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Education: Teach Mothers First
Mar. 07, 2023 8:00 a.m.
Amarok Society is proud to have partnered with more than a hundred Rotary Clubs to pursue an unusual model of education: instead of teaching children directly, we teach illiterate mothers to become neighbourhood teachers. Dr. Tanyss Munro has devoted her life, with her husband, author Gem Munro, to improving educational opportunities for disadvantaged people across Canada and abroad.
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Build Beyond Zero: Architecture as Carbon Storage
Mar. 28, 2023 8:00 a.m.
We’re past climate change and into climate emergency. “Getting to Zero” is a boring goal — and not enough! Find out about transforming cities and infrastructure for carbon sequestration. Bruce King is the author of “The New Carbon Architecture” and "Build Beyond Zero", and has been a structural engineer for 45 years, designing buildings of every size and type all over the world. He is also author of the world’s first climate friendly building regulation, the Marin County Low-Carbon Concrete code. |
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Home Sharing with Home Match
Apr. 04, 2023 8:00 a.m.
Home Match is a shared housing program that provides free, personalized services in the Bay Area and beyond to help homeowners and renters find the right match for each other. Turn an available room in your home into an opportunity to earn income, save money and create new social connections. Your home can make all the difference to a fellow community member facing a difficult housing market. Lucie received a BA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a Master of International Forestry with a focus on community forest management and agroforestry from the University of British Columbia. She has 14 years of experience working for non-profits in diverse environments, and a passion for engaging with the public via varied mediums. Her position before Home Match was as the Education Director at a small nonprofit in Santa Cruz County teaching children and families farming, gardening, and nutrition. Though Lucie’s studies and career have been diverse, they have all been grounded in service to and strengthening of communities. |
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The New Deal Lives on in Marin and Sonoma Counties!
Apr. 11, 2023 8:00 a.m.
The Living New Deal is a nationwide team effort dedicated to uncovering the forgotten legacy of New Deal public works and interpreting their lost ethical language for a time that needs it. Founder and Project Scholar Dr. Gray Brechin will show what the project has so far discovered in the two counties north of San Francisco where New Deal matrix is ubiquitous but largely unseen. After a career of environmental and urban design journalism, Gray Brechin received his Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley. His dissertation was published by UC Press in 1999 as Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin and spent sixteen weeks on the Chronicle’s best-seller list. Almost 25 years later, he is converting it into an audiobook. |
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Make It Home: Everything You Wanted to Know About a Local Nonprofit Benefiting the Local Community
May 02, 2023 8:00 a.m.
For those transitioning out of homelessness or aging out of the foster care system, even the simplest of furniture and household goods are unaffordable. Make it Home was created to solve this problem. Make It Home furnishes homes of those in need with donated furniture and household goods. Prior to working with Make It Home, Kendall Galli spent over 3 decades educating Bay Area kids culminating in teaching high schoolers at Archie Williams. She is the proud mom of 3 twenty somethings. Similarly, Susan Brennan retired to join the Make It Home board after a long career in business in the US and Asia. She is also a proud mom of twenty something kids. |
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A Day in the Life: The Adventures of a Touring Bassist
May 31, 2023 5:30 p.m.
Special meeting at the Elks Club! Angeline will discuss her experiences as a touring musician, music educator, solo artist, and working as a female in the music industry. Musical performance included! Lifelong Marin resident Angeline Saris is a bass player, songwriter, artist, educator, and activist for women’s empowerment. Her career highlights include touring with Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famer Todd Rundgren on the 2022 Celebration of Bowie Tour, and extensively with Grammy award-winning producer Narada Michael Walden (Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey), jazz-ska-reggae legend Ernest Ranglin, and all-female Zeppelin tribute Zepparella. She has released multiple solo albums, been featured on the cover of a number of publications, and teaches internationally and locally when not touring. A UC Berkeley graduate in Rhetoric, Angeline has recently launched the GROW Initiative (Global Reach of Women), an organization that seeks to raise awareness and resources to help women not just survive but thrive. |
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An Overview of Services of Ritter Center
Jun. 13, 2023 8:00 a.m.
Ritter Center prevents and resolves homelessness and improves the health, dignity and well-being of people living in poverty in Marin County by providing high-quality, culturally sensitive, easily accessible medical care and social services. Mark Shotwell has worked in health care for 30 years, emphasizing holistic care to individuals in underserved communities. He became the Executive Director of Ritter Center in 2018. His passion comes from his own personal story as a person in recovery from mental illness and substance abuse over three decades, driving his efforts to help others and champion their lives. |
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Get to Know Your Local Water District
Jul. 25, 2023 8:00 a.m.
Your drinking water is locally sourced with the majority of the supply coming from seven reservoirs located on the Mt. Tam Watershed and in the hills of west Marin. Learn about Marin Water – the municipal water district responsible for caring for those watershed lands and providing that drinking water to you and 191,000 other people around the clock 365 days a year across central and southern Marin. As the impacts of climate change, including periods of severe drought and increased threat of wildfire continue to challenge water District’s across California, learn what actions your water District is taking to ensure the resiliency of our water supply now and for future generations. Monty Schmitt was elected to serve as the Marin Water Division II Director beginning in December 2020 and also currently serves as Board President. Monty is a water resources scientist and a senior project director with The Nature Conservancy’s Water Program in San Francisco. |
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Reimagining Apiculture in a Time of Crisis
Aug. 08, 2023 8:00 a.m.
The challenge: In the midst of climate collapse, our bee populations are collapsing as well. These creatures are the backbone of our ecosystems; if they perish our world will be transformed beyond recognition. Michael’s pioneering approach to apiculture and honeybee conservation has appeared in national and international magazines, books and films. He has presented his work at Harvard University & New York University, consulted for the USDA, and in 2006 developed the organization Gaia Bees to advance biodynamic practices in apiculture. In 2017 he founded Apis Arborea to preserve the life and resiliency of honeybees through wilding, that is, the promotion of self-willed ecological processes, and the use of a holistic, system- and science-based framework in working with bees. |
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Getting Your Novel Published in 2023: There’s Never Been A Better Time to Be a Writer
Aug. 15, 2023 8:00 a.m.
Longtime Greenbrae resident and San Francisco attorney Sheldon Siegel is the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon best-selling author of fifteen critically acclaimed legal thrillers featuring San Francisco criminal defense attorneys Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez. Sheldon’s books have been translated into a dozen languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. |
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Learning is Lifelong
Sep. 05, 2023 8:00 a.m.
We never stop learning. Leonard Weingarten, Vice President of Emeritus Students College of Marin (ESCOM), will share about ESCOM's free lifelong learning programs. Leonard had a rich history in developing, marketing and managing successful local to international business, civic and educational programs and partnerships. Activities have included two Summer Olympic Games, a Mass for Pope John Paul II, working with the Oakland Raiders, designing and teaching a marketing course to an international audience at U.C. Berkeley and helping hundreds of students have a positive introduction into the work world. |
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