[SustainableTompkins] Sustainable Tompkins Monthly Gathering for September - on Wednesday, September 19.

[Marian Brown]

Mea culpa. I pulled this from the ST event calendar, and neglected to 
include the DATE for this, which is Wednesday, September 19.  Sorry 
about that! Marian

Marian Brown wrote:

> The first Sustainable Tompkins monthly gathering of the Fall 2007 
> season will feature a screening of the film "Green is the New Red, 
> White and Blue" featuring Thomas Friedman, award-winning columnist for 
> the New York Times.
>
> This special event will begin with a potluck dessert at 6:30pm with a 
> brief opportunity for attendees to share what we're up to. The film 
> screening - complete with local, organic popcorn and local butter and 
> salt to taste - will begin at 6:45pm. The film runs about 90 minutes.
>
> The location for this special film screening event, which is free and 
> open to the public, will be the Center for Natural Sciences at Ithaca 
> College, Room 112. (This is a theatre-style auditorium).
>
> Parking for this event is free on campus, in "O" lot behind the Park 
> School of Communications. Or you can take TCAT Route 11/12 to campus, 
> which drops off behind the Park School.
>
> For a campus map: http://www.ithaca.edu/map/
> Center for Natural Sciences is building 23 on the map.
>
> For a little taste of Friedman's message, read:
> Green: the new Red, White and Blue from January, 6, 2006
> http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/news/news_detail.cfm?id=48
>
> Film synopsis: In this 2007 series (first broadcast on public 
> television), New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman looks at 
> various "green" technologies--hydroelectric, solar, wind, and nuclear 
> power, hybrid, electric, and hydrogen-fuel-cell cars, clean-coal, 
> bio-fuels, and energy-conservation methods--being adopted by American 
> businesses and families today, to reduce the output of the greenhouse 
> gas carbon dioxide and ultimately to reduce global warming and ensure 
> political stability throughout the world.
>
> Hope to see you all there!
>
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