Fwd: November 29th Public Meeting, Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan, Westchester County - SAVE DATE AND DISTRIBUTE

Car pool this THursday anyone? 

Call me

Pauline

914-886-8506

Begin forwarded message:

From: Nina Orville <nina@sweac.org>

Subject: Fwd: November 29th Public Meeting, Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan, Westchester County - SAVE DATE AND DISTRIBUTE

Date: November 26, 2012 9:25:42 AM EST

To: Nina Orville <nina@sweac.org>

Bcc: paulineschneider4@gmail.com

Dear All -

The draft Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan is now available for your review.  Comments and suggestions are welcome and should be submitted by following the instructions on the site linked to above (you may have to copy and paste the google doc link into your browser to access the document where you can submit comments).  Comments will be accepted until December 7th at 5 p.m.

Please also join us at the upcoming public meeting this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Westchester County Center (details below) for a review of the plan and the opportunity to ask questions and provide input. 

Thank you,

Nina Orville
Executive Director
SWEAC
914-693-6222

Dear Mid-Hudson Sustainability Planning Partners:

 

The Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan's second public meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 27 at 6:30 p.m. in Kaplan Hall's Great Room within SUNY Orange's Newburgh Campus and at the Westchester County Center on Thursday, November 29th^th at 6:30 PM . Please forward to all parties that may be interested in attending.

 

 

 

Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan

Public Meeting Notice

 

DATE:  Thursday, November 29, 2012

 

TIME:   6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Doors will open at 6:00 for refreshments.

 

LOCATION: Westchester County Center

198 Central Avenue White Plains, NY 10606

 

Please RSVP at KEversley@greenburghny.com

 

TOPIC: Seven-County Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan

Dutchess ▪ Orange ▪ Putnam ▪ Rockland ▪ Sullivan ▪ Ulster ▪ Westchester

 

Please join the Mid-Hudson Sustainability Planning Consortium for a presentation of the draft regional sustainability plan will be followed by a question/ answer session and open discussion.

 

The Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan looks to utilize the combined knowledge of stakeholders in the seven counties of the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council Region to create a plan that will lead to a more sustainable region.  The Plan is one of ten such collaborative initiatives taking place around New York State as part of Phase One of Governor Cuomo's Cleaner, Greener Communities program. The draft Plan compiles regional trends related to land use, infrastructure, energy, transportation, and environmental practices and identifies project ideas that could significantly improve the economic and environmental health.  The plan is expected to be finalized by the end of 2012.

 

The Program empowers regions to create more sustainable communities by funding smart development practices. Planning teams are partnering with public and private experts across a wide range of fields, along with community residents, to lead the development of regional sustainability plans and to implement the projects that will significantly improve the economic and environmental health of their areas. The plan will guide integrated, sustainable solutions—from statewide investments to regional decision-making on land use, housing, transportation, infrastructure, energy, and environmental practices—to improve our quality of life.

 

Visit Engage MidHudson at www.engagemidhudson.com for more information and to join the ongoing discussion!

 

Fwd: SAVE THE DATE: Local Resilience: A Transition Town Weekend Coming This February

  

Local Resilience: 
A Transition Town Weekend

Date: February 1st to 3rd, 2013 (Friday to Sunday)

Times: Friday  6 - 9 PM (includes dinner) / Saturday, 8:30 AM - 5 PM (includes lunch) / Sunday 1 - 6 PM (includes closing dinner)

Place:  South Presbyterian Church, 343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, New York

Transition is what we've been through this fall, post Sandy. Realizing the importance of community . . . a deep pantry . . . an alternate source of heat in your house. This is called local resilience. 

The Transition Movement is the worldwide expert in building local resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis--and not just preparing for emergencies but as a preferable way of living. 

