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May 2015 edition Featured Articles on: Help Nepal - Homeboy Industries – Creative Visions – Tiger Time – David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation – Not Impossible Labs – The Milagro Foundation – Mouvement – Ocean Conservancy

HELP NEPAL

More than 8,500 people have died as a result of the back-to-back earthquakes. On last Sunday, Nepal’s Home Ministry confirmed at least 8,583 deaths from the past month’s two major earthquakes and subsequent tremors, making the combined disaster the deadliest in the country’s history, reports Reuters. On April 25, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake erupted approximately 85 miles east of the capital, Kathmandu, killing more than 8,000 people and destroying a half-million homes nationwide. Three weeks later the country was struck again by a 7.3-magnitude tremor near Mount Everest that killed more than 100 people and triggered fresh landslides. MORE: 6 Ways You Can Give to Nepal Earthquake Relief U.N. officials report that millions of people remain in need of basic humanitarian assistance as the looming monsoon threatens to inundate the country’s fragile transportation network and hamper ongoing aid efforts. The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkeha earthquake)[7][8] killed more than 8,000 people and injured more than 19,000.It occurred at 11:56 NST on 25 April, with a magnitude of 7.8Mw [1]  or 8.1Ms [2]  and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VIII (Severe). Its epicenter was the village of Barpak, Gorkha district, and its hypocenter was at a depth of approximately 15 km (9.3 mi).[1] It was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake.[9] [10] [11]  The earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, killing at least 19,[12] making it the deadliest day on the mountain in history.[13] It triggered another huge avalanche in the Langtang valley, where 250 were reported missing.[14] [15]  Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless with entire villages flattened,[14] [16] [17]  across many districts of the country.

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 Centuries-old buildings were destroyed at UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Kathmandu Valley, including some at the Kathmandu Durbar Square, the Patan Durbar Square and the Bhaktapur Durbar Square. Geophysicists and other experts had warned for decades that Nepal was vulnerable to a deadly earthquake, particularly because of its geology, urbanization, and architecture.[18] [19]  Continued aftershocks occurred throughout Nepal within 15–20 minute intervals, with one shock reaching a magnitude of 6.7 on 26 April at 12:54:08NST.[4] The country also had a continued risk of landslides.[20] A second major earthquake occurred on 12 May 2015 at 12:35 NST with amoment magnitude (Mw) of 7.3. Mw.[21] The epicenter was near the Chinese border between the capital of Kathmandu and Mt. Everest.[22] More than 125 people were killed and more than 2,500 were injured by this aftershock.[23] 

Please donate as much and as often as you can. 

Thank you for all your help and support.

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HOMEBOY

JUNE 12, 2015 - ALASKA’S INSIDE PASSAGE CRUISE

Join us for an 8-day tour of Alaska with Father Greg, full of renewal and reflection.Departing from Seattle, the June 12-19 cruise itinerary includes: :- Ketchikan, Alaska, known as the gateway to Alaska- Tracy Arm Fjord and Junea, Alaska- Skagway, Alaska- Inside Passage, Victoria, BCThroughout the cruise, Father Greg will share stories and wisdom gleaned from life with the men and women of Homeboy Industries. And he'll celebrate mass daily. This is a unique opportunity to travel with Father Greg and it will surely be a transformative experience.Click here for more informationThank you for all your help and support.

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Father Greg speaks internationally, nationally and most often locally in Southern California. Besides these speaking engagements, Father Greg’s time is committed to working with former gang members at Homeboy, visiting youth camps and prisons,’and serving on a myriad of advisory committees and task forces. Click here to invite Father Greg to speak at your event.

HOPE HAS AN ADDRESS Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support  to formerly gang-involved and recently incarcerated men and women, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of their communities. Homeboy Industries serves at-risk and gang involved youth with a continuum of services and programs designed to meet their multiple needs, and runs four businesses that serve as job-training sites. Please Visit: www.homeboyindustries.org

Homeboy Industries is looking for dedicated volunteers in the Educational Services Department.

If you are interested in volunteering with Homeboy and mentoring their trainees, these are some of the immediate areas they could really use your expertise. Please go to this link to fill out the volunteer application.

Thank you for all your help and support.

