March 21-22, 1995
*Event: "Organic Grape and Wine Production Symposium", 3rd N.J.
Shaulis Symposium
Place: Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY, Jordan
Hall
Contact: Judy Robinson, Dept. of Horticultural Sciences,
Cornell University, NYSAES, Geneva, NY 14456. (315)
787-2238
Sponsors: NY State Grape Production Research Fund, Inc.;
Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA); Cornell
Alternative Agriculture Program; Sustainable
Agriculture Research and Education program (SARE); NY
State Agricultural Experiment Station
March 31-April 1, 1995
*Event: Second Annual Farm Family Workshop of the Illinois
Sustainable Agriculture Network (ISAN)
Place: Carlinville, IL
Contact: ISAN, P.O. Box 410, Greenview, IL 62642. Phone:
(217) 968-5512
April 1-14, 1995
*Event: Third Annual Permaculture Design Course
Place: Heartwood Institute, Garberville, CA
Contact: Donna King, Island Mountain Institute. Phone:
(707) 923-4301
April 2-5, 1995
*Event: International Symposium on Water Quality Modeling
Place: Orlando, FL
Contact: ASAE Meetings Department, 2950 Niles Rd., St. Joseph,
MI 49085. Phone: (616) 429-0300
April 5-7, 1995
*Event: "Hunger, Scarcity and Policy"
Place: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Contact: Fatima Kane, World Hunger Program, Bos 1831, Brown
University, Providence, RI 02912. Phone: (401) 863-
2700
April 8-9, 1995
*Event: "Creating Your Natural Edible Landscape and Gardens" (a
permaculture workshop)
Place: Glen Rock, PA
Contact: Spoutwood Farm, Dept. P1, Rd. 3, Box 66, Glen Rock, Pa
17327. Phone (717) 235-6610
April 21-May 4, 1995
*Event: Permaculture Design Course
Place: Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Glen Rose, TX
Contact: Fossil Rim, P.O. Box 2189, Glen Rose, TX 76043. Phone:
(817) 897-2960
April 27-28, 1995
*Event: President's Council on Sustainable Development, Eighth
Meeting
Place: Officers' Club, Presidio of San Francisco
Contact: Molly Harriss Olson, PCSD, 730 Jackson Place, NW,
Washington, DC 20503. Phone: (202) 408-5296. e-mail:
pcsd@igc.apc.org
April 29-30, 1995
*Event: Beginning Organic and Biodynamic Gardening Workshop
Place: Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, W2493 County
Road ES, East Troy, WI 53120
Contact: Gail Kahovic at MFAI. Phone: (414) 642-3303
May 1-2, 1995
*Event: "Risks, Regulations, and Resolutions: Creating the
Process" (Annual Wildlands Conference)
Place: Dearborn, MI
Contact: Wildlife Habitat Council, 1010 Wayne Ave., #920, Silver
Spring, MD 20910. Phone: (301) 588-8994
May 8-10, 1995
Event: "Planning for a Sustainable Future: The Case of the
North American Great Plains"
Place: Lincoln, Nebraska
Contact: Dr. Donald Wilhite, Director, International Drought
Information Center, PO Box 830728, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0728
Phone: (402) 472-6707. FAX:(402) 472-6614.
E-mail: agme002@unlvm.unl.edu
Sponsor: Environment Canada, NOAA, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
June 11-14, 1995
Event: "Sustainable Aquaculture, '95"
Place: Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: Narendra Saxena. Phone: (808) 956-6163.
FAX: (808) 956-2580.
E-mail: saxena@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
May 20-June 3, 1995
*Event: Permaculture Certification Course (with Bill Mollison
and Scott Pittman)
Place: La Tierra Community, Sebastopol, CA
Contact: La Tierra, 708 Gravenstein Hwy. N., #120, Sebastopol,
CA 95472. Phone: (707) 829-8191. E-mail:
vitaltec@nbn.com
May 31-June 1, 1995
*Event: "Taking Nature into Account"
Place: The European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Contact: Jane Dunmore, Organiser, TNA Conference, Milestone
House, 39 Main Road, Long Bennington Near Newark,
Nottinghamshire NG23 5DJ United Kingdom.
