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The Most Important Things You Can Do To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Oct 26

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Reducing your carbon footprint is do-able; it’s about making changes in how you live your day-to-day life. Even small changes, like reducing the amount of driving you do, can make a huge impact in the environment.

Yogi Times polled experts of all ages in the field of green living and sustainability to bring you some tips for how to make your life and the planet a little greener.

Live in Los Angeles?  You can meet all of these experts and hear them speak at the Green Festival, the largest sustainability event in the nation, taking in place in Los Angeles, California, October 29th and 30th, 2011.

The Most Important Things You Can Do To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint via Sarah Forman / Los Angeles Green Festival Speakers – Yogi Times

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Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead

Oct 24

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Oct. 29-30: The Green Festival includes do-it-yourself workshops, films and a marketplace of green businesses and organizations. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 29, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 30. $10 to $15.  Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall G, 1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles.

Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead via Los Angeles Times

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Naturepedic Shows Award-Winning Baby & Kids Organic Mattresses and Bedding at L.A. Green Festival October 29-30

Oct 24

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smarquardt@onthemarkpr.com

Cleveland, Ohio (October 24, 2011) – Chagrin Falls, Ohio-based Naturepedic, the only baby and children’s bed and bedding company in the U.S. certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), is proudly exhibiting at the Green Festival in Los Angeles, CA, October 29-30. The company will display its award-winning certified organic cotton mattresses for babies and children, mattress pads, sheets, pillows and changing pads in booth 669 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. GOTS certification requires the use of organic fibers, and prohibits use of hazardous materials.

“Californians lead the way in searching out the most environmentally-friendly products and Naturepedic offers the most environmentally-friendly baby bed and bedding products in the U.S., so we wanted to be sure to be at this event,” said Barry A. Cik, Naturepedic Technical Director.

Naturepedic uses organic cotton filling grown in Texas, and manufactures all its mattress and bedding products at its facility in Chagrin Falls, just outside Cleveland. Consumers can be assured that the primarily Amish staff is meticulous in providing the utmost in quality.

In addition to organic cotton quilted mattress surfaces, Naturepedic offers waterproofing on their children’s mattresses using food-grade polyethylene (which meets FDA food-contact standards).

Baby Bargains, the best-selling guide to baby products, rated Naturepedic’s Lightweight Mattresses the “#1 Top Pick” of all crib mattresses on the market in its most recent edition. In addition, Naturepedic has won numerous awards for its wide range of high quality products .The mattresses and mattress accessories are available not only online at www.naturepedic.com, but also from mainstream retailers as well as numerous baby boutiques.

Los Angeles is Naturepedic’s third largest hub in terms of sales after New York and Boston, with retailers including Beginnings, Jenny Bec’s, Sid & Me, The Little Seed, Tiny World, Wonderland and others.

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*Visit Naturepedic at booth #669 at Los Angeles Green Festival! To keep up with Naturepedic news, visit https://www.facebook.com/naturepediccribmattress

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Hip-Hop Musical with an Environmental Twist to Perform at Los Angeles Green Festival

Oct 20

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Pacha’s Pajamas: A Story Written by Nature Announces Live Performance Halloween Weekend

Los Angeles, CA (October 20, 2011) — Pacha’s Pajamas: A Story Written by Nature, a hip-hop musical story about a little girl named Pacha who saves the environment with the help of the world’s plants and animals, will take to the stage Saturday, October 29 at 1:00 pm at Los Angeles Green Festival’s Halloween weekend celebration. The live storytelling and musical youth workshop and performance led by Pacha’s Pajamas creators BALANCE Edutainment and an up-and-coming local youth star, takes place in Green Festival’s Green Kids’ Zone at the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall G. All children are invited to wear their Halloween costumes and dance along with the Pacha’s Pajamas costumed performers.

Pacha’s Pajamas: A Story Written by Nature is both a children’s book (www.amazon.com and www.pachaspajamas.com) and an upcoming hip-hop musical album, designed to bring music and storytelling together to share important messages about the environment and inspire positive action. The new album features well-known, soon-to-be-announced musical artists and talented youth.

