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Past Announcements on the Planet Drum Homepage
Salubrious Solstice to all! The Solstice (Summer in the Northern
Hemisphere, Winter in the Southern one) occurs at 4:59PM PDT Friday, June
20. Peter Berg presents about the
New Green Deal June 21.(June 16,2008)
Peter Berg will be presenting at the International Eco-City Summit,
and Planet Drum celebrates Earth Day. See the Planet
Drum Events Page
Click here for ongoing Eco-Ecuador
Reports and Peter Berg's Dispatches for 2007 Reports from Planet Drum's
Project Manager and Bioregional Education Director in Bahia, and
Dispatches from Peter Berg have been indexed and divided
into multiple pages for faster loading. (Reports and Dispatches updated
Dec.26,
2007)
The first 2008 letter
from Clay in Ecuador just arrived, updating holiday and new
activities. (1/10/08)
If you're thinking about volunteering
in Ecuador,
now's a great time to get in
touch. (July 20, 2007).
Raymond Dasmann's enduring ode to
Shasta Bioregion has been added to our
online library. (11 Jan 2007)
Solstice Time coming. Friday, Dec. 21, 10:08pm (Pacific Time Zone,
U.S.) marks the moment when Winter begins in the North and Summer begins
in the South. Throw a yule log on the fire or some suntan lotion on the
skin, depending on where you live.
Announcing:
Monthly San
Francisco Bioregional
Workshops are scheduled from September-December 2007. Needs free
Acrobat
Reader to view. SFUSD teacher scholarships are available.
Click here for San Francisco Bioregional Workshop dates.
(updated Aug.20,2007)
Announcing:
Alameda County Bioregional
Workshop now is scheduled for August 12, 2007 with SFUSD teacher
scholarships. Needs free
Acrobat
Reader to view. (updated July 31,2007)
Announcing:
Bioregional Field
Immersion Workshop (June 2-3, 2007) in San Francisco's 10,000 year-old
Glen Canyon. Led by Chrystal Schreck and Paul Belz. Needs free
Acrobat
Reader to view.
Solstice Coming! Winter in the South,
Summer in the North. If you're in San Francisco, come join us at Ocean
Beach, June 21. We gather an hour before sunset. Lincoln and Great Highway
(look for us just south of there).
Dan Robbins has sent a
new report from Ecuador where the
reforestation project is gaining renown.
Join Planet Drum in a
two-day Bioregional Workshop
in San Francisco. Nov 18-19, 2006.
Dot..dot..dash. This just in... ship to shore. Peter
Berg sent a report from the Peace Boat on its
way to SF Bay bioregional awareness. (10 Oct 2006)
Fantastic Job Opportunity: The Field Project Manager
position just opened in Ecuador. Click here for
more information and instructions for applicants. (Deadline: Sept 30
2006).
Peter Berg has contributed three recent articles: new Ecuador Dispatches (The
Core of Eco-Tourism, Sept. 20, 2006, and
Reality
Checks, Sept. 12, 2006) and New
Weather and You, a bioregional perspective on global warming.
Planet Drum announces a special opportunity for SF
Bay Area teachers:
Introduction to San Francisco Bioregional Ecology Education with
upcoming workshop dates in Oct, Nov, and Dec 2006.
Patrick Wylie and Valentina Caminati are sending
weekly reports from Planet Drum's Eco Ecuador project. Keep up to date
on their exciting work (latest report:
#39,
August 28-September 3, 2006.
