The Green Resource Hub offers a variety of programs to support people, businesses, and communities in the paradigm shift to sustainable lifestyles.  The Hub hosts regular public events like SEEN events on the second Monday of every month and Green Drinks events on the fourth Monday of every month. All are welcome!

Check out the recent Tompkins Weekly article:
The SEEN Helps Build Local Connections

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Green Drinks Ithaca - August Engagement!

As this warm and active summer winds down to ramp up for a lively fall, we hope this invite finds you well. We've had a lot of announcements to make about the Hub and our official launch of The SEEN on September 1st, and we'd like to hear from you. We would love your feedback and questions about The SEEN and becoming a member, as well as the larger shifts towards participation in the sustainability movement.

We will be holding this month's event at Northstar House from 7-10pm. And, we will be announcing a new venue for September and beyond.

At this gathering, we'll be distributing a short survey to get your feedback and ideas to help drive future programming for Green Drinks. We can't do it without YOU! Please mark August 23rd on your calendars, for a Green Drinks Ithaca at Northstar House.

Northstar House
202 East Falls Street
Ithaca, NY 14850

*Hungry? A menu selection of dishes will be available for purchase

Please pass this along to anyone who may be interested. Thank you for your support!

SEEN

Report & Media on Monday, July 12th, 2010

What Kind of City Supports a Green Economy?

The SEEN heard from two local green development and building entrepreneurs to discuss how principles of city design could expand the marketplace for local green business, help shift our economy toward greater resilience when faced with peak oil and climate change, and ultimately keep it a fertile place for innovation and prosperity. Robert Morache, president of New Earth Strategies and Susan Cosentini, president of New Earth Living, LLC delivered presentations on the social and physical aspects of green cities. They explained how business owners and entrepreneurs could support the cultivation of a green city environment that would in turn support their businesses and communities.

Robert Morache discussed fundamental principles of community development for planning a green city. He described city design that cares for quality of living and influences people's sense of opportunity and social justice, so long as it includes increasing population density as the core of green planning, which can reduce car traffic, increase local business, and strengthen our ecosystems and in turn our local resources. He also discussed how his design and sustainable development consulting company, New Earth Strategies, is currently making progress on projects that incorporate these principles. Rob encouraged collective involvement with local planning initiatives to ensure a strong support base and sufficient responsibility for the way we build our communities.

Susan Cosentini, an urban eco-village planner, discussed some of the more sensitive social and ecological design principles that are essential to green city planning. These include creating quasi-public gathering spaces for group recreation, food production and other sustainable community uses. She explained that powerful urban design principles and conscious communication tools could help to foster a strong sense of community wherein people are sensitive and receptive to each others' concerns and needs. Sue described the 5-2-One Initiative of New Earth Living's projects, which asserts that we can reduce the ecological footprint of five people or households down to that of one person or household through combined efforts, intention, commitment, and creativity.

Rob and Sue concluded by fielding questions from the SEEN audience comprised of green businesses owners, local planning officials, and sustainably-minded people. Avenues that locals could engage in for green planning support were revealed. Please see below to listen to audio and view pictures of this event.

If you'd like to contact the Hub to discuss this event or if you would like us to get you in contact with the presenters, please email Perry@greenresourcehub.org.

Green Drinks

Many thanks to everyone for such a warm and supportive welcome for our newest program!

Green Drinks Ithaca is the Green Resource Hub's "unprogram." It's an open social for the sustainability-minded to gather without programming, sans agenda, pure fun. Anyone is welcome:  entrepreneurs, activists, business owners, educators, citizens, students, retirees, government officials, kith and kin. Whether you're a sustainability leader or completely new to the movement, we're excited to get together. Any Ideas? Share them!

Green Drinks takes place on the 4th Monday of every Month from 7 to 10pm at a sustainability-minded venue. 

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