Greetings from Kepler's

Our last phone call resulted in numerous ideas for Kepler's Go-Green
Summer Series. Below I have noted the following:
1. Individuals and organizations that expressed interest in helping us
2. Authors and Publishers interested in supporting us
3. City officials and others you have indicated they are interested in
supporting us
4. A proposed schedule
5. Book suggestions that we may incorporate (Currently under evaluation)

I have also added a few new individuals to this email (hope you do not
mind! you were highly recommended to get this email!)

Please read the email carefully.
I am requesting that EACH of you respond to me and:
1. Acknowledge receipt of this email
2. Indicate if you can participate in the area I have recommended for you
3. Provide me with complete contact info: email, phone, address
4. Note any comments you may have
5. If you can attend a meeting from 5:45 - 7 on Wednesday, March 28th.
(see notes below)
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Please respond NO LATER THAN 5 pm on Tuesday, March 27th.

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Can you meet me at the Menlo Park Library at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday,
March 28th? You would head to the basement.
You are also welcome to come earlier and join the Green Ribbon Citizens
Group of Menlo Park. They will be meeting earlier, from 4 - 6 and
continuing work on ideas for Greening Menlo Park. You will have a
wonderful time, meeting fellow residents, businesses and organizations
commited to fighting climate change, energy efficiency, advising on
transportation issues and land use, etc.

See press release on Group: http://ccin.menlopark.org:81/0289.html

To:
* Hidden Villa, Chris Overington, Mitch Slomiak, Marc Sidel
* Tesla: Sam Perry and Malcolm Smith
* Friends of Bayfront Park: Elizabeth Lasensky
* PGE: Gail Slocum
* Common Ground: Patricia Becker
* Acterra: Debbie Mytells and Claire Elliot
* Peninsula Open Space Trust: Nina Nowak
* Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter: Julio Magalhaes
* Tech Shop: Gary Banta
* JZ Cool: Jessie Cool
* Solar City: Nicole Ratner
* Canopy (promotes tree planting in EPA, MP, PA, etc): Catherine
Martineau, Executive Director *NEW*
* Karen Amon, "An Al Gore 1000" *NEW*
* Build it Green: Michele Brown
* Valerie Gardner: Atherton Earth Day Expo *NEW*

Authors and Publishers *NEW*
Jessie Cool
Island Press: Nancy Suib and Alexander Schoenfeld and Jaimie Jennings
Island Press Book, Author: Ignition by Sissel Waage
Peter Handel, representing new book: Plug-In Hybrids by Sherry Boschert
(Sherry is also president of the San Francisco Electric Vehicle
Association and on the executive committee of Plug In America)
Peter Handel, representing new book: The Country in the City, The
greening of the San Francisco Bay Area, by Richard Walker
Lindsay Prevette, from Viking Penguin, representing Paul Hawkin. Book:
Blessed Unrest: how the largest Movement in the World Came Into Being
Chelsea Green: Michael Weaver

Music: Sandy Greenfield *NEW*

Almanac: Rory Brown
City Council
Menlo Chamber: Fran
City Manager: Dave Johnson
Kepler's: Pam Grange, Jane Torres, Clark Kepler, Frank Sanchez, Vivian
Leal, Kepler's Buyers, Jean Forstner, Susan Lider
Event organization: Kristi Breisch
Merchants
Menlo Recreation Department: Barbara Santos George *NEW*

Proposed Schedule for Kepler's Go-Green Summer Series (please note that
we are not going to call it Go-Green Wednesdays, because we want to be
flexible on some dates)

Sunday, June 10 (Lead: Anne Banta)
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Kick-off with opening remarks from Kelly Ferguson, Menlo Park Mayor and
Clark Kepler and Sierra Club re: Cool Cities and others; Anne announce
program.
Tables on plaza with information and demonstrations from:
Hidden Villa
Friends of Bayfront Park
PGE
Common Ground
Acterra
Peninsula Open Space Trust
Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter
Tech Shop
Solar City
Canopy
Al Gore 1000" '
Build it Green
Vendors and Kepler's selling organic clothing, recycled papers, organic
chocolate, tea, fair trade products; also sell cold drinks and food for
consumption on plaza
Music on plaza: Sandy Greenfield?
In-store book displays that feature "green" books; adult and kids

All Summer:
Kepler's selling organic clothing, recycled papers, organic chocolate,
tea, fair trade products
In-store book displays that feature "green" books; adult and kids

Wednesday, June 13
8 p.m.
Author Event: To be scheduled

Wednesday, June 20 (Lead: Pam Grange)
8 p.m.
Author Event: Paul Hawkin
Author presentation and Q&A and signing

Wednesday, June 27: (Lead: Hidden Villa, with Jean Forstner to promote
educators and "PTA" reps to come)
8 p.m.
Environmental Education for our Future: Hidden Villa
Plus representatives from Encinal School about their "no waste" program
at the school.

Tuesday, June 26 or Wednesday, June 28: Another Author (Lead: Pam Grange)

Wednesday, July 4: (Leads: Sherry Boshert and Anne Banta)
Independence from Oil
Sherry Boshert working with Kepler's. Telsa, Tech Shop, SRI and others
to promote Green Transportation
Secure large tent at Menlo Park Recreation's Fourth of July Festivities
(expect at least 1000 attendees)

Wednesday, July 11(Lead: Pam Grange)
8 p.m.
Author Event: Sissel Waage (Ignition)
Author presentation, Q&A and signing

Wednesday, July 18 (Leads: Anne Banta, Ann Dreeszen, Lynn Bent and a
key volunteer: Kristi?)
Organic Fashion Show and World of Goods
8 p.m.

