LI Green Sheets 7/15/09

Welcome to the LI Green Sheets
rev 7-15-09

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Green Drinks – Green Drinks are monthly networking events for environmental professionals, educators and others held throughout Long Island

• Green Drinks North Fork - Thursday July 16th 6 to 9 pm Castello Di Borghese Winergy Route 48 (Sound Ave) and Alvah’s Lane Cutchogue New York 11935.  Click here for directions More Info www.ligreen.com/greendrinks RSVP greendrinks@ligreen.com or 631-721-1908

• Green Drinks Open House -  With Whole Foods Jericho and Greener Country Store – Monday August 10th, 5-8 PM. Jericho Commons Shopping Center, 429 North Broadway, Jericho 11743. Click Here for Directions

• Coming Soon – Watch for the dates – First annual Southampton Green Drinks “Beach Party” in Mid August,  Green Drinks Open House at the Wales Darby Energy Room,  Western Nassau County Green Drinks, Five Towns Green Drinks

Charitable Events

• Ellen’s Run – Family Event to Benefit Breast Cancer Patient Support Services.  5K race/walk.  Sun August 16th.  9 am sharp. New Location: Southampton Hospital

Live and Learn

• LONG ISLAND SOUND MEDITATION – All environmental issues are symptoms of a far deeper issue – human separation from the rest of nature.  Renew your spiritual relationship with LI Sound to find inner peace.  A shamanic-based meditation.  Older children welcome.  Peter Maniscalco guides.  Summer Sundays through Labor Day weekend.  Meet: 10:30 am, Shoreham Beach parking lot,  N. Country Rd., Shoreham.  Info: 631.874.4104.

• Sierra Club Long Island Water Sentinels Invites you to taste wine and meet LI artists Martha Clara Vineyards 6025 Sound Ave, Riverhead, NY 11901 Sunday, August 16  1:00pm – 5:00pm *Cost: $25.00 pay at door RSVP:  Linda Freilich, Coastal Waterways Chair, turton@optonline.net or Sally Anne Keller at sawatercolor@optonline.net *100% of funds go toward buying water test kits *20% of artists’ earnings pledged to the cause

• Renewable Energy Long Island (RELI) – Free public seminar on Renewable Energy, Town of East Hampton – July 30 – 6:00-8:00pm www.renewableenergylongisland.org for more info

• Green Living LI Meetup – August 6th at Bobbi-Que, 70 W Main St, Patchogue, NY 11772, 631-447-7744.  More details at
  http://www.meetup.com/Living- Green-Long-Island/calendar/ 10788718/. Michael Brylewski of Organic Cleaning in Hampton Bays will be speaking about the benefits of green cleaning your home.

• Green Living Seminars – Starflower Experiences – Speakers on a variety of ‘green living’ topics at the Melville Library on the 2nd Thursday (except July & August) 7-9 pm 516-938-6152 Email:info@ starflowerexperiences.org www.starflowerexperiences.org

• Discovering a Sense of Place Discussion Course – Starflower Experiences 516-938-6152 :info@starflowerexperiences.org This 8 session course will meet Tuesday evenings at Manor Farm. The purpose of the Discovering a Sense of Place course is:  to understand the meaning of a bioregional perspective, and what it would mean to develop one, to consider the benefits of consciously developing an intimate relationship with your place, and to explore what it might mean to protect the place where you live. Starts October 6 Download a registration flyer at www.starflowerexperiences.org.  More info at www.nwei.org

• Permaculture Design Course – Starflower Experiences 516-938-6152 :info@starflowerexperiences.org Permaculture design is a comprehensive set of principles and theories regarding sustainability.  This is an internationally recognized certification program which, upon successful completion of the course, the student is now enabled to teach and practice permaculture design. Download registration form www.starflowerexperiences.org

• Stony Brook Advanced Energy Research Center Annual Conference - If you are in any way involved in the search for innovative solutions to the world’s energy needs, then Advanced Energy 2009 is the one conference you cannot afford to miss. On November 18 & 19 the energy world will be focused on the Hyatt Regency Long Island hotel in Hauppauge, New York. Mark the dates on your calendar today! For info or to register Kathleen Ferrell at kferrell@notes.cc.sunysb.edu,  or by telephone at  (631) 632-4625.
  