Peter Berg's homage to the
late Murray Bookchin, inscrutable luminary and obstinate godfather to the anarcho
ecology movement. (August, 2006)
Pat discusses seeds and seedlings in
Report #28 and Valentina
completes Native Plants education and begins waterseds in
Report #29. (July 20,2006)
Pat returned from hiking and
Report #26 provides exciting news about the greenhouse. Valentina
plays a tree identification game with the children in
Report #27. (July 19,2006)
Valentina guides children through more ecological
concepts in Report #25. (June 28,
2006)
While Pat was hiking, volunteer Sarah
Couture discusses the week,
including aphids, new volunteers, and the latest soccer news in
Report #24. (June 24, 2006)(corrected
June 28, 2006)
Valentina describes her first Bioregional Education
class in Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador in
Report #23. (June 22, 2006
Pat recounts late spring rains and invites visitors
in Bahia to attend Art Nights in
Report #21. Valentina Carminati, newly hired as the Field
Bioregional Education Manager, sends her first thoughts
in Report #22. (June 13, 2006)
Pat recounts the arrival of compost from the city
in Report #19 and the arrival of
an unwelcome guest in the greenhouse in
Report #20. (June 12, 2006)
Pat recounts rainfall and a seminar on Dry
Tropical Forest in
Report # 17, and adventures with wasps and the favorite part of his
week in Report #18. (May 18,
2006)
Our web server has finally allowed us to update the
website and Pat's Report #14,
Report #15, and
Report #16 have been posted. (May
5, 2006)
Pat Wylie's
Report #13 from Bahia de
Caraquez, Ecuador has just been posted. (April 12, 2006)
Peter Berg spent most of the month of March in
Ecuador. He sent his first
Dispatch, Winter's Wet
Green Heat, on March 10, 2006. (April 12, 2005)
Guard Fox Watch's
Winter Olympics Overview
and Critique has been posted (April 10, 2006)
Heather's Reports
#8, 9, and Patrick Wylie's
Reports #10,
11, and
12, from Ecuador have just been
posted. (April 5, 2006)
Report #7
from Heather discusses plantings and preparations for Pat's,
arrival. Pat will replace Heather as the Ecuador Project Manager in April.
(Feb. 25,2006)
Report #4
has just surfaced. It is a very complete description of work done in late
January. (Feb. 25, 2006)
Report #5
and Report #6 from Heather in
Ecuador detail progress in plantings and new sites in the rainy season.
(Feb.11, 2006)
Report #3
has just arrived from Heather in Ecuador.(Jan.24, 2006)
Heather has begun sending 2006 Reports.
Report #1 and
Report #2 have just been posted.
(Jan. 20, 2006)
Report #52
and #53 are in to finish up
Heather's 2005 reports. (January 6,2006)
Kristen Lansdale has sent a must-read final Report
#40 describing and evaluating her experiences as 2005 Field Bioregional Education Manager
in Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador. (October 2, 2005)
Planet Drummers noted the Summer Solstice on a sunny
day yesterday. Salubrious Solstice to all. Summer in the Northern
Hemispheres, Winter in the Southern ones. (June 22,2006)
Silent
Auction bidding for Planet Drum's
Earth Day Eve Benefit
Party
is now open! (April 11,2006)
Thanks to everyone who stopped by our Rug Sale
Benefit. It was a festive and financial success. The winner of the Rug
Raffle was Destiny Kinal. Detail from the rug is below. (Jan 20, 2006)
Peter Berg is speaking 2/24/06 in San Francisco.
See
Events. (Jan.20, 2006)
Report #51 came
from Heather with updates about sites. (December 23, 2005)
Report #50 is in from
Heather in Ecuador. Photos too. (December 14, 2005)
Take a look at our Library page. It has just been reorganized with new
articles and poems: Learning to Partner with a Life-Place and Hudson
Loan have been added. (November 16,2005)
Heather's Ecuador Report #49,
with photos is just in. (December 5, 2005)
More Reports, #47 and #48,
both with photos are in from Heather. (December 1, 2005)
Heather's Report #45 and #46
(with photos!) are just in. (November 14, 2005)
Heather's Reports #41, #42,
#43 and #44
from October have been
posted. (October 29,2005)
January Rug Sale
Benefit. You can bid on a rug now! Sun Bow Trading Co. has selected carpets,
kilims, soumaks,
fabulous utility bags & other ethnographic one-of-a-kind textiles for
our January 14, 15, 2006 Benefit Sale.
