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Join us Saturday, May 17 at 6 pm for a celebration of Earth's beautiful vegetables. The Vegetarian Feast and Burning Karma Kabaret is a highlight of our annual Buddha's Birthday Festival weekend. The vegan menu for the Feast blends cuisines ancient and new, cultivated and wild, to create a beautiful medley of flavors and colors. Dinner is followed by the Burning Karma Kabaret, an evening of music and performance featuring a puppet short by master puppeteer Blair Thomas. Reservations are required. To find out more about the Vegetarian Feast and Burning Karma Kabaret or to make reservations, please call 773-528-8685. To learn about other Buddha's Birthday Festival events please visit www.zenbuddhisttemple.org.

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Join us Saturday, May 17 at 6 pm for a celebration of Earth's beautiful vegetables. The Vegetarian Feast and Burning Karma Kabaret is a highlight of our annual Buddha's Birthday Festival weekend. The vegan menu for the Feast blends cuisines ancient and new, cultivated and wild, to create a beautiful medley of flavors and colors. Dinner is followed by the Burning Karma Kabaret, an evening of music and performance featuring a puppet short by master puppeteer Blair Thomas. Reservations are required. To find out more about the Vegetarian Feast and Burning Karma Kabaret or to make reservations, please call 773-528-8685. To learn about other Buddha's Birthday Festival events please visit www.zenbuddhisttemple.org.

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Hosted by CARE (Citizens Against Ruining the Environment) a non-profit organization. Please join us for EARTH DAY! There will be speakers with topics on Global Warming, Nuclear Energy, Live wolf presentation, Vintage Tech Recyclers to recycle your electronics, a bee keeper, demonstrations on weaving, music, food, activities for children and adults, games, raffles, nature walks and much more. For more info on how to become a volunteer, vendor, exhibitor or sponsor please contact Carole at carolecare@aol.com or Ellen at emrrealty@comcast.net .

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Citizens Against Ruining the Environment ~ C.A.R.E. all volunteer organization hosts its’ 6th Free Earth Day Event, more than 50 Speakers, Exhibits and eco-friendly Vendors; Food, live music, children's games and Morton Arboretum guided fun nature walks. Live presentations include Big Run Wolf Ranches’ wolves and coyotes, Dave DiNaso’s Traveling World of Reptiles (weather permitting) see Honey Bees and worms at work. Bring your old electronics to Vintage Tech, old and new shoes to Share your Soles, and recycle old eyeglasses. Working Bikes, recycles old bicycles. Special Thanks to Cosponsors, Chevron, Material Service, State Farm Agents Cindy Verhoek & Maria Capetillo, Lockport High School Interact Club & Dellwood Foundation and the many donators and volunteers that make this event possible. If you are an "earth-friendly" vendor or wish to set up an environmental exhibit, call or Ellen at 815- 834-1611, Carol at 815-793-4678

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Join us for Growing Home's sixth annual Benefit. Enjoy a delicious gourmet dinner served to you by some of Chicago's most well-known chefs as well as a keynote address by Art Smith, the chef, author, and TV personality known for his tenure as Oprah Winfrey's personal chef. Mike Nowak from WGN Radio will MC. Growing Home is a non-profit that provides transitional jobs and a job training program for previously homeless and low-income Chicagoans through a social enterprise organic agriculture business. We sell produce from our urban farms on Chicago's south side at the Green City Market in Lincoln Park as well as through a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Program.

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This coming June, as many as 100 academicians, business practitioners and social enterprise leaders will come together for the second subsistence marketplace conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Unique to this enclave is a bottom-up approach to subsistence marketplaces, focusing on better understanding and responding to the people - consumers and entrepreneurs - who live at or near subsistence, and who comprise a majority of the world's population. This bottom-up focus is distinct from the macro-level economic approaches, and mid-level business strategy approaches, such as the base of the pyramid (BOP), that has characterized research on this topic. The first subsistence marketplaces conference was an undeniable success, energizing projects and collaborative arrangements that cut across traditional boundaries and a collection of readings published as a volume in the Advances in International Management series by Elsevier in 2007. We expect even more great outcomes from the second conference.

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Come join Seven Generations Ahead at Blue Max Coffee where author Stephen Hren will share his story about how to create a Carbon-Free Home! Copies of The Carbon-Free Home will be available for purchase and Stephen Hren will be happy to sign your book. Payment for books may be made by cash or check. Complimentary coffee and tea will be served. This event is hosted by Seven Generations Ahead in collaboration with Blue Max Coffee and Chelsea Green Publishing.

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Action Out Loud is a week-long, action-packed, fun and exciting youth advocacy training camp designed for youth ages 14-20 who are interested in making their voices heard and creating social change in their lives and in their communities. During the week, all participants will get in-depth training on issues around adolescent sexual health, sex education, pregnant and parenting youth, and the reproductive justice movement.

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Join us for the 2nd annual Renewable Energy Fair on Saturday, October 18, 2008. The Renewable Energy Fair will feature workshops and exhibits emphasizing renewable energy and sustainable living and is fun for the whole family. Learn how you can make a difference by becoming more Earth-friendly and energy efficient.