Events Nationwide

[GX LOGO] = Global Exchange event

Lafayette,
CA
June 27, 2013 - 6:30pm
Andrew Guzman, Professor, UC Berkeley Law School; Author, Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change Richard Joseph Jackson, Professor, UCLA School of Public Health; Host of the four-part public TV program, Designing Healthy Communities In conversation with Greg Dalton, Founder and Director, Climate One
Berkeley,
CA
June 27, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Affects on Your Body and the Global Community Consumer plastics are ingredients in our daily lives that carry a hidden, global story through their production, use, and disposal. Sorting through the news about health harm, there can be too much information or not enough, leaving it unclear how to respond. How do plastics affect our bodies? How do plastics affect people's health around the planet?
Walnut Creek,
CA
June 27, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Speakers: JAMIE BROWN Project Director of BASE in Basel, Switzerland. BASE is the Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (www.energy-base.org), a non-profit foundation and a Collaborating Centre for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). BASE works to shift investment into renewable energy and energy efficiency, particularly in developing countries.
Petaluma,
CA
July 11, 2013 - 5:00am - 8:30pm
Peak oil, climate change, economic turmoil—the problems our society faces are immense and structural, and they aren’t going away. Conventional approaches aren’t working, but growing numbers of communities are finding solutions by applying permaculture design on the local scale.
Ben Lomond,
CA
July 14, 2013 (All day) - July 21, 2013 (All day)
San Francisco,
CA
July 19, 2013 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Join Global Exchange and Specialty Studios for a screening of SCARRED LANDS AND WOUNDED LIVES The Environmental Footprint of War A film by Alice T. Day, PhD and Lincoln H. Day, PhD