I'm coming down for LA Decom!!

Soooo excited to come back for a moment in time to celebrate the new location and continuous greening of LA Decom this weekend! I have been helping on the side to green this event and can't wait to see all the homies once again.

Look for me I'll be helping out a bit at the green stage and running around in a pink tu-tu (what's new)

I'll have my phone on me too, and hope to see you if you are down and around!

loves!

Tomorrow: Numi Tea 9 year Anniversary bash! Numi Tea Garden*

I am excited and would like to have my friends come on down to tomorrow's big birthday bash with Numi Organic Tea (this Friday's) and this is also a fundraiser for MJ Green Mountain of Hamsalilla's new solo album, let's support his work, eh! These are some of my favorite people, and it has been and honor and joy to be doing special events with the Numi Tea Garden in Oakland, CA this last year. If you ever want to do an event with us, let me know and we can figure something fun out. We are building up our special events team and just added on Aaron Simon who works with the Seva Foundation, Wavy Gravy and all those cats! This sweet tea house hasn't even been open a year and we've already had Joanna Macy, Master Wang, Jah Levi, Arts in Action and many more great inspiring artists and speakers fill it with memorable moments.

o8-o8-o8

Numi 9-Year Anniversary

& Co-Founder 4oth Birthday Bash!

2230 Livingston St, Oakland, CA

6:30pm-On...

I hope you can make it, this one will be a lot of fun as we are expanding out of the courtyard and taking over part of the street! Come have a tea infused MarTEAni with us and enjoy the company of this fine place.

Here are the directions for biking, driving, and BARTing (I bike there all the time, it's just off the Embarcadero and a nice ride)

DIRECTIONS:

Driving:

From San Francisco (north):
from 1-80 East, take 1-880 South
exit onto 16th ave/ Embarcadero
at stop sign turn LEFT on Embarcadero
turn LEFT onto Livingston St. (near 22nd)
head all the way down until the end of the street and you'll find us there!

from South: Oakland airport:
take 1-880 North
exit onto FIFTH ave/ Embarcadero
at stop sign turn LEFT on Embarcadero
turn LEFT onto Livingston St. (near 22nd)
head all the way down until the end of the street and you'll find us there!

BART & Bike:
www.511.org --> go to Transit Trip Planner

BIKERS:
Get off at the Fruitvale BART, bike down 12th ave (Street #'s get lower),
go Left over the 16th St. bridge
Left at the end on Embarcadero
Take a Left on the next street, Livingston... across the street from the Quint Light House restaurant.
Go to the end of Livingston St. and you will find the Numi Tea Garden on the left :)

From Bike at Lake Merrit, (my favorite and most scenic route)
head down to the Embarcadero and take a left on Livingston to the Numi Tea House at the end of the street!


See ya there, this one is going to be lots of fun, we will be closing off the street for more fun and festivities.




o8-o8-o8

Numi 9-Year Anniversary

& Co-Founder 4oth Birthday Bash!

2230 Livingston St, Oakland, CA

6:30pm-On...



Serving: Numi's signature infusions of TEABeer, MarTEAnis & Hot Tea

Live Music, Art & Dancing!!! Doors open at 6:30pm



7:30pm VH1 Soul artist Nya Jade

will kick off the night with a jazzy

acoustic set of soulful, heartfelt music.


9:30pm MJ Greenmountain

w/ fellow members of

Hamsa Lila turn up the energy

w/ sacred world dance music.


11:30pm DJ Dragonfly will

complete the night spinning

world beats until 2am.



Other Special Events throughout the Night:

- Raffle & Silent Auction of musical instruments

- Fire Dancing Performance

- "History of Numi Exhibit" & original works by Numi Co-Founder & Artist

- Participate in a special Art & Tea piece



$5 - $10 donations will be taken at the door

All proceeds go to MJ Greenmountain for his

debut solo album release and Oakland's Art in Action!

www.NumiTeaGarden.com

Updat'lll t*ime : Coming through Portland (tonight), Montana, Seattle, then back to the Bay for 8.8.08.Numi Party & special *Rothbury review! beginning NOW!

