Local food resources
The Putting Down Roots Sustainability Salons have continued each month. The second Sustainability Salon (as well as the 14th, 15th, 26th, 27th, 38th, 39th, 51st, 52nd, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 74th, 75th, 87th, and 88th) focused on food -- growing it, sourcing it locally, and eating more humanely. Afterwards, Maren put together a list of many such local sources: CSA farms, farmers' markets, grassfed and humanely raised meats and dairy, natural foods suppliers, bakeries, and advocacy organizations. This list now resides on a growing Resources section of the Putting Down Roots Blogger site.
MarensList is Experiencing Technical Difficulties
Due to a change in how this platform works, it has become very difficult to make new postings for future events. I hope to find a solution soon, but in the meantime my apologies for a rather thin slate of events! There really is a lot going on... note that I also share events on Facebook, so look me up there if you're at loose ends.
Apr 28: Food Waste and Our Environment
The Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) makes the connection between food waste and the environment.
Consider this: About 40 percent of food grown and produced in the United States goes uneaten – that’s $165 billion worth of wasted dairy, meat, produce, and more. In fact, the average American family throws out about 25 percent of the food they buy each week.
All that waste takes an environmental toll. For one thing, that uneaten food is all too often relegated to local landfills where it rots, emitting potent greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.
Experts say that we could cut out food waste by just 15 percent nationally, it would not only stave off these emissions, but also save enough to feed 26 million people.
Join GASP for a panel discussion with two Pittsburghers who are helping to lead the charge against food waste locally – Dylan Lew, of Ecotone Renewables, and Sara Swaney of 412 Food Rescue.
Learn more about the problem and how YOU can be part of the solution.
6 p.m., on Zoom. Free & open to the public -- register here.
Apr 19: Labor and the plastics crisis (A-Z Impacts of Plastic)
Join the A-Z team as we explore the intersections of labor and our plastics crisis. Learn how workers involved in plastics production AND environmental nonprofit workers fighting plastic industry pollution can stand in solidarity for workers rights and healthy communities.
You’ll also learn more about
- The role of whistleblowers in exposing workplace injustice
- The community health impacts of workplace endangerment in the petrochemical and plastic industries
- How you can help secure better protections for all workers, regardless of industry
Apr 17: Sustainability Salon on Food (Part II)
• Dina "free " Blackwell, Farm Manager for the Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh Co-op (BUGs) will share doings at the Homewood Historical Community Farm. 
More speakers might join the roster -- check back here for updates! In the meantime, a few other items of note: Apropos of our spring topic, the monthly (now-virtual) Environmental Film Series at Phipps on the 16th will be all about growing food, and GASP's next Making the Connections event (Apr 28) will be on food waste. On April 19th, the A-Z Impacts of Plastics team will hold a session on workers' rights and the plastics industry. The Driving PA Forward campaign, which we talked about last month, is still ongoing; there’s a petition and info to call your legislators here. And a mask update: I still have a few (very few) from my second bulk order (read: substantial discount!) of the Breathe99 masks that we featured at November's salon on Pandemics and Air (video), as well as a supply of the new foam liners that address the condensation issue associated with a well-sealed mask. Please email me with mask in the Subject line if you're interested. These masks were selected as one of TIME's 100 Best Inventions of 2020!
For the uninitiated, a Sustainability Salon is an educational forum; it's a mini-conference; it's a venue for discussion and debate about important environmental issues; it's a house party with an environmental theme. Each month we have featured speakers on various aspects of a particular topic, interspersed with stimulating conversation, lively debate, delectable potluck food and drink, and music-making through the evening (though the potluck and the music are on hiatus during the pandemic). 
If you haven't been here before, you may enjoy checking out our roof garden and solar installation (and now apiary!) as well as the many other green and interesting things around our place. If interested folks are online and everything is working smoothly by around 3:30, perhaps I can conduct a virtual tour.
And if you like to make music or listen to homemade music, think back to our evening sings -- we typically ran the gamut from Irish fiddle tunes to protest songs to the Beatles, and a fun time was had by all. Folks would bring instruments, and/or pick up one of ours. Conversations would continue through the evening, as well. With a virtual event this is less likely to happen, but we can share music by turns, reminisce, chat online, and look forward to the post-COVID era!
