Green Festivals TV

While we all enjoy eating out, many of us may not realize how environmentally destructive it can be. Find out what local restaurants and their partners are doing to lessen their footprints and go green. From the food they serve and the supplies they buy to the spaces they create and the waste they recycle, these businesses are going green across the board.

A Great Moral Hunger Chair of the board of Death Penalty Focus, Farrell is also spokesperson for Concern America, an international refugee aid and development organization, and co-chair emeritus of the California Committee of Human Rights Watch. He has also been a Good Will Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Known by millions as B.J. Hunnicutt from M*A*S*H and from NBC-TV's Providence, Farrell will share his journey as actor and activist.

An Edible Education Round Table Chef Waters, owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA, will convene an edible education policy round table with local and national experts, including Illinois Congressman Danny Davis and filmmaker Chris Taylor. Waters has championed this movement nationally, offering hope in the light of the new Obama administration's vision of greening the White House as a national model. Waters will expand on the narrative of green to include Edible Education in all schools.

The Balance of Nature? Humanity is driving species to extinction a hundred times faster than species would become extinct naturally, and the rate continues to accelerate at an alarming rate. Reducing deforestation and restoring deforested areas is by far the cheapest, simplest and most effective way of both slowing down climate change and reducing extinction. Pimm will explore the many aspects of these crises and help frame some solutions.

Transforming Turmoil into a New Economy For the first time in human history, every individual faces the same crises: climate change, diminishing resources and economic turmoil. We all have a crucial stake in how we move forward. It is time to develop positive models that are committed to creating a world that future generations will want to inherit. We the people have the power to demand new goals, ones focused on generating a sustainable, just and peaceful world.

Burn the Banks Palast, The New York Times best-selling author and investigative journalist extraordinaire, will give the inside skinny on the billionaire bonus babies of banking. He will tell tales from his years of investigating the banking buzzards - from the Congo to Detroit - showing us the files marked "secret" and "confidential". The Chicago Tribune states, "Palast's stories bite...so relevant, they threaten to alter history." The report opens with his reports for BBC TV and Democracy Now!

Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, made a special guest appearance at the 8th annual San Francisco Green Festival, a project of Global Exchange and Green America. He spoke on support for green jobs, plug-in electric hybrid cars and city-wide composting, setting a green agenda for San Francisco.

Learn how to leverage social media to build an open, authentic brand. Discover how Twitter, Facebook and blogging can help grow your business and communicate your sustainable mission. A must-attend for any business thinking about social media or for those struggling with making it work.

Even the Smallest Dog Can Lift its Leg on the Tallest Building Hightower, populist speaker, agitator, best-selling author and radio commentator, is taking on the powers that be on behalf of the powers that ought to be - small farmers, small-business people, workers, grassroots organizers and just plain folk - to share with people how they can make a difference. Hear stories about the power of individuals challenging their current world view to live based on their own progressive values.

Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times When powerful individuals, organizations and governments manipulate media to spread their own agendas, it is imperative that forums are in place to make sure the full stories are told. In many cases, this has not occurred through various mainstream media outlets. Goodman will set the record straight and will report on the many people who have taken a stand for the sake of democracy.