Wow,
What an incredible journey I've had in the last few weeks -months. I was out at Rothbury, a music festival in Michigan for the 4th of July, so beautiful and amazing this was one of the best festivals out there. I was on the greening team with Spitfire Agency, who was the 3rd representation to be brought into planning this festival on the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, Michigan. THE STORY Jeremy, the festival producer from Madison House says to Carolyn he wants to do something different on this beautiful piece of land that was so lush and full of natural ecology, and more *including a water park *with slides and stuff too! BACK TO THE STORY Carolyn then builds off the idea of greening the festival and says she has the perfect person to lead it, miss Sarah Haynes, the founder of Spitfire Agency. I must say that I was very impressed on how great of a job they, we did. Running biodiesel on all non-essential generators, and buying carbon offsets for all the calculated carbon footprint. It was mandatory for all vendors to use compostable plateware, cups and cutlery, with all compost pulped on site and donated to local farms. There was an energy fair (black rock solar rocked the house with their solar phone charging station), environmental workshops, a local farmer's market, and did business with as many local businesses as possible. The featured artworks were made from recycled and repurposed materials (artists like the do lab, shrine, our future now, and dollabill) and some that were just plain cool (including peter hudson's "homorouboros"). In every other way though, this was a bonnarroo-style and -scale festival.
Having the greening in the beginning really amplified how necessary and helpful it was to the greening in the conceiving and logistics process, so then everything is thought of from top to bottom, at least is considered in making decisions for material usages, stage design & art work, signage materials, decore, use of space/ land, what goes where, what really caring about the Earth means, and stewardship including composting mulching on-site with the compost going to a commercial composting facility an hour away in Grand Rapids. What an amazing job Spitfire did by increasing the diversion rate upwards of 70% culmination, (80% Main Fairground, 64% campground saved from going into the landfill) those were the last #'s I saw. I ended up making a rain-coat from the backing of some signage to reuse something that would have found it's way to landfill- no I saved that th^ng many times! good times*
Oh yes, and then there was the Sherwood forest at Rothbury filled with psychedelic art and color changing trees, ohhh* so many joys found there - a secret stage- and I think a guy named Carlll.*I talked to the art director of that spot and his vision for it is ever expanding* Next years watch out, it will take off!!! Although the Buddha built of nature from the area was super sweet, that rocked and I hope It stays!

Big ups to Our Future Now folks for bringing the Monkey's and the dramatic Tasseograph pieces we love so much, [I have a great picture of Shrine in a pile of Cardboard admiring one painted on piece,] The space they put together was simply extra*ordinary. It’s all on their website under the Experience at OUrFutureNow.org. Nice to recognize Carey Thompson who with Our Future Now brought together really nice sculptural arches/portals* "holomorphic transmission vision crystals" is what he calls it, that surrounded their zone by the monkies. love the vision, amazing how 3-D it get's I was impressed! what a fabulous bunch of bright souls I admire so dearly, Matt, Kangy, KoKo, David, All You's in the tent*tutu fairy&loui and fun folk. Holla, thank the loard PLEASE - we have got some good shit on this planet- hellls to da yea*

I was blessed to see so many acts such as Dave Matthews Band, Snoop Doggy Dog*, Thievery Corporation, Yonder Mountain String Band, STS9, and so many more. I got to greenly manage the Energy Fair, Ranch arena & stage, and the Wagon Wheel beach, pretty sweet if you ask me, making sure people were educated on the compost, recycling, and landfill station, and diverting the trashs. and I got my own gocart *fun in a bucket* Our team did great* and people got it, and created that massive diversion rate* I was really happy to see people bringing cans from the campground to win things at the Recycle Store @ the Ranch. People won i-pods, solar chargers, and more - some good deals for cleaning up the earth, clap clap*campground folk* traditionally, these festivals generate staggering amounts of trash, so it was nice to see people cleaning up.

The green team I played on at Rothbury was astounding, I met Sarah Kubik of Recycle Detroit, one of my favorite people now, I have a picture of her sitting in a speak easy when we get back to Detroit, along with a old school reporter, and the Mongo's who owned this speak easy and shell'in out the happen'ns in D-TROIT past present and future! Well nobody can predict the future but I sure say that we were seeing a glimpse of REALITY and HOPE smooshed up in a sandwich there, pretty awestriking to learn about the incinerator in Detroit which takes the compost, trash, and other items in and burns at a rate where it's still toxic- poisons are leaking into the atmosphere from the sewer lines and such. pretty messy. So miss Sarah Kubik is so indefinitely wild in her researcher ways, to share it all with us. The reporter got a mouthful from the Mongo's too! I shall share the report soon and the intelligence, care, and compassion of this woman, Kubik*

