The Interfaith Council of Garden Grove, Stanton, and Westminster invites you to join your fellow community members, faith groups and non-profit organizations at our annual Interfaith Unity Banquet.

This year’s speaker is Dr. Aisha Simjee, a board certified and fellowship-trained ophthalmologist who has spent over 35 years serving the Orange County Community. Dr. Simjee has travelled to 25 developing countries on medical missions to restore sight to the most disadvantaged. Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to hear Dr. Simjee share how faith has helped her on her journey.

Highlights

• Keynote speaker Dr. Aisha Simjee
• Spirit in Auction Awards
• Youth Awards
• Auction
• Unity Ritual
• Live Music
• Delicious Dinner

Date: Saturday, May 18,2013

Time: 6 p.m.

Cost: $25 adult/$15 Student

For more information contact: Ann Nguyen
Email: gginterfaith@gmail.com
Phone: 714-467-5354
www.facebook.com/InterfaithGSW

Download the flyer here.

For details of the local event, visit:  March Against Monsanto's Meetup page here.

Baha’i sponsored Back Bay Devotional & Nature walk on the last Sunday of each month (February 24) at
9:30 a.m. at the Upper - Newport Bay’s Muth Interpretive Center, corner of Irvine Ave & University

9th Annual O.C. TreeHuggr's Ball & Sustainability Fair

Environmental Expo, Art, Silent Auction, Guest Speakers,

Great Food, Live Folk, Bluegrass, Blues & Tribute Music & Dancing!

The Canyon Land Conservation Fund, a local non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the few remaining wild lands of the Santa Ana Mountains, is hosting The OC TreeHuggr's Ball and Green Expo on June 1st, 2013 at the Santiago Event Center near the proposed Blackstar Wilderness Park in Silverado Canyon. The festive event will include an environmental expo, local art, silent auction, guest speakers, no host bar, live music and dancing. Grass-fed beef or
Vegetarian dinner can be purchased at low cost.

Guests will be entertained with award winning Americana Folk music of the Salty Suites, Common Sense lead singer Nick-I Hernandez together onstage with Rod Piazza for a special Wyland Blues Planet Project performance, followed by a Better Chemistry reggae-ska dance party! Along with the “Blessing” of this year’s event, the local Native American Acjachemen Tribe, Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, will be displaying ancient cultural art & materials.

Guest speaker Robert Hanna, great grandson of our national park’s hero John Muir, will be talking about stewardship and the Muir Family Foundation. Children and families will enjoy the fabulous “Dr. Solar Medicine Show” and eco carnival
experience. It's a fun event for all ages so carpool on over to the ball!

In the spirit of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, the annual celebration seeks to share the beauty of the Santa Ana Mountains and encourage stewardship of our local natural and cultural resources. Highlights include a family oriented sustainability fair, inspirational guest speakers, children’s activities, gourmet food trucks, and 7 hours of live music and dancing in an oak and sycamore woodland. We are now the number one “ZERO WASTE” event in Orange County, thanks to the leadership of The Earth Resource Foundation! If you’re seen wearing an earthy costume and/or bring your own reusable dinnerware you’ll receive free raffle tickets for great prizes!

Many of OC’s premiere environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club, Santiago Creek Watershed Project, Saddleback Canyons Conservancy and others are represented in the Sustainability Fair alongside manufacturers of green products and services, alternative energy, fuel efficient, biodiesel & veggie cars, and also exhibitors of nutrition products, skin care, native plants, local art & local honey!

Date: June 1st, 2013

Time: Environmental Expo 4:00 pm to Dusk, Ball: 5 pm - 11:00 pm

Location: Santiago Event Center, 27912 Baker Cyn Rd, Silverado, CA. 92676

Cost: $25.00 General Pre-Sale Adult Admission Tickets (regular adult admission $30 at event gate)

Food & Beverages sold separately

Kids 6-16 yrs $10, Children 5 & under Free! Call us about free CAMPING!

