From: Zachary Carson <sustainablelivingroadshow@gmail.com>

Date: May 11, 2009 6:01:01 PM PDT

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Subject: Sustainable Living Roadshow Spring Update

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Sustainable Living Roadshow 2009 Spring Update Spring 09 Newsletter May 2009 The Sustainable Living Roadshow is a proud member and recipient of 1% for the Planet! (www.onepercentfortheplanet.org) SLR is a fiscally-sponsored project of a registered 501c3 charitable organization.  We are supported by the individuals and companies that resonate with our vision.  If you are able to donate or get involved through sponsorship, we would really appreciate it.  Every penny goes to keeping the show on the road and every little bit helps. Click here if you are able to donate! Thank you! Table of Contents Esperanza Gardens Recruiting Support Article Headline Redefining the Vision Plans for the Future Email Links Volunteer/Intern/Job Requests Interested in working, interning or volunteering with the Sustainable Living Roadshow? Please email slrvolunteer@gmail.com for all employment and volunteer opportunity requests! Booking Interested in bringing the Conscious Carnival or the entire Sustainable Living Roadshow to your community or school? Please email tomisclever@gmail.com for all booking inquires!   Sponsorship Are you looking to connect your company with the "greenest" national tour in the country?  We are looking for 2009 and 2010 season sponsors! Please email zachary.carson@gmail.com for all sponsorship inquires!   Bus Rentals Interested in renting a sustainable tour coach?  Our buses make up the greenest fleet in the nation!  Please inquire about ways groups, bands or events can rent our tour coaches! We are also beginning to offer Sustainable Wine Tours in Northern California and Green Party Bus Rentals in SF! Please email info@sustainablelivingroadshow.org for rental availability and options Newest Partner Groups * California Student Sustainability Coalition *  ASCAP * Max Mouth * Cause Cast * Solar Saucer   Info Website Promo Video Conscious Carnival Info Electronic Press Kit Newsletter Signup NEWEST SLR Project KICK OFF EVENT - 5/9/09 Esperanza Sustainability Center SLR has catalyzed a collective of amazing organizations in the founding of the new, SF Mission District based Esperanza Sustainability Center! - the newest urban community garden, sustainability education center, & outdoor events venue! Join us this coming weekend: Saturday May 9th: 11am-6pm "Madre Fiesta" a party for land, food, and culture Grand Opening of Esperanza Sustainability Center 685 Florida Street @ 19th street, San Fransisco Featuring world class music on a bicycle powered stage from ROCK THE BIKE, live mural painting, puppet shows, local organic food and workshops on urban gardening, cob building, permaculture, greywater systems, food security, and more.  This event is a joint venture with the CommuniTree Festival, a 4 day, Bay Area wide celebration of Arts, Ecological Awareness, and Community Healing. Our mission: To foster replicable educational centers for urban agriculture, sustainable living strategies, and artistic expression. Our goal is to serve as a model for transforming abandoned urban spaces into thriving centers that generate food, education, community, and culture. We encourage the stewardship of these spaces for however long we have access to them. ENTERTAINMENT Para La Gente, latin hip hop Stitchcraft Rock The Bike & the Fossil Fool Yaguelin Deyabu Aaron Ableman and Aharon Big Tadoo Puppet Crew WORKSHOPS  Intro to Permaculture Grey Water Guerilla Urban Gardening Mycorrhizal (mushroom) workshop Potato towers fabrication Cob Building 101 Esperanza Partner Groups: The Sustainable Living Roadshow CommuniTree Movement CELLspace Earth Peace Mandala Seed of Life Garden Change SF Urban Releaf Greywater Guerillas It has been almost 6 months since our National SLR Fall "Be the Change Tour" and we're excited to be back in action!  With the experiences gained from producing 21 days of events in 8 states over 2.5 months, we used the winter months to re-evaluate, re-define and re-explore our organization, production and partners.  Creating a true "Sustainable" Living Roadshow takes a lot of work, and we are excited to step into new roles of organization and edutainment outreach.  Please take a moment to see what we have been up to and where the future will take us! And be sure to catch up with us in the Mission District of San Francisco to launch an urban center for sustainable living this coming SAT, May 9th, 2009 from 11am to 6pm at the Esperanza Sustainability Center.   Look for details in the left hand column below.   2009 Recent Events 3/21* - Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, Carnival, San Francisco, CA 3/28* - "Earth Hour," City Celebration, San Francisco, CA 4/4* - Earth Team - Teen Watershed Restoration Day, Berkeley CA 4/16 - 4/17 - San Diego State University Green Fest, San Diego, CA 4/18 - 4/19 - IndiOasis - Coachella VIP Pool Party, Palm Springs, CA 4/24* - Child Day School-School Sustainability Fair, San Francisco, CA 4/25 - CA Student Sustainability Coalition Convergence, San Luis Obispo 4/25* - Berkeley Farmers Market - Zero Waste Launch, Berkeley, CA 5/2 - UC Riverside Spring Fest, Riverside, CA featuring COMMON 5/3 - Alternative Healing Festival, San Diego, CA featuring OZOMATLI *Only the Conscious Carnival at these events 2009 Upcoming Gigs 5/9 - Esperanza Sustainability center, Grand opening, San Francisco, CA 5/9 - Sherman Elementary School - Garden Party, San Francisco, CA 5/21* - John Muir Elementary School, Spring Carnival, Berkeley, CA 6/20* - Berkeley Family Fun Festival and Bike Rodeo, Berkeley, CA 7/3 - TBA 7/10 - 7/12 - Forecastle Festival, Louisville, KY 7/19 - TBA 7/24 - 7/26 - TBA *Only the Conscious Carnival at these events Recruiting Support: Internships, Volunteer Positions, other jobs. Internships - SLR is excited to announce our new internship program.  