Month: January 2019

The Ojai Valley Green Coalition Presents: Workshop Series at the Ojai Community Demonstration Garden

Climate Resilient Landscape Design for Your Home and Our Unique Watershed

Hands on workshop lead by experts:

Aja Bulla-Richards | Watershed Progressive

  • Regenerative Landscape Designer and Educator

Regina Hirsch | Watershed Progressive

  • Principal, Project Designer/Developer

Art Ludwig | Oasis Designs

  • Ecological Systems Designer and Author

Saturday March 9th, 10-3pm

FREE Event RSVP- Limited Space

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Workshop Outcomes:

  • Understand How Your Actions Could Help Ojai Valley Water Balance
  • What Actions You Can Take
  • How to Design Your Property for Resiliency

Schedule:

10:00 Introductions | Overview of the days activities

10:20 Our Watershed | Big Picture Presentation

10:50 Solutions | Resiliency

11:20 Break

11:30 Moving into action:

Reading and Understanding the Land | Site Analysis

12:00 Exercise | Recording and using all our senses to design

12:30 Break

1:00 How to see what is needed: Observational Analysis

1:45 Putting it all together | Site Design part I

2:40 Putting it all together | Site Design part II

Location:

We will meet in Help of Ojai’s Kent Hall at 10am.

111 W. Santa Ana Street

Ojai, CA 93023

**Site Analysis will take place in the Community Demonstration Garden.

If you have any questions please reach out to Tara Saylor, our Demonstration Garden Manager:

Tara@Ojaivalleygreencoalition.org

Where: Ojai Community Demonstration Garden

When: Saturday, March 9th, 10am-3pm

Biking: There is a bike rack at the Community Demonstration Garden.

Parking: Please Park in the lot on S Blanche S and W Santa Ana St. Or the Help of Ojai parking lot.

What to bring: Pad of paper, pen/pencil, refillable water bottle, and wear comfortable shoes.


We will NOT be providing lunch for this workshop. Please bring one with you.

We will have a water bottle refill station.

This special workshop is hosted and sponsored by The Ojai Valley Green Coalition, The City of Ojai and Ventura River Water District.

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Fire Safe & Earthquake Resilient Design Series #1: Sunday, January 27 – 3 pm at Matilija Junior High Auditorium

Hosted by City of Ojai planning commissioner, Ray Powers and the Ojai Valley Green Coalition, the goal for this Fire Safe & Earthquake Resilient Home Design series is to present possibilities and perspectives on creating a safer, resilient and sustainable Ojai Valley.

This design series will be in a discussion platform to allow policy makers, building professionals and residents the opportunity to become educated and proactive about implementing methods of home design that assure emergency preparedness.

Panelists and presenters include Art Ludwig (Oasis Designs , reinforced adobe structures), Sasha Rabin (Quail Springs Permaculture Center, cob building), Dastan Kalili (CalEarth, super adobe), Jane Carroll (architectural designer, straw bale) Johnny Johnston (Ojai City Mayor), Matt Wyatt (Ventura County Bldg & Safety District Manager II) 


$5.00 suggested donation at the door

OVGC 2019 Shredding and E-Waste Recycling Event: Sat, Jan 19 – 9 am – 1 pm

11th Annual Ojai Valley eCycle, Recyle and Shred It Event – Saturday, January 19, 2019

The Ojai Valley Green Coalition to host with the Ojai Valley Directory our annual eCycle & Recycle Event on Saturday, January 19, 2019. Bringing back to the community this year is the popular Shred Day happening in conjunction with the recycling.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine bring your accepted items* to the Nordhoff High School parking lot, located at 1401 Maricopa Highway

The event is open to all Ojai Valley residents and businesses. Note documents for shredding accepted until the truck is full. THANK YOU to our many event supporters. It takes a village! Ojai Valley Directory, City of Ojai, Derby & Derby, Kerry Miller Designer/Builder, Gold Coast Recycling & Transfer Station, and the Ojai Unified School District

For further information call (805) 669-8445. *Accepted items include ALL electronics, small appliances, old holiday lights, e-media storage devices, ink/toner cartridges and household batteries. NO light bulbs, please. Those can be disposed of at Lowe’s and Home Depot or the Ventura County monthly household hazardous waste event. (link latter to http://vcpublicworks.org/water-sanitation-department/household-hazardous-waste)