(snipped from the Bike To Work Day's website) The San Francisco Bay Area's 17th annual Bike To Work Day will take place on Thursday, May 12, 2011 with all nine Bay Area counties participating in the celebration. The event is part of National Bike Month. "Energizer Stations" are located along Bay [...]
The 350 Home Garden Challenge | May 14 & 15, 2011 - One audacious weekend. 1,000 powerful actions to grow food, conserve water, and save energy. Register (www.dailyacts.org/350-challenge) today! Watch and share our videos! We will build on the incredible success of 628 garden actions in 2010 by inspiring 1,000 bold new actions: retrofit your home,apartment, office, or neighborhood with a new garden, greywater system or energy upgrade!
Kids: Do you think P.E. should be mandatory in schools? By Patty James, Shine The Light On Kids - Educate, Enpower, Change... This was one of twenty-five questions I asked kids from all walks of life for the non-profit Shine The Light On Kids. In 2010, I traveled to 41 states covering 18,000 miles because I wanted to hear from the kids themselves what they wanted and needed to live healthier lives. The data collected was analyzed by Sonoma State University...
April 30 and May 1 from 9am to 5pm We will be selling hundreds of open-pollinated, heirloom and rare varieties - all California Certified Organic - many started from our own seed collection. Free Tours at 11am & 1pm both days! Light Refreshments available for purchase. For more information click HERE. Please [...]
Our Lives Are Under Threat From Some of the Most Powerful and Richest Entities -- Here's How We Can Fight Back and Win: We need to rebuild the kind of mass movement that marked 1970: bodies, passion, and creativity are the currencies we can compete in. It's not impossible. By [...]
Saturday April 30, 2011 9 am – noon Sunflower Community Garden, 7th & A St., Santa Rosa Fee: SR residents $38/non residents $48 Come to Sunflower Community Garden for hands-on instruction in good gardening techniques. Learn how to start your own seedlings in containers and have success with seeding directly [...]
By Jennifer Swacina, Maui Time, April 13, 2011 On January 11, I forgot my reusable shopping bags. I'd seen the ominous "1-11-11" signs and the "B.Y.O. Bag" posters announcing the impending arrival of the countywide plastic bag ban, so I was nervous I'd be scolded or at least given a dirty look. Instead, [...]
Minimizing an event’s environmental impact is an opportunity to make it more efficient and more fun. Why? Because time and resource management is key in both greening and event organizing. And, adding a green component allows you to look at the process from a different lens. If planned in advance [...]
I just purchased a set of AusPen refillable whiteboard markers. The fact that I bought anything new is news - since that is such a rare occasion. But marker pens? Yes, I am quite tired of messing with old, almost dead markers and was delighted to find some that are [...]
Let's post Earth Day and Earth Week events - early! Please forward and I will keep a running list by date. Here are a few to get us rolling: This Saturday and Sunday: IGNITE SANTA ROSA - DAY AND NIGHT, Sierra Club Environmental Forum, Best Yet pre-Earth Day & Fossil unFools Day Celebration, 40 [...]