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Bridging the Gap, an Environmental Organization in Kansas City, conferred an Environmental Excellence Award to Ben Kjelshus at their awards ceremony last night. The article that appeared in the Kansas City Star this morning said this about Ben, "Ben Kjelshus, 85, of Kansas City, won the environmental excellence award for individuals. Kjelshus has been a driving force in organizing a sustainable food community, the judges wrote. He founded the Kansas City Food Circle and co-founded the Kansas City Green Party."

Upcoming Events

The Greens of Kansas City hold monthly forums to present and discuss various political topics on the first Monday of each month. Topics include election reform strategies, environmental topics such as eating locally, movie showings, and much more. Please see our full calendar of events for details on the topic of each forum and to see other events the Greens are holding around town.

CONNECTING THE DOTS: A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO BREAKDOWN AND TRANSFORMATAION -- THINKING IN TERMS OF RELATIONSHIPS, PATTERNS AND CONTEXT

Monday February 2, 2009. Program starts at 7:00

THE PANELISTS WILL TALK ABOUT THE CRITICAL PROBLEMS FACING OUR SOCIETY --ENERGY, FOOD, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- AND HOW THESE PROBLEMS ARE CLOSELY INTERRELATED. If WE ARE TO HAVE A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE, WE MUST RADICALLY CHANGE THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT OUR WORLD.

Panelists are:

Dee Berry: Long time Green Activist, former coordinator for the national clearinghouse of the U.S. Green movement, and former lecturer on systems theory at UMKC

Toby Grotz: Electrical Engineer at Burns and McDonnell. He has effectively managed projects in the energy industry and researched alternative energy systems for 33years.

Ben Kjelshus: Long time Green Activist, founder of the Kansas City Food Circle and coordinator of local project of the emerging national movement, Food Not Lawns.

Free and open to the public.

Free and open to the public

A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

This delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons close to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty."

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." 
--Albert Einstein