STAR ECO Station to be featured in the next issue of Japanese Vogue!!!

Move over NEXT TOP Models because there’s a new kid in town boasting the color of the season: GREEN!!! STAR ECO Station will be featured in the next issue of Japanese Vogue for their ECO article. The Eco Station will be featured as one of the hidden treasures of “Green Society”. Japanese Vogue staff writer Nancy Fukuzaki visited the Eco Station with friends and family felt that the rescue center would be the perfect fit for the Eco Green article. From life saving rescues to fashion magazines gone green; the ECO Station covers all ground to spread the word about the importance of environmental safety. Congrats STAR ECO Station and keep up the good work!

Take a trip on the WILD side and end your summer at the STAR ECO Station!

Have the dog days of summer got you down? Are you sad because the summer is almost over? Well turn that frown upside down and smile all the way to an enigmatic tropical adventure!!! Come one come all and take a trip to a Mayan Rain Forest without ever leaving Los Angeles!

At the STAR ECO Station you will discover and meet all kinds of interesting creatures and unusual characters of the tropics! You’ll meet a 15-foot reticulated Boa Constrictor, a dancing Cockatoo, a neon green Water Dragon, exotic wild cats, tantalizing Tarantulas and much much more ! Upon your visit to this mystic majestic place you will receive a guided tour and learn about the inhabitants of exotic tropical rain forests!

Don’t miss out! End your summer with a bang at the ECO Station!

Zieve Physical Therapy and Chiropractic & STAR ECO Station presents: Healthy Family Workshop

Start your little ones year off right and join us at the “Healthy Workshop” hosted by the ECO Station. The workshop will be presented by: Dr. Julie Zieve DC, PT of Zieve Physical Therapy & Chiropractic. Dr. Zieve will teach families how to stay healthy while balancing a busy schedule, family life, exercise and nutrition. Dr. Zieve’s focus will cover 5 topics of interest:

• The shocking statistics about exercise
• Pediatric nutrition and the obesity epidemic
• How to become a label reader when shopping for food
• What are fish farms and how do they affect your health
• How the media incorporates vitamins and supplements into your water and soda (Is this healthy?)

If you’re looking to keep you and your family healthy, feeling good or you want to learn how to understand food, exercise and prevention practices, then attend this workshop and bring your kids, friends and neighbors! Come one, come all!

Event Details:

Zieve Physical Therapy and Chiropractic & STAR ECO Station presents: Healthy Family Workshop

10101 W. Jefferson Blvd., Culver City, CA. 90232

Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 6:30 pm

RSVP with Kimberly Sheaffer (310) 855-2575

Join us at Children’s Book Author Zach Shapiro’s book signing at STAR ECO Station

Wednesday, August 19th at 3 pm the Eco Station will hold a book signing for Culver City Rabbi and author, Zach Shapiro. Rabbi Shapiro will be reading and signing his new children’s book, “We’re all in the Same Boat.” The book is an alphabet book based on the story of Noah’s Ark.

WHAT? Rabbi Zach Shapiro “We’re all in the Same Boat” Book Signing
WHEN? Wednesday, August 19th 2009, 3:00 p.m.
WHERE? STAR ECO Station, 10101 W. Jefferson Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232
HOW MUCH? FREE

Erick and Dr. Norihisa Tatarazako of the National Institute of Environmental Studies

Erick at the Institute for Environmental Studies

Wildlife Specialist/Director & Co-Founder of STAR ECO Station Erick Bozzi II Goes to Japan for Environmental Research

STAR ECO Station Director/Co-Founder and Wildlife Specialist Erick Bozzi II recently took a 2-week journey to the Technology driven and cultural dynasty of Japan! The Ecological expert visited the country to learn how the Japanese are advancing in the realm of environmental protection and green technology practices.

While in Japan, Erick visited and toured the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Tsukuba, Japan. The institute specializes in collecting data from all over the world to aide in the effort of protecting the environment.

Erick met and began research with lead researcher Dr. Norihisa Tatarazako PH.D on the goal of globally reducing greenhouse gas emissions based on methodology and data collected by Dr.Tatarazako’s Asia Pacific integrated model team and Erick’s research studies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Erick has been invited back by Dr. Tatarazako and his team to continue research in November. He will be in Japan working with the researcher for three months to continue research and data collection and compare environmental risk case studies.

In addition to his research work in Japan, Erick has also led several environmental initiatives in Costa Rica, Colombia and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Erick has also worked closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on several environmental projects and is a former board member of the Water Keeper Alliance, where he represented the Cartegena (Colombia) Baykeeper Board.

