[sustainable_tompkins-l] you'll feel much better if you get involved!

[Gay Nicholson]

*Ready to roll up your sleeves and help build a strong, resilient, and just
community? *
*Join us on Sunday and find out where you want to plug in and make a
difference. *
*Be sure to stop and say hello at the Sustainable Tompkins table! *
*We are looking for board members and volunteers to tackle some new
projects to build a stronger regional movement.*


Please join us on Sunday, December 11th, 2016 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm at The
Space @ GreenStar (700 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca, NY) for a matchup event
to connect community members with necessary community organizations,
including many nonprofits and agencies. Many of us are seeing the writing
on the wall: funding cuts for organizations that help provide basic needs
and civil rights, which equalize social and economic wealth in our
communities. If you have never volunteered before and have felt the pull to
get more involved to support our vibrant, resilient, and inclusive
community, but aren’t sure where to start, let this be your first step.

On Sunday, December 11th the Space will be filled with local organizations
ready to share their missions, goals, and needs. Each organization will
have a mailing list sign-up, a volunteer list sign-up where appropriate,
and a donation box. This is truly a matchmaking event, a quick and fun way
to see what is already in place in our community and to support existing
efforts to help marginalized populations and the environment. What does
each organization need to continue to foster equity in basic needs and
civil rights in our community? Do they need volunteers, board members,
funding, networking support? Each one of us alone cannot guarantee that all
organizations thrive but together, if we each adopt one that inspires us
and build a relationship with them, everyone in the community benefits.
This is your chance to help build community!

If time is what you have to offer, great! Did you know that many of our
beloved community organizations desperately need more volunteers? If funds
are what you want to redistribute back into the community, they are always
needed and much appreciated! Donated time and/or money can be done in the
spirit of the holidays in the name of a loved one, the name of future
generations, and the planet as a holiday present (we will have holiday
cards as a gift for your giving).

During the event, there will be a silent auction to raise money for
organizations and initiatives in rural communities that may not have access
to this event. We are facing the hard truth that we are a divided nation
and this divide has kept us suffering socially, economically,
environmentally, and emotionally. This is one way we can begin to heal this
divide.

Are you aware that Ithaca did not have an Alternative Gift Fair (IAGF) this
year because of a lack of volunteers? The Community MatchUp fills an
important need inspired by the very recent political shifts in our country.
It was created to establish a network of volunteers and donors so that
important events like the IAGF and critical programs in the community
continue to thrive! The golden age of organizing and activism has begun and
we are all invited to take part in the change that we see needs to happen.
It’s time to tear down walls and nurture the values of acceptance, mutual
respect, and unity. True prosperity will only manifest when EVERYONE’s
basic needs are met and EVERYONE has a voice at the table of revolution.

There will be food, music, and good cheer!

For more information please go to www.communitymatchup.org.

If you are inspired to invite people to attend through the facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/362373964098290/
--
Gay Nicholson, Ph.D.
President
Sustainable Tompkins
309 N. Aurora St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
www.sustainabletompkins.org
607-533-7312 (home office)
607-220-8991 (cell)
607-272-1720 (ST office)

g...@sustainabletompkins.org

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Throwback Tuesday December 13 Lunch @ Moosewood!

[Tony Del Plato]

Besides us Oldies n' Goodies of Moosewood cooking & serving you, we're
donating 10% of sales to the Women's March in DC

Come celebrate Moosewood and 44 yrs in business in January.

Buon'appetito!

Tony

Throwback Tuesday December 13 Lunch

Serving Lunch from 11:30-2:30 Old School!



*Soups*Cup=3.00 Bowl=4.50:

(gf) *Creamy Hungarian Mushroom*

(v) (gf) *Thai Butternut Squash*

*Entrées*Each=12.00 (served with choice of side salad or
cup of soup)

(v) *Sichuan Noodles* with gingered broccoli and carrots and baked tofu and
spicy peanut sauce

(gf) *Rumpledethumps*—cheesy mashed potato-cabbage-broccoli casserole

*Salmon Croquettes* with roasted potatoes and aioli


*Daily Special*   Cup =8.50Bowl=10.00

Choice of soup, large tossed salad, and bread (or rice)


*Salad Dressings*:  L.D.’s Creamy Green (spinach-basil)

 Floating Cloud (ginger-miso)

 Lemon-Tahini

 Feta-Garlic

 *Drink Special: **Pumps On The Ground*-a hot cider toddy


Our regular drink and dessert menus available too!

-- 

*“Hope is not the optimism that things will turn out right. Hope is the
soul’s deep orientation to what is right, no matter how things turn out.”**
   -Vaclav Havel*

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Here's a holiday card you might want to sign!

[Gay Nicholson]

PLEASE sign our holiday card to NYSEG, below, telling them we don't want
the Dryden Pipeline.

Also, join us at NYSEG Offices for a quick photo of pipeline resistors -
because what's a holiday card without a family photo?  *When *- Saturday
Dec 10th at 10am.   *Where* - NYSEG Offices, 1387 Dryden Rd (Rt 13 near
366.)



Soon it is Christmas - time for gifts and good cheer.

We don't want more gas!  Please, no pipeline here!



It would be a mean gift, worse than no gift at all:

Our pledge to cut carbon, your pipeline would stall.



CO2's very bad, but methane's far worse

In heating the air and harming the earth.



So don't take our land by eminent domain

To put in a pipe full of globe-warming methane.



If this pipeline goes in at your company's insistence

Be aware that your efforts will be met with resistance.



NYSEG and Avangrid, join us in unity!

We want to be an energy smart community!



Gas is not smart! We'll pay with regrets

The 17 million that become stranded assets.



To protect the earth's future we must all do our part;

Pipeline alternatives are a great way to start!



We must save our planet and we don’t have much time,

So grow your heart quickly and nix the pipeline.

​
SIGN the CARD 



Patricia A. Dubin
2002 Ellis Hollow Road
Ithaca, New York 14850
Tel:  610-202-9667 <(610)%20202-9667>
E-mail:  dubi...@gmail.com

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Awards Ceremony - Human Rights Arts Competition - Tomorrow 11 AM

[Rebecca Sims]

Winners of 29th Annual K-12 Human Rights Arts & Poetry Competition to be 
Recognized

In its 29th year, the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights Annual Arts & 
Poetry Competition is engaging more K-12 students in classrooms across the 
County than ever before. In advance of International Human Rights Day (December 
10) students learn about the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights (UDHR), which was adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General 
Assembly. The Dorothy Cotton Institute co-sponsors the contest.

The UDHR has 30 articles, and students entering the contest express themselves 
with visual art, poetry, or a short film that addresses one or more articles 
from the Declaration. More than 850 students submitted entries to the 2016 
Competition, bringing participation from 16 schools in 4 districts, under the 
guidance of 43 teachers. Thank you to all of the teachers, students, and 
administrators for participating!

The winners of the contest will be recognized at an Awards Ceremony taking 
place tomorrow, Saturday, December 10 at 11 AM at the Tompkins County Public 
Library's BorgWarner Room. Artwork, poetry, and short films will be on display, 
and both individual and class prizes will be awarded. Winners' entries will be 
on display for several weeks at the Library, at the display near the public 
computers. The event is free and open to the public.

Winners and their work are also listed on our website:  
http://tompkinscountyny.gov/humanrights/schoolcontest2016


--

Rebecca Sims

Program & Outreach Specialist

Tompkins County Office of Human Rights

120 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Street

Ithaca, NY 14850

607-277-4080 (phone)

607-277-4106 (fax)


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