For students in college who need internship credit to graduate, or if your just getting out of school and want to get some industry experience, we have incredible opportunities for you to gain experience in the fields of community organizing, event production, art as education, curricula development and more!  Whether you are in the Bay Area or abroad, we have a lot of opportunities for people to get involved! Summer Festival Outreach Team - SLR will be tabling and spreading our message at festivals throughout California this summer!  We are looking for a motivated team of people interested in joining us! SLR Booking Agent- SLR has become overwhelmed with amazing request to bring our organization all over the country!  We are looking for an experienced event booking agent to help create our Summer and Fall 2009 Tour schedule and flush out our 2010 event calendar! SLR Sponsorship Coordinator - Over the years, SLR has developed amazing relationships with companies representing triple bottom line business philosophy and the highest tiers in socially and environmentally responsible business practices.  Our touring model has now been a proven success and our opportunities are constantly growing.  We are looking for help building relationships with companies interested in partnering with our messages and philosophies. Other Jobs - Eco-Info Program Developer, Video Editing, Volunteer Coordinator, Carpentry, Welding, Painting, Circus Program Development, Art Direction, Website Development, Clean Energy Outreach Coordinator, Research Assistants and more! 2008 Tour Summary Tour Members - 14-22 dedicated educators, entertainers and producers on the road for two months Events - 4 SLR weekend eco-festivals (self-produced events); 6 co-produced events (all off-the-grid, almost zero-waste) - 21 days of events in total Travel - 21 states, over 12,000 miles on sustainable biodiesel Food - All food sourced locally and organic through partnerships with local Co-Ops, Farmers Markets and Farms. Outreach - ~70,000 in attendance during 2008 tour; over 1,500,000 through email, news and flyering News - 10 TV, 5 radio, 4 National Magazines, 8 local publications, over 50 blogs! 2008 Fall Schedule: ·    Democratic National Convention, Denver, CO ·    Green Frontier Festival ·    SLR Be the Change Sustainability Street Fair - 2 days ·    Republican National Convention, St Paul, MN ·    Liberty Parade and Music Festival - Minneapolis, MN ·    Ripple Effect Festival - State Capitol, St. Paul, MN ·    2nd Annual Niimiiwin Gathering Solar Powered Pow-Wow Calloway MN ·    University of Illinois, Chicago, IL - 2 days ·    Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, Stone Mountain, GA ·    Presidential Debates, University of Mississippi ·    University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN - 2 days ·    9th Ward with Common Ground, New Orleans, LA ·    Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, New Orleans, LA ·    Gretna Heritage Festival, Gretna, LA - 3 days ·    The Hundred Acre Wood, Austin, TX - 2 day camping festival ·    California Student Sustainability Coalition Conference, San Francisco, CA   Redefining the Vision The Sustainable Living Roadshow is designed to be a platform to showcase social organizing, conscious entertainment, interactive art, local resource sharing, conscious consumerism and cutting-edge education.  Our Fall tour embodied many of these philosophies, but for 2009, rather than hold all the responsibilities of touring and event-production in-house, SLR is shifting this year's focus to supporting existing events with eco-village design and green element integration.  Our goal is to create a more sustainable model for ourselves and to work off the already developed platforms of large community gatherings and celebrations.  By shifting focus in this direction, we hope to have more time to develop true partnership with groups that fit into our touring model.  Once the coalition of partners is fully developed, the true model of the SLR will shine, and we will return in 2010 to an all encompassing national tour with localized focus.  This is what we are most excited about!   Plans for the Future SLR is currently planning for Summer 2009 National Tour.  The focus of this summer's tour is on providing eco-tainment at existing Weekend festivals and visiting summer camps, schools and farmers markets during the week.  If you have contacts with any of the above groups, please let us know how to get in touch with them!  Our Fall season is still up in the air!  We have received so many amazing requests from K-12 schools and college campuses - conversations are on-going, so there will be more information when it comes!  Additionally, we are in conversations with several groups such as New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat and the Eco Reality Tour, so chances are, we will be on the road this fall! 2010 is what SLR is really looking forward to.  In collaboration with our college network partners (groups such as Energy Action Coalition, California Student Sustainability Coalition, Association for Sustainability in Higher Education, etc), SLR will be formalizing our production process into a turn-key "festival in a box" tool-kit.  We are developing a campaign to have colleges across the country replicate the model of the SLR in their local community by producing their own local Sustainable Living Festival in 2010.  In addition to this campaign, we are looking to expand on our partnerships and our experiences of the Fall 08 season, and produce community celebrations across the country.  These celebrations will last approximately 5 days in every city, and will integrate workshops, entertainment, community service projects, resource sharing and much more!   We are really excited to be back in touch with everyone!  Thank you for all your support over the years, and we look forward to continuing to share our journey with you!   The SLR Family Sustainable Living Roadshow

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