2.21.2008 - 11:00am ET

(CSRwire) Join a panel of A-list personalities, nationally recognized environmentalists and social pioneers for a press conference and provocative town hall discussion exploring race marginalization within the environmental movement and how communities of color are being shut out of the larger environmental dialogue affecting their lives.

• HOSTED BY SIMRAN SETHI, host of Sundance Channel's The Green. (www.sundancechannel.com) Ms. Sethi has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Martha Stewart Living as well as being a featured Pioneer in Vanity Fair’s annual Green Issue.

• WORLD PREMIERE, groundbreaking footage from Sundance Channel's Environmental Justice series highlighting the rebuild of a poor, white community after a tornado in stark contrast to progress in New Orleans communities of color after Katrina.

• EVENT HONORS the release of author/environmentalist JARID MANOS' book "GHETTO PLAINSMAN" www.ghettoplainsman.com (Temba House Press). Jarid is Founder and CEO of Great Plains Restoration Council, which is leading the new Ecological Health movement. GPRC believes in the exhilaration of life, and works to help people heal violence, conflict, despair, depression and illness through personal participation in the protection and recovery of Nature.

• EVENT HIGHLIGHTS Uptown magazine's January/February Philanthropy issue. www.uptownlife.net

PANELISTS INCLUDE:
• LUDOVIC BLAIN, Racial Justice Entrepreneur
• OMAR FREILLA, Green Worker Cooperatives of The South Bronx
• AUDREY PETERMAN, Founder- Earthwise Productions
• SHARON LEVINE, Concrete Safari

WHEN: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH
PRESS CONFERENCE 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
EVENT 7:00PM - 9:00 PM
PERFORMANCES BY: New Amsterdam Boys Choir, Rex Detiger
WHERE: THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE 2 West 64th Street, New York, New York 212.874.5210
Seating is limited! RSVP at greenuptown@yahoo.com

PRODUCED BY:
Jade Dressler Communications, www.jadedressler.com
Little Marvin/BIG MEDIA INC., www.littlemarvin.com