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New Belgium Brewery cLIPS OF FAITH Outdoor Independent Film & Beer Tasting is coming to Nashville TN
All in attendance have a chance to win this 2010 New Belgium Cruiser!
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New Belgium Brewery has an outdoor independent film / beer tasting event that is traveling around to select cities in the USA. Nashville happens to be one of the lucky locations. Admission to the event is free. 100% of the beer sales from the event will be donated to SoundForest.org. Funds raised will help purchase and install much needed bike racks around town. Oh yea, and plant some more trees too.
A giant movie screen will be set up in Public Square Park downtown (same location as LIVE ON THE GREEN). The projector will begin it’s magic at sundown. What’s showing? A compilation of short films submitted to New Belgium Brewery. (like the ones featured in the video box above. yea, you can click it again. it's cool.)
New Belgium will have 18 of their craft beers on tap.
12 South Taproom is grilling out on site.
Las Paletas for desert. Yum! And Fun.
What is cLIPS OF FAITH and LiPS of FAITH?
Learn more about New Belgium and their craft beers that will be featured at this event Lips of Faith .
And where is Public Square Park? (you know where Live on the Green is?)
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Wanna volunteer and help make this event a success? Email britany@soundforest.org
Getting There...
Option 1 ride your bike to the event.
Group rides will begin from four stellar Nashville bike shops. Feel free to get involved and ride with fellow cyclists. All rides will leave the shops at 6:00pm. We suggest you show up around 5:45 or so just in case you need to fill your tires with air or purchase a bike light for the ride home.
Where do the rides begins?
Eastside Cycles - 615.469.1079
Halcyon Bike Shop - 615.730.9344
The Bike Pedlar - 615.329.2453
Cumberland Transit - 615.321.4069
Option 2 Carpool.
Option 3 Public Trasnportation
Option 4 Walk
Option 5 Something else that is Eco-Friendly
Rainforest Recovery Fundraising Campaign | Philippines
SoundForest.org is currently raising money to help fund multiple Rainforest tree planting projects. It is our goal to replant and protect areas that have been devastated by natural disasters such as typhoons or destroyed from overuse and mismanagement.
We are asking for your support to help us revitalize and save these delicate Rainforests that are so important to the health of the Earth. SoundForest.org is working to deliver education programs, restore deforested areas, and repair precious Rainforest. By working with multiple levels of the government and local communities in the Philippines we can reverse the destruction to the forest and make the Philippines a more sustainable land in turn helping our entire Planet.
Your donation will help make a positive impact on the environment by replanting, protecting, and preserving areas containing some of the densest Rainforest on our Planet!
You can help! Donate Now
June 18th | Bells Bend, TN
SoundForest.org partners up with volunteers from the Discovery Channel. As part of the 25th Anniversary of Discovery volunteers came to the aid of SoundForest.org to help the environment. Thanks Discovery!!!
June 14th | Seattle, WA
SoundForest.org partners up with EarthCorps to plant trees in the Seattle area. SoundForest.org TreeShirts sales have been planted by EarthCorps! Thanks guys! And if you want to volunteer in the Seattle area this fall, let us know. We'll be working on projects with EarthCorps and can use your help.
May 29 - 31 | The Gorge, WA
SoundForest.org teams up with eSurance and sets up booth at Sasquatch Music Festival.
April 06, 09, 12, 14, 15 | Nashville, TN
SoundSchool nurseries planted by infanTREE students!
Oasis Center Click for Pics
Glencliff High School Click for Pics
Eakin Elementary Click For Pics
February 25th - 28th | Bells Bend, TN
Thanks to all the volunteers that helped out at Bells Bend this week! Volunteer InfanTREE helped continue planting trees and remove invasive plant species in our re-forestation effort! Special thanks to Hands on Nashville for their volunteer TREEcruiting efforts.
February 19th - 21st | Bells Bend, TN
Special thanks to the 50 plus volunteers that helped plant trees at Bells Bend this weekend! Volunteer InfanTREE members included families that signed up through Hands On Nashville's give a day, get a day. We also had an awesome group from Humana.