Wednesday, July 25 (Leads: Pam Grange and Susan Lider with Hidden Villa)
Local/Organic Food
JZ Cool and Hidden Villa and CommonGround
Also: author, Jessica Prentice (Full Moon Feast)?
And can we have a mini farmer's market?
8 p.m.

Sunday, July 29 (Lead: Acterra, with Kepler's TBD)
Go to Arastradero Preserve: 4 pm or 7 pm?
Acterra takes us to see Claire Elliot's Youth In Nature Project

Wednesday, August 1 (Lead: Anne Banta and Mark Corpus)
Eco-Travel
Mark Corpus, Summit Travel Group
8 p.m.

Wednesday, August 8 (Lead: Acterra w/Anne Banta)
Building Green
Acterra, I have hear wonderful things about your Green@Home projects and
your past presentation: "All about Green Remodeling" with Gail Bronwell
of Sustainable Spaces; David Edwards of Earth Bound Construction: and
Suan Davis of Spectrum Fine Homes
Also, David Easton author 9The Rammed Earth House)?

Sunday, August 11 (Lead: Elizabeth Lasensky with Kepler's TBD)
7 p.m.
Bayfront Park Walk with the Friends of the Bayfront Park

Wednesday, August 15 (Close: Karen Amon with Anne Banta and Kristi?)
Changing the World, One person at a time...
Venue TBD

Plus add Chelsea Green authors in on Tuesdays and Thursdays (or with an
event topic that matches the book
Add Richard Walker, The Country in the City: Pam: schedule

And over the next week we will explore whether we should add more kid
and youth programs that tie in on Sunday mornings (during our Sunday
Story Times)

Books suggested by all of you: (Our Buyer's are also putting together
their list)
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth for Kids
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies use Environmental Strategy to
Innovate, Create Value and Build Competitive Advantage by Andrew Winston
The Little Green Handbook by Ron Nielsen
Red Sky at Morning, by James Gustave Speth (Harvard University Press)
The Suicidal Planet: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe by
Hillman, Fawcett and Rajan (St. Martin)
This Moment on Earth: Joining the New Pioneers on the Environmental
Frontier By John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry
On the "Clean" Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm
by Willie Nelson (Fulcrum)
The Virtuous Consumer: Your Simple Guide to Shopping for a Better World
by Garrett (Inner Ocean)
Ignition by Isham and Waage 9Island Press)
True Green: 100 Everyday ways you Can Contribute to a Healthier Planet
by McKay and Bonnin with intro by Bette Midler (National Geographic)
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Stopping
Climate Change by Goodall (Stylus Publishing
True Green 9National Geographic)
Code Green (Lonely Planet)
Climate Change by Henson (Rough Guides)
Moon Guide books;Avalon publisher books; Fodor's books printed with
recycled paper and soy ink
Green This! Volume One: Greening Your Cleaning
Simply Green Giving by Danny Seo
Simply Green Parties by Danny Seo
The Rough Guide to Shopping with a Conscience
It's Easy Being Green, Gibbs Smith
World-Changing: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Abrams Pub)

And From Chelsea Green

Kick-off/Green Business
Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy by Hazel Henderson with
Simran Sethi
The Company We keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community
and Place by John Abrams
Business as Unusual by Anita Roddick
Mid-Course Correction by Ray Anderson

Local/Organic Food
Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice
Slow Food Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area by Sylvan Brackett, et al
The Revolution will not be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food
Movements by Sandor Katz
The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese by Jeff Roberts
Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey Smith

Global Warming: what individuals can do
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global
Crisis by Greg Pahl
Wind Power by Paul Gipe

Environmental Education
Gaia Girls - Enter the Earth by Lee Welles
Gaia Girls - Way of Water by Lee Welles
worms Eat Our Garbage - Classroom Activities for a Better Environment
Zeri Fables by Gunther Pauli

Eco Travel
Osterie and Locande D'Italia
Slow Food Guide to San Francisco and the Bay area
The Safari Companion:A Guide to Watching African Mammals

Field Trips
Listening to the land
Conservation Finance Handbook
Groundswell: Stories of saving Places, Finding Community
The Great Remembering
Coming to Land in a Troubled World

Green Transportation
BioDiesel: Growing A New Energy Economy by Greg Pahl

Green Building/Remodeling
The Rammed Earth House by David Easton (author may be available)
The Passive Solar House by James Kachorian
The Solar House by Dan Chiras
The New Ecological House by Dan Chiras
Natural Home Heating by Greg Pahl
The Straw Bale House by Bell Steen, et. al
Serious Straw Bale by Paul Lacinski
The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes by Athena and Bill Steen
The Hand Sculpted Housse by Ianto Evans
The Green Self-Build Book by Jon Broome
Building with Cob by Adam Weismann

Environmental Restoration
Eden Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens are Restoring Our Great
American Cities by Harry Wilan and Dale Bell (film possibility)
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono

Gardening, Permaculture
Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your
Neighborhood into a Community by Heather Flores
The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyone Sustainability by David
Holmgren
See to See: See saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners by
Suzanne Ashworth
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands by Brad Lancaster
Received on Sat Mar 24 10:57:39 2007