Dear sustainability friends, I have been invited to participate in a new Community Outreach group that is part of the Creative Core Green Team. The Creative Core is an effort to drive business and community development across the Central NY region. See http://www.creativecoreny.com/ Mostly it is a shared branding and marketing exercise, but there is a subgroup called the Green Team which has task groups working on business development, R&D, workforce development, and marketing - and now community outreach.
To enable a regional conversation and keep the carbon footprint low, I suggested the group take advantage of the videoconferencing facilities at most cooperative extension offices. Our second meeting will be on August 1 from 10-11:30. Most of the group will be at the Onondaga CCE office, but we can join them from our local CCE office. If you would be interested in learning more about what other sustainability groups are "out there" in our region, please join me at CCE of Tompkins County, 615 Willow Ave., Room C, on Friday, August 1. Read below for details about the goals of this group. thanks, Gay Dear members of the Community Outreach Task Group for the Creative Core Green Team: (we need a shorter name) NEXT MEETING: Friday, August 1, @ 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Site Location: Cornell Cooperative Extension, Onondaga County 220 Herald Place (Red Cross Bldg. – near Dinosaur BarBQ) 2nd floor The meeting will be teleconferenced to those of you who cannot attend at the Syracuse site. You must make arrangements with your local Cornell Cooperative Extension. PLEASE LET US KNOW WHICH CCE YOU WILL BE AT SO WE CAN MAKE THE NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS FROM OUR END. The first item on the agenda will be to clarify our task based on the goal for “Community Outreach”. As a reminder, the goal is: Goal: To identify, involve, and coordinate existing “green” citizen groups that foster public education, public policy advocacy, and public outreach to promote intelligent, inclusive, sustainable decisions to confirm Central Upstate New York is the “Green capital of the World”. Objective: To make contact with citizen non-profit organizations in the 14 county area defined by the Creative Core Green Team who identify their mission with sustainable communities and green activities. Once we have the contacts, our role is to share this information with the Green Team Task Groups, enable collaborations, and find ways to network. It is up to each organization to educate, promote advocacy, involve citizens, and do what they do best. A recent quote byEd Bogucz, executive director of the Syracuse Center of Excellence sums up our intent very well. He said, “It’s not just about the companies, but about citizens and their choices”. Several participants took assignments. They are: Tracie Hall and Jeff Hinman – obtain a copy of the Hudson Valley Sustainability Report (Tracie was unable to obtain a copy – Irondequoit’s plan is available) Tracie Hall – list of organizations in the 14 county area Elizabeth Slate and Mark Naef – lists of green organizations in CNY Please try to get this information to either Melissa or me as soon as possible. We are inviting Linda Hartsock and Linda Clark to our next meeting to give you an overview of the Creative Core Green Team, its composition, its activities, and how we fit into the framework of the Battelle Report and the other 5 Task Groups. ---------------------------------------------------- Gay Nicholson, Ph.D. 607-533-7312 (home office) 607-279-6618 (cell) 1 Maple Avenue Lansing, NY 14882 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sustainable Tompkins Program Coordinator www.sustainabletompkins.org Southern Tier Energy$mart Communities Regional Coordinator Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
