Archive for March, 2010
Renowned EcoCity speaker, April 2nd
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From: Liz Walker <liz>
Date: March 30, 2010 2:13:46 PM EDT
To: liz
Subject: Renowned EcoCity speaker, April 2ndHi everyone, (apologies in advance for cross-posting : please circulate to your lists!)
Please join us in a rare opportunity to hear Richard Register, known as the “father of the EcoCity movement”, who is coming to EcoVillage at Ithaca this weekend! He will give a powerpoint presentation based on his travels in search of EcoCities around the world. Come see slides of unique places in different cultures, on different continents, that are manifesting the vision of the Ecological City.
When: Friday, April 2nd
What time: 7:30
Where: Frog Common House, 100 Rachel Carson Way
EcoVillage at Ithaca, Take Rt.79 West out of town, approx.1.5 miles from Rt.13 to the top of West Hill. Take a left on Rachel Carson Way. Park in the visitor parking lot on the circle, or along the entry road. FROG Common House is large building across from the circle.Richard is the author of “EcoCities,” the definitive book on the subject. He has organized ground-breaking International EcoCity Conferences that have been held in countries as diverse as Turkey, China, Brazil, Senegal, Australia and the US. The next EcoCity Conference will be held next August in Montreal. He is also founder of EcoCity Builders
http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/Hope you can join us!
Liz Walker
Executive DIrector, EcoVillage at Ithaca- Center for Sustainability Education
http://www.ecovillageithaca.orgFor more information call 607-272-5149
Organic Grows hosting two films on Wednesday, March 31 at 7pm
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From: Marian Brown <mbrown>
Date: March 29, 2010 5:01:30 PM EDT
To: sustainability friends <sustainability>
Subject: Organic Grows hosting two films on Wednesday, March 31 at 7pm
Reply-To: Marian Brown <mbrown>(posted for Taryn Hubbard with ICOrganic Growers)
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Hi everyone,
If you’re interested in learning about where your food comes from, the
benefits of eating local and homegrown food, or food in general, then this
event is perfect for you!The Organic Growers of Ithaca College, the student organization that maintains the community garden on campus, will host two short documentaries in one evening: “Fridays at the Farm”<http://vimeo.com/1437059?pg=embed&sec=1437059>(about community supported agriculture) and “Homegrown” <http://www.homegrown-film.com/trailer.html>(on urban homesteading & gardening).
The event will be held on Wednesday, March 31st, in CNS 112 on Ithaca College’s campus. Screening will begin at 7 pm.
We will hold a panel discussion afterward featuring the founders of the Ithaca College Community Garden, local farmer Todd McLane of WestHaven Farm, and other local food activists from Tompkins County. We hope to talk about ways to support our local food economy here in Tompkins County, highlighting local farms & community gardens.
Arrive on time, as there will be local treats, including a delicious slaw thanks to the Culinary Arts Club!
Hope to see you there! Bring your friends!
Any questions? Want to get more involved with the Organic Growers of IC?
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4/1 & 4/2: Talks on food systems policy & activism at Cornell
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From: Sandra Repp <sjr37>
Date: March 29, 2010 9:31:41 AM EDT
To: tc-HSC-L, sustainabletompkins
Cc: “Jemila Sequeira” <es538>, mr55
Subject: 4/1 & 4/2: Talks on food systems policy & activism at Cornell
Reply-To: Sandra Repp <sjr37>Posted from another list serve.
From: Lesli Hoey <lmh46>
To: fang-l, crp-l, nwaeg-l
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:18:42 -0400Wayne Roberts
Manager of the Toronto Food Policy CouncilThe Realities of Collaborative Food and Nutrition Policy
Thursday, April 1, 12:20, 200 Savage HallThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective Food Activists
Friday, April 2, 12:20, 100 Caldwell Hall
Brown bag lunch to follow in Savage 332, 1:30 – 2:30 (RSVP, as seating is limited)NOW Magazine named Wayne Roberts one of Toronto’s leading visionaries of the past 20 years. During his visit to Cornell, Roberts will speak about his experiences as a food activist and manager of the Toronto Food Policy Council, a citizen body of 30 food activists and experts widely recognized for its innovative approach to food security. Roberts co-authored the recently launched Toronto Food Strategy, endorsed by the Toronto Board of Health, and Toronto’s Food Charter adopted by the City Council in 2001. Prior to his work on food systems, Roberts chaired the Toronto-based Coalition for a Green Economy for 15 years, co-authored Toronto’s Environmental Plan and received the 2002 Canadian Environment Award for his contributions to sustainable living. He also worked for two decades in community organizing, university teaching, media, labor education, industrial relations and union administration, during which he served as senior negotiator between the Ontario Housing Corporation and Charles Street Tenants’ Association in the longest and biggest rent strike in Canadian history. Read one his most recent editorials below.
