[sustainable_tompkins-l] Register Now: Talking Circles May and June Sessions

[Reed Steberger]

*The Multicultural Resource Center is hosting three sessions of the Talking
Circles on Race and Racism this May & June!*


*---PLEASE SHARE WIDELY WITH YOUR NETWORKS--*

To register for the May 19th & 20th Session, please fill out this form.


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   This Talking Circle is a white caucus. Please only register for this
   round if you identify as white.


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   Sessions are held on Friday from 5:30-8:30pm & Saturday from 9:30am-6pm.
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   Dinner is provided on Friday night. Light breakfast, full lunch and
   snacks are provided on Saturday.


To register for the June 2nd & 3rd Session, please fill out this form.


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   This Talking Circle is a people of color caucus. Please only register
   for this round if you identify as a person of color.


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   Sessions are held on Friday from 5:30-8:30pm & Saturday from 9:30am-6pm.


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   Dinner is provided on Friday night. Light breakfast, full lunch and
   snacks are provided on Saturday.

To register for the June 16th & 17th Session, please fill out this form.


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   This Talking Circle is a white caucus. Please only register for this
   round if you identify as white.


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   Sessions are held on Friday from 5:30-8:30pm & Saturday from 9:30am-6pm.
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   Dinner is provided on Friday night. Light breakfast, full lunch and
   snacks are provided on Saturday.


About

The Multicultural Resource Center’s Talking Circles on Race and Racism
bring together 12-16 racially diverse participants for a day and a half
program where participants engage in diverse, in-depth activities
(dialogue, popular education activities) that dismantle systemic racism,
build strategies for resistance and alternatives, and promote healing
practices for racial trauma/wounds.

The Talking Circles offer a unique learning community that strengthens
participants’ foundational knowledge and capacity to

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   Analyze structural racism & power dynamics in your personal life, social
   environment, and workplace or organization,
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   Reflect on your own knowledge and understand your experiences
   differently,
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   Take informed and conscious action to address systemic racism, and
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   Access a support system to sustain collective racial justice in Tompkins
   County.


Redesigned Talking Circles

The redesigned Talking Circles incorporate feedback generated from a
multi-year study assessing the Talking Circle's impact on previous
participants as well as feedback from participant focus groups in 2015.

The Circles are now done over the course of 1.5 days to allow for full
immersion in the content and depth of learning. The Circles are also now
done in people of color and white caucuses. This comes as a results of
participants of color reporting feeling that the Talking Circles functioned
largely as an opportunity to help white participants “get it.” MRC hosted
focus groups for 2015 participants of color (POC), who said that the
Circles didn’t offer an opportunity for many participants of color to work
“on our own stuff.” While we do not expect racism, biases, and
microaggressions to cease in race alike spaces, we do believe there is a
need to offer an opportunity for participants of color and white
participants to learn in environments where identity specific needs and
experiences can be honored and attended to fully.

Registration

Registration is on a first come first serve basis. When you register you
will receive an email confirming that you are signed up or that you are on
the waitlist for the session. If registration for a session is full, you
will need to register again for a future session.

Payment

Talking Circles are now provided on a sliding scale basis. Your payment,
based on your income bracket, as defined below, helps sustain this program
and provides the opportunity for scholarship for future participants. You
will be asked for your payment upon registration. Your payment will be
processed through a secure site on the MRC PayPal platform.

MRC is a small, grassroots non-profit and long term sustainability for our
programs, campaigns and services depends on contributions from community
for the skills, development, and education trainings we provide. MRC has
developed a pay scale for individual registration as well as a scale for
organizations to contract MRC for a non-public Talking Circle for internal
organizational development.

Additionally, MRC now has a sliding scale for organizations interested in
sponsoring staff member(s) to attend public Talking Circles. For staff
development rates, please contact talkingcircles@
multiculturalresourcecenter.org.

Please email 

[sustainable_tompkins-l] Butterflies, Their Beauty, Conservation and Importance - radio & internet Tues. May 9, 2017 8PM /10

[Maura Stephens]

Something beautiful for us all:

From: Ken Gale >
Subject: Butterflies, Their Beauty, Conservation and Importance - radio & 
internet Tues. May 9, 2017 8PM /10
Date: May 8, 2017 at 12:30:21 PM EDT
To: Ken Gale >


Please forward this e-mail around!

Next Eco-Logic, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 8PM:
Butterflies, Their Beauty, Conservation and Importance

Butterflies are beautiful, diverse, an important part of a healthy eco-system, 
and in need of our help.

