EARTH DAY OREGON 2011
“You Are Here”
T
he 13th annual Earth Day Celebration is an environmentally-based event that celebrates the Earth and its resources. This year’s event theme is You Are Here and
features over 40 educational activity booths, the relocated Lane County Master Gardener’s Annual Plant Sale, the John H. Baldwin Film & Lecture Series, a musical
main stage, a Procession of All Species, important community awards, and much more! The event is produced by the volunteer efforts of the Earth Day Steering
Committee.
The Eugene Water & Electric Board will be awarding two grants of up to $100,000 each to local renewable energy and education projects, as chosen by EWEB customers
who are signed up for the Greenpower program. The two winners (the fi nalists are chosen from organizations that are either tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations or academic
institutions) will be announced on the main stage at 1:50 p.m. Also on the main stage this year, at 11:00 a.m. Mayor Kitty Piercy will award the bi-monthly Bold Steps
Sustainability Award, given to businesses that have incorporated the triple bottom line thinking into their daily business practices.
LTD will provide free bus shuttle service from the downtown station to EWEB’s River Edge Plaza during event hours, with special stops at Saturday Market.
Lane County
Master Gardener
Association Spring
Garden Fair and
Plant Sale
(Main EWEB Parking lot, west of
main entrance and under
Ferry Street Bridge)
Lane County Master
Gardener TM Association
(LCMGA) is an Oregon
State University Extension
Service program that
educates Oregonians
in Lane County about
the art and science of
growing and caring for
plants. This program also
facilitates the training
of a highly educated
group of volunteers.
These volunteers extend
sustainable gardening
information to their
communities through
education and outreach
programs. At the Garden
Fair and Plant Sale you’ll
fi nd literally thousands of
plants being sold and have
an opportunity to talk to
growers about their project
and special interests.
Booths include:
Ask a Master Gardener
Ask a Compost Specialist
Ask a Master Food Preserver
Adaptive Gardening
Sustainable Landscaping
Kid’s Corner
Recycled Garden Art
Used Books,
Master Gardener journals
Used Tools
Bake Sale
Silent Auction (11-2 p.m.)
Plants on sale include:
Perennials
Annuals
Bulbs & Tubers
bamboo
Natives
Ground covers
Grasses
Herbs
Vegetables, including the latest
in grafted tomatoes
Trees & Shrubs
Succulents
Houseplants
JOHN H. BALDWIN FILM & LECTURE SERIES
(NORTH BLDG., EWEB TRAINING CENTER; BOARD ROOM)
LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
12:00 – 1:00 PM
“Reuse it” – Bring and the City of Eugene’s Recycling
video (.5 hours) Brett Jacobs-BRING Recycling
“Reuse it” is a 12 minute video produced for BRING and the City of
Eugene by award-winning producer, Jerry Joffe . This video offers a look
at the used building materials industry in Oregon, and shows why reuse
is good for the environment and our economy. The goal of the movie is to
create broad-based awareness of the benefi ts of reusing building materials,
and to encourage salvage and reuse.
BRING’s Education Director, Brett Jacobs, has a background in air
pollution science, international trade, and international development.
Brett, a licensed science teacher, currently works in Lane County, helping
others understand, in their daily lives, the importance of reduce, reuse, and
recycle. Internationally, he has worked in the Republic of Panama and,
most recently, in Palestine
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Ecopsychology: Understanding our Need for Nature.
Patricia Hasbach
We need nature for our physical and psychological wellbeing. We
always have. As a species, our bodies and minds came of age interacting
with abundantly diverse and wild nature. But in our modern, urban,
technological society, we have largely forgotten that this is so, resulting
in our disconnection from the natural world. What are the costs of
this forgetting? How might we fi nd our way back to a relationship
with the greater-than-human world? Can our “ecological self” and our
“technological self” be integrated into a healthy balance? How can we hope
to conserve our native habitats if we don’t know or care about them? As we
spend increasingly more time in front of screens and in virtual worlds, how
do we maintain our sense of belonging and our “sense of place”? These are
but a few of the questions the emerging fi eld of Ecopsychology seeks to
address as it explores the human-nature relationship.
Patricia H. Hasbach, Ph.D. is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
and clinical psychotherapist with a private practice in Eugene, Oregon, and
adjunct faculty at Lewis & Clark College and Antioch University Seattle.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and a post-
doctoral MA in Ecopsychology from Naropa University. As a clinician,
she incorporates ecopsychological practices with traditional theory to
address issues of anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, health-related
recovery, and wellness in adults and couples. She has consulted extensively
with hospitals, schools, businesses, and community environmental
activist groups. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal,
Ecopsychology. She is also associated with the Human Interaction with
Nature and Technological Systems Lab (The HINTS Lab) at the University
of Washington. Her academic interests focus on the processes and
mechanisms that underlie the development of an environmental sensibility
and on what can be called “the rewilding of the human species.” She has
a particular interest in how experiences in the natural world map onto
the internal landscape of client refl ections and thus enrich the therapeutic
process. She is currently working on two books for MIT Press related to
Ecopsychology and the rediscovery of the wild.
