Archive for March 29, 2010
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
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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
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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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