Long Island Environmental Groups

• EECO Farm – Win a John Deere Mower/Tractor!  Raffle tickets only $20  Three for $50.  Tickets sold at EECO Farm Stand
  55 Long Lane, East Hampton &  Balsam Farm Stand Town Lane, Amagansett. All proceeds will support EECO Farm Drawing on Saturday, September 5 at EECO Farm’s Pot Luck Picnic 6 PM

• Group for the East End – Friday Forum: Algae, Aquaculture and the Environment – Can We Really Farm the Bays?  July 17th 9 to 10 am.  Join Group for the East End President Bob DeLuca and his award-winning co-host, WLIU 88.3 FM radio’s Bonnie Grice for an informative discussion about algal blooms, what they can tell us about the health of our coastal waters, and how they impact the viability of commercial shell fishing and aquaculture for the future.  Joining Bob and Bonnie for this discussion will be John Aldred of the East Hampton Town Hatchery, Karen Rivera of the East End Marine Farmers Association, Greg Rivera from Cornell Cooperative Extension’s shellfish and aquaculture program, and Dr. Steve Tettlebach, a Marine Scientist and Local Shellfish Expert.

• Peconic Land Trust – Bridge Gardens – Join us for Friday Evening special events – www.peconic.landtrust.org

• Babylon Green Party – On Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party Gathering will feature a showing of Michael Moore’s film, “Sicko” The film uses humor to point out the sad state of medical coverage in the United States.  It outlines how much more successful a single-payer universal healthcare system has been in every other industrialized country. This showing is an extension of the Babylon Green Party’s 100 Days series which discusses issues that President Obama needed to address in his first 100 Days. http://www.BabylonGreens.org The event will be held at Pisces Café, 14A Railroad Avenue, Babylon, NY (631-321-1231) http://www.piscescafe.net.  For info call 631-422-4702 or email ian.wilder@yahoo.com Children are welcome. All gatherings are free of charge, and open to the public.

• Rangers of the Earth Program Day- Starflower Experiences 516-938-6152 info@starflowerexperiences.org – Rangers of the Earth helps upper elementary learners understand basic ecological processes, develop positive feelings about being in the natural world, and use their new understandings and feelings to change their own environmental habits.  This full-day session will provide an overview of the program, give you a chance to experience some of the activities (both indoor and outdoor), and help you find out how your group can participate in the program. This workshop is for classroom teachers, outdoor leaders, those who care for wild places, and others interested in seeing a model earth education program. November 15, 2009  8:30 am – 5:00 pm Sweet Hollow Hall, West Hills County Park. Download or request registration flyer www.starflowerexperiences.org

• Earth Education Workshop – Starflower Experiences:516-938-6152 info@starflowerexperiences.org Join us for a full day of stimulating sessions and demonstration activities introducing earth education. Earth education programs help learners understand basic ecological processes, develop positive feelings about the natural world, and use their new understandings and feelings to begin making change in their own environmental habits.November 14, 2009 8:30 – 5:00 at Sweet Hollow Hall, West Hills County Park, Melville.  Download or request registration flyer www.starflowerexperiences.org

• LI Naturally environmental fair – Starflower Experiences 516-938-6152 info@starflowerexperiences.org This is our annual environmental fair to be held at Manor Farm in Huntington.September 26, 2009 10 am – 4 pm Just come – no signup required. www.starflowerexperiences.org

Local Government

• More Planning for the Great Greening of Southampton – Thurs. July 16th 5:30 pm Rogers Memorial Library – Open meeting with the Town’s Sustainable Southampton Green Committee to learn about local initiatives. 283-0774 x 523 for reservations.

Schools

• DONATE USED BIKES NOVEMBER 7 & 8, 2009. 9:00 a.m. – 4:00p.m. at The Wheatley School 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury, NY.  Bikes will be shipped to Ghana, West Africa to be used as socially, economically, and environmentally appropriate and sustainable transportation technology, helping people break the poverty cycle, providing access to school, work, health care, and market places.  In collaboration with The Village Bike Project.org, we have already sent nearly 2000 bikes to Ghana!  Re-Cycle your cycles and help The Wheatley Afri-Bike Coalition change more lives in rural West Africa.  And please help us spread the word by posting this info at your local bike shop, house of worship, community center, etc. For more info and other drop off locations in Nassau and Western Suffolk, please contact Steve Finkeklstein at (H) 516-334-2375,  (W- school year) 516-333-7143 or earthfink@aol.com and check the school website this fall at ewsdonline.org.

