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Reclaim the Future
This summer, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights will launch a bold new initiative: Reclaim The Future. Reclaim The Future (RTF) will work to build a constituency that can transform urban America by creating jobs, reducing violence and honoring the Earth.
Reclaim the Future
Ella Baker Center to Launch New Think Tank
at World Environment Day in June
This summer, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights will launch a bold new initiative: Reclaim The Future. Reclaim The Future (RTF) will work to build a constituency that can transform urban America by creating jobs, reducing violence and honoring the Earth.
We will formally launch RTF at the United Nation’s global Green Cities Conference (http://www.wed2005.org/) (June 1-June 5), in honor of World Environment Day. As an activist think tank, RTF will develop and utilize a network, a publication, a website, a popular education curriculum (including workshops) and multi-media teaching tools. RTF will engage grassroots leaders, mainstream environmental activists, labor unions and socially responsible business leaders. It will also include youth, artists and faith leaders.
RTF’s founding slogan is: "Green Jobs, Not Jails."
The path to peaceful streets and true community safety is not more prisons, but ecologically sound economic development. RTF will push for the creation of public-private-community partnerships that promote healthy communities.
We envision eco-industrial parks on land once blighted by prisons. We envision non-profit “Solution Centers” training young urban workers in new technologies and ancient wisdom. We envision those Centers sprouting up everywhere and driving down crime in every police precinct.
We dream of seeing kids who are now fodder for the prisons instead creating zero-pollution products, healing the land and harvesting the sun. We dream of a day when struggling cities like Oakland, Watts, Detroit and Newark blossom as Silicon Valleys of green capital.
RTF will help build the pathway from the present “gulag economy” to the future “green economy.” We want California and the United States — the world leaders in locking people up — to become instead the world leaders in lifting people up.
For more about Reclaim the Future, contact
Joshua Abraham, Program Director
(510.428.3939 x229) or Click to E-mail.
For more about RTF at World Environment Day, contact
Lora O'Connor, Project Manager
(510.428.3939 x227) or Click to E-mail.
For more general info about World Environment Day 2005:
http://www.wed2005.org.
Ella Baker Center to Launch New Think Tank
at World Environment Day in June
This summer, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights will launch a bold new initiative: Reclaim The Future. Reclaim The Future (RTF) will work to build a constituency that can transform urban America by creating jobs, reducing violence and honoring the Earth.
We will formally launch RTF at the United Nation’s global Green Cities Conference (http://www.wed2005.org/) (June 1-June 5), in honor of World Environment Day. As an activist think tank, RTF will develop and utilize a network, a publication, a website, a popular education curriculum (including workshops) and multi-media teaching tools. RTF will engage grassroots leaders, mainstream environmental activists, labor unions and socially responsible business leaders. It will also include youth, artists and faith leaders.
RTF’s founding slogan is: "Green Jobs, Not Jails."
The path to peaceful streets and true community safety is not more prisons, but ecologically sound economic development. RTF will push for the creation of public-private-community partnerships that promote healthy communities.
We envision eco-industrial parks on land once blighted by prisons. We envision non-profit “Solution Centers” training young urban workers in new technologies and ancient wisdom. We envision those Centers sprouting up everywhere and driving down crime in every police precinct.
We dream of seeing kids who are now fodder for the prisons instead creating zero-pollution products, healing the land and harvesting the sun. We dream of a day when struggling cities like Oakland, Watts, Detroit and Newark blossom as Silicon Valleys of green capital.
RTF will help build the pathway from the present “gulag economy” to the future “green economy.” We want California and the United States — the world leaders in locking people up — to become instead the world leaders in lifting people up.
For more about Reclaim the Future, contact
Joshua Abraham, Program Director
(510.428.3939 x229) or Click to E-mail.
For more about RTF at World Environment Day, contact
Lora O'Connor, Project Manager
(510.428.3939 x227) or Click to E-mail.
For more general info about World Environment Day 2005:
http://www.wed2005.org.
For more information:
http://ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid...
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Thousands to Attend S.F. Festival at Opening Ceremony For U.N. World Environment Day Conference
May 25, 2005
'GREEN' CARS, SOLAR INVENTIONS, FREE ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD AND MORE
HIGHLIGHT THE CALIFORNIA TOMORROW FESTIVAL AT CIVIC CENTER PLAZA ON JUNE 2
SAN FRANCISCO (May 25, 2005) -- Mayors from the largest cities on the planet will convene in San Francisco for United Nation’s World Environment Day conference June 1-5 to adopt historic accords on sustainable urban living.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will preside over special opening ceremonies at Civic Center Plaza at 9 a.m. on Thursday, June 2, a free public celebration to kick off both the conference and the California Tomorrow Festival, the public’s chance to experience first-hand cutting edge environmental solutions.
“The California Tomorrow festival is an exciting display of California technology that will define a new way of ‘green’ living,” said Carl Bendix, organizer of the event. It features free concerts, entertainment, food, and the newest innovations in cutting edge green technology: hydrogen fuel, solar power, wind power, biofuels, geothermal energy, hydropower, people power, alternative fuel vehicles and green architecture.
“This is a remarkable opportunity for everyone in the Bay Area to come see and touch the future,” Bendix said. “Plus, it will be a heck of a lot of fun.”
Featured artists at the ceremonies include Ozomatli, Vinyl, Hamsa Lila, Samantha Stollenwerck and the Ritual, and the San Francisco Girls Choir.
The World Environment Day-California Tomorrow Festival opening ceremonies will welcome more than 60 mayors from the world’s largest and most environmentally significant cities, including London, Zurich, Buenos Aires, Jakarta, Delhi, Kabul, and Manila. The ceremonies include special entertainment ranging from the Endangered Species puppeteers and the Earthcapades, to BioDiesel America’s “Veggie Van.” Speakers include Mayor Newsom, California Cabinet Secretary Terry Tamminen, and environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
The California Tomorrow Festival and the opening ceremonies of the World Environment Day conference at Civic Center Plaza are free to the public.