Funded by GPSAFC and the Department of City and Regional Planning
Co-sponsored by FANG and the Program for International NutritionFree and Open to the Cornell and Broader Community
Reference for swale building?
| Hi Everyone,
We desperately need some land moved on our property to alleviate drainage issues. Can anyone recommend someone with the skills to look at our land and help us figure out the best way to arrange the drainage AND the machinery to do it? Appreciate your help! Thanks, |
Green Guerrillas NEW FILM 04-01 at Cinemapolis
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From: So Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project <info>
Date: March 25, 2010 3:36:55 PM EDT
To: TC-HSC-L
Subject: Green Guerrillas NEW FILM 04-01 at Cinemapolis
Reply-To: So Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project <info>GREEN GREASE GUZZLERS
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local foods reception (zero waste event) w/Q&A will follow the filmCinemapolis Movie Theater
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Ithaca, New York
5:30 PM
FREEAs part of our continued efforts to empower a broad-based constituency of youth, everyday people, and activists to think critically about petroleum dependence and false solutions to climate justice, Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective presents Green Grease Guzzlers—a teen-centered, fun, and informative Blockumentary that offers an unconventional “how-to” view for those interested in making biodiesel and learning more about the veggie oil conversion process for diesel-engine vehicles.
A story about alternative and sustainable transportation, this excerpt will showcase Green Guerrillas ona move, making our collective’s transportation more “eco-friendly” with the conversion of our 1990 Ford Econoline diesel bus into a lean and green biodiesel/waste veggie oil machine. Working with a local “Organic Mechanic” and Ithaca Biodiesel Cooperative, Green Guerrillas “get greasy” learning the two ways waste vegetable oil from restaurants can be used to fuel today’s modern diesel vehicles—then we take a trip!
Celebrate Spring with Green Guerrillas!
Join us for this special community preview screening… meet our bus… and help us kick off our Green Grease Guzzlers 2010-2011 Biodiesel/Veggie Oil Bus Tour!
The WORLD PREMIERE for Green Grease Guzzlers will take place in June 2010 in Detroit.
About Green Guerrillas…
Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective is an innovative, grassroots job-training program in Ithaca, New York, which values teen’s creative insights and capacities to transform our reality as leaders and participants for change. Green Guerrillas study documentary and narrative film making; make our own media from posters to movies; do outreach at community events; advocate for equitable living and learning environments; get our “hands dirty” learning about renewable energy; and, analyze important social, political, economic and environmental issues which affect our lives as low-income youth of color. As demonstrated through our work producing 3 full-length films, and several shorts, Green Guerrillas recognize and expose the role mainstream media plays in promoting sweat shops over sustainable style, genetically modified crops over locally-grown organic foods, and pollution and prisons over sustainability and social change. By connecting the dots between the same ideological approaches which criminalize communities; support a school-to-prison pipeline; exploit labor and land; and, pollute the air, water, and soil we all collectively need for survival (do you know about hydrofracking?), Green Guerrillas Blockumentaries showcase stories of sustainability that challenge the status quo.FAN Green Guerrillas on Facebook
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“Living Downstream” film premiere on April 3 at 7pm at Cinemapolis
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From: Marian Brown <mbrown>
Date: March 17, 2010 11:55:52 AM EDT
To: sustainability friends <sustainability>, Sustainable Tompkins County listserv <sustainabletompkins>
Subject: “Living Downstream” film premiere on April 3 at 7pm at Cinemapolis
Reply-To: Marian Brown <mbrown>* Ithaca * * College ’s Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival and Cinemapolis Will Present the World Premiere of Chanda Chevannes’s ‘Living Downstream’ — First 50 Filmgoers Admitted Free *
(03/18/10) Ithaca College ’s Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) will join Cinemapolis in presenting the world premiere of “*Living Downstream*.” Directed by Canadian filmmaker Chanda Chevannes, the film documents ecologist Sandra Steingraber’s private struggle with cancer and her public fight to bring attention to the urgent human rights issue of cancer prevention. Based on Steingraber’s book of the same name, the film will be screened on Saturday, April 3, at 7 p.m. at Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green St. , in Ithaca . Steingraber and Chevannes will introduce the film and conduct a discussion after the screening. Steingraber will also sign copies of her book, which will be sold at the event by Buffalo Street Books.
