Upcoming Events
Hidden Villa Moovie Night – King Corn
Friday, February 24, 7pm-9pm
Knowledge is power! Come learn the facts and join in stimulating discussion at our annual Moovie Nite series. We are proud to partner with Greentown Los Altos to bring you the best movies, to keep you informed, to keep us all connected on the hottest issues. First in the series this year is King Corn with the follow-up mini-doc Big River.In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the East Coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat – and what we farm.There will be a discussion and speaker after the film to talk about local issues with the food system and what you can do to make changes.
Fee: $10 per adult
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Los Altos History Museum Shaped by Water: Walking Tour of Wastewater Treatment Plant
Comprehensive tour of the inner workings of the Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant
Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant
Free, ages 6th grade – adult, limited attendance.
Register by March 1 by calling 650-948-9427×14 or email ASorensen@losaltoshistory.org
In partnership with the City of Palo Alto
First Saturday Family Bike Ride
Saturday March 3, 2012, 1pm-4pm (note new time)
Location: Starts 2nd/Main Los Altos
Come join other families for the monthly Green Town Bike Ride! The March ride will be held from 1-4pm. We’ll be visiting adjacent cities in a 10-15 mile kid-friendly ride. Recommended age: 8 to adult. We will be discovering the bicycle boulevards, bike paths, trails, and bicycle- friendly streets in our travels. In case of rain, the event will be canceled.
For questions, please contact GreenTown’s Monthly Bike Ride Coordinator Scott Vanderlip at (650) 793-0475 or email: scott@inet-sciences.com.
GreenTown Los Altos Bike Committee Meeting
March 9, Noon
Main Street Cafe, Los Altos
Email for details.
Greywater Installation Workshop
March 10, 2012, 10am-2pm
Want to learn how to install a legal greywater system in your backyard? Using greywater to irrigate plants is a great way to reduce water use in water starved California.
Greywater expert Forrest Linebarger, principal of the local sustainable design firm Vox Design Group, will be leading this free GreenTown Los Altos workshop that will teach the fundamentals of greywater system design and installation. (See a KPIX news video featuring one of Vox Design Group’s greywater installations). Participants will learn the do’s and don’ts of greywater, what fixtures are appropriate to tap for greywater, and how best to use the water in landscaping. Participants will help with the installation of a laundry greywater system and gain lots of practical installation tips . Kids are welcome.
Register now for the address and more details.
Los Altos History Museum Shaped by Water: Watershed Tour of Adobe Creek
March 24, 2012, 9:00am-3:30pm
Bus tour of the Adobe Creek watershed in Los Altos and Palo Alto with several stops, expert speakers, lunch and moderate walking.
$35, ages 18 and older
Register by March 2
In partnership with Committee for Green Foothills with support from PG&E
Shaped by Water: Past, Present and Future, Now through April 15, 2012
The Los Altos History Museum will be featuring an exhibit about the history of water in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills opening October 2011 and running through the end of April 2012. The exhibit will examine four phases in our history:
- the native people, the Ohlone tribes, and their relationship to the water in our area
- the arrival of the European immigrants and the proliferation of agriculture and pumping of groundwater
- the present day with the development of large scale infrastructure such as the State and Federal water projects and waste water treatment plants and,
- a look towards the future and new ways to conserve and re-use the limited resource of water.
The exhibit will have an emphasis on fun and learning with hands-on interactive exhibits and programs such as films, engaging lectures and tours of watersheds and the waste water treatment plant.
