Mycological Society of San Francisco

Every year in December there is an annual mushroom festival, called the Fungus Fair, hosted by the Mycological Society of San Francisco. If you missed it this year, you can still join the Society.

Mushrooms are amazing; some varieties cure the bird flu, others are high in vitamin D and some are good for dying fabric. Check out their website to see how you can get involved.

Something to think about...

“If I am not for myself, who will be? But then, if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”-Hillel

Bioneers 2008

Art Installation by the Eco Art Matters class at Bioneers, 2008

Watersite, a gathering place

Wishing well made from a discarded satellite dish

Buying Local, organic produce is simplified!

Sign up for either Grub Box 

or

 with Phat Beet produce 

to get a weekly bag of locally grown, organic produce. 

Picking up the grub box at your neighborhood drop off location is like Christmas- you never know what seasonal produce is going to be in there!

Drop off locations are around the San Francisco East Bay.

You can have weekly, bimonthly or monthly grub boxes. 

Both nonprofits offer low income options.

And Phat Beets has a 1/2 box option.

Sign up now and make your life easier.
No more having to remember to go to the farmer's market or to have bring cash and your own bags.
Instead pickup local, organic produce around the corner by prepaying for it online.

Painting class with the option to use natural dyes

 

Judi Pettite teaches a regular painting class with the option to paint with eco materials. You can sign up for one of her classes (beginning, continuing or special projects painting). 

All three classes run concurrently on Wednesdays 6-9:50pm, at Berkeley City College, starting January 25, 2012. 

  

Judi also teaches occasional workshops, say once or twice a year on how to make your own plant and earth pigments.

 

 Check out Judi Pettite's website: www.biohue.com

Judy Pettite, Untitled

2010

Watercolor

8" x 10"

Drip experiments using various earth and plant pigments.

 

Global Warnings

Global Warnings, June Steingart Gallery, Laney campus, Fall 2009

More photos to come for this group exhibit.

Installation by Kiki Rostad 

My work was focused on The book : Last Child in the Woods; by Richard Louv, Saving our children from Nature Deficit Disorder. At that time I was working with a group of children at a mental health center with a psychologist and we focused on  art & nature all that fall. I could not use pictures of the children or their names so my piece was a “sand tray” filled with  an old type writer and items from nature like a touch and feel box or tray. 2 pick-nick baskets filled with pine cones and seeds and Walking stick. All the joys of nature. The photograph is stagnant  the piece was “alive” you had to be there!

Kiki Rostad teaches ceramics at The Richmond Art Center 

Green classes at Merritt College

"The Merritt College Environmental Management and Technology Program, and Environmental Center (Self-Reliant House) are located in the Oakland Hills between two wild land watershed open spaces.

Courses offered cover an array of subjects including: Ecological Restoration and Watershed Management, Agroecology and Urban Farming, Alternative Energies, Ecology, Global Warming, Ecological Restoration, Food Security, Environmental Justice, Sustainable Cities, Policy and Planning, Human Ecology, Forests, Wetlands, Water Resources, Ranger/ Naturalist Training, Environmental Education, Air Quality, Recycling, Pollution, Wildlife, Population, Transportation and Green Building.

The Merritt College Environmental Center is also home to the East Bay
Watershed Center and the David R. Brower, Ronald V. Dellums Institute for
Sustainable Policy Studies.

For more information, contact: Merritt College Environmental Programs at
510-434-3840, or 510-436-2418 for the Landscape Horticulture and
Environmental Program office assistant."

-text borrowed from eco Merritt's website