The first 50 people to show up will be admitted free. After that, general admission will be $9; tickets for seniors (64 and older) and children (12 and under) will be $7.50.
Told from Steingraber’s unique perspective as a biologist, ecologist and poet, “*Living Downstream*” is the personal story of a bladder cancer survivor as well as a scientific inquiry into two toxic chemicals—atrazine and PCBs—and their possible health effects.
“In the film we follow these invisible toxins as they migrate to some of the most beautiful places in North America ,” Chevannes said. “We see how these chemicals enter our bodies and how, once inside, scientists believe they may be working to cause cancer. ‘*Living Downstream*’ is a powerful reminder of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our environment.”
Steingraber holds a doctorate in biology from the University of Michigan and a master’s in English from Illinois State University . A Scholar in Residence in Ithaca College’s Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies since 2003, Steingraber was a featured expert in the Bill Moyers PBS documentary “Kids and Chemicals: Are We Poisoning Our Children?” In addition to “Living Downstream,” she has authored “Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood,” “The Spoils of Famine,” and a volume of poetry, “Post-Diagnosis.” The second edition of “Living Downstream,” which is updated with the latest scientific evidence, will be available from Da Capo Press in April.
In addition to directing “Living Downstream,” Chevannes, along with Nathan Shields, both of The People’s Picture Company in Toronto , produced the film. The Ithaca premiere will be followed by a series of North American screenings scheduled to take place in the coming months. For more information on these upcoming events, visit www.livingdownstream.com <http://www.livingdownstream.com>
Beginning in September, the film will be available on DVD for educational and community use. For ordering information, visit www.livingdownstream.com/order_the_dvd.php <http://www.livingdownstream.com/order_the_dvd.php>
Launched in 1997, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival was an outreach project from the Center for the Environment at Cornell University . In 2005 the festival moved permanently to Ithaca College , where it is housed in the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies as a program to link intellectual inquiry and debate to larger global issues.
*To schedule media interviews with Steingraber and Chevannes, or to obtain a media review copy on DVD, contact * Kathleen O’Grady, QUOI Media Group, at (613) 897-9276 or kathleen54@rogers.com <mailto:kathleen54>
*For more information on FLEFF * , contact festival codirector Patricia Zimmermann at patty@ithaca.edu <mailto:patty> <mailto:patty>
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BikeIt-Pedal to U.S. Social Forum, POTLUCK 4/6 6-9pm Workers Center
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BikeIt – WWW.BIKEIT.ORG
BikeIt Fingerlakes: A 500-mile bike caravan from Ithaca to Detroit for the U.S. Social Forum, leaving on June 12, 2010. Bike touring, community service projects, delicious vegetarian food and fun — all while promoting social and environmental justice! Just one of many bike caravans coming from all over the U.S. Pre-register for the Fingerlakes BikeIt Ride HERE!
Become a BikeIt Fan on Facebook!
1. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! **BIKEIT POTLUCK & INFO SESSION** Tuesday, April 6th, 6-9pm, The Workers Center (above Autumn Leaves Bookstore) 115 The Commons: It’s that time, for the Spring BikeIt potluck! A time to get together, get to know each other, silkscreen some BikeIt tee-shirts, share good food, make spoke cards, and talk about our up-coming tour! The potluck is both for folks who are already registered and those who are interested in the ride to learn more information. All BikeIt registrants highly encouraged to attend! Anyone who is still thinking about registering, this is your chance to learn more and ask questions! Please MARK YOUR CALENDARS and bring your interested friends/family/co-workers! Rsvp by April 3rd to: bikeit2010 or on Facebook. Help spread the word—-Download April 6 Potluck Poster here!
