NY Green Fest 2007
http://nygreenfest.blogspot.com
Activists Share Sustainability Skills at NY Green Fest, Aug. 10-12,
Ithaca and Cayutaville
Fri. , Aug. 10, 6:30-9:30 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
Activists from across the state will gather Aug 10-12 for a weekend
sharing sustainability skills and visions at NY Green Fest. Workshops at
locations in Ithaca and Cayutaville will address how to build a small wind
turbine, bake in an earth oven, build a green roof, live off the grid,
practice permaculture, live job free, build local food networks, practice
liberation ecology, build new media outlets, and use third party politics to
effect social change. Green Fest has been organized by an ad-hoc group to
promote sustainability and is a benefit for the Green Party of New York. The
festival is open to all who are interested in sustainable living and
sustainable politics.
Exhibitors include VoxPop, the Climate Change Action Group of Central New
York, Democracy School, Farm Sanctuary, SOA Watch, Cures not Wars, the
Citizens Environmental Coalition, Eco Books, the Shopping Bag Action group,
Sustainable Tompkins, Community Energy, Indigo Summer, MyshellaZ Art, Joey
Gates henna body art, a veggie car and a small wind turbine. Musicians
include the Native Earthling Band playing on their solar-powered stage,
Deborah Magone, Dan Hill, the Peacesmiths and Burnin' Hearts.
The weekend offers many opportunities for sharing visions of
sustainability.
Green Fest begins 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 9:30 pm. Three speakers will address the power
relationships that promote sustainability. Art Weaver from Renovus Energy
in Ithaca, will speak on social change and its connection to renewable
energy, Virginia Rasmussen from Alfred, a founder of the Program on
Corporations, Law and Democracy, will speak on the politics of sustainability,
and Dan Hill, the Cayuga Nation representative to the Haudenosaunee
Environmental Task Force, will speak on sustainability for the long term.
Dan will open and close the program with native flute music.
Saturdays programs take place at Cayuta Sun, an off-the-grid permaculture
homestead at 2962 Swamp Rd. in Cayutaville, 15 miles southwest of Ithaca. The
workshops begin at 8:30 am with a bread baking workshop in the earth oven at
Cayuta Sun lead by Lois Hilton from Tickletown Trust & Trade in Humphrey.
Lois will also join Saturdays 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, Gwen Quigley from Keuka Cookin in Bath,
Josh Dolan from EcoCity Ithaca and Michele Danels from East New York Farms in
Brooklyn.
Living job free living and minimizing the need for money with ecological
frugality and resourcefulness will be presented by Ed Haffmans and JoAnn
Myers from the Catskills. A permaculture workshop will be conducted by
Michael Burns and Steve Gabriel from the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute.
Grassroots organizing for sustainability is the topic discussed by Gay
Nicholson from Sustainable Tompkins, Mike Sellars, Mayor of Cobleskill, from
Sustainable Cobleskill, and Tony and Mary Lipnicki, the founders of a monthly
discussion group in Andover, NY. Two off-grid pioneers, Steve Nicholson from
Ithaca and Tony Moretti from Hammondsport will offer advice on living
off-the-grid.
How to build a small wind turbine will be demonstrated Saturday afternoon by
Barry Miller, a mechanical engineer from Hinsdale, New York. Barry has spent
20 years in the wind energy business. For nine years he operated a wind farm
in Altamont Pass west of San Franciso. Four media activists, Sander Hicks from
Brooklyn, Carl Lawrence from Brooklyn, Bill Huston from Binghamton and Deborah
Magone from Rochester will discuss getting media access for alternative
viewpoints. Carl, Bill and Deborah produce cable access television programs.
Sander is editor, publisher and reporter of New York Megaphone, the founder
of Soft Skull Press and the proprietor of Vox Pop bookstore.
Saturday evening Rafter Sass will present ideas for a Liberation Ecology.
His topic is 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 including local foods will be served on Saturday. Sunrise yoga at 7:00
am with Ann Eagan from Sunnyside, Queens begins the day. Deborah Magone will
perform gutsy blues at 1:00 pm. The Native Earthling Band will perform from
4:30 to 6:00 pm, and Burnin' Hearts will perform in the evening.
On Sunday, August 12, Green Fest moves to the Ithaca Commons in downtown
Ithaca with a series of speakers and musicians at the Bernie Milton
Pavilion in the center of the Commons. 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. Helene Williams, Susan
Blake and Leonard Lehrman from Peacesmiths will perform political songs.
Using third party electoral activism to foster social change and challenge
the underpinnings of corporate power will be discussed by Howie Hawkins,
SKCM Curry, Tony Gronowicz and Jason Nabewaniec. Howie was the 2006 Green
Party candidate for US Senate from New York and is 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.
Sundays program concludes with a discussion of campus organizing for
sustainability led by Ethan Rainwater, Sustainability Intern at Cornell
University, Peter LaVenia from the Albany University Campus Greens, and
Krista Carlson, a student at Alfred University.
$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. For a detailed schedule,
directions, registration forms and more information, visit
http://nygreenfest.blogspot.com or call 607-569-2114.
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