(December 1, 2005)
HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HELP PLANET DRUM. to Shop online at Green
Home or give a Green
Home Gift Certificate (From these links PD receives 5%.) or donate your shopping rebate
to Planet Drum/ Green City at any Cole Hardware in S.F. If you're moving,
donate discards in Planet Drum's name to the Community Thrift Store, 623
Valencia, San Francisco. (Dec. 6, 2005)
Solstice Time coming. Wednesday, Dec. 21, 10:35am (Pacific Time Zone,
U.S.) marks the moment when Winter begins in the North and Summer begins
in the South. Throw a yule log on the fire or some suntan lotion on the
skin, depending on where you live.
Planet Drum will be busy in Northern California during November with
presentations,workshops, performances and
tabling. For details see Planet
Drum Events. (October 28, 2005)
Heather Crawford sends news of the week from Bahia de Caraquez in Report
#39 .(September 28, 2005)
The Equinox (Fall in North, Spring in South) is
this Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005, 3:23 PM PDST). Moment of balance!
Visit Planet Drum in the Northeast! The October
4-20 Tour's final itinerary has just been posted. (September
19,2005)
Heather's Report #37 and Report
#38 are in.
(September 17/19, 2005)
Peter sent a new dispatch from Eco Ecuador on
Careers of Improvisation (7
Sept 2005).
Heather sends news of a busy week in Ecuador, Report
#36. (September 5, 2005)
Peter Berg returned to Bahia and has sent
two dispatches from Ecuador on
the progress of Planet Drum's
eco-projects (2005
Dispatch #2 3-Sep
and 2005 Dispatch #3
5-Sep).
A long Report #35 from
Heather details progress with revegetation in Bahia.(August 29, 2005)
Heather updates site watering and a school tour in Report
#34.(August 23,2005)
Kristen discusses leakage at a gas station in Report
#32 and Heather reports on burning at the Cherry Tree site in Report
#33. (August 15,2005)
Three new reports from Ecuador—Heather's Report
#29 and Report #31, and
Kristen's Report #30 are in.
(August 10, 2005)
Kristen's students made paper in Report
#28. (July 29, 2005)
Peter sent a scintillating article
on Nagano Prefecture that reads as part eco-report and part
journal-of-mind. (July 22, 2005)
Kristen prepares her students to teach in Report
#26 and Heather receives young trees from another greenhouse in Report
#27 (July 22,2005)
Catching up with Ecuador: Kristen's Reports #20,
#22, #24
and Heather's Reports # 21,
#23, #25
were posted. (July 17, 2005)
A second report, Finding
the Future in the Mud arrived from Japan today. (July 13, 2005)
First report from Peter Berg's current
trip to Japan. Read
Colors Are The Deeds Of Light (July 5, 2005)
Heather's Eco-Ecuador Report #18
and Report #19 were posted.
(June 17, 2005)
Heather's Report #16 and
Kristen's Report #17 include
preparations for World Environment Week (June 6, 2005)
Four more of Kristen's Bioregional Education reports and four more of
Heather's Field Projects reports have been posted. They are listed in the index
for their Reports. (May 29, 2005)
Awaken your bioregional senses by coming to Planet
Drum's next Introduction
to Bioregional Education a two-day workshop on August 20 & 21.
(July 26, 2005)
Salubrious Solstice to all! Monday, June 20, 2005 is the Solstice at
11:56PM Pacific Daylight time. PD Staff and friends will celebrate the
first sunset of summer on Tuesday evening, June 21st. Join us at the beach
at Lincoln Ave. and the Great Highway (turn left on the beach). We'll be
there at least a half an hour before sunset. Bring a little food/music to
share. (June 17,2005)
Kristen Lansdale describes her first week working in Bahia de Caraquez
as the Field Bioregional Education Manager in Report
#7. (May 20, 2005)
Report #6, discusses events
of two linked weeks from Heather Crawford. (April 26, 2005)
Report #5 from Heather
arrived today from Ecuador. (March 29,2005)
Just in from Ecuador: Report #3
from new Field Projects Manager Heather Crawford, and Report
#4, exciting update on our solar hot water project (back- ground in Report
#1). (March 22, 2005)
This week there are several reports from Ecuador. Report
#1, Two Volunteers' Extraordinary Reports and Report
#2 from Renée Portanova give an exciting start to 2005. (Jan.30,
2005)
Renée Portanova in Ecuador closes out 2004 with two more reports. Report #26 and Report
#27 describe festivities and work. (Jan. 11, 2005)
Green
Home Click here to shop at Green Home; PDF gets a
percentage. (More
Info)
Peter Berg and Judy Goldhaft sent four
Dispatches from their recent visit to Bioregional Japan:
Awaken your bioregional senses by coming to Planet
Drum's next Introduction
to Bioregional Education, a two-day workshop on June 4 & 5.