2. BikeIt Bike Ride and Picnic! Biking season has begun, and it’s time for a modest start: Join us for an easy and short (12 mile) ride starting from Dewitt Park at 11am, Saturday, April 6 up to the Cornell Plantations, where we shall picnic and frolic with frisbees, music and what not, before riding back to Dewitt Park. This would also be the perfect place and time to learn more about the 500-mile BikeIt Finger Lakes ride from Ithaca to Detroit, June 2010. Click here for route. (You can generate a cue sheet from the map on that page) RSVP on Facebook.
3. BIKE DRIVE! Help get donated bikes to bring to low-income communities in Detroit. Tell your friends, family, co-workers to donate their used-but working!-bike to the Sustainability Committee of the US Social Forum in Detroit. Contact Jeff at: jfurman to arrange for drop-off of your bike(s). Only adult bikes in working order with minimal rust are accepted. Thanks!
Questions? bikeit2010
a provocative read on invasives by Toby Hemenway
Well, it is a provocative read alright. He makes a number of good points, such as pointing out that disturbance facilitates invasion. Several of the statements are clearly false, however.
Just because a plant is a heavy feeder does not mean it will deplete a soil. The soil is depleted when the plant is harvested and the nutrients taken away and not later returned to the soil. Ditto for the organic matter. It is the management that is at fault, not the plant.
Chestnut Blight, Dutch Elm Disease, zebra mussels, hemlock wooly adelgids, emerald ash borers — none of these needed any disturbance to devastate the native ecosystems they invaded. They were opportunistic alright, but the critical factor was the absence of enemies in a new habitat. Even a healthy ecosystem is vulnerable to that kind of introduced species.
My point is that complexity is inherent. Generalizations, while useful, have limits that may not be obvious. I agree that ecosystems change over time in response to a variety of pressures and that there is no going back. What, then, should be our objective? Diversity offers great benefit in enhancing adaptability and some measure of stability, particularly as compared to monoculture. When we decide to intervene, I think we should be trying to do so with an eye to minimizing the action needed. This is particularly desirable because there are always unintended consequences.
Our ecosystems have been greatly influenced by human activity, both deliberate and accidental. I do not believe that all would be well if we just left them alone. We are responsible for the current state of affairs, and we should have a hand in helping to mitigate our mistakes and preserving and enhancing biodiversity, as well as defending the productivity of the land.
Joel
At 12:53 PM 3/25/10 -0400, you wrote:
http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=100
Native Plants: Restoring to an Idea
Article by Toby Hemenway"Let me tell you about the invasive plant that scares me more than all the
others. Its one that has infested over 80 million acres in the US, and in
many places forms virtual monocultures. It is a heavy feeder, depleting soil
of nutrients. Everywhere it grows, the soil is badly eroded. The plant offers
almost no wildlife habitat, and since it is wind pollinated, does not provide
nectar to insects."read more at:
http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=100The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
offers workshops, apprenticeships, and
permaculture design certificate classes.
http://www.fingerlakespermaculture.org
Plant Swap & 4H Rabbit Show, and question
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:26:56 -0500, you wrote:
>The wild rabbits drop their feces indiscriminately and it doesn’t seem to >affect what they subsequently chew on in the least. While great fertilizer, >I doubt you will get any deterrent effect form rabbit manure. >
>Mike’s suggestion of using dog hair has worked for me in the past.
The entire dog would probably be even more effective than just the hair… Works for us.
Our collie can run faster than rabbits can. He’s not as maneuverable as a rabbit, but he’s definitely faster. He doesn’t get to chase them often – just the fact that we have a dog around (and a fence) keeps them away quite well. They do occasionally (foolishly) get inside the fence, however.
When we had two dogs, rabbits almost never got out of the fence alive. The collie would chase them in a straight line, they’d swerve and jink to try to get away from him, and our other dog – not as fast as the collie – would come along behind and catch them.
Pat
Climate Scientist James Hansen To Speak At Cornell April 19, 2010
Monday April 19
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Kennedy Hall, Call Auditorium, Cornell Univ.
Dr. James E. Hansen (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute)
Global Climate Change, What Must We Do Next
Climate change scientist, and author of Storms of My Grandchildren, will deliver the Jill and Kenneth Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture.
The Iscol Lecture brings prominent scholars, newsmakers, scientists, and leaders to Cornell to address environmental issues of paramount importance to humankind.
Recognizing scholarship on the frontiers of scientific inquiry, the Iscol Lecture provides opportunities for Cornell students, faculty, staff, and the public to gain new knowledge about pressing environmental issues.
