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The Earth Neighborhood TV Show -Every Monday, 8pm Charter Cable 65, 69 or 95. See There and Be Aware! Global Issues with a Local Focus! Join Host Ida Mae and see and hear all about it!
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
EVENTS
April 12- APRIL GRAND PRIX ARTWALK
- Art Car Races 6:30pm, Cars on View all day. Come on down to the
East Village to help celebrate the Long Beach Grand Prix on April
12, 2008. When the cars stop moving, things get going in the East
Village! Art Car Decoration activity throughout the evening with
new art shows in East Village Galleries and street vendors on
Linden, between 1st and Broadway. The fun starts at 4pm with music,
food and more on the street until 10pm. FREE and open to all.
Information at 562-999-6711.
ALSO At the ARTWALK!
Through April 16 -Gallery Eleven/Seven - 117 Linden Avenue PRESENTS "Piece By Piece",Mosaic Murals Created by Children, reception Sat April 12th 4:00pm-10:00pm. ROBIN BOTT displays her own mosaic work as well as mosaic murals
created by her students from Barton Elementary School in San Pedro and Island Elementary School in Wilmington, CA. The children's mosaics were produced with ROBIN at the schools.
Come view their work before they are permanently installed at their respective destinations at the condominiums and Island Elementary School. FREE.
APRIL 16- Meet The Artists Lecture with Robin Bott and Thea Robershaw - 5:30pm and 7pm at 11/7 Gallery, 117 Linden. Learn about the creative process and meet these Long Beach artists and more!
April 16th, Noon - Three Strikes
Demonstration - Governor's Office, Los Angeles, 300 S.
Spring St. The budget has big problems:
A $16 billion dollar budget shortfall and a dangerously overcrowded prison system which spends almost a billion dollars per year to house shoplifters Save billions by ending the practice of filling prisons with nonviolent offenders.
Support: The Three Strikes Reform Act of 2008
The Nonviolent Offender Act of 2008. FACTS (Families to Amend
California's Three Strikes) will be providing transportatioon from
their office. The office is located at 3982 Figueroa St., Suite
209.
April 19 - Children's Day Long
Beach - 11am -4pm At Recreation Park - Join in the
Children's Day/ Earth Day Celebration with food, entertainment, and
Earth Friendly Fun! 11am - 4pm. FREE!
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
EVENTS
May 1, 2008 - Climate One - Commonwealth Club and
General Motors HYbrid Vehicles with CEO and Chairman, Rick Wagoner
of General
Motors will be bringing 16 new hybrids to market in the next few years,including a futuristic plug-in. The Detroit automaker still doesn't like some
of California's environmental laws, but it now recognizes that climate change is a real problem to be solved. The answer, Wagoner says, is to diversify fuel
sources to include ethanol, hybrids and one day even hydrogen. Location: Fairmont Hotel, Gold Room,950 Mason St. (at California)
Time: 11:15 a.m. check-in, noon program. Cost: $15 members, $30 non-members,For more info: http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=35
May 4- EcoHouseTour
the Ecology Center's environmentally friendly
demonstration site. Learn about a broad-spectrum of simple
improvements that can be made to green an urban home. The tour
includes: Berkeley's first city-permitted wetland / greywater
system, solar panels, on-demand water heater, water saving
fixtures, natural and recycled building materials,
water catchment strategies, ducks in the city, a living roof garden, organic permaculture gardening, native drought tolerant plants, mushroom cultivation, and more. Note: The interior of the home is not included on the tour. MUST register by 5/2/08 for either the 10am or the 1pm tour. Call to register and for location. ime: Begins at 10am and at 1pm. st: $10 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Info: 510-548-2220 x242, ecohouse@ecologycenter.org, http://ecologycenter.org/.
May 10,- Recycled Bookmaking -r
students who have taken our introductory class or those familiar
with Coptic binding.
Bring your own paper materials to recycle into handmade books. (For example, office paper, envelopes, picture calendars, postcards, blueprints, birch bark, etc.) We will prepare and assemble signatures for unique, individualized Coptic-bound books, with discussion and demonstration of several other binding types: accordion, pamphlet, skewer, and stab. Besides your assorted papers, bring scissors, letter opener, ruler, small curved needle, beeswax, and cotton string. Call to register, space is limited.