I love Detroit, there is a street where people painted and decorated the houses with lots of color and the random things around, to bring more light and color the crack coated street. Everytime a house went vacant people went up and arted it up before any one could move in with cracky intentions. It has really changed the temperature of the neighborhood and was neat to see the variety of doors, shoes, TV's, tires, colors, stuffed animals and other various things* (pictures, gotta see my pictures!) making displays abound ol this old disposed cracky town/street :) It's known as a sister city to Oakland, I learned this by the conference in Detroit right before Rothbury –pretty damn great to be with a bunch of revolutionaries form many cities around the states hatch’n a plan for more livable cities! Kellogg Foundation sponsors this conference and planning process on creating healthy cities through looking at the constructed environment in the city. I had been the co-chair of the Built Environment Action Team for the HOPE Collaborative in Oakland and got to go experience what other people had done in their cities to create a healthier place to live. Like Majora Carter from Sustainable South Bronx - she turned that place around by starting with building up a park and green spaces (found by her dog) in da neighborhood- spreading from there. Pruning trees for more lighting in the street (increased safety) and color. She's been working with Van Jones in the Green For All campaign, getting low income youth into cleaner and greener jobs with places like Solar Richmond, building roof top resources and gardens, utilizing the resources in any particular area, to create green collar jobs and lifting people out of poverty *and the concrete jungle* It's Amazing - so caring and compassionate for the overall community there, I'm just baffled. I'm on a mission to help them! Yes.

Which reminds me, I need some help putting together my website and bloggershere* I have some idea's but just imagine if this blog had images spread through out it, links, and more with what I am writing about. * A picture says a million words. I have KachinaKatrina.com and a few others, and just want to get some things up, I have a lot ready to go, just need some designer help design some of it, and a reasonable place to host it . My main web magiver is out of town, and I have the time to make this happen. If anyone here knows me, knows that i will return the favor by networking your ass! Balance it out. Anything you can do to help in the most mutually beneficial and I would greatly appreciate any of it! thanks*

I am on my way to Montana for a 2 week adventure tonight, starting in glacier national park, skydiving, and so much more! I get to see my familia* On the way there we go through Portland *tonight* and Eugene and things* We may even stop by the Mystic Garden Party~who knows*oops already passed that spot, writing takes time. Sorry would have loved to!

Like I said, we will be stopping through Portland tonight if there is any monkey business going down* I miss Portland, ya know - the best clowns in town! I remember you and all the others good fun!* yep yep good place tob* it's 11:46pm and expect us in 3 &1/2 hours! whoo hoo* I'll also be around Portland Aug 4-6th, something like that. P-town*

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I am approaching my Saturn return, this Sunday August 31st, and we will celebtra* at the Numi Tea Garden, I will present a slide show of my life and places, inspired by the city repair slide starting with the one at Oregon country fair ’99 or 2000. I've been tuned in and turned onto some really good music that will accompany it* I am happy to be sharing come of my ambient music making as this is the first official time playing out* Unless you knew me in portlandia at tthe magical fairy house with Inanna* 4545 SE 45th* yep that was the spot with the big 0l' willow tree* you've been there ;) Anywho I'd mix Simon and Garfunkle with some really good ambient shit* I really love that, Inanna would mix with the MLK 'dream poem. Manoj, and Mattie - i give you props for that - and all the others who thunk of it! Too!

I’d love people to come out for this day as I haven't had a birthday off-playa in many years and I am happy to celebrate this one at home and a place I am very fond of, the Numi Tea Garden. (2230 Livingston St,, Oakland) If you are in town, please do come on down! Would love to see you and friends meet friends, and if you are from out of town, then you can stay with me, I'll take care of ya. old and new favorites* it will be fun Yep yep! Global family* Thanks for being alive - I'm glad I know you!! Truly*

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Other amazing life changes happening of late... I am looking for a place to live near where I will going to school, Sonoma State focusing in OD (Organizational Development), and a place in Bodega Bay would be most excellent. I am very excited, as this program is very experiential and I just love this work and helping people be more organized and effective* Really is a special thing. My dear friends Maleika and Dan are giving me their Jeep wrangler! It's fun and has the pop-off top! I do love to explore and welcome anyone who wants to play with me in Bodega Bay. Good times are ahead!

until next time, “merry meet and merry meet again.” Thanks for reading some of the highlights of these times.

