Join me at the YellowGreen Farmers Market – 1940 N. 30th Road & Taft – Hollywood, Florida every weekend. I’m in booth 225. Check out the progress we’re making by going to Global Giving.
Operation Green Leaves is proud to be associated with the YellowGreen Farmers Market in Hollywood, Florida. Although we’re a recent addition, we feel like we’re part of a big family. A family committed to a similar, yet independent goal. Vendors offer organic coffee and gourmet dog food, holistic medicine and quality crafts. From an assortment of fresh vegetables to patio furniture and garden plants, the YellowGreen Farmers Market has something for the entire family.
Join use every weekend, from 8 AM to 4 PM.
Stop by 1 and 2 October 2011 for the 1st anniversary celebration of the YellowGreen Farmers Market in Hollywood.
Today’s guest on EcoAlert with Nadine Patrice is Jack Haime of BioPlanetUSA.
BioPlanet USA is a 501(c)3 non profit environmental organization committed to producing high impact actions to minimize the effects of climate change while creating awareness campaigns involving students and private sector companies to increase their local social responsibility and provide aid to marginalized communities.
Sponsor your own forest!
With your sponsorship we’ll plant trees at the reforestation initiatives you choose. Meanwhile, implement our GERMINATION WORKSHOP at WORK or at SCHOOL, where everyone must grow a tree to develop environmental awareness and show their commitment with the environment.
All of our reforestation projects involve the communities around these sites providing them with employment, nutritional benefits, education and hope.
Current Reforestation Projects
For more information, visit: BioPlanetUSA.org.
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Nadine Patrice, executive director of Operation Green Leaves, hosted a series of three environmentally-oriented TV shows sponsored by Statistics For Action. The first one is focused on Water Quality.
From the Environmental News Network…
Millions of people across the Horn of Africa are suffering under a crippling regional drought and tens of thousands have died during the accompanying famine. Refuge camps in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia are swelling with the hungry.
The best hope in the short-term is food aid and logistical support, but in the longer term, dryland reforestation efforts may help improve food security, argues a new report from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), which links human-caused land degradation, including deforestation, to intensified drought.
Click here for the rest of the story about Reforestation and Food Security…
Famine in Africa: Can Reforestation Improve Food Security?
By Karimeh Moukaddem, mongabay.com
September 14, 2011
A CONCERT ON THE GREEN
TO KEEP THE ENVIRONMENT CLEAN
Bayside Rocks Music & Arts Festival
at Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami billed as the ‘New Concert Paradigm’
MIAMI, FL (September 12, 2011) – Miami is throwing an environmentally- and family-friendly, star-studded party that will turn even the staunchest environmentalist Green with envy.
The annual Bayside Rocks Music & Arts Festival on November 19th 2011 at downtown Miami’s Bayfront Park is being hailed as the new entertainment paradigm for the 21st century. The Festival will utilize green vendors – those merchants that are committed to responsible environmental stewardship – and provide multiple recycling bins for plastic, glass and paper goods. Festival officials and their media partners also are encouraging attendees to use public transportation to get to the concert. A Metro Mover station is conveniently located right at Bayfront Park.
Alfonso D’Niscio Brooks, CEO of ROCKAZ MVMT, the company producing the Festival, says that everyone has a responsibility to make our world a better and healthier place. “It’s great to have fun,” said Brooks. “But it’s imperative that we do it in an environmentally responsible way. That’s what my company and this festival are all about.”
This year’s Festival will feature a full day of family-oriented, environmentally-friendly activities including a farmers’ market, yoga demonstrations, bike valet, skateboard and BMX exhibitions, ecology and social consciousness workshops, and more. A star-filled tribute to 50 years of Wailers music and the music icon Bob Marley will be highlighted throughout the day. Headliners include Bunny Wailer, Wailing Souls, Luciano, Tabou Combo, Cultura Profetica, Gondwana, Warrior King, Pato Banton, Connis Vanterpool and The Original Wailers, as well as some of the most promising up-and-coming talent. Click here to see a highlights of last year’s event.