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CREATIVE VISIONS

Reframed PicturesThomas Morgan & Susan Sarandon

Our Featured Creative Activist Project

Reframed Pictures is an independent production company that utilizes the power of documentary films, short-form web series, and digital branded content to tell transformational stories with lasting social impact. We hope that these endeavors reframe individuals’ perspectives and lead to action in our classrooms, communities, country and around the world–creating positive, significant, sustainable and measurable change. We are creating a film production company to produce these films and will support important films of others doing the same.

Please view at http://www.creativevisions.org/cap/reframed-pictures/

CREATIVE ACTIVIST NETWORKThe Creative Activist Network (CAN) is the first step of immersion into the vibrant Creative Visions hub.CAN members receive invitations to educational workshops and a myriad of community and networking events to engage and connect with like-minded artists and professionals.

Please join at http://www.creativevisions.org/can/

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THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION

Inspired by the life of Dan Eldon, Creative Visions Foundation inspires and supports creative activists – individuals who use media and the arts to raise awareness of critical issues around the globe and ignite positive change. Creative Visions Foundation provides tools, mentorship, resources and a linked community to help our activists harness the power of media, arts and technology to solve global problems in the areas of: human rights, environment, youth & education, woman empowerment, and global consciousness. Please visit:  www.creativevisions.org

CREATIVE VISIONS is a premiere agency for the use of media and the arts to ignite positive change in the world. Please join the tribe at: http://www.creativevisions.org/get-involved

Thank you for all your help and support.

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TIGER TIME

Keeping Tigers on the Agenda

2015 is an important year for the tiger. Following intense discussions at CITES in July 2014 some very specific recommendations on tigers were adopted:   

         Countries are to ensure that their legislation prohibits domestic trade, including in parts of captive bred tigers

         It requires those who are currently trading to report the scale of that trade

         It requires countries to report on the volume of existing stockpiles

         It requires countries to destroy the bodies of deceased captive tigers

Between now and the next meeting in January 2016 progress will be assessed by a working group being chaired by China.

Help TigerTime demonstrate how important we feel these recommendations are to the survival of the tiger. Please sign up at http://tigertime.info/take-action/sign-up/

Our aim is to deliver over half a million signatures to the Chinese Embassy in London in October 2015 respectfully requesting that China, in its key role as chair of the inter-sessional working group, guarantees the compliance of CITES members to all of these recommendations. Without that compliance, the future of the wild tiger remains uncertain.

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Please be part of it. TigerTime already has over 300,000 signatories – help us reach the 500,000 mark by signing up at www.bantigertrade.com  

David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation   David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation responds to urgent conservation threats by supporting trusted, reputable individuals and organisations operating in the field.

The Founder, David Shepherd, is known internationally as an artist and ambassador for wildlife. In 1960 he became a conservationist overnight when he came across 255 zebra lying dead around a poisoned waterhole in Tanzania. Since then, with the help of supporters across the world, the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) has given away over £5million in grants to save critically endangered mammals in their wild habitat and benefit the local people who share their environment. David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation as an adaptable and flexible, non-

bureaucraticorganisation supports a range of innovative, vital and far-reaching projectsthroughout Africa and Asia, achieving real results for wildlife survival.

The Foundation supports sending undercover agents into the field to investigateillegal wildlife crime, training and supplying anti-poaching patrols. It has helped

establish nature reserves and other protected areas and works with governments to establish conservation laws and regulations.

The Foundation educates wildlife consumers about the plight of the animals they‘use’ and teaches young people about endangered wildlife through art and schoolprojects.

 Please visit: www.davidshepherd.org Thank you for all your help

and support.

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NOT IMPOSSIBLE

THE LATEST

A Bike Lane Provides Shade and Generates Solar EnergyA 20-mile bike lane in South Korea generates energy with the solar panels covering it. 

Please check out the video at Janbaz Salehi’s YouTube Channel.

If you have ever ridden a bike on a hot day, then you know how valuable brief moments of shade can be. Now, bicyclists in South Korea can experience 20 miles of relief from the sun in a covered bike path that also generates solar energy.

The 20-mile bike lane is covered in solar panels and is in the middle of a six-lane highway. According to The Green Optimistic, there are even a number of underground bridge crossings that allows cyclists to get safely onto the bike lanes without having to cross the highway.

The idea of a solar panel bike lane is not an entirely new one. Last year,Not Impossible Now covered a story about a solar bike lane that was built in the Netherlands. This project was done on a much smaller scale, covering only 230 feet. In addition, the solar panels were on the ground, not covering the lane. Although this bike lane did not provide shade, it did show how certain road surfaces could be used to generate solar energy and provide special lighting, Autoblog reports.  While the bike lane in South Korea does offer shade and protection from cars, it is not without its limitations. 