With love,

Kachina Katrina
aka "pinball" *
Ps. do note this excerpt from my friend Will in his report back from Rothbury (we managed the greening of the same area,) good people good times:

why rothbury, michigan of all places? i wondered that too. turns out
the owner of the ranch there (a beautiful property) was in financial
peril, and was looking for additional income ... and the deal was
struck. at first i thought "how dumb", but what dawned on me is that
it *didn't* take place in san francisco or portland or seattle as one
would expect, where you're preaching to the choir about recycling, and
we're blessed with curbside compost pickup. no, these attendees were
folks from chicago, detroit, indianapolis, grand rapids, and the
like. they walked away with a new sense of community; an idea of
communal purpose; and (for many) a newfound education about global
warming, taking care of the planet, and how they can be a part of the
solution. that, and they had a great time, from all reports we've
heard.

in short, rothbury is creating a model for a new way to do mainstream
music festivals responsibly, and showing it can be done successfully.
we certainly hope to see it catch on. pretty cool. saddle up,
hippies, next year's going to be awesome. finally, big props to sarah
haynes's spitfire agency, who managed the greening and waste
management effort.

-pq

thanks*
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Kachina Katrina

I'm featured in an article on Greening Burning Man! Sierra Club Magazine

A WHOLE 9 PAGE ARTICLE ON GREENING BURNING MAN IN A MAGAZINE:
check it out! Sierra Club Magazine on Greening Burning Man, got my pic and story in it!:

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2...gman2.asp

- a note on this, as I'm not going back to BM anymore... I love what BM has been doing/ trying to do on reducing waste and know it's up to each individual to really do the right thing. As the infrastructure starts to understand more and more the better off the festival will be and I appreciate what has been done, especially what Blue, Camera Girl, Hazmatt, DA, Earth Guardians, Burn Clean Project, Hippi Mike, PQ, Sarah Haynes, Green Home, AEZ, the Greening Man list serve, Burners with out Borders, and others have contributed to the workings of the event to go greener. I did have a challenging time with the BMORG, and wish they would have been more organized to get more accomplished, however I think a LOT got done, just check out the Greening BM tribe and the Environmental pages in the Burning Man website: www.burningman.com/environment/


*I just found out last night from the main coordinators of Entheon Village that they got a "Green Camp of the Day" award from the Earth Guardians - our camp and the Evolutionary Center pod celebrate!! Check 'em out: www.EntheonVillage.com

Have a great summer and I'll be celebrating my 28th birthday at home this year in Oakland, CA in the Bay Aug 31st and starting grad school for Organizational Development - - so if you are around come on down to the Numi Tea House to celebrate!!

much love and enjoy this moment to the fullest!!

-off to green the Rothbury Festival for the 4th of July - come and stop by and say hi to all of us and the recycled art projects of Our Future Now!! The peeps who are building the BM Temple this year out of recycled materials - love it!!

-Kachina da Greena*


ps. Here is something worth reading, a very special insight from my good friend and old room mate, Karl Banks, Mayor of WigTown:

Kachina-

I want to tell you that the idea for Water Woman is inspirational. It is aligned with my own and many others' plans of those with whom I have spoken.

I read all of the article online at: www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2...ngman.asp

I did want to provide some feedback. I also feel the need to represent myself and perhaps other Burners out there too.

What we are all confounded by is the World, not the planet. Earth will do fine with or without us. Probably better without us. If we don't want to get evicted, we need change the World.

The distinction is that the World is us, our civilizations, our cultures, our nations, our communities and our families. It is made up of a thousand agreements. We cannot easily escape these, they are handed down to us and some are good, some are bad, but all of them limit us to the particular hell we are finding ourselves in here on Earth.

Burning Man is another World. The slate was wiped mostly clean and we got to choose what to bring. We still choose. Every year. That is precisely why it is so fucking important to so many of us. With all its flaws. Especially with its flaws. It is a crucible for changing the World.

Where else in the Default World can you change so much so fast? Where else on the entire Earth does a fully functioning city rebuild every year?

This is precisely why we must have Burning Man and Water Woman and Rainbow Gatherings and the like.

The concept is not new. Go to Chaco Canyon on the Navajo Nation. From 850 AD to 1125 AD it was inhabited only once a year by people from all directions. They had arrow straight roads built to it from all 4 cardinal directions. They got together, burning large fires in large round houses and did everything we do and probably more. They didn't raze everything every year, because they built in stone. However, they did raze most of it when they abandoned the site.

