[SustainableTompkins] Sustainable Tompkins' monthly gathering :Bringing Sustainability to the Holiday Season

[Stephen Nicholson]

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 mini-workshops with
lots of free materials to recycle and reuse. 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



Stephen C. Nicholson
Governance Chair, Sustainable Tompkins
Ithaca, NY
607-539-6923
scnfish at clarityconnect.com
www.sustainabletompkins.org <http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/>