London-based BBC Network Covers RockSTAR Music Education’s Tribute to Michael Jackson

London-based BBC Networks “Muse Rhymes for Kids” television show covered RockStar summer camp students at Fairburn Elementary School as they gave a musical tribute to the late Michael Jackson. The rockers played his chart topping hit “Beat it” for their STAR summer camp peers. The RockSTAR summer camp students range from grades 1st –8th!

In true concert style, the summer campers crowded the stage, cheering and singing along as the rock band jammed and moon walked to the Michael Jackson tune.

The band was also interviewed by the show, which filmed the event to illustrate how children of all ages have been musically influenced by the icon’s music.

***Check back for live footage of the event***

120 (Greenbottle Blue, Mexican Bloodleg and Chaco Golden Knee) Tarantulas packaged in pill bottles, straws and water bottles were brought into the STAR ECO Station, a Los Angeles area environmental science museum and exotic wildlife rescue facility, by U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife services who partners with the facility to rescue other exotic wildlife.

The Department of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services were contacted regarding a breeder who had hidden about 120 spiders. Upon receipt of this special delivery, STAR ECO Station was called to the rescue to house the eight-legged critters.

Four adult Tarantulas and 116 babies were contained in drinking straws and pharmacy pill containers. The Spidy tots were packaged in straws of various sizes and the 4 adults were transported in a half cut water bottles. The Arachna-residents will reside in a special tank especially sized for the new tenants of the rescue facility.

Officials at The Department of U.S. Fish and Wildlife are currently investigating the matter.

Come check the little critters out this summer!

Beyonce isn’t the only act that can get people to camp out overnight for an appearance.  STAR Education can now be added to the list of must haves among children and families as hundreds of Brentwood parents camped out overnight and stood in line that wrapped around Kenter Canyon Elementary just to sign their kids up for the STAR program for the fall session.

With lawn chairs and blankets in tow parents were eager to get their little ones signed up for the smorgasbord of college style classes that are offered to STAR students.  “We want our kids in school all day,” said one parent.  “STAR is the program that can provide just that and accommodate my schedule.”

The event was so monumental, that it was given news coverage by Good Day LA (Fox 11 News) and the morning news on KTLA/CW 5!  Now the world finally knows what parents have known for the past 23 years; the STAR program is the cream of the crop

BEACHES IN TROUBLE KIDS THERE ON THE DOUBLE!!!!!!

In perhaps its most ambitious environmental undertaking to date, the STAR ECO Station the Wishtoyo Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) in partnership with the Oxnard School District created a wonderful learning opportunity and invited over 1,600 STAR Oxnard Elementary students to the 8,000-year-old-Native American Chumash Village in Malibu at Nicholas Canyon County Beach.

It was a fun-filled morning of marine education and exploration that took place in celebration of the National Children’s World Ocean Day celebration! Students rotated through a variety of environmental and cultural workshops run by STAR ECO Station Culver City staff; Mati Waiya, Founder and Executive Director of the Wishtoyo Foundation; and environmental agency NOAA.

These students are in love with the sea and the animals that live in it, “ said David Bloom, Conservation Education Corps volunteer with NOAA. “We teach them about ecosystems-how living and nonliving things work together to create a balance in nature.”

It was the first visit to the Malibu Beach for Melissa Rivera, 8, a third-grade student at Lemonwood School in Oxnard. “I’ve been learning about the Indians and got to touch the baby alligators,” she said. I’ve also learned we shouldn’t throw trash in the ocean and that we should recycle.”

For many of these children, it was their first opportunity to explore our beaches, as many come from migrate farming families and communities and do not have the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities such as this.

Katiana Bozzi, co-founder and educational outreach director of the STAR ECO Station, said the organization’s goal is to help young students become more familiar with the “entire environment.”

This was surely a day that these young students will remember forever; the first time they went to the beach!

RockSTAR Music Education’s very own Cowan Elementary rockers performed at the world famous and celebrity packed Grove for an all-star performance at the premiere of Eddie Murphy’s new film, “Imagine That!”

The two bands were treated like genuine Rock Stars as they were given a pancake breakfast and a sneak screening of the film! The two bands performed for a crowd of over 1,500 people as record, advertising, publicity and marketing executives and their children looked on!

Prior to their appearance and performance at “The Grove”, the little super stars won 2 of six spots at the battle of the bands round I competition at the House of Blues! The last leg of their Los Angeles tour will be a performance at the Hard Rock Café at Universal City Walk, June 14th.

Congrats Cowan Elementary, we already knew you were STARS but now the world knows it too. Keep on rockin’ kiddies!