The solar panel bike lane may have its issues, but using available space to create clean energy is definitely a step in the right direction.

SOLAR ENERGY SOLAR BIKE PATH SOLAR PANELS SOUTH KOREA

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NOT IMPOSSIBLE NOWThe People at Not Impossible Now believe in technology for the sake of humanity.While nobody can do everything, everybody can do something, so we crowdsource our solutions to real-world problems. Suddenly, yesterday’s pipe dreams are Not Impossible Now!

By helping one person we can all inspire others to do the same – it’s their “Help One Help Many” philosophy and it breaks down barriers, enabling greater access to all in need.

Access to healthcare, literacy and technology shouldn’t ever be limited by finances, geography or physical ability. 

Listen in on Not Impossible founder Mick Ebeling's conversation on CBC radio's program "Q" right here: http://www.cbc.ca/q/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2476780836

In the book, which is available in stores and online now, Mick discusses how he’s made a difference in people’s lives through technology by assembling teams to help others in need. Here's an excerpt!

Also, we’re thrilled to announce that Not Impossible has received the “Innovative 3-DIY” award at the 2015 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday night, March 17. The award is in honor for Not Impossible’s work on “Project Daniel.”.

“Project Daniel” focuses on a teenager who’d lost both arms in a bomb blast in Sudan. When Not Impossible sent a team there to 3-D print limbs for Daniel, the impact resonated farther than any could have predicted. “Project Daniel” has not only restored hope for a teenager in Sudan, it’s spurred other individuals to take up the charge and make a difference.

Learn more about “Project Daniel” here and by watching the video below:

https://youtu.be/SDYFMgrjeLg Thank you for all your help and support.

THE MILAGRO FOUNDATION

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MILAGRO ON TOURSantana donates 50 cents for every ticket sold to The Milagro Foundation.

Please check out the UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

6/30/2015ZiggoAmsterdam, Netherlands TIX

7/1/2015Palais 12, Brussels ExpoBrussels, Belgium TIX

7/2/2015StadtparkHamburg, Germany TIX

7/4/2015Dolina CharlottySlupsk, Poland TIXPlease visit www.santana.com for Tickets and more dates.

MILAGRO LATEST GRANTEE

Boys and Girls Clubs of Marin and Sonoma

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Region: UNITED STATESState: CALIFORNIA [NORTHERN]Type: HealthAmount: $20,000.00Date: April, 2015

Please visit for the complete list:http://www.milagrofoundation.org/grantees.asp For more information about DONATING, please visit www.milagrofoundation.org. Thank you for your consideration and support.

The Milagro Foundation

Milagro (“Miracle”) is a charitable foundation that supports underrepresented and vulnerable children and youth in the areas of arts, education and health. The Milagro Foundation was started in 1998 by Carlos Santana and his family to benefit children around the world.

Please view the video to learn more at http://www.milagrofoundation.org/movie.asp

THE UNIVERSAL TONECarlos’ book, THE UNIVERSAL TONE, is not just the history of a musician that has sold millions of albums. It is the story of an individual who is ceaselessly creative, spiritually focused and yet fearlessly part of a world that brought him fame and adulation and challenged his dedication to his music and to doing good.

Please read the overview at: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-universal-tone-carlos-santana/1119888283?ean=9780316244923

Thank you for all your help and support.MOUVEMENT

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CONNECTING GOOD INTENTIONS TOUR

Our Connecting Good Intentions Fall Tour 2014 staged workshops in partnership with Carlos Santana’s Milagro Foundation for students, parents, teachers, and other community members in Mouvement’s Om Dome:

In Los Angeles, at the Carlos Santana Arts Academy Nov. 5 to Nov. 8; In Malibu at the Boys and Girls Club from Nov. 11 to 15; and In Las Vegas at the Boys and Girls Lied Memorial Clubhouse from Nov. 17 to Nov.20.  Participants were delighted and surprised by their own curiosity, and the sense of joy and freedom created through play by Mouvement’s educational, rhythmical, co-creative experiential & FUN activities. Please visit www.altruistica.org  and http://studiomouvement.com/en/ or www.facebook.com/studiomouvement for more information and upcoming dates for Fall of 2015.

