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Day Without A Bag Download PDF

When Ojai shoppers go to the store for groceries on Saturday, Dec. 20, they will be offered a free reusable shopping bag, compliments of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition and its partners. Ojai’s first Day Without a Bag is being staged to encourage the use of reusable bags, which save landfill space, clean up our waterways, and reduce the amount of oil consumed and the amount of global greenhouse gases emitted in the manufacture of throw-away plastic bags. Tables will be stationed outside the store entrances for just one day.

Partners who helped underwrite the cost of the reusable bags include the City of Ojai, Ojai Certified Farmers' Market, Ken Wright & Sons, Harrison Industries, Consolidated Disposal Services, Water Conservation Technologies Inc., and Showerminder. The Green Coalition tables offering the bags will be located at Vons, Starr, Rite Aid, Rainbow Bridge and Westridge Markets.

“An Inconvenient Truth” Updated Download PDF

As part of their Ecology and Community Series, the Ojai Valley Green Coalition is proud to welcome “Climate Jedi” Gretchen Lewotsky to present an updated and expanded slide show and discussion version of the Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” The event will be on January 28, 2009, at 7:00 PM at Matilija Junior High School Auditorium, located at 703 El Paseo Road in Ojai. A donation of $5.00 at the door is suggested. For more information, call (805) 653-8445 or visit www.ojaivalleygreencoalition.org.

Ms. Lewotsky was personally trained by Al Gore as part of the Climate Project, a nonprofit organization based in Nashville, Tennessee, which began operations in June 2006 with the mission of increasing public awareness of the climate crisis at a grassroots level in the United States and abroad. As of October 2008, the project had delivered nearly twenty thousand presentations and reached a combined audience of two million people. Gretchen Lewotsky, who is also Vice President of State and Local Government Affairs and Environmental Operations for the Fox Entertainment Group, will share her information and discuss personal solutions we can all move toward in our communities.

On November 8, 2008, Al Gore wrote in the New York Times, “The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after twenty years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is ‘unequivocal.’ To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up. Our children and grandchildren need you to hear and recognize the truth of our situation, before it is too late.”

For further information on the Ojai Valley Green Coalition, visit www.ojaivalleygreencoalition.org