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SiGBA Debuts Eco-Conference at GreenFEST on July 11
On Sunday, July 11 from 10am to 2pm, SiGBA Debuts its Eco-Conference at North Tahoe Events Center LakeView/Skyview Conference Room. A follow-on to SiGBA's highly success Eco Symposium in April, this is the first year, SiGBA has done a conference during its annual Tahoe GreenFEST.
Those of you who wish to catch the speakers will get to enjoy a leisurely walk along the beach from Kings Beach Plaza to NTEV. The walk is worth our speaker program and offering free coffee for those who choose to venture. We have briefs of many of the talks in this newsletter.
10:00-10:30am Gary Bowen - Community Gardens
10:30-11:00am Carol Perry (Regional Transportation Commission) - Walkable Communities
11:00-12:00pm Keynote Address - Walter Haefeker - "The Honeybee as Bioindicator"
12:00-1:00pm Open Discussion small discussion groups on all the day's eco-topics.
1:00-1:30 Madonna Dunbar (Keep Sierra Green) - Regional Green Business Recognition Program
1:30-2:00pm Jesse Locks - See Jane Do - Women and
Sustainability
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Calendar of Activities
SATURDAY, JULY 10th
9:00am 5:00pm Exhibit Hours
12:00 noon to 9:00 p.m. Music and beer garden
Raffles: 11:30am-12pm, 2-2:30pm and 4:30-5pm
Day 1 Silent Auction Winning Bids - 4:30pm
Music Lineup & Entertainment:
9am - Beginning Yoga
10am - Interm/Advanced Yoga
12pm - Reverb Nation
2:30pm - Truckee Tribe
5pm - DJ Jason and Company
7-9pm Catherine Scholz Acoustic
11am to 5pm - Dr. Solar for KIDS
Eco-sports TBD
SUNDAY, JULY 11th
9am-4pm Exhibit Hours
10am - 2:00pm - Eco-Conference
Raffles: 11:30am, 2pm and 4pm
Silent Auction Winners-4pm
Music Lineup & Entertainment:
7:30am -Beginning Yoga
8:30am-Advanced Yoga
12pm - Etch Groove
2:00-4pm - Wild Mountain Honey
Ecosports - TBD |
Screening of "Nicotine Bees" the move July 12 in Reno
On Monday, July 12 from 7pm to 9pm at the Washoe County Commissioner's Chambers, Bldg. A, 1001 E. Ninth Street, Reno, greenUP! and co-sponsor Northern Nevada Apiculture society will have a screening of the movie "Nicotine Bees" followed by an open discussion with guest speaker Walter Haefeker, Beekeeper and President of the European Professional Beekeeper's Association.
Nicotine Bees, the movie, gets to the truth about why the honeybees of the world are in big trouble, and why our food supply is in trouble with them.
Walter, who was featured in Nicotine Bees also makes a guest appearance in another bee movie called Vanishing of the Bees!
Oscar-nominated actress Ellen Page (JUNO) has recorded the narration for the U.S version of this film. Producers for this film wanted a woman to represent the sister society within a beehive. They also wanted someone with celebrity starpower that could draw audiences and spread the message about the bees.
So bees are an important topic. Be sure to take the opportunity to speak with Walter during greenFEST and watch the screening of the movie in Reno on Monday, July 12.
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| Come to Tahoe GreenFEST 2010 at North Tahoe Events Center and Kings Beach Plaza, 8318 North Lake Boulevard (Highway 28 at Coons), Kings Beach, CA.
Tahoe greenFEST is free and open to the public. Live-green build-green wristbands are on sale for $10 and entitle the wearer to 10 raffle tickets and discounts on items for sale during the event.
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| Dr. Solar to perform for children at GreenFEST on Saturday, July 10 |
Dr Solar, ever the safe-energy advocate, presents his eco-friendly portable traveling children's and family entertainment experience from his self-contained, solar powered thespian's gypsy wagon, The World's First Solar Powered Theatre. Reminiscent of by-gone days of P.T. Barnum and his GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, Dr Solar is reducing his carbon footprint day by day and show by show with his eco-themed spectcular show.
