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VIP: The Road to Rio+20, Earth Day Green Festival NYC & The Big Fix

Apr 17
Asia, China, Earth, Europe, India, North America, Oceania

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Fund Balance is launching the Green Festivals, Road to Rio+20 and Beyond UStream channel with Green Festivals, Huffington Post, NRDC, the Global Campaign for Climate Action/TckTckTck at Green Festivals in NYC this Earth Weekend, April 21-22.

GCCA/TckTckTck and their current initiative, Date With History have 300+ organizations who will be broadcasting the stream to as many as 100,000,000 users. We anticipate 9M impressions at Green Festivals NYC, and HuffPost Green will add more. Would you like to submit content for the channel? It is live now with preconference coverage and will start live a the NYC Green Festival Main Stage on Saturday morning.

 

New York City Earth Day Events:


You think you know what happened two years ago Earth Day in the Gulf…

But you didn’t get the whole truth.



Please join Code Blue, Green Festivals, Green Spaces, Green Breakfast Club Fund Balance for a special pre-release screening and panel discussion of:

THE BIG FIX

A Lion’s Gate documentary from Sundance Award Winning filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell.

At the fabulous Helen
Mills Theater 137-139 West 26th Street | New York City | Sunday, April 22nd, 7:30 PM

Get Tickets, $10.00

NYC’s debut Green Festivals Earth Day event continues into Sunday night with a premier venue screening and panel in association with The Big Fix Earth Day viral national screenings.

Panelists include Carl Safina, president of The Blue Ocean Institute & Ed Crooks, Financial Times Industry and Energy Editor.

You think you know what happened last Earth Day in the Gulf, but do you know what is still going on? Covert spraying of the toxic Corexit dispersant continues to contaminate water supplies, injure people, kill sealife and damage ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico and Ocean. EPA whistleblowers in the documentary reveal material financial information suggesting that BP is using this strategy to limit its financial liability while continuing to manipulate Gulf State petropolitics.

This is the documentary that brings it all to life, reawakening the public consensus that drilling, fracking and depending for our energy needs on 20th century extractive and toxic fuel sources must be brought to a peaceful close in favor of clean, renewable energy. If you are an organization or foundation working on these issues, please be in touch.

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For press kit or to partner on the New York and Rio events contact:

Christianne Cook, 646-479-7539, christianne@fund-balance.com

Leland Lehrman, 518-392-0952, leland.lehrman@fund-balance.com

To Host a viral Big Fix screening, contact Nicole Landers, 323.377.4356, nicole@greenplanet3d.com
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Chinese and Indian policy-makers looking ahead while many in U.S. look to the side

Jan 18
China, Earth, India

Over the last two weeks, a substantial amount of journalism has covered stories that converge on a basic theme: China and India are planning for a world where a) Green Technology drives economic activity, and b) the need for Energy Technology, however “Green” will conflict with available natural resources and drive rapidly increasing investment outside of their borders, and equal demand for innovation on both sides.

For example, China is moving to take large amounts of solar generated power from California. Over the last three years, China’s share of the California market, in terms of supplied megawatts, has risen to 46 percent, from 2 percent, according to a preliminary report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a research and consulting firm.

At the same time, the share supplied in California by American companies has declined to 16 percent, from 43 percent.

And while sunshine is abundant in California, already we see the construction of large solar arrays impinging on endangered habitat. It might just be Tortoises now, but how long until it impacts agriculture, or water rights?

And while many indulge in arguments about whether Climate Change is real; China and India are already planning on its impact on their ability to produce food and as covered recently by Thomas Friedman, Technology.

Technology that will drive significant amounts of capital formation for the foreseeable future.

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