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Seed Lending libraries are growing up across the state with at least 6 in Northern California and one coming soon in Los angeles. With the recent opening of two branches in San Francisco, community members are bringing food safety, biodiversity protection, and urban farming back into their own hands. The 1st two branches of the San Francisco Seed Library, a project of Transition SF and the San Francisco Permaculture Guild, are open for lending at Hayes Valley Farm and as a pilot project at the Potrero Branch of the San Francisco Public Library ; the following seed saving class is on June four at 3:30 in the Potrero Branch Programme Room. The process is easy ; residents select from a catalogue of vegetable seeds available in the Seed Library collection, borrow them, and plant their seeds. After they have harvested their crops, they save the seeds from the heartiest and most healthy of their crop and return the seeds to the same branch. Over time, each SF Seed Library branch will include a big choice of seeds that are most suitable to each micro climate since they have grown to full fruition, responding to the local soil, climate, and plant / animal diversity.

. “It seemed like a natural fit for Potrero Branch to pilot a seed lending program at the library,” states Lia Hillman, Potrero Branch Executive of San Francisco Public Library. “Potrero Hill residents love gardening, and there are a bunch of growing private and community gardens on the hill. The Seed Library offers the library the chance to promote urban sustainable organic gardening in our neighborhoods by disseminating seeds. The library actively seeks ways in which to take part in the greening of our city and promoting the fitness of our communities.

We look forward to our continual cooperation with the Seed Library in offering programs related to the seed collection. Please join us on June four 3:30 or Sep four 3:30 to discover how to save seeds. The programs will happen in the Potrero Branch Program Room.” . “The future of our world depends on how we valet our land, soil, water, and seeds and pass them on to future generations.” states Doctor.

Seed saving has been the first method of green farming for thousands of years, yet in relative fresh history, genetically modified seeds produced by some seed companies, including the ones that carry a Terminator gene to not propagate, threaten to contaminate our whole food supply with genetically engineered seeds, diminishing plant diversity, reducing the natural resilience of crops, and crushing the livelihood of farmers around the globe. Ania Moniuszko, Transition SF Initiating Group Member, led this effort and collaborated closely with the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Permaculture Guild, “We needed to create a community resource which will aid the free exchange of seeds along with the education on sowing, harvesting, and saving the seeds.” Per her reasons for starting on this project, Ania states, “We accept that this may enable the community to preserve and share seeds that thrive in our climates. I was inspired to create the SF Seed Library by the San Francisco Urban Farming movement, visionaries like Vandana Shiva, and the highly acclaimed 2004 documentary film, the way forward for Food.” . For more in-depth info on the SF Seed Library, visit sfseedlibrary For more information on the San Francisco Permaculture Guild, visit permaculture-sf press release distributors About Transition US and Transition SF . Transition US is a non-profitable organization that provides inspiration, support, training, and networking for Transition Initiatives across the US. Transition SF is an officially recognised Transition Initiative. It's a community group working to catalyze a resilient and relocalized San Francisco that may actively address Peak Oil and Climate change and transition to a low-energy, high-satisfaction transitionsf . About San Francisco Permaculture Guild . The San Francisco Permaculture Guild supports a local community of designers and people having an interest in permaculture by making instructional and social events, enabling local permaculture projects and providing opportunities to exchange information related to permaculture design.

Permaculture is the congenial integration of landscape and folks providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non- material needs in a sustainable way bounded by the ethics of care of folk, care of earth and reinvestment of surplus. Come to a meeting or join a project or discourse where we explore water conservation, natural building, growing food in the town, bees, solar energy, community building and much permaculture-sf . Ania Moniuszko 415-819-9663 anna_moniuszko (at) yahoo (dot) com . Beverly Pitzer 917-208-1968 beverly.pitzer (at) gmail (dot) com . Aimee Hill 212-203-5003 mobus23 (at) gmail (dot) com.

The scholars and families at the Community Instructional Center in Doylestown, PA just got one more reason to shine brighter due to a new 21.85 kW solar array installed by Suntricity Power. The array went live this month and will generate 29,751 kW hours over the next twelve months alone. It is comprised of 95 Mage 230-watt modules, each with their own micro-inverter to safely secret the high-voltage DC power to AC electricity. These elements are working to get rid of 41% of the electric bills for the high-school each year. . Center owner Jeffra Nandan enjoys these electrical savings, but she selected solar energy as doing her bit for the environment, “Our mission of kid care and parent support implies that we would like to raise the next generation in a good environment,” she claimed.

Solar helps us do our part to preserve the environment.” . Over the following twenty-five years, the system is anticipated to reduce carbon emissions by 510 tons–about the weight of 110 elephants! . The array is also expected to last decades as a secure investment for the college. “The Mage Panels have a 30-year warranty, and after thirty years, the system will continue to be manufacturing eighty percent of its power,” explained Mark Hald, a Suntricity Power employee. “That means the children who use the center now will be in a position to come back with their own kids and the system will continue to be making clean, replenish-able power.” . About Suntricity Power . Suntricity Power focuses on the design, sales and fitting of renewable energy hardware and systems.

We provide affordable and reliable solar photovoltaic installations. About Community Tutorial Centers . Community Academic Centres provides childcare, parenting services, education and family support programs. CEC offers a total childcare services by providing care for babies and school age children, after school and summer programs for older kids.