“We’ve made entry to the event free for everyone who arrives before 1 p.m.,” said Brooks. “This will allow the entire community to be a part of our vision for social consciousness, community and environmental awareness on a musical platform with an urgent humanitarian effort to fight poverty and feed the hungry while providing ecologically engineered economic transformation on a global scale.”
This year, concert proceeds will include a food drive benefiting Curley’s House (www.curleyshouseinc.com) an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for low-to-moderate income individuals, families, the elderly, youth-at-risk, the abused, and HIV/AIDS infected individuals by providing the nutrition they need. Guests will be asked to contribute two or more cans of food as part of the cost of admission.
“Given the sociological and philanthropic nature of this event, we’re inviting all civic minded companies to join us as sponsors,” D’Niscio Brooks said. “It’s a great way to get your name in front of tens of thousands of people while ensuring that hundreds of thousands of dollars are donated to a very worthy cause.”
The Bayside Rocks Music & Arts Festival is scheduled for Saturday November 19, 2011 at Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami. For additional information contact Michelle McKoy at 754-273-7166 or email her at michelle@rockazmvmt.com
Get your tickets now by calling 305-763-4509 or by clicking here: Bayside Rocks 2011
Our Mission is to break the cycle of poverty by building thriving and self-sustainable communities where the need is the greatest through a holistic, three-pillar development approach based on economic growth, education, healthcare and environmental stewardship.
And, to be guided in our work by values of social justice, economic parity, gender equality, shared know-how, and mutual respect.
Our work is founded on the knowledge that we are one world in which all of us depend on one another other for survival, security and how we shape our future no matter where we live, or the present state of our economy, educational system and technology. And, it is based on our profound belief that, as individuals and nations, we are indebted to each other to use our strengths, know-how and technologies to transform communities in need so that they can thrive and become major contributors on the global scene in international trade, environmental conservation, cultural exchange and innovation.
EcoWorks International is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) that works with disadvantaged communities to break the cycle of poverty through sustainable enterprises that promote self-reliance, improve standards of living, and protect natural resources.
For decades, development professionals have been wrestling with this question: how to permanently break the cycle of poverty? Our response, based on twenty years of experience, is to practice a holistic approach which encompasses the many aspects of a person’s selfhood and relationship to family, community, region, and world. This approach recognizes the existence of a complex set of related needs that must be simultaneously met in order to lift a community out of poverty.
Our projects, therefore, are based on four-pillars: (1) economic development; (2) education; (3) healthcare, and (4) environmental stewardship. Each pillar is supported by a set of key programs that complement each other to reinforce the ultimate objectives. The economic development programs, for example, include an economic engine, i.e. a profit making venture, as well as an entrepreneurship initiative to diversify the local economy and revolving funds to support these activities on a long-term basis.
We create an economic program that establishes a specialized industry and a diversified local economy. The industrial venture, owned by EWI and the partner community, is a nonprofit entity but is managed like a private business with the goal of producing income. Part of that income is put into a Community Fund that helps pay for building essential infrastructure such as schools, clinics and wells.
Then, there is an entrepreneurship program that enables individuals to create new enterprises that provide jobs and diversify the local economy.
Being Educated… breaks the cycle of poverty, creates a gateway to better jobs, healthier families and greater civic involvement.
Having Access to Basic Healthcare and Social Services… is essential in maintaining a functioning society, a productive workforce, and sound management of community resources.
Responsibly Managing Natural Resources… is indispensible in ensuring the community’s survival (protection from landslides and flooding; preservation of top soil for agriculture; etc.), and in contributing to mitigating the effects of broader environmental dangers, such as climate change.
Preserving Cultural Traditions… which are the threads in the fabric of a community’s cohesiveness and continuity.
The EWI Approach is Unique. Twenty years of field experience has enabled us to create an approach to development that is both comprehensive and sustainable. Our holistic approach integrates Social Investment, Business Savvy, Best Development Practice, Partnerships and Capacity Building. At the heart of our project is an economic engine that produces profits which are then invested in the community’s infrastructure. We reinforce the economic development by providing access to education, healthcare and social services. At the same time, we integrate environmental mitigation, restoration and responsible management of natural resources.
Our current project: “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty, Ganthier, Haiti”, exemplifies this approach. For more information, visit: EcoworkInternational.org.
