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Santa Monica Pier Station 17

Attention: Join our First Annual Beach Festival April 22-24

What: Join us for a 3-day Celebration

WE Celebrate the 50th and 51st Anniversary of Earth Day!

We want you to be a part of it all. This is so much fun! Music, Dance, Yoga, and Beach Clean UP!

WHY: Our goal is simple – clean up our beaches, oceans, and bodies. Create awareness and inspire action around environmental issues that affect you. And have fun doing it! Ys, there are plenty of fun events! So many ways for you to get involved too!

Whether you want to volunteer at one of our Saturday, Beach Cleanups or dance and stretch one as a guest, we have something for you!

Are you interested in making your world a better place? Don’t miss this!

Action: Click here now if you’re interested in attending any upcoming events or volunteer!

You can contact us to learn more about how your business can take steps towards being more sustainable

and visable in our committed community!

THURSDAY 4.22.21

?Earth-Day ~ Beach Clean up, Santa Monica – Volunteer Sign Up ?Thank you for choosing to volunteer with us! Please fill in your details!

We are all meeting on the south side of the Santa Monica Pier near lifeguard tower (16) Look for tents and flags and meet at at the volunteer Check in table.

Check in and clean up is on THURSDAY APRIL 22ND, from 9am-12pm – please arrive early to find us.

Please bring:
reusable Gloves
reusable Mask
Sunglasses
Ocean friendly Sun screen
Water in a reusable bottle (no disposable plastics please)
Hat
Snacks
Buckets with handles for trash , or compostable/ recycled trash bags.

Our clean up event partners are Eco Joe, Faces Collective, Love Unity, and Mini Storage

Thank you for playing your part in cleaning up the beaches and helping our marine life and habitat.

Please download this waiver form, fill it out and bring it with you to check in,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xquoLnZMDJatri91vKMeqF78MVCW78yu/view?usp=sharing

We love to use this app, by our partners Ocean Conservancy to keep track of the trash we pick up. Please download this free app and let us know how you do…
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clean-swell/id985692119#?platform=iphone

Blessings,

DisclosureFest™ Family

FRIDAY 4.23.21

SATURDAY 4.24.21

Care Now Vow

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM

OSIRIS Flow for Mother Earth / Basic yoga Postures/Breathing/Meditation

12:15 PM – 12:30 PM

Shamanatrix Missy Galore
Sprout Soul.utions to LifeBlossom Our Beauty
Radiate LOVE LiGHT

Shamanatrix Missy Galore

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM

Peace Sticks workshop and World Peace Tribe ceremony

http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-shane-shine-rilling-world-peace-tribe-ojai/

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM

Dj DInosaur and Shining Lion

Ecstatic Dance and Peace Sticks play

2:45 PM- 3:00 PM

Alisha Chauhan

Marine Biologist

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

LIBER8YOGA w/ Mashi

Liber8yoga is a yoga and artist collective for high-vibe individuals who crave genuine and wholesome experiences. We use our physical bodies through yoga, movement, and dance as the miraculous vessels that they are to transmute energy, tap into our multi-dimensionality, and turn pain into power.

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Yoga Maryam Askari & Enyaj

Sacred Yoga experience of the Warrior of Peace.

Join Yogis Maryam Askari and Enyaj for the sacred yoga experience of the Warrior of Peace. Together, we will explore the healing and calming energy of deep forward bends. The extension of the backs of our legs, connecting to our buttocks, directly relates to the extension of our spine, particularly when we move forward in space. Together, we will nourish our nervous system, so we may be more calm, receptive, and efficient in making the world a better place! Together we are stronger Warriors of Peace!

5:00 PM: – 5:30 PM

Superhero Resilience

Jessica Jane Robinson

Jessica Jane Robinson

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Earth Songs Ancient Voices

Gaia Tamar, Olivia Penland,

Wildfire & Corina

6:30 PM – 7:00 PM

The Christopher Hawley Rollers Band

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Zendo Stereo
Music Meditation Journey

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Michael Mowgli & Friends

Featuring Alliance of Gaia

Festival Performers

9:00 PM – 10:00 PM

CLOSING CEREMONY:

We recommend:

10 PM – 12 Midnight

Final EcoJoe’s Trash Pickup

Santa Monica Beach Cleanup on Saturdays – Many Miracle Makers to meet at the beach

April 13, 2021 by Dr. Sarah Larsen Leave a Comment

Thank you, Mom and Dad, for helping me know what is most valuable! You asked me, “What could humanity accomplish if it didn’t matter who got credit!” You co-created a dreamer, a doer, and a miracle maker! You created a steward of the Earth!

