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Message*	DEAD ELVIS - Coal is Dead, Sun is King! <a href="http://wanet.org/actions/?id=4305">http://wanet.org/actions/?id=4305</a> "DEAD ELVIS - Coal is Dead, Sun is King!"<br /> Musical Launch of the Vashon Coal Free Zone Project<br /> 30+ Musicians Perform Songs of Elvis & The Grateful Dead<br /> Sat. March 13, 7:30pm at Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi on Vashon Island <br /> <small>We're Doing It Again - Another Amazing Night of Great Music and Community Celebration! <br /> See you there!<br /> Bill </small><br /> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /> DEAD ELVIS Coal is Dead, Sun is King!<br /> Saturday, March 13, 7:30 PM at the Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi on Vashon Island, WA. More than 30 Island Musicians Play the Music of Elvis & The Grateful Dead<br /> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /> (Tickets to Dead Elvis cost $15 and are available by credit card at the Red Bicycle by calling 463-5959 or you can pay by cash in advance at the Red Bike)<br /> <br /> The Backbone Campaign, the Vashon-based organization known for its creative approach to progressive politics, will hold a benefit called "Dead Elvis - Coal is Dead & Sun is King" featuring the music of The Grateful Dead and Elvis Presley performed by a full roster of Island singers, songwriters and musicians.<br /> <br /> The benefit, scheduled to start at 7:30pm on Saturday, March 13th at the Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi, will feature performances by more than 30 Island musicians covering Dead & Elvis classics.<br /> <br /> Dead Elvis is the latest installment in a series of Backbone Campaign themed concert fundraisers that are famous for being FUN-raisers as well. Past themes have included The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley and Bob Dylan. Steffon Moody will be back in full force as the emcee for the evening.<br /> <br /> Backbone Campaign is engaged in a variety of projects on the island and around the country from helping to start a community credit union to training young activists around the country to helping animate a national movement to abolish "Corporate Personhood."<br /> <br /> The Dead Elvis concert will benefit the Backbone Campaign and officially launch the Coal Free Zone project, a collaboration with Sustainable Vashon and a number of island energy activists. CoalFreeZone.org is designed to be a multi-community project building on the a template being developed for Vashon. "We are building on the nuclear free zone idea of the past with a very real push for clean energy and green jobs," says Backbone director Bill Moyer.<br /> <br /> Island energy experts have worked with island activists to formulate a process through which Islanders can qualify their residence a "Coal Free Zone" and get a beautiful driveway sign designed by Islander Richard Joffray. 20 of the first driveway signs will be on display and available to qualified residences at the event!<br /> <br /> How does one "Qualify"? The <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103144011596&s=12362&e=001ev7uY3wku1GoC0TZ733AnjxUZkeLanl-zw7Aye85qtCTFYYL7leM9-gb0BrdhG9QZA4wfngsEzhcf3GzrjV4wnyzepCbdKFC_CA0dKkMTVaCtv-JEpo4pBsL0gXSr-mn3sOY2SWYBCQ=" target="_blank">CoalFreeZone.org website has a custom calculator for determining the Energy Intensity</a> , i.e. power used per square foot per year. To qualify a residence "Coal Free"; the owners need to get to get to 36% below average energy intensity through conservation and efficiency, and "green" the rest of their power by participating in PSE's Green Power program.<br /> <br /> Coal Free Zone driveway sign by Richard JoffrayThirty-six percent is the portion of energy that Puget Sound Energy currently gets from Coal. "We are creating a template that can be used by other communities to both take responsibility for the demand we create and generate local jobs as we clean up our dirty-power habits, says Moyer."<br /> <br /> "We want to help PSE and Washington State transition off TransAlta and their interest in Colstrip, Montana," says Jennifer Williams, one of the Coal Free Zone project designers. TransAlta is Washington State's only coal-fired power plant, but the State's number one mercury polluter and #1 emitter of green house gases, i.e. 10% of the State's total.<br /> <br /> For more information see <a href="http://www.coalfreezone.org" target="_blank">http://www.coalfreezone.org</a>.<br /> <br /> This event is being organized by Vashon Events. Vashon's event production and planning consultants. Tickets to Dead Elvis cost $15 and are available by credit card at the Red Bicycle by calling 463-5959 or you can pay by cash in advance at the venue. All ages may attend until 11pm, after which the event becomes 21 <img src="http://backbonecampaign.org/media/DeadElvisHighRes380.jpg" alt="" style="max-width:800px;max-height:800px;" />Poster by Don Swanson<br /> <br /> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /> email: bill@backbonecampaign.org<br /> phone: (206) 408-8058<br /> web: http://backbonecampaign.org/<br /> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Date(s): Sat, Mar 13th, 2010