(May 20, 2005)
Awaken your bioregional senses by coming to Planet
Drum's next Introduction
to Bioregional Education, a two-day workshop on May 14 & 15.
(March 26, 2005)
Join Planet Drum staff for a celebration
of the Spring Equinox on March 20, at 5pm. (March 15, 2005)
Three new Reports from Planet Drum staff in Ecuador have just been posted. Report
#17 is from Christina Knott. Report
#18 and Report #19 are from
Renée Portanova. (September 4,2004)
Christina Knott, volunteering in Ecuador sent us Report
#16 today. (August 16, 2004)
Another Report, Report #15,
arrived from Renée Portanova from Ecuador.(August 15, 2004)
On September 10, Peter Berg will be speaking in San
Francisco on "The
Second Wave of Ecology." Planet Drum will be tabling at
the 7th Annual PROGRESSIVE FESTIVAL. Join
us on September 26 in
Petaluma, CA. (July 2, 2004, revised August 2, 2004 and August 16,2004)
Dispatch #6, A
Re-birth of Ecologics has arrived. In it Peter Berg discusses
economics. (July 1, 2004)
Report #11, another
letter from Renée, and has been posted. (June 1, 2004)
A new letter from Renée arrived and has been posted as Report
#10. (May 20, 2004)
Renée
Portanova's Report #8
and Report#9 from Bahia de
Caraquez have just been posted. (April 30,2004)
Planet Drum will be tabling at conferences on August 13-15 in West Marin County,
Northern/Summer, Southern/Winter begins Sunday, June
20, 2004, 5:57pm (PDST).
View the neighborhood oriented
educational curriculum that will
be launched in June 2004 by PDF in Bahia de Caraquez. (March 27, 2004)
Renée
Portanova's Report #6
and Brian Teinert's Report #7 are
in from from Bahia de Caraquez. (March 27, 2004)
In Mid-February, Bahia festively marked the fifth anniversary of the
Eco-city Proclamation. See Brian Teinert's, Triumphant
Eco-City Celebration in Bahia De Caraquez, Ecuador, for
details. In Report #3 Natalie Pollard
relates volunteer work
there, and in Report #5 Renée
Portanova provides a complete record of revegetation activities to date. (March 2004)
Internet news service story about us! Be sure to read "Another Green World:
1970's-spawned Planet Drum Foundation presages today's green
renaissance" Just search the Archives at http://www.sfgate.com
[scroll down the "search in" box at the top left and click on
"Archives," then click "go". The title is "Another Green World," author is
Josh Wilson and "Planet Drum" or planetdrum.org is the keyword] (March 2004)
During April & May, Planet Drum will be making presentations and tabling at
various conferences, forums and celebrations.
Visit
us in San Francisco 4/3, and 4/21, & 4/25-5/2, Medford, Oregon
4/22, Mount Shasta 4/24, and Berkeley 4/24. (March 27 & 31, 2004)
Upcoming planetary event: Equinox (Spring in the North, Fall in the
South), Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 11:16 am PST. Time to gather and
celebrate equal light and dark.
There are two tabling events
in April and May where you can meet and get information from Planet Drum staff.
