Additional Entertainment

Additional Partners

Bands for Lands (BFL)
MISSION STATEMENT- To Spread the message of self sustainability, conservation, and social awareness issues by utilizing music, speakers, presentations, film, and other miscellaneous media to educate, inspire, & motivate people to take action. Through our concept, Bands for Lands believes it will connect directly in a life long memorable way on a true grass-roots level by having its message more accessible & available to a wider range of people.

The Sustainable Living Institute (SLI)
The Sustainable Living Institute (SLI) has been created to help address the emerging needs of the sustainability movement in North America and the world. Our goal is to provide vision and a centralized repository with information navigation tools that will allow communities and cities to develop and respond to the changing environment, on issues of planetary health, policy and governance, the economic impact of various choices, climate change and issues related to the crisis of fossil based fuels. They are assisting with the creation of educational materials and literature.

Unifried
Unifried: The mission of Unifried is to empower, educate and unify a solution-focused network of communities and individuals through cooperative action by emphasizing the use of biofuels and celebrating the art of living sustainably.

Phoenix Voyage Tour
Phoenix Voyage Tour: Phoenix VoyageTM, a project of the International Humanities Center, a non-profit organization, is an educational entertainment production company dedicated to educating people about how to preserve and protect our beautiful world. Through our website, 12-city national tour, the children''s music CD series, contests, and comic book, we strive to motivate and inspire the communities of America to create a healthy and environmentally sustainable future for our planet.

Reverb
Deeply rooted within the music and environmental communities, Reverb educates and engages musicians and their fans to promote environmental sustainability.Reverb is a non profit organization founded by environmentalist Lauren Sullivan and her musician husband, Guster guitarist/vocalist Adam Gardner.Born from the success of Bonnie Raitt''s "Green Highway," Reverb works operationally with and is mentored by the ARIA Foundation founded in 1998 by Bonnie''s manager Kathy Kane.

Rock the Earth
Rock the Earth is a not-for-profit, national public interest environmental organization dedicated to protecting and defending America''s natural resources through partnerships with the music industry and the world-wide environmental community. We act as advocates to ensure the existence of a sustainable and healthy environment for all and represent those individuals and communities whose environment or natural surroundings are directly and adversely affected by others.

We the Planet
Circle of Life created We the Planet in 2003 to model creative and exciting solutions to the world''s most pressing environmental and social problems. We the Planet was designed to bring together a diversity of people, groups, ideas and tools to show that consciousness is cool. We the Planet is host to both cutting-edge eco-friendly FESTIVALS and renewable-energy powered TOURS. Our goal is to model environmental solutions while simultaneously organizing people to make a difference in their communities and in the world.

Our Future Now
Our Future Now is a non-profit project promoting ecological responsibility through greening initiative programs, high-profile awareness campaigns and community involvement opportunities. The focus is to enhance the experience at music festivals by introducing compelling art and technology demonstrations. These installations will showcase ecologically responsible best practices and renewable energy technologies while providing a framework for deeper community participation.

Advisory Mentors and Consultants

Dr. Kevin Danaher, Green Festival, Global Citizens Center
Kevin Danaher is a co-founder of Global Exchange (1988), founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals (2001), and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center (2004). He was the founding Board Chair of TransFairUSA, the fair trade certifying agency for the United States, and he was a co-founder of the 50 Years Is Enough Network, focused on educating the public about the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Kevin has overseen the development of organizations with budgets up to 8 million dollars per year and staffs numbering up to 50 people. He has managed dozens of foundations grants with distinction. Kevin received his PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his BA in sociology from Sonoma State University. He is the author and/or editor of 11 books, including his latest, due out in fall 2007 from PoliPoint Press, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots. He has lectured at universities and to community organizations throughout the United States. He has appeared on television and radio shows around the country. He has published articles in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many others.