• Ellie Gordon, co-founder of the Pittsburgh Vegan Society: advocating for veganism in Pittsburgh for the benefit of animals, health, community, and the environment.
• Simon Huntley, founder and CEO of Harvie, a Pittsburgh-based startup delivering customizable boxes of farm-fresh, local food to 1,200 customers in the Pittsburgh area.
• Tentative additions: Grow Pittsburgh; Steel City Food Not Bombs.
Talks and discussion will run from 4 p.m. to 7:30 or so on Zoom (sadly, no potluck supper these days). You're welcome to join the call for informal conversation after 3 p.m., and we aim to start the main program right around 4. If you're new to Zoom, you may find my Zoom Reference Guide helpful. If you RSVP via Eventbrite, you'll receive the Zoom registration link right away. If you're not already on my Eventbrite list, please email me (maren dot cooke at gmail dot com) with salon in the Subject line to be added -- and let me know how you heard about salons!
Past topics have included the legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the judiciary and fair elections, consumption, pandemics and air, election law and activism, air quality and environmental justice, social investment, local economies, the economics of energy, mutual aid networks, ocean health, the rise of the radical right, the back end of consumption, approaches to activism on fracking & climate, air quality, technology, and citizen science, single-use plastics, election activism, election law, whether to preserve existing nuclear power plants, advanced nuclear technologies, passenger and freight trains, consumption, plastics, and pollution, air quality, solar power, youth activism, greening business, greenwashing, the petrochemical buildout in our region, climate/nature/people, fracking, health, & action, globalization, ecological ethics, community inclusion, air quality monitoring, informal gatherings that turn out to have lots of speakers, getting STEM into Congress, keeping Pittsburgh's water public, Shell's planned petrochemical plant, visualizing air quality, the City of Pittsburgh's sustainability initiatives, fossil energy infrastructure, getting money out of politics, community solar power and the Solarize Allegheny program, the Paris climate negotiations (before, during, and after), air quality (again, with news on the autism connection), reuse (of things and substances), neighborhood-scale food systems, other forms of green community revitalization, solar power, climate change, environmental art, environmental education (Part I & Part II), community mapping projects, environmental journalism, grassroots action, Marcellus shale development and community rights, green building, air quality, health care, more solar power, trees and park stewardship, alternative energy and climate policy, regional watershed issues, fantastic film screenings and discussions (often led by filmmakers) over the winter with films on Food Systems, Climate Adaptation and Mitigation, Plastic Paradise, Rachel Carson and the Power Of One Voice, Triple Divide on fracking, You've Been Trumped and A Dangerous Game, A Fierce Green Fire, Sustainability Pioneers, films on consumption, Living Downstream, Bidder 70, YERT, Gas Rush Stories, and food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, and more food (a recurrent theme; with California running out of water, we'd better gear up to produce a lot more of our own!).
Coronavirus update: As you know, people in Pittsburgh and around the world are sequestered at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing is still the rule for most Americans. That's a bit of a misnomer, though -- we need physical distancing to flatten the curve, but technology now allows for rich interactions even so! I believe that community is one of our greatest strengths, so in March as events began to be cancelled, I hosted the first virtual Sustainability Salon via Zoom teleconference -- rather than gathering our usual 50-80 people in a contained space. It went quite well (even engaging participants from hundreds of miles away), and we're looking forward to June's salon! Please be sure to RSVP (via email with "salon" in the Subject: line, or via Eventbrite) so you'll receive the sign-on information.
If you haven't been here before, you may enjoy checking out our roof garden and solar installation (and now apiary!) as well as the many other green and interesting things around our place. If interested folks are online and everything is working smoothly by around 3:30, perhaps I can conduct a virtual tour.
And if you like to make music or listen to homemade music, think back to our evening sings -- we typically ran the gamut from Irish fiddle tunes to protest songs to the Beatles, and a fun time was had by all. Folks would bring instruments, and/or pick up one of ours. Conversations would continue through the evening, as well. With a virtual event this is less likely to happen, but we can share music by turns, reminisce, chat online, and look forward to the post-COVID era!
Mar 27: Sustainability Salon on Food (Part I)
• Karen Gardner, Pennsylvania Manager of the National Young Farmers Coalition, will talk about the Driving PA Forward campaign to expand access to drivers' licenses -- and its intersections with the food system in PA. There's also a petition pressuring Pennsylvania to improve the situation.
