In the Landmark Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Vernon LaVia created the idea of Aurora Green Lights to educate others on the environment, and then turned the leadership of his project away to Mavis Bates. Aurora Green Lights is putting on an environmental fair this summer on June 12, which has attracted the attention of The Beacon-News newspaper.
The green fair created by Bates is titled “Summer Solstice Celebration – Growing Greener Every Day”, and is being held at the Prisco Community Center in Aurora, Illinois. A full-fledged, all day environmental festival is being planned, with music, food, vendors with environmental products, demonstrations, educational workshops, and more. The fair is being modeled off Elgin, IL’s ECCO Green Expo.
To get involved with Aurora Green Lights or to find out more information about it or the Summer Solstice Celebration/environmental fair, call Bates at 630-605-9244 or go to www.auroragreenlights.org.
Susan Trost created an extraordinary event to help 38 women from the Denver, Colorado area in difficult situations kick off the new year in style. Trost’s ‘New Year, New You’ event, her project in landmark education’s selp program, treated 38 women to pampering such as massage, hair cuts, manicures/pedicures, body wraps, yoga and pillates sessions, acupuncture and other supportive services. All the women were nominated for the event for having had a difficult 2009 – having lost a job, had a major illness, divorce or other serious issue. 
Rich Jochum harnessed the power of the internet to make his “Adopt-a-bed” project a reality, raising over $8,000 from friends, family and concerned strangers for First Step House of Orange County, a non-profit which helps local homeless men with severe drinking problems. 
Karen Fletcher says she was looking for ways to bring families together to form real communities. In the Landmark SELP program, Fletcher created “Our Dancing Village”, a family dance jam get-together designed to help do just that – give parents, children and families a place to come together to dance and be together. The North Seattle Herald-Outlook 
The project created by Srinivasa Rao in his Landmark SELP programme to identify and restore neglected historic monuments in the Indian province of Karnataka (which includes Bangalore) has been recognized with a major feature article in 
They worked with the Archaeological Survey of Indian, identifying different sites and spending their weekends investigating them. They visited twenty-five locations and began work at three of them. In doing so, they both educated local communities and tourists online about the different sites. In the months that followed, they worked with local citizens and college students to unearth a number of ancient temples.
Bob Talan’s “Life is Good” team of climbers for Chicago’s acclaimed “Hustle up the Hancock” charity event, taking place February 28, 2010, has reached 44 members, according to the latest reports. This is the fourth year for that Talan has arranged a large team of climbers to take part in the event, which raises money for the Respiratory Health Association of Chicago (RHAC). Talan’s teams have raised tens of thousands of dollars towards for treatment and research of lung diseases and disorders.