Brisbane's FIRST vegan & environmental, Green Earth Festival, was 10 years ago + Things I Learned
Channel: Viva la Vegan by LC
Date: 2020-04-11

http://www.vivalavegan.net

Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! celebrates the 10th anniversary of Brisbane's FIRST all-vegan, environmental festival, Green Earth Festival, which took place on 13 March 2010. She organised and promoted this event which would not have been as successful without the help of her vegan tribe of over 100 volunteers. 

They said not enough people would care about the environment or veganism in Queensland to come to this event... but at the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, Green Earth Festival attracted 3000-4000 attendees! It's still one of the best days of Leigh-Chantelle's life and is a milestone and project she's incredibly proud of.

(NOTE: this video was filmed on Friday 6 March 2020 before the corona virus impacted the world)

Learn all about:
00:39 The History of Green Earth Festival & the not-for-profit LC formed and ran, Green Earth Group
05:56 Creating a vegan tribe (in 2010, when veganism was NOT on trend)
10:02 Green Earth Festival in 2010
12:36 Green Earth Day and the environmental disasters in Queensland in 2011
22:20 Where to for GEG when there was no festival to organise
25:40 LC's first "travel as transformation" learning in SE Asia
32:00 LC's next "travel as transformation" learning in Europe (What Would You Be Doing if the World Was Already Vegan? video: https://youtu.be/EFkHLr9aqbA) 
33:38 LC's passion now: cyberpsychology & honours (Social robots research project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA1UAwo4wlM)
34:52 Where the vegan and animal rights movement was, how our interactions have changed for the worse due to the ways social media has taught us to behave, and where to from here... (another video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6dQRCIvdRE&t=75s)

★ Green Earth Group The History 2009-2013 FREE eBook: https://issuu.com/epicentreequilibrium/docs/green_earth_group_history_ebook 
+ the blog: https://www.vivalavegan.net/interviews/7-updates/677-green-earth-group-the-history-2009-2013.html

★ A Great Green Success: https://www.vivalavegan.net/interviews/7-updates/36-a-great-green-success-green-earth-festival-wrap-up.html 
★ Tomorrow would have been GED 2012: https://www.vivalavegan.net/interviews/7-updates/643-tomorrow-would-have-been-green-earth-day-2012.html 

★ Internet Archive for GEG: https://web.archive.org/web/2019*/greenearthgroup.org
★ Internet Archive for GEF: https://web.archive.org/web/2019*/greenearthfestival.net 
★ Internet Archive for GED: https://web.archive.org/web/2019*/greenearthday.net
(just click on the years with the bars showing there’s info for that year, click on the dates that have dots, and then click on the time to open up the page from that time and date).

★ UK Vegan Society farmers info: https://www.vegansociety.com/take-action/campaigns/grow-green/farmers
★ Dairy to Berries in the Finnish town, North Karelia: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/finlands-radical-heart-health-transformation/389766/  
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You can find Leigh-Chantelle on: 
★ Twitter: https://twitter.com/leighchantelle
★ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/leighchantelle 
★ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/leighchantelle

VLV! Website: http://www.vivalavegan.net

All VLV! social media channels (except YouTube) deleted December 2018. 

Podcasts on:
★ Archive.org (ALL): https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Viva+la+Vegan%21%22
★ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/pk/podcast/viva-la-vegan!/id957079127 
★ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/viva-la-vegan 
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