• Erin Hart, founder and director of Farm To Table Western PA, will share the organization's work during the COVID-19 pandemic connecting local farmers, area restaurants, and residents of public housing communities.The next salon -- Food (Part II) will very likely take place on April 17th. In the meantime, a few other events of note: On March 23rd, a virtual teach-in on the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act. March 25th, reimagine a healthier future with the second Bioplastic: Hype or Hope? event. Although the annual Seed Swap can't happen in its usual form this year, the organizers are holding a series of online lunchtime gardening workshops, as well as a seed distribution. More info is here. And a mask update: I still have a few from my second bulk order (read: substantial discount!) of the Breathe99 masks that we featured at November's salon on Pandemics and Air (video), as well as a supply of the new foam liners that address the condensation issue associated with a well-sealed mask. Please email me with mask in the Subject line if you're interested. These masks were selected as one of TIME's 100 Best Inventions of 2020!
For the uninitiated, a Sustainability Salon is an educational forum; it's a mini-conference; it's a venue for discussion and debate about important environmental issues; it's a house party with an environmental theme. Each month we have featured speakers on various aspects of a particular topic, interspersed with stimulating conversation, lively debate, delectable potluck food and drink, and music-making through the evening (though the potluck and the music are on hiatus during the pandemic).
If you haven't been here before, you may enjoy checking out our roof garden and solar installation (and now apiary!) as well as the many other green and interesting things around our place. If interested folks are online and everything is working smoothly by around 3:30, perhaps I can conduct a virtual tour.
And if you like to make music or listen to homemade music, think back to our evening sings -- we typically ran the gamut from Irish fiddle tunes to protest songs to the Beatles, and a fun time was had by all. Folks would bring instruments, and/or pick up one of ours. Conversations would continue through the evening, as well. With a virtual event this is less likely to happen, but we can share music by turns, reminisce, chat online, and look forward to the post-COVID era!
• Clemmie Murdock III is the Production Manager and Director of Keepin' It Real at Redstart Roasters, a Pittsburgh coffee company focused on sourcing high-quality beans from farms that have earned the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center’s Bird-Friendly Coffee certification. With a coffeeshop in East Liberty and a small-batch roastery in Point Breeze, they're also educating the public about migratory birds and the rainforests where they winter.
• Rhea Homa coordinates ReImagine Food Systems, part of the ReImagine Turtle Creek Watershed & Airshed Communities Plus initiative. RiFS helps households in under-resourced communities east of Pittsburgh establish home vegetable gardens by providing structures, soil, seeds, plants, and education.
• Pamela Barroso has been sharing seeds as a volunteer for Cooperative Gardens, and will talk about seed saving.
Talks and discussion will run from 4 p.m. to 7:30 or so on Zoom (sadly, no potluck supper these days). You're welcome to join the call for informal conversation after 3 p.m., and we aim to start the main program right around 4. If you're new to Zoom, you may find my Zoom Reference Guide helpful. If you RSVP via Eventbrite, you'll receive the Zoom registration link right away. If you're not already on my Eventbrite list, please email me (maren dot cooke at gmail dot com) with salon in the Subject line to be added -- and let me know how you heard about salons!
Past topics have included the legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the judiciary and fair elections, consumption, pandemics and air, election law and activism, air quality and environmental justice, social investment, local economies, the economics of energy, mutual aid networks, ocean health, the rise of the radical right, the back end of consumption, approaches to activism on fracking & climate, air quality, technology, and citizen science, single-use plastics, election activism, election law, whether to preserve existing nuclear power plants, advanced nuclear technologies, passenger and freight trains, consumption, plastics, and pollution, air quality, solar power, youth activism, greening business, greenwashing, the petrochemical buildout in our region, climate/nature/people, fracking, health, & action, globalization, ecological ethics, community inclusion, air quality monitoring, informal gatherings that turn out to have lots of speakers, getting STEM into Congress, keeping Pittsburgh's water public, Shell's planned petrochemical plant, visualizing air quality, the City of Pittsburgh's sustainability initiatives, fossil energy infrastructure, getting money out of politics, community solar power and the Solarize Allegheny program, the Paris climate negotiations (before, during, and after), air quality (again, with news on the autism connection), reuse (of things and substances), neighborhood-scale food systems, other forms of green community revitalization, solar power, climate change, environmental art, environmental education (Part I & Part II), community mapping projects, environmental journalism, grassroots action, Marcellus shale development and community rights, green building, air quality, health care, more solar power, trees and park stewardship, alternative energy and climate policy, regional watershed issues, fantastic film screenings and discussions (often led by filmmakers) over the winter with films on Food Systems, Climate Adaptation and Mitigation, Plastic Paradise, Rachel Carson and the Power Of One Voice, Triple Divide on fracking, You've Been Trumped and A Dangerous Game, A Fierce Green Fire, Sustainability Pioneers, films on consumption, Living Downstream, Bidder 70, YERT, Gas Rush Stories, and food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, and more food (a recurrent theme; with California running out of water, we'd better gear up to produce a lot more of our own!).