I agree that as far as being as green as they should be, the BMorg doesn't cut it. AND they pull off the spectacularly amazing year after year. I am actually quite confident that this article will spur them to reach greater goals. If they don't power the man with solar this year, no big deal. Next year it might be wind or thermal or solar again. Or algae fuel?

I say, why knock them? They already do better than 90% of the cities in the US and probably 99% of the cities worldwide. I will continue to assert gentle, but un-fucking-stoppable force in the direction of fully utilizing energy income (sun, wind, bio, heat) and reducing waste too.

Burning Man has always been about bringing only what you need and reducing to a minimum that which you do not. That applies to concepts the same as it applies to food packaging. At one time it didn't seem necessary to have roads there. With that in mind, maybe your friend is right about water distribution. Perhaps there could be potable water trucks which move from corner to corner allowing people to come and fill up bottles. This would have its own monumental hurdles (harder than powering the Man with solar), but it could be done. And if so, the environmental impact, would be worth it.

I like your ideas. I am glad that you shared them in the article.

I do question your indulgence in outrage. In my opinion, "right or wrong", "good or bad", "enough or not enough", don't mean anything.

To be cliche, Burning Man is a DOacrasy. That seems trite, maybe funny or annoying. However, a DOacrasy is part of the World I want to live in. You and I both got to feel good about, and take credit for, and then choose to critique or celebrate what they pulled off last year. However, I know we would have felt so much better had we both been up there installing panels on the playa as part of Black Rock Solar.

I felt good about last year because I attended one meeting, I looked at Tom Price and Blue in the eyes, I told them it was feasible, the limit was only money, they looked back and said they were going to make it happen.

Then another friend of mine, Mota, took charge of a team of volunteers and they made that project happen. It wasn't half-assed. It powered the man and his base all week long. It proved itself in practice. It might have not been the best design, but they know they can do it. And they have continued to install solar in neighboring communities. Wow. That is people doing stuff on the ground. It is easy for me to sit here and press Blue for promises he will continue to power the Man with solar, but unless I am willing to DO it myself...

There is a lot of emotion behind my words. You have to understand, I love Burning Man. It gives me hope for humanity. It gives a ton of people a huge creative influx all year long. People have their hearts and minds (and other stuff!) opened wide on the playa. People start thinking about these issues, which (thanks in part to you) get put in their face, sometimes while they are even more opened by drugs. People change the way they live because of Burning Man. You may not see it in the first time burner, who had to have an RV, and has to run the gennie, but look around. Those people either do not stay, or shift their ways, because we always have more newbies and the place is getting better. And people like to be inspired, not scolded.

This will be year 11 for me and I have seen a positive trend, even as population has grown. There used to be lots more trash. There used to be many more batteries wasted, now there are more solar lights. There used to be real problems with generators between neighbors, now there still are, but fewer, and even they are banding together to use larger, more efficient gennies instead of many small ones. And biodiesel has made big inroads up there and will be used more and more. There is a lot more solar for camps and for art projects, which has a direct effect of improving my experience of art. Air quality and noise are better. And in places where you still encounter "Stinky Loud Generator Camp" there is much greater awareness and I bet those people don't come back and do the same thing.

And if they do, I want to remind us they are still wonderful, amazing, creative, interesting humans. The World I think we both want to live in is one where we have even greater freedom to exercise our free will.

Come back to Burning Man, but live in the Alternative Energy Zone (or WigTown, we qualify as a satellite AEZ). Live with those old hippies and learn how to do solar yourself. Dive into the details and don't come up for air until you are carbon neutral!~

I love you.

Karl

p.s. What would the carbon impact be if we same 50,000 people all went to Disneyland for a week? DisneyLand gets 50,000 people per day during the high season. Shall we protest at DisneyLand? What about DisneyWorld? See link below and put into perspective Burning Man, which only lasts for 10 days! I have to ask you: Do you think we get more "good" from what we do at Burning Man compared to spending a week at Disney?
www.themeparkinsider.com/flume...4/320/

Movie out about South Central Farm- free Screening in LA Sat 6/21 at 1pm!

