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WHAT COUNTS You might not expect beer to change the world. It likely won't, but baby steps are important. Breweries like Chico-based Sierra Nevada promote greater water conservation efforts, and still more brewers now support the Climate Declaration, an effort to create more socially responsible booze. That's the new face of the revolution, so raise a glass, just make sure it's an organic product. You might even enjoy a Kombucha Beer. Source: Portland Business Journal, Brewers Association, Yours for Good Fermentables, Takepart, Ceres and Craft Brewing Business 2,822 Number of operating breweries in the U.S. 250 Percent increase on the price of hops over the past 10 years 10,000 Dollars of profi t an acre of organic hops can gross 31 Number of gallons in a barrel of beer 20 Percent of all kegs at bars and restaurants that goes to waste 25 Percent decreased risk of heart disease if you consume one drink of alcohol per day 424,000 Estimated jobs provided by craft brewers in the U.S. By Tim Posada 79M Sales of organic beer in the U.S. in 2014 101.5B Overall beer sales in the U.S. in 2014 $1M Lagunitas Brewing Co. in Petaluma spends annually to send its wastewater to Oakland for proper treatment The Benjamin Creme Museum announces its Grand Opening on October 17th, 2015 in Pacific Palisades, California. The Museum aims to present the life and work of Benjamin Creme as an ar st, author and worldwide lecturer. Mr. Creme's dual life mission has been to present one of the most extraordinary and cri cally important messages of our me – the emergence into the everyday world of Maitreya, the World Teacher, and His group, the Masters of Wisdom – as well as to forge a unique union between his prophe c message and his groundbreaking esoteric art. Profoundly symbolic in nature, his later pain ngs are visual representa ons of deeper spiritual truths and cons tute a genre of ar s c expression the world has never before seen. Visitors will have an opportunity to view a variety of Benjamin Creme's pain ngs, spanning many decades and illustra ng his striking and original personal style. The collec on includes examples of his early abstract portraits and landscapes from the 1940s and 1950s, and his spiritual, esoteric art, which he began to paint in the 1960s. This new cultural center seeks to benefit and educate the public, as a center for a permanent collec on of Mr. Creme's art as well as for the dissemina on of informa on about Maitreya, the World Teacher, and to answer the public's inquiries about Benjamin Creme's books, lecture videos, and esoteric art. The Grand Opening will feature Mr. Creme's pain ng, Thangka for the coming Buddha Maitreya, plus ten other original esoteric pain ngs (and esoteric lithographs) along with art from his earlier period. Loca on: 881 Alma Real Drive, Suite 320 Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, USA Free Admission Grand Opening October 17, 2015 Introductory talk by Marc Gregory - 1 pm Informa on: benjamincrememuseum.org info@benjamincrememuseum.org 424.744.8121 Museum hours: Wednesday 3pm-7pm Saturday 11am-6pm Sunday 11am-6pm october/november 2015 11