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Free Compost Classes

Free Composting Classes For Richland County Residents
In 60 minutes you can learn how easy it is to turn grass clippings, yard waste and kitchen scraps into a rich soil amendment.
You will receive a free composting booklet and a free wire composting bin! (Registration required, instructions below.  Some classes are full but send us an [...]

August 28, 2010   Posted in: Education Opportunity, Public Events  No Comments

September 25, Forest Acres Green Festival

Come see how to build a green house!  Learn about sustainable living!
Hear music, make fun craft items, play games, and eat good food!
The Forest Acres Green Living Festival is Saturday, September 25, 2010
from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The festival will take place at three locations along North Trenholm Road:
Forest Lake Presbyterian Church (6500 North Trenholm [...]

August 16, 2010   Posted in: Education Opportunity, Public Events  Comments Closed

July 3rd Food, Inc. at 701 Whaley… free!

Come celebrate with The All Local Farmer’s Market on their 1st anniversary and see a free screening of the amazing movie Food, Inc.  The screening will be inside at 701 Whaley and begin at 10AM.  Come early and have breakfast before the film.  Stay after and buy great local produce, baked goods, eggs & meat, [...]

June 24, 2010   Posted in: Education Opportunity, In the news, Public Events  Comments Closed

Feb 22, Mayoral Candidate Forum on Environment

Join us at 701 Whaley Street in the Olympia Room next to the Gallery, to hear the candidates weigh in on creating a sustainable city and addressing environmental concerns.  We will begin with a meet & greet at 5:30 till 6PM when the forum begins.
The 701 Center for Contempoary Art will have a bar set [...]

February 14, 2010   Posted in: Education Opportunity, In the news, Member event, Public Events  Comments Closed

Feb 11th Putting a Face On Global Sustainability: The Impacts of Copenhagen

On Thursday February 11 at 6:30PM in the Green Quad Learning Center, the Green Quad will host a discussion by USC Law Professor Cinnamon Carlarne on the U.N. Climate Change Conference held last year in Copenhagen. The discussion with be a evaluation of the progress and speed of climate change, as well as what is left [...]

February 5, 2010   Posted in: Education Opportunity, Member event, Public Events  Comments Closed

Feb 9th Movie “Fresh” re-inventing our food system

FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a [...]

January 12, 2010   Posted in: Education Opportunity, Public Events  Comments Closed

Jan 23rd “How to Start a Community Garden”

A free seminar offered by Sustainable Midlands & the USC Green Quad.  10AM at the Center for Sustainable Learning at the USC Green Quad.   Open to the public.

December 29, 2009   Posted in: Education Opportunity, Public Events  Comments Closed

Feb 5th Free Carbon Market Workshop

The South Carolina Wildlife Federation and Climate Action Reserve (CAR)will host a free workshop on the opportunities available to landowners and foresters in the carbon market on Friday, February 5, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m at the Harbison Environmental Education Center, 5600 Broad River Road, Columbia, SC.
The types of projects that may be eligible, requirements [...]

December 18, 2009   Posted in: Education Opportunity, Land Use  Comments Closed

Clean Air Midlands Business Forum

On December 11th at the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce Ballroom.  Our largest employers and businesses with  air permits have been invited to learn how to improve our air quality with employee programs and smart, green change that will ave them money.  The Clean Air Midlands Forum is a joint effort by Richland County, Lexington County, [...]

December 9, 2009   Posted in: Education Opportunity, In the news, Public Events  Comments Closed

Energy Efficient Future In SC 11/12, 1:30PM

1:30PM Green Quad Event: Join Suzanne Watson, Director of Policy, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy and Senator Thomas C. Alexander, chairman of the State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee, to learn how South Carolina can reduce its dependence on carbon-based energy, more efficiently use its water resources and strengthen its economy by [...]

November 8, 2009   Posted in: Education Opportunity, In the news, Public Events  Comments Closed