August 25, 2007 — Press
Release
Green Ways Day at Presentation Center
Cindy Blain, Marketing Director
"Green Ways Day at Presentation
Center "
A fun, outdoor “green” event for the whole
family to learn more about eco-friendly living
Spend a Sunday afternoon strolling this beautiful Los Gatos retreat
with your family and friends to learn more about eco-friendly living.
Since you’re already recycling and using compact fluorescents,
come learn about other, outdoorsy ways to help the environment: bees & how
to help bees, native birds of prey and respect for wild places, organic
gardening & composting, native plants & gardens. Enjoy meditative
Native American drum music. See a living roof with plants on it, take
a nature hike, and learn how all life is sacred and bound together.
Everyone is welcome! Green Ways Day will be Sunday, September 30th
from 1 to 4pm at Presentation Retreat & Conference Center, 19480
Bear Creek Road, Los Gatos – just 2 miles up Bear Creek Road
from Hwy 17. Suggested donation: $5 per person. Please R.S.V.P.to (408)
354-2346 or cblain@presentationcenter.org. Visit www.presentationcenter.org for
more info.
With the first LEED Gold Certified building in Santa Clara County,
Presentation Center has been “going green” for a long time – and
it is truly an ongoing process to find new ways to behave more sustainably.
Green Ways Day gives Presentation Center and their “green” partners
a chance to share what they’ve learned with you as you begin
(or continue) the process of going green.
Come see the beehives and learn what’s happening to one of our
best pollinators with Henninger Hill Apiary and the Santa Clara Valley
Beekeepers Guild; meet native birds of prey from Sky Hunters and discover
why we need to keep our wild places wild; and find out about organic
gardening with the U.C. Master Gardeners and why composting is a good
idea from the Santa Clara County Master Composters. Talk with volunteers
from the California Native Plant Society about how native plants in
your garden will help local wildlife. Meet Alrie Middlebrook, the author
of the new book Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant
Community Approach to Artful Ecological Gardens, which can help
you build a beautiful, eco-friendly garden.
Explore nature on a gentle nature hike around the pond with a Youth
Science Institute Instructor, and listen to the Native American drum
music of the Santa Cruz Drum Circle rolling over the water – it
sounds like the heartbeat of the Earth. Take a tour of the award-winning
straw bale / solar power dining hall with its 3,400 sq ft living roof…yes,
plants on the roof! (Sorry, there is no goat on the roof). You’ll
also get to eat delicious, healthy goodies from the kitchen, which
include organic produce from the organic garden. Visit the new Presentation
Ecology Resource Center, where you can explore going green in more
depth with the help of our volunteer “Green Sisters”
Presentation Center is a peaceful 67-acre retreat and conference center
tucked into the Santa Cruz Mountains just above Los Gatos. The Center
offers a warm welcome and gracious hospitality to people of all faiths
and backgrounds who come for all types of meetings: board retreats,
spiritual retreats, departmental meetings, educational seminars, artistic
workshops. An eco-friendly, nonprofit retreat, Presentation Center
is a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of the Presentation.
19480 Bear Creek Road, Los Gatos, CA 95033-9519
Phone: (408) 354-2346 Fax: (408) 354-5226
www.presentationcenter.org
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