The US SOCIAL FORUM will take place in Detroit, Michigan.

The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multiracial, multisectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history.

The US Social Forum will provide a space to build relationships, learn from each other’s experiences, and share analysis of the problems our communities face. It will help develop leadership, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world.

Another World is Possible. Another US is Necessary!

For more information visit: http://ussf2010.org

Catalina State Park, 11570 N. Oracle Road.

Citizens for Solar invites everyone to come and join in the fun of the 28th Annual Tucson Solar Potluck and Exhibition. This is the longest continuously running solar potluck in the world. See practical, innovative solar energy in useful action. People will be cooking food in dozens of types of solar ovens. Enjoy solar powered music during the afternoon and into the evening. Taste solar cooked food, see photovoltaic solar electricity generated, feel solar cooling, and see solar powered technology.

Although solar cooked snacks will be provided all day, the solar potluck feast begins around 5:00 p.m. Either bring your solar oven and cook with us or bring a dish to share and join in the fun.

Join The Watershed Management Group in celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.  Earth Month events include:

• April 10th: Green Streets Block Party, 4pm to 7pm
• April 10th: Street Painting Event, 10am to 1pm
• April 17th: Samos Neighborhood Green Streets Workshop, 8am to 1pm
• April 18th: Green Streets Bike Tour, 10am to 2pm
• April 24th:  WMG Co-op Extravaganza, 8am to 12pm
• April 24th: WMG Co-op Bazaar, 12:00pm to 2pm

Cyclovia will give Tucson folks the chance to enjoy our great weather, see neighbors, friends and people from throughout Tucson, and get a little exercise – all on city streets that will be closed to car traffic and open to walkers, joggers, cyclists, skaters and all other forms of natural movement.

Motor vehicles are detoured from the route allowing everyone the freedom to enjoy the outdoors – safely. It isn’t a race, parade or competition. Instead, it’s a chance to enjoy Tucson from a new perspective, get some exercise and have some fun. Walk your dog, roller skate, blow bubbles. Have fun because during Cyclovia, the world stops for you.

Read a recent Arizona Daily Star article here:

For more information visit: www.cycloviatucson.org

To learn more about this event and how to get involved, please attend the event open house, on Tuesday, March 30 from 5:30pm to 7pm, at the Northwest Neighborhood Center at Mansfield Park, 2160 N. 6th Avenue.

The Peace Center will celebrate its 28th annual Peace Fair this year. This day-long event in Reid Park brings people together to celebrate the peace movement in our region. Sustainable Tucson recognizes that a unifying consciousness, based on peaceful practice, is foundational to manifesting sustainability. As one of many organizations affiliated with the Peace Fair, Sustainable Tucson supports open and respectful dialogues in order to successfully process differences and resolve them within a peaceful and empowering paradigm.

Ron Proctor
Co-chair
Sustainable Tucson

Come to the Water-themed FUNdraiser in support of The Water Project, Tucson’s Synergistic Water Festival at the Rhythm Industry Performance Factory, 1013 S. Tyndall Avenue (1 block West of Park Avenue, just South of 20th Street). $10 suggested donation.

For more information, visit the Water Project Website at: www.waterprojectfestival.org

The 4th Annual Solar Rock Festival will be held on March 27th from noon to 6pm at Himmel Park, south east of Speedway and Tucson Blvd. This Free solar powered festival includes an outstanding lineup of local talent including Spirit Familia, Run Boy Run, Kevin Pakulis, Bruce Phillips, Drama Club, Leila Lopez, the winner of the Arizona Daily Star’s Battle of the Bands, and more. Come out for an awesome day of music, speakers, food and exhibits on solar energy. This event is sponsored by the Food Conspiracy Co-op and powered by GeoInnovation.

More info at: www.SolarRockTucson.com.

Celebrate our most precious and endangered resource -WATER -with the The Water Project: Tucson’s Synergistic Water Festival on March 26-28, 2010. This event combines the energy of Tucson’s sustainability community with the vibrant arts community to provide an opportunity for the public to experience a festive collaboration, learn about water issues and have some fun!

This one of a kind participatory event celebrates, educates and facilitates the creative problem-solving of water issues through a multiplicity of sensory experiences:

• Performance: participant driven dance, theatre, puppetry and more

• Fashion Show: water theme character costumes and entertainment

• Art Happenings: side shows, paintings, sculptures, live music, creative maps and more

• Film Festival: water themed films with discussions

• Vendor & Info Tables: local and regional organizations, artisans and businesses involved in water issues

• Interactive Panel Discussion: informative community participation to creatively address water solutions

• Water Ritual: cross-cultural and interfaith expressions of water

The Water Project is the first annual event commemorating World Water Week in Tucson with a series of events that coincide with the international observance of World Water Day, an initiative founded at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).

For more information, contact:

Jodi Netzer, Director/Producer, Jodi@WaterProjectFestival.org, 1.267.334.7857
Victoria Falcone-Camey, Event & Sponsorship Coordinator, Victoria@WaterProjectFestival.org, 1.520.305.9367

or visit http://www.WaterProjectFestival.org

Tucson\’s 16th Annual Earth Day Festival and Parade will be held on Saturday, April 17, 2010 at Reid Park. The theme for the 2010 Festival is “All Species Deserve a Place on Earth!”  All species great and small – insects, plants and animals – the Earth needs them all!

Exhibits related to the environment will include \”hands-on\” activities for children and provide information on environmental products, water conservation/water quality, household hazardous waste, wildlife, nature preserves and much more!

At 10:00 the unique and colorful parade will include participants dressed up as plants, animals, and insects, and environmentally themed floats. Batucaxe, high energy drum and dance group will lead the “All Species Procession” as part of the Earth Day Parade!

After the parade, watch as local middle school students test their design and construction skills in a model solar electric race car competition.  Then change gears from model cars to full-size vehicles at the Alternate Fuel Vehicle Show.  Check out vehicles that run on alternate fuels such as biodiesel, compressed natural gas, electric, ethanol, propane and even waste vegetable oil.  Ask the experts how you can start using an alternate fuel in your vehicle to keep the air clean for all species.

Animals love the earth and deserve a place on earth too! So, ride your bike to the Earth Day Festival and for those riding their bikes (with a helmet) get free admission to the Reid Park Zoo by showing your safety helmet.

For more information about the 16th Annual Tucson Earth Day Festival please visit www.tucsonearthday.org, call (520) 206-8814 or email tucsonearthday@yahoo.com.Earth Day