We posted here last week about EngAGE Social Services Coordinator Gloria Tinajero’s vacation in Oregon and Canada, but if you’d like to see more pictures, you can click here to go to Gloria’s Flickr Photostream. You’ll find not only photos from her trip, but also some from Casa Bonita events. Thanks for posting, Gloria!
Tune in to Experience Talks, our “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener.” Summer schedule: Saturdays 6:00 to 7:00 AM Pacific Time on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 99.5 China Lake, 93.7 N. San Diego, streaming live online and now syndicated on up to 100 Pacifica Network stations!
We’ll focus on the environment this week with two half-hour interviews featuring Ed Begley, Jr., and Gunter Pauli.
Ed Begley, Jr., has been considered an environmental leader in the Hollywood community for many years. He has served as chairman of the Environmental Media Association and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. He still serves on those boards, as well as the Thoreau Institute, the Earth Communications Office, Tree People and Friends of the Earth, among many others. His work in the environmental community has earned him numerous awards from some of the most prestigious environmental groups in the nation.
Ed talks with host Tim Carpenter about his commitment to the environment and his reality TV show, “Living with Ed,” broadcast on the Planet Green channel. The show follows his efforts to live his life with a small carbon footprint, frequently in competition with his best friend, Bill Nye, and often to the chagrin of his less zealous wife, Rachelle Carson. More information here at his website.
Gunter Pauli has a new model of enterprise: the company as an open economic system and closed ecological system. With Ecover in Belgium, he built the world’s first biodegradable factory and manufactured ecological detergents. He also founded the Zero Emissions Research Initiative (ZERI) at the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan and is the author of The Blue Economy. Zero Emissions envisages all inputs being used in the final product or services, or converted into value-added inputs for other businesses or processes. He is considered one of the world’s foremost thinkers in the worldwide sustainability movement. Join host Maureen Kellen-Taylor in conversation with Gunter Pauli about the important relationship between sustainable living and business. For more information on Gunter Pauli, click here.
Burbank Senior Artists Colony residents thoroughly enjoyed an excellent concert by composer and classical pianist Marcelo Cesena. To learn more about Mr. Cesena, click here to visit his website. (Remember to click on the pictures to enlarge them!)
Contributed by Eugene Schklair
New American Media has published a great article about EngAGE entitled, “Honored Arts Program Engages Ethnic Elders for Health and Vitality.” The article includes comments from EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter and EngAGE COO Maureen Kellen-Taylor, and some fine examples of how the program makes a difference in the lives of seniors. Scroll down to watch the excellent video below to see EngAGE in action, including appearances by Tim Carpenter, Regional Program Director Vanessa Martin, and Casa Bonita residents.
Notable observations from the article:
“Research in recent years shows that such activities as those EngAGE provides, offer older adults more than pleasant pastimes. Creativity classes in art, music — even computer ‘brain games’ — may substantially cut America’s staggering health bill at a time when the U.S. senior population is expected to double to more than 70 million.”
“. . . the National Endowment for the Arts named EngAGE an Exemplary Program for Best Practices in Lifelong Learning, one of only 10 so recognized in the nation. Recently, EngAGE received $125,000 when its founder and executive director, Tim Carpenter, was honored with a 2011 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.”
“Two-thirds of those living in these subsidized homes, Carpenter said, are widows in their late 70s, with incomes falling at the federal poverty line. The total EngAGE service population reflects the ethnic quilt of Los Angeles, with African Americans, Asian American, Latinos, white Americans and an immigrant marble cake of Russians, Eastern Europeans, Armenians, Middle Easterners and others.”
Click here to read much more information in the article about both EngAGE and the people it serves. Enjoy the video!
EngAge from New America Media on Vimeo.
Contributed by Maureen Kellen-Taylor
CNN reports that the first commercial recording may be “a 12-second recording of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” captured on a ring-shaped cylinder phonograph, [that] was produced for Thomas Edison’s failed talking-doll business venture in 1888.” Historians are excited by the 123-year-old find which “marks a key moment in the history of early sound technology.” Click here to learn more.
Mid-summer gardening is fun — and hard work! — for the residents in North Hollywood. Programs Manager Sidni built the boxes for the contained beds at The Piedmont. They look great!
Contributed by Sidni Louise Myles
Legendary writer Gay Talese is responsible for one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published: “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” (Esquire, April 1966) He has another distinction, too; he writes by creating scrapbooks. Click here to read the recent New Yorker article that explains his fascinating methods. Don’t miss the slide show at the end of the brief article!