Dear allies - Please circulate widely amongst your LA community! - we appreciate your support and hope to see you there!

ps- if you are on facebook and want to invite your community, please go to this link - www.facebook.com/events.php


Please join us for a special FREE screening of The Garden at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Please watch the trailer <www.thegardenmovie.com/trailer> and pass it along to friends. Thank you for your support.

The Garden. From the ashes of the L.A. riots, the South Central Farmers have nurtured the nation's largest urban farm. Since 1992, they have created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.

SPECIAL SCREENING
The Garden

A Film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Los Angeles Film Festival
10887 Lindbrook Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Saturday, June 21 1 PM

Free screening! Tell a friend
Click here for details: www.lafilmfest.com <www.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2...tnote.php


View the trailer:
www.thegardenmovie.com/trailer <www.thegardenmovie.com/trailer>




About the film
The Garden is the unflinching look at the struggle between urban farmers and the City of Los Angeles and a powerful developer who wants to evict them and build warehouses. Mostly immigrants from Latin American countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand, "Where is our 'Justice for all'?"



If everyone told you nothing more could be done, would you give up?



* * *

The Garden has the pulse of verité with the narrative pull of fiction, telling the story of the country's largest urban farm, backroom deals, land developers, green politics, money, poverty, power, and racial discord. The film explores and exposes the fault lines in American society and raises crucial and challenging questions about liberty, equality, and justice for the poorest and most vulnerable among us.

Vote No on prop 98 and Yes on prop 99

We need your help! When you head to the polls one week from today – Tuesday, June 3rd – please show your support for the environment and vote no on Proposition 98.

The goal of Proposition 98 is to severely limit California's ability to protect our open spaces, wildlife habitat, and water and air quality. It also will undermine the state's groundbreaking limits on global warming pollution.

This year there's a new and dangerous twist: in addition to limiting environmental protections, Prop 98 eliminates rent control, making it easier for landlords (who are providing over 80% of the funding for Proposition 98!) to evict people from their homes.

Many of those threatened by this measure are low-income or elderly residents.

The thinking behind Prop 98 is not new. Every year there's a fresh attack on California's groundbreaking and innovative environmental policies, despite Californians' strong support for them. Historically, Californians have wisely voted to defeat similar, harmful measures.

Homeowners' rights need to be protected but so does the environment. That's why Environmental Defense Fund and hundreds of other groups support Prop 99.

Prop 99 protects homeowners without threatening the environment or public health. Vote yes on 99.

On June 3rd, please Vote NO on Proposition 98 and YES on Proposition 99.

Please tell your California family, friends and colleagues to do the same!

Thanks in advance,

Digital BE-In tonight @ Temple!! =Schedule=

Digital Be-In 16: Ecocity
Friday April 25 2008 - 7:00pm-4am
Temple Night Club: 540 Howard, SF 9between 1st & 2nd) near the BART: Montgomery station.
www.BE-IN.com

The Digital Be-In returns for the third year in a row during Earth Day week in San Francisco. Once again, the Be-In will be a launching platform for evolutionary ideas, initiatives and CHANGE – at the nexus of humanistic technology and the sustainability movement – this year with the vital theme of ECOCITY.
Join us for an evolutionary journey of visionary speakers, presentations, exhibits, performances, live music, top DJs, visuals, art installations and amazing people like YOU... at San Francisco's grandest and greenest night club and community center, Temple.

Ecocity Symposium – 7pm–9 pm (Don't Miss It!)
>>>The Digital Be-In is pleased to be honoring urban designer Paolo Soleri this year with a special presentation<<<
Presenters: Jeffrey Stein, Director of Architecture, Boston Architectural Center, Chairman, Cosanti Foundation, Arcosanti, Arizona; Lois Arkin, Los Angeles Ecovillage; Liz Walker, Ithaca Ecovillage; Betsy Morris, Cohousing Association of the United States; Michael Gosney, founder Digital Be-In; Colin Grant, founder Visible Strategies; David Shearer, Chief Scientist, California Environmental Associates, Burning Man; others TBA.