A faculty award committee, representing a cross-section of academic disciplines, annually selects the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecturer.
2010 Iscol Lecturer
James E. Hansen
April 19, 2010
Dr. Hansen is director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Universitys Earth Institute.
An active researcher in planetary atmospheres and climate science for nearly 40 years, Hansen is best known for his Congressional testimonies on climate change that widely elevated the awareness of global warming, and is noted as one of the world’s most famous climatologists.
Hansen’s work has evolved from space science to climate science. His early research on Venus clouds led to their identification as sulfuric acid. Since the late 1970s, he has worked on computer simulations of Earth’s atmosphere to gauge the human impact on global climate.
>From STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN
James Hansen
Fall 2009
Chapter 9, “An Honest, Effective Path” pp 184-185
“…your governments are lying through their teeth. “…the truth is that they know that their planned approach will not come anywhere near achieving the intended global objectives. Moreover, they are now taking actions that, if we do not stop them, will lock in guaranteed failure to achieve the targets that they have nominally accepted.
“…How can we say that about our governments? How can we be so sure? We just have to open our eyes. First, they are allowing construction of new coal-fired plants. Second, they are allowing construction of coal-to-liquids plants that will produce oil from coal. Third, they are allowing development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands. Fourth, they are leasing public lands and remote areas for oil and gas exploration to search for the last drop of hydrocarbons. Fifth, they are allowing companies to lease land for hydraulic fracturing, an environmentally destructive mining technique to extract every last bit of gas by injecting large amounts of water deep underground to shatter rocks and release trapped gas. Sixth, they are allowing highly destructive mountaintop âremoval and long-wall coal mining, both of which cause extensive environmental damage for the sake of getting as much coal as possible. In long-wall mining, a giant machine chews out a coal seam underground-subsequent effects include groundwater pollution and subsidence of the terrain, which can damage surface structures. And on and on.”
The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
offers workshops, apprenticeships, and
permaculture design certificate classes.
http://www.fingerlakespermaculture.org
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a provocative read on invasives by Toby Hemenway
http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=100
Native Plants: Restoring to an Idea
Article by Toby Hemenway
“Let me tell you about the invasive plant that scares me more than all the others. Its one that has infested over 80 million acres in the US, and in many places forms virtual monocultures. It is a heavy feeder, depleting soil of nutrients. Everywhere it grows, the soil is badly eroded. The plant offers almost no wildlife habitat, and since it is wind pollinated, does not provide nectar to insects.”
read more at:
http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=100
The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
offers workshops, apprenticeships, and
permaculture design certificate classes.
http://www.fingerlakespermaculture.org
Plant Swap & 4H Rabbit Show, and question
The wild rabbits drop their feces indiscriminately and it doesn’t seem to affect what they subsequently chew on in the least. While great fertilizer, I doubt you will get any deterrent effect form rabbit manure.
Mike’s suggestion of using dog hair has worked for me in the past. Also effective is pepper spray. You can get 3 weeks of protection from both deer and rabbits using the formula used by Indian Creek orchard. It is:
2 habanero peppers
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 quart of milk
1 quart of water
Whiz the oil, egg, and peppers in a blender, making a hot pepper mayo in effect. Add the milk to the extent that there is room in the blender. Strain, washing through the retained solids with the remaining milk and the additional water. Spray. Keeps ok in the fridge, becoming even more effective as the egg rots.
Joel
At 08:27 AM 3/25/10 -0400, you wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Michael Burns <michael> wrote:
via: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cnyplantcycle/
Who knows, you might even
meet a neighbor that can provide you with bunny poo. This is the best
fertilizer you can get, they are vegetarian’s and the poo does not need to get
hot before using it.
I was looking at the rabbit latrines in my back yard the other day and started wondering, since they seem to be hygienic creatures, would bunny poo work as a deterrent to keep them from eating the seedlings in the garden?
Does anyone have any experience with this?
Mike W.
Plant Swap & 4H Rabbit Show, and question
I use Emer, the malamutt’s hair around my gardens. As much as she sheds, there is plenty.
Plant Swap & 4H Rabbit Show, and question
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Michael Burns <michael> wrote:
via: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cnyplantcycle/
Who knows, you might even
meet a neighbor that can provide you with bunny poo. This is the best
fertilizer you can get, they are vegetarian’s and the poo does not need to get
hot before using it.