Time: 07:30 pm

"DEAD ELVIS - Coal is Dead, Sun is King!"
Musical Launch of the Vashon Coal Free Zone Project
30+ Musicians Perform Songs of Elvis & The Grateful Dead
Sat. March 13, 7:30pm at Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi on Vashon Island
We're Doing It Again - Another Amazing Night of Great Music and Community Celebration!
See you there!
Bill
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DEAD ELVIS Coal is Dead, Sun is King!
Saturday, March 13, 7:30 PM at the Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi on Vashon Island, WA. More than 30 Island Musicians Play the Music of Elvis & The Grateful Dead
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(Tickets to Dead Elvis cost $15 and are available by credit card at the Red Bicycle by calling 463-5959 or you can pay by cash in advance at the Red Bike)

The Backbone Campaign, the Vashon-based organization known for its creative approach to progressive politics, will hold a benefit called "Dead Elvis - Coal is Dead & Sun is King" featuring the music of The Grateful Dead and Elvis Presley performed by a full roster of Island singers, songwriters and musicians.

The benefit, scheduled to start at 7:30pm on Saturday, March 13th at the Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi, will feature performances by more than 30 Island musicians covering Dead & Elvis classics.

Dead Elvis is the latest installment in a series of Backbone Campaign themed concert fundraisers that are famous for being FUN-raisers as well. Past themes have included The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley and Bob Dylan. Steffon Moody will be back in full force as the emcee for the evening.

Backbone Campaign is engaged in a variety of projects on the island and around the country from helping to start a community credit union to training young activists around the country to helping animate a national movement to abolish "Corporate Personhood."

The Dead Elvis concert will benefit the Backbone Campaign and officially launch the Coal Free Zone project, a collaboration with Sustainable Vashon and a number of island energy activists. CoalFreeZone.org is designed to be a multi-community project building on the a template being developed for Vashon. "We are building on the nuclear free zone idea of the past with a very real push for clean energy and green jobs," says Backbone director Bill Moyer.

Island energy experts have worked with island activists to formulate a process through which Islanders can qualify their residence a "Coal Free Zone" and get a beautiful driveway sign designed by Islander Richard Joffray. 20 of the first driveway signs will be on display and available to qualified residences at the event!

How does one "Qualify"? The CoalFreeZone.org website has a custom calculator for determining the Energy Intensity , i.e. power used per square foot per year. To qualify a residence "Coal Free"; the owners need to get to get to 36% below average energy intensity through conservation and efficiency, and "green" the rest of their power by participating in PSE's Green Power program.

Coal Free Zone driveway sign by Richard JoffrayThirty-six percent is the portion of energy that Puget Sound Energy currently gets from Coal. "We are creating a template that can be used by other communities to both take responsibility for the demand we create and generate local jobs as we clean up our dirty-power habits, says Moyer."

"We want to help PSE and Washington State transition off TransAlta and their interest in Colstrip, Montana," says Jennifer Williams, one of the Coal Free Zone project designers. TransAlta is Washington State's only coal-fired power plant, but the State's number one mercury polluter and #1 emitter of green house gases, i.e. 10% of the State's total.

For more information see http://www.coalfreezone.org.

This event is being organized by Vashon Events. Vashon's event production and planning consultants. Tickets to Dead Elvis cost $15 and are available by credit card at the Red Bicycle by calling 463-5959 or you can pay by cash in advance at the venue. All ages may attend until 11pm, after which the event becomes 21 Poster by Don Swanson

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email: bill@backbonecampaign.org
phone: (206) 408-8058
web: http://backbonecampaign.org/
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