Phone: +44 400 281018, FAX: +44 400 282337
June 13-15, 1995
*Event: "A 20-20 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the
Environment"
Place: National Geographic Society, 1600 M Street, NW,
Washington, DC
Contact: Barbara Rose Phone: (202) 862-5600
Sponsor: International Food Policy Research Institute
June 19-30, 1995
Event: An International Training Program in New Crops:
Aromatic and Medicinal Plants
Place: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Contact: Tom Robertson, ATTN: International Training Program in
Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Continuing Education,
Purdue University, 1586 Stewart Center, West Lafayette,
IN 47907-1586. Phone: (317) 494-7220.
FAX: (317) 494-0567.
June 21-24, 1995
*Event: "Who Owns America?: Land and Resource Tenure Issues in
a Changing Environment"
Place: Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI
Contact: CALS Conference Office, University of Wisconsin, 620
Babcock Dr., Madison, WI 53706. Phone: (608) 263-
1672
Sponsor: Land Tenure Center, North American Program, University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
June 21-24,1995
*Event: "We the Peoples...The Role of Civil Society in the
History and Future of the United Nations", a Conference
Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of UN-NGO
Relations.
Place: A.N.A. Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Contact: Jamila Suzanne or Mark Valentine at the UN50 Committee.
Phone: (415) 989-1995, FAX: (415) 989-1996, Internet
address: un50@igc.apc.org
Sponsors: Citizens Network for Sustainable Development; Coalition
for the Presidio Pacific Center; Commonweal; Institute
for Agriculture and Trade Policy; Rainforest Action
Network, and UN50 Committee of San Francisco
June 21-25, 1995
Event: Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment
Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: Demetri Kantarelis, FAX: (508) 799-4502. E-mail:
dkantar@eve.assumption.edu
June 19-30, 1995
Event: An International Training Program in New Crops:
Aromatic and Medicinal Plants
Place: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Contact: Tom Robertson, ATTN: International Training Program in
Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Continuing Education,
Purdue University, 1586 Stewart Center, West Lafayette,
IN 47907-1586. Phone: (317) 494-7220.
FAX: (317) 494-0567.
June 22-24, 1995
*Event: Symposium, "Principles of Ecosystem Management in the
Northern Rockies", Integrating Forest, Agricultural and
Wilderness Landscapes.
Place: Strand Union, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Contact: Conference Services, Room 280f, Strand Union, MSU -
Bozeman, Bozeman, Mt 59717-0402. Phone: (406)994-
3333, FAX: (406) 994-3228
Sponsors: Ecology and Evolution Program, MSU-Bozeman; Mountain
Research Center, MSU-Bozeman; USDA Forest Service
Northern Regional Offices, and Montana Fish, Wildlife,
and Parks
June 26-August 31, 1995
*Event: "Sustainable Agriculture: Principles & Practices", a
summer course.
Place: Student Experimental Farm, University of CA, Davis, CA
Contact: Mark Van Horn, Student Experimental Farm, Department of
Agronomy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.
Phone: (916) 752-7645
July 1-13, 1995
*Event: "Sustainable Development for the World", 14 day
intensive course. (see related course: August 6-19)
Place: a farm near Eugene, OR
Contact: Ianto Evans or Michael Smith, Zopilote Association, Box
123, Cottage Grove, OR 97424. Phone/FAX: (503) 942-
3021
Sponsor: Zopilote Association
July 2-16, 1995
Event: Permaculture Design Course: A two-week intensive in
sustainable systems design
Place: Shades of Harmony Farm, Kingston, Nova Scotia
Contact: Institute for Bioregional Studies, 449 University Ave.,
Suite 126, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
C1A 8K3. Phone: (902) 892-9578. Or Michael Pilarski
c/o Friends of the Trees Society PO Box 1064 Tonasket,
Washington 98855. Phone/FAX: (509) 485-2705
July 6-20, 1995
Event: A two-week intensive in sustainable systems design
Place: Shades of Harmony Farm, Kingston, Nova Scotia, Canada
Contact: For more information send $5.00 to the Institute for
Bioregional Studies, 449 University Ave., Suite 126,
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada C1A 8K3.