David Traub
David has 20-years of experience as a digital media-oriented business development executive; executive producer of digital products; author, speaker and educator; and has been a venture catalyst, investor and/or board member/advisor to over 35 startups/private equity companies. He has co-raised and deployed nearly $30 million dollars in support of these ventures. His mission is the development and distribution of Ôdisruptive'' mass media technologies infrastructure, bundled with best of breed content/programming, across a wide range of mobile/wireless devices, broadband/DTV, and other digital platforms that enable, augment and optimize our knowledge, effectiveness and potential for quality of life and excellence at work, home and play. As an co-founding executive, consultant or executive producer of digital products David has created products and projects media across a wide variety of clients such as EMI North America, MCA Records, Philips/Polydor, Microsoft/MSN, Apple Computer, Zoran.com and many others. He is also an author of nearly 50 articles and reports on the evolution of the digital domain for trade publications, professional books and institutional clients; is currently writing the book: "17 Questions: The Ride of Your Life," introducing an career augmentation expert system for mobile phones and other consumer devices; and is a speaker who has given nearly 50 forward-looking keynote and other speeches throughout the world for clients such as the EU, the Swedish and Canadian Governments, TV Globo (Brazil), the National Institute of Film in Denmark, Viacom, US West, Mercedes/Siebold, The Broadband Content Development Forum and numerous other economic development agencies and universities. David earned a Masters in Education in 1990 from Harvard University, while conducting simultaneous class-work in interactive cinema and AI-based narrative at the MIT Media Lab. In 1984 he earned his undergraduate degrees in rhetoric and film with honors from the University of California at Berkeley, concluding with an honor thesis focusing on the use of film and television in education.

Rick Lukens, United Earth Networks, Live Aid, US Festival
Starting in the late 1970s, Richard Lukens produced local Community Consciousness Carnivals in Santa Cruz, California. These early LOHAS style events were the beginning of a long and winding road leading to the international stage. As demand for his services, grew, so did the scope and reach of his projects. By the 1980s, he served as International Director for Live Aid, organizing the international video experience with video feeds from around the globe. Earlier, he was the creator and producer of the first U.S.-Soviet "space-bridge," at the US Festival, the largest outdoor music concert ever held. Festival-goers were able to interact in real time via satellite video with people in Moscow, a breakthrough event during Cold War tensions between the U.S. and Russia. RichardÔs credits as head producer include The Imperial Bells of China, a 35 city North American tour, the Los Angeles International Dragon Boat Festival cultural exchange, Children Under Siege concert to benefit the children of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the 1989 White House Conference on Global Climate Change, and many more. Today, many of his efforts are centered on Asia. Established and registered in Japan, UEN Japan is actively expanding its scope of talent management, special event planning, and project management for business-to-business projects. Richard is also planning an annual concert series for Shanghai. It''s the countdown to China''s first worlds fair, the 2010 World Expo. Three concerts in May of 2007, 2008, and 2009 will be themed around cultural diversity, with Richard bringing many of the world''s top entertainers on stage. He says, "China is the most important emerging nation. This concert series is the fulfillment of a long-term dream to bring China and the rest of the world closer together through the magic of music and culture."

Julia Butterfly Hill, Circle of Life, We the Planet
Julia brought international attention to the plight of the world''s last remaining ancient forests when she climbed 180 feet up a 1000 year-old Redwood tree and refused to come down. Her historic 738-dayprotest of the environmental destruction caused by clear-cutting ancient redwoods culminated with a negotiated agreement that provided permanent protection for the tree ("Luna") and a nearly 3 acre buffer-zone. Julia is a writer, poet and activist. She is author of the national best seller The Legacy of Luna and co-author of One Makes The Difference, both published by HarperSanFrancisco. The Legacy of Luna, based on Julia''s personal account of the Luna tree-sit, will soon be made into a major motion picture. Julia and the film''s producers, Baldwin Entertainment, have publicly stated their commitment to setting a "green set" standard for the film industry with this project. Julia speaks regularly at universities, has addressed the UN, lobbied congress, and continues to stand on the front lines of environmental and social justice issues worldwide. Her message of hope, empowerment, love and respect for all life has inspired millions of people worldwide.

