Share Sustainability Skills at NY Green Fest, Aug. 10-12, Ithaca and Cayutaville

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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.

 

Saturday's 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 Saturday's 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.

 

Sunday's 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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