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LA JOURNÉE MONDIALE VEGAN - 1er NOVEMBRE

Vegan Végétalien Mondial

LA JOURNÉE MONDIALE VEGAN - 1er NOVEMBRE | LE MOIS MONDIAL VEGAN - NOVEMBRE

WORLD VEGAN DAY - 1st NOVEMBER 2009 | WORLD VEGAN MONTH - NOVEMBER 2009

Pour célébrer la création du mot 'vegan' par Donald Watson et Dorothy (Morgan) Watson et la fondation de la Vegan Society par Donald Watson, Elsie Shrigley et d'autres le 1er novembre 1944.

To celebrate the creation of the word 'vegan' by Donald Watson and Dorothy (Morgan) Watson and the foundation of the Vegan Society by Donald Watson, Elsie Shrigley and others on 1st November 1944.

The Vegan Society http://www.facebook.com/TheVeganSociety

World Vegan Day 2009
For people, animals and the planet
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113913067294

World Vegan Day
The first of November every year
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=64142859879

VEGAN DAY / JOURNÉE VEGAN – réjouissons-nous, sans oublier les animaux !

« L'événement est partout et pour tous ! ☼
Réjouissez-vous chez vous, sans oublier les animaux ! »

[ En raison des malentendus, il fallait préciser que avec cet événement, nous souhaiterions seulement créer une communauté virtuelle afin d'élever la conscience, pas d'organiser une véritable fête.  La "Journée Mondiale du Véganisme" organisée à Paris est tout à fait un événement réel ! ;D S&C. ]

[ Paris ] 22.11.2009

Paris World Vegan Day 2009 (Journee mondiale du veganisme a Paris 2009)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=134630658952

PARIS VEGAN DAY http://www.parisveganday.fr/
paris vegan day http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=280048595598

[ AnimaVeg ] Paris Vegan Day (Journee mondiale du veganisme a Paris 2009)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160693887769

[ London ] 01.11.2009

World Vegan Day London
The 65th Annual World Vegan Day
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102387973235

[ Veracious Vegans ] World Vegan Day Dinner 1st November
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159766178867

[ Birmingham ] 24.11.2009

Animal Remembrance Day
The Paws For Peace Campaign
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=202175974672

[ Roma ] 01.11.2009

GIORNATA MONDIALE VEGAN
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207235866144

[ Barcelona / Sevilla / Madrid ] 01.11.2009

Igualdad Animal / Animal Equality
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Igualdad-Animal-Animal-Equality/116189118344

Actividades en España por el Día Internacional del Veganismo
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=188266594223

[ Melbourne ] 01.11.2009

World Vegan Day 2009
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124411087967

World Vegan Day 2009 - Melbourne
Come and explore the wonderful world of veganism!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131931908253

[ Perth ] 01.11.2009

World Vegan Day Picnic
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194660081744


[ Montréal ] 01.11.2009

The 2009 Montreal World Vegan Day Fashion Show
COMPASSION CONQUERS THE RUNWAY! LA COMPASSION EST A LA MODE!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146051362981

[ Oslo ] 01.11.2009

Veganuke hos Vega i Oslo!
1. november er verdens vegandag. Dagen - og hele uken etter - vil bli feiret med en ren veganmeny på spisestedet Vega i Oslo.
http://www.vegetar.com/mt/2009/10/veganuke_hos_vega_i_oslo.html

WORLD GO VEGAN WEEK 25.10.2009-31.10.2009

World Go Vegan Week
Celebrate Compassion!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128484714727

World GO VEGAN Week
Celebrate Compassion...
http://www.worldgoveganweek.com/

VEGAN EARTH DAY 21.06.2009

Dennis Kucinich Proclaims June 21st Vegan Earth Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMt9_qgDfLE

Vegan Earth Day! June 21st 2009
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=82448973790

Félicitations de l'équipe
Vegan Végétalien Mondial,
Camille et Salim.

Vegan Végétalien Mondial
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55331359593

We are all one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61BCB2-OmRY

Vegan Parenting (French subtitles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtuB_KmSs8k

Support graphique en français pour annoncer la Journée Mondiale Vegan (World Vegan Day) du 1er novembre sur vos stands. Pour télécharger le PDF, cliquez ici http://www.international-campaigns.org/pdf/Vegan%20Day.pdf.

Celebrate October 25 - 31 - World Go Vegan Week, by sharing it with others enthusiastically - and go vegan, if you haven't already

I'm celebrating October 25 - 31 - which is World Go Vegan Week, by sharing it with others enthusiastically.

