Events
Breast Cancer Awareness Tour May 29th – June 3rdThis tour is co-sponsored with a generous grant by the Alaska Run For Women. Fairbanks – 5/30 | North Pole – 5/30 Norton Sound Area June 1-4, 2013: |
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Semper Fi: Always Faithful takes a personal look at a public health and environmental crisis. The documentary follows Jerry Ensminger, a retired Marine Corps drill instructor, who lost his daughter to leukemia in 1985. After he learns of the water contamination at Camp Lejeune, twelve years later, Ensminger embarked on a journey to expose one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history. These events are co-sponsored with a generous grant by the Alaska Run For Women. |
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Thursday, May 30th Interior Alaska EventFREE LUNCH & DISCUSSION 5/30 Noon-1:30 pm – Lunch with Jerry Ensminger, North Pole, Alaska This event is co-sponsored with a generous grant by the Alaska Run For Women. |
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Pioneer Park Theater, Fairbanks, AK (Map) Map| Poster | Invite your friends on Facebook This event is co-sponsored with a generous grant by the Alaska Run For Women. The Northern Alaska Environmental Center is also co-hosting this event. |
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PRIVATE CATERED LUNCH WITH JERRY ENSMINGERFriday, May 31st Anchorage, Alaska Events5/31, 11:30-1:3o pm – Invitation only lunch with Jerry Ensminger, Location TBA, Anchorage, Alaska Jerry will be available for interviews in Anchorage on 5/31, 2-3pm. |
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6/5 Organic Gardening Workshop: Awesome Compost
A workshop with Saskia Esslinger on Wednesday, June 5th, 2013, 7-9pm at the C Street Community Garden, C St and W 19th Ave in Anchorage (map).
Discover how easy it is to use composting techniques to create a vibrant, healthy and beautiful garden. Backyard composting conserves energy and reduces pollution and waste. Learn how to turn your food and yard waste into a wonderful soil amendment or mulch that will help your garden thrive by suppressing weeds, protecting the soil, improving soil structure and conserving water.
Cost is $30 – Sign up Today, choose Program Designation “6/5 Awesome Compost”
6/19 Organic Gardening Workshop: It’s a Wonderful World of Weeds
A workshop with GeorgeAnne Sprinkle and Doug Tryck on Wednesday, June 19th, 2013, 7-9pm at the C Street Community Garden, C St and W 19th Ave in Anchorage (map).
Did you know that many of the weeds we are burdened with today were brought from our European ancestors? What, but why, you might whine? The secret is that some “weeds” were and remain incredibly useful. Learn how to friend your weed problems, learn their history, what they tell you about the state of your soil, and how to incorporate them into your kitchen and medicine cabinet.
Cost is $30 – Sign up Today, choose Program Designation “6/19 Wonderful Weeds”
8/14 Organic Gardening Workshop: Seed Saving
A workshop with Doug Tryck on Wednesday, August 14th, 2013, 7-9pm at the C Street Community Garden, C St and W 19th Ave in Anchorage (map).
With just a little more time and effort, you can have the satisfaction of saving seeds from your own garden and planting them next year. The benefits include, stronger, better tasting plants. This is not difficult, but it is important to understand a few basic principles. We will discuss these principles and how they apply to crops, flowers and herbs commonly grown in backyard gardens.
Cost is $30 – Sign up Today, choose Program Designation “8/14 Seed Saving”
If you have questions about any of our event listings, please contact us or call 907-222-7714. Thank you!
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Past Events
5/29, 9-10 am – The Story of Camp Lejeune: Contaminated Drinking Water, Cancer Clusters, and the Struggle for Justice
A free one hour teleconference call hosted by ACAT’s Alaska Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE-AK) with special guest Jerry Ensminger, a retired Marine Master Sergeant of 24 years. Jerry’s family is one of hundreds of thousands who bathed, drank, and cooked with water contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals at the North Carolina Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune. He lost his nine year old daughter, Janey, to leukemia in 1985. Jerry has dedicated his life to helping other victims of the contamination at Camp Lejeune, many of whom are men who developed breast cancer. In his pursuit of justice, Jerry illuminates how current policies contribute to disease clusters and works for policies that will prevent contamination and protect community health. His story, along with others who suffered tragedy from the water at Camp Lejeune, has been documented in the film, “Semper Fi: Always Faithful.” Visit the call web page to sign up or call 907-222-7714 or email diana at akaction dot org. |
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5/29, 6:30-9 pm – Film & Talk at Anchorage Museum Auditorium - Semper Fi: Always Faithful film showing and discussion with Jerry Ensminger Please save the date for a very special visit with Jerry Ensminger who brought to national attention the Marine Corps cover up of groundwater contamination at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and exposing a large cancer cluster. Join us for this special event at the Anchorage Museum. Free parking for the first 90 cars during the event is available in the Museum’s underground garage. Location: 625 C Street, Anchorage (Map). Semper Fi: Always Faithful takes a personal look at a public health and environmental crisis. The documentary follows Jerry Ensminger, a retired Marine Corps drill instructor, who lost his daughter to leukemia in 1985. After he learns of the water contamination at Camp Lejeune, twelve years later, Ensminger embarked on a journey to expose one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history. Map | Poster | Invite your friends on Facebook This event is co-sponsored with a generous grant by the Alaska Run For Women.
