A green stimulus package for your eyes, ears and mind…

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  • The Age of Stupid, our film review.  There’s an Age of Stupid LIVE EVENT taking place on 9/21/09 with a performance by Moby, live discussions about the rain forests and climate change, and more – 425 cinemas across the USA will be participating simultaneously, with screenings in 50 countries worldwide.  NY screenings are already sold out. Elsewhere, tickets are on sale now at your local cinema.  more @ ageofstupid.net
  • Tonight and tomorrow (9/19 & 9/20), 8pm – an avant garde fashion event with one of a kind fashion, performances and music – Williamsburg Fashion Weekend at Secret Project Robot – 210 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY – Five Bucks gets you in the door.
  • National Parks Week begins today (9/19) – FREE concert in Central Park on 9/23.  (Relatedpreviously on altCon.) more info @ feelfree.org
  • Food, Inc. Love your body, feed your head. Director Robert Kenner serves up a heaping portion of reality about the sad state of our food industry.  With cinematic style, he prepares a feast for the eyes and disturbing content for the mind. Don’t miss this important film.
  • Go see The Cove. (Related:  our film review.)
  • EWG’s latest on radiation and cell phones here.
  • Loving October’s A Month of Easy Weeknight Meals in this month’s Real Simple.
  • Learn about the Beauty of Olive Oil and get some good Green Clean Advice from The Pitfalls of Pesticides in Sept-Oct Organic Spa magazine.
  • October Body + Soul for nutritional info about watercress, (a personal fav), including a delicious watercress soup recipe
  • Currently reading Green Metropolis, by David Owen, is urban dwelling more sustainable than country habitats?
  • I met the good folks of Rainforest Action Network at The Green Shows, NYC – show them the love.  GreenShows EcoFashion Week opening night party, hosted by RAN, highlighted fashion’s ability to help stop climate change by halting forest destruction.  On hand was Tiffany & Co., the first brand to take action to protect Indonesia’s rainforest and the climate by switching their iconic blue shopping bags (and all the other paper it uses) to environmentally preferable paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.