check our friends out and you'll see some of the goods- plus a lot of Brasilian grooves- check out Natiruts, Seu Jorge, O Rappa, Jorge Ben, Charlie Brown Jr.
Movies
beware of what hollyweird is doing to your brain
Television
not exactly
Books
How to Change the World (Bornstein)- great stories about how you as a single individual can become a social entreprenuer and change the lives of many through your efforts- join the revolution
Heroes
everyone out there trying to create positive change- Bob Burnquist, Frank Scura and ASEC, Bethany Hamilton, Bono, Hans Rey and Wheels for Life, Tom Curren and one of the most competitive athletes of our time Kelly Slater.
About me:
The journey began when we experienced acai with local surfers during a trip to celebrate the new millennium in Brazil. Amazed by the natural energy and nutritional benefits of this amazing fruit, we were quickly hooked. Our last night in Brazil, we started working on a plan to share acai with the world and in early 2000, Sambazon was formed.
We scraped together enough money to buy a container of frozen pulp and some marketing fliers and began trying to convince juice bars in Southern California that acai was the real deal. By the end of that first summer, over 50 juice bars were selling Sambazon Acai Smoothies. We started expanding all over the country, approaching the best juice bars we could find in places like South Beach, New York City, Boulder, and Oahus North Shore. We did endless samplings, demos and promo events, and people loved it.
Today our products are sold in virtually every health food store and juice bar in the U.S. and we continue to work hard to spread the word about acai.
In Brazil, we have been working with the local NGOs to build the supply of organic and sustainable acai. Over 10,000 people in the Amazon help us harvest acai through our certified organic, fair trade program. These people now have an incentive to manage their land and protect it for generations to come.
"There is no one solution to save the Amazon rainforest. A wide range of sustainable and effective initiatives are needed to keep the forest alive and this can only be achieved if economic alternatives and solutions to destructive logging can be found ....The tasty dark violet wine ( of acai ) is the most important non-wood forest product in terms of money from the river delta of the Amazon". -Greenpeace.org
We encourage individuals and institutions to support social, environmental and scientific programs that will both preserve the Amazon and unlock its potential to aid mankind.
We are very grateful that we have been given the opportunity to share this incredible fruit with the world and we want to say thank you to all those that have supported us along the way.
Sincerely,
Team Sambazon
Who I'd like to meet: Enjoy some of Sambazon's videos....
After 5 years of intense touring the around the country and performing at countless venues & festivals, southern CA's Delta Nove returns home to take some time off from the road to present "The Collab Lab". A weekly concert series taking place every Wednesday in Oct & Nov. at the Blue Cafe in their hometown of Long Beach, CA. Each night will feature 2 complete sets of music and will feature a very special guest artist performing with the band to creating a unique live experience each week. Special collaboration guests include members of Ozomatli, Jason Hann (String Cheese Incident), Blackbyrd McKnight (George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars), Marc Ford (Black Crowes, Ben Harper), Greg Ginn (Black Flag, Jambang), Ikey Owens (The Mars Volta), Norwood Fisher (Fishbone), Norton Wisdom (Banyan), Jamie Janover (Zilla, Everyone Orchestra), Lynx, Brian Jordan (Karl Denson's Tiny Universe), John Whoolilurie (Mojow & the Vibration Army), Craig Marshall (Cubensis) and many more. Each week will be very different, with a mix of each guest's material, DN material, some covers, and plenty of improvisation. Details for each date can be found at www. deltanoveband. com or www. myspace. com/deltanoveband
To Ed, Jeremy, Ryan and the SAMBAZON crew. thanks for everything. I'll hit you cats up at the wharehouse when iam in san clemente. peace from the Durkin family. love you cats...
Just had a yummy Acai Bowl with Granol!! Respect to the original!
I do fitness model stuff, (Mens Health) and worked for USPLabs (National Sports Nutritional Supplement line) Helped them get the GNC account and Vitamin World. If I can help in anyway please let me know! Berry Wonderful work guys Keep it up!
I first come across Acai @ 10 years ago, at the JIU JITSU fights. I would tell everybody, but it took I time......now here we are, i can pick up at a local Health store. Great!! Thomas "JIU JITSU PLAYER FIGHT APPAREL"