(902) 892-9578
July 20-24, 1995
Event: "Restoration Ecology: Reconstructing Sustainable
Communities"
Place: Shades of Harmony Farm, Kingston, Nova Scotia
Contact: Institute for Bioregional Studies, 449 University Ave.,
Suite 126, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
C1A 8K3.
Phone: (902) 892-9578. Or Michael Pilarski c/o
Friends of the Trees Society PO Box 1064
Tonasket, Washington 98855. Phone/FAX: (509) 485-2705
July 22-28, 1995.
Event: Fuzzyness, Agriculture and Environment. This is a good
opportunity for fuzzy people interested in environment
and agriculture subjects, to meet and to exchange
ideas. We are interested in organizing special
sessions on both environment and agriculture. If you
are working on these subjects, you are invited to
submit, by e-mail, a small abstract of your work.
Contact: Marcelo T. Rochae, E-mail: matrocha@carpa.ciagri.usp.br
Further information about IFSA'95 may be obtained at
the Internet address:
//http/www.inpe.br/meetings/IFSA95/home.
July 23-29, 1995
*Event: The First International Conference on Multiple
Objective Decision Support Systems for Land, Water, and
Environmental Management: Concepts, Approaches and
Applications
Place: The East West Center on the University of Hawaii's
campus Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: Email: AGRSS@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.edu.
FAX: 808-956-6539. Include your mailing address.
Sponsors: Organizers include the World Association of Soil and
Water Conservation (Pacific Region), the International
Society on Multiple Criteria Decision
Making, the Soil and Water Conservation Society, the
East West Center, the Agricultural Research Service and
Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
and the University of Hawaii.
July 23-26, 1995
*Event: The Fourth North American Agroforestry Conference:
"Growing a Sustainable Future"
Place: Red Lion Inn - Riverside, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Boise, ID
83714
Contact: Dr. John Ehrenreich, Conference Chairman, College of
Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences, Washington State
University, Pullman, WA 99164-6410. Phone: (208) 885-
7600, FAX: (208) 885-6226.
July 27-30, 1995
*Event: HERBS '95
Place: Chicago, IL
Contact: IHA HERBS 95 Program Committee, 1202 Allanson Road,
Mundelein, IL 60060. FAX: (708) 566-4580
Sponsor: International Herb Association
July 28-30, 1995
Event: "Coming Home: Awakening Community Resourcefulness"
Place: Shades of Harmony Farm, Kingston,
Nova Scotia
Contact: Institute for Bioregional Studies, 449 University Ave.,
Suite 126, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
C1A 8K3. Phone: (902) 892-9578. Or Michael Pilarski
c/o Friends of the Trees Society PO Box 1064 Tonasket,
Washington 98855. Phone/FAX: (509) 485-2705.
August 6-19, 1995
*Event: "Sustainable Development for the World", 14-day
intensive course. (see related course: July 1-13)
Place: in the mountains of Tlaxala, central Mexico
Contact: Ianto Evans or Michael Smith, Zopilote Association, Box
123, Cottage Grove, OR 97424. Phone/FAX: (503) 942-
3021
August 6-9, 1995
Event: 50th Annual Meeting, Soil and Water Conservation
Society
Place: Des Moines, Iowa
Contact: Lloyd Wright, Program Committee Chair, Soil and Water
Conservation Society, 7517 N.E. Ankeny Rd.,
Ankeny, IA 50021. Phone: (800) THE-SOIL
August 11-13, 1995
*Event: NOFA 21st Annual Summer Conference, "Organic Farming:
Rooted in the Dirt".
