Earth Island Institute

Blood Dolphin$

Earth Island's International Marine Mammal Project staff Ric O'Barry, Dave Phillips, Mark Berman, and more are featured in the new Animal Planet television series "Blood Dolphin$", exposing the plight of dolphins worldwide and working for their full protection. The series premieres this Friday night at 9 p.m. E/P with "Return to Taiji", following up on where things left off in the Oscar-winning movie The Cove. Visit Earth Island's website where you can watch the series trailer and learn more about each episode and link to action pages.

Thursday September 2, 2010

Save EII Jobs

The clock is ticking on the expiration of the federal stimulus bill, and we need your help to make sure jobs don't disappear. Through the support of the City of San Francisco's "Jobs Now! SF" program, Earth Island's projects hired 7 additional staffers in 2010. Funding ends for the program September 30. If Congress does not vote to extend the TANF/Emergency Contingency Funding program, all of the workers employed through the program could lose their jobs. The Internet Archive is initiating a grass roots campaign to help get funding extended for a second year. This campaign will help protect jobs across the country.

You can help by signing the Internet Archive's petition or Change.org's petition calling for an extension of the stimulus.

"As a young organization, we have never had the opportunity to pay somebody to go out and raise money, a daunting task in the current economic and political environment. Without Cynthia, our Executive Director has had to play this role, as well as policy director, ecologist, vision leader, etc., and so her new fundraising role is indispensable to our ability to find a way to financial sustainability. Without it, we can do nothing more than hobble along by the seat of our pants." – Peter Brastow, Director of Nature in the City

Thursday September 2, 2010

Engulfed

The Autumn Earth Island Journal is now online! The new issue reports on many aspects of the Gulf spill, from the stories of the people living in the Gulf to the struggle to get BP to clean up its mess.

Featured articles include

• "We are all Louisianans," by Jason Mark
• "No Comment," by Elizabeth Grossman
• "Hide and Leak," by Riki Ott
• "Disaster in Another Language," by Elizabeth Grossman and Jason Mark
• "Web of Destruction," by Amy Westervelt and Innosanto Nagara

Thursday September 2, 2010

Simple Question: The Story of STRAW – Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed

Earth Island Presents... with the Center for Ecoliteracy invite you to join us for: A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW – Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed.

We’ll screen The Bay Institute’s award-winning film (30-min.) A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW – Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed.

This remarkable and inspiring documentary is about fourth grade students in Marin County and their inspired teachers taking on the challenge of saving the endangered California freshwater shrimp and restoring a watershed, and in the process reconnecting community and energizing education.

And Earth Island Institute's director of Restoration Initiatives, Ariana Katovich will host a dynamic panel discussion with; Zenobia Barlow, Executive Director and Cofounder of the Center for Ecoliteracy, Sandy Neumann who is responsible for Educational Professional Development at the Bay Institute and was the principal at Brookside Elementary School when the film was made, and Laurette Rogers Watershed Education Director for the Bay Institute.

Tickets available here: earthisland.org/events/restoration.

When: Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 7 p.m. (doors will open at 6:30)
Where: Goldman Theater of the David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Thursday September 2, 2010

Musical Tribute

As part of the All At Once campaign, Jack Johnson's To The Sea tour is collaborating with over 150 community groups focusing on plastic-free initiatives and sustainable, local food systems, as well as environmental education, oceans and watersheds, tree planting and other hands-on community projects. Earth Island Institute and our projects Kids for the Bay and Plastic Pollution Coalition are thrilled to be three of the organizations featured at the Berkeley stop of the To The Sea tour! Not only do we get to participate in the Village Green at Jack's October 6 performance at the Greek Theatre but the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation will match donations given to Earth Island up to $2500 though October 15.

Help us reach our fundraising goal of $2,500! As a special incentive thank you gift, the first three online donors who give $500 or more will receive 2 tickets to the show as well as having their donations matched. All donations are tax deductible.

And if you want to learn more about limiting your plastic use, check out the song Jack wrote for Plastic Pollution Coalition.

Thursday September 2, 2010

Civilizing the Economy: A conversation with Marvin T. Brown, Ph.D

Civilizing the Economy proposes a new framework for the global economy that reframes its purpose as the making of provisions instead of the accumulation of property. This bold new vision establishes the civic sphere as the platform for organizing an inclusive economy and a way to move toward a more just and sustainable world. Admission is free. RSVP to terry hopper at 415-394-5220 or thopper at saybrook.edu. When: Thursday, Sept 23, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Where: Saybrook University 747 Front Street, 3rd Floor in the Rollo May Library San Francisco, CA 94121