Come to Local Resilience: a Transition Town Weekend and move toward a life that is more fulfilling, more socially connected and more equitable than the one we have today. This weekend is sponsored by Roots & Wings, the sustainable initiative of South Church, in partnership with Transition Hastings and Transition Westchester.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT? A highly interactive event that will connect you to your neighbors who share your concerns for positive, effective action. - Learn how to describe the triple challenge of peak oil, climate instability, and economic deterioration and move people to action. - Explore ways to create and strengthen your local community. - Connect with others who share your concerns and are on a similar path. - Become a part of a rapidly growing positive, inspirational, global movement. The three-day course presented by Transition US is an in-depth experiential introduction to the Transition Movement. Packed with imaginative and successful ways to engage your community, the course describes how to catalyze, build, and facilitate a successful Transition Initiative. It delves into the theory and practice of Transition that has worked well in hundreds of communities around the world. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? People interested in learning about the Transition Movement in depth and leaders already creating a Transition Initiative in their community. 

WHAT PEOPLE SAY "Tina was a great inspiration at the Katonah library this weekend. The attendees were all powerful movers and shakers in their communities. Folks who know how to roll up sleeves and make things happen. It was a rich conversation!! Deeper than usual. Tina gets people inspired!" - Pauline 

Instructors: Tina Clarke, other TBA

Fee: $140, $50 for full time students.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 

Everyone must pre-register. To register or for more information, click here.  Contact Kathy Dean atkpokoik@verizon.net or 914-693-7389 if you are interested in attending and unable to pay the full tuition.

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Fwd: SAVE THE DATE: Local Resilience: A Transition Town Weekend Coming This February

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Transition Westchester" <mailinglist@transitionwestchester.org>

Subject: SAVE THE DATE: Local Resilience: A Transition Town Weekend Coming This February

Date: November 17, 2012 9:58:37 PM EST

To: paulineschneider4@gmail.com

Reply-To: "Transition Westchester" <mailinglist@transitionwestchester.org>

  

Local Resilience: 
A Transition Town Weekend

Date: February 1st to 3rd, 2013 (Friday to Sunday)

Times: Friday  6 - 9 PM (includes dinner) / Saturday, 8:30 AM - 5 PM (includes lunch) / Sunday 1 - 6 PM (includes closing dinner)

Place:  South Presbyterian Church, 343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, New York

Transition is what we've been through this fall, post Sandy. Realizing the importance of community . . . a deep pantry . . . an alternate source of heat in your house. This is called local resilience. 

The Transition Movement is the worldwide expert in building local resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis--and not just preparing for emergencies but as a preferable way of living.

Come to Local Resilience: a Transition Town Weekend and move toward a life that is more fulfilling, more socially connected and more equitable than the one we have today. This weekend is sponsored by Roots & Wings, the sustainable initiative of South Church, in partnership with Transition Hastings and Transition Westchester.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT? A highly interactive event that will connect you to your neighbors who share your concerns for positive, effective action. - Learn how to describe the triple challenge of peak oil, climate instability, and economic deterioration and move people to action. - Explore ways to create and strengthen your local community. - Connect with others who share your concerns and are on a similar path. - Become a part of a rapidly growing positive, inspirational, global movement. The three-day course presented by Transition US is an in-depth experiential introduction to the Transition Movement. Packed with imaginative and successful ways to engage your community, the course describes how to catalyze, build, and facilitate a successful Transition Initiative. It delves into the theory and practice of Transition that has worked well in hundreds of communities around the world. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? People interested in learning about the Transition Movement in depth and leaders already creating a Transition Initiative in their community. 

WHAT PEOPLE SAY "Tina was a great inspiration at the Katonah library this weekend. The attendees were all powerful movers and shakers in their communities. Folks who know how to roll up sleeves and make things happen. It was a rich conversation!! Deeper than usual. Tina gets people inspired!" - Pauline 

Instructors: Tina Clarke, other TBA

Fee: $140, $50 for full time students.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 

Everyone must pre-register. To register or for more information, click here.  Contact Kathy Dean atkpokoik@verizon.net or 914-693-7389 if you are interested in attending and unable to pay the full tuition.

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Fwd: A death in the family

We're all in for Bill McKibben's Do The Math! campaign.  Now, read Working Families Party Exec. Director, Dan Cantor's email below

for how you can help spread the truth.  Many of us were lucky in this latest storm, but too many were not. 

