PHILANTHROPY COMES TO TIMES SQUARE WITH JUMBOTRON BILLBOARD FEATURING CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE WINNERS

Visitors to Times Square are seeing something unexpected when they encounter a jumbo LED screen beneath the giant blue CBS Eye on 42^nd Street.  Instead of the usual movie or product digital billboard media, a million or more passersby will see video clips of the work of 16 organizations serving people in need around the world.

The digital billboard time had been abandoned by a previous advertiser and Neutron Media decided to donate the unused billboard time to 16 organizations that are changing the world -- the 16 non-profit organizations that have won the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize.  The billboard will be on display until July 8.  The content was funded by a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation that awards the annual prize of $1.5 million, largest in the humanitarian world, to an organization that is doing extraordinary work to alleviate human suffering.

Thanks Neutron Media!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6OKGOOvG24

For more information:

www.hiltonfoundation.org

"LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE"- A 3 Day Adventure in Art, Music, and Sustainable Living

 

Produced by The Do Lab, Lightning in a Bottle will take place on Memorial Day Weekend (May 27th-30th) in Silverado, CA and is considered the "green" Coachella.
This music and art festival is a unique experience that will bring together thousands of campers and guests in a natural setting where they will enjoy the presence of some of the best electronic music Dj's, awesome live performances, and tons of diverse workshops.

The lineup of workshops will include: growing your own pharmacy, meditation, yoga, use of Algae,  soap-making, beatboxing, etc.

At LIB you will be able to take your own reusable bottle and enjoy free filtered water instead of wasting your money in overpriced plastic bottles that you can find at other festivals. You will also find a great variety of organic food which you will eat on compostable plates. The event will be run partly on biodiesel and solar power and the stages and the artwork will be created from rapidly renewable and reused materials, such as bamboo, rattan, and trash.

The lineup of music will include artists such as:

Friday, May 27th	Saturday, May 28th	Sunday, May 29th
Lucent Dossier Experience MiM0SA Nick Warren PANTyRAiD	Pretty Lights Beats Antique KRADDY Eskmo El Circo	Thievery Corporation (DJ set) Bonobo Lee Burridge Paper Diamond Fool’s Gold

For more information and tickets:

http://lightninginabottle.org/

MOVIES AT THE HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY KICKS OFF MAY 14 WITH A TRIBUTE TO ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's that time of the year!! An incredible and unique event takes place in Los Angeles every Saturday night during the warm weather of summer.....Movies at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery!!!

It's one of my favorite things to do in LA and this year they are kicking off the season with a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor/"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

If you have never been before you are in for a real treat! A classic film is projected onto a mausoleum wall as you sit with a crowd of hundreds of Angelinos under the stars surrounded by headstones (don't worry the graves themselves are off in the distance). People bring pillows, blankets, food, booze etc. Plus there is a DJ that sets up before the screening and jams away before and after the film.

In large part the experience is what you make of it. And it is an EXPERIENCE, and not just a movie. If you wait in line for one of these movies it is not only a commitment, but an event in and of itself. 

It is probably some of the best money you will spend during the summer! Don't miss it!

May 14- "CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF" 

Directed by Richard Brooks (1958 108 mins)

Gates Open: 7:00 pm and Movie 8:30 pm
No Reservation Necessary
$10 donation tickets available at gate-parking $10
As a courtesy to other moviegoers: NO TALL CHAIRS!!

For more information:

www.cinespia.org

Climate Action Championship Awards- Photos

From its annual conference, Navigating the American Carbon World, the Climate Action Reserve announced its 2010 Climate Action Champion award recipients.  The awards are bestowed upon individuals and organizations that have demonstrated public leadership in climate change and commitment to substantial greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions. Recipients received the iconic Climate Action Champion heavyweight belts:

From left, Gary Gero, president of the Climate Action Reserve, presents the 2011 Climate Action Champion award to Steve Kline, vice president of corporate environmental and federal affairs and chief sustainability officer for PG&E Corporation; Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator, U.S. EPA; and Terry Tamminen, founder and CEO of Seventh Generation Advisors in Santa Monica and former secretary of California EPA at the Reserve’s annual Navigating the American Carbon World (NACW) conference which took place April 13-15, 2011 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles.  

From left, Gary Gero, president of the Climate Action Reserve, presents the 2011 Climate Action Champion award to The Honorable Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, at the Reserve’s annual Navigating the American Carbon World (NACW) conference which took place April 13-15, 2011 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles.

www.climateactionreserve.org/