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Thursday, February 28 2008, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Join a panel of nationally recognized environmentalists and social pioneers for a press conference and provocative town hall discussion exploring race marginalization within the environmental movement and how communities of color are being shut out of the larger environmental dialogue affecting their lives.
WORLD PREMIERE, groundbreaking footage from Sundance Channel’s Environmental Justice series highlighting how quickly a poor white community was given aid - in stark contrast to and eclipsing progress in New Orleans’s communities of color.
HOSTED BY SIMRAN SETHI, host of Sundance Channel’s The Green. (www.sundancechannel.com) Ms. Sethi has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Martha Stewart Living as well as being a featured Pioneer in Vanity Fair’s annual Green Issue.
PANELISTS INCLUDE:
- LUDOVIC BLAIN, Racial Justice Entrepreneur
- OMAR FREILLA, Green Worker Cooperatives of The South Bronx
- AUDREY PETERMAN, Founder- Earthwise Productions
- SHARON LEVINE, Concrete Safari
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Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th street, Manhattan
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Envisioning A Green Economy With Omar Freilla |
Featured on the Sundance Channel - The Good Fight
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Press Clippings
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NYC store saves home supplies from trash and resells them |
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By CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Associated Press Writer - April 21, 2008
NEW YORK - Brand-new porcelain toilets, some still in their boxes, stood on a pallet in the warehouse. Nearby was a pile of unused ceramic tiles. And stacked against the walls of the building were about 200 doors. |
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With a sustainable vision and a thing for dumpster diving, Bronx son Omar Freilla is leading his city's rebirth.
Read the article at Men’s Vogue. |
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Greening the Bronx, One Castoff at a Time |
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Greening the Bronx, One Castoff at a Time - New York Times - April 21, 2008 - by David Gonzalez
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Please join our cause through the following link: JOIN GWC
Green Worker Cooperatives is powered by people's energy. Currently, we are on Day 31 of a campaign to raise $285. While we do need financial donations to keep running, we also need volunteers and helping hands who can
- network a computer
- organize an event
- paint a wall
- present a seminar
- operate a phone bank
- run a time Bank
- and of course what ever skill you can do.
Join us by donating your time or money ($1, $5, $25 or what ever you can afford) to support the change that Green Worker is bringing to the South Bronx residents, by firing their bosses and empowering themselves.
Donate through FACEBOOK at the following link: Donate thru FACEBOOK |
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