LOOKING FOR AUSTIN GROUP HOSTS TO KICK-START THE EVOLUTION

We are looking for intrepid evolutionaries who would like to connect and grow the transformational community in Denver by j hosting a monthly Evolver Spore. The Spores are community meet-ups, creative salons, hubs of ecological activation, cultural incubation, and social inspiration. Evolver Spores bring people and groups together who share the ideal of a more beautiful, cooperative society, and help them find the collaborators and tools they need to realize their vision. These gatherings also facilitate a conversation around important issues that the mainstream culture often ignores.

After only four months, our international community has grown rapidly with twenty-five cities synchronizing their efforts across the network, coming together as one for one night every month. You’ll find this month’s theme listed below to give you an idea of the topics we cover. If you have the desire to kick-start the evolution in Denver and join this growing movement, email me at jonathan((at))evolver((dot))net and we can get you started.

Cheers,

Jonathan
347-210-3892
www.evovlver.net

Evolver Spore: Thought for Food

Wed, Oct. 21

In the last fifty years, the meteoric rise of agribusiness has wreaked havoc upon our global food supply. Corporate entities like Monsanto and Cargill are wiping out agricultural diversity with monoculture crops, bankrupting small farmers with unsustainable practices, toxifying our waterways with pesticides and fertilizers, treating animals cruelly, and endangering the web of life with genetically modified foods.

But a growing movement is striking back and taking action to maintain our food security in the 21st Century. These “greenhorns” are creating CSAs, tending rooftop gardens, building aquaponic systems, learning permaculture principles, starting Transition Towns and eco-villages, urban homesteading, saving seed varieties, and practicing slow food ethics to ensure agricultural sustainability. In this Spore, we will, explore and discuss the alternative food networks cropping up in our local communities, as well the importance of nutrition in our lives. Spores may want to look at current FDA dietary recommendations and contrast them with the rising interest in organic/live foods, ayurvedic diets, superfoods, healing herbs, and more.

http://evolver.net/group/evolver_worldwide/event/thought_food