“We believe that catalyzing change can happen in a fun way through socially-conscious music, stories about interdependence and by amplifying the voices of children,” said Aaron Ableman, musician, educator and co-founder of BALANCE Edutainment, the creator of Pacha’s Pajamas.

“Nature’s Rights is an issue that Pacha’s Pajamas aims to popularize through a message of unity across species, honoring the planet upon which humanity depends. We are thrilled to share Pacha’s story with the Green Festival and all the youth movements around the world!”

The Green Festival Green Kids’ Zone includes crafts, Halloween adventures, stories, music and much more throughout the weekend. Green Festival is an eco-friendly marketplace with over 300 exhibitors, live music and spoken word, yoga and movement classes and cutting edge film screenings. Ten stages and pavilions host more than 125 enthusiastic speakers and teachers offering in-depth presentations and short talks on the issues and practices for adults and children of all ages.

In addition to the Green Festival performance, the BALANCE Edutainment team will be making live appearances to perform the story and songs from the Pacha’s Pajamas ebook and album throughout the United States this fall and through 2012.  For more information, please visit www.pachaspajamas.com or www.balanceedutainment.com.

About BALANCE Edutainment, LLC

BALANCE Edutainment, LLC, is an Oakland, Calif.-based company that creates cause-related entertainment products—books, musical CDs, iPhone apps and more. Their debut products, Pacha’s Pajamas: A Story Written by Nature book and album, are the brainchild of BALANCE co-founders Aaron Ableman, an accomplished musician and educator, and Dave Room, a deep ecologist and social entrepreneur. BALANCE’s aim with Pacha’s Pajamas and future products is to educate children and the masses in a fun and entertaining way about important environmental and social issues. A portion of the proceeds from BALANCE Edutainment will be donated to aligned organizations.

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Documentary – "Revenge of the Electric Car" – Premiers this Weekend in LA & NY

Oct 18

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"Revenge of the Electric Car" premieres this weekend in Los Angeles and New York

From the director of Who Killed the Electric Car? a brand new documentary – Revenge of the Electric Car, begins its national theatrical rollout next week starting October 21 in LA and NY and then in 20+ cities over the next month (see list below).

If you’re in Los Angeles, attend the opening week launch at Landmark’s NuArt and the Opening Weekend Airstream Lounge Party!

Opening Week Screenings
11272 Santa Monica Blvd, West LA, CA 90025

Fri–Sat-Sun: 12:30 PM, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 (Oct. 21-23)
Mon-Thurs: 5:10 PM, 7:30, 9:50 (Oct. 24-27)

Tickets available now via this site:
http://revengeoftheelectriccar.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=094f2b34316e08f2846844561&id=6f749a0071&e=495d666b4a

Opening Weekend Airstream Lounge Party
Sat-Sun: 2PM – 10PM

To support Revenge of the Electric Car in its opening weekend in LA on October 22-23, electric cars from the movie will be setting up shop in a vintage Airstream around the corner from the NuArt Theater at 11323 Idaho Avenue. The Airstream Lounge is the all weekend drop-in cast and crew party for friends, media makers and well-wishers. Come on by anytime from 2:30PM to 9:30PM to say hello to Gadget, Scarlett and other stars from the team, check out the EVs (Tesla, Leaf, Volt and Porsche), and hang out between screenings

 So far, screenings will occur with Causecast, Bioneers, GADA, LA Burning Man, the Black Rock Yearbook, Plugin America and Global Green.  If your group would like to co-host a public screening at the NuArt (or anywhere else during run of theater),  sign up via the Revenge of the Electric Car Facebook Page.

Also, Revenge of the Electric Car was recipient of an award for best documentary at the 21st annual Environmental Media Awards this past weekend!

For sneak peaks, commentary, reviews, screenings and more, visit http://www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com/

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Ford Motor Company and Green Festival to Award Community Green Grant in Los Angeles, San Francisco

Oct 14

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“Do you live in or near Los Angeles or San Francisco? Do you have a great sustainable idea? Do you need a grant to possibly make it happen? Can you articulate that idea in 500 or less words? Well, theFord Motor Company and Green Festival have teamed up to award a grant to a sustainable idea. That idea could very well be yours.