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Willamette Partnership - Joni Shaffer.
The Willamette Partnership-- Changing the way we work with nature
Every year businesses and communities spend tens of millions of
dollars on environmental compliance. The Willamette Partnership is a
non-profi t conservation coalition that is using market-based approaches
to think differently about how these dollars are spent. What if we relied
more on healthy forests to deliver drinking water than expensive treatment
technology? What if protecting prairies generated new jobs in restoration?
The Willamette Partnership is working throughout the Northwest to make
these questions a reality and will talk about how it’s happening.
The Willamette Partnership’s mission is to increase the pace,
scope, and effectiveness of restoration in the Willamette Basin. The
Willamette Partnership emerged in 2004 as a 501c3 nonprofi t to build
on the Willamette Restoration Initiative’s work. This new coalition of
conservation, city, business, farm and scientifi c leaders was founded
to develop innovative, market-based tools that can combine with
regulatory controls to deliver broad conservation benefi ts, at lower costs
and with reduced confl ict, fi rst in the Willamette Basin and now in the
Pacifi c Northwest. Joni Shaffer is the Willamette Partnership’s lead for
administration, communications, and training on ecosystem markets. Joni
is pursuing a degree in Environmental Science and enjoys hiking, camping,
and spending time with family.
FILM SERIES SCHEDULE
12:00 – 2:00 PM
Waterlife (109 min)
This remarkable cinematic poem reveals the extraordinary beauty
and complexity of the Great Lakes, the largest remaining supply of fresh
water (20%) on Earth. The fi lm tells the epic story of the Great Lakes by
following the cascade of it’s water from northern Lake Superior to the
Atlantic Ocean, through the lives of some of the 35 million people who
rely on the lake for survival. WATERLIFE blends the realities of the
pressures on the lake with a dreamlike fl uidity as it pour though the lives of
some amazing characters. Along the way, WATERLIFE shows viewers the
Great Lakes as they might appear to a seagull, a fi sh or a water molecule…
and from a myriad of other fascinating perspectives. Filmed over a year
with a battery of specialty cameras and techniques, WATERLIFE provides
an unprecedented view of an incredible ecosystem rarely seen by the city
dwellers who form most of its population. From the ornate fountains of
Chicago to the sewers of Windsor, viewers are carried through marsh and
pipe, across pounding waters and through thunder clouds on a journey
which, as the fi lm says’ has no “ending or beginning that shapes everybody
it passes through and united them all across space and time.”
2:00 – 3:00 PM
In Search of Good Food (58min)
In Search of Good Food follows Antonio Roman-Alcalá, an urban
farming activist from San Francisco, on his search for the “sustainable”
food system in California. The fi lm attempts to answer the question:
does the sustainable food system actually exist? And if it doesn’t, what
is preventing it from becoming reality? Built off of footage from a
two-month trip around the state in early 2008, In Search of Good Food
features interviews with farmers, farmworkers, wildlife advocates, cultural
biologists, university professors, historians, educators, grassroots groups,
organic foods distributors, the CA Secretary of Agriculture, and many
others who form the various arms of this movement to ensure an ongoing
supply of healthy, ecologically and locally-produced, economically
affordable food for all Californians. Mixing street interviews with food
consumers; the perspectives and stories of advocates; animations; and
footage of both the bucolic countryside and hectic city, In Search of Good
Food presents both a compelling argument for the need for a better food
system, and incisive criticism of the limited effectiveness of consumer-
based solutions. This fi lm will make you think beyond “voting with your
fork”, to the real challenges and opportunities that we face in creating a
safe, just, and sustainable food system that provides good food for all.
3:00 – 5:00 PM
Deep Green (101min)
Based on six years intensive research and devoted exclusively to
solutions to man-made global warming, “Deep Green” cuts through the
clutter to bring new clarity to an increasingly-urgent situation. The fi lm
portrays the best applications worldwide in energy effi ciency, green
building, de-carbonizing transportation, sustainable agriculture, renewable
energy and smart grids, and forest restoration. Some profoundly personal
and practical—like what one person can do to lower their carbon load in
their own house, with their own lifestyle, on their own land. Others are
necessarily complex, such as Southern California Edison’s quest to fi nd the
best batteries to electrify transportation.
We hear compelling insights from dozens of prominent thinkers,
entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers and government offi cials on de-
carbonizing energy and restoring the natural environment. Included are
legendary authors Lester Brown and Michael Pollan; renowned scientists
Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute and Dr. David Suzuki;
powerful voices in China like Barbara Finamore, Huang Ming, and Zhang
Wei; and green energy pioneers in seven countries across Europe.