InfanTREE volunteers Feb 21st
Humana Volunteers Feb. 19th
February 14th - Bells Bend, TN
SoundForest.org founder Thomas Solinsky led 180 volunteers planting trees and clearing invasive underbrush along the path of a future section of Nashville’s Greenway being created along the Cumberland River in Bells Bend Park and Nature Center. Despite cold drizzly weather and even a little snow, spirits were high all weekend as volunteers from six to sixty planted 1,100 native hardwood saplings in the ground and another 400 in pots, establishing a grow-out nursery to supply trees for other parks and neighborhoods in the future.
According to Solinsky, "These trees will have a positive effect on Nashville and our planet for generations."
"Planting native species in riparian zones like Bells Bend Park restores nature's ability to filter water run-off before it washes chemicals and silt into our creeks and rivers. Trees filter the air we breathe, prevent erosion and have so many other benefits besides the beauty they bring back to modern life in urban areas."
A variety of trees were planted that will also provide food and habitat for area birds, bees and other wildlife. The selection at Bells Bend Park so far includes spring bloomers like Tupelo and Tulip Poplar as well as Swamp White Oak and Overcup Oak.
The first volunteers, 18 employees from the U.S. Department of Agriculture State Office in Nashville, started at 1:00 p.m. on Friday and the last group of families who signed up through Hands On Nashville (www.HON.org) wrapped up at dusk on Sunday.
The largest group, Students Today, Leaders Forever (www.stlf.net) included 147 high school and college students from Elgin and South Elgin, IL, and Racine, WI. The organization capped off a week of service projects in a number of cities with a stop in Nashville on Valentine’s Day. They divided into three groups, the first two planting trees near the river and establishing the tree nursery near the Nature Center. The third group attacked a wide swath of wild privet that has invaded sections along of park's walking paths smothering out native plant species over the years.
"We've already partnered with some great local organizations like the Cumberland River Compact and gotten volunteers and donations through a number of entrepreneurs who are dedicated to giving back to the community," said Solinsky. "I'd like to help some of the bigger Nashville-based companies establish a green legacy that continues to do more and more good every year."
The project at Bells Bend continues through the end of February with volunteers that include dozens more families signed up through HON.org, Staff from Humana and Continental Life Insurance and a group led by Betsy Phillips, known to her fans as Aunt B of the Nashville Scene’s Pith in the Wind blog. SoundForest.org is also scheduling tree plantings in other parks, schools and neighborhoods. The organization also works with landowners to restore or improve wooded areas along streams and rivers on private property.
SoundForest.org is a Nashville-based non-profit volunteer organization that plants trees and promotes sustainability in cities around the world. SoundForest.org volunteers have planted more than 3,000 trees over the last two years. Their initial goal for Nashville is 10,000 new trees in parks, neighborhoods and riparian zones along area streams and rivers.
By David Glasgow | Click here for additional pictures from this weekend event
February 13th - Brentwood, TN
SoundForest.org launches the first SoundSchools program. SoundForest.org assists Brentwood High School students in creating a nursery and planting 60 trees! Six species of trees were planted including Overcup Oak, White Oak, Bald Cypress, Tulip Poplar, Virginia Pine, and Tupelo. Eventually these trees can be used to plant on the school campus, sold to raise money for the Eco-Club, or gifted to low income neighborhoods.
February 12th - Bells Bend, TN
20 volunteers from USDA Rural Development Tennessee State office help SoundForest.org plant 300 trees at Bells Bend Park in our Riparian Restoration Project. This planting was followed by SoundForest.org InfanTREE helping to plant the 4 acre restoration area.
The riparian zone refers to the border of moist soils and plants that exist next to a body of water. The riparian zone can be composed of gently sloping shores, steep banks, or other types of terrain. Permanent plant species such as trees and shrub communities and specialized grasses and forbs grow in should be growing in these areas. These plant species, in turn, provide food and shelter for the rich diversity of wildlife living along the riverbank.