Time: 10am - 1pm At Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave, near Dwight Way, Berkeley. $15 general, $10 EC members, no one turned away for lack of funds.Info: 510-548-2220 x233.
May 22, 2008 Greenprint for a New Clean
Energy Infrastructure in the East Bay-The Local Clean
Energy Alliance for the release of its "21st Century Greenprint for
the East Bay." The Greenprint charts the most effective path for
the East Bay to ramp up renewable energy production and efficiency
programs. The Alliance promotes a vision of a new clean energy
infrastructure that brings the East Bay community together by
creating hundreds of meaningful green collar jobs and powers the
way for electrified transport.
Our long term goal is for the East Bay to use 100% renewable energy. Our near term goal is 50% renewable energy by 2017 with high priority placed on local generation. The closer the Bay Area gets to 100% renewable energy, the less vulnerability to the rising costs and environmental impacts of fossil fuel and nuclear energy. Greenprint discusses the alliance's policy platform which includes:
A Community Choice energy purchasing program which will support local investment in renewable energy; Allowing homeowners with solar to sell their unused electricity; Strong incentives for homeowners to install solar, as Berkeley is now considering; Programs for neighbors to collectively purchase solar panels.Join us and find out how you can plug in and support a local clean energy future for the Bay Area!
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave, near Dwight Way, Berkeley.
Cost: Free.Info: 510-548-2220 x233.
May 18, EcoHouse Workshop: Local Medicinal
Herbs and Your Health the benefits of herbs and their use
in western herbal medicine from a practicing Bay Area herbalist.
Take an herb walk around the local community gardens and leave with
a
cutting of an easy to grow herb and tincture. We will discuss the use of herbs in health care, their growth habits, their distribution throughout the wild, and the practice methods through which medicine is extracted from them. Bring small pots and hand shovels
and leave with an easy to grow medicinal herb. Taught by Joshua Muscat, Western Herbalist. Near North Berkeley BART. RSVP via phone or email by 5:00 on 5/15/08.Time: 10am - 3pmLocation: EcoHouse, 1305 Hopkins St., (enter via garden entrance on Peralta), Berkeley.Cost: $15 (plus $5 optional materials fee), no one turned away for lack of funds.
Info: 510-548-2220 ext. 242, ecohouse@ecologycenter.org.
June 1, -HomeGreywater Systems Slideshow
& TourLearn about the permitted greywater system at
the Ecohouse. This system is the first residential constructed
wetland/greywater system in the State of California and the first
greywater system in Berkeley to be permitted. We will discuss the
principles and process of safely irrigating with shower, bathroom
sink, and laundry waste water. The workshop includes a 1 hour slide
show presentation of greywater design and the application process.
Return home with ideas and plans of your own! PRE-REGISTRATION
REQUIRED. MUST register by 5pm on 5/30/08 for either the 10am OR
the 1pm tour. Near North Berkeley BART.Time: Begins at 10am or
1pm.: $15 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of
funds.
Info: 510-548-2220 ext. 242, ecohouse@ecologycenter.org, http://ecologycenter.org/.
EARTH DAY 2008!
April 16th, tune in to the broadcast of
Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global Warming, sponsored
by Earth Day Network organized by the National Wildlife Federation
and ClimateCounts.org student-made videos, inspiring presentations
from contest winners, solution-focused discussions, and live
Q&As with people who really are changing the world
Demand that your government take bold, swift and fair action to tackle climate change.
April 22 -Earth Day Callin In the
US, be part of one million people who will call Congress
at 202 224-3121 on Earth Day, April 22, 2008. Ask for your
Representative or Senator and ask them to take tough and fair
action on climate change.
Good News For Earth
Day!
$3 Billion Solar Power Deal Signed By
California Utility
Pacific Gas & Electric just announced a deal to
buy as much as 900 megawatts of electricity. It will be enough to
power 540,000 California homes each year, and involve the
construction of five solar power plants during the next decade. The
company to build the solar-thermal power plants in the Mojave
Desert is BrightSource Energy. "From what I know, this is the
biggest commitment ever in the history of solar," said John
Woolard, BrightSource Energy's chief executive officer and
president. "It's a fairly significant undertaking on both
sides."
