EARTH DAY OREGON 2012
“Listen To Our Children”
T
he 14th annual Earth Day Celebration is an environmentally-based event that celebrates the Earth and its resources. This year’s event theme is Listen
To Our Children and features over 40 educational activity booths, the Lane County Master Gardener’s Annual Plant Sale, the John H. Baldwin Film &
Lecture Series, a musical main stage, 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 a grant of up to $100,000 to a local renewable energy and education project, as chosen by EWEB customers
who are signed up for the Greenpower program. The winner (the fi nalists are chosen from organizations that are either tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations or public or
academic institutions) will be announced on the main stage at 1:30 p.m. Also on the main stage at 3:00 p.m. we will announce the winners of the Earth Day Message
Contest, which will include cash prizes to youths who have positive earth-friendly messages in three formats.
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)
10am-5pm
Lane County Master
Gardener 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 thousands of plants
available for sale and have
an opportunity to talk to
growers about their projects
and special interests.
Booths include:
Ask a Master Gardener
Ask a Compost Specialist
Ask a Master Food Preserver
Adaptive Gardening
Sustainable Landscaping
Tree Fruit Specialist
Kid’s Corner
Recycled Garden Art & Crafter’s
corner
Used Books, Master Gardener
Journals
Used Tools
Bake Sale & Snack Bar
Silent Auction (11 AM - 2 PM)
Plants on sale include:
Perennials
Annuals
Bulbs & Tubers
Bamboo & Water Plants
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)
PANEL LECTURE - TRAINING CENTER
“The State of the Region” 12:30 PM -1:20 PM
Introduction by Mayor Kitty Piercy
Speakers: Babe O’Sullivan, City of Eugene Sustainability
Liaison, and Michael Johns, Fleet Services Manager for
Lane County
Come and listen to an exciting program on how Lane County and
the City of Eugene are working to address sustainability across the
region. Mayor Kitty Piercy will introduce speakers Babe O’Sullivan,
the City of Eugene Sustainability Liaison and Michael Johns, the
Fleet Services Manager at Lane County. Babe and Michael will
discuss all of the recent efforts at the City and County level to address
sustainability while describing the long-term vision and trajectory of
the region. This presentation will reveal the details behind the numbers
and the opportunities and efforts at the City and County to continue
making this region a leader in sustainability.
FILM SERIES SCHEDULE – BOARDROOM
Inside-Outside
1:00 PM -1:30 PM
INSIDE-OUTSIDE, the fi rst program in the “Home Place” series,
explores the problem of recognizing and understanding ecosystems
from within their boundaries. Images of Earth from space have provided
us with a view from outside, making possible a new, more complete
perspective. This program discards the human-centered concept of
environment, replacing it with a more universal idea of ecosystems. The
ecosphere concept is introduced as an alternate world view, in which
Earth itself is conceived as a living organism, as an ecological being.
The Age of Stupid
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
THE AGE OF STUPID is the new documentary-drama-animation
hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and
Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One Day In September, In the
Shadow of the Moon).
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father,
Brassed Off, The Usual Suspects) stars as an old man living in the
devastated world of 2055. He watches “archive” footage from 2008 and
asks: Why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays
the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now
melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity’s achievements in the hope
that the planet might one day be habitable again. Or that intelligent life
may arrive and make use of all that we’ve achieved. He pulls together
clips of “archive” news and documentary from 1950-2008 to build a
message showing what went wrong and why. He focuses on six human
stories:
- Alvin DuVernay, is a paleontologist helping Shell fi nd more oil off
the coast of New Orleans. He also rescued more than 100 people after
Hurricane Katrina, which, by 2055, is well known as one of the fi rst
“major climate change events.”
- Jeh Wadia in Mumbai aims to start-up a new low-cost airline and
gets a million Indians fl ying.
- Layefa Malemi lives in absolute poverty in a small village in
Nigeria from which Shell extracts tens of millions of dollars worth of oil
every week. She dreams of becoming a doctor but must fi sh in the oil-
infested waters for four years to raise the funds.
- Jamila Bayyoud, age 8, is an Iraqi refugee living on the streets of
Jordan after her home was destroyed and her was father killed during the
US-led invasion of 2003. She’s trying to help her elder brother make it
across the border to safety.
- Piers Guy is a wind farm developer from Cornwall fi ghting the
NIMBYs of Middle England.
- Fernand Pareau, an 82-year-old French mountain guide, has
witnessed his beloved Alpine glaciers melt by 150 meters.
The City Dark
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
THE CITY DARK chronicles the disappearance of darkness. The
fi lm follows fi lmmaker (and amateur astronomer) Ian Cheney (King
Corn, Big River, Truck Farm), who moves to New York City from
Maine and discovers an urban sky almost completely devoid of stars. He
poses a deceptively simple question, “What do we lose, when we lose
the night?”
Exploring the threat of killer asteroids in Hawaii, tracking disoriented
hatching turtles along the Florida coast, and rescuing birds on Chicago
streets injured by collisions with buildings, Cheney unravels the myriad
of implications of a globe glittering with lights--including increased
breast cancer rates from exposure to light at night, and a generation of
kids without a glimpse of the universe above. In six chapters, weaving
together cutting-edge science with personal, meditative sequences
refl ecting on the human relationship to the sky, THE CITY DARK
shines new light on the meaning of the dark.
The fi lm features stunning astrophotography and a cast of eclectic
scientists, philosophers, historians, and lighting designers including
Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, astronaut Don
Pettit, neurologist Dr. George Brainard, Harvard Medical School
scientist Dr. Steven Lockley, cosmologist Chris Impey, and lighting
designer Hervé Descottes.