COACHELLA 2010

Call to Artists -Recycling bin Artwork
Call to Artists. Get TRASHed This Year At Coachella. Inspire thousands to recycle and win Coachella tixs.

20 artists will be selected to turn a 96 gallon recycling bin into a work of art.
Over the last 7 years, everyone from Hunter S Thompson to Fugazi has taken their turn recreating a recycling bin. Here’s your chance!

There’s two rounds of competition. Winning Northern America and then the world competition.
20 finalist will be selected each receiving tixs and vip passes for Coachella Festival 2010.
We invite you to submit your artwork and be considered to design one of the 20 recycling
bins featured at Coachella. What’s even better is that the non offensive redesigned bins
will be placed in schools throughout Southern California after Coachella to inspire the future
recyclers of the world! Next steps? Send us a link to your artwork, concept and/or website.
On February 20, 2010… 20 artists and 5 alternates will be selected to redesign 96 gallon
recycling bins.  We don’t charge an admission fee, but any bad idea or artwork will be
passed along internally at your expense.

Now email us at :: Coachella@globalinheritance.org

Let the games begin!

Hope for Haiti Telethon hosted by George Clooney

Some of the big name performers scheduled to appear include Beyoncé, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Dave Matthews, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Rihanna and Taylor Swift.

The two-hour, star-studded telethon is set to be one of the most widely distributed prime-time televised benefits in history, appearing simultaneously on more than 25 networks including CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT. The show will even air on the Discovery’s eco-lifestyle television network, Planet Green.
MTV is presenting the benefit, which will be helmed by Oscar-winning actor George Clooney in Los Angeles, California, and musician Wyclef Jean from New York. CNN’s Anderson Cooper will report live from Haiti.

How to Impact The world

HAITI: HOW TO HELP
CNN’s Anderson Cooper participates in Hope for Haiti – a global telethon to benefit victims of the earthquake. The two-hour broadcast airs on CNN and CNN International Friday, January 22 at 8pm ET. Below are some organizations specifically helping Haiti. Full Haiti Coverage | Tips to Giving  | Feeding Haiti

• More details on how you can help: Who’s doing what, how you can contribute

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/

Food Rules by Michael Pollan

Eating doesn’t have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings a welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with the clarity, concision and wit that has become bestselling author Michael Pollan’s trademark, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely, one per page accompanied by a concise explanation. It’s an easy-to-use guide that draws from a variety of traditions, suggesting how different cultures through the ages have arrived at the same enduring wisdom about food. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this is the perfect guide for anyone who ever wondered, “What should I eat?”

http://michaelpollan.com/foodrules.php.

Super Foods for the New Year

Superfoods are vibrant, nutritionally dense foods that have recently become widely available and which offer tremendous dietary and healing potential. In this lively, illustrated overview, well-known raw-foods guru David Wolfe profiles delicious and incredibly nutritious plant products such as goji berries, hempseed, cacao beans (raw chocolate), maca, spirulina, bee products, and a host of others. As powerful sources of clean protein, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, good fats and oils, essential fatty and amino acids, and other nutrients, they represent a uniquely promising piece of the nutritional puzzle. Each superfood is described in detail, accompanied by easy and delicious recipes. This accessible guide presents persuasive arguments, based on sound science, for the pivotal role of superfoods in promoting nutritional excellence, health and well-being, beauty enhancement, sustainable agriculture, and the transformation of diet, lifestyle, and planet.

www.davidwolfe.com

Gore at climate talks: Polar ice may go in five years

New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the UN climate conference.
AP/Michael von Bülow (article updated)
Northern polar sea ice has been retreating dramatically. These new projections suggest an almost-vanished summer ice cap much earlier than foreseen by a US government agency just eight months ago.”It is hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science of ice felt when they saw this,” former US Vice President Gore told reporters and other conference participants at a joint briefing with Scandinavian officials and scientists, his first appearance at the two-week session.

The group presented two new reports updating fast-moving developments in Antarctica, the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland, and the rest of the Arctic.

“The time for collective and immediate action on climate change is now,” said Denmark’s foreign minister, Per Stig Møller.

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Hopenhagen

Copenhagen is buzzing with cultural climate events and activities for all ages, as delegates get serious at COP15 in the Bella Center.During the entire conference, the Copenhagen Town Hall Square turns into ‘Hopenhagen Live’, a city within the city with exhibitions, concerts and more.

The popular Danish band Nephew opened Hopenhagen on December 7 to an excited audience of thousands of Danes and COP15 visitors  at the Town Hall Square. Read more

Road to Copenhagen Climate week

Clean Skies News follows the global events leading up to the December 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.  Topics include preliminary negotiations at various global climate conferences; geopolitical issues related to industrialized nations and emerging nations; and the scientific and corporate issues that will impact the debate.

Copenhagen 2009 Climate Change

Recent reports indicate that the rains have failed once again across vast swathes of Eastern Africa, putting millions of people at risk. This current regional crisis is a stark reminder to all of us that the global food security crisis of 2007 and 2008, which was marked by a sharp contraction in food supplies and food price spikes, is far from Read more

Copenhagen 2009

In the next few years, several different experimental

schemes will test electric cars in practice in a large electrical system.

en.cop15.dk

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