Jonny Dubowsky

Founder of Rock n Renew

Rock n Renew: A Plan of Action for the Planet, That Rocks

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Al Gore meets Iggy Pop! In just three years, Jonny Dubowsky has rocketed from a next-big-thing rock star, with a green bent, into an exciting and formidable environmentalist in his own right-- a young man whose sincerity, passion, and flawless track record have upended everything we think we know about the sustainability movement.

Dubowsky's venture, The Rock 'n Renew Foundation, is an interdisciplinary program that teaches students, parents, businesses, and communities how to integrate sustainability directly into their lives. Partnering with everyone from the National Resource Defense Council to Bill McKibben's 350.org to An Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David, the program uses art, music and pop culture to inspire change; it was visited by over 250,000 students in 2009, and a dedicated building -- in Bayonne, New Jersey -- is set to open in 2010.

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Rock n Renew: A Guide to Sustainable Living

In entirely customized talks, written for your particular audience and location, Jonny Duboswky lays out a plan of action for sustainable living. How can you incorporate sustainability into every aspect of your life, at home, at school, at work, in your community, around the world? Based on his groundbreaking work and travels, he shows you practical ways to reduce your carbon footprint, gives you the latest on renewable energy, talks ecological restoration, and previews green jobs and the new green economy. An energetic, charismatic speaker, Dubowsky challenges you to rethink how your actions will define your generation, and your world.

Sustainable Campus: One Hands-on Afternoon That Will Change Your Campus (and Your Life)

Though climate change is arguably the issue of our time, many students are not making it their issue. They feel removed from the heat, so to speak. They feel overwhelmed with statistics. Or they think the problem is too big for any one person to confront. Awash in political news, contentious debate and research that is often developed halfway around the world, students often have little sense as to how their actions affect our planet. They have no idea where to even begin to make a difference. They are tuning out at the very moment when their voices--their leadership--are needed most.

Enter Jonny Dubowsky

In a hands-on program, Dubowsky shows students how they can help save the planet, beginning with changes to a place very familiar to them -- their campus. By engaging in a variety of fun, interactive activities --making rain gardens to positively divert watershed, doing dorm room energy audits, pointing out areas of waste, working side by side with administration, and beyond --students learn that their actions can and do count. They gain a sense of eco-awareness and campus pride. And they develop roadmaps for personal sustainable living that will last their whole lives. With the magnetic pull of a rock star and the expertise that comes with being an acclaimed green innovator, Dubowsky delivers a hands-on program that is hugely satisfying, and beneficial, for all involved. The way in which students look at their campus, the world around them, and their place in it, will never be the same.

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