Left to right, Sadic Khan, Doc -Dr. Sarah Larsen aka Sarah, with Mom- Farida Khan
Photo Credit: Diana Kelly of Top Doctors

Every Saturday find a place on Earth that needs Cleaning

Saturdays are “Clean up the Earth Days!”

JOIN US ON YOUR NEXT VISIT TO SANTA MONICA

Santa Monica Beach~ South of Santa Monica Pier

Join us
“open house/ open beach”11:11 am to 11:11 pm
every Saturday in Santa Monica just south of the pier!

DJ crew usually begins at 3:33 pm

(Join any time- leave when you are complete)

Plan your journey -write to me here to learn more!

Contact:

Thank you, Will Sharer and Lily for beginning this gathering!

We have our weekly Saturday beach clean-up. They began in early 2020 with safe social. environmental and health practices to use all of their “extra” time and energy during “LOckdown” in Los Angeles.

Small groups clear the beach of trash and walk back to the live DJ’s on break distanced and dancing in the sands of time!

There is a dancing with friends vibe.

You can pack a picnic!

In the weeks I have been there to clean our big Earth, we have discussed other world-transforming projects.

The works, people, and ideas shared here you will probably love to collaborate on.

Projects you may be invited on include: with groups or people include: Time Is Now, Miracle Makers, Eco Joe &
(me) Dr. Sarah Larsen

What you need to know:

Use public transport or Drive to Santa Monica Pier.

Park near the south side (Venice side) of Santa Monica Pier!

Clean up Santa Monica especially to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day

What is celebrated on Indigenous Peoples Day?

Indigenous Peoples’ Day honors Native Americans, their resilience and their contributions to U.S. society in the face of generations of assimilation, discrimination and genocide.

Many indigenous peoples had language for the force that holds electrons together. Yes, it is the same force that is you – a unique expression of love

Hi!
Did you ever consider how everything you love is part of every story?
I am going to give you an example of this now! REady, set, go!

I am going to tell us a story in every email we share.

Just know.

You can open all emails you and I create for you because you’ll get insights into making better decisions, especially for your health!

Or you can just experience the ones that you feel called to open because darling you know when to open them!

Today’s story begins with the incredible words of Alan Watts.

He begins by telling you this,

“I’ve been dwelling this morning on the first word, which is “Tao,” and so comes up this second word, “Te.” And this word, again, faces us (Text sourced from https://www.organism.earth/library/document/swimming-headless) with some serious problems with translation. Ordinarily translated “virtue,” but virtue as we understand it today isn’t at all appropriate. The nearest kind of… when we speak of the “healing virtues of a plant,” that’s nearer to the meaning of this word “Te.” The Japanese pronounce it toku [?], the Cantonese duk, and the Northern Mandarins approximately te. And in the section of the Lao Tzu where this is really introduced, the text says something like this: “The superior virtue not virtue, thus it has virtue. Inferior virtue can’t let go of virtue, thus not virtue.” And we more or less paraphrase that by translating: “Superior virtue is not conscious of itself as virtue, and therefore it is virtue. But inferior virtue is so hooked up with being virtuous (or hooked on being virtuous) that it’s not virtue.”

What is highly virtuous is a virtue that is not conscious of itself as virtue. The moment it’s conscious of itself as such, you see, it fails. So in this way, we love to see a child dancing all by itself, lost in the dance and not performing for an audience. And we say, “Oh, if only I could dance like that! If only I could become like a child again. Innocent!” But then, soon, you know, when parents notice how beautifully a child dances, and they all approve of it and say to this child, “Dance for us,” the child begins to lose this power and it puts on airs. It knows it’s noticed. And we don’t like that. We say that’s affectation. That’s showing off. That’s phony. What we want you to do is to dance as if you had no audience, not even yourself—which, of course, puts the child in a double bind because it says to the child: we require you to do something that will be acceptable only if you do it as if it wasn’t required. We do that all the time to our children and to each other. “You must love me.” After all, you promised to do so when we got married, didn’t you? And so on. So this is the difficulty. But somehow, a very great artist in the maturity of his life somehow is able at least to give the impression that he does what he does without playing to the gallery, without self-consciousness. It seems perfectly natural. So how does he get there?”

