Dear ST, Have you noticed how the beautiful trees in the Ithaca Community (and many others) have yellow buds along with their new green leaves? Walking around town lately... all of the sudden color has an awesome brightness to it. Bright Green is also a mindset based on the belief that the convergence of technological change and social innovation provides the most successful path to sustainable development. Bright Green is enthusiastic about green energy, efficient manufacturing systems, bio-technologies, ubiquitous computing, dense urban settlements, closed loop materials cycles and sustainable product designs. They tend to focus extensively on the idea that through a combination of well-built communities, new technologies and sustainable living practices, quality of life can actually be improved even while ecological footprints shrink. "Bright greens" emerged as a group of environmentalists who believe that radical changes are needed in the economic and political operation of society in order to make it sustainable, but that better designs, new technologies and more widely distributed social innovations are the means to make those changes - and that society can neither shop nor protest its way to sustainability. As Ross Robertson writes, "[B]right green environmentalism is less about the problems and limitations we need to overcome than the “tools, models, and ideas” that already exist for overcoming them. It forgoes the bleakness of protest and dissent for the energizing confidence of constructive solutions."
Please join the Ithaca Green Drinks community for our fourth event and enjoy the company of colleagues, friends, and new friends! The Event is being held at Northstar House. 202 E. Falls Street Ithaca from 7-10pm Hungry? A selection of Caribbean style plates will be available for purchase Contact: [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Green Drinks Ithaca is the Green Resource Hub's "unprogram." It's an open social for the sustainability-minded to gather without programming, sans agenda, pure fun. Anyone is welcome - entrepreneurs, activists, business owners, educators, citizens, students, retirees, government officials, kith and kin. Whether you're a sustainability leader or completely new to the movement, we're excited to get together. Any Ideas? Share them! Sustainability is Good Cocktails are Good Sustainability + Cocktails = Better We can save the world one sip at a time :) We will be hosting these events every 4th Monday of the Month, 7-10pm. _______________________________________________ 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 Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
