Here's a list of some upcoming online and Rogue Valley, in-person, eco-spiritual activities that may be of interest to you. Check back, as this post will be updated during September as we get additional information, and a new calendar listing will come out in November. Don't be intimidated by the scope of this list; choose to participate in what calls to you.
October 8, 2024, from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. PDT - SOCAN is having a Candidate Forum. SOCAN has invited all candidates for the current Jackson County Board of Commissioners race, Oregon House Districts 4, 5, and 6, plus Oregon Senate District 2 and Federal Congressional District 2 to the forum. The presentations will take place at the Medford Public Library, 205 S. Central Avenue, Medford, OR. The forum will be followed by an optional 30-minute meet and greet during which candidates and voters will have a chance to continue discussion.
October 15, 2024, at 9:25 a.m. PT - Maud Powell, Associate Professor of OSU Extension Small Farms program, will be a guest on the JPR's Jefferson Exchange, discussing her program to support small farmers suffering from living on the frontlines of climate change.
October 15, 2024, from 4-5 p.m. PDT - Citizen's Climate Lobby is having a Zoom meeting for CCL volunteers interested in becoming CCL Group Leaders. Click here to join, or go to zoom.us, click "Join" in the menu, and enter the meeting ID: 273-716-354
October 15, 2024 - November 19, 2024, Tuesdays from 4-5:30 p.m. PDT - Deeptime Network is offering a 6-week course with Brian Thomas Swimme, assisted by Jennifer Morgan: Cosmogenesis: Autocosmology as a Spiritual Practice. This is a required course for the Advanced Deeptime Leadership Program starting in January 2025 for those who have not done the 9-month DT Leadership Program. The cost is $171 for members. Register here.
October 16, 2024, from 3-5:30 PT - Convergence and The Berkana Institute are having an online discussion with Matthew Fox, Brian McLaren, Margaret J. Wheatley, and Cameron Trimble titled Post-Doom Spirituality, You can attend the live conversation and will receive the recording to watch at your convenience. Registration fee is $35. Register here.
October 17, 2024, from 5:30-7:30 pm, - SOCAN is having a Rogue Climate Volunteer Gathering and mini-orientation of the Electrification Campaign for new folk joining the campaign co-facilitated by long-term volunteers. They will also do an introduction to door-to-door canvassing since that is their current organizing focus. These monthly gatherings are always potluck style and themed to add a fun element. It is not required to bring a dish to participate. This month’s theme is Farm to Table, fresh farm ingredients.
October 17, 2024 - Southern Oregon PBS is presenting the premiere of their new documentary series, Energy Horizons. This six-part series takes us on a journey to understand the importance of energy, climate change, and resource depletion, along with potential solutions across Oregon. The show takes us across the state, exploring current successes in renewable energy, frontier technologies in development, and the challenges around energy storage and transmission.
The series includes interviews with SOCAN co-facilitator Alan Journet, and SOU Sustainability Director Becs Walker.
Episode 1: Energy Horizons: Transition – Resource Depletion and Pollution
October 17, 8 p.m. (Repeats 10/19-7 p,m; 10/20-2 a.m.; 10/20-6 p,m,)
They explore Oregon’s energy landscape, environmental challenges, and possible ways forward. Keegan and Tripp traverse the state of Oregon to examine why energy is so vital to us and how Oregonians are building our future.
Episode 2: Energy Horizons: Solar Revolution – Rooftops and Farm Fields
October 24, 8 p.m .(Repeats on 10/26-7 p.m.; 10/27-2 a.m.; 10/27-6 p.m.).
We learn about solar energy and the explosion in rooftop solar adoption and options for non-homeowners across Oregon.
Episode 3: Energy Horizons: Offshore Wind – Potential and Controversy
October 31, 8 p,m, (Repeats 11/2-7 p,m,; 11/03-2 a,m,; 11/03-6 p,m,)
Oregon has long maintained a robust wind energy sector. Now, with the new interest in the powerful winds off Oregon’s South Coast, the potential is everywhere, but amid its promise, conflict, and tensions are rising.
Episode 4: Energy Horizons: Frontier Tech – Wave, Geothermal & Hydrogen
November 7, 8 p,m, (Repeats 11/9-7 p,m; 11/11-2 a,m; 11/11-6 p,m,)
This fourth episode in a 6-part series looks at the future of renewable energy in Oregon. It includes niche, or further-future ideas, like wave, geothermal, and hydrogen. While still in development, these ideas reveal Oregon as a major player in future energy research.
Episode 5: Energy Horizons: How Energy Moves – Storage & Transmission
November 14, 8 p,m, (Repeats 11/16-7 p,m,, 11/17-2 a,m, 11/17-6 p,m,)
This fifth episode in a 6-part series covers how we can make renewable energy available with investment in energy storage and transmission essential for a new energy future. Whether it's rolling out transmission lines across valuable farmland or building massive storage facilities on Native American sacred lands, changes to our grid are embroiled in bureaucracy and controversy.
Episode 6: Energy Horizons: The Long Game – Energy & The Future
November 21, 8 p,m, (Repeats 11/23-7 p,m; 11/24-2 a,m; 11/24-6 p,m,)
Note: Episodes 4, 5, and 6 will premiere in November and are subject to change.
October 29, 2024, from 4:30-6 p.m. PT - The Center for Christogenesis is partnering with WCCM Meditation & Community to offer an online presentation by Ilia Delio: The Unfinished God in a Techno-Driven Universe. The presentation will be followed by a response from Laurence Freeman, a monk of the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto, Director of Bonnevaux, and the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM). Register here.
October 29, 2024, from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. PDT - SOCAN is having its Monthly Meeting on How Climate Change is Impacting Oregon Farmers. It will feature Maud Powell, Associate Professor of OSU Extension Small Farms program, discussing her program to support small farmers suffering from living on the frontlines of climate change. The meeting will take place at the Medford Public Library, 205 S. Central Avenue, Medford, OR.
October 2024-March 2025, from 4-5:30 p.m. PT - The BTS Center is offering online "Navigating Climate Spiritual Care: A Learning Community for chaplains, pastors, educators, lay leaders, and spiritual seekers, on Monday evenings twice monthly from October 21, 2024 through March 10, 2025. The program fee is #200. The application deadline is September 15, 2024. Register here.
November 12 and 19, 2024, at 4 p.m. PT - The Center for Christogenesis is offering a two-part workshop with Sheri Kling: Healing our Collective Pain: Worldviews, Dreamwork, and Transformation. Sheri D. Kling, Ph.D., is the director of Process & Faith with the Center for Process Studies and interim minister of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bradenton, FL. Register here.
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