Coronavirus update: As you know, people in Pittsburgh and around the world are sequestered at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing is still the rule for most Americans. That's a bit of a misnomer, though -- we need physical distancing to flatten the curve, but technology now allows for rich interactions even so! I believe that community is one of our greatest strengths, so in March as events began to be cancelled, I hosted the first virtual Sustainability Salon via Zoom teleconference -- rather than gathering our usual 50-80 people in a contained space. It went quite well (even engaging participants from hundreds of miles away), and we're looking forward to June's salon! Please be sure to RSVP (via email with "salon" in the Subject: line, or via Eventbrite) so you'll receive the sign-on information.
If you haven't been here before, you may enjoy checking out our roof garden and solar installation (and now apiary!) as well as the many other green and interesting things around our place. If interested folks are online and everything is working smoothly by around 3:30, perhaps I can conduct a virtual tour.
And if you like to make music or listen to homemade music, think back to our evening sings -- we typically ran the gamut from Irish fiddle tunes to protest songs to the Beatles, and a fun time was had by all. Folks would bring instruments, and/or pick up one of ours. Conversations would continue through the evening, as well. With a virtual event this is less likely to happen, but we can share music by turns, reminisce, chat online, and look forward to the post-COVID era!
Mar 23: Teach-In on BFFPPA
What is the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act -- and how can you support it?
This event will feature:
- A presentation (giving an overview of the BFFPPA bill) from Congressional aides:
Dr Anja Malawi Brandon (Senator Jeff Merkley) &
Shane Trimmer (Congressman Alan Lowenthal) - Alexis Goldsmith: National Organizing Director of Beyond Plastics sharing how we can support the bill
- A short film by Stiv Wilson (creator of "Story of Plastics”)
- Live Q & A session
7-8:30 p.m. EDT, online. For more info and to register to receive the sign-on link, click here.
Co-hosted by PASUP, A-Z Impacts of Plastics, and several other organizations including Putting Down Roots. You can keep up with developments on Facebook.
More about A-Z Plastics: This event will not only showcase this groundbreaking legislation, but it will also kick off of the A-Z series 2.0! Last summer People Over Petro and many of its partners joined in a summer digital series and summit called Tackling theA-Z Impacts of Plastic - From Fracked Gas to Plastic Pollution in the Ohio River Valley and Beyond. Hundreds of people joined in a social network with events, arts, and discussions around the impacts of plastic and what we can do about it. See impactsofplastic.com for more info, to join the A-Z community, and watch recordings of past events.
More about PASUP: Pittsburghers Against Single Use Plastic is a group advocating for a systemic & equitable shift away from plastic. Learn more and get involved by visiting http://pasupnow.org/.
Mar 19: Climate Strike
Join a Rally & March for Climate Justice!
We plan to rally around demands for equitable, green futures for all Pittsburghers. This includes COVID relief to frontline communities with dangerous air quality, university divestment from fossil fuels (and reinvestment in the community), and calling for state investment in a sustainable, just economic recovery.
While our actions will center youth voice, justice-seekers of all ages are welcome.
Gathering at noon on Flagstaff Hill in Oakland. Youth speakers will be sharing their demands for the future of the region, and we'll be marching through the streets of Oakland. Please reach out to let us know how we can make this event accessible for you.
