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Earth Day at GCC
Earth Day Events: GAME and RAP SESSION “15 Steps to a Better World” Begins at 10am, Plaza Vaquero A unique interactive Game called “15 Steps to a Better World” will make it’s debut on the Plaza Vaquero lawn. Students will learn about individual responses to global warming throughout the day. At noon, Professor Paul Kazarian will lead an open discussion on how scientists, governments, and industry are addressing the issues. Research materials and results of the game will be featured on the GCC website at http://www.glendale.edu/ecofest/15steps Plaza Vaquero noon to 1p.m., entertainment and speeches by Eco Fest guests and performers.
“Community Organizing for Better Environments and Safer
Communities” Pacoima Beautiful is a remarkable success story in training community members to insure safe and healthy homes and neighborhoods. Among their many programs are workshop-style institutes where the empower students and residents on issues ranging from Environmental Justice, Home Health, Community Space, Affordable Housing and Toxic Sites. They train mothers, students, businesses and other members of the public to recognize and take action on a full range of environmental issues, from lead poisoning to asthma triggers to toxic materials and others. Empower yourself by attending this important session.
“Bringing the Eco Revolution Home” Path to Freedom is an “urban homestead” in Pasadena. The Dervaes family has opened their home and hearts to sharing a lifetime of experience in and impressive range of back-to-basics practices such as permaculture methods, bio-intensive farming and appropriate technologies including biodiesel and solar energy. Their example and training can help anyone with an open mind to successfully reduced their own "footprint" on the earth.
“Being Caribou” Environmentalist Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot, across 1,500 kilometers of rugged Arctic tundra. The husband-and-wife team wants to raise awareness of threats to the caribou's survival. They let the caribou guide them through a wild and remote landscape, from the central Yukon to coastal Alaska and back. During the five-month journey, they ski and hike across mountains, swim icy rivers, brave Arctic weather and endure hordes of mosquitoes. They survive an encounter with a hungry grizzly bear that forces them to reconcile what it means to be a part of true wilderness. Hunger, fatigue and pain become routine, but the sacrifice is worth it when they witness the miracle of birth just meters from their tent. Dramatic footage and video diaries provide an intimate perspective of an epic expedition. At stake is the herd's delicate habitat, which could be devastated if proposed oil and gas development goes ahead in the herd's calving grounds in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Information Tables and Exhibits will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
GCC CLUBS
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