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Reminder - Nyack’s Street fair tomorrow

Posted: Saturday, May 15th, 2010 @ 8:14 am in Suggest-a-site | No Comments »

Welcome to the Main St and Broadway in Nyack tomorrow! 10 am to 5 pm, rain or shine!

MUSIC FOR FARMS, May 7 Concert

Posted: Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 @ 8:55 am in Suggest-a-site | No Comments »

MUSIC FOR FARMS TO PLAY MAY 7 BENEFIT CONCERT FOR ROCKLAND FARM ALLIANCE IN CHESTNUT RIDGE, NY
Rockland County, NY-based composer, pianist and percussionist John McDowell teams up with Canadian violinist Emmanuel Vukovich and cellist Julia MacLaine to create the musical ensemble Music For Farms which will perform a concert entitled “An Agricultural Rite of Spring” at the [...]

Earth Day celebration - today April 20!

Posted: Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 @ 4:12 am in Suggest-a-site | 1 Comment »

Suffern, NY - SUNY Rockland Community College (this info was lifted from SUNYs website)
Tuesday, April 20, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.on the main campus in Suffern. Schedule (in the event of rain, program will be moved into the Fieldhouse):
9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Amphitheater Courtyard
Live music, wildlife habitat tours, and a variety of green and environmental [...]

Pancakes galore

Posted: Thursday, April 1st, 2010 @ 9:56 am in Suggest-a-site | No Comments »

On Sunday Rockland Farm Alliance (RFA) hosted its second of two fundraising pancake breakfasts to support their work to promote, support, and develop local agriculture and local food production.
A few weeks ago the first breakfast drew around 90 participants - this Sunday saw 150 hungry supporters in the Threefold Cafe.
The scrambled local eggs, sweet potato [...]

Knickerbocker Ice Festival at Rockland Lake

Posted: Monday, January 5th, 2009 @ 6:27 pm in Suggest-a-site | No Comments »

On January 24-25 the Knickerbocker Ice Festival at Rockland Lake will mark the beginning of the celebration of Henry Hudson´s journey up the Hudson River 400 years ago.

We are about to embark upon the 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson’s famous sail upon the ‘Half Moon’ in 1609.
 
We are proud to report that the statewide [...]

Save the date for the Clean Up 2009!

Posted: Monday, December 8th, 2008 @ 5:48 pm in Suggest-a-site | No Comments »

Next Great American Cleanup is on Saturday, April 18, 2009. The 2008 clean up broke all records. 240 groups, up from 165 last year with 3500 volunteers, up from 2700 last year made our county more beautiful. More information and how to sign up on the Keep Rockland Beautiful website.

How much can you save?

Posted: Friday, December 5th, 2008 @ 9:40 am in Suggest-a-site | 2 Comments »

“A home energy audit is the first step to assess how much energy your home consumes and to evaluate what measures you can take to make your home more energy efficient.” And energy efficient means lower heating costs!
The quote above comes from this great energy audit site at the US Dept of Energy, which [...]

On-line map now updated

Posted: Thursday, May 1st, 2008 @ 1:08 am in Green Map updates, Suggest-a-site | No Comments »

There are about 55 sites now on our map!  Go see for yourself!
 
http://www.greenmap.org/ogm/en/greenmap/rockland-green-map

We are calling on our neighbors to suggest sites for the Rockland Green Map!

Posted: Saturday, January 12th, 2008 @ 12:35 am in Suggest-a-site | 1 Comment »

What do you think should be on the map?
Is there a special place, or store, or organization that you think fits the focus of the map, and fits one of the categories below? Share with us!

Take a look at the Rockland Green List what is already been entered in the database. Please, check this list before [...]