Bay Area Earth Day 1993

Project Leader(s)

Cindy Russell

Holly Kaslewicz

Frank Lopez

Hosts

Bay Area Action
Students for Environmental Action at Stanford
City of Palo Alto
Peninsula Conservation Center

Advisory Board

Mark Bult, Western Front Graphics
Trevor Burrowes, East Palo Alto Historical and Agricultural Society
Owen Byrd, Atty., Greenbelt Alliance
Michael Endicott, Atty., Sierra Club
Debbie Ford, Palo Alto Weekly
Gary Fujimoto, MD, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Carrol Harrington, Harrington & Associates
Denis Hayes, Atty., The Bullitt Foundation
Jerry Hearn, The Peninsula School
Debbie Mytels, Peninsula Conservation Center
Candice Stark, Business Environmental Network

Steering Committee

Cindy Russell, MD (Director), Bay Area Action
Holly Kaslewicz (Co-Director), Bay Area Action
Frank Lopez (Co-Director), City of Palo Alto Recreation
Abdi Soltani (Co-Director), SEAS
Michael Cohen (Co-Director), SEAS
Kathy Armer, Bay Area Action
Abhay Bhushan, Xerox Corporation
Megan Greene, Bay Area Action
Geoff Nicholls, Bay Area Action
Rahn Sibley, City of East Palo Alto

Earth Day at Stanford

Saturday, April 17, 1993
Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University

Schedule

Emcees: Frank Lopez and Dominique DiPrima
(9:30 am) Our Opening Ceremony features Earth Music with Celtic Bagpipes
(10:00 am) Opening Remarks by Owen Byrd of Greenbelt Alliance
(10:30 am) Presentation by Byron Sher, California State Assemblyperson
(11:00 am) John Robbins, founder of EarthSave and author of Diet for a New America
(11:30 am) Banana Slug String Quartet
(12:00 noon) Donald Aitken, Union of Concerned Scientists, American Solar Energy Society
(12:30 pm) Our very own Earth Circus Performance Troupe dances for the Earth!
(1:00 pm) Presentation by Anna Eshoo, United States Congressperson
(1:30 pm) Music by Bole Bantu
(2: 15 pm) Presentation by Richard Morrison
(2:45 pm) Music by Marley’s Ghost
(3:30 pm) Presentation by Rob Shelton
(3:45 pm) Music by Collage of I
(4:30 pm) Ted Smith of Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition speaks
(5:00 pm) Closing Remarks
(6:00pm) Don Cherry and Petter Applebaum close the day with a double jam-session

Theme area performers

Los Franco’s Woods Community Marching Band
Ballet Folkloric
El Camino Youth Symphony
Menlo-Atherton High School Polynesian Dancers
Shule Academy
Eco-Rappers
African Drummers
Morris Dancers

Other Bay Area events

Saturday, April 17

Greenpeace People”s Earth Day at Hunter’s Point in San Francisco.

Saturday, April 24

San Jose Beautiful hosts “Earth Day: One Planet, One People” in Plaza Park, including family activities, social, cultural, and environmental displays, ethnic dance, music. and food.

Berkeley People’s Earth Day at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park.

Sunday, April 25

The 4th Annual Contra Costa Earth Day Festival at the Concord Pavilion, featuring 100s of environmental booths in Alternative Energy, Green Home Green Garden, Youth, Native American, and Wildlife Arenas.

Santa Cruz People’s Earth Day at San Lorenzo Park.