Long Island Green Businesses

• Workshop with Wendy Eden – Certified Hippocrates Health Educator/ Nutritionist/ Speaker – Raw Living Foods, Wellness, and Anti-aging – Reverse cancer, diabetes, obesity, depression and many health challenges.  Saturday July 18th, 2009 2pm-4pm  ANANDA YOGA and WELLNESS  20 Hampton Road  Southampton,. NY www.anandayogawellness.com 631-204-1219

• Go Solar Saturday Solar Tour -  Educational seminar on solar energy.  See how solar electric and solar thermal work first hand in our SunShack.  August 15, 2009  10 a.m. - Noon  Signup at gosolar.com 631-727-2224.  Also Sept. 12th and 19th

• East End GreenFest – Weekend of August 1st and 2nd. 2 day outdoor festival celebrating the latest green solutions in a fun and informative setting.  Festivities include live music from local musicians, healthy and organic foods and beverages, interactive displays, speakers, kids activities, speakers, hand on demonstrations, exhibits and shopping for natural and sustainable products.  Strawberry Fields Fairgrounds – Rt 48 in Mattituck.  For more info 631-470-3933 or www.eastendgreenfest.com

• Second Annual Solar Day – August 8th 12pm Eastern Energy Systems 631 779 1026. mfroehlich@e2sys.com -  Event will be held at our Renewable Energy Demo Home Facility (3305 Alrich Lane, Laurel).  Live Music, Food, Local Farm Products, Wine Tasting, Green Vendors. Renewable Energy Tours and Presentations will be given hourly promoting education, conservation and energy efficiency and production.

• HIA Environmental &  Energy Seminars & Expo Several “green” seminars & exhibition hall with several “green” technologies October 23, 2009  8 AM – 4 PM www.hia-li.org 631.543.5355

• Introduction to Photovoltaics – 8 hour seminar – Windsine, Inc. www.windsine.org 631-514-4166 Sat July 25th.  8:30 to 4:30.  Holiday Inn East End, Riverhead.  Understand PV before you talk to contractors or do it yourself
  

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New York – Runnin’ Scared – Reverend Billy Picnics and Politicks in Tompkins Square Park

New York – Runnin’ Scared – Reverend Billy Picnics and Politicks in Tompkins Square Park
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While those tiresome major-party candidates for mayor are doing the usual grip-and-grins and donation-grubbing, Green Party mayoral candidate Reverend Billy energized his base this weekend at Tompkins Square Park, where he held one of his “Weekly Sunday BBQs,”…

Green Party’s 2009 nat’l meeting in Durham, NC, July 23-26 to feature Cynthia McKinney, forum on health care reform

The Green Party’s 2009 Annual National Meeting in Durham, North Carolina, will feature a visit from former US Representative and 2008 Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and a forum on health care reform.  The meeting will take place Thursday, July 23, through Sunday, July 26, on the campus of North Carolina Central University (NCCU) in Durham.

On Friday afternoon, 3:30-4:30 pm, the Green Party will present a public forum on health care reform and the need for a Single-Payer national health care program (http://www.ncgreenparty.org/2009-ANM%20FORUM.html).  Reporters will have the opportunity to meet and interview the forum speakers.

On Saturday afternoon at 3:00 pm, Cynthia McKinney will speak in the Miller-Morgan Building’s main auditorium at NCCU about her recent efforts, with the Free Gaza Movement and Viva Palestina, to bring medical and other supplies to Gaza in the wake of Israel’s brutal invasion.  Ms. McKinney and other Free Gaza human rights activists were aboard the Spirit of Humanity when it was seized by Israeli gunboats.  The ‘Free Gaza 21,’ including Ms. McKinney, were held in a prison in Ramla, Israel, until their release last week.

Ms. McKinney is currently in Egypt on a Viva Palestina convoy to Gaza, which has been held up by the government of Egypt.  According to Viva Palestina’s July 12 update, “The Viva Palestina members who spent the night in their buses at the Suez Crossing after being stopped by Egyptian authorities on July 11 have now rendezvoused in Cairo with British Member of Parliament George Galloway and former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who has rushed to join the convoy following her deportation from Israel on Wednesday.”

NCCU, the nation’s first public liberal arts institution founded for African-Americans (http://www.nccu.edu / map: http://www.nccu.edu/formsdocs/proxy.cfm?file_id=393), is celebrating its 100 year anniversary.  For information about Durham, visit the city’s online Visitors’ Guide and Information Center (http://www.durham-nc.com).