With Respect and appreciation!

Love,

My parents call me Doc
Dr. Sarah Larsen
Sarah
Shahina

I have lots of names I love being called!

Extra love:

Save the date Oct 29th for a special zoom!

Extra extra love

Let me also say, it is a pleasure to meet you here -in this note and I look forward to our next interaction!

Extra cubed Love
Yes, you considered how everything you love is part of every story because love is the core virtue of where you give your attention.
Please give more of your attention to what you truly love. You may find yourself letting go of everything else. You don’t even have to say it outloud!
Letting go into flow is what is Earth’s activity! Twice a year – dressed in all her vibrant colors, she dawn deep rich hues in the fall season on the northern hemisphere this time of year and the most vibrant hues of life for the spring in Earth’s SOuthern hemisphere. Awe, the daaance of lif3. Done as a kid does for the joy of Life herself!

Extra love to the fourth power of love
Hey, does a desert star light filled night delight you? Booking sessions in Yucca, Ca now!

Also, a Retreat in Las vegas: Nov dates – Please let me know if you want to meet in Vegas….

Extra love to the 3th dimension of love aka Love till the sursolid.
Each extra love up above is my way of saying P.S.: I miss you already and thanks for reading this far! <3 From my smiling heart to yours! <3

MORE DETAILS ABOUT SANTA MONICA Clean up

Cars not allowed to get closer than

1633 Ocean Front Walk

Santa Monica, Ca 90401

Thus park and you’ll easily find us.

We are directly in front of 1633 Ocean Front Walk

Closer to the Ocean…

Look and listen for music/DJ on the beach beginning at 3 33 pm!

Sun coverage for the day

Have warm layers for the night!

What to expect and Bring:

1: PACK SOME COMPOSTABLE BAGS

You can pack several compostable bags in your carry-on to the beach.
We promise they don’t take up much more room than a pair of socks!
Dr. Sarah Larsen uses a large wicker basket.

2: SATURDAYS CLEAN-UP RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE

If you can’t make it to the beach, clean-up your neighborhood!
Schedule the clean-up on your Saturdays, so it becomes part of the experience or any cold, sunny, or cloudy day is any day obviously is for picking up trash.

3: STAY SAFE – WEAR GLOVES, SUNSCREEN, AND DRINK WATER

Wear gloves if you think you might be touching unsanitary items. You must pack these.
Don’t forget to lather on some biodegradable reef-safe sunscreen
Beach clean-ups can be a lot of work and you may just work up a sweat. Keep a water bottle handy. We recommend the glass bottles, or if you’re somewhere with limited clean drinking water, we recommend the Wayfarer or the Berkey Sport, which both have built-in water filters.

4: LOOK OUT FOR “MICRO PLASTICS”

Be on the lookout for smaller plastics and take the time to grab them – they are more easily ingested by small animals (like birds, crabs and insects) than a full plastic coca cola bottle.

5: PROPERLY DISPOSE OF WASTE

You can put trash in any trash receptacle you see.
You can bring it home and recycle it as needed!

In 1990 – I heard John Paul 11 speak on the importance of being a steward of the Earth!
In 1992, I helped preservation of Turtle habitats in Costa Rica!

Getting Away From Throwing Away: NRDC Is Going Zero Waste

October 09, 2019 Maria McCain

Where does your trash go when you throw it “away”? The reality is “away” doesn’t exist. On average, you will send an estimated 43,000 pounds of waste to the landfill during your lifetime. It is due to these individual impacts that the United States’ landfills and incinerators are filled with over 171 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) each year.[1] MSW landfills and incinerators pose a significant threat to public health and the environment:

Landfills are not designed to breakdown waste. Once filled—typically in 30 to 50 years—the waste can stick around for another 500+ years emitting greenhouse gases, contaminating groundwater, and displacing approximately 30 to 300 species per hectare of flora and fauna.[2]
The incineration of 1 ton of MSW produces roughly 1 ton of carbon dioxide (CO2).[3]
Both landfills and incinerators have been linked to birth defects, respiratory illness, and cancer.

How can we move away from landfills and incinerators?

