Posts Tagged environment

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

Tweet 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 [...]

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

Tweet Contact: Sandra Marquardt, 301-592-0077 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 [...]

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

Tweet 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 [...]

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GREEN FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY IN SAN FRANCISCO

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

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Global Exchange Open House – October 6th, 6pm at the Global Exchange Office in San Francisco – FREE EVENT

Tweet OPEN  H O U S E Thursday October 6th, 6pm Global Exchange Office 2017 Mission St. 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA  94110 (16th Mission St. Bart) (map) Free event with Latin refreshments, specialty cocktails, games and prizes, prize drawing and music by the Típica Cubana band, Los Soneros de Acero RSVP on Facebook Support [...]

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The 99% Say Enough is Enough

Tweet We know the facts, but seeing them together is staggering: unemployment is firmly mired in the double digits and efforts to bring it down isn’t creating jobs; students leaving college, if they can even afford to go, have debts that would have seemed unimaginable just 15 years ago and when they don’t see any [...]

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Sierra Salon at Hibiscus Restaurant – October 10, 6pm-8pm

Tweet Join Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter for a special evening honoring long-time Sierra Club activist and volunteer leader, Norman LaForce of El Cerrito. Norman has been Chapter Chair, West Contra Costa Group Chair, Chair of the Chapter’s legal committee and Chair of the East Bay Public Lands Committee. He is the former mayor of [...]

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Students Take Action Nationwide to Move Campuses Beyond Coal

Tweet ver 100 Actions Planned Demanding Schools Switch to 100% Clean Energy Washington, DC – This week students at Virginia Tech, Purdue University, Bates College in Maine and the University of Illinois kicked off a nationwide month of creative actions focused on moving America’s campus’ beyond coal.  The coordinated effort called 100% Clean: 100 Actions for [...]

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Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! to Speak at San Francisco Green Festival

Tweet “WHEN: 12 noon WHERE: San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th Street at Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 DESCRIPTION: Amy Goodman speaks at the San Francisco, CA Green Festival, a celebration of what’s working in our communities. The Green Festival™ begins with finding solutions to help make our lives healthier—socially, economically and environmentally. [...]

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Wangari Maathai: Death of a visionary

Tweet “Wangari Maathai’s compelling life story is inextricably linked with the social and political changes that so much of Africa has been through since the idea of throwing off European colonialism began to gain traction shortly after World War II. Her unique insight was that the lives of Kenyans – and, by extension, of people [...]

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