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. Thank you for visiting.
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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 |
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Wednesday October 5, 2011 
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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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. |
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Tuesday October 25  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 |
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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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