[greenbuild] Community Sustainability Series starts this Tuesday 7-9
- From: Elan Shapiro <elansla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: greenbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:44:58 -0400
Dear Greebuild Friends,
I hope you can participate in this series of community
dialogues I have been seting up around creating a sustainable local
economy and culture. It starts this Tuesday night at 7 at the
Unitarian Church of Ithaca with a presentation by Rob Young about
"Steps To a Sustainable Ithaca", and includes a substantial
participatory portion in which everyone present is involved in
clarifying what those "steps" might be. Also please note that Sara
Highland will do a presentation on Sustainable Homebuilding as part
of the November 28th event.
Please share this notice with friends and kindred networks.
Thanks,
Elan Shapiro
275-0249
CREATING A JUST AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY,
STARTING FROM WHERE WE LIVE
A Community Sustainability Project of the Center for Religion,
Ethics, & Social Policy (CRESP)
This speaker and community dialogue series, free of charge to the
general public, is an opportunity to envision together an Ithaca that
supports the long-term health of its neighborhoods, communities, and
ecosystems. The presentations, held at various times and locations in
downtown Ithaca, Cornell University, and Ithaca College, will be
followed by small group discussions, a participatory town meeting
format, and refreshments from local farms and food producers. Can we
realistically create a local economy and culture based on creative
partnerships, economic justice, ecological design, and policies and
lifestyles that foster diversity and long-term well being? Can we be
a center of hope in these troubling times? Come to one or all of
these inspirational presentations and be part of the answer!
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Tuesday Sept 25, 7-9 PM, Unitarian Church of Ithaca (Buffalo and
Aurora Streets). "Steps to a Sustainable Ithaca: Success Stories and
Strategies" by Rob Young,. Rob will share examples from his
wide-ranging experiences, of sustainability strategies that work, and
how they might apply to an achievable vision for our own community.
Rob Young, runs a zero-emission organic farm in Van Etten, New York,
is a visiting lecturer at Cornell's Department of City and Regional
planning, and was the nation's first statewide director of
Sustainable Development, under Christie Todd Whitman in New Jersey
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Wednesday Oct 10, 4-6 PM, One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall,
Cornell. "Visions of Sustainability: From Farm and Forest to Downtown
Redevelopment" by John Barney, conservation planner at Cornell, and
David Kay, regional planner, Local Government Program at Cornell.
John and David will focus on our sense of place, on how our regional
land use patterns have changed, and on achievable visions for the
future that can serve the well being of both urban and rural areas
within Ithaca.
Thursday, Oct. 25, 12:10-1:05pm, Ithaca College, for room location
contact Tom Shevory (274-1347) shevory@xxxxxxxxxxx "Teaching and
Practicing Sustainable Living." by Barbara Anderson, founder, Penn
State Center for Sustainability. This presentation is a good
introduction and complement to the more extensive evening program
below.
Thursday Oct 25, 7-9 PM, Unitarian Church of Ithaca (Buffalo and
Aurora Streets). "Partnerships for Sustainability: A Success Story
from Penn State and the Center County" by Barbara Anderson, founder,
Penn State Center for Sustainability. Barbara will share lessons from
her pioneering work at Penn State where she has applied simple
ecological principles to campus greening, university and community
partnerships for sustainability, and healthy lifestyle change. Small
group discussions to follow.
Thursday Nov 8, 7-9 PM, Women's Community Building (Seneca and
Cayuga Streets).
"Promoting Sustainability in Established and Planned Communities:
The Northside and EcoVillage Cases" by Liz Walker, director,
EcoVillage at Ithaca; Rob Champion, EcoVillage field supervisor for
second neighborhood construction; and Ken Reardon, neighborhood
planner and professor of city and regional planning at Cornell. Our
panelists will explore how "bottom-up" neighborhood envisioning and
organizing, building cooperative relationships, and taking a
long-term perspective can help reverse inner city decay and suburban
sprawl in our region.
Thursday, Nov. 15, 12:10-1:05pm, Ithaca College, for room location
contact Tom Shevory (274-1347) shevory@xxxxxxxxxx "Sustainable
Agriculture and Living in Place," by Elizabeth Henderson, CSA farmer
and organic foods activist. This presentation is a good introduction
and complement to the more extensive evening program below.
Thursday Nov. 15, 4-6 PM, 401Warren Hall, Cornell. "Civic
Agriculture, Regional Diets, and Sustainable Living" by Tom Lyson,
mayor of Freeville, and professor of rural sociology at Cornell;
Jennifer Wilkins, senior extension associate in nutritional sciences
at Cornell; and Elizabeth Henderson, CSA farmer and organic foods
activist. Our panelists will explore local, sustainably oriented food
production and consumption options, and their link to creating a
healthy lifestyle, regional economy, and culture.
Wednesday Nov 28, 7-9 PM, Women's Community Building (Seneca and
Cayuga Streets). "Foundations of a Sustainable Economy: Small
Businesses Development, the Living Wage Campaign, Sustainable
Homebuilding, and Transportation Strategies" by Bill Myers, CEO,
Alternative Federal Credit Union; Sara Highland, Natural Builder's
Network; and Frances Vanek, Director, Sustainable Technology and
Energy Institute. Our panelists will explore cutting-edge
developments and creative options for building a sustainable local
economy through changes in our ways of doing work, homebuilding, and
transportation.
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This series was made possible through major co-sponsorship from the
Cornell University Department of Rural Sociology, the Cornell Center
For The Environment, EcoVillage at Ithaca, the Student Sustainable
Agriculture Working Group, Ithaca College Department of Environmental
Studies, the Ithaca College Environmental Society, and the
Alternative Federal Credit Union, with support from the Sierra Club,
Citizen's Planning Alliance, Tompkins County Green Party, and the
Finger Lakes Land Trust.
For more information on these events and on the Community
Sustainability Project, see www.cfe.cornell.edu/community/or contact
Elan Shapiro at 607-275-0249, or e-mail
elansla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Elan Shapiro
Sustainable Living Associates and
Living Routes : Ecovillage Education Consortium
124 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850
607-275-0249 elansla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"We must be the change we want to see in the world." Mohandas Gandhi
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