Please join us in the celebration... and go vegan, if you haven't already


http://www.worldgoveganweek.com/

“I chose to be vegan initially as an energetic pursuit, as meat and dairy slowed me down, but have since become convinced that it is not only the most healthy way to live, but also the most compassionate and ecologically responsible way.” -Woody Harrelson, World Go Vegan Week Supporter World GO VEGAN Week Celebrate Compassion... The 4th annual World GO VEGAN Week is taking place this year from October 25 through 31. This week is a celebration of compassion and a time to take action for animals, the environment and everyone’s well-being. We encourage people to use this week to use this week to educate their community about the vegan lifestyle as a compassionate, sustainable, and healthy way of eating and living. Promoting veganism through outreach events and the media, we know that our annual World GO VEGAN Week is helping make the word "vegan" a household word, universally recognized as meaning love and compassion for all living beings. World GO VEGAN Week is also about celebrating what it means to be vegan. Veganism enables people to live in balance with all of Earth's creatures and promote freedom from exploitation for animals as part of their everyday lives. Modern animal agriculture is cruel and violent toward the chickens, cows, pigs and other creatures used to make meat, milk and eggs. During World GO VEGAN Week, we encourage people to become conscious of what - and who - they are eating, the effect it has on the world, and that a non-violent alternative exists. We urge people to recognize the effects their actions have on the world, and our ability to actually avert some impending disasters such as global warming. For the health of people, the environment, and farmed animals, veganism is the best choice. World GO VEGAN Week embodies this idea. As an international campaign, it encourages people around the world to experience the benefits and joys of a more compassionate way of life. Here are some ways you can celebrate World GO VEGAN Week: Be sure to register your event with us so we can send you flyers, posters and other materials to make you event a success. Contact Hope Bohanec: hope@idausa.org (415)448-0048 ex. 208. Plan an event or activity to get people interested in veganism, such as a public lecture, cooking demonstration, feed-in with vegan food samples, leafleting, tabling, library exhibit, or street theater performance. If you serve vegan food at your event, you can get refunded for the cost through the VegFund. Contact your local paper and encourage them to publish vegan recipes or a vegan article. We have a “editor’s pack” that you can send to your local newspaper with information and vegan recipes. Contact Hope Bohanec, hope@idausa.org, to have it sent to you. Order Vegan Starter Kits to distribute. Host a vegan potluck dinner or restaurant outing to show your family and friends that they don't have to sacrifice taste to save animals' lives. Sharing delicious vegan food with others is a fun and easy way to make a difference in the lives of animals and the people you care about. Ask your local natural foods store to offer vegan samples for the week. Ask your favorite local food store to offer vegan samples or specials for the last week of October. Let them know that we can send information, posters and materials to help them celebrate World Go Vegan Week. Ask veg-friendly restaurants to offer discounts or specials on their vegan food. Encourage restaurants to have vegan specials for the week or to offer a discount for bringing in a veg-curious customer. Host a screening of Fowl Play, an eye-opening documentary about the egg-industry, at your local library or another venue. Fowl Play illuminates the plight of factory-farmed laying hens through interviews with people who are fighting diligently to save them. Invite To get a copy of Fowl Play, contact IDA at (415) 448-0048 ext. 208 or hope@idausa.org. Show a powerful, short vegan video at your next potluck or social gathering. Here's one of our favorites: Vegan video by NonViolenceUnited.org. Host a vegan pie-baking contest. You can do this in your own home in a public place. Offer prizes like gift certificates to veggie restaurants or IDA T-shirts. Don't you want to be a judge? Yum! Host a Vegan Halloween Party. Have a costume party and have prizes for the best animal costume, most compassionate, and the most vegan creative! Have vegan Halloween candy and treats on hand and go trick-or-treating, offering folks at the door vegan candy and brochures. Students: join or start a vegan club in your school and plan an event with your friends that will educate people about the benefits of a vegan diet to human health, animals, and the environment. Write a paper on veganism, hand out vegan literature at a college campus or help get vegan meals into your school's cafeteria. Visit Choice to learn how. Have a well-known vegan author or athlete come speak in your community. Host an event where a famous vegan offers an inspiring presentation. Have vegan treats for folks to try. IDA can help you contact the person. Send a friend or family member who lives far away a gift certificate to a restaurant in their own town. Visit Happy Cow for reviews of vegetarian restaurants around the country. Encourage meat-eating family and friends to try Meat Out Monday and give meatless meals a try for one day a week. If they sign up for the newsletter, they get reminders, recipes and inspriation in a weekly newsletter. Go to: www.meatoutmonday.org. Write a letter to the editor about the benefits of a vegan diet or the cruelties of factory farming, or ask your local newspaper to write a story on the subject. If you are religious, or participate in spiritual services or gatherings, look for opportunities to incorporate the vegan message into the discussions. If you participate in study groups, suggest discussion fo the vegan message. Enter cooking competitions and bake sales using vegan recipes. Emphasize the fact that you didn't use any animal ingredients to make your delicious dishes. Attend cooking competitions and support the vegan entries. Visit a farmed animal sanctuary and take a friend who still eats meat. There are a number of farmed animal sanctuaries where you can visit rescued cows, pigs, turkeys, chickens, ducks, goats, sheep and rabbits live naturally in peace and harmony without fear of abuse or slaughter. Check out Animal Acres, Animal Place, Farm Sanctuary, Poplar Springs Animal Sanctuary, or IDA's Project Hope. Order t-shirts, bumper stickers, posters, pins and other fun stuff to have for the day of your event from IDA and other vegan merchants. Join or start a vegan dinner club. Find veg-friendly restaurants and invite the community for dinner. Try a different restaurant every month. Encourage a Compassionate Thanksgiving. Since Thanksgiving is coming up in a few weeks, talk to your community food banks about providing vegan options such as Tofurkys. Consider buying a few Tofurkys, preparing them, and bringing them to your food bank or other similar community dinner. Be sure to check out Gentle Thanksgiving which offers a lot of information and guidance on this special observance. Share the ideals of veganism with your community of friends and colleagues by adding this quote to your email signature: "Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we 'stand for' iin life -- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades of health to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus." - Donald Watson If you are a part of an animal protection organization, become a presenter of World GO VEGAN Week. There are no costs to you for joining us as a co-presenter. All you need is to post the World GO VEGAN Days banner on your web site, which links to the World GO VEGAN Days web page. Contact Hope Bohanec, for more information: hope@idausa.org or call (415) 448-0048 ext. 208. Adopt an activist. Add a link to IDA's World GO VEGAN Week Web site from your web site. Create a plan to promote veganism all year. Click here to download the banner in .pdf format. Celebrating the power and compassion of veganism. Watch Kenneth Williams' PSA! Presented by:	Event Registration Why Go Vegan? Muscle Power Vegan Cooking Action Center Outreach Vegan Bodies Vegan Resources FAQ Vegan Quotes Events Home Recent undercover investigation of egg hatchery horrors; the egg industries tiniest victims. Click here to learn more. Click here for more resources, links and recommended reading
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Maynard S. Clark

