Monday, July 30, 2007
Art Weaver on Social Change and Its Connection to Renewable Energy
Art Weaver will open Green Fest on Friday evening, Aug. 10 with a talk on Social Change and Its Connection to Renewable Energy. Art is a founder of Renovus Energy, a renewable energy systems design-build firm based in Ithaca. The Renovus Energy building, shown below, is the first zero-energy commercial building in Ithaca. The building produces and exports more energy to the utility grid than it consumes in its day-to-day operation including the energy used by its radiant floor heating system. Passive solar design and superinsulation in conjuction with active solar technologies - a 10kW photovoltaic system on the roof make this possible.
Michele Danels from East New York Farms
Michele Danels, a farmer in the Hands and Hearts Garden, a project of East New York Farms in Brooklyn, is a panelist on building a local food network at Green Fest on Saturday at Cayuta Sun. Articles about East New York Farms recently appeared in Plenty Magazine and the Nation. Below, a young farmer sells at the East New York Farm Market.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Native Earthling Band on their Solar Stage
Native Earthling Band, Crow Weaver, Paul Kimball and Frank Giambrone, will perform at Green Fest on Saturday, Aug. 11 from 4:15 to 6:00 pm, with a break for an Old Growth Award Ceremony at 5:15. Below is a photo of the band performing on their solar stage.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Cayuta Sun Work Parties, Aug. 2, 3, 4
Our next work parties at the Cayuta Sun Festival site will be Aug. 2, 3, and 4. It would be great to have your help:
1. Clearing campsites
2. Making signs
3. Collecting firewood for the bread oven and campfire
If you can help, call Michael at 607-227-0316. Much of the work on the compost toilet building has been completed. Below are Bob Nape, Bill Rogers and Michael Burns after they finished putting the roof on the building today.
1. Clearing campsites
2. Making signs
3. Collecting firewood for the bread oven and campfire
If you can help, call Michael at 607-227-0316. Much of the work on the compost toilet building has been completed. Below are Bob Nape, Bill Rogers and Michael Burns after they finished putting the roof on the building today.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Green Fest Media Release
For Immediate Release: July 18, 2007
Build A Small Wind Turbine, Local Food Networks and Liberation Ecology at NY Green Fest, Aug. 10-12, Ithaca and Cayutaville
July 18, 2007. NY Green Fest, a festival of sustainability with programs and exhibitors on how to build a small wind turbine, bake in an earth oven, practice liberation ecology, live off the grid, build local food networks and much more will take place Fri.-Sun., Aug. 10-12 in Ithaca and Cayutaville. The weekend festival has been organized by an ad-hoc group interested in promoting sustainability. The festival is a benefit for the Green Party of New York and is open to all who are interested in sustainable living and sustainable politics.
NY Green Fest kicks off 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 9:00 pm. The speakers are Art Weaver from Renovus Energy in Ithaca who will speak on social change and its connection to renewable energy, Virginia Rasmussen, a founder of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy from Alfred, who will speak on the politics of sustainability, and Dan Hill, the Cayuga Nation representative to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force, who will speak on sustainability for the long term.
Saturday’s programs take place at Cayuta Sun, an off-the-grid permaculture homestead in Cayutaville, 15 miles southwest of Ithaca. Saturday starts with a bread baking workshop in the earth oven at Cayuta Sun lead by Lois Hilton from Tickletown Trust & Trade in Humphrey, New York. Lois will also participate in 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 and Gwen Quigley from Keuka Cookin’ in Bath.
Michael Burns and Steve Gabriel from the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute will lead an introduction to permaculture workshop. A discussion on grass roots organizing for sustainability will be lead by Gay Nicholson who has led Sustainable Tompkins since 2003, Mike Sellars, the Mayor of Cobleskill and a founder of Sustainable Cobleskill, and Tony and Mary Lipnicki, the founders of a monthly discussion group on sustainability issues in Andover, NY. Two off-grid pioneers, Steve Nicholson from Ithaca and Tony Moretti from Hammondsport will offer advice on living off-the-grid.
Saturday afternoon Barry Miller from Hinsdale, New York will show how to build a small wind turbine. Barry is a mechanical engineer and has spent 20 years in the wind energy business. For nine years he operated a wind farm in Altamont Pass west of San Franciso. Barry recently taught a class at Olean BOCES on how to build your own small wind turbine. Three experienced cable access TV producers will discuss getting media access for alternative viewpoints, Bill Huston from Binghamton, Carl Lawrence from Brooklyn and Deborah Magone from Greece, NY.
Rafter Sass will speak Saturday evening on Liberation Ecology: 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 prepared from local foods will be served on Saturday. Sunrise yoga begins the day. Exhibitors on Saturday include renewable energy suppliers, booksellers, farmers with local produce, local craftspeople, grassroots organizations and non-profit groups.
On Sunday, August 12, Green Fest moves to the Ithaca Commons with a series of speakers and musicians at the Bernie Milton Pavilion in the center of the Commons. Peacesmiths from New York City will perform political songs. 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.
Howie Hawkins, SKCM Curry, Tony Gronowicz, and Jason Nabewaniec will discuss how third party electoral activism is essential in fostering social change and challenging the underpinnings of corporate power. Howie was the 2006 Green Party candidate for US Senate from New York and 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 on campus organizing for sustainability led by Peter LaVenia from the Albany University Campus Greens, and Krista Carlson from the Alfred University Campus Greens.
Exhibitors on Sunday include grassroots organizations, non-profit groups and renewable energy suppliers.
