Current TV & The Green Machine will film at USGBC Green Building Super Heroes Award Gala on October 25, 2007
News flash: Al Gore’s Current TV will be filming the Gala, along with Forecast Earth of The Weather Channel. Current TV is producing Green Machines: Uncovering Green America, featuring a reclaimed/recycled bio-fuel powered Peterbuilt semi truck, which transports viewers from place to place highlighting people, organizations and innovations in the environmental field.
Lex Van de Burgh, star of the early Survivor series, is behind the wheel on a quest to uncover green America.Green Machines will be viewed by up to 40 million people, and the Green Machine will be parked outside the Gala.
Event Details:
October 25th, 5:30 - 9:00 pm. The Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, San Francisco.
Green Building Super Hero Awardees: David Gottfried, founder of USGBC; Founder's Award Van Jones - Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Non-Profit Award (see Tom Friedman on Van Jones in The New York Times) Mrs. S.C. Huang, the owner of the LEED Certified Orchard Garden Hotel; Power of One Award Fireman's Fund, offering the nation's first "green insurance" program, Corporate Award.
Special Guest Speaker Paul Hawken
Honorary Host Mayor Gavin Newsom
Silent Auction items:
LEED Charrette worth $5,000
Dinner for 2 at Chez Panisse
Bertoia Chair
Zody chair by Haworth
Two night stay at The Orchard Garden Hotel
Case of organic wine
Gift certificate for Farmer Brown restaurant
12 month supply of coffee from Peet's
Special free Green Goodie Bags for all attendees! Music by the Lee Bloom Jazz Quartet. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres and no host bar. Come as you favorite super hero or come as you are.
On-site registrations only: $100 at the door.
For questions about the Gala, contact Heidi Siegenthaler at heidi@usgbc-ncc.org or 415/672-7333.
transports viewers from place to place highlighting people, organizations and innovations in the environmental field.