Beginning Thursday, April 20 for 6 Thursdays: Sally Van Vleck will teach a Vinyasa yoga class at Higher Self Bookstore, 328 E. Front St., 5:30 - 7:00 PM; call Higher Self at to register 941-5805
Friday, April 21: Environmentalists of the Year Awards sponsored by NMEAC; Park Place Dome; 6:00 - 8:00 PM social hour, hors d'oevres, cash bar; award ceremony begins at 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 22: Earth Day! All Species Parade, downtown Traverse City; parade begins at 5:30 PM, followed by a street celebration downtown with music, speakers, activities for kids; also beach clean-up and tree planting.
Thursday, April 27 - Saturday April 29: Communication Technology and Media Literacy; co-sponsors: Neahtawanta Center and Northwestern Michigan College.
Saturday, May 6: a one-day workshop for activists and the public to launch the Little Zero's Campaign, to unite local and regional efforts of basin residents working toward community-level small scale zero discharge projects, such as citizens fighting incinerators, seeking alternatives to pesticides, etc.; sponsored by Great Lakes United; for more information call Tracey Easthope at (313) 663-2400
Friday, May 19 - Sunday, May 21: Backyard Eco Conference, sponsored by the Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination; to be held at Camp Tamarack, Ortonville (north of Pontiac); for more information call (517) 544-3318
Sunday, June 4: Presentation by Father Roy Bourgeois from School of Americas Watch, on the campaign to close the School of the Americas, Fort Benning, Georgia, where 700 - 2,000 soldiers annually from Latin America and the Caribbean are trained in combat skills such as counterinsurgency operations, military intelligence, sniper fire, commando tactics, and psychological operations.
June 5 - 9: Timber Frame Construction workshop at the Neahtawanta Inn.
June 12 - 16: Stress Skin Enclosure workshop at the Neahtawanta Inn.
Friday, June 23 - Sunday, June 25: Rites of Passage: Women's Mysteries, facilitated by Nancy Hayward and Joanna T. Lauber; for more information call (616) 947-8842 or (616) 223-7999
June 26 - 30: 5-Day Yoga Retreat with Roger Eischens at the Neahtawanta Inn.
August 16 - 20: Great Lakes Bioregional Congress, in Toronto, Canada; write or call for more information: c/o Oakridges Bioregion Alliance, 158 Crawford St., Toronto, Canada M6J 2V4; (416) 538-3881
Sept. 23 - 26: International Joint Commission 8th Biennial Meeting, Duluth, Minnesota
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