Green Day Planner

Green Job Fairs and Links

@ Burbank Public Library Green Pages

Green Career Conference: April 25, 2009
San Diego State University

Solar Photovoltaics
Solar Hot Water
Wind Energy
Biomass
Green Building
Green Cleaning
Energy Efficiency
Entrepreneurs
Energy Conservation/Energy Audit
Green Building / LEED

also June 7, 2009 @ UCLA

Burbank Reads: Sustainability Day

Green Reigns on Sustainability Day
Library event hosts a variety of environmentally friendly products and offers tips to create zero waste in the city.
Burbank Leader: April 8, 2009 by Zain Shauk

BURBANK — A plug-in hybrid car, electric bicycles, eco-friendly cleaners and homemade reusable bags were on display for the Buena Vista Library’s sustainability day, where visitors got a range of suggestions for living greener lives.

From recycling tips to lessons on energy-efficient light bulbs, representatives from city departments, local organizations and businesses offered pointers to help residents move toward Burbank’s goal of being a zero-waste city by 2040.

“We’re just trying to get people thinking about everything we do in our life and what can we change to make our planet and our city more sustainable,” said Sharon Cohen, the city’s library services director.

The event was the culmination of the library’s Burbank Reads campaign, which this year encouraged residents to read “Living Like Ed,” a book by author Ed Begley Jr. that includes a series of suggestions on living a more environmentally friendly life, Cohen said.

The library held a series of events during the last month to help residents learn more about the sustainability solutions discussed in the book, but Saturday’s event served as an easy resource for visitors to hear about several easy ways to go green.

City officials answered questions about Burbank’s efforts to become more eco-friendly, which included a campaign to encourage more bike riding and an explanation of the city’s recycling system. READ MORE !

Green Day Planner

Cool Globes
April 22, 2009 - Mid-August 2009

Cool Globes - Los Angeles debut on Earth Day, April 22 at 11 am in beautiful Exposition Park. This vibrant, engaging and educational exhibit will feature 50 larger-than-life sculpted globes, each custom-designed by local, national and international artists to showcase a solution to reduce global warming.

“Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet” is public art with a purpose. Conceived by environmentalist Wendy Abrams who wanted to raise awareness of simple solutions to global warming, the project launched in Chicago in June 2007 with 130 globes, each depicting a solution to global warming. The exhibit received an enormous response from the public and media. In 2008, Cool Globes was on display in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. Botanic Garden, in San Francisco at Crissy Field and in San Diego in Balboa Park, through the generous support of Toyota.

Community Demonstration Garden Grant

Burbank Water and Power
Community Demonstration Garden Grant

BWP will sponsor a limited number of demonstration gardens within the City of Burbank for the purpose of showcasing sound water efficient landscape practices.

Proposals for BWP to sponsor a demonstration garden at a host site will be evaluated on 1st come-1st serve basis. General criteria listed

below. More detailed criteria in order of importance @ BWP:

~ up to 2 Demonstration Gardens per year for the next 4 years
~ starts in fiscal year (July–June) 2008/09
~ does not exceed $15,000 per site
~ must be a community based or not-for-profit organization, or local school within the COB
~ site must be accessible and visible to the public
~ organizations willing to cost share will receive preference
~ in-kind labor, donated hardscape & plant materials considered in lieu of cost sharing
~ projects that apply/receive funding from other funding source, (MWD) will receive preference
~ must agree to grant access, showcase and maintain for 5 years.

Click here for Application

Zero Waste Food Service - Burbank

Restaurant Waste Reduction Workshop
March 25, 2009: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Hands-on, interactive workshop.
How to indentify, reduce and eliminate food service wastes.
Find out how others have reduced wastes.
Valuable information, resources and an action plan.

Seating Is Limited - Please RSVP by March 20th !

Community Services Building
1st Floor Community room
150 N Third
Burbank CA 91502

For more info, call: Burbank Recycle Center - 818 . 238 . 3900

Green Day Planner

E-Waste Recycling Event: March 21
Planet Green
20724 Lassen
Chatsworth CA 91311

Items collected include: monitors, computers, TV's, cell phones, printers, fax machines, video game consoles, DVDs and DVD players, CDs and CD players, laptops, ink and toner cartridges, keyboards, telephone equipment.

From: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Green Room

National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy
Feb 23, 2009

Forum brought together a select group of high-level government, business, labor and advocacy group leaders with a focus on developing a plan and key guiding principles to lead the transformation of U.S. energy policy and to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.

“The next generation that’s coming after us will look back and assess what we did or didn’t do. And they’ll ask either one of two questions: Either, ‘what were you thinking? How could you have done this?’ or they’ll ask, ‘How did you find the courage to step up to the plate and do the right thing?’” said former Vice President Al Gore Monday at the National Clean Energy Project held in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Gore joined the moderator, former Senator Tim Wirth (D-CO), in a discussion that focused on the future of clean energy production in the United States. CAPAF CEO and President John Podesta hosted the event, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was Honorary Chair.

Joining Wirth, Podesta, and Gore on the panel were former President Bill Clinton, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) and energy executive T. Boone Pickens. Also participating in the conversation were AFL-CIO president John Sweeny, CAPAF Senior Fellow Van Jones, Waterkeeper Alliance Board Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and former Governor George Pataki (R-NY).

Watch 3-part video.