Common Ground II: Sustainable San Antonio

Childrens’ activities, info booths, and food will be available through the day

2:00-2:20 Opening Remarks w/ Keynote From Office of Sustainability

2:30 – 5:30 DJ EPSR (Solar Stage)

2:30-3:00 Traditional Foods for Health and Well-Being
2:30-3:00 Healing Plants and How to Use Them
2:45-3:00 Everyday Composting for Busy People

3:05-3:20 Wildscaping with Native Plants
3:10-3:40 The Future of Food in our Urban Landscape
3:10-3:30 Traditionally Used Plants in our Region

3:30-4:00 EarthKind Vegetable Gardening
3:40-4:20 Our Past, Present, and Sustainable Future
3:50-4:20 Natural Building

4:10-4:40 Got Rain? Catch it, Sink it, Store it
4:20-4:50 Supporting an Alternative Economy
4:30-5:00 Radical Mycology and Soil Remediation

4:50-5:30 Urban Plant ID Walk
5:00-5:30 Local Perspectives on Intentional Community
5:00-5:30 Self Care for a Sustainable You
5:10-5:30 Attainable Ways to be Sustainable

5:40-6:10 Interactive Group Synthesis

6:10:7:00 Laura Marie
7:10:8:00 Los Nahuatlatos

The purpose of Common Ground is to introduce the public to the many programs San Antonio has to offer that contribute to a sustainable city. This includes environmental as well as community building and health and wellness programs. It is also an opportunity for the people working on sustainable goals here to come together, meet each other, and form relationships for future collaboration.

Our theme this year is Our Past, Present, and Sustainable Future. We hope to promote awareness of the roots of this city, the culture here, and how knowing where we come from is a very important facet of knowing how to become more sustainable together.

We will have a health and wellness area offering sessions from local traditional healers, fun activities for all ages such as bicycling games, face painting, seed bomb making, and potting small plants, awesome wares for sale by local artisans and producers as well as information tables from over 30 different sustainability related organizations and businesses.

Several food trucks will be on hand including the solar powered Jusumungus Truck, Swamp Kitchen, and Sensational Salad Station. Music will be provided by some of San Anto’s best performers on Renewable Republic’s Solar Stage.

Foodies, DIYers, Gardeners, Naturalists, Artists, Activists, Environmentalists, Community Workers, Cyclists, Crunchy Mommas, Healers, Music Lovers, and Everyday Wonderful People, you don’t want to miss this event.

Groups in attendance:
Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas
SATX Permaculture
ROLL Models SATX
Bexar County Youth Gardens Program
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Bexar County
Alamo Area Texas Master Naturalists
Sierra Club Alamo Group
National Center for Appropriate Technology
National Park Service
Native Plant Society of Texas
San Antonio Aquaponic and TransFarming Group
San Antonio River Authority
Students for Environmental Awareness
Chef Cooperatives
Cafe Commerce San Antonio
Food Policy Council of San Antonio
Herbal Medics
Mujeres Mercado
March Against Monsanto San Antonio
Prickly Pear Living History Museum
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
MujerArte
San Antonio Interfaith Power & Light
Southwest Workers Union
SA Time Dollar Community Connections
San Antonio Weston A. Price Foundation
Yanaguana Mamas
Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA)
Habitable Spaces
MUSIC Project
Office of Sustainability
San Antonio Sustainable Living

Businesses
Element Kombucha
The Renewable Republic
Jusamungus
The Sensational Salad Station
Swamp Kitchen
Mercado O’liva
Localsprout
The Human Path
Kersey Ceramics
Texas Black Gold Garlic
Four Hands Midwifery- Tawnya Schiebel Midwife
Healthy Living Systems
Las Ofrendas
El Puno y La Mano
The Soap Addicts
Total Harmony Yoga
Truly Patchouli
Earth Block Texas
Finnegan’s Footprint
Green Energy of San Antonio
Urban Spice Farm
Wildroot Organic