The partnership will award a $5,000 Community Green Grant during the up and coming  Los Angeles and San Francisco Green Festivals. That’s a $5,000 Grant for an idea at each of the cities Green Festivals.

The idea can be almost anything, from almost anybody. Recipients could be a non-profit or an individual. The idea can be really big, or really small. The idea just has to be “original, innovative and capable of being implemented in your local community.”’

Ford Motor Company and Green Festival to Award Community Green Grant in Los Angeles, San Francisco via Jonathan Mariano - Triple Pundit

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Occupy LA Updates – LA City Council Votes to Support Occupy LA

Oct 14

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“On Wednesday, October 12th, the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution in support of Occupy LA activists who have been growing in numbers the past two weeks.  Large numbers of activists have been on the grounds of the LA City Hall daily and hundreds of tents house those who are camping there at night.”

Occupy LA Updates – LA City Council Votes to Support Occupy LA via Office of the Americas

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New California law will limit bisphenol A in products for infants and toddlers

Oct 13

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“In a move that will in effect ban a chemical called bisphenol A (BPA) from being used in baby bottles and toddler cups manufactured or sold in California, a bill known as the Toxin-Free Infants and Toddlers Act (AB 1319) was signed into law Tuesday night by Governor Jerry Brown.

A number of Oakland-based parents’ groups and environmental organizations were supporters of the bill, including Making our Milk Safe (MOMS), the Center for Environmental Health (CEH), and the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which has its California office in Oakland.  Mary Brune, MOMS project director, called the signing of AB 1319 a victory for California parents.  “We have voices.  We have power,” she said.

BPA, which is found in many plastic food and beverage containers, is considered an endocrine disruptor, which means that it can act like an artificial hormone when it enters the human body, according to a 2008 National Toxicology Program brief that examined the effects of BPA exposures on human health, reproduction, and development.  In that report, the group concluded that there was “some concern for effects on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and children at current human exposures to bispohenol A.”

Read the rest of the story by Megan Molteni at Oakland North.

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GREEN FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY IN SAN FRANCISCO

Oct 11

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CONTACT:
SAEGERMEDIAGROUP, Inc.
Katy Saeger
katy@saegermediagroup.com
310.935.3883

Green Festival celebrates 10 years in San Francisco November 12-13, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO - The nation’s premier green living event returns to San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center November 12-13, 2011. This year, Green Festival celebrates a ten-year milestone with over one million attendees in eight cities.

This unique experience celebrates positive solutions working in our communities.  It’s where people come to meet renowned authors, actors, visionaries and community leaders; shop with hundreds of green businesses; participate in DIY workshops; enjoy live music and local vegan and vegetarian cuisine; and join friends at the organic beer and wine garden.

San Francisco leaders are supporting the 10th anniversary.  According to Mayor Edwin M. Lee,   “I applaud Green Festival on its tenth anniversary of bringing together key environmental thought leaders and the best in green economy innovations.” Supervisor John Avalos of the Board of Supervisors commented, “We welcome Green Festival back to San Francisco, it’s a great event to bring your families.”

Ten stages and pavilions will host more than 125 inspirational and educational speakers, including Amy Goodman, Rev Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus, John Perkins, Frances Moore Lappe, Laura Flanders, Mark Hertsgaard, Anuradha Mittal, Q’orianka Kilcher, John Robbins, Jeffrey Smith, and a special tribute to Wangari Maathai.

With the holiday season just around the corner, Green Festival is the perfect location to support local businesses all in one location.  The Green Marketplace profiles hundreds of green and socially responsible businesses and organizations. Attendees browse everything from green, non-toxic home furnishings to organic clothing to Fair Trade gifts, children’s toys and much more.

“By bringing together all the parts of the next economy—the green economy—the Green Festivals follow the core principle of Mother Nature: unity of diversity,” says Green Festival co-founder Kevin Danaher. “Instead of waiting for elites to reform the economy from the top down, we are constructing a new economic model from the grassroots up.”

“Whether you go to shop, learn, or experience art and music, Green Festival has it all, it’s a great place to celebrate what’s working in our communities and find the sustainable solutions that fit your lifestyle,” says Denise Hamler, Green Festival Director.

