“Green Festival inspires and promotes the connection between change and sustainable progress for people, communities and businesses. Speakers include: Amy Goodman, The Fabulous Beekman Boys, Sylvia Mendez, Zakiya Harris, Ahmed Rahim, Beth Greer, Zhena Muzyka and others. Visit www.greenfestivals.org for more information.”
OMG, It’s Time Once Again for the San Francisco Green Festival, April 9-10, 2011 – Get Your Tickets Now via SF Citizen
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.
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/
Oct 23
D.C. Green Festival Arrives by Cherri Sinclair via NBC Washington
Washington, D.C. — September 14, 2010 Gold Star Honeybees paid a recent visit to the White House at the request of the “First Beekeeper,” Charlie Brandts, to tour their facilities, learn about bee-keeping at the White House and share their extensive knowledge of natural bee-keeping.
“We love the First Bees and their beekeeper! Charlie gave us a tour of the White House, the organic garden, and the White House bees,” says Christy Hemenway, founder of Gold Star Honeybees.
“We showed Charlie the Gold Star Top Bar Hive, complete with its observation window, and its clean, green construction, and we talked about how keeping bees without chemicals on their own natural wax honeycomb helps bees be healthy. It’s so important that people understand the connection between the food we eat and our health, and what a huge part the pollination provided by honeybees plays in the growing of that food,” Hemenway says.
“We are very proud that Roger Doiron of Kitchen Gardeners International, another Maine-er like us, had so much to do with inspiring the planting of the organic garden at the White House,” Hemenway adds.
The Gold Star Top Bar Hive promotes healthy honey bees by allowing bees to make their own natural beeswax. This helps bees by strengthening their immune systems, helping them to fight off parasites and other bee problems without the use of toxic chemicals in the beehive.
Gold Star Honeybees is a Green America Approved Business. The Gold Star Top Bar Hive kit is made from green materials. All wood parts are made of pine – cut and milled in Maine, and pre-drilled for easy assembly. Plus, they use non-toxic Mythic brand paint on the roofs, and Safecoat brand caulk to install the window.
Find out more about Gold Star Honeybees and their clean, green beekeeping products by visiting Gold Star Honey Bees.
This year at Green Festival Washington D.C., Christy Hemenway, founder of Gold Star Honeybees will participate in a panel discussion about healthy beekeeping practices. Other panelists will include Toni Burnham, who was instrumental in helping with the arrangements to put a hive of bees on the White House lawn.
Gold Star Honeybees at the Green Festival (Jimmy Fowler and an attendee)
Gold Star Honeybees visits the White House honey bees (Founder Christy Hemenway and Jimmy Fowler)
Gold Star Honeybees at the White House garden (Jimmy Fowler and Gold Star Honeybees' founder Christy Hemenway)
09.08.2010 – WASHINGTON DC — Green Festival®, the nation’s largest sustainability event, returns to the Washington Convention Center October 23-24. This year’s Green Festival theme is ‘Engagement,’ with exciting new ways to shop green, be inspired, get engaged and give back. Community members enjoy informative, insightful speakers, incomparable green shopping, cutting edge eco-innovations, great live music, fun and educational family activities, hands-on workshops, organic wine and beer and delicious, local vegetarian cuisine. Plus, our new admission options are geared to encourage everyone to get engaged in their community with immediate dividends from Green Festival.
Ten stages and pavilions give attendees the opportunity to engage with 125 local experts and nationally-renowned authors, actors, leaders, educators, farmers and visionaries. Exciting keynote speakers include Ralph Nader, Amy Goodman, Gilberto Gil, Patti Moreno, Reverend Lennox Yearwood, Jr., Dean Baker, Bernardine Dorhn, Bill Ayers, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Goumbri, Tracy McQuirter and many more.
Green Festival’s mission is to inspire and inform as many people as possible to help make our world more just and sustainable. New admission options allow people to invest in their local community while receiving immediate dividends from Green Festival. “Pay It Forward and Get it Back at Green Festival” invites community members to volunteer with or donate to local nonprofit organizations to receive complimentary admission to Green Festival. Also new this year, when an individual purchases any ticket to Green Festival, they receive “Green Bucks,” which can be used as currency at Green Festival in the green marketplace. Find out more about receiving free tickets or shopping money at http://greenfestivals.org.
“Green Festival has something for everyone,” says Green Festival Board Member and Green America Director, Denise Hamler. “Whether you go to shop, learn, try new organic foods or experience art and music, this event has it all, with the goal to motivate every person to think, participate and make more planet-friendly, sustainable choices in their every day lives.”
Washington D.C. Green Festival highlights include:
•Green Business Seminars at the Green Business Pavilion — the latest on financing for growth, marketing and new media, public policy and green trends, ethical sourcing and partnering for success.
• Green Lifestyle — practical tips for everyday life and innovations ranging from green products to green building and organic foods.
• Mother Earth News Fair Stage – workshops and ‘DIY’ presentations from the best loved topics of their magazine and fair, including urban chicken raising, cheese making at home, seed swap exchange and growing and using herbs.
• Fair Trade Pavilion — how fair-trading your home, workplace and community with coffee, home furnishings, chocolate, rice and textiles can make a world of difference.
• Better World Stage — critical issues and solutions in communities to effectively implement and support sustainable networks.
• Vegetarian Food Court — organic cuisine from local restaurants, organic beer and wine garden and fair trade organic coffee bar.
• Green Home and Energy Pavilion — demonstrations of practical skills for personal and household sustainability from solar energy to composting and green home improvements.
• Music – live music and spoken word.
• Yoga and Movement Sessions – opportunities to relax and focus body as well as the mind.
• Eco Fashion Show — showcase of eco-conscious fashion designers, make-up artists and hairstylists. (presented by EFFACA.)
• Annie’s Green Kids’ Zone — activities and storytelling for the whole family.
A project of Green America and Global Exchange, two leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to environmental and social justice for more than twenty-six years, Green Festival serves as a foundation to explore and build sustainable solutions to benefit communities and the environment, discover new environmentally-friendly products and practices and connect with likeminded individuals from all over the nation.
Green Festival demonstrates an unmatched commitment to reducing environmental impact by reusing, recycling or composting 97 percent or more of festival waste through the efforts of full-service green event management company Seven-Star Events.
Special thanks to: Bgreen, Honest Tea, Mom’s, Ford and WUSA.
To purchase tickets to Green Festival or for more information about new ways to get free tickets or shopping money, visit http://greenfestivals.org.
CONTACT: Dayna Reggero
Phone: 917-280-6965
Email: dayna@sevenstarevents.com
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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. From the greening of the 2007 International Live Earth events, to the 2008 Democratic National Convention events, to producing the nation’s largest consumer Green Festivals, Seven-Star has defined itself as the company for eR/sR event production. Seven-Star is the first event company to have won 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 85%. www.sevenstarevents.com