| This Bay Area Events Calendar is compiled by Global Exchange and updated daily at www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php. Not all events are endorsed by Global Exchange. | Featured Event |  Bio-Debatable: Busting Through the Clutter of Conflicting Eco-Messages | | Tue, Dec 2, 2008 6:30 PM | | Commonwealth Club
595 Market Street
San Francisco
Cut through the buzz and fads and find out exactly how you can help green your life and save the planet.
Speakers: Jason Mark, Editor, Earth Island Journal; Co-manager, Alemany Farm; Board Member, Global Exchange Bob Schildgen, (aka Mr. Green), Previous Managing Editor, Sierra Magazine; Author, "Hey Mr. Green" column, Sierra Magazine Simran Sethi, Visiting Professor, University of Kansas; Host and Writer, Sundance Channel's "The Green"; Contributing Blogger, The Huffington Post Are compostable plastic cups better than recyclable plastic cups? You've screwed in some fluorescent light bulbs around the house; now what? Many people want to know what they can do, but have they been so inundated by a barrage of green messages that they're too tired to do anything? We're sorting paper and plastic and busting through the clutter of conflicting eco-tips, so you don't have to. Lose the green fatigue. Get the real info you need to take action, and learn how to start doing the right day-to-day things for our planet. Time: 6 p.m. check-in, 6:30 p.m. program, 7:30 p.m. reception Cost: $12 members, $20 non-members, $7 students (with valid ID)
For more information contact:
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| |  | | | | Friday, November 28th | |
Fri, Nov 28, 2008 - Wed, Dec 31, 2008 9:00 PM | | If you shop, shop LOCAL -- GUARDIAN CAMPAIGN: SPEND $100 LOCALLY ... AND YOU COULD WIN $500 | | | | Saturday, November 29th | |
Sat, Nov 29, 2008 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | | Buy Nothing Day + Really Really Free Market = Lucky You
Dolores Park (near 19th and Dolores St).
San Francisco | | | | Tuesday, December 2nd | |
Tue, Dec 2, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | | Get Your Blinky On -- free bike lights will be distributed to commuting cyclists
San Francisco |
Tue, Dec 2, 2008 - Sun, Dec 28, 2008 6:30 PM | | 27 Days of Change: Winter Practice Period for Agents of Social Change
Center for Transformative Change
2584 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Berkeley |
Tue, Dec 2, 2008 6:30 PM | | Bio-Debatable: Busting Through the Clutter of Conflicting Eco-Messages
Commonwealth Club
595 Market Street
San Francisco |
Tue, Dec 2, 2008 7:00 PM | | El Chocó, Columbia: Resistance for Survival
Steve Cagan
Community Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto | | | | Thursday, December 4th | |
Thu, Dec 4, 2008 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM | | Pandora's Trunk & Brava Theatre present Visual Vaudeville & Built Burlesque
Brava Theatre, 2781 24th St
San Francisco |
Thu, Dec 4, 2008 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Our Environmental Destiny
Berkeley Community Theatre
1930 Allston Way
Berkeley |
Thu, Dec 4, 2008 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM | | SF Firefighter's Toy Drive at Old Station 30 in San Francisco
Old Station 30 at 3rd and Mission Rock (1300 4th Street)
San Francisco | | | | Friday, December 5th | |
Fri, Dec 5, 2008 7:00 PM | | Deborah Nelson discusses her new book, The War Behind Me
Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way
Berkeley |
Fri, Dec 5, 2008 - Sun, Dec 7, 2008 7:00 PM | | urbanRETREAT Intensive: Wake Up for Change
Center for Transformative Change 2584 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Berkeley | | | | Saturday, December 6th | |
Sat, Dec 6, 2008 12:00 PM | | International Day of Action for Climate Solutions
Crissy Field
San Francisco |
Sat, Dec 6, 2008 11:00 PM - 4:00 PM | | 6th Annual Holiday Peace Fair
Campbell United Methodist Church 1675 Winchester Blvd
Campbell | | | | Sunday, December 7th | |
Sun, Dec 7, 2008 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM | | Silent auction and Concert with earth first
3105 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley (near Ashby BART) If you know of an event that is related to Global Exchange's work and is not yet posted, please email the information to events@globalexchange.org | |
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