$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. No fees for those who help during the festival or in advance. For a detailed schedule, directions, registration forms and more information, visit nygreenfest.blogspot.com or call 607-569-2114.
Build A Small Wind Turbine, Local Food Networks and Liberation Ecology at NY Green Fest, Aug. 10-12, Ithaca and Cayutaville
July 18, 2007. NY Green Fest, a festival of sustainability with programs and exhibitors on how to build a small wind turbine, bake in an earth oven, practice liberation ecology, live off the grid, build local food networks and much more will take place Fri.-Sun., Aug. 10-12 in Ithaca and Cayutaville. The weekend festival has been organized by an ad-hoc group interested in promoting sustainability. The festival is a benefit for the Green Party of New York and is open to all who are interested in sustainable living and sustainable politics.
NY Green Fest kicks off 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 9:00 pm. The speakers are Art Weaver from Renovus Energy in Ithaca who will speak on social change and its connection to renewable energy, Virginia Rasmussen, a founder of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy from Alfred, who will speak on the politics of sustainability, and Dan Hill, the Cayuga Nation representative to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force, who will speak on sustainability for the long term.
Saturday’s programs take place at Cayuta Sun, an off-the-grid permaculture homestead in Cayutaville, 15 miles southwest of Ithaca. Saturday starts with a bread baking workshop in the earth oven at Cayuta Sun lead by Lois Hilton from Tickletown Trust & Trade in Humphrey, New York. Lois will also participate in 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 and Gwen Quigley from Keuka Cookin’ in Bath.
Michael Burns and Steve Gabriel from the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute will lead an introduction to permaculture workshop. A discussion on grass roots organizing for sustainability will be lead by Gay Nicholson who has led Sustainable Tompkins since 2003, Mike Sellars, the Mayor of Cobleskill and a founder of Sustainable Cobleskill, and Tony and Mary Lipnicki, the founders of a monthly discussion group on sustainability issues in Andover, NY. Two off-grid pioneers, Steve Nicholson from Ithaca and Tony Moretti from Hammondsport will offer advice on living off-the-grid.
Saturday afternoon Barry Miller from Hinsdale, New York will show how to build a small wind turbine. Barry is a mechanical engineer and has spent 20 years in the wind energy business. For nine years he operated a wind farm in Altamont Pass west of San Franciso. Barry recently taught a class at Olean BOCES on how to build your own small wind turbine. Three experienced cable access TV producers will discuss getting media access for alternative viewpoints, Bill Huston from Binghamton, Carl Lawrence from Brooklyn and Deborah Magone from Greece, NY.
Rafter Sass will speak Saturday evening on Liberation Ecology: 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 prepared from local foods will be served on Saturday. Sunrise yoga begins the day. Exhibitors on Saturday include renewable energy suppliers, booksellers, farmers with local produce, local craftspeople, grassroots organizations and non-profit groups.
On Sunday, August 12, Green Fest moves to the Ithaca Commons with a series of speakers and musicians at the Bernie Milton Pavilion in the center of the Commons. Peacesmiths from New York City will perform political songs. 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.
Howie Hawkins, SKCM Curry, Tony Gronowicz, and Jason Nabewaniec will discuss how third party electoral activism is essential in fostering social change and challenging the underpinnings of corporate power. Howie was the 2006 Green Party candidate for US Senate from New York and 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 on campus organizing for sustainability led by Peter LaVenia from the Albany University Campus Greens, and Krista Carlson from the Alfred University Campus Greens.
Exhibitors on Sunday include grassroots organizations, non-profit groups and renewable energy suppliers.
$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. No fees for those who help during the festival or in advance. For a detailed schedule, directions, registration forms and more information, visit nygreenfest.blogspot.com or call 607-569-2114.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Many Busy People at Cayuta Sun
Many thanks to all the people who have been helping prepare the Cayuta Sun site for Green Fest. They have cleared trails and campsites and are building a beautiful compost toilet. Steve Gabriel and Niall Fahmy are shown below.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Earth Oven Bread Baking Workshop
Lois Hilton from Tickletown Trust & Trade in Humphrey, New York and Elizabeth Thompson from Allegany, NY, will conduct a bread baking workshop in the earth oven at Cayuta Sun on Sat., Aug. 11. The workshop will begin at 8:30 am. Lois hosted a workshop on building an earth oven at Tickletown in September 2006. Loaves in the earth oven at Cayuta Sun are shown below.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Rafter Sass on Liberation Ecology
Rafter T. Sass will speak Saturday evening on Liberation Ecology: 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 its first year in the Hudson River Valley, NY.
Help Prepare Cayuta Sun Festival Site
We are scheduling work parties to prepare the Cayuta Sun Festival site. It would be great to have your help:
1. Clearing trails
2. Clearing campsites
3. Brush hogging the parking area
4. Making signs
5. Collecting firewood for the bread oven and campfire
6. Helping with simple carpentry on compost latrines and solar showers. Donations of 2x4s and 1x4s for the latrines and showers are welcome. We also welcome straw bales. The first work party to build the compost latrines is this weekend. If you can help, call Michael at 607-227-0316.
1. Clearing trails
2. Clearing campsites
3. Brush hogging the parking area
4. Making signs
5. Collecting firewood for the bread oven and campfire
6. Helping with simple carpentry on compost latrines and solar showers. Donations of 2x4s and 1x4s for the latrines and showers are welcome. We also welcome straw bales. The first work party to build the compost latrines is this weekend. If you can help, call Michael at 607-227-0316.
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