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2011 San Francisco Green Film Festival Preview

Mar 2

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San Francisco Green Film Festival 2011 Trailer from SF Green Film Festival on Vimeo.

Bag It Intro Preview of Opening Night Screening Premier at the San Francisco Green Film Festival.

1st San Francisco Green Film Festival Opening Night Gala
Thursday March 3, 2011

San Fancisco – March 2, 2011 Wednesday, March 3rd marks the launch of San Francisco’s newest, ‘greenest’ Arts event, the San Francisco Green Film Festival. Following the Bay Area Premiere screening of “Bag It,” festival filmmakers and special guests will mix and mingle at the beautiful Bently Reserve. Attendees will enjoy local sustainable savories and sweets courtesy of local restaurants and food purveyors; sample local wine, beer and zingy cocktails; take in art from Recology and Surfrider Foundation; and dance the night away to Brazilian samba funk from the Bay Area’s Tropicali!

The San Francisco Green Film Festival Opening Night is presented in partnership with the Plastic Pollution Coalition, a global alliance of individuals, organizations, and businesses working together to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals, and the environment.

EVENT DETAILS

7:00PM ~ “Bag It” Premiere
Landmark Theatres Embarcadero Center Cinema
One Embarcadero Center, Promenade Level

9:00pm-Midnight ~ Green Carpet Gala
Bently Reserve
301 Battery Street
(across from the Cinema at the Promenade Level).

To find out more information or purchase tickets, visit www.sfgreenfilmfest.org.

Guests must be 21 or over to attend. Festive attire is appropriate.

All proceeds benefit the programs of the San Francisco Green Film Festival – linking film and media arts with environmental action and advocacy to build a greener future.

Opening night sponsors include: Plastic Pollution Coalition | Tropicali| Blue Heron Catering | One Big Fish Green Events | Aidells Sausage Company | Bison Brewing Company | Chilayo | Choice Catering | Eel River Brewing Company | Frey Vineyards | Mixt Greens | Pretzel Crisps | Save Our Young Culinary Academy | Specialty’s Cafe & Bakery | Straus Family Creamery | Trinity Oaks | Veev

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ABOUT THE FILM ”BAG IT”:
Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes, disposable bags that they throw away without much thought. But where is “away”? Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to the environment, marine life, and human health? “Bag It” follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. What he learns quickly grows far beyond plastic bags…  http://www.bagitmovie.com/

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California Law to Curb Greenhouse Gases Faces a Legal Hurdle

Feb 7

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“SAN FRANCISCO — California’s landmark law on curbing greenhouse gases, which is well on its way to taking effect, has hit a legal snag in the form of a tentative judicial ruling that state environmental regulators failed to follow legally required procedures.

Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith of San Francisco Superior Court issued a tentative opinion — a rarely used procedure that gives the prospective loser in the case a chance to make new arguments or take new actions before a final decision — saying that the rules creating a cap-and-trade system were adopted without proper analysis of alternatives.”

California Law to Curb Greenhouse Gases Faces a Legal Hurdle via Felicity Barringer – New York Times Environment

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Environmental fund helps make fisheries sustainable

Jan 21

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“The Environmental Defense Fund is expanding its fisheries lending program by partnering with banks, starting with San Francisco’s New Resource Bank.

The California Fisheries Fund, EDF’s fisheries loan program, formed in 2008, targets fisheries that need money to shift to more sustainable fishing practices.”

Environmental fund helps make fisheries sustainable via Lidsay Ridell – San Francisco Business Times

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Fighting Prop. 23 One Phone Call at a Time

Oct 18

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Fighting Prop. 23 One Phone Call at a Time via The LA Times

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A Model Neighbor — 2010 Design in Excellence Awards

Oct 18

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A Model Neighbor – 2010 Design in Excellence Awards via Environmental Design and Construction Magazine

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San Francisco Bay Top-Tier Film Festival to Feature Origany Apparel

Oct 8

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SAN FRANCISCO-October 5, 2010 Origany®, organic clothing company for babies and toddlers, is a sponsor of the 33rd Annual Mill Valley Film Festival, held in Mill Valley, California north of San Francisco. In addition to sponsoring the festival and supporting the Children’s Film Festival, Origany is providing custom designed 400 pima organic cotton t-shirts for festival volunteers.

Origany was chosen by the organizers of the festival because they wanted a local, eco-friendly company to produce their volunteer t-shirts. This is a great honor for Origany, according to Founder and CEO, Raj Sardesh. “We are also very proud to be associated with the Children’s Film Festival that will showcase some innovative new children’s movies with speak-along subtitles, where we will be raffling off an outfit,” said Sardesh.  ”We believe that Mill Valley and surrounding bay area parents are very eco-friendly and thus we wanted to associate ourselves with the festival,” Sardesh adds.

As part of the sponsorship, Origany staff will be in the Hospitality Suite at the festival where retailers and consumers can meet them. Origany will also offer a limited duration special coupon code to festival attendees.

The Mill Valley Film Festival will run from October 7 – 17.  The Film Festival features a retrospective of Edward Norton and Annette Bening this year and will premiere many feature, short and documentary films. For more information on the festival, visit www.mvff.com

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About Origany, Inc.

Origany, Inc is a company that prides itself as one that is focusing on environmentally conscious clothing and accessories made from organic cotton and other eco-friendly materials. They call it “Clothing Made Organic by Nature.”

Origany holds a belief that today’s parents view their environment as well as fashion in a “green” context. Green has become the new black! To be Green, parents feel that they do not need to, nor do they want to, give up on the colors, the designs or the super soft feel of the clothes they are used to putting on their kids.

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