(March 10, 2004)
A copy of Peter Berg's article "The
Bioregional Approach for Making Sustainable Cities", written for
Japan Urban Green Tech magazine has been added to the library! (July
21, 2003)
Planet Drum Foundation has sponsored landscape
architect and author Jane Wolff's efforts to produce a book and deck
of cards focusing on the California Delta. Just released by William
Stout Publishers, Delta
Primer book signings will be at:
3A Gallery,
101 South Park,
San Francisco
Thursday, January 15, 2004, 5 to 7 pm, and LIMN Sacramento,
501 Arden Way, Sacramento
Saturday, January 17, 2004, 4 to 7 pm
Don't forget the beginning of the return of the light: the Winter
Solstice (Summer in the South) takes place Sunday, December 21, 2003 at
11:04pm (just before midnight) Pacific Daylight Time. Time to gather and celebrate
the longest night. Join Planet Drum's friends on the beach at the edge
of the Pacific.
This morning the sixth dispatch, Wild
& “Wild” Encounters
, appeared by email. (November 26, 2003)
The fifth dispatch, Pique
y Pasa (Choose What You Like), finally arrived after numerous computer
glitches. (November 22, 2003)
Peter's second dispatch, Re-emerging
Indigenas, just arrived. (Nov. 13, 2003)
Peter Berg returned to Bahia de Caraquez in early November. His first
dispatch, Natives Are Harder
is just in. (Nov. 12, 2003)
Visit with Planet Drum staff at the Green
Festival, November 8 and 9, 2003, at the San Francisco Design Center
Concourse at 635- 8th St. Planet Drum will be hosting the
"Kitchen Table", roundtable
discussions and sessions. All are welcome.
Environmental Job Available.
Planet Drum is seeking a Field Projects Manager in Bahia de Caraquez,
Ecuador to create an ecological city.
Kick-off the Halloween & Dia de Los Muertos
Season! CELEBRATE with Planet Drum Foundation at our 30th
Anniversary Party and Benefit on October 25th, 2003. Or visit
with staff at workshops & tabling events.
Upcoming planetary event: Equinox (Fall in the North, Spring in the
South), Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 3:47am PDST. Time to gather and
celebrate equal light and dark.
Don't forget the pause that refreshes: the Summer Solstice (Winter in
the South) takes place June 21, 2003 at 12:10pm (just past noon) Pacific
Daylight Time (19:10 UT). "The dark turns light and the light turns
inward, and the cycle begins anew."
On July 19, 2003 Planet Drum and ATA will hold Planet
Drum Event -- a networking benefit for the Green City Calendar.
Come see an inspiring film about San Francisco activists in the late 60's,
Les Diggers de San Francisco #2, and connect with other
current fighters of the good non-profit fight!
New reports from staff member Brian Teinert working in
Ecuador on the Planet Drum Eco projects. (27 April 2003, 5 May 2003,12 May 2003)
Peter Berg gave a presentation in Ecuador that outlines a plan for bioregional action. (23 Feb 2003)
The second Dispatch from Peter Berg's current trip to Ecuador, Revelations in a Cattle Slough,
arrived. (19 Jan., 2003)
Peter Berg sent the first Dispatch of 2003, Ecuador and
Planet Drum Undergo Major Transitions which discusses the current, changing political
situation in Ecuador and reviews Planet Drum's five-year bioregional engagement in Bahia
de Caraquez. (18 Jan. 2003)
Peter Berg sent a second dispatch from the current work trip to Ecuador, "Governments ... Across the Street".
(September 25, 2002)
We received an Equinox
Dispatch sent from the Planet Drum contingent in Bahia de Caraquez, Eco Ecuador.
(September 21, 2002)
Xchange Store opened
with book, maps, and other bioregional products available from Planet Drum.
(August 25, 2002)
Looking for Resources by Jeff Goddin, Eco-Bahia
Projects Manager
(August 8, 2002)
Fanca Produce by Lisa Kundrat (March 29,
2002)
Peter Berg's recap
of the Utah Olympics' Alerts by Guard Fox Watch (11 Feb 02)
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