MOUVEMENTMouvement is a unique mobile studio that offers cultural-artistic experiences based on rhythm and music, percussion and dance through playshops, performances and activities open to all ages and walks of life.

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Joel and I are honoured to participate in the first annual Akhanda Yoga Festival Canada created by our teacher Yogrishi Vishvketu. Please register through the World Conscious Yoga Family web site at the link below.

akhanda yoga family festival canada 2015 with yogrishi vishvketu

Akhanda Yoga Family Festival Canada 201June 18 – 21, 2015CAMMAC, Harrington, QC

Join Yogrishi Vishvketu and guest teachers for a lakeside residential retreat featuring holistic yoga and intimate teachings celebrating Akhanda Yoga. Festival programming will explore yogic tools and philosophy to assist in the expansion of harmony in our lives, allowing for growth in all aspects of our being – mind, body and spirit. Centre musical CAMMAC is located on Lake MacDonald in the beautiful Laurentians, just two hours from Ottawa.For more info contact World Conscious Yoga Family: 1 (802) 223-6130 | roberta@worldyogafamily.comINSCR IPT ION/ REG IST ER

Please check out for more info: http://www.studiomouvement.com/enand www.facebook.com/studiomouvement

Thank you for all your help and support.

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OCEAN CONSERVANCY

SAVE THE   RIVIERA   MAYA TODAY: SIAN   KA’AN BEACH RECLAMATION PROJECT  The beautiful coastline of the Sian Ka’an,”The Birthplace of the Sky“, Biosphere Reserve has been polluted by local and global waste. The 64 km stretch of once virgin beachfront is home to dolphins, manatees, endangered sea turtles, and 339 unique bird species.

Please view at http://altruistica.org/save-the-riviera-maya-today-preserve-the-sian-ka%E2%80%99an/

Join us for our Sian Ka’an Beach Cleanups on June 27 in the southern portion and June 28 in the northern portion, respectively. Your contribution will initiate clean up of the beaches, coordinate local organizations, and raise global awareness.  Our project will make an immediate and crucial impact in the following ways: 

Reduce the plastic and other non-biodegradable garbage on the beaches Create responsibility for local and global polluters Foster effective collaborative efforts between local stakeholders Reduce the amount of animals with dangerous toxicity levels and animal

deaths Increase the survival rate of newborn sea turtles, marine birds, manatees,

and dolphins As part of Altruistica’s larger media campaign, SAVE THE RIVIERA MAYA TODAY: PRESERVE THE SIAN KA’AN, these impacts will be leveraged for the present and future well being of these species and their environment. Please DONATE now by clicking the DONATIONS Box on Altruistica’s Home Page, www.altruistica.org

Join Ocean Conservancy in working every day with partners around the world to fulfill the vision of clean water and healthy beaches

Thank you for all your help and support.

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OCEAN CONSERVANCY: Clean Beaches - Clean Water

We have a profound stake in a healthy ocean that is free of trash and marine debris.The ocean sustains us with the basic elements of life—it produces half of the oxygen in the air we breathe, and it is an essential part of the water cycle, helping to provide the water we drink.The world’s beaches, the frontier of this essential resource, support ocean health. They provide habitat and nesting grounds for important ocean wildlife like sea turtles and sea birds, and they attract vacationers from around the world, helping to sustain complex coastal economies.

Please check out: http://www.oceanconservancy.org/healthy-ocean/clean-beaches-clean-water/

Trash Free Seas

Ocean trash ranks as one of the most serious pollution problems of our time. Much more than an eyesore, trash in the water and on the shore affects the health of people, wildlife and economies. For example, trash in the water:injures swimmers and beachgoers;harms wildlife that eat it or get trapped in its mess;drives away tourists—and their wallets; andensnares boat propellers, a costly navigation hazard.

The good news is we can prevent trashed beaches and debris-filled water. Ocean Conservancy has a vision of trash free seas, and we’ve been leading the way for more than 25 years.Ocean Conservancy is creating a world of trash free seas by:

Organizing and executing the International Coastal Cleanup®, the world’s largest volunteer effort to clean up our beaches and waterways, with partners around the globe.

Publicizing data  that help the public and the global science community better understand the problem of ocean trash.

Creating innovative solutions to the ocean trash issue with leaders from the private, public and academic sectors.

Building a movement to help inspire all of us to stop trash before it starts and live cleaner, healthier lives.

Thank you for your consideration and support.

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