Cynthia McKinney requests your presence in DC…

From a 7/13/09 e-mail from a Cynthia McKinney supporter:

We just received word that the Viva Palestina convoy is still being held in Egypt despite negotiations. Convoy organizers Cynthia McKinney [former Congresswoman, and 2008 Green Party presidential candidate] and George Galloway are calling for protests tomorrow. Those of us who are in Washington, DC will be gathering tomorrow (Tuesday, July 14) outside the Egyptian embassy at noon to demand that Egyptian authorities allow the aid through! Please come out and spread the message!

*Please Forward Far and Wide*

Emergency Protest! Demand that Egyptian Authorities allow humanitarian aid into Gaza!

When: Tuesday, July 14th at 12 noon

Where: Egyptian Embassy, Washington, DC (Van Ness metro – red line) (3521 International Court, NW)

For updates on the Washington, DC protest or to endorse, please contact:
703.231.7553.

Michael Moore’s “Sicko” 8/5/09 7p Babylon

On Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party Gathering will feature a showing of Michael Moore’s film, “Sicko” The film uses humor to point out the sad state of medical coverage in the United States.  It outlines how much more successful a single-payer universal healthcare system has been in every other industrialized country. This showing is an extension of the Babylon Green Party’s 100 Days series which discusses issues that President Obama needed to address in his first 100 Days. www.BabylonGreens.org The event will be held at Pisces Café, 14A Railroad Avenue, Babylon, NY (631-321-1231)www.piscescafe.net map) Come hungry! For directions to the Babylon Green Gathering, call 631-422-4702 or email ian.wilder@yahoo.com Children are welcome. All gatherings are free of charge, and open to the public.

A social media version of this press release can be found at http://pitch.pe/17653

Unlike the Democratic and Republican Parties, the national Green Party supports

a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health insurance program as the only solution to the current disastrous for-profit system.

Recently, the 2000 Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader explained that the inability of the U.S. auto industry to compete is due to the U.S. being the only auto-producing nations that does not have single payer healthcare. The 2008 Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney said in her acceptance speech that

Only a sick government would place  . . . an insurance lobbyist in-between a patient and his doctor.

During her six terms in Congress, McKinney said she was “a cosponsor of every bill to create a national system for universal access to health care under a single-payer model.”

According to a CBS new poll, ninety percent of Americans believe the American health care system needs fundamental changes or needs to be completely rebuilt. Two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government should guarantee universal health care for all citizens.  This belief is shown to have good cause by a UN Human Development Report which showed that while the United States leads the world in spending on health care,

countries spending substantially less than the US have healthier populations.… The infant mortality rate for the U.S. is now higher than for many other industrial countries.

And the New England Journal of Medicine shows that a prime cause of the problem is insurance companies’ greed and inefficiency.  They reported that

administrative costs account for 31 percent of all health care expenditures in the United States. The average overhead for U.S. private health insurers is 11.7 percent; for Medicare, it is 3.6 percent; for Canada’s national health insurance program, it is 1.3 percent.

Yet neither the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, nor the corporate media are willing to even discuss a single-payer system.

President Obama has consistently excluded single payer universal healthcare from any discussion.  At the President’s healthcare forums around the country, discussions of single payer were dismissed despite audience support. The President also publicly excluded Rep. John Conyers to the White House summit on healthcare despite Conyer’s Single Payer bill HR 676 having 90 co-sponsors in Congress.  The President was later embarrassed into inviting Conyers.

The corporate media have done no better in discussing single payer healthcare as an option.  A new study released by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) found the

views of advocates of single payer have only been aired five times in the hundreds of major newspaper, broadcasts and cable stories about healthcare reform over the past week. No single-payer advocate has appeared on a major TV broadcast or cable network to talk about the policy during that period.

Babylon Green Party Gatherings are held on the first Wednesday of every month:

Rev. Billy Talen for Mayor Fundraiser w/ Joan Baez 7/27/09

Save The Date
ELECT-A-LUJAH!  Vote Rev Billy Fundraiser at the Highline Ballroom
Monday, July 27th 7pm
Tickets on Sale Now: http://bit.ly/vrbtix
431 W 16th St
New York, NY 10011
between 9th and 10th Ave
With the Rev and Life After Shopping Gospel Choir, Joan Baez, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang,

Greta Gaines, the New York Street Vendors Chorus, and Yetta Kurland!

Investment Guru: Which third party will replace the Republicans?

