Rainforest Action Network

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.

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!

• 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.

Aveda
Citra-Solv, LLC
Clif Bar, Inc.
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps
Green Map
Guayaki Organic Yerba Mate
Irene & Scott Schlesinger
Numi Tea
Ode Magazine
Shaklee Corp
Republic of Tea
Teeccino Caffe, Inc
The Natural Dentist
Transcendentist
Verve Inc. / Glee Gum
Weleda
Zia Natural Skincare

Absinthe Brasserie & Bar
Adler Fels Winery
Aldea
All Things Macintosh
Amy Kahn Russell
Annie Uzdavinis
Arbor Sports
Aubrey Organics
Beach Blanket Babylon
Belli Capelli
Berkeley Massage & Self Healing Center
Branch
Breitenbush Hot Springs
Buddy Rhodes Artisan Concrete
Cline Cellars
Comet Skateboards
Costanoa Coastal Lodge & Camp
Coturri Winery
Coyuchi, Inc.
Dov Pollack Consulting
Elephant Pharm
Esalen
Farm Fresh To You
Financial Circles
Firefly Restaurant
Frey Vineyards
Funky Door Yoga
Gaiam
Green Home
Green Label Organic Sustainable Threads
Grgich Hills Estate
Hallcrest Vineyards & the Organic Wine Works
Harbin Hot Springs
Hotel Triton
Hotel Vitale
Hyde de Villaine Wines
International Orange
Iron Horse Vineyards
J Bloomrosen
James Balog
Jodie Evans
John Masters Organics
Julia Butterfly Hill
Kimberly Call Design
Little Star Pizza
Lori Grace
Mission Cliffs
Modulus Guitars
Mountain Hardwear
Native Sun Solar Energy
Nob Hill Spa
Novica.com
Numi Tea
OCSC Sailing
Pachamama, A World of Artisans
Pacifica
Pacific Communications
Patagonia
Peace Coffee
Piatti Ristorante Bar
Rare Earth Designs
Renaissance Winery
Rockwood Leadership Program
Sachi Organics
Scott Roach
Seventh Generation
Shaklee Corp
Smith Optics
Stina Richardson
Studio Rasa
Sue Swan
Sunstone Vineyards
Susan Fassberg
Susana Millman
Tamar Hurwitz
The Center for Thai Massage & Oasis Healing Arts
The Sage Table
Thomas Fogarty Winery
TIMBUK2
Transcendentist
Trattoria Contadina
Turley Wine Cellars
Vibrant Reiki
Zuni Cafe

Alma Rosa Winery
Girasole Vineyards
Halter Ranch Vineyard
Iron Horse Vineyards
Wild Hog Vineyard

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