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October 2011 | Green Events Calendar

 
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MiamiGreen.info is a Green Events Calendar featuring South Florida architecture, environmental design, garden lectures, and eco events.  The calendar is provided as a community service for South Florida environmental activists, garden enthusiasts and green industry professionals.  Each of the organizations featured in our calendar is a priceless resource of information for sustainable living practices - consider joining a South Florida botanic garden, garden club or plant society today!

Please check each organization's website for more information about individual events and to confirm last minute changes in venues, times and dates.

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Orchid Society of Coral Gables
topic: New Speaker and Topics every month
location:  Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL

room: Corbin Building, classroom "A"
date: First Tuesday of every month | October 4 | 7:30 pm
web:www.oscgonline.org



Wednesday
October 5, 2011
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Redland Evening
Herb Society

topic:

New topic & speaker each month
location:
Fruit and Spice Park
24801 SW 187 Avenue
Homestead, Florida 33031
date:
First Wednesday of each Month
October 5 | 7:30pm
web:
www.miamifruitandspicepark.com

Monday
October 10, 2011
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Tropical Flowering Tree Society

topic:

David Lee, Author of
Wayside Trees of Tropical Florida
location:

Fairchild Tropical Garden
10901 Old Cutler Road
Miami, Florida 33156
Corbin Building, classroom "A"
date:

Monday | October 10 | 7:30 pm
web:
www.tfeps.org

Thursday
October 13, 2011
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South Dade
Garden Club

topic:

New topic and speaker each month
location:

Fruit and Spice Park
24801 SW 187 Avenue
Homestead, Florida 33031
date:

Second Thursday of each month October 13 | 7:00pm
web:

www.miamifruitandspicepark.com

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Thursday | October 13, 2011

Orchid Society of South Florida
topic: New Speaker and Topics every month
location: Fire Fighters Memorial Building | 8000 NW 21st St | Miami, FL
room: Corbin Building, classroom "A"
date: Third Wednesday of every month | October 19 | 7:30 pm
time: Registration & Judging of plants 7:15 PM | Program Begins 8:00 PM
web:
www.sforchid.com

Miami Farmers Markets | Miami, Florida
www.MiamiFarmersMarkets.com | A locals guide to finding Miami's best farmers markets.

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Tuesday | October 18

Bromeliad Society of South Florida - Annual Auction
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL 33156
Room: The Visitor Center | Second floor at the Main entrance
dates: Tuesday, October 18 | 7:00 pm
web: www.bssf-miami.org

Rare plant auction open to the public at Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens (South entrance). Learn about these exotic beauties and purchase great landscape plants for your garden or for holiday gifts.  Refreshments served.

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Wednesday | October 19

LEED Pilot Credit:
Design for Health Through Increased Physical Activity

speaker: Amy Green, Sustainable Designer, LEED AP, and Associate AIA

location: University of Miami  | School of Architecture
address: 1223 Dickinson Drive Coral Gables, FL
room: Stanley and Jewell Glasgow Lecture Hall
time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
web: USGBC South Florida Chapter


ABOUT THE SPEAKER: As the Center for Active Design's LEED & Green Development Coordinator, Amy Green is able to provide LEED project teams with technical assistance to implement Active Design on LEED projects; assist projects in submitting the LEED Credit: Design for Health Through Increased Physical Activity; and help project stakeholders understand the benefits of implementing Active Design.

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October 20 - 23

ECOMB -
First Annual Miami and the Beaches
Environmental Film Festival

The Festival is a four-day event showcasing films based on environmental issues of local and global concern. The event, taking place from October 20thto the 23rd, is being organized by ECOMB, in partnership with the Miami Beach Cinematheque, The Society of Environmental Journalists and the Big Blue and You. The Festival will feature some of the most contemporary environmental documentaries, addressing issues of urgent environmental importance.

Visit: www.ecomb.org

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Saturday & Sunday,  October 22 - 23

Fairchild Garden's Edible Garden Festival

location:
Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Rd | Miami,  FL
time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
web:
www.fairchildgarden.org/Events/

Fairchild Tropical Garden's Edible Garden Festival will feature local food and cooking demonstrations, a scarecrow competition, and plant sales by Miami-area nurseries.  Join other garden hobbyists for a weekend of gardening demos and how-to lectures by South Florida horticulturalists, growers and garden designers on creating your own edible garden.


Carlos Somoza Landscape Design | Miami, Florida
A Miami landscape design studio that is passionate about the design and craft of timeless, elegant gardens.

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Monday | October 24

Tropical Fern & Exotic Plant Society - Annual Auction

location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road |Miami, FL
room: Corbin Building, classroom "A"
time: 7:00 pm
web:
www.tfeps.org


The Tropical Fern and Exotic Plant Society will auction rare tropical ferns, begonias, orchids, palms, heliconias, gingers, bromeliads, aroids as well as shrubs and tropical flowering trees. The club’s members as well as leading growers and nurseries in the South Florida area are donating specimen plants for this year’s auction.

Attendees will be able to preview plants beginning at 7 p.m. and the auction to follow at 7:30. The public is invited to attend this annual tropical plant auction. There is no entrance fee and there will be delicious refreshments available. This is a wonderful way to acquire beautiful plants at reasonable prices.


Visit www.tfeps.org for details.


Tuesday
October 25
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Florida Native Plant Society Miami-Dade

topic:
“Florida’s Native Bromeliads”
Dr. Brad Bennett, Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida International University

location:
Pinecrest Gardens
11000 Southwest 57th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33156

date:
Tuesday
October 25 | 7:30pm – 9:30pm
web:
www.dade.fnpschapters.org

Wednesday
October 26
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East Everglades
Orchid Society

topic:
New topic & speaker each month
location:
UF Miami-Dade County Extension
18710 SW 288th Street
Homestead, Florida 33030
date:
Fourth Tuesday of each month

October 25
• Mini-class at 7:15 p.m.
• General meeting & program
at 8:00 p.m.
web:
www.orchidseeos.com


Wednesday
October 26
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Tropical Fruit & Vegetable Society of the Redland

topic:
New topic and speaker each month
location:
Fruit and Spice Park

24801 SW 187 Avenue
Homestead, Florida 33031
date:
Last Wednesday of each month
October 26 | 7:30 pm
web:
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• Free tasting table, plant exchange and horticultural library.
• Monthly guest speaker lecturing on tropical fruits & vegetables.


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DESIGN:

landscape
architecture


Thursday | October 27

FIU Landscape Architecture Lecture

speaker: David Fletcher, ASLA | Principal
location: Florida International University | 11200 SW 8th ST | Miami, FL
room: PCS 135
time: 5:30pm
web: www.soa.fiu.edu


Fletcher Studio Landscape Architecture + Urban Design is an innovative and award winning collaborative practice based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The firm provides comprehensive professional services in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Environmental Planning.

Founding Principal David Fletcher is an Urban Designer and Landscape Architect, professor, and writer. His work addresses process, void, symbiosis, alternative transportation networks, green infrastructure, and post-industrial urbanism.

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