Hat tip to Ballot Access News for the story and background…

Timothy Lutts is an investment adviser with a popular newsletter. Lutts wrote an article which includes wonderful lists of third parties of the past. His article starts by reacting to the recent Republican failures and scandals — ie: Sarah Palin and Mark Sandford — and wondering what will happen next. Lutts proposes that the Libertarian Party could become the replacement for the Republican Party. (And, if you read his whole article, at his site, you will see why Lutts dismisses the Green Party as a possible new, second party…)

Excerpts-only below:

(excerpts from) The Iconoclast Investor
Long-Term Trends of our Political Parties
by Timothy Lutts / July 8th, 2009

…I’ve been working on a bigger perspective, wondering whether the Republican Party has become so weakened in recent years that it’s created an opportunity for a new counterweight to the Democratic Party.  I pledge allegiance to neither, but deep interest in both; after all, they have the power.  But change happens; in fact, you can’t stop change from happening.  So today I want to look at the potential for major change on the political party front in the years ahead.

Cynthia McKinney: I’m back home; Thanks to all of you!

Hello,

Well, all I can say is “Thank you!” Your calls, faxes, protests, and prayers all made a huge difference and helped to secure our protection and our release.  I would also like to thank those at the Tel Aviv Embassy for their work on behalf of the three U.S. citizens held by the Israelis.  For those of you who missed it, here is the statement I put out from the Israeli prison.  Please forgive the undone, but needed edits.  I have tried twice, now, to get into Gaza.  I just got off the phone with George Galloway who extended a personal invitation to me to join him and the US convoy in Viva Palestina!  I’m certainly excited about that.  Maybe I will finally make it to Gaza.

Here’s my “Letter from an Israeli Prison:”

Letter from an Israeli Prison by Cynthia McKinney

Original audio message available here: http://freegaza.org/it/home/56-news/984-a-message-from-cynthia-from-a-cell-block-in-israel

A funny thing happened to me on my way to Gaza.  Before I left for Gaza, I was giddy with excitement.  The children needed school supplies.  It was a last-minute, but urgent request.  Please bring crayons for the children.  And so I accpeted congtributions of crayola crayons, #2 pencils, pencil sharpeners, paint brushes, and crayola watercolors. 

Babylon Green Party July 2009 Photos

Greg Wills

Sue Tibke

Related: Understanding Empathy as a Tool for Peace 7/1/09

So-called Working Families Party locks the most progressive candidate out of NYC Mayor debate

Ever since Working Families Party sold the pro-war candidates of Clinton and Spitzer as a vote for peace in 2006, I expect nothing from them.  And have not been disappointed.

from the Village Voice

Last night three candidates for Mayor of New York — Michael Bloomberg, councilmember Tony Avella, and comptroller Bill Thompson — attended the Working Families Party Mayoral Forum at the Hotel Trades Council on West 44th Street. (We should mention that Green Party candidate Reverend Billy wanted to be at the forum, but was excluded; “The Working Families Party have sent a cynical signal,” his office tells us. “New York is not a corporation. New York is a city. A city in a democracy. Let’s debate like it is.”)

Related:

• Jonathan Tasini: Hypocrisy by the Working Families Party
• An Open Letter to Pete Seeger
• David McReynolds responds to Pete Seeger
• David McReynolds: Vote Green Party over Working Families
• David McReynolds responds to Pete Seeger

In the spirit of the 4th: Class in DC on “Democratizing the Electoral College”

What better way to celebrate the 4th of July, than to sign up for a class about strengthening our democracy?

Asa Gordon is Chair of the D.C Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task Force; a member of the Green Party Black Caucus Organizing Committee; and is the founder and Executive Director of the Douglass Institute of Government (DIG).

“Democratizing the Electoral College”
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
6:45-8:45pm
Instructor: Asa Gordon
Presented through: The Social Action & Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) of the Institute for Policy Studies
Location: The offices of the IPS, 1112 16th Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005
Class description and links: here
Questions: Call (202)234-9382, ext. 229 or send e-mail to netfa at hotsalsa dot org

Green Party reply to Bill Maher’s quest for ‘a real progressive party’: Here we are!

The Green Party has sent an open letter to Bill Maher after a June 19 broadcast of ‘Real Time’ in which Mr. Maher said “[W]hat we need is an actual progressive party to represent the millions of Americans who aren’t being served by the Democrats.  Because, bottom line, Democrats are the new Republicans.”

The Green Party’s reply to Mr. Maher: “Hey, Bill, we’re over here!  What you described is the GREEN PARTY!  We already exist!”

The progressive party sought by Bill Maher describes the Green Party: “Shouldn’t there be one party that unambiguously supports cutting the military budget, a party that is straight up in favor of gun control, gay marriage, higher taxes on the rich, universal health care — legalizing pot — and steep, direct taxing of polluters?”