Green Events
Animal and holiday-lovers unite! I’ve got the perfect outing for you, if you live in the Bay Area: head on over to the Oakland Zoo to glimpse some of the planet’s most spectacular non-humans AND some of California’s best RGB LED lights. Impact Lighting designed the Zoo’s main light show, which fills a meadow with Learn More
Two weekends ago I took a trip up to San Francisco for Green Festival, the country’s premier event for businesses, communities and the environment. Green Festivals are held all over the country (the Los Angeles event was last weekend), but attending the one in San Francisco is kind of like seeing live jazz music in Learn More
This week I’m exhibiting an interactive art installation at AASHE Conference 2012. The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s annual event represents the largest convergence of sustainability and education professionals in the country! For my nonprofit organization, RuckusRoots, it provides a great place for us to gain exposure for our programs, which Learn More
The Greenbuild Conference and Expo is the world’s largest conference dedicated to green building. It is being hosted this year in San Francisco, November 14-16th and brings industry leaders together to talk about green building innovations, industry trends, new technology and best practices. This conference caters to green building professionals, green contractors, architects, and green Learn More
Poetry, music and the arts are becoming more and more popular outlets to express values surrounding sustainability. Not to long ago I wrote a post about an eco poetry reading in Berkeley. As far as I was concerned these types of events happened once in a blue moon, however I just read about an organization, Learn More
This year’s Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park saw over 100,000 concert goers a day. Resource management becomes a big logistical issue when dealing with that many people and the Outside Lands team did a great job implementing sustainable systems to keep the crowds happy and safe while reducing the negative Learn More
Last but definitely not least, I bring you one of my favorite LED lighting applications from the London Olympic Games. Less about flashy decoration and more about interactive sustainability, this clever design ensures footsteps of participants will help to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the Olympic games. Created by PaveGen, a London-based sustainable design Learn More
Eco Tuesday is a monthly green networking event that happens the last Tuesday of every month in San Francisco. Each event has different green sponsors who want to support the green market in San Francisco and network attendees. The goal is to bring green professionals together to brainstorm, collaborate and help push the market forward Learn More
At a recent United Nations conference on sustainable development, three giant fish sculptures leapt from sand near Botafogo Beach in Rio de Janeiro. In place of scales, the fish boasted recycled plastic bottles, a reminder about the importance of recycling and reducing the dangerous amounts of trash filling our oceans. At the conference, officials discussed Learn More
Bay Area Green Tours is a local San Francisco Bay Area business who’s mission is to provide educational tours and events that demonstrate the sustainable economy in action, inspire support of local green businesses, and empower people to incorporate environmental responsibility and social justice into their personal and professional lives. On July 25th, Bay Area Learn More
