Banks in failure, foreclosed mortgages, people out of work. How would a de-regulated Wall Street translate into these effects? Learn and teach others at a community discussion on the current economic crisis. Topics will be Wall Street’s actions, the effects, and the assumptions made by those who might have regulated it.

Event takes place at Lincoln Elementary School, 213 21st Ave SE, Olympia, WA; it will be facilitated by Professor Savvina Chowdhury of TESC.

This is Topic Three of the Green Economics series, presented to the public by the Green Party of South Puget Sound.

Olympia is one of the most progressive towns in the Pacific Northwest. Unique solutions to the daunting environmental and social challenges have emerged within numerous areas of the community. The Panel for a Sustainable Community will help highlight local solutions and facilitate the process of forging connections between people and organizations that are dedicated to working towards a more resilient and humane community.

WashPIRG and the Environmental Resource Center (the ERC) are bringing together local leaders from a diverse array of fields, including faith and social justice, green building, climate justice, progressive education, small business, and alternative transportation, for a Panel for a Sustainable Community. It will be held at the Longhouse at Evergreen from 3:30-5:30 this Sunday, March 14th.

Panelists include:

1.    TJ Johnson (Sustainable South Sound board member)
2.    Scott Morgan (TESC Sustainability Coordinator)
3.    Joann Snarsky (Port of Olympia)
4.    Carol McKinley (Voices for Justice)

5.    Travis Skinner (Evergreen Bike Shop)
6.    Tim Morrissey (Dean of the Olympia Waldorf School)
7.    Al Rooks (Small Planet Workshop—sustainable builder)
8.    Carol Richmond (Thurston Climate Action Team)

Special thanks to the Greener Organization (the GO) for sponsoring the panel and Mud Bay Coffee Company for providing tasty coffee.

Our economic system assumes unlimited resources, lasting forever, and unlimited economic "growth." But the real world has limits. How does this contradiction play out, and how does public policy address the issue? A well-facilitated community discussion at the MIXX96 Meeting Room, WA and State Streets, Olympia. Event #2 in the GREEN ECONOMICS series, presented by the Green Party of South Puget Sound.

At Safeplace tonight there is a community forum. We are gonna sit down and talk about sexual assault in our greater Olympia community and come up with some strategies and plans to address it.

5:30 pm /314 legion way olympia 98501/360 786 8754. repost widely.