Green Festival offers something for the entire family. Peruse the latest in earth-friendly fashions. View socially and environmentally impactful film shorts at the Sierra Club Green Cinema. Learn by doing at hands-on DIY workshops and gain practical green tips you can apply to your everyday life. Empower your inner entrepreneur with Green Business Seminars and find your next green career at the Green Career Resource Center.

With special performances by Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company, Evelie Delino Sales Posch with the Spiral Dance Chorus and Band, Banana Slug String Band, Valerie Orth, David Young and DJ Sister Yasmin.

Check out the latest in all-electric and hybrid transportation at the Ford Pavilion and enjoy a test drive right at the Green Festival.  Join Ford in celebrating social and environmental innovation in the community and vote for the finalists who will win a $5,000 Ford Community Green Grant.

A joint project of Green America and Global Exchange, Green Festival is a non-profit 501c3 event to explore and build sustainable solutions for successful communities and a healthier environment.

Engage with Green Festivals online at www.GreenFestivals.org.

Connect with Green Festival on Facebook and Twitter @GreenFestival.

Sign up for the Green Festival Newsletter at www.greenfestivals.org/newsletter for program updates and giveaway opportunities.

Become a Green Festival volunteer and get free admission volunteer@greenfestivals.org.

Green Festival Partners make the event possible: Clif Bar, Ford Motor, Renewal by Anderson, Ben and Jerry’s, New York Times, O Organics/Bright Green, New Resource Bank, Earth Balance,  BRITA, Calvert, Consumer Reports, DotGreen, Essentia, Four Green Steps, Green Bash, Manitoba Harvest, Numi Tea, Zu-Kay, Book Publishing Company, and Democracy Now.

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About Green America

Green America is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1982, providing the economic strategies, organizing power and practicing tools for businesses and individuals to address today’s social and environmental problems. Its Green Business Network is the largest national network of businesses screened for their social and environmental responsibility.  www.greenamericatoday.org

About Global Exchange

Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Since its founding in 1988, Global Exchange has successfully increased public awareness of root causes of injustice while building international partnerships and mobilizing for change. www.globalexchange.org

About Seven-Star, Inc.

Seven-Star, Inc. is the nation’s premier green full-service event company focusing exclusively on green events. Since 1999, Seven-Star has provided turn-key green event services for environmentally responsible and socially respectful (eR/sR) festivals, trade and consumer expositions, conferences and concerts. Events include the greening of the 2007 International Live Earth events, 2008 Democratic National Convention events, and Green Festivals. Seven-Star is the first event company to win the EPA’s Gold Waste Wise Award for Excellence in recognition for their proprietary system of event waste diversion, which has consistently achieved greater than 92%.www.sevenstarevents.com

San Francisco 2011 Green Festival Program Highlights:

  • Eco-Fashion Showcase
  • Sustainable Home and Garden Pavilion
  • Do-It-Yourself Workshops
  • Green Kids’ Zone
  • Green Business Pavilion
  • Green Jobs and Careers
  • Green Investing
  • Green Building Pavilion
  • Renewable Energy
  • Beer and Wine Pavilion
  • Organic Local Food
  • Ford Pavilion
  • Fair Trade Pavilion
  • Community Action Pavilion
  • Acoustic Music Café
  • Sierra Club Green Cinema
  • Youth Programs
  • Zero-waste Tour

San Francisco Green Festival

November 12-13

Saturday, 10 am – 7 pm

Sunday, 11 am – 6 pm

Concourse Exhibition Center

8th Street at Brannan, San Francisco

Pricing:

$10 all access weekendpass (online) with two gifts.

$10 day at the door

$15 weekend at the door

Green Festival Fan Package  – weekend pass for 2 — $48 (online) with gifts or $55 (at door)

Free Admission:
 Youth under 18, seniors, union members, cyclists (with use of bike valet), volunteers and Green America and Global Exchange members.

