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Sustainable Fairfax is one of the first groups in Marin to pioneer sustainability, with a legacy of educating the town council, supporting the community, providing services to the town, and conducting educational events since 1999. Through our work, we’ve come to realize that sustainability is not just an end goal, but also an approach to decision making. Learn more about Sustainable Fairfax >>

“Living Within Our Watershed”

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Thursday, Jan. 7^th, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.

The Outdoor Art Club, One West Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley

Join the following panelists for an informative discussion on learning to live within our scenic 21,000 acre watershed by employing innovative, “low-tech” water conservation practices such as water catchments, rain gardens, household conservation, native plantings and gray water:

Brock Dolman, co-founder of Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, where he is Director of the Water Institute (www.oaecwater.org) and Permaculture Design Program. Brock is a nationally and internationally noted watershed restoration consultant and expert on rainwater catchments;

Dan Carney, Water Conservation Manager for the Marin Municipal Water District, with over 30 years experience in landscape architecture, environmental design, and water management;

Paola Bouley, Conservation Program Director of SPAWN (Salmon Protection and Watershed Network), and President of Sustainable Fairfax. In 2010 SPAWN will be leading MMWD’s rainwater harvesting pilot program.

Moderator Norman Solomon, a Marin-based author and political commentator who currently serves as co-chair of the Commission on a Green New Deal for the North Bay.

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Good Earth Natural Foods

Good Earth Natural Foods in beautiful downtown Fairfax since 1969 has been continually offering our local community the finest organic foods we can procure. You won't find us listed on the New York Stock Exchange, nor are we going to open a store in neighborhoods all over the Planet.

We simply want to sell our customers foods grown and processed using the radical but ancient concept, care. Often care takes a back seat to the pursuit of the almighty dollar.

We feel that this is wrong and shortsighted. We offer foods grown and prepared using a minimum of processing and no chemical pesticides or food additives. If we cannot meet this ideal with a certain food item, we get as close as we can and make as much noise as we can to change it for the better. We always endeavor to remember that food contains spirit.