Pauline Schneider, 

District Manager

Independent Consultant

Arbonne International

ID#: 12862130

Transition Westchester Core team member

(914)886-8506

http://paulineschneider.myarbonne.com/

http://www.transitionwestchester.org/default.html

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Pauline, We really are all connected. Hurricane Sandy was an equal opportunity destroyer, whether in New Jersey or New York. Listed below are groups that are working to provide aid to the "power-less," especially poor people living in public housing. No light, no heat, no water. We urge you to donate as generously as you can. It has been two weeks since the storm, but our hearts are still heavy. We want to take a minute to also talk about those who died, and what this all means. Sandy killed nearly 200 people in the U.S, in Haiti, in the Bahamas.  Each death tore apart someone's heart. That included us. On the morning after the storm, the Working Families "family" learned that the daughter of two of our most beloved and dedicated leaders was killed when a tree fell on her and a friend. Her name was Jessie Streich-Kest. Her friend Jacob Vogelman also perished. She was 24, he was 23. Jessie was in her first year as a high school teacher in New York City. She was one of those lucky young people who figured out early in life what she wanted to be. She had worked hard to qualify for the difficult job of teaching 10th grade Special Education students, and she loved it. Friends of the family could tell that she was poised for a long career as an educator, a valued colleague, and a leader both in her profession and in her union.  People die every day, of course. But there is no pain greater than losing a child, and every parent reading this knows the fear of not being able to reach a child, of breathing a sigh of relief when fears turn out to be unfounded. Sometimes, of course, the news is bad. When it's a so-called natural disaster, some people blame fate, others God, still others just bad luck.  But it's really not about luck at all, and this is why we're writing to the many WFP supporters who did not know Jessie or anyone else hurt in this hurricane. A few days ago, an environmental thinker and writer named Bill McKibben made a point worth repeating.  It is time, he wrote, that we stop giving these storms the names of people, and start naming them after fossil fuel companies. McKibben's point is that global warming makes normal storms into terrible ones, and terrible ones into killers. The oil and coal companies are the biggest contributors to the global warming that causes sea levels to rise and the waters to warm, which in turn boost the awesome, terrible power of a hurricane. They fund the lobbying and political campaigns that guarantee that we do nothing real to challenge climate change. And they fail to accept any responsibility for the death and destruction that result.  If you are the kind of person who likes to connect the dots, consider this: just before the election, Chevron just made the single-biggest corporate campaign contribution of all time, giving $2.5 million to some god-awful super PAC that they know will keep profits high and responsibility low. What does a 24 year-old teacher mean to an oil company, after all? The WFP was formed 15 years ago with a simple purpose: Tell the truth. Tell the truth about our society and what we owe each other. Tell the truth about what it's going to take to put our country and world on a better path.  Like McKibben, we cannot help but think that the cost of inaction is too high. We are therefore asking you to consider two actions.  First, send money to relief efforts along the Atlantic coast. In New York City, below are five groups working to coordinate relief in some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods.  And second, please join us in standing with 350.org, the organization founded by Bill McKibben to tell the truth about climate change, and sign their petition. We need to send a message to the oil companies and ask them to STOP funding election and lobbying campaigns and START using the money for recovery efforts.  It's the least they can do.  You can sign the petition here, and forward it on as you see fit: http://act.350.org/sign/sandy-wfp/ Thank you for reading.  Dan Cantor WFP Executive Director P.S. -- Please donate whatever you can to these organizations doing fine work to help the recovery across New York. Some of these are general donation pages -- make sure to designate your contribution for Hurricane Sandy relief: Red Hook Initiative New York Communities for Change Make the Road NY Island Harvest Occupy Sandy Become a WFP fan on Facebook.  Follow the WFP on Twitter. Become a WFP Sustainer! Other political groups have corporate donors. We have you. Just $5 a month supports our fight for a better New York.  This is a message from the Working Families Party. To change your email address or update your contact info click here To remove yourself from this list, click here