‘Family of Four’ ($50) Pre-Sale Tickets online at www.treehuggersball.net until May 19th

Tickets for this amazing event are on sale via Paypal at. www.treehuggersball.net and www.canyonland.org.

Tickets are also available by calling the Canyon Land Conservation Fund at (714) 649-2820. Check out our great new Youtube slideshow.  Proceeds from this event will be used for preservation efforts of wild lands of the Santa Ana Mountains. Help us save our vanishing wild lands for future generations to enjoy and protect!

Download the flyer here.

OCICE needs volunteers to serve on committees that plan various events throughout the year.  The committee chairs meet the first Thursday of the Month at 6:45 pm.

Caring for Creation Conference Committee

Database Maintenance Committee

Fundraising Committee

Among others.  For more details on volunteer needs, please visit our Volunteer page.

2013 SEAL BEACH CLEANUP DATES 

3RD Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to Noon 

Located at 15 1st Street, SEAL BEACH by Rivers End Cafe (we set up in parking lot at end of 1st Street) 

Please bring garden/work gloves, reusable water bottle and trash grabber so we create less trash (all of these items can be found at most 99 cent stores). Our trash bags were donated by www.everybodygreen.com and were made from recycled plastic bottles. You'll need to bring the bags back to the blue canopy and take out recycle items and then empty remaining trash into the blue dumpsters. We provide: free parking, bags, gloves, community service certificates and hand sanitizers.

Cleanup happens - rain or shine

2013 CLEANUPS 

Jan 19, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon 
Feb 16, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon
Mar 16, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon
Apr 20, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon
May 18, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon
Jun 15, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon

Visit:  www.saveourbeach.org for more information.

2013 SEAL BEACH CLEANUP DATES 

3RD Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to Noon 

Located at 15 1st Street, SEAL BEACH by Rivers End Cafe (we set up in parking lot at end of 1st Street) 

Please bring garden/work gloves, reusable water bottle and trash grabber so we create less trash (all of these items can be found at most 99 cent stores). Our trash bags were donated by www.everybodygreen.com and were made from recycled plastic bottles. You'll need to bring the bags back to the blue canopy and take out recycle items and then empty remaining trash into the blue dumpsters. We provide: free parking, bags, gloves, community service certificates and hand sanitizers.

Cleanup happens - rain or shine

2013 CLEANUPS 

Jan 19, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon 
Feb 16, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon
Mar 16, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon
Apr 20, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon
May 18, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon
Jun 15, 2013 - 9 a.m. to Noon

Visit:  www.saveourbeach.org for more information.

Would you like to make a difference in the fight against global warming in a way that few people ever do? Then join us on June 19 for our California Lobby Day.

CIPL is assembling a delegation of advocates to lobby for clean energy legislation in Sacramento on June 19. This is a unique opportunity for the faith community to discuss stewardship of Creation with our elected leaders and persuade them that our public policies must reflect our shared values as a society.

In order to be as effective as possible, CIPL would like to bring a delegation of between 30-40 clergy and lay representatives to Sacramento from all major faith traditions and from all parts of the state. We will share with our elected leaders the need to care for Creation and protect our climate so that we pass on to future generations the gifts that have been given to us as its stewards.

If you are interested in participating as part of this effort to educate on and advocate for meaningful climate protection policies, please follow this link and fill out the survey. As funding is limited, however, most participants will have to make and pay for travel arrangements on their own.

Thank you for considering this opportunity to share your talents and help move California toward a cleaner energy future

Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate
campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him “the planet's best green journalist” and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country's most important environmentalist.” The Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.

Dr. Campbell, a nutritional scientist at Cornell University, was concerned in the late 1960’s with producing “high quality” animal protein to bring to the poor and malnourished areas of the third world. While in the Philippines, he made a life-changing discovery: the country’s wealthier children, who were consuming relatively high amounts of animal-based foods, were much more likely to get liver cancer. Dr. Esselstyn, a top surgeon and head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, found that many of the diseases he routinely treated were virtually unknown in parts of the world where animal-based foods were rarely consumed.