If you like free quality performing arts…check out MAPP – Mission Arts Performance Project! Over 25 venues, garages and art galleries open for the public. YeYe Suarez and Co. will be performing at the Secret Garden (Harrison St between 23rd & 24th) @8pm on Saturday December 7th. http://mappsf.bandzoogle.com/home.cfm Read More
Holiday Tree Drive
The Urban Services YMCA Holiday Tree Drive is underway and our goal is to sell 600 trees this year. With this fundraiser, we would be able to support 100 families and 500 children living in San Francisco. Did you know that you can help us provide food for a family for an entire month by… Read More
Award for Author of 'Stern Review'
The 2013 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication will be awarded to Lord Nicholas Stern, former World Bank Chief Economist and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Lord Stern is the author of the highly influential 2006 “Stern Review,” which concluded that climate change is a problem of risk management… Read More
Skeptics & Smog
A discussion with the Co-Founder of DeSmog Blog, Founder of Skeptical Science, and Editor of the Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media to Climate One that delves into the topic of carbon and climate change in today’s media. We will discuss how news media coverage of climate disruption sways and influences American public… Read More
Support Veterans During the Holdiays
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Last year Swords to Plowshares ran a successful holiday giving campaign and made the holiday season better for homeless veterans in our community. This year they want to give even more back to our veterans.
To make that happen they are participating in the CrowdRise Holiday Challenge. This gives them the opportunity to raise money for the cause and win cool side prizes (like Huffington Post tweeting about our campaign when we raise $1,000.)
Here’s how you can help make this happen. Go HERE and join the cause!
Forest Wars
A discussion with the Founder & CEO of Wildlife Works and Project Developer for REDD+, Microsoft’s Senior Director of Environmental Sustainability, and the Director of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services at Business for Social Responsibility covering the topics of trees, deforestation, and money: the conflict caused by the struggle between dollars and deforestation in the attempt to… Read More
Power Year in Review
A discussion with the West Coast Political Director of the EDF, UC Davis’ Executive Director of Energy and Sustainability, an energy commissioner, and KQED’s Climate Watch Senior Editor on of the important energy milestones of 2013 and what lies ahead for 2014. If you or your group are interested in attending, contact Alan in the… Read More