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Register Now for Green Inside Out

Climate Culture Green Inside Out, Miami
Thursday, August 28, 2008
1:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Mayfair Hotel and Spa
3000 Florida Avenue
Coconut Grove , FL 33133 USA

The Event

A half day symposium led by some of the most important visionaries in the fields of community making, natural capitalism, environmental law, and carbon free business practices. It is designed to paint a clear picture of our immediate future. Business people, town planners, architects, developers, realtors, engineers, lawyers, health practitioners, environmentalists and community leaders of all kinds will benefit from this exciting opportunity. The symposium starts at 1:00 pm and concludes at 5:00 pm with a networking reception from 5-6:30pm.  

The Transition Taking Place

The need for social and environmental innovation in business and government is increasing, and there is a chance that you can do something about it. Today. Climate Culture Green Inside Out is a half day symposium that will challenge you to push the reset button on how you think about creating prosperity; and redefine what it is to conduct business, govern and live.  

Learn From The Experts

Network with other business, government, and community leaders. Create the foundation for a culture of sustainable innovation within your organization, and your community. Space in the Symposium is limited in order to maintain the opportunity for personal interaction and discussion with this dynamic group of speakers.

Cost

The registration fee has been reduced to $90, courtesy of our sponsors and partners for this event. Group rates are available; when two or more register, you will receive $15 off the ticket price.

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New Green Party Each Friday: 5pm - 2am

This is cool: each Friday night at the Catalina Hotel & Beach Club, Maxine Tower on Miami Beach, there will be a "Green Party"!  The first one starts tonight. Here is the full info as it has been sent to me:

Swank Entertainment presents...

The Green Party!
Green is the new black!
Friday @ 5pm February, 15th, 2008
At The Catalina Hotel and Beach Club, Maxine Tower
1720 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, Fl, 33139

Long time nightclub legend, Mykel Stevens has teamed up with Christopher McCoy to form Swank Entertainment.  With the current situation of our Environment and a desire to preserve our beaches Swank Entertainment decided to make its first event a weekly Eco event to support the Environmental Coalition of Miami Beach.  Representing ECOMB will be the founder, Luiz Rodrigues and last years commissioner of Miami Beach and new member on the board of directors, Michael Gongora. 

New VeeV acai spirit will be sponsoring the event with organic drink specials and a complimentary VeeV cocktail with a $10 donation to ECOMB.  That $10 donation will also get you complimentary juice bar and hors d'oeuvre's and entered in a raffle for a designer one of a kind handbag, by Ecoist, made from repurposed candy wrappers.  Ecoist reuses factory discarded misprints and overages that would otherwise end up in landfills.   

One Group, Katheryn Rodler an Independent Representative, has also sponsored the event with mens and womens organic skin care, cosmetics and health products to be raffled off at future events. 

February, 22nd The Green Party will be having an organic wine tasting, featuring True Earth Wine with a $20 donation going to ECOMB.  Other future events will include live local performances, fashion shows for organic clothing and a monthly Green Pool Party. 

Monument Island Clean-Up: Sat. January 26

Apparently Monument Island is in worse shape than usual. So help out the environment and check out this accessible-only-by-boat island (they'll bring you there) by participating in ECOMB's January clean-up.

Saturday, January 26, 2008 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

Meet us at Island View Park on Purdy Avenue, Miami Beach (just north of the junction of the Venetian Causeway and Miami Beach). Volunteers will then be ferried to the island by boat. Parking will not be enforced for legally parked vehicles on the adjacent parking lot until 1 pm. Registration begins at 8:30 am. Complete details. 

Ecoist Opens Doors for Winter Clearance Sale

Local green biz Ecoist is having its annual Winter Clearance sale. Check out some great deals on candy wrapper handbags & accessories on their website, or swing by their showroom (2628 NW 2nd Ave in Miami, map) on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 from 2 pm - 7 pm. This is a great opportunity to see their space, meet the team, and be able to touch and see the bags for yourself.