Vegetarian to the World

From September 8-21, 2006, I enjoyed IVU's 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Goa, India.
My photos of my India journeyings are now available, separated by dates the photos have been taken:

10 September 2006 in Varca, Goa, India - 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Radisson White Sands Hotel

11 September 2006 in Varca, Goa, India - 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Radisson White Sands Hotel

12 September 2006 in Varca, Goa, India - 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Radisson White Sands Hotel

13 September 2006 in Goa, India - 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Radisson White Sands AND full day touring sites in Goa

14 September 2006 in Varca, Goa, India - 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Radisson White Sands Hotel

15 September 2006 in Varca, Goa, India - 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Radisson White Sands Hotel

16 September 2006 in Varca, Goa, India - 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Radisson White Sands Hotel AND half-day trip of Goan state

18 September 2006 touring Karnataka, India as a vegan group in a bus

19 September 2006 touring Karnataka, India as a vegan group in a bus

20 September 2006 touring Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (Mani Bhawan and other sites)

21 September 2006 touring Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (Elephanta Caves, Museums, dinner)

More are uploaded to my Picasaweb site, which you will find there by navigating.
The 38th IVU World Vegetarian Congress was in Dresden, German.
www.IVU.org

I have since lost that Kodak 3.2 megapixel digital camera and replaced it with one, a second, and now a third digital camera that isn't quite so good, though now i'm working with an 8.0 megapixel camera. I think i need a Canon PowerShot, so photographers - share your thoughts and insights with me.

The 39th IVU World Vegetarian Congress is expected to be again in SE Asia.

After quite a few very interesting years working (and learning) at TTC, I left.

Now I'm working again entirely in Boston's Longwood Medical Area.
I have been work for Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health off and on since the early 1990s.

