[SustainableTompkins] Bringing Sustainability to the Holiday Season - Thu 11/9

[Elan Shapiro]

(Please circulate and/or attend)

Bringing Sustainability to the Holiday Season
Sustainable Tompkins Community Gathering - A Family friendly event!

Sustainable Tompkins' monthly gathering on Thursday, November 9, 6:00 
- 8:30 p.m. at Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Avenue, will have a 
"Holiday-go-Lightly" theme, featuring hands-on demonstrations of ways 
to make gifts, cards, and holiday wrappings from reused materials. 
The gathering will start with a potluck dinner of local and homemade 
foods and a chance for people to share their own successes in making 
the holidays more relaxing, meaningful, and earth-friendly. 
Sustainability educator Elan Shapiro will speak on conscious 
consuming and what helps us change culturally ingrained habits, 
followed by a few short, inspiring presentations, then lots of free 
materials and time for making recycle and reuse gifts. Learn how to 
make beautiful cards and wrappings from recycled calendars, turn old 
magazines and wrapping paper into paper beads,  turn old t-shirts 
into new fashions, make a blue jean handbag, and use fabric to wrap 
and carry gifts. Please join us, and invite a friend or two.

For more information, contact: Elan Shapiro,  Sustainable Tompkins 
Program Co-Chair elansla at ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us, 607-275-0249.

This event is co-sponsored by Tompkins County Solid Waste Management Division.
Sustainable Tompkins is a coalition of citizens, community 
organizations, elected officials, educators and professionals from 
diverse fields- all working to promote a more sustainable community.
www.sustainabletompkins.org


-- 
Elan Shapiro
Sustainable Tompkins Program Co-Chair
Sustainable Living Associates, Principal
Frog's Way B&B
211 Rachel Carson Way
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-275-0249

"We must be the change we want to see in the world"
	          Mohandas Gandhi