Thursday September 2, 2010

Greening Your Cafe: Easy Steps to Save Energy, Waste, Water and Money

Do you own, manage or work in a coffeehouse or restaurant? Come join representatives from the Green Café Network, the Oakland Recycling Program and the Food Service Technology Center for a hands-on workshop and learn about the easy steps you can take to reduce your café's environmental impacts and save money! Whether you're just getting started or you already do some great things to be 'green', this workshop is a great chance to ask your questions and hear from local experts about the excellent resources available to small businesses in the food and beverage industry. Please RSVP, as space is limited. RSVP and/or send questions to: info at greencafenetwork.org. When: Thursday, September 23, 2010 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Where: Remedy Café 4316 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94609

Thursday September 2, 2010

First Bay Area Film Screening of Play Again with Meg Merrill, Producer

What are we missing when we are behind screens? And how does this impact our children's wellbeing, our society, and the future of our planet? Play Again explores the changing balance between the virtual and natural worlds. The documentary follows six teenagers who, like the average American child, spend five to fifteen hours a day behind screens. Play Again unplugs these teens and takes them on their first wilderness adventure with no electricity, no cell coverage, no virtual reality. $10 Suggested donation at the door. All profits benefit field trips to get youth outside; no one turned away for lack of funds. Presented by Earth Island Institute, the Environmental Education Council of Marin, Bay Area Children in Nature Collaborative, and Earth Island Projects Bay Area Wilderness Training and Living Laboratories. When: Wednesday, September 22nd at 7 p.m., Reception to follow.
Where: Goldman Theater - David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Thursday September 2, 2010

Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers Exhibit Opening Reception

In this series, begun in 2005, Jordan envisions staggering statistics of American consumption. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: two million bottles are depicted in a larger-than-human-scale digital photograph entitled Plastic Bottles, literally representing the number of plastic beverage bottles used in the United States every five minutes. From a distance, many of Jordan's images appear as reductive color fields, minimal landscapes or geometric patterns, while others coalesce into recognizable imagery. With these aesthetically seductive, spectacularly large photographs, Jordan reminds us that our individual lifestyles contribute to a shockingly great cumulative impact on the planet. Reception is free. Space is limited so please RSVP. When: September 30, 2010 Artist Talk at 6 p.m., reception to follow
Where: Hazel Wolf Gallery in the David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704

Thursday September 2, 2010

New Leaders

The 11th annual Brower Youth Awards are just around the corner! The premiere awards honoring bold young environmental leaders, will recognize six young activists and their amazing work at our lively and inspiring ceremony. Join us in celebrating the next generation of environmental leaders! Support our New Leaders Initiative by buying a ticket for the BYA Opening Reception or just come on out for the BYA Ceremony and applaud these young green achievers for free, but be sure to reserve your spot today!

When: Tuesday, October 19th at 7 p.m. (opening reception begins at 5:30 p.m.)
Where: Herbst Theatre San Francisco, CA.

Thursday September 2, 2010

Youth Be Told

If you are reading this before 6:30 p.m. Pacific and are in Berkeley, stop!!! head on over to our Earth Island Presents . . . event 'Celebrating Young Activists: Building a Green Movement & Changing the World'.

However, if you cannot be with us tonight to celebrate the achievements of young environmentalists, join us two months from today for our 11^th annual Brower Youth Awards on October 19, 2010.

BYA -- the premiere awards honoring bold young environmental leaders -- will honor six young activist heroes at our lively and inspiring awards at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

Support our New Leaders Initiative by buying a ticket for the BYA Opening Reception or just come on out for the BYA Ceremony and applaud these young green achievers for free, but be sure to reserve your spot today!

Thursday August 19, 2010

Story Honor

Speaking of excellent Journal features, Earth Island Journal editor Jason Mark was honored by the Society for Environmental Journalists in their 9th annual journalism contest for "Outstanding Small Market Reporting, Print." The SEJ contest judges cited Jason's Autumn 2009 Journal cover story "Hacking the Sky" "Mark's explanation of the emerging and controversial notion of geo-engineering was authoritative without being wonkish, and brought an important piece of environmental science vividly to life."

Thursday August 19, 2010

Engulfed

The Autumn 2010 Earth Island Journal is in the mail to our members and subscribers and it will be on newsstands soon, but why wait? You can read the excellent investigative features on the catastrophic BP Gulf oil spill on our website.

Thursday August 19, 2010

Bag it!

Join Earth Island project, the Plastic Pollution Coalition for the Film Festival to Support California Single-Use Bag Reduction Act, AB 1998. The festival will screen important and entertaining films on the world's most common consumer product and plague to the environment: the single-use plastic bag. Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 4:00 p.m. @ UCLA's James Bridges Theater. For more information please contact Lisa Boyle, Esq. at lisa at plasticpollutioncoalition.org.

Thursday August 19, 2010

Content Partners

If a hard-hitting new issue and honors from fellow journalists weren't enough, we are also thrilled to announce that Earth Island Journal is now a part of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets, including The Progressive, The Nation, Mother Jones, Grist.org, and many others. The Journal was also recently made a content partner on the Guardian (UK) Environment Network, a web portal for "news and comment from the world's best environment sites."

Thursday August 19, 2010

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