I'm active in several local Meetups, but three are vegetarian-related:
Boston Vegan Meetup Boston Vegetarian Meetup Boston Veggie Meetup

My Yahoo 360 BLOGS were under maynardclark and maynardsclark.
When Yahoo! CLOSED the 360 blogging platform and allowed us to migrate our content to the Yahoo! profiles, the first of those two blogs had brought me about 1.3 million different readers who joined one or both of these blogs and stay in touch with me.My MSN/Microsoft Live Spaces blogs are found at

I continue to blog on a Yahoo! platform at my two Yahoo! profiles (maynardclark and maynardsclark), and if you try to access the earlier 360 blogs, you will be redirected to the Yahoo! profile corresponding to that profile/360 blog.

http://maynardclark.spaces.live.com/ and http://maynardsclark.spaces.live.com/

My nine (9) Google Blogspot blogs are at

http://maynardsclark.blogspot.com/ (VegetarianInBoston) and
http://maynardclark.blogspot.com/ (Maynard S. Clark)
http://bostongoveg.blogspot.com/ (BostonGoVeg)
http://bostongoveggie.blogspot.com/ (BostonGoVeggie)
http://bostonveggie.blogspot.com/ (BostonVeggie)
http://bostonvegan.blogspot.com/ (BostonVegan)
http://veganinboston.blogspot.com/ (VeganInBoston)
http://veganboston.blogspot.com/ (VeganBoston)
http://veggieboston.blogspot.com/ (VeggieBoston)

Other current photos of me will be found with my current writings on my various blogs. Join them all!!

All of us should live as vegetarians -- vegans -- because we ARE vegetarians (vegans) anatomically.
Social behavior contradicts this anatomical reality because that fact isn't widely recognized by our species.

The Vegetarian Resource Center's byline has been "Making Connections for Plant-Based Diets since 1993"

Summerfest Photos

Every year, the North American Vegetarian Society (NAVS) holds an annual NAVS Vegetarian Summerfest (often in Johnstown PA). Chef Ken Bergeron, CEC, holder of gold, silver, and bronze medals in the International Culinary Olympics and author of Professional Vegetarian Cooking, organizes the kitchen and makes possible three (3) vegan buffet meals daily AND vegan snacks throughout the evenings (dfuring socializing and evening entertainment after the evening plenaries).

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Kick the disposable battery habit

Kick the Disposable Battery Habit
August 2009
Read this issue of Greentips online

Americans buy about three billion household batteries (about 10 per person) annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency—and nearly all of them end up in landfills. The next time you need to power up your gadgets, choose rechargeable batteries instead. Unlike disposable alkaline batteries, rechargeable batteries can be reused hundreds of times, which not only saves money and resources, but also reduces global warming pollution associated with battery manufacturing and transport. An independent study conducted for battery manufacturer UNIROSS estimates that using a disposable battery to create 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity has a global warming impact equivalent to driving a car 283 miles; using a rechargeable battery is equivalent to driving 10 miles.

Rechargeable battery technology continues to evolve, but there are only a few types widely available today:

• Nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) is the most common rechargeable battery type. Like their nickel-cadmium predecessors (see below), NiMH batteries come in standard sizes (AAA, A, C, D, and 9V) but are considered less toxic and offer superior performance. New “low-self-drain” (or “hybrid”) NiMH batteries come fully charged, like alkaline batteries, and stay charged longer, making them good for slow-drain gadgets like remote controls.
  
  
• Nickel-cadmium (NiCad or NiCd) batteries have fallen from favor in recent years because they contain cadmium, a carcinogen. However, older handheld tools may still run on NiCads, and they are still sold in stores.
  
  
• Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are mostly used in high-end electronics like laptops and cell phones, as the battery’s light weight and high storage capacity help improve gadgets’ portability. They are more expensive than other rechargeable batteries, however, due to their advanced circuitry, and are currently unavailable in standard sizes.

No matter which type of rechargeable batteries you use, you can make them even greener using these strategies:

• Choose an energy-efficient charger. Energy Star-rated models use 35 percent less energy than standard chargers, while solar-powered battery chargers use no electricity at all. For further energy savings, look for a “smart” charger that shuts off when the batteries are fully charged (overcharging shortens battery life). Regardless of charger type, unplug it when it is not being used as it will continue to draw electricity even when not charging.
  
  
• Care for idle batteries. Do not leave batteries uncharged or unused for long periods, which can shorten their life. Remove batteries from infrequently used devices and store away from heat and moisture.
  
  
• Dispose of batteries properly. Rechargeable batteries contain toxic materials and should not be thrown out with regular trash. When purchasing batteries, ask the retailer whether it takes them back for recycling; if it does not, you may be able to bring them to your municipal hazardous waste facility or a local recycling center (see the Related Resources).

Related Resources

Bio Intelligence Service—Ditch the Disposable Lifestyle(pdf)

California Integrated Waste Management Board—Rechargeable Batteries and Chargers

Energy Star—Battery charging systems

Earth 911—Battery Recycling Locations

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