A revolutionary exhibition featuring artwork created with social activism as its inspiration. Dubbed “socialcraft”, the objects on display are examples of unique artworks utilized by communities and individuals in their quest for social change. Street Signs and Solar Ovens will feature protest art meant for public display such as hand-crafted demonstration signs, posters, t-shirts, as well as examples of instruments for socially-conscious living such as eco-friendly appliances.

Path to Freedom will be contributing some of their low tech, sustainable items from their urban homestead. This exhibition will run and be open to the public from October 22 - December 30, 2006

Museum Admission
General: $5.00
Student & Seniors: $3.00
Members and Children under 12: Free
Free 1st Wednesday of month

The 8th Annual Latino History Parade in 2006

To honor our elders
to preserve our collective past
to help educate all involved in our projects
to provide positive educational outreach for all in our community.

The theme for our event this year is “Harvesting Our Roots/Cosechando nuestra raices.” This event will be a celebration, taking place on the streets of Los Robles and Washington and culminating in a community fair in Washington Park, which will include entertainment, food and exhibitors representing various types of organizations.

WHAT: Eighth Annual Latino History Parade in Pasadena

WHEN: Saturday, October 14, 2006 Jamaica (community fair) 11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Parade 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

WHERE: Parade route begins at Los Robles Ave. (north of Washington Blvd) and ends at Washington Park. For map and driving directions click here.

For more information visit their website

We are living at the dawn of a new epoch. Year by year, degree by degree, Earth is growing warmer... a legacy of the Industrial Revolution, population growth, and our addiction to technology, speed and power.

Just as other generations spoke of a Great Plague and a Great Depression, our children will be compelled to endure The Great Warming - and find a way to conquer its consequences.

THE GREAT WARMING (80 min)

It's more than just the heat...
Narrated by Alanis Morisette and Keanu Reeves

WHEN: Sunday, August 13
TIME: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
WHERE: Messiah Lutheran Church is located just down the road from Path to Freedom at 570 E. Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91104, on the southwest corner of Orange Grove Blvd and Madison Avenue.
DIRECTIONS: From the 210 freeway: Exit at the Lake Avenue exit. Head north (toward the mountains). Turn left / head west on Orange Grove Blvd. Turn left on Madison Ave after going through the light at El Molino.

Directions from PTF: Turn left/head east on Orange Grove Blvd. Turn right on Madison Avenue, two blocks after going through the light at Los Robles.

Parking:Park in the small lot next to the church off Madison Ave or along Madison Ave.

From Gold Line: Get off at Lake Ave. Go north on Lake Ave (toward the mountains) and make a left on Maple St heading west, a one-way street running parallel to and immediately to the north of the 210 freeway. Cross the intersection at El Molino and take the next right (north) on Madison Ave. Cross Villa St and continue north on Madison to the church just south of Orange Grove. The distance is less than 3/4 of a mile.

The film will be shown in the church hall located just to the west of the church building.

COST: $5- $15 suggested donation (make reservation)

A dramatic and enlightening 80 minute documentary narrated by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves, revealing how climate change is affecting the lives of people everywhere, with stunning footage from around the world.

Directed by Vermont-based producer Michael Taylor, "The Great Warming" is this summer’s OTHER global warming film, overshadowed, at least for the moment, by Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth."

Produced by Stonehaven Productions, The Great Warming is not only about our global environment, it also looks at the influence of climate change on politics, religion, science, education, energy and economics. The film interweaves startling statements of fact from scientists, opinion-makers and social leaders with a blunt assessment of America’s leadership – or lack of it - in what is clearly the most critical environmental issue of the 21st century. It examines evidence that human activities are provoking an unprecedented era of atmospheric warming and climatic events: more drought, wildfires, flooding, polar melting, more powerful storms, more variable weather… and unprecedented health impacts.

The Great Warming also showcases exciting initiatives aimed at reversing the trend toward permanent damage to our planet, as well as scenes documenting the emerging voice of America’s Evangelical community urging action on climate change from pulpits across the country.

Read more about this powerful documentary The Great Warming

WHAT YOU CAN DO
One person, one action can make a difference Get Involved
How big of impact do you have on the planet? Check out this 'Personal Impact Calculator'

100 MILE POTLUCK

PTF joins the Bay Area Locavores as they challenge people from all over the world to eat within a 100 mile radius of their home. We invite all local eaters (this means you!) to join us in a celebration of our local food cornucopia and in an effort to raise our own awareness of our place within the foodshed.


:: Potluck Guidelines ::

Our goal for this potluck is to eat from within a 100 mile radius of our homes. Failing that, we will attempt to eat foods that come from within our State, or are purchased directly from small scale farmers elsewhere in the world. Some of us will interpret these guidelines more strictly than others, but the main goal is to pay attention to where the food that we eat comes from.

