Earth Day Presentations

SATURDAY April 22 | 11:45pm-3:30pm | Jefferson Center for the Arts

School CAFE Presents the Film Nourish: Food + Community : 11:45 AM

The film, Nourish illustrates how food connects to such issues as biodiversity, climate change, public health, and social justice.
With beautiful visuals and inspiring stories, the Nourish film traces our relationship to food from a global perspective to personal action steps. Nourish illustrates how food connects to such issues as biodiversity, climate change, public health, and social justice.

• Hosted and narrated by actress Cameron Diaz.
• Features interviews with best-selling author Michael Pollan, sustainable food advocate Anna Lappé, chef Bryant Terry, pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke, and organic farmer Nigel Walker.

School CAFE is a Mount Shasta community non-profit organization and their goal is to provide healthy food that our young people like to eat. Food that grows strong bodies, bright minds, and balanced emotions. To bring the community together to ensure healthy meals for Mount Shasta Union School District students and to provide an understanding of and an appreciation for real food that is delicious, local, organic, and fresh. To realize this goal they are now providing grants to the schools within MSUSD and also for community organizations. If you would like to see organic, healthy food at your school or organization project visit their website and contact them at https://schoolcafeclub.org/

Dr. Will Tuttle Presents Time to Wake Up: A Deeper Look at Food and Sustainability : 1:00 PM

Animal liberation is the path to human liberation. “If we cause war against animals, we will cause war against ourselves.” This line from Will Tuttle’s international bestseller, The World Peace Diet, illumines a path we can take toward a world where freedom, harmony, and sustainability are possible. Dr. Tuttle’s teachings express the heart and soul of the environmental, health, freedom, and animal liberation movements. They call for an awakening from the cultural narratives of exploitation that are wreaking havoc on every level.  A visionary speaker and educator, Dr. Tuttle reveals the often-invisible structures, attitudes, traditions, and narratives underlying our culture so that we can free ourselves from destructive behavior and significantly contribute to a more healthy, sustainable, and abundant world for all.

This special Earth Day presentation will also include practical tips for living a healthier and more environmentally-friendly life from Dr. Tuttle and his wife, Madeleine, a visionary artist, organic gardener, and whole-foods chef.

Dr. Will Tuttle, visionary author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet, published in 17 languages, is a recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award and the Empty Cages Prize. He is  also the author of several other books on spirituality, intuition, and social justice, as well as the  creator of online wellness and advocacy programs. A 40-year vegan and former Zen monk, he is  featured in a number of documentaries and is a frequent radio, television, and online presenter. To learn more about Will and Madeleine visit their website at https://www.worldpeacediet.com/

Dr. Eugene Tssui Presents Eco-Architecture and Zero Energy Buildings : 2:15 PM

A building that cleans the water that falls on it? A building with no need for heating and cooling systems? A building where people generate its power? A building that cannot burn or get soaked with water? This and much more is what local resident and global architect, Eugene Tssui (pronounced,”sway”) will present as he takes us into the future of architecture that will be built on 7.3 acres of land on Spring Hill Drive. This 19,000 square foot commercial building, now awaiting planning approval, is a radical departure from history. This is a glimpse of a new architecture where nature is the master architect; where sun, rain, snow, and breeze, are collaborators to make the building function.
This building attempts to eliminate or at least minimize its footprint on the earth, by seeking to achieve a true zero functioning system. Power is human or gravity generated and light for the working hours of the day comes from sunlight. The building has no carbon emissions in its day-to-day function and minimal in its fabrication. The center of the work space is a spiral ramp that reaches 40 feet high filled with brilliant and fragrant flowers and plants, and the ceiling is a heavenly spiral of skylights and iridescent stones. Step into a future of imagination and compassion where inhabitants get fit and healthy and do no harm to the planet. Dare to journey into the future of architecture and the work environment and join us for a strikingly new look at architecture for a new world!

Dr. Tssui was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. During primary school and middle school at the University of Minnesota, Eugene Tssui, was part of an experiment in creativity and talent development initiated by educational psychologist, E. Paul Torrance, in the 1960’s. Tssui attended Columbia University, the University of Oregon, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds an Interdisciplinary Doctorate in architecture and education. He worked for the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics and with the revolutionary American and German architects, Bruce Goff and Dr. Frei Otto. He opened his own California-based firm in 1990 and was asked to teach architecture and ecology at elite universities throughout China from 1999 to 2015, and at UC Berkeley and Ohio University. He is the author of 12 international books, calendars and portfolios on architecture, ecology, and behavioral change and over 100 international articles about his work. He has won professional grant awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, and the American Institute of Architects. In 2011 and 2012 he was a research scholar at Harvard university. In 2013 he was given the title, “Guardian Angel of the Planet”, sharing this title with Jane Goodall and Jean Michael Cousteau, conferred by Project Coyote, a national coalition of scientists and educators. He is a World and Senior Olympic level competitive athlete and is the Four-Time Gymnastics All-Around Champion in the Senior Olympics, an Eight-Time Amateur Boxing World Champion, and an Eight-Time US Presidential Sports Award winner conferred by US Presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He is a music composer and his piano pieces have been performed in the USA and China. Dr. Tssui’s interdisciplinary/anticipatory philosophy is a platform for his impetuous search for meaning, purpose and excellence in a multi-dimensional way of life. He has been featured on numerous television programs such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel, PBS, CNN, The McNeil/Lehrer Report, MTV Cribs, The Learning Channel, Disney Channel, The History Channel, CCTV China, EuroTV, NBC, ABC, CBS, and others and is the subject of three documentary movies. He is married to sociologist/educator, Dr. Elisabeth P. Montgomery. They have three children and four grandchildren, and reside in Emeryville and Mount Shasta, California and Shenzhen and Shanghai, China.  Visit Eugene’s website at https://eugenetssui.com and this link for more about his relationship with Mount Shasta.

Michelle Berditschevsky Presents California’s 30×30 Strategy : 3:30 PM

Preserving 30% of the Land by 2030 – why it’s needed in our region.

Ms. Berditschevsky, M.A., founded the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center (Ecology Center) in 1988 and served as its Executive Director for 23 years. She used her knowledge of environmental and cultural preservation policy and grassroots organizing to successfully lead the Save Mount Shasta campaign, and also worked on forest and watershed issues.

During her tenure the Center’s programs expanded to include the H.O.M.E. (Honor Our Mountain Environment) Stewardship Project, the Mount Shasta Community Garden, many educational events and celebrations, and other projects fostering a culture in harmony with nature. She was instrumental in gaining Historic District designations for Mount Shasta and the Medicine Lake Highlands and developed strong working relationships with Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, agencies at the local and federal levels, environmental groups and Native American Tribes.

She worked as Environmental Director for the Pit River Tribe for ten years, and as Executive Secretary of the Native Coalition for over a decade. She is now serving the Ecology Center as Senior Conservation Consultant, leading our work to save Medicine Lake Highlands and advising on the creation of a Regional Conservation Strategy.

Please take a moment to read Michelle’s life story, “Listening to the Mountain” here.

SUNDAY April 23 | 3pm-5pm | City Park