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On Saturday, October 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Coalition invites you to our 5th annual Green Home & Building Tour and Home Show. With this year’s theme Small is Beautiful, you will see a “Tiny House”, visit a 400 sq. foot home that has been built almost entirely with recycled wood and …

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• October 26 Green Home & Building Tour and Home Show • November 10 Focus Earth Film Screening, Panel Discussion & Reception • Solarize Ojai Valley Program Extended Until October 18 • Bike to School Week Oct. 7-11 Read e-News Here

Advocating the growing, purchasing, and preserving of local organic food • October is Food Month: Reading Picks • Ventura County Farm Day • Fermented Food Workshops • Homemade Muesli Recipe <img alt=" Read Food News Here

• City of Ojai Waives Solar Permit Fees • Welcome New Board Members • Fall Line-up, Save the Dates • City of Ojai Demonstration Garden Celebrates Read e-News Here

We are honored to have gathered a distinguished group of individuals for the panel discussion following the movie presentation. The Filmmakers: Stuart Sender is an Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, broadcast journalist and screenwriter. His credits include producing and directing the Academy-Award® nominated documentary Prisoner of Paradise which also received a Directors Guild nomination and won …

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Advocating the growing, purchasing, and preserving of local organic food • A Sweet Pepper That Would Be a Hot Pepper • In Organic We Trust • Metabolism Boosting Foods • Garbanzo & Quinoa Salad Recipe Read Food News Here

THANKS The Ojai Valley was chosen as a video location for a Greenpeace Initiative – Postcards from Climate Change. The topic – ‘going solar’ – inspired by the Coalition’s Solarize Ojai Valley program. Check out the video here. BTW – for the next year the city of Ojai just joined Ventura County in waiving solar …

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• Watershed Workgroup Gets Update on City Landscape Ordinance • Next Solarize Workshop August 15 • Fall Line-up, Save these Dates • Pesto Recipe, By Way of a Story Read e-News Here

Advocating the growing, purchasing, and preserving of local organic food • Local Food Culture • Recipe Swap Always Fun • Food as Medicine • Film and Farm to Table Event Read Food News Here