Please excuse any cross-postings. Dear Friends--This coming Tuesday, May 6, 2008, is the next Sustainable Tompkins Monthly Gathering--"Green Jobs for the Finger Lakes: Employing Local People in a Sustainable Economy". For more information see: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org
Hors d'oeuvres and childcare are provided. Additional potluck offerings are invited & participants are encouraged to bring their own table settings to minimize the clean up. We need volunteers from the organizations participating in the event, members of Sustainable Tompkins, members of our sister organizations, and members of our community to help with the event on Thursday evening. The following volunteer positions still need to be filled: Food pick up: Pick up prepared food just before the event. Under the coordination of the event coordinator, Elan Shapiro. Salad Maker: One or two people to make enough salad for 60 plus people the day before or the day of the event. You will be reimbursed for supplies needed. Also make or purchase salad dressing. AV Coordinator: Set up and operate AV equipment as needed. Under the coordination of the event coordinator, Elan Shapiro. Signage--Posters/Agendas: Prepare posters for agenda, organizational sponsors, corporate sponsors; supply one or two flier-sized agendas for each table. Distribute topical questions to each table as needed. Supplies will be provided or you will be reimbursed for supplies. Under coordination of the event coordinator, Elan Shapiro. Greeter: Two people are needed to welcome people to the event, pass out name tags, maintain sign-up sheets, assist organizational partners in setting up handouts, etc. Under coordination of event coordinator, Elan Shapiro. Set-up: Five or six people to help set up tables and chairs, arrange dinnerware and food, and related tasks. Food Host: Be around food tables to make sure the meal process and the transition to next part of the program goes smoothly. Assess when to bring plates, etc. in to kitchen without noisy distraction. Clean-up: 5 or 6 people are needed to clean and put back tables and chairs, wash dishes, pack up other supplies, and other duties as needed. Scribe/transcriber: Write down paint points of the event on paper or posted on wall as appropriate. If necessary, transcribe these notes into a write-up to be distributed to Web site, newsletters, etc. Photographer: Take digital photos of event, decide which pictures are best, and distribute these photos to transcriber and event coordinator Comment Card Collectors (3) and Raffle prize announcer: Get comment cards, from the supply volunteer, ready at around 7:50 p.m. and with a few other volunteers that they solicit, quickly distribute comment/raffle cards, collect comment cards in comment box, collect raffle tickets (corner of comment card with name) in smaller container. Draw and call prize-winners. Facilitator: Get attendees, moderate discussion, make sure the event flows well and ends on time, encouraging and collecting evaluations, handing out prized and conducting the closing of the event. Under the coordination of the event coordinator, Elan Shapiro. If you wish to volunteer for one or more of the above positions, please contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by phone at 324-0864. Please do not reply to the entire list! Thanks. Tom Tom Shelley 118 E. Court St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607 342-0864 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.myspace.com/99319958 P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." The World Commission on Environment and Development, Gro Harlem Brundtland Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987 MY NOTE: Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as growth per se is not sustainable. And the term "sustainable" has to mean "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett). "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux proverb _______________________________________________ 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
