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"The Vancouver Sustainable Community is Making Green the Mainstream." Join Green Earth Organics to Celebrate and Show the World How Vancouver is Making Green the Mainstream at the 2010 GreenStream Event. With special guest speakers including Maureen Cureton of Vancity's Green Business as well as the
founder of the Projecting Change Film Festival, Brady Dahmer.

Do you want to become a GreenStreamer?  Well, then come down to the Light House Sustainable Building Centre where you will be a part of a fun gathering of the Vancouver Sustainable Community! GreenStreamers invite media and world visitors to this special event where participants will be wearing green ribbons provided by TB Vets.  GreenStreamers will also have the opportunity to win:

• FREE gift bags and reusable water bottles from Nature's Path
• FREE Green Zebra Guides - *for the first 25 guests to arrive
• FREE passes to a series of receptions to CodeLive's 'eatART afterdark', in cooperation with VANOC and Great Northern Way Campus
• FREE gift baskets including your own 'Sustainability at Home' toolkit and your first FREE delivery of 100% Organic Fruits & Veggies from Green Earth Organics
• FREE passes to EPIC - *Vancouver's Sustainable Living Expo

  For more information, please visit the following sites:

  The 2010 GreenStream Event
  

  http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2ou5as93143f68c

  
  FEATURED GUESTS:
  

  Juvarya Warsi (Light House Strategist)
  
  Juvarya is an accomplished environmental economist with experience in real estate development, green buildings and the growing low carbon economy. In her position with Light House, a dynamic market catalyst stimulating BC’s green building cluster, Juvarya leads policy development and carbon reduction strategies for a range of public and private sector clients.  For more details, please visit the site below:
  http://britishcolumbia.uli.org/sitecore/content/District%20Councils/Sites/ULI%20British%20Columbia/Network/Young%20Leaders%20Group/YLG%20Committee%20bios.aspx

  Maureen Cureton of Vancity's Green Business
  
  Maureen began her career working with an organic recycling company. Today she brings her commitment to sustainability to her work as Green Business Manager with Vancity’s Social Finance division and to the advisory services she provides to Vancity’s small business members.  For more details, please visit the site below:
  http://www.smallbusinessbc.ca/seminars/speakers/maureen-cureton
  http://www.commonground.ca/iss/0410159/cg159_RoadLess.shtml
  
  Brady Dahmer and Lindsay Nahmiache (Founders of the Projecting Change Film Festival)
  
  Brady has been a graphic designer, working with both print and interactive media, for the past 16 years.  And, Lindsay Nahmiache has a wide range of international and national film experience working in the North American, European and Indian Film Industries.  For more details, please visit the site below:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfjsj4KBSlQ
  http://www.projectingchange.ca/who.html
  
  Cease Wyss (Food Activist and Filmmaker)
  
  Cease Wyss has been involved with the Downtown Eastside and with food activism for many years. She is a media educator, filmmaker, illustrator, artist, and was the subject of the film Indiginous Plant Diva.  For more details, please visit the site below:
  http://www.nfb-onf.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=55120
  http://dbrowncooks.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/cease-wyss-on-the-good-food-box-and-community-gardening/

  CONTACT:
  
  Danielle Bedard, Green Earth Organics Communications Assistant
  Ph:  778-288-7318 or 604-708-2345
  daniellebedard888@gmail.com
  http://vancouver.greenearthorganics.com/

  WHEN:

  February 11, 2010 at 5:00pm to 8:00pm

  WHERE:

  The Light House Sustainable Building Center
  2060 Pine Street, Vancouver, 604-677-3728
  www.sustainablebuildingcentre.com