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June 2010
Public Access
Category: All
1pm» Plant Lovers Gathering and Half Moon Ball- Time:
- 1:00pm - 11:00pm
- Description:
- Plant Lovers Gathering and Half Moon Ball: An afternoon of earthly
delights followed by a most enchanted evening!
12:00 - Registration
1:00-6:00 Plant Lovers Workshops ($20, kids free)
4:30 "Bees, Everybody's Business" . Donations. (See description
above.)
6:30 Local Foods Feast ($15, kids under 15 pay their age)
8:00 -11:00 Half Moon Ball ($10. Kids free)
Or attend the entire event for a discounted rate of $40.
All proceeds benefit Seeking Common Ground, a 501(c)3
educational organization dedicated to modeling more conscious
and vibrant ways of life.
Email info@seekingcommonground.org or call 585-394-7610 for
more information.
Shimmering Light
Farm,
6141 Hicks Road,
Naples, NY 14512
- Time:
- 4:30pm - 6:30pm
- Description:
- Life cycle of bees and their contribution to life as we know it, enemies
of the hive, a visit to working hives, how we can keep bees in
our neighborhood and the role consumers can play in the preservation
of bees. Possible honey tasting!. Presenter, Patty
Mangarelli, beekeeper for the farm, will use the Ulster Observation
to demonstrate live bees.
* If you are allergic to bees bring your Epi-Pen.
Co-sponsored by CSL and Seeking Common Ground. Donations.
welcome. Contact: Patty Mangarelli at mangia0529@aol.com,
860-460-0156 for registration and directions
Shimmering Light
Farm,
6141 Hicks Rd,
Naples, NY 14512
- Description:
- Sustainability Workshop with FLCC and Harvard Univ. Extension
Save the date! Finger Lakes Community College is teaming up
with Harvard University Extension School to host a 2.5 day workshop
on sustainability. Learn how to green your campus or facility.
For more information, contact Kim Babcock at 585-394-3500
ext. 7615 or babcocka@flcc.edu.
FLCC Victor Campus Center
- Description:
- Sustainability Workshop with FLCC and Harvard Univ. Extension
Save the date! Finger Lakes Community College is teaming up
with Harvard University Extension School to host a 2.5 day workshop
on sustainability. Learn how to green your campus or facility.
For more information, contact Kim Babcock at 585-394-3500
ext. 7615 or babcocka@flcc.edu.
FLCC Victor Campus Center
- Description:
- Sustainability Workshop with FLCC and Harvard Univ. Extension
Save the date! Finger Lakes Community College is teaming up
with Harvard University Extension School to host a 2.5 day workshop
on sustainability. Learn how to green your campus or facility.
For more information, contact Kim Babcock at 585-394-3500
ext. 7615 or babcocka@flcc.edu.
FLCC Victor Campus Center
- Time:
- 7:30pm - 9:30pm
- Description:
- Feasibility of Solar for your Home, Place of Business or Sustainable Farm
Presenter: Bill Jordan is the President and Founder of Jordan
Energy & Food Enterprises, L.L.C. He also co-founded, along with
his wife, Nancy Brennan-Jordan, the Let’s Share the Sun Foundation
which helps facilitate the use of solar energy in poor communities
around the world. Prior to starting this food and energy
business, he served as special Assistant to the NYS Commissioner
of Agriculture & and Markets coordinating the farm to
school issue. Bill has a Cornell U. degree focusing on resource
management following 6 years working in Chile to improve agricultural
profitability and 5 years work in the building materials
industry.
This CSL event is co-sponsored by Color Brighton Green, Brighton
Farmers Market, the Federation of Monroe County
Environmentalists, and Rochester Green Living.
Contact: Alison Clarke, 585-244-2711 or
accompost@gmail.com
First Unitarian Church
220 Winton Rd. South
FREE EVENT
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 5:00pm
- Description:
- Odonata Sanctuary: Solstice Celebration
Celebrate the longest day of the year at beautiful Odonata Sanctuary.
There will be activities for every age, including Bluebird Box
walk, presentation on pond and stream life including dragonflies
and beaver and muskrat habitat, youth activities with the Junior
Naturalists, Nature Journaling and a tour of a Solar Barn.
Guest, Bill Jordan, of Jordan Energy and Food Enterprises, will join
Steve giving hands on solar energy implementation ideas. Bring a
dish to pass and stay for a potluck dinner followed by solstice
ritual featuring music and dance, as well as a bonfire. Beverages
and S’mores provide by hosts Steve Melcher, Cheryl Kelley and
family.
Contacts: Odonatasanctuary@aol.com or Bill Bross at 585-615-6255
Odonata Sanctuary
20 Parrish Rd,
Honeoye Fall
FREE EVENT
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 10:00pm
- Description:
- Wednesday, June 23, 7 pm "Science and the Sacred: An Inspiring Vision of Humanity's Future", Unitarian Universalist Church of Canandaigua, 3024 Cooley Rd., (off Rts. 5 & 20 just West of Canandaigua at the yellow, blinking ligh)
A talk by Rev. Michael Dowd delivered last year at the United Nations drawing on his bestselling book, "Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform your Life and Our world", which has been endorsed by 6 Nobel laureates. Michael shres the epic of Evolution,our common creation story, a deep-time view of human history and human nature inspiring us to live with greater integrity, joy and zest for life. Michael's wife, Connie Barlow, Scientist/educator, will show educational video clips she has developed on the subject as part of the presentation. For further information; Alison Clarke, 585-394-0864 or accompost@gmail.com All welcome. Donations welcomed.
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