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Lectures & Panel Discussions

Electric Vehicles | City of Ann Arbor 2018 Sustainable Ann Arbor Forum

Thursday January 11, 2018: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room
Adults

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Vermiculture & Composting

Sunday May 7, 2017: 3:00pm to 3:45pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room
Grade 6 - Adult

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Lectures & Panel Discussions

Container & Beginning Gardening w/ Project Grow!

Sunday May 7, 2017: 1:00pm to 1:45pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room
Grade 6 - Adult

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Lectures & Panel Discussions

City of Ann Arbor 2017 Sustainable Ann Arbor Forum: Grow Your Own

Thursday April 13, 2017: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

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Lectures & Panel Discussions

Sustainability Forum: Sustainable Kids

Thursday March 9, 2017: 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room
All Ages

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Lectures & Panel Discussions

City of Ann Arbor 2017 Sustainable Ann Arbor Forum: Driverless Vehicles Coming Down the Pike

Thursday February 9, 2017: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

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City of Ann Arbor 2017 Sustainable Ann Arbor Forum: Green Your Home DIY

Thursday January 12, 2017: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

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Blog Post

It's Easy Being Green: A Sustainable Living Expo / Sunday, September 27, 12:30-5:30 PM

by erin

It's Easy Being Green is a day-long learning, local buying, and eating exposition celebrating living a life that’s better for the planet and not so hard on the wallet. From supporting efforts to reduce your carbon footprint to learning homesteading skills for living a more hands-on, DIY life, It's Easy Being Green has you covered!

Join us on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, from 12:30-5:30 PM. The library is open from 12:00-6:00PM. FREE Parking on Sundays too!

The Expo features:

A Keynote presentation, "Plants, Pollinators, and Why They Matter," plus 11 learning sessions on a variety of topics including bike commuting, rain & container gardening, permaculture, fermentation, and more.

Over 20 vendors selling upcycled, recycled, handmade wares including jewelry, clothes, bath products, artwork, wool and other fibers. Plus vendors selling mushroom growing kits, outdoor animal keeping supplies, fermented products, and shrubs (drinking vinegars). Vendors include The Brinery, McClary Brothers Drinking Vinegars, Ann Arbor Seed Company, Happy Fuzzy Yarn, Divine Iguana, Lead Head Glass, among others.

Opportunities to chat with representatives from area organizations such as Recycle Ann Arbor, Project Grow, Ann Arbor Backyard Beekeepers, Sic Transit, Natural Area Preservation, Slow Food Huron Valley, Agrarian Adventure, Leslie Science & Nature Center, Ecology Center, and other green neighbors.

There will be three outdoor food vendors: The Shimmy Shack (vegetarian/vegan), and Mani Strada (the new venture from the Mani Osteria & Isalita purveyors) and Hello Ice Cream..

Learning Sessions Schedule:

12:30-1:15

Keynote: Plants, Pollinators, and Why They Matter with Joseph Tychonievich, Greensparrow Gardens

1:30-2:15

Family Bike Commuting with Michael Firn of Sic Transit Cycles
Container Gardening with Growing Hope

2:30-3:15

Rain Gardens with Jesse Tack of Abundant MI Permaculture and Whole Culture Repair
Mending Workshop with Karen LePage of Gentle Clothing
Bee Keeping with Jamie Berlin of Ypsi Melissa

3:30-4:15

Permaculture with the People’s Food Co-Op
Keeping Animals with Harnois Farms

4:30-5:15

Intro to Canning with Cynthia Hodges
Vermiculture with Starr Valley Farms
Fermentation 101 with The Brinery

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Which Goat Is Right for You? Find out in our new magazine: Modern Farmer

by ballybeg

AADL can boast one of the largest and most interesting collections of magazines I have seen in any library. We are constantly adding new magazines into the line-up. Every time I am in the Periodicals department, I try to find a magazine I have never seen before and I always find at least one.

This month I found a brand new, wonderful issue of Modern Farmer. The debut issue was published this spring. It contains full-length articles and shorter pieces, pictures, interviews, advertisements and a shop which cater to interest in the new face of farming around the world. Read what the New York Times has to say about it here.

For newer books which feature the new trend in urban farming try these: Urban Farms and Urban Farming: Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community and in the World and Food & the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution.

Modern Farmer is another in a growing collection of magazines which appeal to the organic food, slow food, local food and backyard food movements. Others in our collection to look for include: Acres USA, Backyard Poultry, Bee Culture, Edible WOW and Hobby Farms.

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Poultry Expert Darrin Karcher, Ph.D. Discusses The Chickens: How To Keep Them Happy

by beesleya

Sunday, October 21 | 3:00 - 5:00 PM | Pittsfield Branch

Join Dr. Darrin Karcher, of Michigan State University's Department of Animal Science, and learn about basic management and care of chickens such as brooding, nutrition, lighting, disease management and ventilation. He will also discuss the evolution of the chicken from Red Jungle Fowl (which is thought to be the ancestor of the domestic chicken) to today. This event is cosponsored by The Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor.

Dr. Karcher will return to Pittsfield Branch on Sunday, November 18 for a related discussion entitled The Eggs: What You Don't Know.

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