Time to register for the August 1 and August 7 workshops on "mushrooms" listed in our Center for Sustainable Living 2010 workshop booklet, also on the website: www.living-sustainably.org NOTE THE CHANGE IN CONTACT INFORMATION: Emily Good, presenter's email is: ziggmarley@aol.com and her phone is 585 455- 2167
And in JULY:
Registration for "Radical Homemakers" discussion group at Canandaigua Lake on July 14 and 21 due soon in order to get books . Call or email Alison Clarke at 585-394-0864, accompost@gmail.com
Registration for "Hiking Trail Construction and Maintenance" taking place on the switchback trails of Naples Pk. with amazing Marty Dodge,July 31 needed. Since Marty is away with students in Alaska, why not email either Alison Clarke, accompost@gmail.com or Mary Norman of our partner, the Adirondack Mountain Club, at mnorman1970@gmail.com
TRANSITIONS TRAINING
9:30AM TO 6 PM both April 24-25
St. John Fisher College
- Tools for community outreach
- learn to summarize major issues such as climate change
- Explore obstacles to energy transition
- Instructors:
- Tina Clarke, Keynoter at the April 22 Environmental Forum at the First Unitarian Church , Rochester.
- Alastair Lough, founder of Transitions which leads to "Transitions Towns" , all the sustainability issues our CSL has been promoting.
Cost for weekend with lunches: $170 ( some scholarship monies available)
Registration: 585-241-9674 or transitionsrochny@gmail.com
You will be given required reading of Transitions Primer, download at http://www.transitionus.org/event/training-transition-rochester-ny
Sponsors: Gandhi Institute and Sierra Club
Raised Bed Gardening
May - November
Canandaigua
Elementary School,
Pearl Street
Plans are underway for raised bed gardens for each grade level.
Children will pick a theme for their garden, start plants with grow
lights, learn to transplant, plant, weed and EAT. The gardening
will be connected to many parts of the curriculum from math to
social studies. Members of the community are invited to
participate by calling Alison Clarke, 585-244-2711,
accompost@gmail.com