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April 2018
Berkeley Earth Day
Berkeley Earth Day is a free and festive event with music, vegan food and great speakers, including the Mayor of Berkeley, Jesse Arreguin. Berkeley Earth Day is also hosting the Wild and Scenic Film Festival this year (tickets are separate). Seed the Commons will be tabling all day, drop by and talk to us about building the food movement, veganic agriculture, climate activism and more. Nassim Nobari will speak at 3:40, see her talk description below. Organizing for a Climate-Friendly Food…
Find out more »May 2018
Seed the Commons at Sunday Streets
With San Francisco hosting the Global Climate Action Summit this September, Seed the Commons is busy mobilizing civil society around the need to move away from industrial and animal agriculture to cool the planet. We will be at the Tenderloin Sunday Streets on May 6 and at other Sunday Streets this summer to spread the word and encourage San Franciscans to: Eliminate animal products from their diets Promote plant-based agroecology as a true solution to Climate Change Show up for…
Find out more »Oakland VegFest
We'll be tabling at Oakland VegFest this year! Come learn about our work while eating delicious vegan food.
Find out more »Veganic Gardening Workshop
Matt Loisel, long-time veganic gardener and founder of Lazy Millennial Farms, teaches how to start and maintain a healthy garden and grow our own food organically, without using the animal inputs commonly used in organics such as manure, blood or bonemeal. Gardening without synthetic or animal fertilizers is the most resource-efficient, sustainable and compassionate way to go about it and easy to boot. ************************ This is the 2nd workshop of our 2018 series and will cover: Understanding fertility - how…
Find out more »Animal Liberation Conference
The Animal Liberation Conference will take place in Berkeley and other locations in the Bay Area from May 23 to May 29. Don't miss Nassim Nobari's talk on May 25! The Food Movement v. Animal Liberation As the food movement becomes the anchor for society’s natural resistance to animal liberation, it is urgent that vegans get involved as leaders so that our ethic becomes normative.
Find out more »June 2018
Seed the Commons at Sunday Streets
With San Francisco hosting the Global Climate Action Summit this September, Seed the Commons is busy mobilizing civil society around the need to move away from industrial and animal agriculture to cool the planet. We will be at the Sunset/GG Park Sunday Streets on June 3 and at other Sunday Streets this summer to spread the word and encourage San Franciscans to: Eliminate animal products from their diets Promote plant-based agroecology as a true solution to Climate Change Show up for…
Find out more »Climate March Plant-Based Meeting
This meeting is to discuss and plan the plant-based contingent(s) of the Climate March, which will take place in San Francisco on Sep 8. It is open to everyone in the plant-based and animal rights communities. Activists and decision-makers will be pouring into San Francisco from around the world for the Global Climate Action Summit (Sep 12-14). Seed the Commons and the Climate-Friendly Agriculture Alliance are part of a growing coalition of organizations planning the Climate March, and we invite…
Find out more »Animal Rights National Conference
Nassim Nobari will speak about the globalization of dairy through school milk programs at the Animal Rights National Conference.
Find out more »August 2018
Veganic For Climate: Panel and Reception
As San Francisco gears up for the Global Climate Action Summit, Seed the Commons has launched #Veganic4Climate, a campaign that aims to center agriculture in the conversation on global warming and promote veganic farming as the basis of a climate-friendly food system. Join us as we present our campaign and speak of the why and how of veganic farming. The evening will include a panel with Nassim Nobari, Chema Hernández Gil and Mona Seymour, followed by a free vegan reception. PROGRAM…
Find out more »Veganic Gardening Workshop
This is the 3rd workshop of our 2018 series. Each workshop can be taken as a stand-alone or as part of the series. We will speak about planning for winter, cover cropping and overwintering crops. Matt Loisel, long-time veganic gardener and founder of Lazy Millennial Farms, teaches how to start and maintain a healthy garden and grow our own food organically, without using the animal inputs commonly used in organics such as manure, blood or bonemeal. Gardening without synthetic or…
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