ECC Sustainable Inventors Club & Biomimicry will become a 4H details TBAS

Open forums, encourage everyone to participate and share their views. Forums extend an opportunity for youth to have a voice. Forums increase personal learning and help participants come away with new ideas and insights. Forums help build solidarity. By attending these events young people become more connected. When people come together to discuss issues of common concern, ideas get exchanged that become catalyst to action and new collaborations.
December’s Speaker is a Biomimicry speaker, architect and a friend of mine! He’s out of state until December. I I’ll announce that date at our Nov Inventors Meetup!
Why does our :Sustainable Inventors Club” have an emphasis on Biomimicry?
“Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. It’s the process of looking at a leaf and trying to figure out how to make a better solar cell.
Biomimicry has been going on for a long time. Think about the Wright brothers looking at turkey vultures to learn about drag and lift in flight.
Now biomimicry is becoming one of the ways that engineers, product designers, and architects do their work. It’s mainly because people are looking for more sustainable ways to do things--to sip energy instead of guzzle it, to save materials, to do things in less toxic ways.
Organisms know how to do these things. After 3.8 billion years, life has learned what works and what’s appropriate on the planet. And that’s what the people trying to redesign our world are looking for--so we can live here in a way that enhances this place.” Source
How can people get involved in biomimicry? See Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/biomimicry/janine-benyus-biomimicry-is-innovation-inspired-by-nature
Important Links to watch!
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html
http://instantwatcher.com/hulu/shows/273
Please Read
Imagine designing a shovel, football, shoe, window, car, or any everyday object enhanced by Biomimicry - look around! Check out: Tools for Creative Thinking and Decision Making - http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook1.htm or Get Netflix and watch (Future By Design) or (Objectified) and get creating on paper please and bring your nature inspired design along! Examine the evolution of everyday products and green storming ways to redesign them more sustainably.
Next month - wind turbines, with a Biomimicry whale of a twist! US scientists discovered that the tubercles -- the scalloped edges on humpback fins -- result in 32 percent less drag and an 8 percent rise in lift when compared to a smooth fin. Humpback whale flipper.
A Resource: AskNature is the world's first digital library of Nature's solutions, organized by function, that can serve as an educational and cross-pollinating tool as well as a collaboration forum among biologists, engineers, designers and other innovators. http://www.asknature.org/media/image/192


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Bioregional Calendar: UPDATE Hiking on Beseck Ridge, Bulk Grain Order, Movie "Urban Roots" & Community Potluck, Common Ground Upcoming Events

New Haven Bioregional Group/

Transition Greater New Haven
Connecting New Haveners to Their Life-Place Since 2005




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Hike on Beseck Ridge
Saturday, November 5

Meet at FUUS, 608 Whitney Ave, New Haven
8:45 AM-We will be carpooling



This is a spectacular walk that offers views of the Central Valley, Hanging Hills, Powder Ridge and all the way down to Long Island Sound. Basically we will be seeing our entire Bioregion from this one magnificent ridge.

Meet at UU at 8:45 AM, to carpool, we will depart promptly at 9 AM.
We need people to respond: mariatupper@gmail.com
We’ll all drive up together.
Moderate to difficult hike, wear sturdy shoes, bring water, wind breaker, something to eat, walking sticks are very helpful. The walk is 5+ miles. We should be back at UU no later than 3 PM.

IT’S WORTH THE TIME AND EFFORT!!








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Bulk Grain Order-November 2011

The New Haven - Food Action Group, the Bioregional/Transition Committee
and the Boulder Knoll Community Farm are working together and ready for
our second bulk order.

We are offering 7 organic choices, each sold in 12.5 lb units (from Natural Way Mills). The prices are based on Natural way Mills 2011 price list which is subject to change without notice. Also prices will depend on demand of the products. The shipping cost per pound is estimated at $0.37/lbs (based on an order of 1,000 lbs).

The first section is our offers for this order. Select the unit amount you want per product of interest. The price includes shipping. The following section is about what would you like to see offered in the future (feel free to fill this part out, even if you aren't ordering).

At the end it is important to input your name, email and phone number to
contact you after the order.

Orders are Open Until: NOVEMBER 25, 2011
Probable Pickup: Mid DECEMBER
2011 Questions: tgnh.food@gmail.com.

Contact:
Domingo Medina - email: medinadom@gmail.com
Anne Cherry - email: charcoalgrey@MSN.com
Adam Wascholl - email adam.wascholl@gmail.com

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!!!

Click on the link below to go to the order form which gives the selection for this year's bulk grains. Please scroll through the whole document and give your contact information when you have completed your order.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE9JRUhLLWhEZ2tNODlJZjN1R0p5NXc6MQ

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Urban Roots

A Movie





Thursday, November 17
Barnard Environmental Magnet School, 170 Derby Ave., New Haven

5:30 PM Community Potluck

6:30 PM Movie—“Urban Roots”

Produced by Leila Conners and Mathew Schmid and directed by Mark MacInnis, the film follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit. Urban Roots is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation grappling with collapsed industrial towns and the
need to forge a sustainable and prosperous future.
Cosponsored:

Barnard Environmental Magnet School
CitySeed
Coalition for Agriculture, Food, and Environment
CT Environmental Headlines
CT NOFA
Common Ground High School, Urban Farm, and Environmental Education Center
Friends of Edgewood Park
NH Bioregional Group/Transition Greater New Haven
NH Food Policy Council
NH Land Trust; NH Office of Sustainability
West River Neighborhood Services Corp

Made possible through the generosity of NEGEF
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