Saturday- January 26, 10am
Help Plant Natives on Berkeley Paths
Please join BPWA and Friends of Five Creeks planting natives and removing weeds on Covert Path, part of a long-term project creating demonstration plantings and an “interpretive trail” from hills to Bay in the Codornices Creek watershed.
Meet at the top of Covert Path, downhill side of Keeler Ave. a short distance southeast of Twain Ave. Information at f5creeks@aol.com, 510 848 9358. www.fivecreeks.org.
Weed pull at Pt. Isabel in El Cerrito
Saturday-January 19, 10am-2pm
Dear Fellow Weed Wrenchers
Tom and Jane Kelly are planning a major weed pull along the Bay Trail at Pt. Isabel in El Cerrito. They would very much welcome your help! It’s a great site-(lots of shore birds)-and once the non-natives are gone, the trail will be absolutely gorgeous! We’ll also be opening hte site up for better coverage by existing native plant species and will be looking for opportunities to plant Toyon and Buckeye trees. According to the history books, Buckeyes once covered the Point, so it would be wonderful to re-introduce them.
Here’s the plan:
- What- We’ll be removing broom, ice plant, cape ivy, fennel, and pampas grass.
- Where-Pt. Isabel 2701 Isabel St, Richmond, CA)
Celebrate the release of Karl Linn’s book “Building Commons and Community”
Celebrate the release of Karl Linn’s book “Building Commons and Community”
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2007 3 to 6 pm
Berleley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall
1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita)
Berkeley, CA
Join us in launching two new books from New Village Press: “Building Commons and Community” by the late Karl Linn and “Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing” by Louise Dunlap. Together we will honor the process of community building and social action with short inspirational talks by Louise Dunlap and by Carl Anthonly, Linn’s friend and co-founder of Urban Habitat. Enjoy live music, refreshments and, of course, each other’s company!
Co-sponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Committee and Architects?Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. This event is open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
For more info: 510-420-1361; press@newvillage.net
Both books available now through new Village Press:
newvillagepress.net
Karl’s book may be purchased online at
http://newvillagepress.net/pub_buildingCommons.html
Schoolhouse Creek Common work days
Schoolhouse Creek Common, corner of Curtis and Virginia streets, has a work day every second Saturday of the month, 10-noon, with the rain date being the following Saturday.
Over the next few months we will be sowing wildflower seeds, planting native bulbs and creating a new seating area out of large moss rocks. For more information, please call Jamie Day,
559-8368, day7715@sbcglobal.net.
Watershed Events at UC Berkeley
Graduate students in river restoration speak, along with a keynote on what we can learn from urban-creek restoration in the Pacific Northwest, at the Fifth Annual Berkeley River Restoration Symposium, 9 am – 1 pm Sat., Dec. 8, 112 Wurster Hall. Talks include Cerrito Creek at Blake Garden, Kensington; alternatives to Whole Foods planned parking garage edging Codornices Creek; and lessons learned from restoration at heavily polluted Yosemite Creek, San Francisco . Schedule and abstracts at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/227_07.html.