In Vision 3 of the NRDC Sustainable Operations Plan, we make a commitment to achieving zero waste. We strive to divert at least 90 percent of solid, liquid (excluding wastewater), organic, and hazardous waste generated from incineration and landfills. We see zero waste as both limiting the total amount of waste generated and responsibly managing all unwanted or unusable materials at NRDC offices.

As an organization, we have increased our diversion rate from 75 percent to 82 percent from 2013 to 2019. We have also been strategic in maintaining overall increase in diversion rate and reduction in per capita waste generation (Figure 1). In 2018, we celebrated our Santa Monica office reaching operational zero waste. Even with this positive trend, it is clear that obstacles to organizational zero waste remain.

Figure 1. The average weight (lbs) of waste each NRDC staff member sends to the landfill annually

What role does the NRDC Zero Waste Directive play?

The NRDC Zero Waste Directive (ZWD) is designed to address common obstacles through actionable solutions. The solutions, which are reflected in the ZWD strategies, incorporate:

Monitoring. Knowing our baseline waste production is crucial to tracking the progress of the ZWD strategies. A baseline is derived through recording and assessing existing waste streams, waste stations, and availability of staff/visitor education.
Evaluating office design and flow. We design our offices in accordance with the path of least resistance to minimize waste and encourage sustainable practices. This includes understanding and reacting to both occupant behavior and the flow of goods delivered and discarded at NRDC offices.
Improving waste station consistency. It is important to have waste stations sized appropriately (i.e. all recycling, compost, and landfill bins are sized to accommodate the quantity and type of waste generated in each office) and clearly labeled. When space allows, these waste stations contain all discard streams (recycling, compost, landfill, and alternative recycling) and educate the users on our waste goals.
Educating staff, visitors, and vendors. We educate staff and visitors on organizational waste practices, diversion rate, and other waste reduction strategies. Education is central to sustained practice and positive ripple effect.
Purchasing sustainably. When purchasing products, we assess: production (requirements to make a product), use (how use of the product impacts humans and the planet), and post-use (how disposal of the product impacts the planet). We support nearby manufacturers that produce long-life, recycled content, and low-embodied carbon products free of harmful chemicals. Manufacturers are requested to use packaging that is recyclable or reusable and minimal shipping material. Additionally, manufacturers share opportunities for product repair and end-of-life options (recycling, take-back program, reuse, etc.). To align our food purchases with our mission, we created the NRDC Catering Policy.
Reducing and disposing of construction waste responsibly. We minimize and divert all construction waste by applying a Construction Waste Management Plan as outlined in the NRDC Design & Construction Protocols.
Purchasing carbon offsets based on our environmental impact calculations. To help offset the emissions associated with NRDC’s waste, carbon offsets are purchased annually. We do not see carbon offsets as a solution; it is only used to help mitigate our impact until we reach our zero-waste vision.

Seeing the light at the end of the landfill.

Businesses, communities, and governments are pursuing zero waste goals and policies, ranging from restrictions on distributing single-use plastic products to setting specific percentage goals on waste generation/diversion. These types of changes are prompted by people like you. Reach out to your local representative and urge your company to follow suit. Together, we can make landfills and incinerators obsolete.

Jessie’s Place Love and Care Rwanda

Written by James McDonough <enewsjessiesplace@gmail.com>

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LOVE AND CARE

Re: Quarterly Report

Dear lovely Partners,

I trust you are doing well in spite of the global challenge of COVID-19 Pandemic. It is our pleasure to share with you what was is going on ever since we resumed our activities and the impact therein .

As for us we are doing well too here in Rwanda. In the past few months, the number of people infected with the epidemic has been high, especially in our capital city Kigali land in some districts. This caused the government to proclaim a lock down in Kigali with the closure of schools and the stoppage of traffic between different regions of the country. So far, however, as this epidemic ceasing a bit , Love and Care Jyambere Mwana has resumed its activities as usual in the fulfilment of our mission which is “To promote the wellbeing of persons with disabilities especially children, as well as their families. and / or their caregivers in general, through inclusiveness, therapeutic care, education and social support with love and care.