- Make a sign and bring something to make noise. The Sunrise Movement is famous for our Wide Awake actions that are meant to wake people up to the climate crisis and remind them of the widespread support for immediate and drastic action.
- Wear a mask (or two) and maintain distance whenever possible. All participants in the rally and march MUST wear a face covering (mask or face-shield). We recognize that health issues may limit peoples' ability to participate in an in-person event while wearing a face covering, and are providing ways to engage in the Global Climate Strike virtually. Face masks will be available at the event.
Gathering at Flagstaff Hill at noon, with a march around Oakland. Online events 4-6 p.m.
https://www.facebook.com/events/473879987128033
Mar 11 & 25: Bioplastic -- Hype or Hope?
Please join us for a conversation on the emerging field of Bioplastic and the potential to grow a new industry in our region!
Feb 28: Sustainable, Successful Political Campaigns
Join PASUP for a panel discussion of local politicians & strategists led by Dr. Lara Putnam (professor of History at University of Pittsburgh) to explore how to make campaigns more sustainable!
4:30-6 p.m. on Zoom. Register in advance here, and you'll receive a link to join.
Feb 27: Sustainability Salon on Fukushima and the Future
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| Sunset for nuclear power? (photo: Pexels/Pixabay, under Creative Commons) |
On March 11, 2011, a megathrust earthquake occurred off the coast of Tōhoku in eastern Japan. At magnitude 9 on the Richter scale, this was the strongest quake ever recorded in Japan (and fourth in the world). The resultant tsunami sent monstrous waves crashing onto the coast, killing more than 15,000 people and damaging or destroying a million buildings. Power outages, fires at oil refineries, and meltdowns at nuclear power plants ensued. The Fukushima Daiichi station was the hardest hit, as flooding disabled diesel generators needed for cooling. Earthquakes (and resulting tsunamis) are not all that rare on the Pacific Rim, as evidenced by the recent magnitude 7.3 temblor off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture -- a stark reminder of the dangers.
Starting with a recap of the Fukushima accident, an update on where it stands now, and a look at what it will really take to decommission the plant (we'll screen a short documentary), we'll explore other risks and consequences of nuclear power, from aging facilities to the hazards of nuclear waste. And we'll talk about how to forge a renewable energy future to address climate change. Speakers will include local scholar, author, activist, policymaker, and energy policy expert Patricia DeMarco; Diane D'Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service; Barbara Litt, formerly of the New Jersey DEP (dealing with radon in indoor air) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (studying energy efficiency in Japanese buildings), and now teaching about Japanese culture and energy policy at Carnegie Mellon; and physicist and science writer Fred Bortz, author of Meltdown! The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy Future. We'll also hear from Shoshone leader Ian Zabarte in a short video about the disproportional impacts of nuclear testing and waste storage on indigenous people. Ann Rosenthal of Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace will help moderate our discussion.
Logistical details and RSVP link are in italics, below.
For the uninitiated, a Sustainability Salon is an educational forum; it's a mini-conference; it's a venue for discussion and debate about important environmental issues; it's a house party with an environmental theme. Each month we have featured speakers on various aspects of a particular topic, interspersed with stimulating conversation, lively debate, delectable potluck food and drink, and music-making through the evening (though the potluck and the music are on hiatus during the pandemic).
If you haven't been here before, you may enjoy checking out our roof garden and solar installation (and now apiary!) as well as the many other green and interesting things around our place. If interested folks are online and everything is working smoothly by around 3:30, perhaps I can conduct a virtual tour.
And if you like to make music or listen to homemade music, think back to our evening sings -- we typically ran the gamut from Irish fiddle tunes to protest songs to the Beatles, and a fun time was had by all. Folks would bring instruments, and/or pick up one of ours. Conversations would continue through the evening, as well. With a virtual event this is less likely to happen, but we can share music by turns, reminisce, chat online, and look forward to the post-COVID era!