:: Locavore Pledge ::

If not FROM BACKYARD then locally produced.
If not LOCALLY PRODUCED, then Organic.
If not ORGANIC, then Family farm.
If not FAMILY FARM, then Local business.
If not a LOCAL BUSINESS, then Fair Trade.

Read details on how to Reduce Food Miles

:: EVENT SCHEDULE ::

6:00 - 7:00 pm - "100 Mile" Potluck
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Film screening: The Great Warming

:: MAKE A RESERVATION ::

Space and seating is limited so please RSVP in advance to request your seating. You will receive confirmation. If not, check your spam-blocker.

:: ZERO WASTE & LOW IMPACT ::

We, at Path to Freedom, endeavor to make our each of our events as "eco- friendly" as possible with solar (or other "alternative green") electricity, oil/biodiesel lamps, candles and a "low or zero waste policy" by providing reusable plates, cups, and utensils to ensure there is no unnecessary waste. All other waste (i.e., plastic wrappers, glass bottles, food containers, etc) and food scraps are recycled, reused, composted or fed to our pet chickens and ducks.

Read about our "Zero Waste Policy"

:: CONTACTS ::

For additional information about this event and others:

Phone: 626.795.8400

Email: events@pathtofreedom.com

Web: www.pathtofreedom.com

"It's the nightmare scenario of a concealed toxic hazard" ~ Billy Baggett ~

BLUE VINYL (90 min)

The world's first toxic comedy sheds light on the hazards of PVC.

WHEN: Sunday, July 16th
TIME: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
WHERE: Path to Freedom, 631 Cypress Avenue, Pasadena (driving directions)
COST: $5- $10 suggested donation (make reservation)
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:: FILM DESCRIPTION ::

With humor, hope, and piece of PVC vinyl siding in hand (a remnant from her parent's suburban house), Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold explores home, family industry-sponsored science and the ecology of denial.


Questioning her parents decision to put blue vinyl siding on their house, she sets out to find the truth about vinyl: what are the hazards, are there side-effects, are there dangers in the production and disposal of vinyl?


Having lost her uterus from DES poisoning, she shares a bond with the cancer victims who work in and live in the shadow of the vinyl and PVC factories. Judith has this gravelly high voice, a quirky sense of humor, and a vulnerability in the face of corporate America that makes her irresistible.


Exposure to vinyl chloride is an extremely underrated hazard. Research has shown for years (and Helfand makes a strong case for this in her movie) that vinyl chloride is a carcinogen, and that the production & disposal of vinyl is a serious environmental and health risk.


Vinyl (or PVC) is the “most environmentally hazardous consumer product in the world.” The chemical released in its creation and disposal (and likely gradually emitted, at eeenie weenie levels, during its life in between) is the exceptionally deadly dioxin, “the Watergate of molecules.” And as one of the many scientists interviewed for this film asserts, the highly carcinogenic dioxin sticks around for a very long time: if you were “exposed to ten units of dioxin, ten years later, you would still have five units in your body.”


TAKE ACTION! WHAT YOU CAN DO


Plastic is a substance which we (and which was not addressed by the film) are exposed to on a regular basis. So-called "inert" vinyl, found in PVC pipes, vinyl siding, shower curtains, car dashboards, etc., emits small doses of toxic chemicals, which also pose serious concerns.

Learn how to get this toxic substance out of your life

100 MILE POTLUCK
Eat Local Challenge: May 2006

PTF joins the Bay Area Locavores as they challenge people from all over the world to eat within a 100 mile radius of their home. We invite all local eaters (this means you!) to join us in a celebration of our local food cornucopia and in an effort to raise our own awareness of our place within the foodshed.


:: Potluck Guidelines ::

Our goal for this potluck is to eat from within a 100 mile radius of our homes. Failing that, we will attempt to eat foods that come from within our State, or are purchased directly from small scale farmers elsewhere in the world. Some of us will interpret these guidelines more strictly than others, but the main goal is to pay attention to where the food that we eat comes from.

:: Locavore Pledge ::

If not FROM BACKYARD then locally produced.
If not LOCALLY PRODUCED, then Organic.
If not ORGANIC, then Family farm.
If not FAMILY FARM, then Local business.
If not a LOCAL BUSINESS, then Fair Trade.

Read details on how to Reduce Food Miles

:: EVENT SCHEDULE ::

6-7 pm - "100 Mile" Potluck
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Film screening: 'Blue Vinyl

:: MAKE A RESERVATION ::

Space and seating is limited so please RSVP in advance to request your seating. You will receive confirmation. If not, check your spam-blocker.

