Sunday, August 05, 2007

NY Green Fest, August 10-12



Next weekend is NY Green Fest: Click here for all of the information.



* Lois Hilton's Earth Oven
* Map of Downtown Ithaca
* Activists Share Sustainability Skills




Friday, August 10
2:00 — Cayuta Sun open to set up camp sites, Cayutaville
Evening program at Community School, Ithaca
6:30 — Green Fest Registration
7:00 — Opening and welcome
7:15 — 9:00 pm - The Politics of Sustainability
Art Weaver, Renovus Energy, Social Change and Its Connection to Renewable Energy
Virgina Rasmussen, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
Dan Hill, Cayuga Nation rep to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force

Saturday, August 11
At Cayuta Sun Permaculture Homestead, Cayutaville
7:00 am — Sunrise Yoga, Ann Eagan, Sunnyside, Queens
8:30 am — Early Bird Workshop: Baking in an Earth Oven
Lois Hilton, Tickletown Trust & Trade, Humphrey
10:00 am — Opening and welcome
10:15 am — Grassroots Organizing for Sustainability
Gay Nicholson, Sustainable Tompkins, Ithaca
Anthony and Mary Lipnicki, First Fridays, Andover
Mike Sellers, Sustainable Cobleskill, Mayor, Cobleskill
10:15 am — Cob for Kids Workshop
11:45 pm — Building a Local Food Network
Lois Hilton, Tickletown Trust & Trade, Humphrey
Gwen Quigley, Keuka Cookin, Hammondsport
Matt and Liz Glenn, Muddy Fingers CSA, Ithaca Farmers Market
Michele Danels, East New York Food Coop, Brooklyn
Josh Dolan, EcoCity Ithaca
11:45 pm — Job Free Living
Ed Haffmans and JoAnn Myers
1:00 pm — Lunch, Deborah Magone sings
1:45 am — Permaculture Workshop
Michael Burns and Steve Gabriel, Finger Lakes Permaculture
1:45 pm — Living off the Grid
Steve Nicholson, Ithaca, NY*
Tony Moretti, Hammondsort, NY
3:00 pm — Getting Media Access for Alternative Viewpoints
Bill Huston, Binghamton, NY*
Carl Lawrence, Producer, Green Vision, BCAT, Brooklyn
Deborah Magone, Green Cable Producer, Rochester
Sander Hicks, VoxPop, Brooklyn
3:00 pm — Make Your Own Wind Turbine
Barry Miller, Hinsdale
4:15 pm — Native Earthling Band on Solar Stage
5:15 pm — Old Growth Award Ceremony
5:30 pm — Native Earthling Band on Solar Stage
6:00 pm — Dinner
7:00-9:00 pm — Liberation Ecology: Refusing to Choose Between Social Justice and Sustainability
Rafter Sass, Germantown Community Farm
9:00 pm — Burnin' Hearts Band

Sunday, August 12
At Ithaca Commons, downtown Ithaca
10:00 am — Opening with music
10:15 am — Green Roof Demonstration
Lexie Hain, Motherplants, Ithaca
10:45 am — Music
11:00 am — Building New Media Outlets
Ilonka Wloch, Positive News, Ithaca
Craig Seeman, Third Planet Video
Cyril Mychalejko, Upside Down World, Vermont
12:00 noon — Political Songs by Peacesmiths
Helene Williams, Susan Blake and Leonard Lehrman
1:00 pm — Creating Change through Third Party Politics
Howie Hawkins, 2006 Green Party candidate for US Senate, Syracuse
SKCM Curry, Green Party candidate for Vice President, CA
Anthony Gronowicz, author Grand Illusion: American Democracy
Jason Nabewaniec, Co-Chair, Green Party US, Batavia
2:15 pm — Music
2:30 pm — Campus Organizing for Sustainability
Ethan Rainwater, Cornell Sustainability
Peter LaVenia, Albany U Campus Greens
Krista Carlson, Alfred U Campus Greens
3:45 pm — Closing with music

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