Eco Ecuador
Field Manager Reports, Bioregional Education Reports, and Dispatches from
Ecuador are listed by year in the Eco-Ecuador Index. Many pictures
accompany the Reports. Of special note is the comprehensive
Dispatch by Peter Berg, which reviews the first five years of Planet Drum's
accomplishments and visions in Ecuador.
Events and Calendars
Latest updates: The Green City Calendar for listings in the San Francisco Bay
Area is updated weekly. It includes ongoing
and date- specific activities.
PD Workshops and events in which Planet Drum
Foundation is participating are listed. Olympic Actions
This project monitored and provided suggestions for making the
winter Olympics more sustainable. Olympics Latest updates: Guard Fox Watch produced a Press
Release in Sept. 2007 about the state of the 2010 Winter Olympics to
be held in Vancouver, Canada. Bioregional Impacts, Ecological
Implications, and Recommendations for Olympic Winter Games is the
latest overview from Winter Olympic monitoring group Guard Fox Watch.
Their specific recommendations for the 2006 Winter Olympics are
available in English at Bioregional Impacts, Ecological
Implications, and Recommendations -
2006 Winter Olympic Games and in Italian at Impatto
Bioregionale, Implicazioni Ecologiche E Raccomandazioni Per I Giochi
Olimpici Invernali Del 2006 A Torino — Italia. There is a wrap-up article about the actions around the
Salt Lake Olympics, along with the archive of documents relating to the Eco Olympics movement. |
Current Projects at Planet Drum
Reports and Dispatches from the Field
Eco Ecuador is an ongoing project to collaborate with an Ecuadorian community and help
create a sustainable local ecology. We have been working on this eco-city project since 1999.
The interactive Green City Calendar is a weekly-updated resource
to help people find environmental volunteer options and greening projects in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Through the variety of hands-on ecosystem restorative work, bike
rides, hikes, farmer's markets, classes, workshops, and celebrations listed in this
calendar, we can build a symbiotic balance between humanity and the planet, and promote
sustainable urban living. Send listings of ecological/sustainable volunteer opportunities or
events (San Francisco Bay Area only) to: Green City Calendar, P.O. Box 31251,San
Francisco, CA 94131, Shasta Bioregion or email them to: mail@planetdrum.org
or fax them to: 415-285-6563.
Listings of the latest presentations, workshops and events involving the Planet Drum crew.
We first worked with Guard Fox Watch at the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998.
Subsequently, we developed guidelines for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002 and
helped organize a campaign to develop eco-consciousness in their planning. We
monitored the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy and continued with the 2010 Vancouver,
Canada Olympics.
Arastradero Wildflower Planting Project
Planet Drum is supporting a native grasslands restoration experiment that
uses native bunchgrass straw to kill winter sprouting weeds, and then plants
seedlings of California poppies that should bloom and continue to grow for
many years. This experiment is being carried out in Palo Alto, CA by Craig
Dremann, co-owner of The Reveg Edge, in Redwood City, CA who has been
Inventing native grasslands restoration technologies since 1972. Planet Drum
will act as the fiscal sponsor for the project by receiving and managing
tax-deductible donations to fund this California poppy experiment. A test
plot was planted in February, 2013.
Descriptions of the project as well as photos and paintings of it can be
seen at:
http://www.ecoseeds.com/arastradero.html
To make donations call 415-285-6556 with credit card info or send checks
made out to "Planet Drum Fdn/Arastradero" to PO Box 31251, San Francisco, CA
94131
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