We did come and enjoy the music, food, people and the festival this weekend. It was awesome! The music was great, food was incredible and we left with a fistful of information and a gratifying feeling about being part of something good.
After visiting Silk Road and Special Teas in downtown Victoria yesterday and doing a bit of research on the history of tea, I began to realize that my tiny teacup has been silently harboring an ocean of tradition and knowledge. I’ve always thought tea was a great example of a “slow food” – a quality food that works to preserve cultural and biological diversity, while emphasizing pleasure and responsible eating – but until yesterday, I had no idea just how accurate that description was. The story goes that tea was first discovered over 5000 years ago when the Chinese emperor, Shen Nung, was drinking boiled water and several tea leaves from a nearby bush blew into his pot. The emperor enjoyed the new concoction and thus tea drinking was born. Tea was originally popularized in Buddhist temples, where
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Your Cup of Tea?
Eco-KidsZone Coordinator
We’re looking for an organized, responsible and creative individual to join our volunteer captain team in the capacity of Eco-KidsZone Coordinator.
The ideal candidate has a strong and successful background working with children, experience planning and supervising children’s events, and is committed to educating children through enriching, hands-on learning activities and healthy, fun entertainment. S/he must be creative, reliable, able to develop partnerships with community organizations, able to see the festival experience from the perspective of a child, has experience supervising others including youth volunteers and strong interpersonal skills.
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs
No, we don’t want our signs blocking out the scenery. That’s why we are looking for a volunteer Signage Manager for this year’s Organic Islands Festival.
Do you enjoy telling people where to go? Are you the person friends and family ask to find out the best route to where they are going? Look no further – we have a great volunteer job for you!
If you …
A Green Victory – Madrona Farm
If you haven’t heard yet, after a two-year campaign with nearly 3000 donors, the Land Conservancy of British Columbia has raised 1.7 million dollars to save Madrona Farm. The Farm comprises 27-acres wedged between Blenkinsop Rd. and Mount Douglas and is a paradigm for sustainable agriculture. The farm was threatened when the owners decided to sell the property, leaving the farmers, David and Nathalie, in a sort of limbo. If the new owners didn’t want to maintain the property as an organic fruits and vegetable farm, then there would have been little holding them back. As of May 14, the area exists in a land trust that will preserve the ecological and agricultural value of the area indefinitely.
After doing a bit of reading, I realized that I was alarmingly ignorant of just how much was at stake. Not only…
The challenge of being a locavore
A “locavore”?
So what… is that, like, a new species or something?
Not many are fully acquainted with the term, and far less can even imagine being one. I first learned of the term when an owner of a local restaurant in Edmonton came to my social entrepreneurship lecture at the University of Alberta to speak about the local food movement. She revealed that, nowadays…
Vote with Your Fork
My parents grew organic food before it was cool.
And I grew up thinking that going out into the garden with a pot to collect dinner’s potatoes was normal and that pie-fillings that came from the backyard were not at all unusual. New potatoes, soft and buttery, were a rite of spring and golden corn was a sign that the summer days would soon fade to the somber tones of fall. I’m writing this because I believe that these activities…
Media Resources Summary
Get your Organic Islands Media Resources at these links:
- May 12th 2010 Press Release: Save the Date! here
- June 3rd 2010 Press Release: Festival wins Eco Star Award: here
- July 1st 2010 Press Release: What’s on at the Festival this year: here
- Photos for print use: 300 dpi files here
- Photos for web use: 72 dpi compressed files here
- 2010 LOGOS & Event Listing here
- Organic Islands Facebook Page here
- Organic Islands on Twitter here
- Organic Islands Green Scene Blog here
- Organic Islands Videos 2009 here
- Organic Islands Media Coverage 2009 here
Save the Date!
Green “Think Tanks” featured at the Organic Islands Festival and
Sustainability Expo July 10 and 11, 2010.
For Immediate Release: May 12, 2010, Victoria BC – Expect more leading edge green products and provocative education about sustainable practices from local companies and social change organizations at the sixth annual Organic Islands Festival.
Deb Morse, festival director is excited [...]
Volunteer Parking Manager
Organic Islands Festival & Sustainability Expo is seeking a calm and capable leader with a mind that is programmed for logistics to manage the parking function for this year’s festival.
If you:
- Have experience doing this work at other events and festivals
- Have logistics training and experience
- Have other logistics work and/or volunteer experience that would translate to the skills required for this position
- Have strong leadership skills that include staying calm and being able to problem solve under pressure, clear and effective communications, and diplomacy
- Believe in sustainability and would like to contribute in a key function to making the festival experience a positive one for our guests
Consider this volunteer position.
As Parking Manager, you will manage several parking teams… Click on Read this Post below for complete details.
Festival Media Slideshow
Here is some of the media we appeared in last year. Thanks for all the coverage folks!
Here is a link to the slides shown above. Feel free to grab any of the images to repost.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mobiuscommunicationsgroup/OrganicIslandsMediaGallery?feat=directlink
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