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

• For teens and tweens, online community and webzine Girl360 goes green this month, featuring an interview with eco model citizen, Summer Rayne.
• AWEA’s Wind Power Finance & Investment Workshop will be held at the New York Marriott Marquis October 13 & 14 – learn about wind energy incentives to help finance the growth of this powerful industry.  Register here.
• Learn how you may win a Biomega folding bike (retails for $1700) via Inhabitat
• Dept of Energy Kicks off the 2009 Solar Decathlon, A Competition Powered by the Sun
• Clothing company, Icebreaker transforms synthetic tees into running shoe bags in window of Paragon, by Union Square in NYC
• 20th Anniversary of Bioneers Conference and Workshops, October 15 – 18 in San Rafael, CA.  AltCon readers receive 20% off with this link (includes free Bioneers’ Membership).
• Vote for your favorite video in the Drive Smarter Challenge – checkout 10 short videos aimed at helping to drive smarter, reduce gas consumption and drive fewer miles.  Rate the videos 1-5, contest ends Monday, October 19, 11:59p (EDT)
• Prince Charles sends SOS to save our rainforests.
• Review of emerging eco fashion designers at Portland Fashion Week, Day 2.
• Check out www.blogactionday.org/, an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. This year’s topic: climate change. Last year more than 12,000 bloggers participated by writing about poverty and reached 14 million people on just one day. To make this happen, they’re looking to get as many bloggers as possible to participate and in the twenty-four hours since they launched the blogactionday.org site more than 800 blogs have registered in more than 75 countries.
  To be a part of this year’s event, all they ask is that you commit to writing www.blogactionday.org/en/blogs/new one post, in your own voice, on October 15, on the topic of climate change.
• The Age of Stupid, our film review. An Age of Stupid LIVE EVENT took 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 participated simultaneously, with screenings in 50 countries worldwide. NY screenings were sold out. more @ ageofstupid.net
• 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.
• Vancouver Fashion Week is highlighting eco friendly fashions in the Spring /Summer 2010 Collections during Vancouver Fashion Week from November 3rd – November 8th, 2009. On Friday, November 6th, VFW will showcase sustainable fashion with an evening dedicated to shows that have a green initiative. Designers such as Lav&Kush and Fin are participating so far. This season Vancouver Fashion Week is proud to present Vancouver’s fourth Eco-Friendly Fashion Design Competition, which aims to promote sustainable fashion sense across the industry. This contest will feature twenty local and international gifted young designers, who are interested in supporting a greener Earth through their creativity and talent