If you dont have the Keep Rockland beautiful newsletter, maybe you missed that The Great American Cleanup is coming up.
Dates between Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 24, 2011
56 groups signed up so far and the goal is 300 cleanups. Please pass the word - volunteers needed
Go HERE for all the information!
TED - “a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading” has a great website with talks doing just that. Here I listened to Majora Carter for the first time (on greening the ghetto and local eco-activism for example) and now I visit the site now and then. The TED talks always have something interesting or unexpected. Today I stumbled on architect Kate Orff´s talk ”Reviving New York’s rivers - with oysters!” See it for yourself here.
In 2010, NOFA-NY hosted its first ever Locavore Challenge to run throughout the month of September. Planning for the 2011 Locavore Challenge is already underway. The goal is to have more than 4,000 participants throughout the state involved in this event.
The Locavore Challenge is set up as a personal challenge for individuals to make a commitment to eat only locally and sustainably produced food during the month of September.
Visit their NOFA NYs website for more info
Worth a visit: Through June 04, 2011 the Palisades Indoor Farmers Market is open every Saturday from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the Palisades Community Center located at 675 Oak Tree Road in Palisades, NY.
More info can be found here.
Found this information while reading about the Organic Consumers Association’s (OCA) Millions Against Monsanto campaign, in the OCA newsletter.
Learn more about OCA related action alerts and other news in NY here. (Rockland County is in Congressional district 17)
We are looking for a new group that would like to learn more about the sustainable and not-so-sustainable stuff that is going in Rockland County, want to get into learning Word Press, twitter and make this page alive and kicking again.
Green Map, this one or a new one, can be a great school or community project. Read up on how it works on www.greenmap.org and send us an email!
/Anna
anna@rocklandgreenmap.org