Place: Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Contact: Julie Rawson, 411 Sheldon Road, Barre, MA 01005.
Phone: (508) 355-2853
Sponsor: Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)
August 12, 1995
*Event: PASA Summer Harvest Festival (Pennsylvania Association
for Sustainable Agriculture)
Place: Walnut Acres Organic Farms, Penns Creek, PA
Contact: PASA, Box 419, Millheim, PA 16854. Phone: (814) 349-
9856
August 30-September 9, 1995
Event: NGO Forum Fourth UN Conference on Women, Women in
Livestock Development
Place: Beijing, China
Contact: Dr. Beth Miller, Heifer Project International, 1015 S.
Louisiana St., Little Rock, AR 72203.
Phone: (501) 376-6836; FAX: (501) 376-8906.
Sponsor: WiLD
October 7-8, 1995
*Event: "The Politics of Sustainable Agriculture"
Place: Eugene, OR
Contact: Stuart Shulman, Dept. of Political Science, University
of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1284.
E-mail: stu@gladstone.uoregon.edu
October 9-10, 1995
*Event: "The Summit and Beyond": NGO PrepCom for the FAO 50th
Anniversary and World Food Summit (tentatively
scheduled for March 1996 in Rome)
Place: Quebec City, Canada
Contact: Secretariat, The Summit and Beyond, c/o Canadian Hunger
Foundation, 323 Chapel Street, Ottawa, Canada K1N 722.
FAX: (613) 237-5969, Internet: chfott@web.apc.org
October 9-16, 1995
*Event: Food and Agriculture Association (FAO) 50th Anniversary
and World Food Day, October 16.
Place: Quebec City, Canada
Contact: Symposium '95 FAO 65, Rue Sainte Anne, Bureau 100
Quebec, Canada 61R3X5. Phone: +418 691-7849, FAX: +418
691-7815
October 14-15, 1995
Event: The Future Harvest Festival: A sustainable
agriculture/
sustainable living fair
Place: Carroll County Fairgrounds, Westminister, MD
Contact: Marty Rice, Festival Coordinator, Maryland Organic Food
and Farming Association. Phone: (301) 371-4814,
FAX: (301) 371-8923.
October 14-15, 1995
Event: The Future Harvest Festival: A sustainable agriculture/
sustainable living fair
Place: Carroll County Fairgrounds, Westminister, MD
Contact: Marty Rice, Festival Coordinator, Maryland Organic Food
and Farming Association. Phone: (301) 371-4814.
FAX: (301) 371-8923.
November 6-8, 1995
*Event: "Linkages among Farming Systems and Communities", North
American Symposium, AFSRE
Place: Iowa State University
Contact: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development,
317 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-
1070. Phone: (515) 294-8321, FAX: (515) 294-2303
Sponsors: Association for Farming Systems Research-Extension;
North Central Regional Center for Rural Development;
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
November 12-14, 1995
Event: "Research and Practice: Learning to Build Sustainable
Industries for Sustainable Societies"
Place: Toronto, Canada
Contact: Greening of Industry Network Conference, Prof. Nigel
Roome, Haub Program in Business and the Environment,
Faculty of Administrative Studies, York University,
4700 Keele St., North York, Ontario M3J 1P3,
Canada. Phone: (416) 736-5809.
November 16-17, 1995
Event: "Environmental Enhancement through Agriculture"
Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: William Lockeretz, School of Nutrition, Tufts
University, Medford, MA 02115. Phone: (617) 627-3223.
FAX: (617) 627-3887.
Email: wlockeretz@infonet.tufts.edu
Sponsor: Tufts University, Center for Agriculture, Food and
Environment; American Farmland Trust; Henry A. Wallace
Institute for Alternative Agriculture
________________________________________________________________
If you would like us to include your events please send the event
name, place, contact, and sponsor, to Alternative Farming Systems
Information Center, ATTN: SAN Calendar, Room 304, National
Agricultural Library, 10301 Baltimore Boulevard, Beltsville,
Maryland 20705-2351. FAX: (301) 504-6409.