:: MAP & DRIVING DIRECTIONS ::

Path to Freedom is located in the foothills above Los Angeles, near the Rose Bowl, Old Towne Pasadena, Memorial Park Gold Line Station, and the 210, 110 and 134 freeways. (view map and driving directions)

:: ZERO WASTE & LOW IMPACT ::

We, at Path to Freedom, endeavor to make our each of our events as "eco- friendly" as possible with solar (or other "alternative green") electricity, oil/biodiesel lamps, candles and a "low or zero waste policy" by providing reusable plates, cups, and utensils to ensure there is no unnecessary waste. All other waste (i.e., plastic wrappers, glass bottles, food containers, etc) and food scraps are recycled, reused, composted or fed to our pet chickens and ducks.

Read about our "Zero Waste Policy"

:: CONTACTS ::

For additional information about this event and others:

Phone: 626.795.8400

Email: events@pathtofreedom.com

Web: www.pathtofreedom.com

"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency...."

~ Gandhi ~

Join us for our 8th annual 'Interdependence Day' Celebration

WHEN: Tuesday, July 4th
TIME: 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm
WHERE: Path to Freedom, 631 Cypress Avenue, Pasadena (driving directions)
COST: $5 - $10 suggested donation (make reservation)
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:: EVENT DESCRIPTION ::


Celebrate summer and our interdependence connection with each other and our planet earth.

Come relax in a garden setting, sharing in music, discussion and dine on wood-fired organic, vegetarian pizzas provided by American Flatbread Pizza that we will cook in the cob oven!

This event/party will be a potluck so please bring something to contribute (drinks, fruit, chips, or a dish). If you are a musician, bring your musical instrument and join others in an impromptu sing-along. Afterwards enjoy the fireworks display put on at the Rose Bowl.

In keeping with the "100 Mile Diet Pledge" please try to bring food within 100 mile radius if you can.

100 MILE POTLUCK
Eat Local Challenge: May 2006

PTF joins the Bay Area Locavores as they challenge people from all over the world to eat within a 100 mile radius of their home. We invite all local eaters (this means you!) to join us in a celebration of our local food cornucopia and in an effort to raise our own awareness of our place within the foodshed.


:: Potluck Guidelines ::

Our goal for this potluck is to eat from within a 100 mile radius of our homes. Failing that, we will attempt to eat foods that come from within our State, or are purchased directly from small scale farmers elsewhere in the world. Some of us will interpret these guidelines more strictly than others, but the main goal is to pay attention to where the food that we eat comes from.

:: Locavore Pledge ::

If not FROM BACKYARD then locally produced.
If not LOCALLY PRODUCED, then Organic.
If not ORGANIC, then Family farm.
If not FAMILY FARM, then Local business.
If not a LOCAL BUSINESS, then Fair Trade.

Read details on how to Reduce Food Miles

:: MAKE A RESERVATION ::

Space and seating is limited so please RSVP in advance to request your seating. You will receive confirmation. If not, check your spam-blocker.

:: MAP & DRIVING DIRECTIONS ::

Path to Freedom is located in the foothills above Los Angeles, near the Rose Bowl, Old Towne Pasadena, Memorial Park Gold Line Station, and the 210, 110 and 134 freeways. (view map and driving directions)

:: ZERO WASTE & LOW IMPACT ::

We, at Path to Freedom, endeavor to make our each of our events as "eco- friendly" as possible with solar (or other "alternative green") electricity, oil/biodiesel lamps, candles and a "low or zero waste policy" by providing reusable plates, cups, and utensils to ensure there is no unnecessary waste. All other waste (i.e., plastic wrappers, glass bottles, food containers, etc) and food scraps are recycled, reused, composted or fed to our pet chickens and ducks.

Read about our "Zero Waste Policy"

:: CONTACTS ::

For additional information about this event and others:

Phone: 626.795.8400

Email: events@pathtofreedom.com

Web: www.pathtofreedom.com

"Development of character consists solely in moving towards self-sufficiency." ~ Quentin Crisp ~

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

"What are we going to do as the oil runs out? The solution is in the community."
(CommunitySolution.org)

WHEN: Sunday, May 21, 2006

TIME: 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

WHERE: Path to Freedom, 631 Cypress Avenue, Pasadena (driving directions)

COST: $5-$10 suggested donation/ RSVP only (make reservation)

This need to bring agriculture into Cuba began with the fall of the Soviet Union and the loss of more than 50 percent of Cuba's oil imports, much of its food and 85 percent of its trade economy. Transportation halted, people went hungry and the average Cuban lost 30 pounds.

