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15th Annual DC Enviro- Film Festival

15th Annual Environmental Film Festival
Thursday March 15th - Sunday March 25th, 2007

http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org/

At the end of 2006, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote:
We reached a tipping point this year ; where living, acting, designing, investing and manufacturing green came to be understood by a critical mass of citizens, entrepreneurs and officials as the most patriotic, capitalistic, geopolitical, healthy and competitive thing they could do. Hence my own motto: Green is the new red, white and blue...


 

Added on March 09, 2007 by RachelCarson100

Md. Declares Rachel Carson Day


ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- May 27 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of ecologist Rachel Carson, author of the book "Silent Spring," and the Maryland General Assembly introduced a bill on Tuesday declaring that day Rachel Carson Day.

Carson is considered the mother of the environmental movement, and "Silent Spring" was a call to action when it was published in 1964 and made the startling connection between pesticide use and its harm to all living things on earth.

Carson was born in Silver Spring and studied at Johns Hopkins University.
Click here to find out more! The Newton Marasco Foundation,
www.newtonmarascofoundation.org , an environmental group, is offering events all year to celebrate Carson's centennial.


NMF is working with local, state and the federal government to declare May 27, 2007 Rachel Carson Day, a pesticide-free day in communities across the nation.
Added on March 07, 2007 by RachelCarson100

Newton, MA: Happy Birthday Rachel

Beginning this month, to mark the 100th anniversary of Rachel 's birth, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , working with the Friends of the National Conservation Training Center , will celebrate the achievements of its most notable employee by launching the Rachel Carson Online Book Club , free and open to anyone.  The March book discussion topic is Carson's Life and Legacy; you can find the full schedule of books and topics  here .


Locally, the Green Decade Coalition/Newton MA works on environmental issues, and GDC's  GreenCAP Committee for Alternatives to Pesticides has a display about Rachel Carson in the library's lobby this month.  The Green Decade Coalition also has several upcoming  events at the library, including a free showing this Saturday, March 10 at 1:00 p.m. of Al Gore's Academy Award-winning film "An Inconvenient Truth" with discussion afterward led by Professor Eric Olson of Brandeis University, and special guest Mayor David Cohen.

In addition, The New England Mobile Book Fair   joins the birthday celebration with a 30% discount on books by and about Rachel Carson throughout the month.

Added on March 07, 2007 by RachelCarson100

...SOMETHING TO WONDER ABOUT IN NATURE

"I hope we will always instill in children knowledge and love of nature, so that their sense of wonder will never cease. ... We all need to find something to wonder about in nature." Marie Aull,   Aullwood celebrates 50 years , Dayton Daily News  

April 10: A Sense of Wonder: A Play Based on the Life and Works of Rachel Carson. This one-woman show features actress Kaiulani Lee in the role of Carson ...


Added on March 04, 2007 by RachelCarson100

IS SPRING STILL SILENT?

What is new, and what is not new, as we approach Rachel Carson's 100th birthday 


NRDC's " On Earth ,"  Spring, 2007 "Reviews:   Is Spring Still Silent?/
What Is New and What Is not New" by E. Kolbert and reviews of: "Courage for the Earth /Writers, Scientists, and Activist Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson " edited by Peter Matthiessen and also a review of "Silent Spring."


COURAGE FOR THE EARTH, Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson, Edited by Peter Matthiessen, Mariner Books, 224 pp., $14.95

SILENT SPRING, By Rachel Carson, Mariner Books, 378 pp., $14


Added on March 02, 2007 by RachelCarson100

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WEB OF LIFE

From: Center for Health and the Global Environment 
We are proud to launch our latest production, the
(Bio)DaVersity Code , a spoof flash animation that illustrates how our health depends on biodiversity. The film was produced by Free Range Graphics (who produced the Meatrix). We also partnered with the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and with the help of several NGO partners, including the Sierra Club, National Audubon, and others, the online film was launched to over one million people this week. Please helpus spread the word by passing it along to your
friends and family.
www.daversitycode.com

Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
401 Park Drive, Second Floor East, Boston, MA 02215
(P) 617 384-8530  http://chge.med.harvard.edu
The mission of the Center is to help people understand that our health,and that of our children, depends on the health of the environment, and that we must do everything we can to protect it.
Added on March 01, 2007 by RachelCarson100

National Wildlife Refuge Trail Guide

 

Here you can see all the parts of the Sea this coastal Maine salt marsh. From critical edge through creeks, salt pannes, marsh grass, beach and ocean, it is a network of soils, water, plants and wildlife that functions as a whole, forming a unique and fragile community. As Rachel Carson wrote,"All the life of the planet is interrelated...each species has its own ties to others, and...all are related to the earth." (Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us)   

Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge Trail Guide, www.fws.gov/northeast/rachelcarson/brochure.html

Added on March 01, 2007 by RachelCarson100
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