Events
Midway: Message From the Grye – Midway movie trailer
Midway Atoll, one of the most remote islands on earth, is a kaleidoscope of geography, culture, human history, and natural wonder. It also serves as a lens into one of the most profound and symbolic environmental tragedies of our time: the deaths by starvation of thousands of albatrosses who mistake floating plastic trash for food.
The images are iconic. The horror, absolute. Our goal, however, is to look beyond the grief and the tragedy. It is here, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that we have the opportunity to see our world in context. On Midway, we can not deny the impact we have on the planet. Yet at the same time, we are struck by beauty of the land and the soundscape of wildlife around us, and it is here that we can see the miracle that is life on this earth. So it is with the knowledge of our impact here that we must find a way forward.
Using spare narration and stunning imagery, Chris Jorda's feature film explores the plight of Laysan albatross plagued by the ingestion of plastic trash. Both elegy and warning, the film explores the interconnection of species, with the albatross on midway as a mirror of our humanity.
The feature length film Midway is scheduled to premier later this (2013) year.
PUR2o is once again gearing up for the Greening Our Children's Sixth Annual Luncheon in Greenwich, CT. The luncheon benefits Mt. Sinai Hospital's Children Environmental Health Center.
PUR2o Water Sponsor Ad
The Mount Sinai Children’s Environmental Health Center (CEHC) conducts groundbreaking research to identify the environmental causes of childhood diseases and translates research findings into solutions that protect children’s health. Under the leadership of renowned pediatrician and epidemiologist Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, the Center supports ambitious research projects and trains the next generation of leaders in children’s environmental health. Our team uses the same evidence-based framework that has guided Dr. Landrigan’s past successes, ultimately building the foundation for new policies that protect our children from environmental threats.
Core projects include:
- Pilot Research Projects: A “venture capital” research model that supports new studies in children’s environmental health and helps generate federal funding.
- Autism and Learning Disability Discovery and Prevention Project: An interdisciplinary project that investigates the preventable environmental causes of autism and learning disabilities.
- Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program: A multi-site study that researches environmental risk factors for breast cancer, including early puberty.
- Endocrine Disruptor Research Program: A comprehensive research plan that features the work of Shanna H. Swan, PhD – an international expert on phthalates and their effects on children’s and reproductive health.
- Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem: A five-year study that examines how environmental factors affect the children in Mount Sinai’s home community.
- The Laboratory for Environmental Analytical Chemistry: A state-of-the-art research facility that will give the CEHC the unique ability to conduct rapid analyses of toxic chemicals. No other institution, outside of the CDC in Atlanta, currently has this capacity.
- The Mount Sinai Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit: The clinical component of our Center, treating children who have suffered from toxic exposures.
- Mount Sinai Pregnancy Biobank: A unique, shared resource that provides researchers with access to umbilical cord blood and placental tissue samples from newborns to unearth the causes of the most common childhood diseases.
- The New York Children’s Study: A long-term study that will follow babies from their first months of life and until age 10 – examining environmental factors and their influences on children’s health.
Parents and students from Centennial College attended, raising money for children who can't afford reading glasses … a key component for success in the classroom.
There is just something so gratifying about reaching out to folks interested in a healthier lifestyle and a healthier planet.
We ALWAYS have a great turn-out & a great time in Chatham, NJ.
Take a look and be sure to read the entire article!
Join us in Secaucus, NJ – Saturday, June 16th.
Starting April 20, 2012, we have events scheduled just about every weekend all the way into June! As we do at EVERY event, we'll be setting up Hydration Stations to dispense filtered, purified & re-mineralized water to everyone at the event … attendees, volunteers, vendors … and even Fido!
Be sure to bring your re-usable water bottle for FREE refills all day long. At most of these events, there will be NO water in plastic bottles for sale.
In case you'd like to join us and the many other vendors & volunteers working to make your lives GREENER, here's a list (SO FAR!)
April 21 – Saturday, Hoboken Green Fair, Pier A @ 1st & Sinatra, 11 am – 4 pm
http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2012/04/inaugural_hoboken_green_fair_t.html
April 22 – Sunday, Sustainable Morristown Earth Day Event, Dehart Street Parking
Garage,
Noon – 6pm
http://www.sustainablemorristown.org/earth-day-flyer/
April 28 – Saturday, 5th Annual Maplewood Green Day
PUR2o has been there EVERY year!
Maplewood Memorial Park, 11 am – 4 pm
http://www.maplewoodisgreen.org/green-day
May 3 ( Thursday) – Madison Green Fair
9 Main Street @ The Museum of Trades & Crafts
3:30 pm – 7:00 pm
http://www.rosenet.org/gov/environmental/pages/green-fair
Madison Green Fair 2011
Mizar Turdiu (EVP PUR2o) and daughter Antares. Credit: John Marelli
May 6 – Saturday – South Orange River Day
Skate House on the Duck Pond off Mead Street 11 am – 4 pm
http://www.soriverday.org/
May 7 – Monday, 5th Annual Greening Our Children Luncheon
Hyatt Regency, Fairfield, CT
PUR2o is proud to be a Water Sponsor for this event
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
http://mountsinaigocluncheon.org/view_journal.php?journal_id=349
TAKING A BREAK in MID-MAY for our daughter's Rutgers University Graduation & Celebration!
June 10 – Sunday, Tri-State Health and Wellness Fair
Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, hampton, NJ
Noon – 5:00 pm
June 16, Saturday, Secaucus Green Summer Festival
Mill Creek Point Park at the end of Mill Ridge Road
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
http://www.secaucusnj.org/
Mount Sinai Hospital in Fairfield County, CT is holding it's 5th annual "Greening our Children" Luncheon. Putting our "money where our mouth is", PUR2o has signed on as a WATER Sponsor. This event promises to be educational, inspiring and as always, fun!
http://journals.eventjournal.com/view_sponsor.php?action=view&journal_id=349&id=18742
PUR2o will be there again this year - Saturday April 28th – providing FREE filtered & purified water for attendees, vendors volunteers & even "Fido"!
Bring a reusable/refillabe bottle to stay hydrated and to sample the best tasting water ever!
NO PLASTIC bottles of water will be sold.
Also, bring us a sample of your water. We'll test it FREE.
To avoid selling water in PLASTIC bottles, PUR2o will be providing filtered & purified drinking water all day … FREE!
Join us & come taste the difference!
