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A Digital Gateway with global satellite link from the WORLD PEACE GARDEN.
Bonnie Ora Sherk ©1989 - 2009 all rights reserved.

Now more than ever, we need to create positive, healing, and practical solutions for living, learning, and sharing together in our communities and on the planet. Creating A Living Library and Celebrating the Human and Ecological Garden is an innovative solution.
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Reviving SF Native Creeks

Featured in FogCityJournal.com
San Francisco, April 27, 2010
Read Article: If Moses Was a Cab Driver

Reported by Associated Press
San Francisco, April 24, 2010
Read Article: Plans Percolate to Revive Some SF Native Creeks

Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park Nature Walk/
Islais Creek Watershed

Featured in San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco, April 16, 2010
Read Article: A Watershed Moment for S.F. Creeks
Read Article: SF Gate online version

Featured in San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco, January 14, 2009
Read Article: S.F. history lesson runs through Islais Creek

Planting California Native Trees Begins Again !
Planting previously halted due to California economic crisis.

11.1.09 - Planting at St. Mary's Park with One Brick volunteers; 31 Native Trees planted. Click to view photographs.

11.5.09 - Planting at St. Mary's Park with Salesforce volunteers; 40 Native Trees planted. Click to view photographs.

12.11.09 - St. Mary's Park Planting Riparian Native Trees near Islais Creek

12.14.09 - Planting on Appleton Street with Salesforce volunteers and Junipero Serra Students. Click to view photographs.

Upcoming Living Library Nature Walk Native Tree Planting events are:

January 9 - St. Mary's Park
January 31 - St. Mary's Park
Additional dates tba (if you would like more information or to participate, please email: info@alivinglibrary.org)

Let's Frame & Green Our Islais Creek Watershed ! Click to view Flyer.
Click to view Press Advisory.
11 & 12.08 - Planting days in Holly Park were a huge success ! Over 200 children and adults participated. Click to view photographs.

For more events and announcements, click here.

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Branch Living Library & Think Parks:

Each unique Branch Living Library & Think Park systemically links and incorporates the local resources: human, ecological, economic, historic, technological, and aesthetic - seen through the lens of time - past, present, and future.

SAN FRANCISCO
In San Francisco, we work with over 900 children and youth each month.

Bernal Heights and OMI/Excelsior
Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park and OMI / Excelsior Living Library & Think Park are located in the Islais Creek Watershed.

We have an extraordinary opportunity to Frame the Islais Creek Watershed and develop A Living Library Culture - Ecology - Technology - Native Riparian / Uplands Transit Corridors that will link 9 communities in Southeastern and Southwestern San Francisco.
View Islais Creek Watershed Map Opportunity
View Islais Creek Watershed Narrative

Bernal Heights	OMI/Excelsior

Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park	OMI / Excelsior Living Library & Think Park

Chinatown

Chinatown Living Library & Think Park

View Video Footage Shot by Branch Living Library Children in San Francisco.

© Autumn 2005 Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library. All Rights Reserved.

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NEW YORK CITY

Roosevelt Island Living Library & Think Park

By discovering and celebrating our diversity and commonalities through ecological development of a global network of Branch Living Libraries, we will be closer to creating and sustaining world peace and prosperity for all species on Earth.
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Books about A Living Library
Articles by Bonnie Ora Sherk on A Living Library
A.L.L. Interdisciplinary Standards-Based Curriculum: Pre K-12

View Evolution of Life Frames, a film that chronicles the development of A Living Library and Life Frames, and the early work of Bonnie Ora Sherk.

© 2002 Bonnie Ora Sherk. All Rights Reserved.

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San Francisco, California 94110 - phone/fax: 415-206-9710
New York, New York 10014 - phone/fax 212-242-1700
info@alivinglibrary.org

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