I was looking at the rabbit latrines in my back yard the other day and started wondering, since they seem to be hygienic creatures, would bunny poo work as a deterrent to keep them from eating the seedlings in the garden?
Does anyone have any experience with this?
Mike W.
Plant Swap & 4H Rabbit Show, June 12, 2010, Ithaca NY
via: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cnyplantcycle/
This is just a reminder that 7valleyplantcycle.com has a scheduled plantswap event for June 12, 2010, at the 4H Camp in Ithaca, NY, from noon to 3:00.
This will run in conjunction with the 4H Club’s annual bunny show.
Vendors will be available to provide both breakfast and lunch. Rabbit stew?
Come one, come all, this is open to the public. Who knows, you might even meet a neighbor that can provide you with bunny poo. This is the best fertilizer you can get, they are vegetarian’s and the poo does not need to get hot before using it.
Tent sites for the weekend are still available at $5.00 per night. If you want to help set up the bunny show on Friday night, you can get in on a homemade pizza party.
upcoming events
| Dear Friends,
I just wanted to share that I have two upcoming events associated with my book “The Magic of Nature.” On Sunday, March 28th at 2pm, I’ll be giving a public talk at the Ulysses Public Library in Trumansburg. This will feature a slide show of my nature photos (in color!), a short reading, and questions and conversation. Also coming up, I’ll be featured on WSKG’s “Off the Page,” an author interview show. You can listen live and call in with questions from 1 to 2 pm on Tuesday, March 30th. It will be re-broadcast at 7 pm that evening, and the podcast will be available at www.wskg.org. Hope to see or hear from you at any of these events! The book itself is still available on-line at www.SoaringSpirit1.org/books.html as well as GreenStar’s west end store and Buffalo Street Books in downtown Ithaca. Thank you!—Sequoya / Susan Wiener |
Volunteer to work a day on a farm!
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From: Sandra Repp <sjr37>
Date: March 19, 2010 4:36:08 PM EDT
To: sustainabletompkins, tc-HSC-L, Funschooling List <funschooling>
Cc: jg16, rfirak, ggalati1, fullplatefarms
Subject: Volunteer to work a day on a farm!
Reply-To: Sandra Repp <sjr37>News from the Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming:
Get on a Farm – Join Ithaca Crop Mob!
http://groups.google.com/group/ithaca-crop-mobHAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO WORK ON A FARM FOR JUST ONE DAY?
Are you an aspiring agrarian looking for hands-on experience? Are you a Local Foods enthusiast who enjoys being outside and getting your hands dirty? Do you want to be part of a cooperative agrarian community? Then you should join the Ithaca Crop Mob!WHATS CROP MOBBING?
A Crop Mob is an event held once a month at a different farm each month.
Members of the “mob show up prepared to lend a hand to the host farm for a morning or afternoon.
Possible tasks include but are not limited to: weeding, rock picking, “gleaning” (harvesting crops that would otherwise go unharvested), tree or transplant planting, putting up fencing, setting up a hoop house, etc At the end of the work party a meal is provided, usually by the host farm, and farmers and mobbers eat together.WHO CAN BE A CROP MOBBER?
Anyone can be a crop mobber. Crop mobs are composed of farmers, college students, CSA families, local foods enthusiasts, gardeners, farmers-market-goers, school volunteer groups, aspiring agrarians, and the simply agricurious, along with their friends, neighbors, siblings, parents, grandparents, and kids.HOW TO GET INVOLVED
Find our more about Ithaca Crop Mob and join our Google Group at:
http://groups.google.com/group/ithaca-crop-mob
Volunteers for the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Snack Program at BJM
Vanessa can use up to two volunteers in the kitchen every day. Would you pass along this message to the Finger Lakes Permaculture listserv:
Volunteers are needed Tuesday – Friday from 7 am – 10 am to help prepare fruits and vegetables as classroom snacks for the students and teachers at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School in downtown Ithaca. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Lara Parrilla Kaltman at lara.
Thank you!
Lara
Some more details about the need for volunteers:
Right now we have two volunteers per day on Monday, Tues, and Thurs and one per day on Wed and Friday. So as of now, I can use another person for two hours sometime between 7am-10am Wed and Friday. After mid May, we may lose all of our volunteers Tues-Thurs (because they are students) and one on Monday, in which case we will need at least one volunteer each for Tues, Wed, and Thurs, and possibly one more on Monday too.
