Vol. 26 No 3
Wild River Audubon Articles, January 2006
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| Monday, January 23rd:
Terry Gips of the Alliance for Sustainability presents "Natural Step
Framework"
It’s a new year and time for those New Year’s resolutions! Would
you like some tips on how to live a more fulfilling, simpler,
greener life? Join co-sponsors Wild River Audubon and Chisago Lake
Lutheran Church on January 23, at 7:00 p.m. at Chisago Lake Lutheran
Church, Center City to hear Terry Gips present: “Saving Money, Time
and the Earth while Living a Healthy, Fun Life: an interactive,
inspiring look at sustainability and the Natural Step Framework."
Gips is an ecologist, economist, author (Breaking the Pesticide
Habit), and President of the nonprofit Alliance for Sustainability
in the Hillel Center at the University of Minnesota. In addition,
he’s a Natural Step Framework Instructor.
Natural Step Framework is a new educational approach to becoming
sustainable, created in Sweden in 1989 and introduced to this
country by Paul Hawken (co-founder of the retail garden store Smith
and Hawken’s and author of the acclaimed book, The Ecology of
Commerce. The Natural Step Framework is now being used by many
well-known businesses to make their companies sustainable. Among
these are IKEA, Nike, Starbucks and Home Depot.
Intrigued? Join us on Monday, January 23! For more information,
call 257-0786. Directions and a map to Chisago Lake Lutheran Church
are here.
I'll put more up over the weekend.
Craig |
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| November Issue: 26 No 2 |
President's Column by Sue Leaf
Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, Whooping Cranes, and Timber Wolves. This
issue of The Current centers on
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Nature's Bookshelf Review of Ordinary
Wolves by Seth Kantner, reviewed by Todd Arnold
The North Slope of Alaska has received considerable media attention
due to the controversy surrounding oil
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Never Giving Up by Sue Leaf
Only David Sibley, illustrator and author of the lauded Sibley
Guide to Birds, had apparently decided that the
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| Pinfeathers (Notes about Wild River Audubon) by Sue
Leaf |
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U.S. Votes to Gut the Endangered Species Act
On September 29, 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives passed
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Restoring the Whooping Crane by Sue Leaf
Elegant in flight and statuesque on land, the Whooping Crane
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Radical Simplicity Dialogues at Warner Nature Center
Join the Lee and Rose Warner Nature Center Director, Tom Anderson and
other guests participants
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November - December 2005
Calendar Items
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In Search of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker by Jim Fitzpatrick
When researchers went public last spring with the news they
had confirmed the existence of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker in an
Arkansas swamp, birdwatchers went wild with joy. The last
verified report of the rare bird had been in 1943. Jim
Fitzpatrick, Director of the Carpenter Nature Center in
Hastings, was on the Cornell University expedition that made the
confirmation and is one of seven people to have actually seen
the fabled woodpecker.
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November 21th, 7 pm, at
Chisago Lake Lutheran Church Join us on November 21, 2005
at 7:00 p.m. at Chisago Lake Lutheran Church in Center City as
we listen to his account of the historic trip and view his
power-point presentation of “the Lord God Bird.” |
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Christmas Bird Count, Center City Minnesota
followed by a potluck as we tally our sightings. |
Saturday, December 17th, 8 am —
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Thanks to contributors for this issue, Sue Leaf and others. And many thanks to our Wild River Audubon Current Editor, Dave Spohn. |
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02/05/2008
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