Money:  Taming Energy and Water Waste. Downloads from previous sessions are available.  From their website:

Session 4 will focus on residential renewable energy.  The basics of how solar and wind energy systems work; how much do they cost; what’s the return on investment; “are they right for me?”– limitations of these systems.

Guest speaker:  Mr. Phil Brodhagen, Owner, El Paso Green Energies. Local installer certified by the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP)

The Southeastern Colorado Renewable Energy Society (SECRES) presents a series of 4 energy efficiency seminars designed to help residents and businesses make wiser decisions with their energy and water use. Choose one or all of the seminars to become more aware of your consumption, explore the benefits of saving resources, both financially and ecologically, and discover how you can become an energy producer, rather than just a consumer.

Resource! Environmental Working Group

From their website:

The Environmental Working Group’s mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. With breakthrough research and education, we drive consumer choice and civic action.
We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment. 

Organization! Seeds Cafe

If you haven't visited Seeds Cafe, you've missed a great experience and fresh, locally grown food.  From their website:

Empowering People through the Power of Food

We believe that food literally has the power to change lives.

It happens every day at Seeds Community Cafe’. 

Our pay-as-you-can, pay-it-forward model helps us to give people a hand up, not a hand out. When a person no longer has to worry about where their next meal is coming from, they have the power to begin to create the life they see for themselves.
At Seeds, we help them do this through the act of sharing a meal, which goes beyond just creating community. It is our mission to bring people from all walks of life together, serve them locally-sourced healthy food, and encourage them to communicate and connect. Seeds is about honoring the humanity in each other, that which binds us to each other. We are about inclusion, regardless of status, education, or religious beliefs. It is about dignity and allowing those who cannot afford to pay for a meal the opportunity to volunteer in exchange for it. We never turn away a hungry person.

Event! Local non-profit fundraisers coming up.

A couple fund raisers coming up for local sustainability non-profits and others:

Eat, Drink, and Give!

November 10 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

OVER 25 NON PROFITS UNDER ONE ROOF!
LIVE MUSIC • FOOD • DRINKS • PRIZES

WHERE: ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER
114 W. RIO GRANDE STREET,
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80903

WHERE: ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER
114 W. RIO GRANDE STREET,
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80903

Ute and Yeti Give Night

November 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Community donation night with entertainment, prize drawings and more!
Five awesome non-profits are getting together for a party at the Ute and Yeti. Come on over for some food and drink specials. Donate through Give! to one or all five groups. For each group you donate to you will get a ticket for the prize buckets! We hope to see you there.
Who will you meet there?
Catamount Institute
Upadowna
Seeds Community Cafe
Rocky Mountain Field Institute
Millibo Art Theater

Event! U.S. Green Building Chapter Colorado Green Schools Summit

The U.S. Green Building Chapter Colorado has announced this year's Green Schools Summit happening November 6, 2015 at the Arvada Center.  From their online site:

The Green Schools Summit is an annual education and networking event hosted by USGBC Colorado and organized by a dedicated group of volunteers from the Green Schools Initiative. It is Colorado’s only conference dedicated to convening green building industry professionals, school decision makers, educators and parents. The event provides a truly unique opportunity for open and productive dialogue on how to create better learning environments for our kids.
Volunteer at the Summit! Volunteers get free admission to the conference. Fill out this form and someone will be in touch with you soon.

This year’s theme is "The Balancing Act." 

Sponsors/exhibitors and community partners make this educational conference possible.
LEED professionals, AIA architects and teachers can earn up to 5 hours of continuing education.

Resource! PPLD Green Team Facebook page

In order to give our patrons even more information on current events, programs, and timely projects and sustainable practices, the PPLD Green Team now has a Facebook page.  It will probably be more current than this blog, but this will be a great place to look when searching for regional resources, organizations and annual events. 

Resource! Recycle Yard Waste for Free

 With all the rain this summer, everyone will have lots of leaves and other yard waste to dispose of. Put it to good use rather than sending it to the landfill. Rocky Top accepts free yard waste (with some restrictions) Saturday afternoons, with a non-perishable food donation.