Roger S. Davis - Sustainable Living Institute Management Board
Roger S. Davis is a strategic knowledge consultant to the entertainment, media, telecom, software and production services companies. Davis is a pioneer in the Digital Cinema industry. He has founded three Post Production companies in San Francisco, CA. All of these companies served all the major Hollywood Studios and Northern California film producers, such as Saul Zaentz, Lucas Film Ltd. and Francis Ford Coppola''s Zoetrope Studios, where he worked with business partners to update Coppola''s Electronic CinemaTM production system. His software company was one of the first professional media Apple developers in the mid 1980''s, where it worked with Apple''s Advanced Tech Center. Davis has researched and written numerous business analysis and technology forecasts for such clients as BBC, Asian media multi-nationals, Coppola''s Zoetrope Studios, European Film Zentrum Babelsberg (Berlin, Germany). MCI/WorldCom Video Lab. These various technology market forecasts have consistently predicted technology trends with an emphasis on digital cinema trends, visual networks, and emerging business opportunities. He was the primary business consultant for the acquisition of Mass Illusion VFX Co. by Manex Entertainment, which later won three VFX Oscars for "What Dreams May Come," and "The Matrix." Davis is a former (NABET) union film cameraman, a member of Hollywood Editors Union IATSE-776. He attended University of Calif. at Davis, where he worked in all aspects of educational television production, and he received a Bachelors Degree in Filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute.

SUE DEVINE Senior Director Film & TV Music, ASCAP
Sue Devine, Senior Director of Film & Television Music, works in Artist Development with both emerging and more established artists both in ASCAP''s Film/TV Department (composers including East Coast Angelo Badalamenti, Carter Burwell, Howard Shore, etc.) and in the Membership Department (songwriters and bands including Lori McKenna, Josh Ritter, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, Dan Mackenzie, Joss Stone, etc). Sue provides career development support and also produces seminars, showcases, workshops and other events for ASCAP songwriters and film composers. Among the programs Sue has launched are: ASCAP Presents... (Not So) Quiet on the Set, a showcase of emerging acoustic artists and bands to the music industry in NYC; The Sundance Film Festival Music CafŽ, produced by ASCAP, which is the official music programming of the Sundance Film Festival and provides a showcase of songwriters and bands to filmmakers and film industry executives; The ASCAP Music Lounge - and - The ASCAP/Tribeca VIP Film Music Dinner - at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Lounge is, again, the official music programming of the Tribeca Film Festival. The Lounge and the Dinner provide a showcase of songwriters and bands, and an intimate music networking environment, respectively, to filmmakers and film industry executives; The ASCAP/NYU Film Scoring Workshop, which is a highly selective program teaching composers the technical and creative elements to compose for film; The ASCAP/Columbia Film Scoring Workshop, a highly competitive program that pairs ASCAP composers with Columbia University graduate thesis filmmakers, and gives them a grant to score their film with an eleven piece ensemble; The ASCAP Composers Program at the IFP Market, where emerging film composers participate and meet with independent filmmakers; The ASCAP Songwriter Residency @ America SCORES, which makes ASCAP the Music Partner of this nationally acclaimed after school program in 15 cities. SCORES creates a full 5 day a week Fall and Spring Season of (3 days) soccer and (2 days) poetry in under funded schools where no after school programs exist. The Residency brings an ASCAP songwriter into one school, for three of the poetry classes, teaching the kids about songwriting, co-writing and recording a song with the kids; The ASCAP Green Room, a section of ASCAP''s Playback Magazine (music biz circulation 75,000), and ASCAP.com, that spotlights ASCAP songwriters who are leading the way on sustainable music business practices, greening their tours, and educating their fans about being a part of the solution to Global Warming; and Green Minutes, ASCAP, the Music Partner of iThentic.com, works with iThenitic to produce one minute, cell phone downloadable, video interviews with ASCAP songwriters who are leading the way on environmental issues, discussing solutions they are creating in their world. In addition to being on the Advisory Board of The Sustainable Living Roadshow, she is on the advisory board for Rock The Earth, and she works in an advisory role with 1% For The Planet. She also works with Native Energy, Reverb, Our Future Now and Better Days Alliance. Prior to ASCAP, Sue worked with Lauren Hutton during the production of Lauren Hutton and... and Central Park West, and with Mercury Records recording artist Hamell on Trial. She managed the operations of Arlo Guthrie''s indie record label, Rising Son Records, where she produced a live concert video of Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger, the audio recording of which was released as the live CD More Together Again in Concert. She also worked with filmmakers as the Program Manager at the Independent Feature Project.