The Earth Neighborhood TV Show -Every Monday, 8pm Charter Cable 65, 69 or 95. See There and Be Aware! Global Issues with a Local Focus! Join Host Ida Mae and see and hear all about it!
Through April 16 -Gallery Eleven/Seven - 117 Linden Avenue PRESENTS "Piece By Piece",Mosaic Murals Created by Children, reception Sat April 12th 4:00pm-10:00pm. ROBIN BOTT displays her own mosaic work as well as mosaic murals
created by her students from Barton Elementary School in San Pedro and Island Elementary School in Wilmington, CA. The children's mosaics were produced with ROBIN at the schools.
Come view their work before they are permanently installed at their respective destinations at the condominiums and Island Elementary School. FREE.
APRIL 16- Meet The Artists Lecture with Robin Bott and Thea Robershaw - 5:30pm and 7pm at 11/7 Gallery, 117 Linden. Learn about the creative process and meet these Long Beach artists and more!
A $16 billion dollar budget shortfall and a dangerously overcrowded prison system which spends almost a billion dollars per year to house shoplifters Save billions by ending the practice of filling prisons with nonviolent offenders.
Motors will be bringing 16 new hybrids to market in the next few years,including a futuristic plug-in. The Detroit automaker still doesn't like some
of California's environmental laws, but it now recognizes that climate change is a real problem to be solved. The answer, Wagoner says, is to diversify fuel
sources to include ethanol, hybrids and one day even hydrogen. Location: Fairmont Hotel, Gold Room,950 Mason St. (at California)
Time: 11:15 a.m. check-in, noon program. Cost: $15 members, $30 non-members,For more info: http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=35
water catchment strategies, ducks in the city, a living roof garden, organic permaculture gardening, native drought tolerant plants, mushroom cultivation, and more. Note: The interior of the home is not included on the tour. MUST register by 5/2/08 for either the 10am or the 1pm tour. Call to register and for location. ime: Begins at 10am and at 1pm. st: $10 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Info: 510-548-2220 x242, ecohouse@ecologycenter.org, http://ecologycenter.org/.
Bring your own paper materials to recycle into handmade books. (For example, office paper, envelopes, picture calendars, postcards, blueprints, birch bark, etc.) We will prepare and assemble signatures for unique, individualized Coptic-bound books, with discussion and demonstration of several other binding types: accordion, pamphlet, skewer, and stab. Besides your assorted papers, bring scissors, letter opener, ruler, small curved needle, beeswax, and cotton string. Call to register, space is limited.
Time: 10am - 1pm At Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave, near Dwight Way, Berkeley. $15 general, $10 EC members, no one turned away for lack of funds.Info: 510-548-2220 x233.
Our long term goal is for the East Bay to use 100% renewable energy. Our near term goal is 50% renewable energy by 2017 with high priority placed on local generation. The closer the Bay Area gets to 100% renewable energy, the less vulnerability to the rising costs and environmental impacts of fossil fuel and nuclear energy. Greenprint discusses the alliance's policy platform which includes:
A Community Choice energy purchasing program which will support local investment in renewable energy; Allowing homeowners with solar to sell their unused electricity; Strong incentives for homeowners to install solar, as Berkeley is now considering; Programs for neighbors to collectively purchase solar panels.Join us and find out how you can plug in and support a local clean energy future for the Bay Area!
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave, near Dwight Way, Berkeley.
Cost: Free.Info: 510-548-2220 x233.
cutting of an easy to grow herb and tincture. We will discuss the use of herbs in health care, their growth habits, their distribution throughout the wild, and the practice methods through which medicine is extracted from them. Bring small pots and hand shovels
and leave with an easy to grow medicinal herb. Taught by Joshua Muscat, Western Herbalist. Near North Berkeley BART. RSVP via phone or email by 5:00 on 5/15/08.Time: 10am - 3pmLocation: EcoHouse, 1305 Hopkins St., (enter via garden entrance on Peralta), Berkeley.Cost: $15 (plus $5 optional materials fee), no one turned away for lack of funds.
Info: 510-548-2220 ext. 242, ecohouse@ecologycenter.org.
Info: 510-548-2220 ext. 242, ecohouse@ecologycenter.org, http://ecologycenter.org/.
Demand that your government take bold, swift and fair action to tackle climate change.