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Featured in this "light" Earth Day & Easter newsletter :
- Nourish California
- May Events jamboree
- Video of the week: HOME, a very special treat
Nourish California
Nourish California
is a bold, new initiative designed to increase food literacy and build
healthy communities. The nonprofit initiative provides free educational
resources for use in California’s K-12 schools.
Our vision is to
engage thousands of schools and millions of students in a meaningful
conversation about food and sustainability. If you are a K-12 teacher,
school administrator, farm-to-school or garden coordinator, food
service staff member, health professional, environmental educator, or
nonprofit support provider, we invite you to join the network. Nourish
California materials are available free-of-charge to these groups,
including nonprofit support providers. Educators receive one DVD per
sign-up, with free shipping.
 Learn
about a bold, new food literacy initiative. Sign up to receive free
educational resources for use in California's schools. Learn more |
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May Events jamboree
Buy your tickets here now
Spring has
always felt to me a time when anything is possible. We can't do
anything, though, without you. There are local schools and children
that are waiting for funding to continue their gardens. We need your
help. Buy a ticket for our Farm to Table benefit at the MiraMonte, or
make a donation online. Thank you!
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Transition Joshua Tree invites you to attend a screening of "CollecTED
Wisdom"
Travis Puglisi's best picks on the subject of a sustainable
world from the award winning podcast TED TALKS.
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SPACE IS LIMITED!
REGISTER NOW FOR EARLY BIRD PRICING!
www.cvenergysummit.org
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For Program, Sponsorship, Exhibitor and Registration Contact
Burke Rix Communications at (760) 327-9708 x24 or visit
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
“Energy
Commissioner Carla Peterman and Ed Begley Jr. confirmed as Keynote
Speakers at the upcoming Coachella Valley Energy Summit.
Palm Springs, CA (April 21, 2011)… The third annual Coachella Valley
Energy Summit will be held on May 12th and 13th at the Palm Springs
Convention Center.
The first day of the summit will consist of keynote speakers California
Energy Commissioner Carla Peterman, environmentalist and actor Ed
Begley Jr., and other speakers and panel discussions led by renewable
energy leaders and policy makers.
Commissioner Peterman was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in January
2011. She fills the Public Member position on the five-member Energy
Commission. She currently presides over the Energy Commission's
Renewables Committee and is the Associate Member on the Electricity and
Natural Gas Committee.
Mr. Begley had this to say regarding his upcoming visit to the valley,
“I’m greatly looking forward to coming to the Coachella Valley where
people understand the value of the sun and wind as renewable sources of
green energy.”
Coinciding with the first day’s program, the summit will offer
exhibitors a chance to showcase groundbreaking and renewable
technologies. Coachella Valley Economic Partnership (CVEP) Chief
Operating Officer and Energy Summit Steering Committee member, Wesley
Ahlgren commented, “We are very excited to be hosting the 3rd Annual
Energy Summit in the Coachella Valley. We are equally as excited to
have such a high caliber policy influencer as Carla Peterman address
our attendees. Our region is quickly becoming the nation’s epicenter for renewable energy. This is our moment to demonstrate
the clean tech potential in the Coachella Valley.”
The event is being produced by local government affairs and public
relations firm Burke Rix Communications which is working with
presenting sponsors and steering committee members Coachella Valley
Association of Governments (CVAG), Coachella Valley Economic
Partnership (CVEP), Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas
Company and the Imperial Irrigation District.
Also scheduled to participate in the summit are Riverside County
Supervisors John Benoit and Marion Ashley, Senator Bill Emerson,
Assemblymember’s Brian Nestande and V. Manuel Perez.
On Friday May 13th, the morning will kick off with an Energy Resource
Workshop and Coachella Bus Tour focused on local renewable energy
projects. One of the exciting stops of the tour will be a visit to the Annenberg Estate at Sunnylands’ green facilities.
For additional information please contact Burke Rix Communications at 760-327-9708.
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Video of the week
a very special treat
We are living in
exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change
the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the
catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. The stakes are high for
us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME
has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human
being. For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group,
made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to
make any profit because Home is a non-profit film. HOME has been made
for you : share it! And act for the planet.
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WE ALL HAVE A DATE WITH THE PLANET
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Internationally renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand makes his
feature directorial debut with this environmentally conscious
documentary produced by Luc Besson, and narrated by Glenn Close. Shot in
54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days, Home presents the many
wonders of planet Earth from an entirely aerial perspective. As such, we
are afforded the unique opportunity to witness our changing environment
from an entirely new vantage point. In our 200,000 years on Earth,
humanity has hopelessly upset Mother Nature's delicate balance. Some
experts claim that we have less than ten years to change our patterns of
consumption and reverse the trend before the damage is irreversible.
Produced to inspire action and encourage thoughtful debate, Home poses
the prospect that unless we act quickly, we risk losing the only home we
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Prior "Work with the planet, not against it!" postings:
For
millions of years life on Earth has persisted and evolved in concert
with the chemical, physical and biological processes in the
environment. The advent of the Age of Liquid Fossil Fuels brought
humanity the ability to jump start and force-march many of these
processes at terrible cost to the planet's environmental viability. In
the waning days of the Oil Age, it is time for humanity to relearn the
lessons of the past tens of thousands of years of civilization: life,
human and otherwise, on Planet Earth can recover and maintain its
viability and sustainability only as we rediscover working WITH this
planet's environment, animate and inanimate, not against it!" John Cooper
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