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| International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors at Fukushima Daiichi in 2013 (photo: IAEA) |
Most years, wintertime Sustainability Salons feature film screenings (and often talks by filmmakers, or activists working on the issues in the films); in large part due to our space being darker and more cinematic when sunset is earlier. However, during the pandemic there are so many other virtual film screenings and panel discussions that folks don't need even more screen time -- so I'm keeping films to a minimum, in favor of more live conversation. In lieu of our own Winter Film Series, then, here are a few other opportunities to get your popcorn popping: FracTracker Alliance has an Environmental Justice Film Series this month (with recordings of past discussions). Apropos of last month's Salon topic, PASUP's next community meeting will be about greening election campaigns, on February 28th. The next two Sustainability Salons (March and April) bring our annual focus on food (March probably on the 27th). And a mask update: I have received my second bulk order (read: substantial discount!) of the Breathe99 masks that we featured at November's salon on Pandemics and Air (one of TIME's 100 Best Inventions of last year), as well as a supply of the new foam liners that address the condensation issue. Please email me with mask in the Subject line if you're interested!
Films, talks, and discussion will run from 4 p.m. to 7:30 or so on Zoom (sadly, no potluck supper these days). You're welcome to join the call for informal conversation after 3 p.m., and we aim to start the main program right around 4. If you're new to Zoom, you may find my Zoom Reference Guide helpful. Please RSVP via Eventbrite and you'll receive the Zoom registration link right away. If you're not already on my Eventbrite list, please email me (maren dot cooke at gmail dot com) with salon in the Subject line to be added -- and let me know how you heard about salons!
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Past topics have included the judiciary and fair elections, consumption, pandemics and air, election law and activism, air quality and environmental justice, social investment, local economies, the economics of energy, mutual aid networks, ocean health, the rise of the radical right, the back end of consumption, approaches to activism on fracking & climate, air quality, technology, and citizen science, single-use plastics, election activism, election law, whether to preserve existing nuclear power plants, advanced nuclear technologies, passenger and freight trains, consumption, plastics, and pollution, air quality, solar power, youth activism, greening business, greenwashing, the petrochemical buildout in our region, climate/nature/people, fracking, health, & action, globalization, ecological ethics, community inclusion, air quality monitoring, informal gatherings that turn out to have lots of speakers, getting STEM into Congress, keeping Pittsburgh's water public, Shell's planned petrochemical plant, visualizing air quality, the City of Pittsburgh's sustainability initiatives, fossil energy infrastructure, getting money out of politics, community solar power and the Solarize Allegheny program, the Paris climate negotiations (before, during, and after), air quality (again, with news on the autism connection), reuse (of things and substances), neighborhood-scale food systems, other forms of green community revitalization, solar power, climate change, environmental art, environmental education (Part I & Part II), community mapping projects, environmental journalism, grassroots action, Marcellus shale development and community rights, green building, air quality, health care, more solar power, trees and park stewardship, alternative energy and climate policy, regional watershed issues, fantastic film screenings and discussions (often led by filmmakers) over the winter with films on Food Systems, Climate Adaptation and Mitigation, Plastic Paradise, Rachel Carson and the Power Of One Voice, Triple Divide on fracking, You've Been Trumped and A Dangerous Game, A Fierce Green Fire, Sustainability Pioneers, films on consumption, Living Downstream, Bidder 70, YERT, Gas Rush Stories, and food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, and more food (a recurrent theme; with California running out of water, we'd better gear up to produce a lot more of our own!).
Coronavirus update: As you know, people in Pittsburgh and around the world are sequestered at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing is still the rule for most Americans. That's a bit of a misnomer, though -- we need physical distancing to flatten the curve, but technology now allows for rich interactions even so! I believe that community is one of our greatest strengths, so in March as events began to be cancelled, I hosted the first virtual Sustainability Salon via Zoom teleconference -- rather than gathering our usual 50-80 people in a contained space. It went quite well (even engaging participants from hundreds of miles away), and we're looking forward to June's salon! Please be sure to RSVP (via email with "salon" in the Subject: line, or via Eventbrite) so you'll receive the sign-on information.
If you haven't been here before, you may enjoy checking out our roof garden and solar installation (and now apiary!) as well as the many other green and interesting things around our place. If interested folks are online and everything is working smoothly by around 3:30, perhaps I can conduct a virtual tour.
And if you like to make music or listen to homemade music, think back to our evening sings -- we typically ran the gamut from Irish fiddle tunes to protest songs to the Beatles, and a fun time was had by all. Folks would bring instruments, and/or pick up one of ours. Conversations would continue through the evening, as well. With a virtual event this is less likely to happen, but we can share music by turns, reminisce, chat online, and look forward to the post-COVID era!
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