Eco/Justice Café Friday, November 14, 6 to 10 pm
Save the Date and Tell Your Friends!

At the Firebird Inn 4200 Connecticut Ave., NW, 20008, Building 39, B-Level University of DC, Van Ness/UDC Red Line West exit - Wheelchair Accessible
Featuring music, poetry, an open mike session, good food, good beer, good people, good cheer, good info and good karma.uggested donation $15/ $10 students/$5 kids - Food and drink included.

All ages event; child activities provided – and powered by kids!

A TABLING AREA (The Eco-Justice Bazaar) will feature environmental and social justice organizations and businesses.

Co-sponsors and Eco-justice Bazaar participants: UDC David A. Clarke School of Law Community Development Clinic, DC Environmental Network--Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club Energy Committee, DC Department of Public Works Recycling Office, DC Employment Justice Center, National Council of Women's Organizations, Young Ladies of Tomorrow, Community IT Innovators, Washington Peace Center, Ecolocity DC, Can Stand Up! for Democracy in DC Coalition (Free DC), Stop Modern Slavery, Capital Sun
Group, Community Forklift, Live Green, Bethesda Green, DC Statehood Green Party, Progressive Democrats of America, Peoples MEDIA Center

Individual host committee: Susan Eisendrath, Zahara Heckscher, Joe Libertelli, Galina Sergen, Eric Thiel, Chris Weiss, Larry Martin, Tiffany De Lisio, Neil Seldman, Marie Soveroski, Naomi Friedman, (to join this list, email zaharapeace@gmail.com with host in the message).TO VOLUNTEER on November 14, email Joe Libertelli at JFL@udc.edu or Galina Sergen galinasergen@yahoo.com.

FUTURE CAFÉS: for your calendar, the next Eco-Justice Cafés will be: Friday, December 5, Friday, January 9 - And afterwards, the first Friday of each month!
Join the MetNet 2.0 List at http://www.dcslf.org/metnet.html
The new MetNet will Offer:
MONTHLY ECO/JUSTICE CAFÉS: will be held on the First Fridays of each month at the UDC Firebird Inn. They are intended to build understanding, friendship, community and cooperation among area activists.
THE NEW ON-LINE CALENDAR: will provide the region's most comprehensive listing of social justice and environmental events. The Calendar will be "rolled out" in November, 2008.
AN ONLINE RESOURCE CENTER will access Washington area residents to local and regional information they need to act on their environmental and social values. The Resource Center will be built out in stages in the coming months.
VOLUNTEER EDITORS are sought for sections of the Resource Center. Editors will collect and maintain a section of the database and, in return, will be granted control that area's "home page" where they can write or choose articles to post, manage a forum, and highlight their favorite resources. These will be serious and demanding – but highly
rewarding – positions.

Growing Native is a year round volunteer project that collects hardwood seeds and plants trees to help restore and protect rivers and streams in the Potomac River watershed.

As a community representative for Growing Native, ambassadors encourage others to "get nuts for clean water" by organizing and leading seed collection events in their area!

Growing Native is a great way to:

* connect with your community

* enjoy the outdoors with your friends and family

* play an active role in protecting the Potomac River

Contact Kate McNamee, Outreach Coordinator, at mcnamee@potomac.org or by calling 301.608.1188 x211 to RSVP or for more information!

Growing Native is a year round volunteer project that collects hardwood seeds and plants trees to help restore and protect rivers and streams in the Potomac River watershed.

As a community representative for Growing Native, ambassadors encourage others to "get nuts for clean water" by organizing and leading seed collection events in their area!

Growing Native is a great way to:

* connect with your community

* enjoy the outdoors with your friends and family

* play an active role in protecting the Potomac River

Contact Kate McNamee, Outreach Coordinator, at mcnamee@potomac.org or by calling 301.608.1188 x211 to RSVP or for more information!

Growing Native is a year round volunteer project that collects hardwood seeds and plants trees to help restore and protect rivers and streams in the Potomac River watershed.

As a community representative for Growing Native, ambassadors encourage others to "get nuts for clean water" by organizing and leading seed collection events in their area!

Growing Native is a great way to:

* connect with your community

* enjoy the outdoors with your friends and family

* play an active role in protecting the Potomac River

Contact Kate McNamee, Outreach Coordinator, at mcnamee@potomac.org or by calling 301.608.1188 x211 to RSVP or for more information!

Randa Steblez is impressed with the rich utilitarian history and folklore of common trees, weeds and wildflowers often overlooked by hikers as merely a blur of textured greenery. One may have a casual encounter along the Potomac with an Ash tree, but become better acquainted by discovering that the juice of its leaves was use by Native Americans as a snake bite remedy. Some other examples of close to home fame are the dandelion and the mullein plant, common and prevalent, but which figured so importantly in medieval pharmacology, that they were depicted in many well known tapestries.

These are just a couple of sketches, but there are many more "celebrities" along the path, some with fairly amazing histories. Her interpretive guidebook "Shoreline Plants of Lake Winnipesaukee" has been widely distributed in the New Hampshire Lake Region and she is currently working on a similar journal about the Potomac Canal.

The River Center is open Saturdays and Sundays from May 3 through October 26 from 10 am ‘til 2 pm for tours of the lockhouse and interactive exhibits. Inside the River Center, the Conservancy installed a new exhibit, “Backyard to the Bay,” that connects what happens on the land and the health of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. Visitors are guided by the Potomac Conservancy’s volunteer docents who lead tours, answer questions and discuss the historical and cultural significance of the C&O Canal and the Potomac River to the regional economy and the local quality of life.