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Join Northern California's most popular and scenic fully supported ride dedicated to fighting air pollution and finding treatments for asthma, emphysema, and lung cancer. Three "breath-giving" and fully-supported routes to choose from. Choose from a 30, 66, and 100-mile route that leads through the beautiful back roads of Marin and Sonoma counties. There are fully stocked rest stops, SAG crews and mechanics, and spirited volunteers to cheer you on. Riders then return to the Village to enjoy a relaxing afternoon with a catered lunch, live music, wine and beer garden, massages, team photos, and celebrate how they made a difference in the lives of those with lung disease. Register today!
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Waterkeeper Alliance – the international champion of clean water and strong communities, with 190 programs on six continents – will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in New York, the birthplace of the Waterkeeper movement. The celebration will bring together Waterkeepers and their supporters from around the world, including the New York Clean Water Advocates Hudson Riverkeeper, NY/NJ Baykeeper, and Long Island Soundkeeper, to commemorate a decade of clean water advocacy.
Waterkeeper Alliance Chairman and Founder Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will deliver a keynote address. Live entertainment will be provided by Daryl Hall of the legendary pop music duo Hall & Oates.
An organic and locally sourced hors d’oeuvres menu, including raw bar. Open bar with beer, wine and eco-friendly cocktails.
The Winter Garden is easily accessible by New York City mass transit. Parking is also available. Complimentary round-trip ferry service from Liberty Landing, at 80 Audrey Zapp Dr. in Jersey City, NJ, will also be provided.
Tickets are $75 per person. Visit www.waterkeeper.org to purchase tickets. For more information, call (914) 674-0622, ext. 30, or email events@waterkeeper.org.
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www.boghill.com eco holliday weeks - experience cobbuilding (earth building technique) every morning, then there's loads of different nature and environmental activities in the afternoons.
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Explore the possibilities of making art from used, discarded, discovered, demolished and recovered objects and materials. In this course, you create projects with found materials using a wide variety of approaches and methods including collage, assemblage, installation, video, photography, and performance. In addition, you learn about the historical and contemporary ideas behind the use of found materials in art, including social and political commentary, surrealism and the dream world, and nostalgia and memory. (June 29 to Aug. 6, Mon. and Thurs.) Cost: $445.
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The China Sustainable Building Summit 2009 will be held on June 29th - July 1st ,2009 in Shanghai China. Overall we expect more than 300 high profile participants from property developers financiers, architects, designers, contractors, engineers, as well as building sustainability solution providers including technology and products vendors.
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The Truth About Green Business brings together 52 crucial facts and insights leaders must know to successfully go green. This book delivers quick, plain-English explanations that executives, decision-makers, and entrepreneurs can actually use, no matter what kind of businesses they’re running, or what their environmental and profit goals are.
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Replete with charts, diagrams and photos, this new guide can serve as a one-stop resource for designers.
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Writing from direct experience in building a sustainability program at the Aspen Skiing Company, in "Getting Green Done" Auden Schendler offers a peek under the hood of the green movement, showing what it means to implement climate solutions in the real world.
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In this new book, brand expert Richard Seireeni interviewed over two dozen "ecopreneurs" from a broad range of industries -- home improvement, transportation, household products, food and beverage, energy, real estate, finance, and fashion -- to offer a rich source of wisdom for green businesses getting off the ground or for any business aiming to improve its environmental performance.
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"The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems" offers a look at the ways that investing in green jobs can save the economy and the environment at the same time.
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This report from the North American Green Purchasing Initiative of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation offers a primer on sourcing renewable energy, including six steps a buyer should follow to purchase green power.
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An outline to designing, implementing and measuring the benefits of partnerships between companies and non-governmental organizations.
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These Guidelines are intended to guide full-scale demonstration of and build public confidence in CCS technologies by informing how projects should be conducted.
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The federal energy efficiency provisions included in H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, a.k.a. Waxman-Markey, could save approximately $1,050 per household by 2020 and $4,400 per household by 2030, according to an updated analysis by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).
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The executive summary to this report asks: What would it take to aggressively scale up clean energy to have a major impact on job growth, energy independence and climate change over the next 10 years?
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This report from the Center for American Progress and the University of Massachusetts explores how investments of $150 billion per year in energy efficiency, building retrofits, clean technologies and public transportation can create 1.7 million new jobs in the United States.
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This brochure offers a guide to the objectives and benefits of the Eco-Patent Commons, a non-profit environmental information-sharing project created by IBM, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, and a growing number of environmentally minded companies.
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Climate Leaders is an EPA industry-government partnership that encourages companies to develop long-term comprehensive climate change strategies. This fact sheet offers a primer on the steps undertaken by Climate Leaders partners to establish a greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal.
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Based on extensive research and economic analysis, Sightline’s Cap and Trade 101: A Climate Policy Primer sorts out the details on what's emerging as the most popular and comprehensive policy solution to the enormous challenge of climate change: cap and trade, which promises to curb climate change and help build a more stable energy economy.