For now, we are doing several activities covering 4 domains under the program known as “Together for Inclusiveness and Transformation – TIT”:

1. Health and Community Based Physiotherapy Domain

We are currently doing home based physiotherapy for children with disabilities who are not able to reach out to our community center due several challenges such residing in very remote places, overweight where parents/caregivers can no longer be able to carry them up to center. Through this activity we are reaching out to about 15 children located in two intervention administrative sectors. On the other hand, the organization is conducting physiotherapy from its center for about 20 children. These children are also being fed on a balanced diet twice a week from our center given that most of them are suffering from malnutrition and stunting as well, apart from disabilities.

2. Socialization and Entertainment

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We are doing regular community outreaches mainly in the families of our beneficiaries with the aim to look at their social condition with the heart and attitude of love and care. This activity is accompanied with guidance, counseling and facilitation of how to deal with and get rid of poverty and other social challenges as well as maintaining hygiene and sanitation. At these visits, as socialize with them, our team members do entertain and interact with the beneficiaries together with their families and/or caregivers. We always encourage our beneficiaries to prepare affordable balanced diet as the way to deal with malnutrition and stunting especially among their children who are mostly exposed. Over these home visits, we try to record the story/in form of interview with families of people with disability who openly have critical and poor life style, for special attention and relevant advocacy.

3. Education and Inclusiveness

As the saying goes around, “a child that grows without education is like a building being raised without a foundation”. After primary school and nursery were allowed to operate, Love and Care immediately started an inclusive program known as early childhood development. This is not a mere nursery school, it rather comprised of 30 children including those with disabilities and others from vulnerable families. This special class was established for several reasons including:

Ensuring value and dignity of children with disabilities
Showing the community that children with disabilities are just as capable as anyone else
Brain awakening and providing fundamental education to children with disability and others from vulnerable families.
Strengthening the quality of education in a creative, interactive and entertaining ways
Equipping children with social, cognitive and emotional skills they need as to help them continue learning as well as relating with their fellows and others accordingly.
Lessening the burden from parents since most of them are living in miserable condition

This is an optimal initiative and is being appreciated so much by the parents and the local government officials as well. The organization is much challenged by parents who would like their children be part of this program but so far the center is not able to host more than 30 children.

4. Socio-economic Development

In order to tackle poverty and improve the well-being people with disabilities, their families & caregivers 120 women united into four development oriented groups, there are various sponsored activities they are currently working on. The goal is to enable and empower them economically, to consequently be in the position of meeting basic needs for their children and families in general. Some of these activities include:

• Tailoring

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Some of the graduated women having children with disabilities are in this domain of sewing starting from various bags and their after with other products, being supported by the organization with materials. This is being done from Love and Care’s Center. The idea behind this activity is that may become increasingly self-sufficient as they gain income and live a small percentage for organization to keep on running other activities related to this domain and fund other needs as well. There is an idea of selling these products by a way of doing fundraising, where a bag can be sold to a higher price than the normal one as for the buyer to support Love and Care’s program.

• Agriculture

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There is another group of women who are involved in agriculture of vegetables and other cash crops. In order to reinforce this life transformational initiative, the organization has freely provided farming fields and initial seeds, whereas the beneficiaries are collectively getting involved in manual works such as cultivating, planting seeds, weeding, harvesting and selling the product. In all these activities, they are being monitored, guided and accompanied by Love and Care for a proper management and usage. This project aims at helping group members get small capital for individual small but sustainable businesses once they have sold the product, starting from few members and reinvest in the same activity for the next terms.

Love and Care is currently thinking on long-term and impactful projects such as pig farming, that will be regularly generating income to sustain our program. We will be sharing with you the progressiveness of this idea just in the near future.

Below is the table that approximatively describes our beneficiaries being reach out all from the very support and donation of Jessie’s Place

Intervention Domain	Direct Beneficiaries	Indirect Beneficiaries	Comments
Health and Community Based Rehabilitation	35 children with disabilities	175 Family members & caregivers	Once served, the benefit reach out to the whole family
Education and Inclusiveness	30 children	150 Family members	Once served, the benefit reach out to the whole family
Socialization and Entertainment	35 children with disabilities	175 Family members & caregivers	Once served, the benefit reach out to the whole family
Socio-economic Development	120	600 Family members	People who depend to these beneficiaries
Organization Reinforcement	9 Staff	45 Family members	People depending to our staff
S / Total	229	1145
Global Total		1374
Service delivery for the last 3 months		4122	These are people that were reach out over the last 3 months.