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

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  • Looking forward to this book signing tomorrow:  Sir Terence Conran’s latest work, Eco House, Sunday, October 25 (3-5p).  The Conran Shop, East 59th @ 1st Ave. Cookies and tea will be served – sweet.
  • New Amsterdam Market – South Street, Manhattan, between Beekman St. & Peck Slip.  Click here for a map. Mayor Bloomberg will be there live, 11a-4p Sunday, October 25.  FREE valet bicycle parking provided by Bowery Lane Bicycles during Market Hours.
  • Bill McKibbon’s 350.org 10.24.09 International Day of Climate Action exceeds his wildest dreams: slideshow
  • Nominations end tonight @ midnight (PST) for Opportunity Green’s Top Start-up of 2009.  If you want to nominate a start-up biz that provides eco friendly or clean tech products or services, get going. Opportunity Green is a business conference Nov 7-8 at UCLA.
  • Join the LIVE interview with Mayor Gavin Newsom on Wed 10/28 at (3p EST/12n PST), via Inhabitat.  Learn about San Francisco’s green initiatives including the new mandatory composting law that’s got everyone buzzing.
  • Save the Date – Ecouterre launch party, October 29 at Kaight for organic fare and fashion. Feeling chilly – checkout Ecouterre’s sustainably stylish Fall Jacket & Coat Wrapup.
  • 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.  This season’s event will include Vancouver’s fourth Eco-Friendly Fashion Design Competition which will feature twenty local and international gifted young designers who are interested in supporting a sustainability through their creativity and talent.
  • via Metropolis Mag.com (and sponsored by Herman Miller) – call for entries: Next Generation Design Competition: One Fix for the Future, focused on sustainability – enter by January 29, 2010.  $10,000 prize plus fame, of course.
  • Prince Charles efforts to save our rainforests continues with a free online interactive booklet explaining this Burning Issue.  He’s sending an SOS with Sting to help save our rainforests.
  • 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.)