Events

Brown Bag: Yoga at Your Desk

Presenter: Jnana Gowan
Pacific Room at Tides
Tuesday, April 15
12:30 to 1:30p

Need a little stress relief? Join us for Yoga at Your Desk. Certified Hatha yoga instructor Jnana Gowan designed Yoga at Your Desk, an accessible one-hour course designed to reduce workplace stress, leaving participants feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. Her simple and clear instruction will help guide you to a new habitual and healthy daily routine. These simple techniques release tension while increasing flexibility and strength.

Brown Bag: The "R" Word—
Recession Rhetoric vs. Reality

Presenter: Milo Benningfield
Friday, April 18
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Pacific Room at Tides

What is a recession anyway, and what might it mean for me? What, if anything, should I be doing? These are some of the questions we'll explore in response to media suggestions that the U.S. might be headed towards the greatest economic downturn since the 1930s.

Celebrating Earth Day with Art: "ReVisions San Francisco" art exhibit and display of art submissions for "Gimme Shelter" bus shelter art program

Thoreau Center for Sustainability SF,
Rear of Building 1016 (corridor)
Tuesday, April 22
5:00pm to 8:00pm

Thoreau Center is hosting the opening of "ReVisions: San Francisco," several works painted on vinyl. The event features 10 vinyl billboards throughout the city that have been painted over by artists instead of being dumped in the landfill. Also on display will be art submissions from Bay Area middle- and high school students for the "Gimme Shelter" art program where students' submission will be chosen for display on local bus shelters in the fall.

Film Screening:
"Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home"

Wednesday, May 7
12:30 to 1:30pm
Pacific Room at Tides

"Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home" is a feature documentary about how the family household has become one of the most ferocious environmental predators of our time. Writer/Director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the McDonalds, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage that they create for three months. He then takes them on a journey to find out where it all goes and what it's doing to the world. From organic waste to the stuff they flush down the toilet, the plastic bags they use to the water they drink out of bottles, the air pollution they create when transporting the kids around, to using lights at Christmas, the McDonalds discover that for every action there is a reaction that affects them and the entire planet.