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DESCRIPTION:Sculpture Garden, Terraces, and Human/Nature Galleries\n\nAdmission to the 
 galleries is free all day, including guided tours and all Localize! 
 activities!\n\nRIDE! Free valet bike parking by Centro Comunitario de 
 Bicicletas.\n\nEngaging the need and desire for community-based responses 
 to ecological and economic realities, Localize! offers hands-on activities, 
 demonstrations, performance, and information-sharing with representatives 
 from urban neighborhood-based art and ecology projects and similar 
 student-organized efforts. Plus enjoy refreshments and Human/Nature tours 
 with UC Berkeley grad students!\n\nImage Credit: Micah Bazant: Green Jobs, 
 2009; courtesy of Movement Generation Justice & Ecology 
 Project.\n\nParticipating community organizations:\n\nThe Coffee Bike stops 
 at Localize! just until noon. Come early and enjoy hand-dripped organic 
 coffee and D.I.Y. discourse served in hyper-local 
 style.\nhttp://ebcabunoc.blogspot.com\n\nAriel Luckey will perform excerpts 
 from Free Land, his dynamic hip-hop theater solo show that uncovers 
 suppressed local histories while it follows a young Oakland-born-and-raised 
 man’s search for his roots.\nhttp://freelandproject.com\n\nForage 
 Oakland\nImagine your neighborhood as an edible map. The gleaning of 
 unharvested fruits; the meeting of new neighbors; the gathering and 
 redistribution of fruits that would otherwise be wasted—these can create 
 a new paradigm for thinking about food, exchange networks, and local 
 sustainability.\nhttp://forageoakland.blogspot.com/\nJoin us for a public 
 exchange of marmalade and jam made from locally foraged fruit!\n\nUrban 
 Youth Harvest\nOakland youth bike their way to harvest excess fruit from 
 Oakland’s backyards and provide this delicious and nutritious bounty to 
 low-income seniors who lack access to healthy produce. UYH participants 
 also act as community educators on health, nutrition, and the need for a 
 sustainable food system.\nhttp://www.peopleunited.org/uyh.html\nMake and 
 enjoy organic lemonade with us, and exchange other citrus fruits and 
 healthy recipes!\n\nTemescal Seed Swap\nThe seed swap cart—a mobile site 
 for exchange built entirely from recycled materials—will be stocked with 
 a selection of local flower and vegetable seeds. Temescal Seed Swap is a 
 project of marksearch, whose current work can be viewed at: 
 http://www.10000stepsoakland.org/\nContribute favorite seeds from your 
 garden to the swap, or come by and take some local seeds home. No one 
 turned away for lack of seeds!\n\nMandela Foods Cooperative\nRealizing a 
 years-long community organizing effort, Mandela Foods Cooperative will open 
 on June 6 to provide fresh, affordable produce from local farmers; 
 nutrition education classes; and cooperative investment programs for West 
 Oakland residents.\nhttp://www.mandelafoods.com\n\nThe East Bay Depot for 
 Creative ReUse promotes solid waste diversion and resource conservation by 
 collecting and redistributing reusable materials for education, arts and 
 crafts, and a wide variety of other creative projects. The Depot also 
 educates about waste reduction, recycling, and reusable materials through a 
 school-based environmental 
 curriculum.\nhttp://www.east-bay-depot.org/\nCome work with an artist from 
 the Depot to create something beautiful from reused materials!\n\nBay 
 Worms\nUsing vermicomposting methods, Bay Worms diverts waste from local 
 landfills by converting it into rich soil amendments. Providing compost, 
 worm castings, and worms to residents and businesses, Bay Worms also offers 
 workshops, seminars, and presentations related to soil health and urban 
 gardening.\nhttp://www.bayworms.org/\nPlunge into our step-by-step 
 vermiculture models (gloves provided) and check out our 
 castings!\n\nGreywater Guerrillas\nWant a bountiful garden irrigated from 
 your greywater? Interested in a toilet that uses no water? Reduce your 
 dependence on the water grid with simple and low-cost rainwater harvesting, 
 greywater reuse, and waterless composting 
 toilets.\nhttp://www.greywaterguerrillas.com\nCheck out our life-size 
 models and put together some demo systems yourself!\n\nCentro Comunitario 
 de Bicicletas\nLocated in the heart of East Oakland, this new, 
 volunteer-run community bike garage offers Spanish-speaking bike mechanics, 
 a wide array of bike tools, and language exchanges to teach bike vocabulary 
 in Spanish and English to anyone who wants to learn. Come and support 
 ciclismo!\nhttp://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=3223595\nFix your flat and 
 boost your brakes at our on-site taller de bicicletas! Or, just ride to the 
 event, and use our free valet bike parking.\n\nGreen Bike Share is a 
 student-run project that seeks to improve the quality of life at UC 
 Berkeley with a program of increased access to bicycles on and around 
 campus, thus providing a healthy, affordable, and environmentally 
 sustainable mode of transportation. Along with the Student Bicycle 
 Cooperative and Yikes! Bikes!, Green Bike Share is a project of 
 BicyCal.\nhttp://greenbikeshare.net\nLearn maintenance tips and safety 
 training while greasing your gears!\n\nSociety for Agriculture and Food 
 Ecology\nS.A.F.E. is a UC Berkeley student organization that facilitates 
 honest discussion regarding agricultural sustainability, ecological 
 integrity, healthful human nutrition, and vibrant rural economies for the 
 campus and community via panels, speakers, events, and 
 workshops.\nhttp://www.agrariana.org\n\nThe Local\nThe Local is a UC 
 Berkeley student cooperative organic vegetable and fruit stand open for 
 business every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sproul Plaza in front of 
 the MLK Student Union. At this student-run stand, you can purchase locally 
 grown, sustainable produce at a reasonable price while supporting local 
 small farmers.\nhttp://www.sustainability.asuc.org/TheLocal.html\n\nOne 
 Side Clean\nA project of STeam (the Sustainability Team of the ASUC), OSC 
 collects half-unused sheets of paper from campus locations and local 
 businesses and makes a variety of notebooks and school materials to be 
 redistributed to students on 
 campus.\nhttp://www.sustainability.asuc.org/OSCpaper.html\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/26/18598395.php
SUMMARY:Localize! Environmental Activism at the Grassroots
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\n2626 Bancroft Way\nBerkeley, 
 CA 94720
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