Jack Johnson Film Premiere

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350.org Climate Day starts Today

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Swimming in a Sea of Acid

My latest film is a beautiful, independent documentary called “ACID TEST” that explores the urgent problem of rising ocean acidity caused by our burning of fossil fuels. The 22-minute film premiered in August on Discovery Planet Green and is now available online at www.acidtestmovie.com.

The website enables you to see the whole film, take action to reduce carbon dioxide pollution, see extended interviews with top ocean scientists, learn about the science of acidification, and request a free DVD and action kit for home screenings with friends and family. (I hope many people will take advantage of this. ACID TEST is a fascinating, Read more

SOS The Prince’s Rainforest Project

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Pab Love Across America

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PABLOVE ACROSS AMERICA:

3000 MILES IN 30 DAYS ON 2 BIKES FOR 1 CAUSE

On October 10, Dangerbird Records co-founder, Jeff Castelaz, along with his friend and coach Rick Babington, will embark on a 30-day bike expedition across the entire United States, with the sole mission to improve the treatment experience for children with cancer. Castelaz’s goal is to raise $1 million in funds and to increase awareness of pediatric cancer along the way. His pilgrimage is deeply rooted: he’s riding in honor and remembrance of his 6-year old son, Pablo Thrailkill Castelaz, whose individual fight with cancer ended June 27, 2009 after a 13-month battle.

At the onset of Pablo’s diagnosis, Castelaz and his wife Jo Ann Thrailkill founded The Pablove Foundation. Pablove Across America is Castelaz’s physical show of commitment to fighting cancer. His message is urgent: kids get cancer too. Families need help and hope - not only to find a cure, but to increase joy and compassion during the day-to-day grind of treatment.

The 3,100-mile ride will begin in St. Augustine, Fla. and culminate at Pablo’s grave at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. Various guest cyclists such as Pablo’s friend Lance Armstrong will join on different legs of the jaunt, as they cover 100-plus miles a day, six days a week. Two special benefit concerts will take place: one in Austin, Texas, at Emo’s Jr. on October 28, one in Los Angeles November 21. Concert details will be announced shortly.

This extensive journey is just one of many ways Castelaz and his family - armed with Pablo’s ever-inspiring spirit, love and boundless energy - continue to promote the purpose of the Pablove Foundation. Along the ride route, Castelaz will visit children’s hospitals to connect with kids just like Pablo; he will also promote the Pablove Foudnation’s mission in the media. A video crew will be alongside to document the journey and offer daily content online - anything to drive home the mission of the Pablove Foundation, and to keep Pablo’s spirit alive.

The Pablove Foundation supports national pediatric cancer concerns with a focus on the pediatric cancer community in and around Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, where Pablo was treated. CHLA is a nonprofit hospital with a reputation as an international leader in providing state-of-the-art medical care for children. Each year they provide complex care for more than 93,000 children from across the United States and the world. The year-old foundation intends to announce its support of national programs beginning in 2010.

In conjunction with Pablove Across America, the foundation will hold a high-profile eBay charity auction, including celebrity experience and memorabilia items. Details will be in announced the next few weeks.

“Pablove Across America,” says Castelaz, “is about standing up, hammering the pedals, speaking out - and FIGHTING back. We want people to support and spread our message that kids get cancer too. It’s not somebody else’s problem. As the Pablove Foundation community grows, we can make a sizable difference in peoples’ lives.”

Lance Armstrong once again lent his support while in Los Angeles this week, as he joined Castelaz for the official announcement and website launch. Video can be seen at: www.pablove.org.

Meat the Truth

The Dalai Lama Center For Peace+Education

http://www.dalailamacenter.org

History
The Vancouver-based Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education is an embodiment of His
Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama’s life-long commitment to compassion and inner well-being.
Founded in 2005 by the Dalai Lama and Victor Chan, the Center is envisioned as a world-class
institution, firmly grounded in Vancouver yet present and influential on the global stage.
The Center has no religious or political affiliations. It promotes peace through education,
personal transformation, and dialogue. The Dalai Lama believes that vital, sustainable
communities depend upon many small, individual acts of compassion and helpfulness. By
thinking less about ourselves and more about the well-being of others, we enhance our growth
and happiness. By helping others, we contribute to the greater good. Along the way, our lives
and the lives of others are transformed.
Committed to Educating the Heart
“My religion is kindness,” the Dalai Lama famously says. The Center embraces this ethos and
His Holiness’ belief that each of us has a responsibility to “develop a warm heart, cultivate
compassion and work for peace within oneself and in the world.”
“Educating the heart” is the Center’s tag line. The Center will provide a learning environment
that cultivates mindfulness: the integration of mind, body, and spirit. It will encourage
heightened awareness within of our inner potential through diverse practices of art. And it will
provide a venue for creative interpretation of the world’s many wisdom traditions.
By bringing peace into our own lives, the Center will help to bring peace into the world.
Mission Statement
The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education educates the heart and fosters compassion
through: creative learning, facilitating and applying research, and connecting people and ideas.
Values
The Center encourages values such as compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, contentment and selfdiscipline
through engagement with the community. These are the values that contribute to peace
and harmony locally, nationally and globally. We believe that most people embrace and
recognize the importance of these values, but often don’t know how to access the information
and guidance they seek to bring them into their lives. We will help them do that.
The Center seeks, in all of its activities, to reflect values of compassion, mutual understanding,
inner well-being, mindfulness, creativity, peacefulness, warm heartedness, aspiration and
interconnectedness.
About Our Programs
The Dalai Lama’s vision of the learning process involves a full engagement of our physical,
emotional and spiritual dimensions. This holistic approach seeks wisdom rather than mere
information. It naturally plugs into our capacity for compassion, forgiveness and imagination.
This way of knowing – the cultivation of empathy – is at the heart of moral development. The
Dalai Lama believes that the most essential knowledge arises not from the head but from the
heart.
The Center is committed to education that fosters cognitive development and spiritual selfreflection.
Under the guidance of the Dalai Lama, the Center will develop educational initiatives
that nourish both intellect and wisdom in service to the greater good. From its foundational
concern for “educating the heart”, the Center is working to build strong connections with others
in the community in support of current and future programs.
Connecting for Change
Connecting for Change is comprised of a series of dialogues, hosted both locally and
internationally, that connect people across boundaries of business, philanthropy and community,
building understanding and creating inter-connectedness. The program facilitates meaningful
conversations and provides tools to inspire personal reflection, transformation and connection
with others across sectors and professions. It strives to strengthen and sustain an increasingly
connected, collaborative and actively compassionate society.

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What shall we call the RainforestSOS frog?

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