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Central Valley | Education & Student Activism36th Whole Earth Festival - UC Davis
Whole Earth Festival is a three day ecologically centered, education focused, student run event on the UC Davis Campus, May 6th, 7th, & 8th. 4 stages of music, 3 workshop spaces, drum circle, 160+ ed booths, compost and recycling, reusable dishes, solar power, FREE, Organic local foods, kid's space, hands on crafts, and DIY. Come be a participant, student, and teacher.  2005_poster.jpg Whole Earth Festival returns to the UC Davis campus encouraging and educating for a new future Every year on the UC Davis campus, thousands of students, professors, activists, and Sac Valley locals come together to celebrate Spring thru the understanding, critical discussion and enjoyment of education, arts, music, and community. Whole Earth Festival started out as simply an “art happening” in 1969, combined with an inspired response to the cultural revolutions of the late 60s, culminating with Earth Day in 1971. it has grown into turned into one of the largest student run free workshop, art, music, and entertainment forums in the west coast. We invite all of you out to this three day festival. Powered by a massive assortment of solar panels, the festival features 3 stages of music, another stage for dance performances, three tents for workshops and speakers, a film screening room, a hands-on crafts workshop space, an alternative vehicle display, many educational booths, 2 art exhibits, food stalls, crafters and place for children to play and learn. Not only do we have tons of workshops, lectures, discussions, music and art, but we strive to be a ZERO waste festival. Diverting over 96.5% of our ‘waste’ from the landfill last year was a new high, and we hope to beat this total this year. This is done through one of the only reusable dish systems of its kind. We use all of our own plates and cups (over 5,000 of each), and spoons and forks (~4,000 each). Not only has this system of reusable wares reduced the total amount of wasted resources that end up in the landfill, but it reduces costs to food vendors, saves thousands of gallons of water, and prevents the use of dead trees for disposable dishware, and petroleum products for utensils. Overall, reusables are much more efficient than disposables and even compostables that some festivals and events are turning towards. There is no waste, only misplaced resources. We encourage anyone and everyone to come check out this free Festival. Below are some of the highlights of the music, workshops, keynote speakers, and other events. Catch our whole program online (print only double sided 100% post consumer or reused paper) at http://wef/Program_Master_Web_2005.pdf Bands ‘n’ DJs: Hamsa Lila Faith Petric Universal language w/ radioactive of spearhead Aphrodesia Baba ken okulolo & the nigerian brothers Taarkastra Diane patterson Leslie Helpert Obo martin Jason webley Baby gramps Shelly doty x-tet Dis moi DJ Risingsun DJ Tao DJ Dragonfly The Apostle Gabriel Billy Lane RIGHTEOUS MOVEMENT DJ Vega Skaktura DRAGN’ FLY LORIN DOCTOR J VS. E M : V Movies: 4th World War Pick Axe Rockers Future of Food Oil On Ice Broken Rainbow A Taste of some of the workshop and speaker forums: Permaculture Singing for Power Building Strawbale Cottages Legally Partner Yoga Thai Massage Devi yoga with Xylem Basic Bicycle Maintenance Organic Farmer Panel and Open Discussion Judi Bari, Pepper Spray, and police terror against activists Learn how to use the 13 Moon Calendar Building Healthy Soil Art & Activism - Juana Alicia and Alli Starr Biodiesel 101 – Berkeley BD Collective People Power Can End the War The Militarization of Space How to make your own natural housecleaners Composting workshop (thermophilic and vermi) Tai Chi, Permaculture, and Cultural Composting Herbal Medicine “Keeping Time with the Mayan Calendar Saving the Last Marine Mammals Herbal and Aromatherapy Workshop Bikram Yoga Taping into our Shakti Power Keynote Speakers / Workshop leaders: Medea Benjamin – Founder Global Exchange David Solnit – Best known as an organizer of the 99 WTO actions Alli Starr – Art and Revolution Lauren Orneals – Founder - VIVA! Kim Sturla – Central figure in animal rights for the past 30 years Doron Amiran – Hands on Strawbale demos and Building healthy soils Vicki Noble – Shamistic healer, author, and scholar Gabriel Cousens – Founder Tree of Life Rejunvenation Center Erik Olsen Above is just a taste. Check out our website, and please come celebrate, learn, and educate with us. It is always free and always the best weekend to come and check out the small town of Davis. We are mostly volunteer run, as all of the staff gets small stipends for months and months of work. If you want to volunteer, we have screen printed fair trade sweat free shirts for you and some good food made mostly from local organic produce from the Yolo County and Capay Valley Bio Region. Blessings
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Comments (Hide Comments)genetic engineering discussion panel at UCD
Saturday Apr 30th, 2005 3:22 PM
This comment pertains to the genetic engineering discussion held at UC Davis 4/29. There is another discussion next week on Friday at 7 pm..
