Sea Turtle Conservation Group

"I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.” - Paul McCartney

Peace,

There are remarkable events happening in our area in April, 2008. Here's what we’re aware of:

April 10, 11, 12 - The Episcopalian National Conference; Healing our Planet Earth - Singing a New Song of Hope, SeaTac Hilton

April 10 - Margaret Wheatley, Seattle University

April 11, 12 - Brian McLaren, Everything Must Change, First Free Methodist Church

April 12, 13 - Seattle Green Festival, Seattle Convention Center

April 13 - Bishop Steven Charleston and the Genesis Covenant at the Seattle Green Festival, Seattle Convention Center

April 12, 13, 14, 15 - Seeds of Compassion – His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Most Reverend Dr. Desmond Tutu, Qwest Field, Key Arena

April 22 - Earth Day

April 25 - Finding Our Power in the Great Turning: A Conversation between Joanna Macy and David Korten, Seattle Unity Church

April 25, 26, 27 - 15th Annual World Rhythm Festival, Seattle Center

April 26, 27 – Finding Our Power in the Great Turning: Joanna Macy Workshop, Seattle Unity Church


Eco-April Alignment

The stars are aligning to form a remarkable confluence of events focusing on all livings things and their environment. Why not use this alignment to strengthen our relationships, multiply our productivity, and increase our capacity to work together? We are convening a day to explore this question:

What can we do together that none of us could do alone?

We invite those passionate about working cooperatively to join us. We’ll use a process called Open Space Technology that invites each of us to take responsibility for what we love and care about. We'll organize ourselves, creating an agenda based on the topics of interest to each of us.

In other words, the meeting is guided by what each of us believes is important to pursue, so bring your ideas and be prepared to lead and participate. For a longer description of Open Space Technology, see http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?AboutOpenSpace The day will be facilitated by Peggy Holman http://www.opencirclecompany.com/bio.htm


Date: Saturday, January 12th
Time: 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Location: Northwest Environmental Education Council (NWEEC)
650 S. Orcas Street
Suite 220
Seattle, Washington 98108
http://www.nweec.org

Map to Location http://tinyurl.com/2o8sgf There is free parking on site. We will bring in lunch. Suggested donation is $5.00; no one will be turned away.

Please RSVP for the 1/12/08 Eco-April Alignment Gathering via email or call (206) 526-2323 and ask for Brittany Jacobs. Please pass along this invitation to others planning events in April 2008; all are welcome.


Coming Together On-Life and On-Line

We can only be in one place at a time. If you can't make the January 12th gathering please still include yourself in the Eco-April Alignment [1]. Add yourself to our group on WiserEarth www.wiserearth.org/group/ecoapril We will post the notes from the open space sessions and use this group as a shared online workspace.

For January 12th we are using attendr http://attendr.com/ecoapril. When you RSVP we will send you instructions on adding yourself.

The April 2008 events can catalyze a broad-based unprecedented collaboration for our community, e.g. the Dalai Lama requires a report back in one year, the Seeds of Compassion and the Puget Sound Community Change are working on large-scale cooperation’s over the next five years, Sustainable Cascadia is focusing on sustainability within a generation. So many of our initiatives call us to increase our capacity to cooperate at larger and larger scales. We invite you to join with us. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said:

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

May it be so.

In Community,

Victor Bremson, For The Grandchildren, Finding Our Power in the Great Turning
Karen Casey, Episcopalian Conference
Charles Earnest, Seattle Green Festival
John Hale, NICO, Seeds of Compassion Interfaith Co-Chair
Sheri Herndon, Sustainable Cascadia
Peggy Holman, Open Circle Company
Jenny Heins, Seattle Green Festival
Erick McWayne, Northwest Environmental Education Council
Jim Messing, Episcopalian Conference
Ruth Messing, Genesis Covenant, Episcopalian Conference
Jon Ramer, Interra Project, Puget Sound Community Change, NICO, Green Festival


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[1] Eco-April is a network of cooperators jointly producing community resources with a wide range of uses to benefit from and share, e.g. a shared website, community directory, community campaign, and promotional events and activities.

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Confirmed RSVP's as of 1/9

1. Sarah Prout
2. Ally Brooks
3. Chris (from NRG)
4. Sheri Herndon
5. Charles Earnest
6. Jon Hale
7. Janine Michelsons
8. Erick Mcwayne
9. Karen Casey
10. Jon Ramer
11. Brittany Jacobs
12. Brad deGraf
13. Shirah Bell
14. Tova Ramer
15. Susan Harper
16. Victor Bremson
17. Peggy Holman
18. William Brent
19. Jenny Heins
20. Min-amah Karim
21. Ruth Mulligan
22. Dean Decrease
23. Margo Adair
24. Sandra Poulson
25. Christy Lee-Engel
26. Eva Walker
27. Derek Hoshiko
28. Tatiana Cattand
29. Larry Jacobson
30. Barbara Little

31. Tom French
32. Cecile Andrews
33. Mary Rose
34. Kit Hill
35. Michelle Copeland
36. Phil Gerson
37. Malcom Best
38. Tamara Broadhead
39. Dan Burroff
40. Marc Cavanaugh
41. Viki Sonntag
42. Eva Walker
43, Eva's mom
43. Dee Dickinson
44. Cheryl Honey
45. Mark Musick
46. Lawrence Genette