REVEL

 

SAVE THE DATE FOR REVEL!
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Stay tuned: web ticket sales coming soon!

REVEL is a gathering of 650 of RAN’s closest friends and supporters to celebrate our collective efforts to create a just and sustainable world. Artful cocktails and scrumptious hors d’oeuvres, a seasonal, local, organic 3-course dinner by Back to Earth paired with fine organic wines, silent and live auctions stocked with incredible eco-goods, wine, getaways, dining and live music will all be provided to raise critical funds for RAN and inspire the revelry in each of us!

If you'd like to donate something to the silent auction, for the gift bags, are interested in providing food or drinks, or would like be put on the mailing list for REVEL 2008, please contact Katie Steele at (415) 659-0537 or ksteele@ran.org.

2007 Photo Gallery

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REVEL 2007 was a fabulous celebration of RAN's 22 years of direct action for the Earth.  The event was a huge success - it raised over $277,000 for RAN's critical campaign work! And we were thrilled to present World Rainforest Awards to Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel, Stuart Townsend, Maria Gunnoe, Paul Hawken and Jeremy Paster - six deserving individuals and guardians of the planet. Also, we were excited to have REVEL be the exclusive 60th birthday celebration for longtime RAN friend and honorary board member Bob Weir. As if the amazing night couldn't get any better, we had special music performances by Tea Leaf Green, Bob Weir, Sean Lennon, Harper Simon, Billy Kreutzmann and members of RatDog!

What a tremendous REVEL! Check out the blog about the party that was so fun, it should have been illegal!

2007 Honorees

  • Nina Simons & Kenny Ausubel, The Visionary Leadership Award
    Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel are co-presidents and founders of Bioneers, a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to disseminating practical and visionary solutions for restoring the Earth's imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities. Nina and Kenny, social entrepreneurs and innovative leaders, launched the annual Bioneers Conference in 1990.

  • Maria Gunnoe, The David vs. Goliath Award
    Maria Gunnoe is a community organizer for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition. She is a life-long resident of Boone County, West Virginia - the number one coal producer in the state. Maria has experienced the destruction of mountaintop removal coal mining operations first-hand and has organized around the issue for the past 10 years in order to preserve the Appalachian way of life and improve the lives of the people who created this unique mountain culture.

  • Paul Hawken, The Spirit of the Rainforest Award
    Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businessnes, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industry, ecology, and environmental policy.

  • Stuart Townsend, The Art in Activism Award
    Stuart Townsend is an Irish-born actor, director, writer and producer. His directorial debut, Battle in Seattle, due out this Fall, takes an in-depth look at the five days that rocked the world in 1999 as tens of thousands of activists took to the streets of Seattle in protest of the World Trade Organization.

  • Jeremy Paster, The People and Planet Award
    Jeremy passed away November 23, 2007 after a long fight with prostate cancer. He was 36 years old. For more than a decade, Jeremy was involved with environmental and social justice movements all over the world. Over the years, Jeremy served these movements through work with Greenpeace, RAN, Forest Action Network, Amazon Watch and Accion Ecologica in Ecuador. He also co-founded two non-profit organizations, the Action Resource Center and the Burma Humanitarian Mission. His activism took him to the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle and to high-profile campaigns against numerous corporations, including Occidental Petroleum, Citigroup, Unocal, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. "I focus on where environmental destruction and human rights abuses coincide. When the bottom line and corporate profits overshadow humanity and ecology, someone must intervene." Jeremy's contributions, creativity and courage to justice movements the world over will be sorely missed.

2007 Gift Bag Sponsors

2007 Auction Sponsors

2007 In-kind Sponsors

2007 Additional In-Kind Sponsors by:

2007 Sponsor Committee

Robert Barnhart
Black's Farmwood, Inc.
Sky Brooks
Peter & Mimi Buckley
Andre Carothers*
Liane Collins
John Densmore**
Martha DiSario*
Mark Donohue
Jodie Evans* & Max Palevsky
Expansion Capital Partners, LLC
Pam Polite Fisco & Dennis Fisco
James* & Suzanne Gollin
Elizabeth Gordon
Woody Harrelson**
Randy Hayes*
Allan* & Marion Hunt-Badiner
Jonathan & Sarah Kahn
Bruce & Dasa Katz
Michael* & Roxanne Klein
Ali McGraw**
Pachamama Alliance
Plug in America
Scott Price*
Bonnie Raitt**
Redhorse Constructors
Nancy & Rich Robbins
Heyward Robinson
Rockwood Leadership Program
Marsha Rosenbaum & John Irwin
Ellen & Douglas Rosenberg
Julie & Stuart Rudick
Diana Sanson
Nancy Schaub
Christopher & Alice Semler
Stephen Stevick*
Michael Ubell & Paula Hawthorn
Tom Van Dyck
Pam Wellner*
Bob** & Natascha Weir
Austin Willacy*

*RAN Board Member
** RAN Honorary Board Member
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