Live Music – 9 pm–1 am
Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident)
Waterjuice (Vaporvent)
Lumin with Irina Mikhailova
Yossi Fine (Ex-centric Sound System)
Diana Rosa
MC Yogi

DJs – 9 pm–4 am
Dragonfly (Groove Garden)
Rhythmystic (Rhythm Society)
Alex Theory (Mystic Vibration)
Irina Mikhailova (Cyberset)
Neptune (Beat Church)
Dov (Cyberset, Muti Music)
Goz (Cyberset)
Omer (Harbin)
Timonkey (Muti Music)
David Shamanik (Rhythm Society)

Plus! Eco-Fashion show by The Moon Gallery • Screening Room by Global Oneness Project and Ironweed Films • Organic Food Delights from Prana Restaurant

Take Action Exhibition – 8 pm–12 midnight
Exhibits and Demos from Urban Alliance for Sustainability, WISEREARTH.org, SF Environment, Green Society, Planning for Sustainable Communities, Eleusis Project, Our Future Now, and more...

TICKETS:
Presale - $20
from InTicketing
1-866-55-TICKETS
$25 at the door

Complete information and ticket outlets at
www.be-in.com <www.be-in.com/>
Watch for periodic updates

Don't miss this one-of-a-kind San Francisco Happening!


Sponsors: SF Environment, Alexander's Rugs, Global Oneness Project, Commonground, Ironweed Films, Greenest Host, Greenhome.com

Special Thanks to the Ecocity World Summit taking place in San Francisco April 22-26 for their support of the Paolo Soleri special presentation

Resonant Events: New Living Expo – April 25–27, San Francisco; Global Sound Conference – May 9-12, Santa Monica, Earthdance Festival; – September 13, 2008




ONE YEAR AGO:
Digital Be-In 15: Biomimicry - April 21, 2007
www.be-in.com/index-be-in15.html <www.be-in.com/index-be-in15.html>



DIGITAL BE-IN 16 – SCHEDULE
www.be-in.com/be-in-16-schedule.htm 415-750-0971 Cyberset



6:30 doors open
7:00 welcome – MC
Cyberculture and the Ecocity Vision
7:10 Andrew Lawton – Green Century Institute
7:20 Michael Gosney – Producer, Digital Be-In
7:30 Sustainable Community Development
Raines Cohen – convener
Lois Arkin, Los Angeles Ecovillage
Liz Walker, Ithaca Ecovillage
Betsy Morris, Research Director Of National Cohousing Association of US
8:00 Digital Be-In Honors an Ecocity Visionary: Paolo Soleri Tribute
Michael Gosney, Trustee, Cosanti Foundation, Arcosanti
8:10 Paolo Soleri, founder and designer, Arcosanti, Mary Hoadley, Jeff Stein (all tentative)
8:15 Technology Empowering Sustainability: The Urban Environmental Accords
Colin Grant – founder Visible Strategies; Garrett Fitzgerald, Director of Programs, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, USA
8:30 Regenerative Place Making and the Greening of San Francisco
David Shearer – Chief Scientist, California Environmental Associates, Cooling Man
Bonnie Ora Sherk – founder, A Living Library
Darian Heyman – SF Environment, Craig's List Foundation
8:55 Andrew Lawton – closing comments

9:00 Global Oneness Project – film montage
9:10 Adam Apollo/Joegh Bullock - MCs
9:15 Diana Rosa
9:30 Laura Garzon
9:40 Eco Fashion Show – The Moon Gallery
9:50 Shamanic Cheerleaders
10:00 Lumin with Irina Mikhailova
10:30 Waterjuice
11:30 Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident)
12:10 Yossi Fine
12:50 MC Yogi
1:00 Dragonfly
2:15 Neptune

TAKE ACTION ZONE
8–12:00 Exhibits/Networking
10:00 David Shamanik
11.30 Omar
1:00-2:30 Timonkey

DESTINY LOUNGE
7-10 Reality Check Theater
10:00 Rythmystic
11:00 Alex Theory
12:00 Dov
1:00 Irina
2:00 Goz
3:00 – 4+ Dr. Spook
(could move into Catacombs or upstairs)

VISIONARY'S SOAPBOX – Impromptu Public Forum
9:00-1:00 ­– in the Take Action Zone
Elicia David – MC
REALITY CHECK THEATER
Films That Matter from Ironweed Films and Global Oneness Project
7:00 – 10:00 Destiny Lounge

This week build a rooftop garden @ an Oakland School tomorrow

Greetings Friends and Allies:

E.C. Reems is an Oakland based charter school that is initiating an edible roof garden/living class room. It has been a long time collaboration between the school, Bay Localize and Oakland Food Connection. We have the garden halfway built out with garden beds, and as we have fallen behind - we are looking for community support to complete the roof garden system. You can think of it as a type of barn-raising school project that really needs your hands to help raise the roof garden...! So if you are free this week during the day - please come out and support the implementation of this vital program of E.C. Reems Academy of Art and Technology.