Thanks! Vanessa
Farms & Food On The Cutting Room Floor? NY State
Please post this petition widely, especially to friends in New YorkState. This needs to turn into a perfect storm of stakeholders voicing their demands of their elected officials. Sorry for any cross posting. Thanks very much.
IF THERE ARE NO FARMS, THERE WILL BE NO FOOD
A sizable crowd spent Monday in the bad air and lighting of the bowels of Albany’s EmpirePlaza lobbying for Food, Farms and the Environment, including a busload of eaters who made the trip up from NYC and representatives of over 70 different organizations. We met with State Senators and Assemblymen who will be drafting the final budget for New YorkState for 2010. They are about to make some dramatic, disproportionate, potentially deeply destructive and nonsensical cuts to farm, food and environmental appropriations, which is already a relatively tiny, 4 tenths of 1% of the entire state budget, obliterating a good deal of state support for what we have accomplished these last years. Aside from being in the good company of other activists, growers and eaters – I believe we succeeded in getting some legislative attention and converts. The pressures will be intense during these last weeks, please add your voice – for good food, clean water, farmland preservation and healthy communities – today.
You can really make a difference on this:
1.) Sign the petition.
2.) Pick up the phone, it will take a few minutes and is so very important. To find your representatives: http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/, http://www.nysenate.gov/districts/map.
Monday, NO Farms, NO Food! came in the top 10out of a field of 2,500+ ideas on Change.org: No Farm No Food: Save the Land that Sustains Us.
Farms & Food On The Cutting Room Floor?
Targeting: The NY State Senate and The NY State House
Started by: Gianni Ortiz
http://www.change.org/actions/view/farms_food_on_the_cutting_room_floor
It’s clear that NY State is in a serious financial crisis and sacrifices need to be made, waste removed. The priorities of our ‘representatives’ become crystal clear when making tough budget decisions –. The state budget is $134B, farming receives a scant .4 of 1%, about $100M of that. This tiny fraction of our taxpayer dollars helps to make it possible for us to meet our most basic needs – real food and clean water.
Ironically, the budget is due on April FOOLS Day – just who wins and who looses will show who the joke is on… and how we will be voting in upcoming elections.
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This is the letter that will be sent to your representatives:
Farms & Food On The NYS Budget Cutting Room Floor?
Greetings,
It’s clear that NY State is in a serious financial crisis and sacrifices need to be made. The priorities of our ‘representatives’ become crystal clear when making tough budget decisions. The total state budget is $134B, appropriations for farming are a scant .4 of 1%, about $100M. This tiny fraction of our taxpayer dollars helps to make it possible for us to meet our most basic necessities – real food and clean water.
Agriculture is the brightest sector in our dismal state economy, providing truly deep green jobs that can’t be exported outside of our borders. The local ‘multiplier effect’ of dollars spent in farming is tremendous; feed, equipment, building supplies, groceries, restaurants, movie theaters… The proposed cuts are profound and for some extremely cost effective, hugely successful fresh veggie and farm viability programs – there’s 100% elimination of funding. At a time of growing numbers of food insecure (read hungry) families and job loses, we need more local and safe food made available – not less. We need increased farmland preservation – not less. We need increased protection for our water and environment – not less. Currently, we are loosing 2 acres of precious farmland every single minute of every single day and when those soils are gone – they’re gone. Strip malls and creeping suburbia will not feed us or future generations and will only increase our dependence on imported food, which is all too often dangerously contaminated.
These proposed cuts are extremely short sighted and will result in the misuse and permanent destruction of our greatest natural resources, our crop fields, our pastures, and topsoil. When you go into conference – to best serve those you represent – we are asking that you fight in earnest to protect our farms, our environment, real food for our children, and the very fiber of our communities by insuring the continued, modest funding contained in the 2008 state budget (http://www.farmland.org/documents/NFNFWaterEnvironmentDescription2-24-10.pdf).
Gianni Ortiz
Real Food Campaign
gianni@realfoodcampaign.org
www.realfoodcampaign.org
518.392.8545
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DIRT! The Movie
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It’s under our feet and under our fingernails, but what is it? And how did it get there? Find out how industrial farming, mining and urban development have led us toward cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods and climate change. Dirt is a part of everything we eat, drink, and breathe… which is why we should stop treating it like, well… dirt.
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