Jim Dilettoso
Jim Dilettoso has over 100 projects and 20 years experience in CAD engineering and communications installation. He was one of the early pioneers in Computer Aided Design systems with experience in systems design and application engineering. He was a founder of the Arizona State University Computer Institute and served as it''s CAD and AI Director from 1984 to 1989. While in that post he also served as the NASA Industrial Application Center Technology Director. Jim is currently on the Board of the CAD Institute and the University of A.C.T. In the 1970''s and 80''s Mr. Dilettoso produced major events for music and sports. He has Designed or Produced over 1000 music concerts including major tours for the Moody Blues and Journey, including all phases of staging, electrical, rigging, lighting, sound, and special effects. He has experience in managing all levels of stage unions, box-office, and security. In 1983 he was the site planner for the US Festival in San Bernadino, Ca. which was attended by over 500,000 people. In addition, he has designed and built production centers for television and film production. Clients include American Film Technology where Mr. Dilettoso directed the technology development of B&W Movie Colorization as well as the design and implementation of the facilities in Arizona and California. Since 1990, Mr.Dilettoso has been a leading expert in the deployment of Digital Communications including ATM, and ISDN. He has designed systems that have been employed by TRW, Sprint , USWEST, CNN, PacificBell, and Cray Computers in both the computer room and networks. Feature Films such as Lost in Space and Titanic have used Mr.Dilettoso''s Animation and Rendering Technology to create realistic scenes and buildings. This Technology can be employed for realsitic walk-throughs and simulations of projects "to be built" by Bozarth CM. Jim currently hosts news segments on Discovery Channel, Fox Network, MTV and A&E from his Village Labs, a 21st century lab that investigates all things new under the Sun.

Van Jones
Van Jones is the founding director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Founded in 1996 and named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the Center seeks to replace the U.S. incarceration industry with youth opportunities and community-based solutions. In 2002, the Center''s "Books Not Bars Campaign" helped stop the construction of a costly and controversial "Super-Jail" for Oakland''s youth. Presently, the Center is working to close all of California''s scandal-plagued youth prisons and replace them with regional rehabilitation centers. Van is also a passionate advocate for the environment and for responsible business. He serves on numerous governing boards, including: Rainforest Action Network, WITNESS, Bioneers, the New Apollo Project and the Social Venture Network. Van''s efforts have earned him many honors, including the Reebok International Human Rights Award, the Ashoka Fellowship, and the Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship. Born in rural west Tennessee, Van graduated in 1990 from the University of Tennessee at Martin and, in 1993, from the Yale Law School.

Jen Zariat
Jen Zariat is a founding coordinator of the annual Symbiosis Gathering (www.symbiosisevents.com), an International Arts, Music, and Conscious Lifestyle Event in Northern California. She is also the co-creator of the Eco-Gatherings (www.ecogatherings.com) project for promoting sustainable practices in event planning. She has also facilitated award-winning design and promotional media for a number of independent musicians, artists, and non profit organizations through her company Cacao Media (www.CacaoMedia.com).

Donations

Oxholm Foundation, Indigo, Tobi and Butch Miller, John and Susan Carson, Becca Kruger, Dr. Joseph Herr, Karen Bray, Adam Carson, Circle of Life, Artisana

In-Kind Donations:

Grady Cousin, Gamelan X, Paul Jorgenson