NEW GREEN TEAM NETWORK . . . WasteCap Nebraska is launching a regional Green Team Roundtable Network in Southeastern Nebraska. The meetings, designed to give businesses access to expert speakers, tours with successful green initiatives, and provide Teams with a forum are developing statewide. The Southeast Nebraska Green Team Roundtable will meet Tuesday, July 21, 2009, from 11:30am to 1:00 pm at Thurman’s Bike & Sport, 300 South 11th, in NEBRASKA CITY, for a Brown Bag Lunch. Jim Thurman will give a tour of the building’s green renovations. Click here to RSVP online, phone Rozz Beckman at 402.434-7376, or e-mail rbeckman [at] wastecapne [dot] org.
LINCOLN PEACE VIGILS . . . Lincoln peace vigils continue at the Federal Building, 15th and O streets, every Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:00pm. Contact Mark at 402-499-6672 or e-mail mark [at] weddleton [dot] com for more information.
OMAHA GREEN DRINKS . . . Wednesday, July 22, 2009, Green Drinks will meet in Omaha from 5:30pm to close at Whole Foods Market, 10020 Regency Circle, in the education room across from the coffee bar. Everyone studying, working on, or just interested in environmental issues is invited to join this informal, self-organizing social network now meeting in 542 cities worldwide. Contact Jean Waters, 402.554.6259, or e-mail jwaters [at] mail [dot] unomaha [dot] edu for more information.
OMAHA PEACE VIGILS . . . Omaha peacemakers vigil every Wednesday, 4:30-5:30pm, at StratCom/UN-O, 6801 Pine Street, east of the Scott Technology Center on the Un-O campus. Free parking is available at the NE Corner of 67th Street and Pine in a student lot. For more information, phone Jerry Ebner, 402.502.5887. Every Saturday, 1:00-2:00pm, there is an Anti-War and Peace Vigil at 72nd and Dodge Streets. Contact Steve Horn at 402.426.9068.
OMAHA PEOPLE’S FILM FESTIVAL . . . There is a People’s Film Festival every Wednesday evening, 7:00pm, at McFoster’s Natural Kind Cafe, 38th and Harney in Omaha. The event is always free and open to the public. This week’s film is Blue Gold: World Water Wars. Food and drink is available. A lively discussion follows each showing. For more information, click here. The People’s Film Festival – Expanding Political Consciousness Since 2004.
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION ON RACIAL JUSTICE . . . Thursday, July 23, 2009, at 6:30pm, there will be an open community conversation on disproportionate minority contact with the justice system. Community experts will address disparities, religious and cultural sensitivity within the justice system, and the need for diversity at all levels. An opening panel will be followed by structured small group conversations. Community members are invited to learn, dialogue, and make their voices heard. “The Color of Equality: Is There Justice for All?” will be at Cedars Northbridge Community Center, 1533 North 27th Street in LINCOLN. For more information, phone Rebecca Gonzales at 402.438.8853 Ext. 107, or e-mail rgonzales [at] neappleseed [dot] org.
TOUR MORRILL HALL . . . Priscilla Grew, director of UN-L’s State Museum of Natural History, will lead a free public tour of Morrill Hall featuring Nebraska’s fossils and geology on Thursday, July 23, 2009, at 6:00pm. The Museum is located just south of 14th and Vine Streets on UN-L’s city campus. Visitor parking is on the north side of the building. NOTE: bring your license plate number for the sign-in sheet. For more information phone Wachiska Audubon Field Trip Chair John Carlini at 475.7275.
BUY FRESH. BUY LOCAL . . . . Join the local food revolution by shopping farmer’s markets and eating fresh foods grown in or very near your own community. Eating locally grows family farming, grows the local economy, and is thousands of miles fresher. Click here for Nebraska Buy Fresh. Buy Local. information. Lincoln’s eight Markets are as follows:
Old Cheney Farmers Market, 55th Street and Old Cheney Road, 10:00am to 2:00pm, Sundays through November 1.
Historic Haymarket Farmers Market, North Seventh between P and Q streets, 8:00am to noon, Saturdays through October 10. During peak season, mid-June through mid-August, there are about 215 vendors.
Havelock Farmers Market, north parking lot behind businesses between 62nd and 63rd streets and Havelock Avenue, 3:00 to 6:30pm, Wednesdays through October 28.
Piedmont Farmers Market, 1265 South Cotner Blvd., parking lot of Piedmont Shopping Center, 8:00am to noon, Saturdays through September/October.
Jazz in June Market, 12th & Q streets, Tuesday evenings in June, in conjunction with Jazz in June concerts.
St. Paul United Church of Christ Farmers Market, 1144 M Streets, 4:30 to 7:30pm, Tuesdays through September 8.
Community CROPS Farmers Market, Pentzer Park, North 27th & Potter Streets, 4:30 to 7:30pm, Thursdays, June through September. Click here for a map of local Community CROPS gardens.
Centennial Mall Garden Market, 14th & M Streets, noon to 4:00pm, Wednesdays, July 1 through September 30.
We are no longer the alternative; we are the imperative. –Rosa Clemente