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GREEN FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY OCTOBER 29-30

Tweet The nation’s largest green living event comes to Los Angeles Convention Center FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Georgia Malki Denise Hamler Phone: 828-333-9403 x 125 202-872-5303 Georgia@sevenstarevents.com denisehamler@greenamerica.org LOS ANGELES – The nation’s premier green living event comes to Los Angeles October 29-30 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This year, Green Festival celebrates a [...]

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Paddle the LA River Kicks Off

Tweet “Looking for a new adventure? Well, it’s official. Starting Saturday, August 13th, you can legally kayak the Los Angeles River. The pilot program, Paddle the LA River, will run from August 13th to September 25, 2011, Saturdays and Sundays only. The Los Angeles Conservation Corps will offer supervised educational canoe and kayak trips down [...]

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CSR Means True Partnerships

Tweet “This month I sat down withJohn Perkins, the author of the New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and many other titles, and former chief economist at a major international consulting firm. Scott: Tell me about your work with business students around the US, particularly as it relates to Corporate Social Responsibility. [...]

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Green Festival speaker Zoe Weil and the Institute for Humane Education offer graduate and online courses to create a more just, sustainable and humane world

Tweet CONTACT: Sarah Speare, Sarah@HumaneEducation.org SURRY, ME — August 4, 2011 For people who want to learn about meaningful, empowering, and relevant issues that connect to their daily lives and are passionate about exploring solutions to our global challenges, the Institute for Humane Education offers a variety of online courses and graduate programs: “A Better [...]

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Consumers Prefer Organic Food, Survey Says

Tweet [pdf] found that the majority (58%) of consumers prefer organic food to conventional food. This preference is particularly strong with those with a higher education, and those of a younger demographic. Sixty-three percent of respondents under age 35 choose organics when possible.” Consumers Prefer Organic Food, Survey Says via Huffington Post Food

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Top 10 Climate-Ready Cities in the U.S.

Tweet “Cities are now home to a majority of the world’s population and are on the front line in the battle against climate change.  While action at the federal level in the U.S. has been painfully slow, cities in the U.S. are starting to lead by example at a local level. Cities must take an [...]

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Why I am Marching at Hershey’s Store in Times Square

Tweet “At Benedictine Academy, we believe that every child has the right to an education and to be treated with dignity. Child slave labor in the chocolate industrymust be stopped. A new documentary was recently released, The Dark Side of Chocolate, about child slave labor. We saw how the children were getting beaten and working in the [...]

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Green Festival: Thinking Global, Acting Local

Tweet “The Chicago Green Festival, held at McCormick Place last weekend, rounded up more than 300 green exhibitors and 125 speakers for two days of cutting-edge sustainable lifestyle action and information. We stopped by on Sunday to find out what’s new in the sustainability world. Here’s a look at what caught our eye in terms [...]

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2011 Green Festival

Tweet “In its 10th year in Seattle the Green Festival celebrated 1 million attendees and all that is good and green. Green Festival is the largest sustainability-focused event in the U.S. and folks learned about everything from GMO’s and organics to solar and urban composting options. People also came out to hear from well-known sustainability [...]

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Green Festival: Interview with Zoe Weil

Tweet “In this post, I have a confession to make. In addition to viewing films, I have also starting creating my own films. Of course, I have already posted some short little films I made at the AIFF (American Indian Film Festival) in an earlier film. Today I attended the Green Festival in Seattle. While [...]

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