[SustainableTompkins] Contact Needed

[Tony Del Plato]

Thank you very much for the leads & links. Gina is a very mainstream h.s.
health teacher. As you may know, most teachers have little time to attend
extra events in their community. And so it goes sometimes you hear about
something good in your back yard from someone 1000 miles away. Any way we
link up is alright. Being an affluent community has it's pluses & minuses,
not to mention Indian Pt just a puff away from the school.
best
Tony

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Thomas Shelley <tjs1 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> At 04:44 PM 3/4/2008 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi TC Sustainers:
> >A high school teacher in the Croton on Hudson High School in Westchester
> >county wants to invite a speaker to her class to discuss sustainability
> to
> >her students. Does anyone on this list have any personal or
> organizational
> >contacts in that area?
>
>
> Tony--Humm....  Westchester has a very strong sustainability movement.
>  I'm
> more than a little surprised that your acquaintance doesn't have some
> connection to this movement that would lead them to a speaker.  For
> example, see:
>
> http://www.nylawline.com/_Media/sustainability_working_draf.pdf
>
> http://www.byramhills.org/curriculum/Curriculum_Committee_0110_08.pdf
>
> Westchester is one of the few places to develop a comprehensive global
> warming action plan, similar to what the Mayor is somewhat trying to do
> here in Ithaca:
>
> http://www.westchestergov.com/environment_globalwarming.htm
>
> Westchester even has a Department of Environment and Land Use with much
> information about a variety of sustainability issues:
>
> http://www.westchestergov.com/environment.htm
>
> There are numerous contact people scattered through these documents and
> Web
> sites, so I would think that there would be someone your acquaintance
> could
> find to present at the local level.  Take care.   Tom
>
> Tom Shelley
> 118 E. Court St.
> Ithaca, NY 14850
> 607 342-0864
> tjs1 at cornell.edu
> http://www.myspace.com/99319958
> P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary
>
> "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the
> present
> without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
> needs."
>
> The World Commission on Environment and Development,
> Gro Harlem Brundtland
> Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987
>
> MY NOTE:  Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as
> growth per se is not sustainable.  And the term "sustainable" has to mean
> "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett).
>
> "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."        Sioux
> proverb
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