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Events
Free Workshop for Solar Farmers
2 - 6pm
at The Terrace at SUNY New Paltz
Friday, February 5
Highlights of the program will include presentations on designing and installing solar electric (photovoltaic) systems, financing your project and grid connection. There will be a panel discussion with experts in solar energy and representatives from local municipalities, banks, agricultural development offices and utilities to answer your questions on solar energy. Participants will come away with basic knowledge about photovoltaic systems and will be prepared to do more focused research on their own, or start working with a contractor right away. There will be ample time for networking at the end of the workshop. The event is co-sponsored by The Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC): fostering the adoption of solar energy across New York State and the SUNY New Paltz Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach (CRREO).
Registration is required. For more information or to reserve a seat, contact Wendy Arienzo, wendy.tsec@gmail.com
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The Food Security Roundtable Presents
The 2nd Annual Winter Roundtable
Franklin Patternson Hall, Hampshire College
893 West St. Amherst MA 01002
February 27th, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., February 28th 9
a.m. - 3 p.m.
Farmers and community organizers will be meeting with
concerned and
interested folks of all kinds to get to know each
other, share our
collective resources, and work on our fixing our
broken food system. Join
us! This is a unique opportunity to meet with people
who work or want to be
working in the world of building a better food system
- farming, dismantling
racism in the food system, distribution, coops, - the
things that will put
the food system back in the hands of the people.
In February, farmers around the northeast are
counting down the last few
weeks until they fire up their greenhouses and start
getting down to
business, dawn to dark, for the next growing season.
Before they get
started, we want the chance to meet with them and
hear where they're coming
from, what their needs are, and what they want to do.
This isn't just for
farmers, though. This is an opportunity for anyone
involved in growing,
distributing or eating food to plug into making our
food system more stable
and just. So come, we'd love to hear what you've got
to say.
*The Food Security Roundtable is a network of
farmers, community organizers
and community members. We are working to strengthen
connections between
folks living and working in urban and rural areas,
and build grassroots
relationships throughout the northeast to establish a
more stable,
democratic, and just food system.
We need a
better food
system.
What is this meeting about? That is up to all of us
attending. We are
working on building a regional network to support and
further develop the
Good Food, Food Sovereignty, Food Justice Movements
and so on. Whatever you
want to call it, what should our network do? We've
got some ideas, you've
got some ideas. Let's work together.
Please RSVP
To get a head start and help us tailor our efforts to
the people coming, we
are interested in getting some information from folks.
Let us know what you would like to see and discuss.
Tell us what you're up
to, what you're thinking and what kinds of
conversations you're interested
in so we can prepare to conduct sessions around those
subjects. Examples
might include getting prospective farmers matched
with farms, hosting youth
organizers on your land or at your project,
organizing with people across
racial divides, sharing equipment or knowledge with
people in your area,
redefining sustainability, or getting together with
other people from your
area and getting to know each other, whatever is most
important to you.
We'll be making some of this info accessible to all
the participants to help
get a leg up in the networking.
So, want to come? Send Kristin an RSVP. Please Include:
- A short statement of interest - What do you want
to see at this forum?
What do you need to do your work better? What do
you have to offer?
- A brief personal or organizational bio so we get
a jumpstart on who you
are and what you are doing.
- Do you have any special needs?
- The suggested cost of the weekend is $20. Tell
us what you can pay,
above or below that amount, so we can plan a small
budget for the event.
Everyone is welcome whether they pay or not as
long as space is available.
Send those to
contact@foodpower.org,or
give
Kristin a call - 646-425-1311
*Partners*
Local Food Initiative- Mothers On the Move- The Food
Security Roundtable
Please get in touch if you have any questions, you
want to help with the
event, or to get involved with the roundtable. For
more information about
what we're doing, check out our soon-to-be-updated
website,
www.foodpower.org.
Thanks,
Henry and Kristin
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