A Unique Family-Friendly Entertainment Experience Based Upon the Traditional Traveling Medicine Shows from the Turn-of-the-Century, 1870- 1930, a major renaissance period in the theatre and arts in America. A rollicking road show of family fun and wholsome values with a dash of education. Magic, comedy and ventriloquism, a show for all ages.
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| Garry Bowen - "Community Gardens: Energy We'll Need" - July 11 at 10am |
With our daily lives so in need of fundamental change, sustenance can be the primer for all things sustainable. Reducing vehicle miles traveled, fossil fuel usage, and unsustainable ways like cancer, diabetes, obesity, and ill health will require better groomed appetites and less pharmaceutical drugs. Bringing healthy food sources closer
to home starts upcycling with real community benefits for all citizens.
Garry Bowen has a 50-year connection to Lake Tahoe, with the immediate past decade(+) devoted to global sustainability, on most of its' current fronts: green building, energy and water efficiencies, and public health. Now using both degree areas, Journalism/Public Relations and Restaurant Management & post-graduate work in Culinary Arts and Nutrition to further global betterment. |
| Carol Perry (RTC) on "Walkability: What is it and Why Should You Care" July 11 at 10:30am |
Carol Perry has worked for the Regional Transportation Commission for over 20 years. As the RTC's Trip Reduction Specialist, she administers the RTC SMART TRIPS program working with employers and the general public promoting sustainable transportation choices, such as transit, vanpooling, carpooling, bicycling, and walking, as well as trip reduction strategies, such as telecommuting and proximate commuting. Carol is an active member of the Truckee Meadows Bicycle Alliance and a committee developing a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan. Prior to her current position, Carol served in the RTC Planning Department where her scope of work involved computer projections of future traffic and geographic mapping.
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| Walter Haefeker Beekeeper from Bavaria will Give Keynote Address July 11 at 11am |
For the last several years, honeybees have been in the headlines around the world. A mysterious disease (Colony Collapse Disorder) has been blamed for the beekeepers losses, but no pathogen has been identified. Haefeker Walter, President of the European Professional Beekeepers' Association- (EPBA) and board member of the German Professional Beekeepers Association (DBIB) will discuss why beekeepers in all parts of the world are raising alarm and what health of the honey bee can tell us about the condition of our environment. Using a specific example, Mr. Haefeker show how we may be able to begin to address the problem.
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| "Keep the Sierra Green" Business Recognition" Talk July 11 at 1pm |
MADONNA DUNBAR is Incline Village General Improvement District's Resource Conservationist. She directs the District's Waste Not Programs which provide a variety of environmental education and technical services to the Incline Village and Crystal Bay communities.
Waste Not's program areas include: watershed protection, water conservation, recycling, household hazardous waste disposal and bear/trash awareness. Waste Not is providing the zero waste service at this year's greenFEST event.
Madonna holds a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo, magna cum laude. Madonna has lived and worked in North Lake Tahoe for 12 years.
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| Jesse Locks speaks July 11 at 1:30pm about Women's Impact on the Planet |
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Jesse Locks is a co-founder and co-producer of See Jane Do. She is also a writer, producer and organizer. Jesse will be speaking on the SJD project and the organizations activities in last year and a half.
See Jane Do is a multi-media program about Everyday Women Doing Extraordinary Things for the Planet. In 2008, See Jane Do received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to air the show on award-winning community radio station KVMR 89.5FM in Northern California. Each week we publish a column called "Extraordinary Jane" that showcases an everyday woman who is putting her passion into action to have a positive impact on her community and world. To date we have featured and interviewed Joan Blades from Momsrising.org, Marie Wilson from the White House Project, Gloria Steinem, Nina Simons from Bioneers, Beth Terry of the Fake Plastic Fish Blog, and many others. In January 2010, See Jane Do hosted the first ever Media Lounge at the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, the largest environmental film festival in the US. We also organized our first women's conference Passion Into Action which featured keynote speakers Nina Simons, Gloria Feldt and Linda Tarr-Whelan. |
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