Podcasts about san francisco green festival

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.

Melissa Mansfield brings you to the Youth Unity Tent at the San Francisco Green Festival. Youth Unity, a project of Global Exchange, gets kids involved in the green movement.

Featured on Oprah's The Big Give, Byars Beckwith, world-renowned performer and founder of the celebrated Agape Choir, makes her San Francisco Green Festival debut - not to be missed! Bringing the power of music and storytelling to the stage, Byars Beckwith will take us on a journey to discover our own purpose. We are uniquely meant to offer this gift in our activism and practice - to the movement and mother earth and to resolve the challenges we face today. Beckwith is founder and director of the Agape International Choir. Her new CD, Supreme Inspiration, offers wisdom with such songs as "Water in a Dry Land" and "Sun Is Rising"

Supreme Inspiration: Bringing Water to Dry Land: Featured on Oprah's The Big Give, Byars Beckwith, world-renowned performer and founder of the celebrated Agape Choir, makes her San Francisco Green Festival debut - not to be missed! Bringing the power of music and storytelling to the stage, Byars Beckwith will take us on a journey to discover our own purpose. We are uniquely meant to offer this gift in our activism and practice - to the movement and mother earth and to resolve the challenges we face today. Beckwith is founder and director of the Agape International Choir. Her new CD, Supreme Inspiration, offers wisdom with such songs as "Water in a Dry Land" and "Sun Is Rising"

A behind- the-scenes look at the 2006 San Francisco Green Festival reveals how the event stays truly green, with its impressive waste management program that diverts over 90% of garbage from landfills.

A behind- the-scenes look at the 2006 San Francisco Green Festival reveals how the event stays truly green, with its impressive waste management program that diverts over 90% of garbage from landfills.

For the first time, visitors to the 2007 San Francisco Green Festival could inspect a kit on sale that converts a hybrid into a plug-in hybrid. Hear the details from Robb Protheroe of Plug-in Supply Inc., which makes the kit, and Carolyn Coquillette, owner of Luscious Garage, a new "green" garage in San Francisco that plans to offer kit installation.

Neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) aren't for everyone, but they serve an important niche. With a short range, a top speed of 25 mph, and an affordable price, they're great for running gas-free errands, taking the kids to school, etc. One of the new NEVs on the block -- the Zenn NEV -- is featured in this podcast from the San Francisco Green Festival.

Can mushrooms save the world? That's what mycologist Paul Stamets argues in a speech given at the San Francisco Green Festival, in which he highlights the ability of mushrooms to protect our health and remove toxic pollutants from the environment. The post About Health – May 22, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.