The panel consisted of three people who presented their arguments to the audience, then followed by a discussion and questions from the audience.. Panel; Martin Lemon - Monsanto employee Kristin Reynolds - UC Davis grad student Taber Ward - Full Belly Farms organic grower The presentations showed opposing viewpoints about the effects of biotechnology on the environment and human culture. Martin's presentation indicated that biotechnology is good for the environment because it reduces till and also reduces use of pesticide/herbicide spraying. Kristin's presentation indicated that while biotechnology may benefit farmers over time, the new technology is usually available to the poorest segment last. In addition, the commercial retailers show bias towards large industrial farms and ignore the smaller farms, leaving them in debt after purchasing expensive biotechnology products. Taber's presentation raised many issues about the long term ecological effects of biotechnology products and the obstacles faced by organic farmers living downwind of biotech crops. Pollen drift is an issue at Full Belly Farms, where both non-GMO soy and corn are grown.. When the audience began questioning the panel, the discussion covered a variety of topics. Biotechnology and farming is a complex multi-faceted issue that cannot be contained in a confined dialogue. The pro-biotech crowd seemed to hold the floor with headman R. Roush raising his voice to declare opponents "wrong". Despite the rudeness of the pro-biotech crowd loudly "booing" when Percy Schmeiser's name was mentioned, many advocates of GMO free farming raised their voice to counter the arguements of the pro-biotech crowd.. People from the Philippines rejected Monsanto's Bt and Round-up Ready biotech products, often times pulling them out by hand. Was unable to mention a study that discovered Bt toxin in the cells of Philippine farmers living downwind of Monsanto's Bt corn field, the toxin entered their bloodstream through the lungs, not via ingestion (will post source in future). This contradicted the research done by Martin Lemon who seems to believe that Asian farmers prefer biotech crops over non-biotech farming. Martin's argument about biotech being good for the environment because it reduces till (soil compaction) omits information that organic permaculture/sustenance farming also reduces till. Excluding historical information about the causes of majority third world poverty/famine as a result of conversion from sustainance farming to export cash crops does not imply that biotech is a solution for anyone living in poverty, the solution is returning and restoring land to community sustenance/permaculture farming.. Biotech is a continuation of the pesticide treadmill that now incorporates the toxin inside of the plant's cells instead of spray. Herbicide resistant crops expand the Round-up resistant weeds, requiring stronger toxins over time as weeds evolve resistance. Pollen drift and soil contamination from Bt toxin is equally damaging as pesticide drift.. For over ten thousand years farmers in North/South Americas, Asia, Africa all grew indigenous crops that were adapted to the climate and insect/weed species present there before colonialism coerced people to abandon traditional growing practices and instead adapt plantation style export cash crops that caused soil erosion and reduction of beneficial insect populations by excess pesticide spraying.. Vandana Shiva has written extensively about varities of millet and sorghum that were grown in India symbiotically without the need for either pesticides or GMO products. Sustenance permaculture farming feeds people with nutritional diversity and maintains ecological stability over thousands of years. The only downside to sustainable farming may be that a corporation like Monsanto cannot become wealthy from providing their fallacy "solutions".. more info; http://www.fullbellyfarm.org Farmers Legal Action Group http://www.flaginc.org Biotech Indymedia http://www.biotechimc.org It is unfortunate that UC Davis accepts research funding from biotech corporations like Monsanto yet refuses to provide alternative information on thousand year methods of permaculture farming as practiced by indigenous people around the Earth. The UCD library doesn't even have the book "Fluid Genome" yet calls themselves the "aggies", maybe the mascot name should be changed to the "corporate money baggies".. for info on "The Fluid Genome" by Mae Wan Ho at website Institute for Science in Society; |