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CU Going Local

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CU Going Local is a student group dedicated to facilitating CU's transition to becoming environmentally and economically resilient and sustainable. University of Colorado at Boulder

Type Group: transition
Members: 41
Latest Activity: Jan 23, 2012

Who We Are...

CU Going Local is a committed group of university and community members brought together by our common desire to create a more sustainable world through relocalizing our campus community. Through our most fundamental necessity—the food we eat—CU Going Local strives to combat global environmental problems through community-based initiatives.

Our Goals Locally and Globally:

Our mission is threefold. We wish to…

Ø Empower each student to make small changes that positively impact the world, every single day.

Ø Create a stronger sense of community among university members, Boulder residents, and the local nonprofit, Boulder County Going Local, through becoming more in touch with our food.

Ø Relocalize CU’s food system to one that is more ecologically conscious and self-sufficient, thus enabling CU to be a national model for what all universities can do in the future

Right now CU Going Local is working on embodying the Transition Town concept into the student group. For those of you unfamiliar with Transition, I highly recommend you check out the website: http://www.transitiontowns.org/ or at least read the 12 steps to Transition: http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/12Steps

The Transition Town movement is huge--and I can't think of a better way to spend our time than to work together in this moment of history and form a community based around our common beliefs and passions. Transition University is a concept that hasn't been done before, but with our love for the movement, hard work, and unified effort, it can happen, and produce something more beautiful than we could ever imagine.

Any questions, any comments, any anything, email CUGoingLocal@gmail.com

Ongoing Discussions and Development

What's up CU?

Started by Alex Prescott Jul 29, 2009.

Coming Up! Willow Way Permaculture Design Course CREATING NATURAL ABUNDANCE

Started by Zia Parker May 11, 2009.

Transition Universities 1 Reply

Started by Jay Ma. Last reply by Jay Ma Nov 21, 2008.

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Comment by Zia Parker on January 25, 2011 at 12:51pm: Hi. There is lots going on a Willow Way Wellness Permaculture Herb Farm & CSA. Here are some dates for your diary.

Director Zia Parker is available for presentations to interested groups. These presentations can be tailored to a groups interests and experience. Would your group be interested in a presentation and video one evening?

Learn about PERMACULTURE for you and the world.

Join the movement toward sustainable living: environmentally, financially, socially. Permaculture is about designing for balanced and sustainable human settlements. There is SO MUCH that one person can do. Focus on solutions. Know where your food comes from. Let’s get sensible! Let your senses guide you… to connect to the land.

Find out more. Come and experience for yourself.

Willow Way Permaculture Herb Farm & CSA Tour

Sunday February 13^th 2011 1:00pm-3:00pm.
At 6481 N 63^rd St, Longmont, CO 80503

Bring appropriate clothing-- boots, hats, gloves.

We will share a special blend of our Tulsi rose tea and you’ll receive a free sample of our love bath potpourri to celebrate Valentines Day.



Permaculture Design Course, runs April - October.

The Willow Way Permaculture Design Course (PDC) spans our high-altitude growing season, providing a wide-ranging learning experience that reflects the diversity inherent in the Rocky Mountain Front Range. Learn how to work with the wisdom of nature to create resilient systems in which both the yield and the fertility are upheld for future generations.

Instruction will be rooted in hands-on practices at Willow Way, a working herbal CSA farm.

Two three-day intensives and Sundays twice a month, 8:30am-5:30pm Internationally recognized certificate

Internships currently available. (For more information look up URL)http://ziaparker.com/blog/pc/

Comment by David Braden on September 26, 2009 at 10:39am: I thought this groug might be interested in a community garden project we have going at Lee Hill and Broadway in Boulder. This project is open to all comers and is in need of someone to take a leadership role (I have three other gardens I am working on as well).

Feel free to contact me if you are interested and I will arrange to meet you at the garden.

Comment by Timothy Foss on September 25, 2009 at 11:44am: Hello! So excited to have discovered this network. I'm an Art/Art History grad at CU and am looking for anyone who'd be interested in beginning a permaculture garden in my yard with me in north Boulder (Folsom and Balsam). The plot is about 20 by 40 and I'm a little busy with a new baby and school, but already have a little team forming to help. Let me know if you're interested! I'll be providing water and will do the main chunk of investing, but really need some hands! thanks!
tim

Comment by Stephen Blaes on March 5, 2009 at 10:32pm: Good to see everyone at the Chrysallis potluck this evening. Just a reminder, there is a good time to be had this Sunday (March 8th) from 2pm-4pm at the Performing Arts Center @ Naropa University.

It is free; there will be music, education, music, poetry. The topic is around New Orleans, volunteerism, and alternative break opportunities locally and abroad.

Its a potluck and open mic, so if folks could bring some food and would be willing to read a piece of theirs that would be great.

Yours in building community,

Steve Blaes

Comment by Bryant Mason on February 14, 2009 at 6:06pm: Yeah that was us. Lilly presented and it was awesome!

Comment by David E Greenwald on February 4, 2009 at 8:13am: I saw in this CU Sustainability summit agenda 'transition initiative'
is that you guys and gals?

cheers
david

Comment by David E Greenwald on January 31, 2009 at 6:27pm: Its high time I join your Colorado University Transition - I will contribute, in part, by inviting you to two cool February Events that are relevant to all CU Initiative members. Also, I am currently auditing a very good environmental design class at CU that will help us design sustainable communities for future generations.

Cheers!!!
David Greenwald
Louisville Transition Initiator

Comment by Les Squires on September 12, 2008 at 5:35pm: Use Discussion Forum for creating dialogue.
Use Comment Wall for quick "post-its".