[*BCM*] BNB Green Roots Festival & Bike-A-Thon: THIS SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jasmine laietmark]

This Sunday:
*There's still time to join the Bike-A-Thon-
and read on to have your mind blown with the Green Roots Festival
Schedule!!!*
The Green Roots Festival is FREE & open to the public in the park across the
street from the Stony Brook T station in JP, Noon to 5:30.

Call 617-522-0222 to register or with any questions-
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BIKE-A-THON*
Ride a loop to the Green Roots Festival!  *Pre-registration required* - see
*www.bikesnotbombs.org* <http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/>
The minimum fundraising amt is $150. There's still time left! Register now!
Great prizes, and the bucks go to a BNB's local and international work!

9:00am -  62 Mile Ride Departs
10:00am - 25 Mile Ride Departs
10:30am - 15 Mile Ride Departs (great for families!)


*GREEN ROOTS FESTIVAL - schedule*

*MAINSTAGE & FIELD*
12:00  Opening Celebration with JUNK PERCUSSION by youth of Spontaneous
Celebrations

12:45 RACHEL VANSLYKE: alterna folk-rock, by a singer-guitarist, on a 3,200
mile musical tour entirely by bicycle!  From upstate NY.
www.rachelvanslyke.com

1:30 JUDAH'S LIONS DEN: socially conscious Hip-Hop, male and female rappers,
from Boston and Providence

2:15 BLOCO AFROBRAZIL: an Afro-Brazilian samba percussion ensemble, based in
Somerville MA


3:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
            CHUCK TURNER – community activist and Boston City Councilor
            KHALIDA SMALLS – of the environmental justice group ACE –
Alternatives for Community and Environment, based in Dudley Square
    KIM FOLTZ - director of Bikes Not Bombs
            BILL MCKIBBEN – environmentalist author of The End of Nature,
Hope Human and Wild, and Deep Economy


4:00-5:30  BRANCHES PAN GROOVE STEEL ORCHESTRA
            A 30-person steel drum band brings the dance celebration, w/
members ages 7 to adult, featuring Elijah Evans BNB's Earn-A-Bike
Coordinator!





*STREET WORKSHOP AREA*
12:15  URBAN COMPOSTING TOILETS
            Learn & discuss, then build one on the spot!  By the Green
Grease Monkeys


12:45  GREEN ROOFS
            Commercial and residential applications, by the Foundation for a
Green Future


1:30  STREETS FOR PEOPLE
            Reclaim and reinvent your streets for a healthy future, w/ Jeff
Rosenblum co-founder of Livable Streets Alliance


2:15  LOW-CARBON LIVING
            Change to make in your daily life.  By Boston CAN (Climate
Action Network)


4:00  HENRY THE JUGGLER
            A professional juggler of 20 years, Henry will amaze and amuse!


*AMPITHEATRE WORKSHOP AREA*
12:00  JUNK PERCUSSION

by youth from Spontaneous Celebrations


12:45  WATER: LOCAL & GLOBAL ISSUES
            panel discussion w/ Mass Global Action, Clean Water Action,
Charles River Watershed Association, and Silent Spring Institute


1:30  FOOD: LOCAL & SUSTAINABLE
            panel discussion with The Food Project, Dorchester Food Policy
Council, Revision House Urban Farm, and more


2:15  ANTI-HIGHWAY HISTORY, RIGHT HERE!
            how this park was almost a highway, w/ Chuck Turner and other
activists who fought the highway in the 60's and early 70's


4:00  THE 350 CAMPAIGN FOR CLIMATE PRESERVATION
            The successor to the Kyoto Protocol needs your help.  By Boston
CAN (Climate Action Network) w/ Bill McKibben


4:45 GIANT PUPPETS
            kids and all can participate in the pageant w/ Boston Puppeteers
Cooperative




*BASKETBALL COURT WORKSHOP AREA*
12:45  RENEWABLE ENERGY & YOU
            get involved as a consumer, by the MA Energy Consumers Alliance


1:30  THE BASICS OF GREEN BUILDING
            tips for the homeowner and builders, by Paul Marquis of the
Green Roundtable


2:15  GREEN JOBS FOR TEENS
            by the Marion Institute and MA Green Jobs Coalition


4:00  SOIL TOXINS & JUSTICE
            interactive workshop by the Toxic Soil Busters of Worcester


4:45  BIKE POLO GAME
            by Somerville Bike Polo, with Christina Illarmo of BNB staff




*FOUNTAIN WORKSHOP AREA *
12:30  NONTOXIC HOUSEHOLD CLEANERS
            by EZClean Green


1:00  SELF-WATERING CONTAINER GARDENING
            by Boston Natural Areas Network


1:30  GREENING SCHOOLS
            engaging for young folks and adults, how your schools can go
green! by Greenfox Schools


2:15  CONNECTING THE DOTS OF CLIMATE JUSTICE
            Climate change as a product of hundreds of years of colonialism
and other injustice, with Evan Greer of the Riot-Folk! Collective and Rising
Tide






RAFFLE AND SILENT AUCTION

*Many* great prizes! Including: A MassBike Pike ride, sound systems from
BOSE (r), Patagonia clothing, cupcakes, movie and museum passes, Improv
Asylum tickets, MANY messenger bags, Acupuncture and other gift
certificates,




*KIDS ACTIVITIES*


NATURE SCAVENGER HUNTS!
Starting at 1:00pm and 3:00pm, at the Boston Nature Center table.  Guided
group exploration, led by teacher-naturalists Susan and Andrew of the Boston
Nature Center.


KID DOME!
Climb inside a 20-foot geodesic dome.


SLIDES!
60 foot cardboard slides down a grassy hill.


WORMS!
Explore worm compost bins in various stages, with teacher-naturalists of the
Boston Nature Center.  At their table.


ROOSTER HELMETS!
City Feed & Supply and Spontaneous Celebrations show oyu how to make a
rooster on your bike helmet.


RAINSTICK MAKING!