"In reality, when this all began, it was a necessity. People had to start cultivating vegetables wherever they could," a tour guide told a documentary crew filming in Cuba in 2004 to record how Cuba survived on far less oil than usual.

The crew included the staff of The Community Solution, a non-profit organization in Yellow Springs, Ohio which teaches about peak oil - the time when oil production world-wide will reach an all-time high and head into an irreversible decline. Some oil analysts believe this may happen within this decade, making Cuba a role model to follow.

"We wanted to see if we could capture what it is in the Cuban people and the Cuban culture that allowed them to go through this very difficult time," said Pat Murphy, The Community Solution's executive director. "Cuba has a lot to show the world in how to deal with energy adversity."

Cuba is a living example of how a country can successfully traverse what we all will have to deal with sooner or later -- the reduction and loss of finite fossil fuel resources.

The goals of this film are to give hope to the developed world as it wakes up to the consequences of being hooked on oil, and to lift American's prejudice of Cuba by showing the Cuban people as they are. The filmmakers do this by having the people tell their story on film. It's a story of their dedication to independence and triumph over adversity, and a story of cooperation and hope. Several Cubans expressed the belief that living on an island, with its natural boundaries, breeds awareness that there are limits to natural resources.

Everyone who has worked on the documentary hopes that, seeing this film, people will also see the world on which we live, as another, much larger, island.

(READ MORE:
Community Solutions.org and
The Power of Community)

PTF joins the Bay Area Locavores as they challenged people from all over the world to eat within a 100 mile radius of their home

We invite all local eaters (this means you!) to join us in a celebration of our local food cornucopia and in an effort to raise our own awareness of our place within the foodshed.

:: Potluck Guidelines :: Our goal for this potluck is to eat from within a 100 mile radius of our homes. Failing that, we will attempt to eat foods that come from within our State, or are purchased directly from small scale farmers elsewhere in the world. Some of us will interpret these guidelines more strictly than others, but the main goal is to pay attention to where the food that we eat comes from.

:: Locavore Pledge ::
If not LOCALLY PRODUCED, then Organic.
If not ORGANIC, then Family farm.
If not FAMILY FARM, then Local business.
If not a LOCAL BUSINESS, then Fair Trade.

Read details on how to Reduce Food Miles

:: EVENT SCHEDULE ::

6-7 pm - "100 Mile" Potluck
7:30 - 8:30 pm - Film screening: 'How Cuba Survived Peak Oil'
8:30 - 9:00 pm - Discussion

:: MAKE A RESERVATION ::
Space and seating is limited so please RSVP in advance to request your seating. You will receive confirmation. If not, check your spam-blocker.

:: MAP & DRIVING DIRECTIONS :: Path to Freedom is located in the foothills above Los Angeles, near the Rose Bowl, Old Towne Pasadena, Memorial Park Gold Line Station, and the 210, 110 and 134 freeways. (view map and driving directions)

:: ZERO WASTE & LOW IMPACT ::
We, at Path to Freedom, endeavor to make our each of our events as "eco- friendly" as possible with solar (or other "alternative green") electricity, oil/biodiesel lamps, candles and a "low or zero waste policy" by providing reusable plates, cups, and utensils to ensure there is no unnecessary waste. All other waste (i.e., plastic wrappers, glass bottles, food containers, etc) and food scraps are recycled, reused, composted or fed to our pet chickens and ducks.

Read about our "Zero Waste Policy"

:: CONTACTS ::
For additional information about this event and others:

Phone: 626.795.8400

Email: events@pathtofreedom.com

Web: www.pathtofreedom.com

“An excess of anything in life promotes wastage until its decline becomes evident and irreversible" ~ A. Kuhlman ~

Greetings friends and supporters,

You are invited to attend the debut screening of the documentary READY OR NOT?

When: Saturday, May 6th

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Cost: Free

Where: Norris Theatre/ USC Campus

Our pro-active form of protest is to use our hands as weapons of mass creation against the powers that be. ~ Jules Dervaes~

Path to Freedom is putting on an eco-film festival and power point presentation in library at the beautiful (and green!) facility Audubon Center at Debs Park.

We hope that you join us and other concerned citizens and remember this is a ZERO WASTE EVENT

"Path to Freedom is an “urban homestead” in Pasadena. The Dervaes family has opened their home and hearts to sharing a lifetime of experience in and impressive range of back-to-basics practices such as permaculture methods, bio-intensive farming and appropriate technologies including biodiesel and solar energy. Their example and training can help anyone with an open mind to successfully reduced their own "footprint" on the earth."

There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America -- a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat.

THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

The film is a celebration of solar power. It features writer/actor JOHN CLEESE (of Monty Python fame), Nobel Laureates WALTER KOHN and ALAN HEEGER, NASA Solar Pioneer BILL YERKES, Stanford students, and other notables, experts and ordinary folk.

It deals with the history and science of solar power; its implementations in the developed and the less developed world; and the urgent issues of global warming and oil depletion.

"Path to Freedom is an “urban homestead” in Pasadena. The Dervaes family has opened their home and hearts to sharing a lifetime of experience in and impressive range of back-to-basics practices such as permaculture methods, bio-intensive farming and appropriate technologies including biodiesel and solar energy. Their example and training can help anyone with an open mind to successfully reduced their own "footprint" on the earth."

Kilowatt Ours reveals the consequences of our coal powered economy. The film invites viewers to help build a net zero nation, by conserving energy to the greatest extent possible at home, then using clean renewable energy to provide the electricity used.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963

PTF will be out & about town this month of April participating in the many community Earth Day events. We hope that you stop by our booth and join us in our commitment to save our planet now and for future generations.

Visit:
http://www.kidspacemuseum.org/calendar/calendar.asp#celebra


APRIL 1, Saturday
END OF SUBURBIA SCREENING & PTF PEAK OIL POWER POINT PRESENTATION(6:30 p.m.) - Private home screening & fundraiser in Eagle Rock. Afterwards, Jules Dervaes will present a new "Peak Oil" power point presentation.


APRIL 6, Thursday
ECO FEST (12:30 p.m.)- Presentation: "A Revolution at Home" by Jules Dervaes.

Visit:
http://www.glendale.edu/ecofest/


APRIL 19, Wednesday
EARTH DAY (5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.) - at Wild Oats in Pasadena
603 S Lake Ave, Pasadena (626) 792-1778


APRIL 22, Saturday
GREENING THE EARTH DAY (11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.) - at Memorial Park in Pasadena. This year's theme is, Creating an Urban Eco Village. The event is free and features exhibits, entertainment, organic food, community gardens, art exhibits and activities, sustainable design, "green transportation, solar exhibits and more. Receive a free gift if you show your Metro pass or ticket.

Visit:
www.cityofpasadena.net


APRIL 22, Saturday

EARTH DAY AUDUBON FESTIVAL (9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m) - at the Audubon Center at Debs Park (4700 North Griffin Ave., Los Angeles)The theme this year is "World Custodian - We Got Work To Do! Learn what you can do for Mother Earth and join the family fun at the 100% solar powered, greenest building in the United States. Free Admission. Show your Metro pass or ticket
and receive a free entry in the Metro Eco-Safari Raffle.


Path to Freedom will be on hand to give presentations & put on an eco-film festival (times and schedule to TBA). Path to Freedom will be set up in and around the library at at the beautiful Audubon Center.

Visit
http://www.ca.audubon.org/debs_park.htm


APRIL 23, Sunday

EARTH DAY ( 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)- at All Saints Church, Pasadena (132 North Euclid Avenue -across from City Hall)EDEN, an All Saints environmental group, is coordinating an Earth day event on the lawn that will include a number of booths and activates.

From here, filmmaker Jeff Barrie takes viewers on a journey from the coal mines of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida, as he discovers solutions to America's energy related problems.

Along the way, Jeff and his wife Heather share a plan to eliminate their use of coal and nuclear power at home by employing energy conservation, efficiency and clean, affordable renewable power. Through their learning experience, viewers discover how they can save hundreds of dollars annually on energy bills.

EVENT SCHEDULE:
5:30 PM Welcome
6:00 PM Potluck
7:00 PM Introduction by Jules Dervaes
7:05 PM Kilowatt Ours
8:00 PM Q & A discussion with filmmaker Jeff Barrie
9:00 PM End

GUEST SPEAKERS' BACKGROUND:
JEFF BARRIE - Filmmaker, activist. Jeff Barrie's mission is to advocate a new way of thinking and living that minimizes harm to the natural world while improving our quality of life, the health of our environment and the well-being of our neighbors. Jeff and his wife finally reached their goal of 100% renewable power at home!

CITY OF PASADENA - Pasadena Green Building Program promotes the design and construction of environmentally responsible buildings. The goal of the Pasadena Green Building Program is to encourage private sector builders to construct sustainable buildings that will serve as examples for future projects to emulate. Providing incentives for the design of buildings certified by the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED™ Rating System underscores the City of Pasadena’s principle of Stewardship of the Natural Environment: “To encourage and promote the stewardship of Pasadena’s natural environment, including energy and water conservation, clean air, natural open space protection, and recycling.”