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5/22 6-8:30 pm – Wild Edibles, at Kincaid Park Chalet, $50 space is limited, sign up early.
ACAT hosted the fundraiser, Wild Edibles, commemorating Rachel Carson on May 22nd from 6:00-8:30 pm at Kincaid Park Chalet. Thank you for joining us in celebration of the wild abundance and nature surrounding us.
The event included
- a guided medicinal and wild edible plant walk at 6pm,
- foraged foods dinner by local guest chef Rob Kinneen & Fresh 49 at 7pm
- live music by Michael Howard, and
- a fundraiser featuring community goods donated by local businesses.
- Cost is $50 – space is limited, sign up early.
For more information, contact GeorgeAnne Sprinkle, the Community Garden Coordinator and compost tea brewer for Alaska Community Action on Toxics. 907-222-7714 or email garden at akaction dot org
Rachel Carson initiated the kind of environmental advocacy work that we continue today. We are dedicated to an organic, sustainable life, believing everyone has the right to clean air, clean water and toxic-free food.
4/26, Noon-1:30 pm: Stand Against Racism - Social Justice Dialogues: Opening Minds and Hearts at YWCA Anchorage, 324 E 5th Ave.
Join YWCA for this BYO Lunch discussion on this national day of action “Stand Against Racism”.
Join ACAT in taking the pledge and a day of social media action on Facebook and Twitter where we ”Take a stand for social justice, environmental health and justice” and celebrate the diversity of our community.
4/24, 9-10 am – CHE-AK Call “Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFCs) in the Arctic: Sources, Transport, and Health Effects”
Listen to this discussion with Craig Butt, PhD of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and Carol Kwiatkowski, PhD, Executive Director of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX). PFCs are synthetic chemicals used to make materials stain- and stick- resistant. They can be found in household products including non-stick cookware, grease-resistant food packaging, water-resistant outerwear and shoes, and stain-resistant home furnishings. PFCs are persistent organic pollutants that accumulate in the bodies of fish, wildlife, and people and have been linked to adverse health effects. Presented by ACAT’s Alaska Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE-AK).
4/24, 7-9 pm – Compost Tea- It’s Alive! at Central Lutheran Church, 15th & Cordova (map)
4/22, 5:30 pm – A Fierce Green Fire, at the Bear Tooth, $3.50
A documentary about environmentalism, the history of the movement and the activists fighting to save the future. With Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allande; Director: Mark Kitchell. Watch the preview. Visit ACAT’s table in the lobby at the Bear Tooth.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: “…proves a worthy reminder of how much has been done to help heal our planet’s ecological woes as well as how much remains to be achieved.”
4/22, 7:50 pm - Trashed at the Bear Tooth, $3.50
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: “…vividly, relentlessly detailed… input from corporate interests and government policymakers would have added welcome dimension to this crucial discussion.”
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: “Ms. Brady rubs our faces in the poisonous consequences of littering the planet with substances that, like bedbugs and French mimes, are almost impossible to get rid of.”
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4/17/13 – ACAT’s Environmental Health and Justice Coordinators and other staff participated in the Chickaloon Cultural Awareness workshop at the Alaska Native Heritage Center
4/10/13 - ACAT’s Organic Gardening Workshop: Detox Gardening,with Saskia Esslinger and Birgit Lenger. A workshop about herbs and plants commonly used for detoxing our bodies. We’ll teach you how to grow these medicinal herbs and plants, as well as methods for using them, including making medicinal teas, tinctures, and cooking with them fresh or dry.
3/20/13 – ACAT’s Organic Gardening Workshop: Building Great Soil Structure – The Secret to a Great Garden, with Saskia Esslinger. A workshop about how we depend on soil every day to provide us with food, but what is it really? Learn the basics about this extremely important but often under-appreciated resource. We will talk about what makes soil productive and how you can manage your garden for optimum soil health. Terms like pH, organic matter, CEC, bulk density and base saturation will be covered. The class will also explain how to get a lab test of your soil and how to read the test results.
