Staunton Green 2020

Stay informed after Earth Day.  Here are a few of my favorite websites that I hope you will enjoy.  Send your favorite environmental websites to us at StauntonGreen@gmail.com.

Join the Food Revolution!

www.jamieoliver.com/campaigns

This is an exciting movement started in Huntington, WVA to bring fresh nutritious foods to our schools and to people all over.  See the website to join the 8,440+ Virginians who have signed the petition.

Environmental Working Group

www.EWG.org

Look here for the latest research to protect you and your family from toxic chemicals in our food, water and air in every day products that we use.  EWG is nationally recognized and they event have a great easy to follow rating system.

Food and Water Watch

www.foodandwaterwatch.org

If you liked the movie Fresh, this is a good website for you! This organization is one of the best for environmental education and enabling individuals to take ACTION. Their mission as a non-profit organization is to work with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future. Through research, public and policymaker education, media, and lobbying, they advocate policies that guarantee safe, wholesome food produced in a humane and sustainable manner and public, rather than private, control of water resources including oceans, rivers, and groundwater. Check them out!

The Good Guide

www.thegoodguide.com

The Good Guide is another great on-line resource that rates healthy green products from food to make-up.

Environmental News Network

www.ENN.com

Sign up for daily emails on the latest worldwide environmental news.

The Daily Green

www.thedailygreen.com

Sign up for The Daily Green e-newsletter promoting environmental responsibility with easy to read tips.

Center for Science in the Public Interest

www.cspinet.org

CSPI publishes an excellent magazine, Nutrition Action, on health and food safety. It’s the largest circulating health newsletter in North America.  This is a concise magazine complete with dos and don’ts and healthy recipes at the end of each edition.

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BEVERLEY STREET STUDIO SCHOOL PRESENTS
“EARTH IN THE BALANCE (AN ANAMORPHIC ILLUSION)”

"Earth in the Balance (an anamorphic illusion)"

“It’s a small world after all…” Or maybe not!  The Beverley Street Studio School will unveil “Earth in the Balance (an anamorphic illusion)” on Earth Day, Saturday April 17 from 9:00 a.m. to noon in the Wharf Parking Lot, beside the Farmers’ Market in Staunton.  At 12′ x 45′, this work is believed to be the largest painting on canvas ever created in the city of Staunton.

“Earth in the Balance” is a giant image of Planet Earth as seen from Outer Space.  But instead of painting the usual spherical planet, the BSSS artists have created a strangely distorted elliptical blob.  Or so it will seem to viewers until they readjust their way of looking at our much-loved and much-abused planet.  From the right viewpoint, Earth will regain its graceful, familiar proportions.  Then if a spectator poses for a photo op in just the right way,  Earth will appear to spin serenely like a beach ball atop that person’s fingertip!

If a spectator poses just the right way, Earth will appear to spin serenely on its axis atop that person’s fingertip!

It’s optical magic that you won’t believe until you see it for yourself.  The project is free, open to the public, and designed to be kid-friendly and interactive.  Children, pets, and whole families are invited to pose with the picture. Bring your camera, wear a costume if you like, and be prepared to see what it’s like to personally hold the Earth in balance.

Contact: Cleveland Morris (540) 332-6111 or cmmmmix@gmail.com

Act quickly so you can see “HOME”, for FREE!

HOME is a harrowingly beautiful 90 minute documentary, narrated by Glenn Close – see synopsis below.  But hurry, it will only be available on YouTube for three more days! It may change and/or reinforce your outlook of this fragile, incredibly beautiful and interdependent world we call home…and the urgency for all of us to act decisively, collectively and individually, one act at a time.

Synopsis
In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it is too late to be a pessimist: humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of the Earth’s riches and change its patterns of consumption.
http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

Did you know the efforts Staunton has already taken to protect and improve our water supply? Here is a partial list of what has been accomplished during the past few years:

I’ll add that private citizens have created riparian easements on private land, too

These efforts show a local commitment to clean water. It proves Staunton citizens can commit to hard work to ensure a brighter tomorrow for all its residents. We’re asking everyone to step up and get involved to reduce our carbon by 20% by 2020 while creating green jobs at the same time. Please sign our petition to establish the City of Staunton’s Green Task Force. Thank you!