Here's a very cool and creative idea. A rolling climate briefing that takes its participants 300 miles to D.C. to meet with their Congressional representatives. Brita is sponsoring the bike tour, which goes from September 26–30th. ...
Photo Credit: Sergio Carratalá
Although we missed the actions Barcelona’s
Summercase Festival took last year to green their music events (reusable cups, recycling schemes, LED lighting, etc.), two singers really got their message across at this year’s
Primavera Sound Festival. On the Saturday,
Neil Young performed Fork in the Road in front of 30.000 fans, telling the story of his journey in the converted energy-efficient 1959 Lincoln Continental. Read more about the Canadian musician’s ‘
Make a Neil Young video’ project. On Sunday,
Kimya Dawson, known as the one half of The Moldy Peaches, surprised Barcelona with a wonderful gig in the park, good-humouredly singing her socially-conscious songs for kids of all ages....
This week the seventh edition of
Ecocity & Industry, a fair all around the environmental future of industry and cities, is held in Barcelona, Spain. It is all about waste management and recycling, air quality monitoring, renewable energies and urban cleaning....
Image via: Flickr.com
Martine, soap-maker and founder of
Ruby Red Cosmetics is offering a series of soap-making classes in her studio/kitchen in London going on now. Students can learn not only how to make soap, but also discover what makes some soap smoother and silkier than others....
Images via Hay Festival
The Hay Festival, taking place this weekend, is one of the most respected literary and ideas festival in the world. Each year it plays host to great minds, writers, poets, and musicians who are creating inspiring work. Think of it as a low key version of
TED in the green Welsh countryside rather than on the golden Californian coast. This year for the second year running, alongside it's usual programme, the Hay Festival is hosting
Hay on Earth, a programme of workshops dedicated to developing practical sustainable solutions for
Wales. Click through to find out what's on......
Matt Dillon, Carter Coleman, Dorjee Sun at Annual ARC Benefit. Credit: Matthew McMullan Smith
This year’s 18th Annual Artists for Africa Benefit Gala held at Donna Karan's
Urban Zen Center at the Stephan Weiss Studio in New York City on May 20, 2009, brought eco-activist and
Carbon Conservation CEO Dorjee Sun,
Sustainable Obtainable Solutions (SOS) Director Gloria Flora, and actor and Advisory Board member
Matt Dillon out in support of the
African Rainforest Conservancy (ARC), a non for profit working to promote the conservation and restoration of African
rainforests by empowering local men, women, and children, to preserve their natural heritage for present and future generations. The event honored Dorjee Sun, a young entrepreneur with a plan to end the devastation of forests globally. With a live auction by
Sotheby’s, all raised funds will support ARC’s mission.
View party pictures and find out what blue spotted-species was named after the night’s honoree in our slideshow:
Artists & Activists Unite at ARC's Annual Artists for Africa Benefit in NYC.
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EPA Potomac Yard Conference Center, Arlington, VA Image credit:
BuildingGreen.com
It was good news for Earthlings when the Environmental Protection Agency recently ruled that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants endanger public health and therefore must be regulated by the Clean Air Act. It was a bold and necessary first step toward tackling climate change, and proof that President Obama and his administration get the big picture when it comes to a clean energy future.
The EPA ruling isn't a done-deal, however, so I want to suggest three things you can do to make it so, and to support Obama in what will be a series of climate-change related decisions in the coming year...
The
Australian Youth Climate Coalition is on a mission: to build a generation-wide movement to solve the climate crisis, through uniting diverse youth organisations around this common challenge.
And as a physical manifestation of this goal they’re organising the Power Shift event, which will come to Sydney on 11-13 July 2009. It will be Australia’s first national youth climate summit and is quite some occasion. Aised from the usual plethora of presentations and keynote addresses there will also be training workshops in community organising and leadership development; a National Green Jobs Fair, an evening music concert with Australian performers.