Where: 8425 MacArthur Blvd. (at 84th Ave.) Oakland, 94605

When: Wednesday March 26 that's TOMORROW!
starting at 9AM and going till 3PM.

What: E.C. Reems Academy of Technology and Arts (a Public Charter School)
* Community supported build out work session of the rooftop garden
* Snack and beverages will be provided as well as music and amazing people ~ This will be a fun engaging project. Wear sneakers or tough shoes and work clothes that you can get dirty.

* *Important note* --- E.C. Reems is the smaller school on the West/Right side of the street you'll see first as you're going along MacArthur Blvd, people sometimes mistake E.C. Reems as the second much larger school just a few addresses past. EC Reems is characterized by the chain link fence which is the entrance we'll use.

* By mass transit, you can take the Coliseum BART and then board Bus #56/56 Semin- on San Leandro St. and get off on MacArthur right after you pass 84th Street.

* If you're driving - I always use yahoo maps which is quite accurate....

The announcement and details are below:

As we near Spring and the days grow warmer and longer, Oakland Food Connection and Bay Localize are busy preparing to complete the E.C. Reems roof garden. Jason Harvey has been working with the school faculty and students, propagating seeds and introducing kids to the nutrition and gardening program. The E.C. Reems roof garden is the first of it's kind, and will soon be producing fruits, veggies and herbs to the students and the community. To make that happen in good timing, we are calling to your helping hands for a series of work days in which we'll be building out the garden beds, moving soil to the roof, and constructing a green house and compost bin. This will take place in a few during the school's spring break period. We're planning for this three day work session to complete the garden in time for students to begin working in April. Many hands make light work! Your help will build upon the success of the sustainable food, community and culture movement in East Oakland!


Other details - I will be there only intermittently so the crew working onsite will be Jason Harvey (Founder and Executive Director of Oakland Food Connection) and others.
** See a video of the first phase of the garden here: ryanishungry.com/ **

Please let me know if you have any questions and *PLEASE PASS ON THE WORD* Forward this email! We need as much help as we can get to make this happen!

Many thanks and blessings,

www.baylocalize.org

Green Collar Jobs update and support needed for Congress decisions

I've just signed an important petition asking Congressional leaders to support a green stimulus package that creates new jobs and builds a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Bush is calling for more corporate tax breaks and rebates for the rich -- a false and short-term approach that's not only economically flawed, it's morally bankrupt.

Click here to join me in demanding a true stimulus package, one that will not just prevent the current recession, but will create lasting, meaningful change and a clean energy infrastructure for Green Collar Jobs, initiated by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights:
salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/55...n.jsp

You probably know that the U.S. economy could be in serious trouble, and Congress is working fast on a "stimulus" package to jump start the economy with billions of dollars.

This is a huge opportunity to invest in green business and green-collar jobs! But deals are already being made, and a vote in Congress could happen this week. It's up to us to pressure them to do the right thing.

Green For All needs our help to spread the word far and wide -- and fast.

Thank you!

Rumi poetry lovers, calling you in!

I am putting together an event for Rumi poetry lovers in the Bay area and want to know who's interested in being involved.
This will be at the Numi Tea Garden in the East Bay in the next couple of months (www.worldpantry.com/numitea/...info.pdf)

thanks!

Kachina Katrina*


Be Lost in the Call

Lord, said David, since you do not need us,
why did you create these two worlds?

Reality replied: O prisoner of time,
I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity,
and I wished this treasure to be known,
so I created a mirror: its shining face, the heart;
its darkened back, the world;
The back would please you if you've never seen the face.

Has anyone ever produced a mirror out of mud and straw?
Yet clean away the mud and straw,
and a mirror might be revealed.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask,
it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright,
you must do a little work.

My King addressed the soul of my flesh:
You return just as you left.
Where are the traces of my gifts?

We know that alchemy transforms copper into gold.
This Sun doesn't want a crown or robe from God's grace.
He is a hat to a hundred bald men,
a covering for ten who were naked.

Jesus sat humbly on the back of an ass, my child!
How could a zephyr ride an ass?
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
Reason, tread the path of selflessness into eternity.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
Let the caller and the called disappear;
be lost in the Call.