09 June 2011
Written by Bill McKibben for the Washington Post - May 23, 2011
Narrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia
26 May 2011
Thank you for a wonderful Spring!
Click on the snapshot image above to see photos from San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle Green Festivals.
Summer is approaching and Green Festival is gearing up for another fun Festival Fall! Green Festival will visit New York October 1-2, Los Angeles October 29-30 and San Francisco November 12-13, so mark your calendars now!
24 May 2011
David Korten
Thank you Alisa Gravitz for the generous introduction and for another magnificent Green Festival. A new economy is essential the human future—and the Green Festivals define its leading edge in thought and action.
Note that during my presentation Kat Gjovik and Fran Korten will be passing around sign-up sheets for the David Korten and YES! Magazine e-mail newsletters. The David Korten newsletter will keep you up to date on my activities and thinking. The YES! newsletter will keep you up to date on all the many powerful ideas and practical actions that are shaping a positive human future throughout the United States and the world.
We live in an interesting time. Whether it turns out to be a curse or a blessing depends on us. As you may have heard, today is a special day—Rapture Day. This is the day the chosen are lifted from Earth, from this life, to go to an afterlife in a faraway place of peace and plenty to live in loving relationship free from hunger, want, disease and violence. A beautiful vision.
22 May 2011
Green Festival continues today at Qwest with Amy Goodman, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and more. Watch this exclusive interview with John Perkins for a preview of Rep. Kucinich's speech at Green Festival today.
20 May 2011
Come to Seattle Green Festival this weekend at Qwest Event Center and choose which sustainable, forward-thinking idea you want to win a $5,000 Community Green Grant from Ford! Your vote could be the deciding factor in who wins, so come to Green Festival this weekend, support these innovative, local nonprofits and vote!
At Chicago Green Festival last weekend,1455 Green Festival attendees voted, and the difference between first and second place was a mere 6 votes!The Chicago Green Festival Community Green Grant winner was the ScienceFIST foundation in partnership with Hanson Park School. Their project will install a handicap accessible vegetable garden for Hanson Park students to run. All vegetables grown will be distributed to local food cart vendors.
In a memorable moment that truly embodies the Green Festival community spirit, ScienceFIST founder Marc Hans decides to split the grant with all of the finalists:
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