Celebrate Dream in Green's 2nd B-Day

Local non-profit Dream in Green is celebrating their 2nd birthday. They've helped green Miami schools since starting up, and will continue to do so in 2008. Go celebrate with them this Saturday at Set in South Beach. Full info below!

Take Everglades Action on Wed, Dec 5

From Jonathan Ullman of the Sierra Club & Build the Skyway:

On the afternoon of Wednesday, December 5, in downtown Miami, the future of the Tamiami Trail and the Everglades Skyway will be at stake, and we need you there. One day before the 60th Anniversary of Everglades National Park, the Corps of Engineers will show state and federal representatives that its plan for opening up the heart of the Everglades is to do basically nothing (see info below).

I’m asking you to spend a little more than hour of your day on Wednesday, Dec. 5 to be at the Hyatt Regency, 400 SE 2nd Ave. (map) at 2 p.m. and after the Corps’ presentation, speak during the public comment session.

Speak for Florida Bay and the manatees, speak for Everglades National Park and its 68 endangered species, and speak for the water that nourishes them. Our leaders have failed us. Now we must lead.

What: Army Corps of Engineers’ Tamiami Trail presentation to the State/Federal Everglades Task Force

Where: Hyatt Regency Hotel, 300 SE Second Ave., Downtown Miami (map)

When: Wednesday, December 5, 2007, at 2 p.m. (Corps’ presentation scheduled for 2:35 p.m. but it may run early.)

Who: Skyway Coalition members and supporters

Event: Free Climate Activism Training

This post was contributed by Joe Naroditsky.

Want to learn more about climate activism and what you can do to help fight global warming? Bill McKibben, best-selling author, lifelong activist, and founder of Step it Up will be joined by Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, one of the most effective regional climate groups in the country, for a FREE climate activism training.

Thursday, November 29, 2007. 5pm-9pm

Miami-Dade College, Wolfson Campus - Building 3000 - Room 3210

300 NE 2nd Ave Downtown Miami (campus map)

RSVP: Space is limited - please RSVP with your contact information by November 21st.

Organic Buying Club of South Florida; Event 10/21

The Organic Buying Club of South Florida is a topic we still haven't covered here on greenerMIAMI. It's a similar but different concept to a CSA. The organic buying club organizes groups of individuals who are interested in purchasing organic produce, but at a lower cost than we would find in the grocery store. By buying large quantities of organic produce, you can get great food, cheaper.

Every other week members receive 25-35 pounds of fresh, organic, (but note: not local) produce for a fee of $43. Visit their website to learn more (and tell them we sent you!).

If you'd like to meet the people behind the club, join them for their 2nd Annual Bountiful Harvest Celebration at Oleta River State Park on Sunday, October 21, 2007 from Noon to Sunset. Here's what they tell us about the event: 

• Learn why organic food is essential to your health
• Listen to various authorities on the subject
• Free 5 minute chair massage, mini-facial and more
• Savor organic food
• Bring your entire family; there will be all kinds of fun activities for both adults and kids
• Organic Fruit Basket Raffle
• Email them for more info...

Green Is Glam with Dream in Green 10/20 Setai

RSVP now for the Dream in Green Green is Glam event on Saturday, October 20 at The Setai.

I hear there will be a green raffle!

EarthDance This Saturday....Go!

Tomorrow, September 15, 2007, at 7PM EST, nearly half a million world citizens in over 60 countries and 350 locations worldwide will join together for the world's largest synchronized music and dance festival for peace and to support humanitarian causes through the global language of music and dance. The defining moment of each Earthdance event is a synchronized link-up, when every event around the world plays a specially produced song called "The Prayer for Peace" at exactly the same time.

It will be an all day, incredible event with tons of music, performance art, yoga, and more. Doors open at 2pm. Tix are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and here's the real bargain: get there before 4pm and get in 2 for 1.

EarthDance Miami

EarthDance International

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