The Green Zebra Eco Action Center and the new reMake Lounge Kickoff Event!

Please join us for the official launch of the Green Zebra Environmental Action Center and The Remake Lounge! Come learn about solar lease programs, composting, rainwater catchment, and other ways you can live a more sustainable lifestyle. Make your own green cleaning products, an art piece from scrap, or learn to mend your clothes.

We'll have music, electric bike test rides, eco-friendly cocktails featuring VeeV-- the world's first acai spirit-- plus local, sustainable, organic nibbles from Living Room Events! We'll also have great raffle prizes you can win just for attending!

	Donations welcomed and will support our mission to inspire the maker spirit, foster community, and keep materials out of the landfill.

Date:	Thursday, August 27, 2009
Time:	5:30pm - 8:00pm
Location:	Crocker Galleria (Ground Floor)
Street:	50 Post St.
City/Town:	San Francisco, CA

Phone:	4159351064
Email:	events@remakelounge.com

Here is the Facebook event to RSVP on:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=119904902675

Turn your backyard into a Food Production Farm!

Why simply grow food for your family when you can become a local food producing farm for your neighbors too!

Their vision from the website:
At the end of the day... we're all going to have to make our own decisions and come to our own conclusions about what each one of us can do to ensure that what we enjoy today will continue to be here for our friends and family tomorrow.

At MyFarm it is our mission to make growing food and growing community one in the same. We believe in the power of the individual. But we believe true power comes from working together towards a better future for all.

Our vision is a truly secure and regenerative food system. We want to offer everyone in our community a chance to participate in achieving greater personal sustainability by installing local organic gardens, selling organic vegetables to neighbors and continually seeking ways for others to lend their ideas, their time and their hands to our growing organization.

Check out My Farm to either find neighbors to buy great organic food from or to become a local farm!
http://myfarmsf.com/

Better Place- Electric Car Battery Switch in Japan!

Better Place Battery Switch Technology Demonstration

Demonstration of the world’s first automated battery switch technology for electric vehicles in Yokohama, Japan.

Safety, recyclability, environmental friendliness

The safety of today’s battery technology is unprecedented. Better Place uses advanced lithium-ion batteries made from non-toxic materials. While early generations of lithium-ion batteries had a propensity to overheat, today’s lithium-ion battery has high abuse tolerance, low heat evolution, stable cathode material, and an intelligent pack design that ensures consumer safety.

A lithium-ion battery can also be recycled with minimal environmental impact. More than 95% of the battery materials can be recovered and reused.

http://www.betterplace.com/solution/batteries/

This is the End... Charlie Frosts Blog

Always remember, you heard it first from Charlie Frost.

Other interesting sites include:

The 2012 Film...

http://www.whowillsurvive2012.com/



and the Institute for Human Continuity...
http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/

A Bio-Energy Bag for the Oceans!

NASA’s design calls for using large plastic bags, made of forward-osmosis membranes, and filled with sewage for offshore harvesting of algae for bio-fuel. These plastic bags or enclosures will be made of the same membranes that NASA is currently exploring for recycling dirty water in space missions using forward-osmosis. NASA engineers would like to call it yet another example of using the technology developed for space travel, instead for making the “Spaceship Earth” more sustainable.

http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/07/nasas-biofuel-proposal-off-shore-algae-harvesting-in-plastic-bags/

The Real Price of MEAT!

Statistics: If every American (300 million) gave up meat for 1 day a week, this would have the same positive effect on reducing greenhouse gases as saving 90 million plane tickets from New York to Los Angeles! (source: “Meat the Truth” documentary, video clip) ^[1]

**Price of Meat is about the cost of meat on global warming and what people and governments are doing to reduce it’s production and consumption.

Livestock production is the #2 cause of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the emissions from all forms of transportation combined (UN). In addition, livestock production is the #1 source of anthropogenic (human-based) methane emissions, which is a gas that has 20 times the heat-trapping power (GWP) of CO2. By reducing methane emissions we could more quickly cool the atmosphere, but ignoring it could be disastrous. Scientists say that global warming could trigger the release of billions of tons of methane trapped beneath the Arctic Ice and oceans, leading to a point of no-return.

http://priceofmeat.com/statistics/

Watch Mark Bittman speak about this on the Colbert Report Comedy Cental.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/220493/march-03-2009/mark-bittman

Kites can Power our Future!

I really, really, really love this idea (especially the Rosie the Riveter plan) please watch the video and read on...

In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/492



makanipower.com/vision.html

SF City Hall endorses Earth Hour 2009!

The City Hall of San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Wade Crowfoot and local government officials are in full support of Earth Hour on March 28th, 2009. This worldwide event to combat global climate change happens from 8:30pm to 9:30pm; to have people turn off their lights and other non-essential power for one hour of action and solidarity. There will be a full list of events going on throughout the day and culminating in the lights going out on city landmarks, businesses, commercial buildings and private residences.
Log onto:
www.earthhourus.org/sanfrancisco/sanfran cisco.php
for more information and about how to best participate!

March 28th, 2009 8:30pm to 9:30pm Turn Out, Take Action!