ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL JUSTICE
The Green Dream Festival is an annual community celebration of environmental and social justice held on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. High school students, with the help of local businesses and organizations, come together to spread the vision of an interconnected world. Festival highlights include bands, speakers, films, workshops, fun and games.
ANNUAL THEMES AND PROJECTS
Each year, the committee adopts a different theme for the festival. As the Green Dream progresses, the projects it takes on will change. The previous two projects have been collecting electronic waste, e-waste, and fundraising for water purifiers called "LifeStraws" for third world countries by recycling. The 2010 committee has decided not to begin a third project. However, we will continue to fundraise for LifeStraws, hoping to complete our ambitious goal of recycling until we can buy one million of these water purifiers.
The "LifeStraw Project" needs cans, bottles and paper! If you're interested in helping us reach our goal by donating recyclables, please contact us. We're willing to help schools, businesses and organizations collect recyclables. If your school does not have a recycling program, we can help you start one through interactive presentations and advice from our students.
The Third Annual Green Dream Festival
Where: Gabrielino High School
When: January 16, 2010
Time: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Partnering & Services
The San Gabriel chapter of Green Dream, based at Gabrielino High School, is looking for schools, colleges, businesses and organizations to partner with. We welcome high schools, colleges and universities to hop on board with this project by helping us coordinate the festival. We are constantly looking for brainpower and manpower! We also need financial and marketing support from the community to help make this festival happen.
We chose to hold the festival on the weekend of every Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to honor the spirit of his message of social change, which in this day and age is profoundly tied to environmental change. We've linked the impact of recycling on the environment to the impact on human lives through our LifeStraw project.
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