Showing posts with label EArth Day 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EArth Day 2011. Show all posts

Friday

AEG Celebrates Earth Day L.A. Live

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Recyclable Items being collected:

Cell phones, light bulbs, batteries, sporting goods and tennis shoes.

 

 

WHERE:                Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE                 

 

 Event kick-off 12:00pm Friday, April 22, 2011

§         12:00pm-5:00pm: Earth Fair featuring interactive booths including Silent Auction

§         12:00pm-5:00pm Co-ed Adult & Youth Ultimate Frisbee Pick-Up on Farmers Field Turf (Chick Hearn Court)

§         12:45pm-1:15pm: ACE Environmental Presentation

§         1:15pm-2:30pm Radio Disney Artists Perform

§         2:30pm-3:30pm Radio Disney Artists Meet n Greet

§         3: 30pm - 4:30pm  AC Green Autograph Signing

§         3: 30pm- 4:15pm Vida Tinta, inner city youth rock band

§         4:15pm-5:00pm DJ on stage


Join Coco Jones and Jacob Latimore from Radio Disney, former LA Laker AC Green, local youth Rock Band Vida Tinta and representatives from AEG, STAPLES Center, ESPN, and Alliance for Climate Education As They Bring Environmental Awareness to L.A LIVE

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WHAT:       In honor of Earth Day, a nationally recognized day for inspiring environment awareness and mobilizing individuals to take action, the AEG 1EARTH program and L.A. LIVE will host an interactive Earth Fair where the public can celebrate their commitment to environmental protection and learn how to live green in Los Angeles.

 

                      The Earth Fair will be open throughout the day where attendees can turn in recyclable materials from light bulbs to used sporting goods and visit booths where they can learn the simple ways to transform their habits and go green in their everyday lives. Attendees are encouraged to walk through the event and visit the LA-based groups that are putting sustainable living into action right here in our city and find out how they can get involved.

 

During the event there will also be an interactive presentation and two exciting live performances by Radio Disney and local youth rock band, Vida Tinta. Kids will even have the chance to meet the Radio Disney performers in person afterwards and get autographs from basketball legend AC Green!

 

WHO:          Featured entertainment, speakers and participants include:

 


§         Alliance for Climate Education 

§         Aquarium of the Pacific and Seafood of the Future 

§         Bike Nation 

§         Coalition for Clean Air 

§         Cell Phone for Soldiers 

§         City of LA Sanitation 

§         CLEAN LA

§         Coke-Cola

§         Green Music Group

§         Green Youth Movement

§         Habitat for Humanity

§         Heal the Bay

§         Herbal Life

§         Inner City Arts

§         Inside Outdoors

§         LAANE- Don’t Waste LA

§         LA Galaxy

§         LA Metro

§         LADWP

§         Long Beach Depot for Creative Use

§         People for Parks

§         Radio Disney

§         Regal Cinema

§         Ritz-Carlton Spa

§         Santa Monica Bay Keeper

§         Save our Beach

§         SPCA LA

§         Tree People

§         Verve Contemporary Arts and Framing

§         Toyota

§         Waste Management

§         Water Replenishment District of Southern California

Recycle, Reuse, Rejoice!

 

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Sunday

Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us Released as eBook For Earth Day 2011


Open Road Media announces the publication of Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea Wind, The Sea Around Us, and The Sense of Wonder as ebooks in time for Earth Day 2011.

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Award-winning author Rachel Carson (1907–1964) was one of the greatest American natural history writers of the twentieth century. Her books include Under the Sea Wind, The Sense of Wonder, and The Sea Around Us. Decades after Carson published her first book and brought environmentalism and conservation to the forefront of the cultural conversation, readers can access three of her seminal works in the environmentally friendly e-format for the first time.

Today, the Green Blog Network has the privilege of sharing with readers some of Carson's own words. Rachel Carson wrote this preface fifty years ago for the rerelease of The Sea Around Us, which combines detailed fieldwork and inspiring prose to reveal a deep understanding of the earth’s most precious, mysterious resource—the ocean.

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 Excerpt:

...And yet the actual transport of radioactive elements by the sea itself is only part of the problem. The concentration and distribution of radioisotopes by marine life may possibly have even greater importance from the standpoint of human hazard. It is known that plants and animals of the sea pick up and concentrate radiochemicals, but only vague information now exists as to details of the process. The minute life of the sea depends for its existence on the minerals in the water. If the normal supply of these is low, the organisms will utilize instead the radioisotope of the needed element if it is present, sometimes concentrating it as much as a million times beyond its abundance in sea water. What happens then to the careful calculation of a “maximum permissible level”? For the tiny organisms are eaten by larger ones and so on up the food chain to man. By such a process tuna over an area of a million square miles surrounding the Bikini bomb test developed a degree of radioactivity enormously higher than that of the sea water.

By their movements and migrations, marine creatures further upset the convenient theory that radioactive wastes remain in the area where they are deposited. The smaller organisms regularly make extensive vertical movements upward toward the surface of the sea at night, downward to great depths by day. And with them goes whatever radioactivity may be adhering to them or may have become incorporated into their bodies. The larger fauna, like fishes, seals, and whales, may migrate over enormous distances, again aiding in spreading and distributing the radioactive elements deposited at sea.

The problem, then, is far more complex and far more hazardous than has been admitted. Even in the comparatively short time since disposal began, research has shown that some of the assumptions on which it was based were dangerously inaccurate. The truth is that disposal has proceeded far more rapidly than our knowledge justifies. To dispose first and investigate later is an invitation to disaster, for once radioactive elements have been deposited at sea they are irretrievable. The mistakes that are made now are made for all time.

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.     

RACHEL CARSON  
Silver Spring, Maryland
October 1960   

Read the rest of The Sea Around Us, and learn more about Rachel Carson.


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