Register Now for NY Green Fest
Aug. 10-12
Ithaca and Cayutaville
Hope you can join us! Camping available under the old white pine
trees at
Cayuta Sun. We are looking for more exhibitors on renewable energy,
sustainability, books, local crafts and grassroots groups. Please reply
to this email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NY GREEN FEST 2007
http://nygreenfest.blogspot.com
Build A Small Wind Turbine, Local Food Networks and Liberation Ecology
Fri. , Aug. 10, 6:30-9:00 pm at the Community School, 330 E. State
St., Ithaca
Sat., Aug. 11, all day at Cayuta Sun, 2962 Swamp Rd., Cayutaville
Sun., Aug. 12, 10:00 am-4:00 pm at Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca
Commons, Ithaca
NY Green Fest is a festival of sustainability with programs and
exhibitors
on how to build a small wind turbine, bake in an earth oven, practice
liberation ecology, live off the grid, build local food networks and
much
more...
The weekend festival has been organized by an ad-hoc group interested in
promoting sustainability. The festival is a benefit for the Green
Party of
New York and is open to all who are interested in sustainable living and
sustainable politics.
NY Green Fest kicks off Friday evening, August 10, with a program on the
politics of sustainability at the Community School auditorium, 330 E.
State St., Ithaca from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. The speakers are Art Weaver from
Renovus Energy in Ithaca who will speak on social change and its
connection to renewable energy, Virginia Rasmussen, a founder of the
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy from Alfred, who will
speak on
the politics of sustainability, and Dan Hill, the Cayuga Nation
representative to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force, who will
speak on sustainability for the long term.
Saturday’s programs take place at Cayuta Sun, an off-the-grid
permaculture
homestead in Cayutaville, 15 miles southwest of Ithaca. Saturday starts
with a bread baking workshop in the earth oven at Cayuta Sun lead by
Lois
Hilton from Tickletown Trust & Trade in Humphrey, New York. Lois will
also
participate in Saturday’s panel on building a local food network, along
with Matthew Glenn from Muddy Fingers Farm in Hector, editor of Southern
Tier Farm to You Local Food Directory and Gwen Quigley from Keuka
Cookin’
in Bath.
Michael Burns and Steve Gabriel from the Finger Lakes Permaculture
Institute will lead an introduction to permaculture workshop. A
discussion
on grass roots organizing for sustainability will be lead by Gay
Nicholson
who has led Sustainable Tompkins since 2003, Mike Sellars, the Mayor of
Cobleskill and a founder of Sustainable Cobleskill, and Tony and Mary
Lipnicki, the founders of a monthly discussion group on sustainability
issues in Andover, NY. Two off-grid pioneers, Steve Nicholson from
Ithaca
and Tony Moretti from Hammondsport will offer advice on living
off-the-grid.
Saturday afternoon Barry Miller from Hinsdale, New York will show how to
build a small wind turbine. Barry is a mechanical engineer and has spent
20 years in the wind energy business. For nine years he operated a wind
farm in Altamont Pass west of San Franciso. Barry recently taught a
class
at Olean BOCES on how to build your own small wind turbine. Three
experienced cable access TV producers will discuss getting media access
for alternative viewpoints, Bill Huston from Binghamton, Carl Lawrence
from Brooklyn and Deborah Magone from Greece, NY.
Rafter Sass will speak Saturday evening on Liberation Ecology:
Refusing to
Choose between Social Justice and Sustainability. Rafter lives and works
at the Germantown Community Farm, a collectively-run community food
security project in the Hudson River Valley.
A Cob for Kids workshop will run throughout the day on Saturday.
Lunch and
dinner prepared from local foods will be served on Saturday. Sunrise
yoga
begins the day. Exhibitors on Saturday include renewable energy
suppliers,
booksellers, farmers with local produce, local craftspeople, grassroots
organizations and non-profit groups.
On Sunday, August 12, Green Fest moves to the Ithaca Commons with a
series
of speakers and musicians at the Bernie Milton Pavilion in the center of
the Commons. Peacesmiths from New York City will perform political
songs.
Lexie Hain from Motherplants will show how to make a green roof. Ilonka
Wloch, the editor of Positive News in Ithaca, Craig Seeman from Third
Planet Video in Brooklyn, and Cyril Mychalejko from Upside Down World in
Vermont will discuss building new media outlets that address
sustainability issues.
Howie Hawkins, SKCM Curry, Tony Gronowicz, and Jason Nabewaniec will
discuss how third party electoral activism is essential in fostering
social change and challenging the underpinnings of corporate power.
Howie
was the 2006 Green Party candidate for US Senate from New York and a
current candidate for Syracuse Common Council. Tony Gronowicz, the 2005
Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York City, teaches at the City
University of New York. His most recent book is Grand Illusion: American
Democracy from its Roots to the Present. Jason Nabewaniec from
Batavia is
a Co-Chair of the Green Party US. Sedinam Kinamo Christin
Moyowasifza-Curry from Los Angeles is a Green Party candidate for Vice
President of the US.
Sunday’s program concludes with a discussion on campus organizing for
sustainability led by Peter LaVenia from the Albany University Campus
Greens, and Krista Carlson from the Alfred University Campus Greens.
$35 admission for Friday and Saturday, includes Saturday lunch and
dinner,
Sunday free. Camping available for an additional charge. Green Fest is a
benefit for the Green Party of New York. No fees for those who help
during
the festival or in advance. For a detailed schedule, directions,
registration forms and more information, visit
nygreenfest.blogspot.com or
call 607-569-2114
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Earn your permaculture design certificate.
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offers affordable local classes.
http://www.fingerlakespermaculture.org
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