Event contact: June Brashares

Event phone contact: 415-425-3733

Event email contact: june@greenfestivals.org

Second Event Contact: Bryan Ting

Second Event phone contact: 925-788-7797

Second Event email contact: bryan.ting@greenfestivals.org

Event category: green, family, festival, education, expo

Ongoing Event (y or n)  Y – annual event

Short Event Description:

Green Festival, the nation’s largest and most trusted green living event returns to San Francisco for its 10th year on November 12-13, 2011. This unique experience celebrates positive solutions working in our communities. Festivities include presentations by more than 125 renowned authors and inspiring visionaries, DIY workshops, cutting-edge films, enriching kid’s and youth activities, organic beer and wine, delicious organic vegan and vegetarian cuisine, music and art and an amazing marketplace of hundreds of green local and national businesses and organizations.

Shorter Event Description:

Green Festival, the nation’s largest, most trusted green living event returns to San Francisco for its 10th year on November 12-13, 2011.  Meet and hear renowned authors and  inspiring visionaries. Participate in DIY workshops. Enjoy films, fun kid’s activities, organic vegan & vegetarian cuisine, local beer & wine, music & art and a diverse marketplace of green businesses & organizations.

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Electric Car Drivers to Stage Country’s Largest Plug-in Parade on First National Plug In Day

Oct 11

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20 Cities Coast-to-Coast Stage Activities for Largest Grassroots EV Event in History

WHAT: Some 200 EV drivers will take to the streets for the country’s largest-ever plug-in parade to champion the benefits of EVs. Parade in Santa Monica, CA is the flagship event of the first National Plug In Day, taking place in more than 20 cities across the country where EV owners and interested citizens will participate in other parades, “tailpipe-free” tailgate parties, lectures, a ceremonial plugging-in and other grassroots events. For a complete list of national Plug In Day cities and event details, visit: http://www.pluginamerica.org/pluginday

New and legacy plug-in vehicles by GM, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Toyota, SMART, Ford, Tesla, Coda and others will be driven in the flagship parade through downtown Santa Monica. Director Chris Paine, whose film, “Revenge of the Electric Car,” will hit theatres across the country on October 21st, is among confirmed speakers at the press conference preceding the parade. For parade details, visit http://www.pluginamerica.org/pluginday/los-angeles

QUOTE: “Only a few years ago, major automakers were literally crushing electric cars. Today, virtually every auto company in the world is selling or developing a plug-in car, and consumers are snapping up each and every one, stimulating our economy while helping the environment. You’ll see hundreds of these vehicles in National Plug In Day activities. And remember: EVs are powered by domestic electricity, so every cent we spend to run them stays in America,” says Plug In America co-founder and Sierra Club member Paul Scott.

WHEN: Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011: 9:30 a.m. press conference; 10 a.m. parade

WHERE:
·       Press Conference: Santa Monica City Hall, 1685 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90401.
·       Parade: Starting from Main Street and Pico Boulevard, two blocks from Santa Monica City Hall press conference.

PHOTO OPP: 200 PLUG-IN VEHICLES STREAMING DOWN ONE OF SANTA MONICA’S MAIN THOROUGHFARES. B-ROLL WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE.

WHO: Plug In America is organizing the flagship National Plug In Day parade in Santa Monica. Plug In America, the Sierra Club and the Electric Auto Association are national organizers, teaming up with other local groups across the country to organize events.

Local sponsors: Title Sponsor of the National Plug In Day Flagship Event: Chevy Volt; Nissan Leaf, Recargo, Leviton, Collaborative Project Consulting.

About Plug In America: Plug In America is leading the nation’s plug-in vehicle movement. The nonprofit organization works to accelerate the shift to plug-in vehicles powered by clean, affordable, domestic electricity to reduce our nation’s dependence on petroleum and improve the global environment. We drive electric. You can, too. www.pluginamerica.org.

About the Sierra Club: The Sierra Club is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization with 1.4 million members and supporters and chapters in all 50 states.  The Sierra Club’s national electric vehicles campaign advocates for a switch to EVs as one important way to reduce emissions and cut our addiction to oil. www.sierraclub.org/ev.

About the Electric Auto Association: The Electric Auto Association, formed in 1967, is a nonprofit educational organization with 75 chapters worldwide that promotes the advancement and widespread adoption of electric vehicles. www.electricauto.org.
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