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Subject: Invitation to Friendly Favors Events ~ January 2014
Date: January 5, 2014 5:24:55 AM GMT
UPCOMING EVENTS – See Details at the Events page of www.favors.org
2014 Jan 9th – Thu at 6:00 PM
JERRY B. BROWN, Ph.D. – The Hydrogen Revolution. Beyond Nuclear Power in California
Potluck dinner followed by a presentation on the World Business Academy’s Safe Energy Project to replace the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant with green energy, thereby reducing the risk of cancer for people living near the reactor.
Location: Earthrise at IONS – Institute of Noetic Sciences Campus – 101 San Antonio Rd. – Petaluma, CA 94955 – www.ions.org – If access gate is closed, call: (707) 364-2554
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tinyurl.com/DrJerryBrownatIONS2014 Jan 15th – Wed at 6:00 PM
BRAD OLSEN: Using Technology to Build World Peace
Potluck dinner followed with a presentation by the Director of the World Peace Through Technology. An organization started in 1999 to educate and encourage the use of technology to build a more informed, connected and peaceful world – peacetour.org
Location: Mt. Diablo Peace Center, 55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 – (925) 933-7850 – www.OurPeaceCenter.org
peacetour.org2014 Feb 5th – Wed at 6:00 PM
KEN WALDEN: What the World Could Be
Potluck dinner followed with a presentation by the Founder & Director of ‘What the World Could Be’ … an organization focused on creating positive change by showing people-scale solutions to some of our big challenges – www.whattheworldcouldbe.com
Location: Earthrise at IONS – Institute of Noetic Sciences Campus – 101 San Antonio Rd. – Petaluma, CA 94955 – www.ions.org
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www.whattheworldcouldbe.com2014 Feb 28th – Fri at 6:00 PM
MICKEY HUFF, PETER PHILLIPS and Dr. ANDY LEE ROTH – Project Censored
Potluck dinner followed by a presentation by the principal professors behind Project Censored who teach their students to identify the most significant censored news stories in the US, and to figure out why they were suppressed.
Location: Mt. Diablo Peace Center, 55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 – (925) 933-7850 – www.OurPeaceCenter.org
www.projectcensored.org2014 Mar 6th – Thu at 6:00 PM
KIMBERLY & FOSTER GAMBLE: Thrive Movement – Empowering Solutions Worldwide
Potluck dinner followed with a presentation and Q&A by the creators of THRIVE, the documentary that has been seen by over 20 million viewers in 27 languages and which many consider the most influential movie they have seen – www.thrivemovement.com
Location: Earthrise at IONS – Institute of Noetic Sciences Campus – 101 San Antonio Rd. – Petaluma, CA 94955 – www.ions.org
www.thrivemovement.com
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Partial list of videos and pictures from past events:2013-12-10 – Daniel Sheehan: The People’s Advocate: The Life and Legal History of America’s Most Fearless Public Interest Lawyer.
Video in Walnut Creek: https://vimeo.com/81723206
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157638656013255
Video at IONS: https://vimeo.com/81790600
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157638657579544
www.danielpsheehan.net2013-11-21 – Steven Piersanti: Publishing for a World that Works for All.
Video is at: https://vimeo.com/80093573
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157637959603976
www.bkpub.com2013-11-14 – David Korten: Science and Spirit , Sacred Story of our Times.
Video: https://vimeo.com/79539839
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157637722764254
Article: http://tinyurl.com/axkxkhg
www.livingeconomiesforum.org2013-11-12 – Steve Bassett: Taking the ET Issue to the Congress and the UN
Video: https://vimeo.com/79398920
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157637675168873
www.CitizenHearing.org
www.ParadigmResearchGroup.org2013-10-08 – Judy Wicks: Good Morning, Beautiful Business
Invite: http://goo.gl/KGY9B
Video: https://vimeo.com/76843916
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157636526684723
www.JudyWicks.com2013-09-10 – Vandana Shiva: GMOs, the Militarization of Agriculture
Invite: http://goo.gl/zUEaJC
Video is at: https://vimeo.com/74367217
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157635511320597
www.navdanya.org2013-09-05 – Gavin Raders and Katrina Zavalney: Planting Justice
Video: https://vimeo.com/74013472
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157635432620094
www.plantingjustice.org2013-08-13 – Dr. Roy Dittmann: How to Have an Extraordinary Child
Invite: http://goo.gl/BeqP8c
Video: https://vimeo.com/72392161
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157635088388649
www.brightonbaby.com2013-07-23 – Senator Mike Gravel: The Need for Disclosure.
Invite: http://goo.gl/HhLLQ
Video: https://vimeo.com/71008260
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157634797286306
www.mikegravel.us2013-07-16 – Sharon Tennison: How we can avert a second Cold War
Video: https://vimeo.com/70488273
Pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157634690183548
www.ccisf.org2013-06-06 – Jamie & Ellen Brown: Why we need our own Public Bank.
Ellen’s Video on Public Banks: https://vimeo.com/67902836
Jamie’s Video on Central Banks Policy: https://vimeo.com/67924019
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157634002909680
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157634039298617
www.PublicBankingInstitute.org2013-05-29 – Georgia Kelly: The Mondragon Cooperatives.
https://vimeo.com/67752104
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157634074730408
www.PraxisPeace.org2013-05-16 – Richard Moore: What the global crisis is really about
https://vimeo.com/66541719
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157633663583864/
www.escapingthematrix.org2013-05-10 – Jerry B. Brown, PhD: Beyond Nuclear Power in California
https://vimeo.com/65963448
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157633456921461
www.worldbusiness.org2013-04-29 – Edgar Mitchell & Stephen Bassett: Citizen Hearing on Disclosure – April 29-May 2 – www.CitizenHearing.org
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157633454086984
www.citizenhearing.com/webcast_archive.html
http://goo.gl/YUE3P2013-04-16 – Rusell Faure-Brac: Transition to Peace.
https://vimeo.com/64207982
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157633262240233
www.transitiontopeace.com2013-04-11 – Bobby Wilder: Increasing Our Life Expectancy.
https://vimeo.com/63946765
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157633240041748
http://goo.gl/2uMCv2013-04-05 – David Cobb: Move to Amend
https://vimeo.com/63478979
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157633177480589
www.movetoamend.org2013-04-03 – Gaye Lub: Visual History of the USA 2000-2012
https://vimeo.com/63442410
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157633173374459
www.GayeLub.com2013-03-19 – Jan Elise Sells: Troubled Teens In Troubled Times
https://vimeo.com/62315464
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157633050444150
www.TroubledTeensInTroubledTimes.com2013-03-12 – Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne: Rethinking Money
https://vimeo.com/61907473
www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157633003239511
www.sergiolub.com/blog
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– $20 per person if you do only one of the above (the dish OR the 20Ts), or
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