Join the LCEA for an open house/fundraiser to benefit the The Clean Energy Tour, a series of solar-powered concerts, press conferences, and student leadership trainings throughout California utilizing music, arts and culture to stop the Dirty Energy Prop. The tour is the largest transmedia GOTV (Get Out The Vote) event in this election and features [...]
Archive for the ‘Oakland’ Category
6 Oct
10/10/10 Global Work Party Oakland Style: Food Justice Bike Tour!
Just a reminder about the Food Justice/Urban Ag Bike Tour for 10/10/10. Its HELLA grassroots and free, fun, and for-surely-inspiring! I hope many of you can make it. Please spread the word, facebook, personal invites to friends you want there, etc. Start out with a bike ride in the morning, then head over to the [...]
20 Sep
Greening Cafes: Easy Steps to Save Energy, Water, Waste and Money
When you grab that deep cup of rich dark-roast Mexican coffee and that lemon poppyseed scone, do you wonder if the business has met Green Cafe Standards? Some of us intinctively go for the fair-trade coffee, but do you think how much water and energy the cafe is using? If they have environmentally responsible purchasing? [...]
17 Sep
For the Love of Water: Art and Water Festival
I just got a call from Christina Bertea of Greywater Action to tell me about their awesome event called Water Works that is happening every Saturday and Sunday in September. I had a chance last spring to sit in on one of their greywater training workshops for a laundry-to-landscape system and wrote an article on [...]
13 Sep
Tuesday Evening in Oakland: Mayoral Candidate Forum on Green Jobs and Climate Action
Oakland’s important Green Jobs and Climate Action forum with mayoral candidates is being hosted by the Oakland Climate Action Coalition Tuesday night at the Oakland Museum of California: Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM Location: Oakland Museum Theater, Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street (at 10th Street) From event [...]
1 Sep
Hell No on Prop. 23!
One of the more pernicious and deceptive propositions on California’s ballot this November is Prop 23. The proposition would suspend AB 32 (Global Warming Solutions Act), the landmark greenhouse emission reduction law that was passed by the legislature and signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006. The Orwellian name given to it by proponents is “California [...]
