The NY Green Fest, 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 begins today in Ithaca and Cayutaville. 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 tonight with a program on the politics of sustainability. 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. This day will start with a bread baking workshop in the earth oven at Cayuta Sun lead by Lois Hilton from Tickletown Trust & Trade in Humphrey.
Hilton will also participate in Saturday's panel on building a local food network, along with Matthew Glenn from Muddy Fingers Farm in Hector, an editor of Southern Tier Farm to Your 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 grassroots 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 will also participate.
Then two off-grid pioneers, Steve Nicholson from Ithaca and Tony Moretti from Hammondsport will offer advice on living off-the-grid.
By Saturday afternoon Barry Miller from Hinsdale will show how to build a small wind turbine. Miller is a mechanical engineer and has spent 20 years in the wind energy business. For nine years he operated a wind farm near San Franciso.
Also that afternoon, three experienced cable access TV producers will discuss how to gain media access for alternative viewpoints.
These speakers are 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.” Sass 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 Saturday, and lunch and dinner will be prepared from local foods and served Saturday.
On Sunday, Aug. 12, Green Fest moves to the Ithaca Commons with a series of speakers and musicians at the Bernie Milton Pavilion.
Peacesmiths from New York City will perform political songs; Lexie Hain from Motherplants will show how to make a green roof, and 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.
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.
If you go
What: NY Green Fest
When: 6:30 to 9 tonight, all day Saturday, Aug. 11, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12
Where: Today, Community School, 330 E. State St., Ithaca; Saturday, Cayuta Sun, 2962 Swamp Road, Cayutaville, and Sunday, Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca Commons, Ithaca
Cost: $35 admission for Friday and Saturday, includes Saturday lunch and dinner; free Sunday; Camping available for an additional charge
To learn more: Visit nygreenfest.blogspot.com or call (607) 569-2114
Saturday's programs take place at Cayuta Sun, an off-the-grid permaculture homestead in Cayutaville. This day will start with a bread baking workshop in the earth oven at Cayuta Sun lead by Lois Hilton from Tickletown Trust & Trade in Humphrey.
Hilton will also participate in Saturday's panel on building a local food network, along with Matthew Glenn from Muddy Fingers Farm in Hector, an editor of Southern Tier Farm to Your 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 grassroots 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 will also participate.
Then two off-grid pioneers, Steve Nicholson from Ithaca and Tony Moretti from Hammondsport will offer advice on living off-the-grid.
By Saturday afternoon Barry Miller from Hinsdale will show how to build a small wind turbine. Miller is a mechanical engineer and has spent 20 years in the wind energy business. For nine years he operated a wind farm near San Franciso.
Also that afternoon, three experienced cable access TV producers will discuss how to gain media access for alternative viewpoints.
These speakers are 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.” Sass 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 Saturday, and lunch and dinner will be prepared from local foods and served Saturday.
On Sunday, Aug. 12, Green Fest moves to the Ithaca Commons with a series of speakers and musicians at the Bernie Milton Pavilion.
Peacesmiths from New York City will perform political songs; Lexie Hain from Motherplants will show how to make a green roof, and 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.
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.
If you go
What: NY Green Fest
When: 6:30 to 9 tonight, all day Saturday, Aug. 11, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12
Where: Today, Community School, 330 E. State St., Ithaca; Saturday, Cayuta Sun, 2962 Swamp Road, Cayutaville, and Sunday, Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca Commons, Ithaca
Cost: $35 admission for Friday and Saturday, includes Saturday lunch and dinner; free Sunday; Camping available for an additional charge
To learn more: Visit nygreenfest.blogspot.com or call (607) 569-2114
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