After the ceremony, the participating mayors will begin meetings to establish policy that will lead to legislation on vital environmental issues. The conference concludes June 5 with the mayors signing seven Urban Environmental Accords covering urban design, transportation, energy, open space, recycling, health, and water.
“This will be the most important United Nations conference to focus on urban environment,” said Mayor Newsom, who is the host of the conference. “The accords that we mayors sign will leave a legacy that advances environmental wellbeing for cities around the world.”
The California Tomorrow Festival exhibits will be on display all day in front of City Hall in Civic Center Plaza. They showcase California as the global source for renewable energy technology products and services, while highlighting the companies that are leading the way in developing innovative solutions to global environmental challenges. More than 60 companies will be exhibiting, such as Shell Solar featuring cutting edge photovoltaic systems, the California Fuel Cell Partnership with major auto manufacturers showcasing fuel cell and hybrid vehicles with cars represented from Nissan, Honda, GM, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, etc. In addition to the Zap Cars, Smart Cars and electric vehicles on display, a major installation from the Climate Group will display global devastation resulting from climate change.
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World Environment Day is a project of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Since its inception in 1972, World Environment Day has given a human face to environmental issues, and promoted an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes about the environment. UNEP provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
Sponsors for World Environment Day in San Francisco include the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Foundation, the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, the Tommy E. Short Charitable Foundation, The Lopez Low Foundation, Earth Council Alliance, Norcal Waste Systems, Federal Express, IMG Home, Organic Bouquet, Sierra Club, Mitsubishi International Corporation Foundation, Mitsubishi Corporation, Sound Energy Solutions, KPIX, KGO-TV, UPN Bay Area, KMTP World Channel, Sina, KQED, Mother Jones, E the Environmental Magazine, KRON, KNTV, KTVU.
May 25, 2005
'GREEN' CARS, SOLAR INVENTIONS, FREE ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD AND MORE
HIGHLIGHT THE CALIFORNIA TOMORROW FESTIVAL AT CIVIC CENTER PLAZA ON JUNE 2
SAN FRANCISCO (May 25, 2005) -- Mayors from the largest cities on the planet will convene in San Francisco for United Nation’s World Environment Day conference June 1-5 to adopt historic accords on sustainable urban living.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will preside over special opening ceremonies at Civic Center Plaza at 9 a.m. on Thursday, June 2, a free public celebration to kick off both the conference and the California Tomorrow Festival, the public’s chance to experience first-hand cutting edge environmental solutions.
“The California Tomorrow festival is an exciting display of California technology that will define a new way of ‘green’ living,” said Carl Bendix, organizer of the event. It features free concerts, entertainment, food, and the newest innovations in cutting edge green technology: hydrogen fuel, solar power, wind power, biofuels, geothermal energy, hydropower, people power, alternative fuel vehicles and green architecture.
“This is a remarkable opportunity for everyone in the Bay Area to come see and touch the future,” Bendix said. “Plus, it will be a heck of a lot of fun.”
Featured artists at the ceremonies include Ozomatli, Vinyl, Hamsa Lila, Samantha Stollenwerck and the Ritual, and the San Francisco Girls Choir.
The World Environment Day-California Tomorrow Festival opening ceremonies will welcome more than 60 mayors from the world’s largest and most environmentally significant cities, including London, Zurich, Buenos Aires, Jakarta, Delhi, Kabul, and Manila. The ceremonies include special entertainment ranging from the Endangered Species puppeteers and the Earthcapades, to BioDiesel America’s “Veggie Van.” Speakers include Mayor Newsom, California Cabinet Secretary Terry Tamminen, and environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
The California Tomorrow Festival and the opening ceremonies of the World Environment Day conference at Civic Center Plaza are free to the public.
After the ceremony, the participating mayors will begin meetings to establish policy that will lead to legislation on vital environmental issues. The conference concludes June 5 with the mayors signing seven Urban Environmental Accords covering urban design, transportation, energy, open space, recycling, health, and water.
“This will be the most important United Nations conference to focus on urban environment,” said Mayor Newsom, who is the host of the conference. “The accords that we mayors sign will leave a legacy that advances environmental wellbeing for cities around the world.”
The California Tomorrow Festival exhibits will be on display all day in front of City Hall in Civic Center Plaza. They showcase California as the global source for renewable energy technology products and services, while highlighting the companies that are leading the way in developing innovative solutions to global environmental challenges. More than 60 companies will be exhibiting, such as Shell Solar featuring cutting edge photovoltaic systems, the California Fuel Cell Partnership with major auto manufacturers showcasing fuel cell and hybrid vehicles with cars represented from Nissan, Honda, GM, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, etc. In addition to the Zap Cars, Smart Cars and electric vehicles on display, a major installation from the Climate Group will display global devastation resulting from climate change.
--
World Environment Day is a project of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Since its inception in 1972, World Environment Day has given a human face to environmental issues, and promoted an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes about the environment. UNEP provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
Sponsors for World Environment Day in San Francisco include the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Foundation, the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, the Tommy E. Short Charitable Foundation, The Lopez Low Foundation, Earth Council Alliance, Norcal Waste Systems, Federal Express, IMG Home, Organic Bouquet, Sierra Club, Mitsubishi International Corporation Foundation, Mitsubishi Corporation, Sound Energy Solutions, KPIX, KGO-TV, UPN Bay Area, KMTP World Channel, Sina, KQED, Mother Jones, E the Environmental Magazine, KRON, KNTV, KTVU.
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