The existence of riverside vegetation is important to the health of the species that live within the river. Specifically, this vegetation helps maintain a river's health by influencing the amount and kind of sediment in the river. Riverside vegetation does this by anchoring soil, catching silt, filtering out pollutants, and absorbing nitrogen and phosphorus. Such vegetation also helps provide shade that cools the water and provides habitat for insects and their predators.
The effect of too much sedimentation can be seen when vegetation along riverbanks is removed by flooding or other events. Sediment washes back into the water, causing turbidity. Turbidity occurs when sediment is stirred up and suspended in water, and in a river can impair the respiration of fish or other aquatic organisms. Turbid conditions can also cause sediment to cover gravel used for fish-spawning, raise the temperature of the water, and bury submerged plants.
Help stabilize your favorite stream bank today. Give to SoundForest.org to Plant More Trees!
January 27th - Kathmandu, Nepal
SoundForest.org InfanTREE volunteer Smitty Charles plants trees in Nepal. A very special thanks to him for his outreach efforts! He is pictured here with a Jamun tree.
January 20th - Lake Sammamish, WA
SoundForest.org partners with Mountains to Sound Greenway planting trees in Washington with the help of donations from Spokane's Blue Spark. The Blue Spark raised money to help plant trees in a campaign called Liquor for Limbs. They are continuing to raise money in hopes of planting more trees that will protect the fragile ecosystem surrounding Washtington's waterways. The trees planted are part of a riparian project. It is the goal to reintroduce spawning salmon to this area. Many of the streams and rivers in the basin are too warm to protect salmon, trout and other sensitive cold-water fish. The biological health of more than 80 percent of streams that run through cities and farms is severely compromised. Streams in the basin have a shortage of tree cover and streamside plants, hurting aquatic life by boosting water temperatures, erosion and water pollution.
December 20th - Nashville, TN
SoundForest.org Volunteer InfanTREE memebers plant trees as a gift to the Nashville Scene. Merry Twentyfithmas Nashville Scene! Today we planted trees to help bring a little nature to the city. This planting is part of the SoundForest.org and New Belgium "BrewerTree" project helping to revitalize urban conditions with some much needed natural elements.
Chris Boatright, David Glasgow, and Thomas Solinsky plant trees at the Nashville Scene
December 11th - Nashville, TN
Nashville Listener interview.
December 5th - Eastern Washington, WA
Soundforest is working on an Eastern Washington farm to restore riparian and upland habitat on a small spring-fed valley. Years of aggressive cattle ranching have denuded all the native vegetation. Cuttings were taken from surviving willow and black cottonwood from the region. Resulting saplings have been planted in protected cells to prevent grazing from deer until they are established. Native ponderosa pines and douglas fir seedling have been grown from seed, as well as a few Oregon oaks trees, and have been treated in a similiar fashion. 50 trees have been planted so far and we plan on another 50 next year!!! It is our hope that these efforts will result in a great boon to a downstream trout fishery as we expect our habitat will invite colonization by native rainbow and cutthroat trout from Crab creek nearby.
Protective cells built around trees to prevent damage from grazing deer Cindy Torgersen Platter
Daniel Platter
Nov 20th - Nashville, TN
SoundForest.org TreeShirt Campaign is launched. Wanna help the Planet? ... Help Plant It! SoundForest.org TreeShirts now available at the SoundForest.org Store. Every shirt sold plants a tree! 100% Organic Cotton.
Natalie Prass Rayland Baxter Denitia Odigie Kyle Ryan Madi Diaz
Shirts worn by featured artists:
Natalie Prass
Rayland Baxter
Denitia Odigie
Kyle Ryan and Madi Diaz
Nov 19th - Nashville, TN
SoundForest.org TreeShirt Campaign is launched. Wanna help the Planet? ... Help Plant It! Cumberland Transit outdoor apparel recieves the first shipment of SoundForest.org 100% Organic TreeShirts. Every shirt plants a tree!
TreeShirts also available on-line at the SoundForest.org store.
Nov 16th - Nashville, TN
Volunteers plant seedlings at the SoundForest Nursery.
Daniel Headlee
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