Butterflies were among the first to show the effects of global climate change.  
The same pesticides that are killing bees are also killing butterflies.

This Eco-Logic will have a panel of scientists, authors, activists and 
butterfly enthusiasts: Carol Butler, Harry Zirlin, Rick Cech and Mercy Van 
Vlack discussing some of the over 100 species of butterflies in the WBAI 
listening area.

Tune in or link up this Tuesday, May 9 at 8PM.

WBAI, 99.5FM or www.wbai.org

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I start every show with news and announcements. I summarize recent news and 
information, but link to my sources directly from my Eco-Links page: 
http://www.comicbookradioshow.com/eco-links.html. There is a world of 
information available there.


I will speak to community, church, school or political groups about any number 
of environmental topics.  Water, energy, climate chaos, etc.

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Eco-Logic web address:
http://www.ecoradio.org
 From there, go to the Eco-Links or Past Guests pages.

The Eco-Logic Facebook page is pretty active with environmental information and 
updates on the radio show:
https://www.facebook.com/wbaiecologic.
Please click "like."

I'm sure there are interested web sites, facebook pages and meetup groups that 
you know about that I don't. Please forward.

Thank you,
Ken

Ken Gale
Host/producer
Eco-Logic, WBAI 99.5FM, NYC, 8PM Tuesdays
http://www.ecoradio.org (environmental radio show)

http://www.comicbookradioshow.com/ecoglold.html (list of past shows, podcasts & 
temporary archives and links to hear them)
http://www.comicbookradioshow.com/ra3.html (list of some permanently archived 
shows and links to hear them)
http://www.comicbookradioshow.com/eco-links.html (links to environmental 
articles and web sites)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wbaiecologic
  https://www.facebook.com/ken.gale.315
  https://www.facebook.com/nycsec

WBAI is currently a “50,000 watt station” in the Pacifica network broadcast 
from the Empire State Building so our signal currently gets to New Haven, 
Trenton, Putnam County, parts of the Poconos and Catskills and on the internet 
live stream and archived podcasts even further, of course.

When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist.  If not, become 
one.  'Nuff Said!



For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please 
visit:  http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/
If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom 
Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.

Fwd: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Local Building Energy System Study on Heat Pump Technologies

[Irene Weiser]

Further evidence that heat pumps are viable NOW!
Note that the financial info in this report does not include state and
federal incentives - making heat pumps even more cost effective than the
report indicates!



-- Forwarded message --
From: Sandra J. Repp 
Date: Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:33 AM
Subject: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Local Building Energy System Study on
Heat Pump Technologies
To: SUSTAINABLE_TOMPKINS-L 
Cc: Kenneth Schlather 


A new local building energy system study conducted by Taitem Engineering,
PC considered the potential energy savings and cost-effectiveness of heat
pump technologies compared to a conventional furnace system for two
representative new home types in Tompkins County: namely a townhouse  and a
custom/  luxury  house.  The  technologies  evaluated  consist of
condensing  gas furnace and central air conditioner, condensing propane
furnace and central air conditioner, air source heat pump system (ASHP) and
ground-source heat pump system (GSHP)



Results show that the energy cost of heat pumps is slightly lower than
natural gas and significantly lower than propane. The full report is
available as a 34-page pdf on the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins
County website, here:

http://ccetompkins.org/resources/representative-building-energy-study-in-
tompkins-county



*Please direct any questions or comments to the authors of the report,
thank you.*

For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please 
visit:  http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/
If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom 
Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.

[sustainable_tompkins-l] Local Building Energy System Study on Heat Pump Technologies

[Sandra J. Repp]

A new local building energy system study conducted by Taitem Engineering, PC 
considered the potential energy savings and cost-effectiveness of heat pump 
technologies compared to a conventional furnace system for two representative 
new home types in Tompkins County: namely a townhouse  and a custom/  luxury  
house.  The  technologies  evaluated  consist of condensing  gas furnace and 
central air conditioner, condensing propane furnace and central air 
conditioner, air source heat pump system (ASHP) and ground-source heat pump 
system (GSHP)

Results show that the energy cost of heat pumps is slightly lower than natural 
gas and significantly lower than propane. The full report is available as a 
34-page pdf on the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County website, 
here:
http://ccetompkins.org/resources/representative-building-energy-study-in-tompkins-county

Please direct any questions or comments to the authors of the report, thank you.




For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please 
visit:  http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/
If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom 
Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.