2010 Rachel's Sustainable Feast
August 29, 2010 @ Rachel Carson Bridge (a.k.a.9th Street Bridge), Pittsburgh, PA
12 noon to 5:00 p.m.
(We've moved Rachel's Sustainable Feast to August 29 due to the Steelers playing at home on September 12 )
The fourth annual Rachel's Sustainable Feast moves to the Rachel Carson Bridge in Pittsburgh. Why? Because we ran out of space outside Rachel's home in Springdale!! More of the region's hottest chefs who support local sustainable farmers, more farmers' markets, more eco-friendly vendors and groups who work to protect our land, water and air, and more ways to learn about sustainable living in one of this country's fastest-growing green marketplaces - southwestern Pennsylvania! $10 per person. Children 5 and under get in FREE.
Register here (we're closing online registration on August 27. Please come to the event and pay at the gate (at either end of the bridge) on Sunday, August 29
PARKING:
We encourage you to take public transportation, walk, bike or paddle to the event. If you must drive convenient parking is available:
Ninth Street and Penn Avenue Garage - $5
Sixth and Penn $6
Fifteenth and Smallman $6
PLEASE NOTE: THE GENERAL ROBINSON LOT ON THE NORTH SHORE WILL BE CLOSED, AS WILL ALL PNC PARK LOT SPACES. ALSO, THE CONVENTION CENTER PARKING LOT WILL ALSO BE CLOSED.
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2010 Rachel Carson Legacy Conference
Challenging Marcellus Shale:
Consequences and Alternatives
Keynote Speaker: Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Ph.D., MD - one of Sweden’s foremost cancer scientists and the founder of The Natural Step.
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September 24, 2010
Pittsburgh, PA
The 2010 Rachel Carson Legacy Conference : Challenging Marcellus Shale - Consequences and Alternatives will address the health, environmental and community effects Pennsylvania will face with the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas fields.
We have gathered people from New York, Colorado and Pennsylvania with experience and expertise in evaluating hte results of the deep shale fracking industry.
The Alternatives approach will be highlighted by keynote speaker Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt of Sweden founder of The Natural Step process for reaching a sustainable economy. He will be followed by Ken Melamed, Mayor of Whistler, B.C., who will describe the Whistler 2020 plan as implemented based on Dr. Robert's approach and a panel of renewable and sustainable energy businesses illustrating current economically viable applications of renewable energy systems.
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Rachel Carson Homestead Celebrates World Environment Day
2010 Rachel Carson Legacy Award and Symposium on Biodiversity with E. O. Wilson
May 27, 2010 @ Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Video clips will be posted shortly
As part of the United Nations World Environment Day celebration in North America, the Rachel Carson Legacy symposium will focus on the human impact on biodiversity. Featuring E.O. Wilson as keynote speaker and including a panel of experts, including Elisabeth Guilbaud-Cox, Deputy Director of the United Nations Environment Programme North America, and Dr. Richard Benedick, former Ambassador and Special Advisor to the U.N. on International Population Policy, we can begin with an initial visioning for a New American Dream that is environmentally sustainable, developed by participants in this event - a roadmap that will address the effect people have on the environment, and the critical inter-relationships between human habitat and the quality of life for generations to come.
E. O. Wilson, two-time Pulitzer prize winner, world-renowned entomologist and one of the scientists who provided research data to Rachel Carson while she was writing Silent Spring, will receive the Rachel Carson Legacy Award at a ceremony following our World Environment Day Biodiversty symposium at the Carnegie Natural History Museum on May 27, 2010.
The Rachel Carson Legacy Award was established in 2007 as part of the celebration of the centennial of Rachel Carson’s birth. It was created to recognize and honor people who have made significant impact on the application of Rachel Carson’s principles to modern public policy issues that interface the environment. The biannual award targets recognition for people who are both scientists and authors, in the model of Rachel Carson’s work.
Largely responsible for the study of biodiversity, sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and chemical psychology, Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology at Harvard. He has also founded the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation whose mission is to preserve biological diversity in the living environment by inventing and implementing business and educational strategies in the service of conservation. In addition to the more than 100 awards Wilson has received from around the world, in 2000 he was named as one of the century’s 100 leading environmentalists by both Time and Audubon Magazine.
Thanks to our Co-Host, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and to our major Funders: Colcom Foundation and The Heinz Endowments.
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