INTERNET: san@nalusda.gov
APPENDIX
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
Regional Research Grants Schedules
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
program is a continuation of what was formerly known as LISA.
Grants are awarded on a competitive basis for research and
educational projects in sustainable agriculture.
Administration of the program takes place through four
regional centers, each of which has a separate schedule for
its call for proposals and other deadlines. The schedules
will be included in this as they become available.
Following are the addresses of the Regional centers:
North Central Region Western Region
Steven S. Waller, Coordinator Phil Rasmussen,
13-A Activities Bld Coordinator
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln Ag Systems Technology
Lincoln, NE 68583-0704 Utah State University
(402) 472-7081 Logan, UT 84322-2300
FAX: (402) 472-0280 FAX: (801) 797-4002
Internet: agdn009@unlvm. (801) 797-2230
unl.edu Internet:
soilcomp@cc.usu.edu
Northeast Region Southern Region
Frederick R. Magdoff, Gerald F. Arkin,
Co-Coordinator Coordinator
Dept. of Plant & Soil Contact: Paula Ford, Program
Science Manager
University of Vermont University of Georgia
Burlington, VT 05405 Agriculture Experiment Station
(802) 656-2630 Griffen, GA 30223-1797
FAX: (802) 656-4656 (404) 412-4787;
Internet: FAX:(404) 412-4789
msimpson@moose.uvm.edu Internet:
sareace@gaes.griffin.
peachnet.edu
NORTH CENTRAL REGION: IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE,
OH, SD and WI
January 23, 1995 Deadline for receiving full proposal
March 8-10, 1995 Administrative Council meets to evaluate
proposals
March, 1995 Technical Committee meets to evaluate
proposals
April 3-5, 1995 Recommendation for project funding by
Administrative Council
SOUTHERN REGION: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, OK, PR, SC,
TN,TX, VA and VI
January, 1995 Full Proposal due at the Host Consortium
Producer-Initiated Grants due at Host
Consortium
Feb.27-March 1, 1995 Technical Committee meets to evaluate
proposals
March 1-3, 1995 Administrative Council reviews proposals
and approves for funding
June, 1995 Call for proposals for: research
grants, producer initiated grants and
training grants goes out in Region's
newsletter. (Anyone wishing this
notification, who is not already on the
mailing list, should call the Southern
Region office)
WESTERN REGION: AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR, UT,
WA,WY and the Island Protectorates
January 9, 1995 Distribution of Producer Initiated
Grants Calls for Proposal (CFP)
January 10, 1995 Deadline for Submission of Chapter 3
proposals
March 6-7, 1995 Chapter 1 Technical Review Committee
meets
March 8-9, 1995 Chapter 3 Technical Review Committee
meets (Tentative)
March 27-28, 1995 Administrative Council Meets to consider
Chapter 1 & 3 proposals
August 21-24, 1995 Administrative Council Strategic
Planning Retreat (will also consider
Producer-Initiated-Grants
NORTHEAST REGION: CT, DE, ME, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, WV
January 13, 1995 SARE/ACE Research & Education Proposals
due.
January 20, 1995 Farmer/Grower Grants Due
January 26, 1995 Northeast SARE Administrative Council
meets, Elizabeth, NJ.
January 27, 1995 Sustainable Agriculture & Horticultural
Crops: A Symposium, sponsored by the
Northeast Region SARE and ACE Programs.
Features findings and accomplishments
from nine Northeast projects.
For more information call Meri at 802-
656-0471.
January 2, 1995 SARE Training (Extension) Proposals due.
February 24, 1995 Northeast SARE Extension Coordinators
meet, Syracuse, NY.
March 19-21, 1995 Northeast SARE Technical Committee meets
March 21-23, 1995 Northeast SARE Administrative Council
meets.
Early April, 1995 Funding decisions for all Northeast SARE
& ACE Competitive Grants will be
released.