One unusual aspect of the event is the Ride2Power event....
photo: Bonnaroo
For tons of adoring fans out there,
Bonnaroo is the quintessential music festival. When I was in college at the University of Georgia Bonnaroo was a huge deal. As word continues to spread, more and more fans make the annual pilgrimage to beautiful Manchester, Tenn., to see their favorite bands. The festival has always been known for its waste reduction initiatives and green aspirations. This year, however, organizers are making an even bigger effort to live up to their 2008 award for "Outstanding Green Festival."...
Image via: Getty Images
June 5 & 6 at
The Ketelhuis Cinema in Amsterdam you can get your fill of environmental flicks, interviews with directors and even a few world premieres, as the
first environmental film festival comes to
Amsterdam this spring. Besides getting an eco-education, your money also supports a really cool local project. Keeping reading to find out more....
Photo via www.mountainjusticesummer.org/
Dig the great outdoors and environmental activism? If yes, come to the fifth annual Mountain Justice Summer Camp, starting next weekend (Sunday May 17) in the beautiful mountains of southern West Virginia....
Morris Dancing in Oxford, via wikipedia
May Day doesn't get a lot of play in North America, having become too closely identified with Commies (Congress renamed it
Loyalty Day in 1958 to celebrate " the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States" ) but it in fact has green roots, celebrating the completion of seeding of the fields, springtime fertility and giving the farmworkers a day off after all their hard work.
So happy May Day to our international readers, and Happy Loyalty Day to those in America! Celebrate it with Freedom Fries!...
Last week,
Construmat, the leading construction fair held in Barcelona, Spain, every two years, attracted some 153,000 visitors. Amongst the most interesting works exhibited was the
Casa Barcelona,an innovative, social and sustainable housing proposal....
Here is a Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Just about everyone has small change kicking around the house, and it's such a pain to separate it all, roll it and take it to the bank. But they are trying something new in two Ontario cities for the next three days:
Change for the Environment, where you bring in your change to any of dozens of stores accepting donations, and they will spend it all on the environment....
There was lots of green consumerism at the Green Living Show, but also people representing green non-profits of all kinds. Like the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment: Thousands of Doctors who work together to "educate physicians on environmental issues, providing them with both accurate information and a framework for thinking about environmental problems." They are concerned about Ecosystem Health, Human Health and Sustainable Development. ...
If you happen to be passing by the State Department today around 12:45pm-1:30pm, or after reading this decide to intentionally stop by to lend your voice, you'll be greeted by a sea of green-hardhat-wearing campaigners calling for a environmentally focused economy and a binding global climate treaty. Climate advocacy groups will host a Green Economy Construction Zone outside the State Department on today Monday, April 27 during a meeting of the world’s 17 largest economies working in collaboration to mitigate climate change. ...
It is
Arbor Day today in much of the USA. Nebraska journalist Sterling Morton advocated tree planting to keep soil in place, act as windbreaks and provide fuel and building materials. In 1872 he promoted a tree planing holiday; in 1874 it was proclaimed by the Governor of Nebraska and Morton's birthday, April 22, was selected as the day of observance. Now it is celebrated in most states on the last Friday in April (it varies according to climate) and has pretty much been overshadowed by Earth Day, which has also co-opted the April 22 date. So go out and plant a tree and remember Sterling Morton's words:
Each generation takes the earth as trustees.
See also:
Today is National Arbor Day!...
Construmat, one of the biggest construction trade fairs in Europe, held this week in Barcelona, Spain, has chosen sustainable construction as one of the main remedies to successfully tackle the crisis in the sector this year, as well as other challenges of the future....
(Some human pedal power mixed with falafel oil to power up Balkan Beat Box tonight)
This year Israel was caught with its pants down and instead of participating in
Earth Hour, which Tel Aviv did so terrifically last year, the country was busy watching an "important" soccer match between Israel and Greece instead. Making good on
Earth Day this year tonight Israelis will celebrate with an hour of lights out in cities throughout the country.
The most fun will be a free used falafel oil powered concert, along with some human pedal action, tonight at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
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