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Welcome to the LI Green Sheets
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The LI Green Sheets is a weekly “Green Events” email service about green events and activities in our region.  If your organization or company has an event, class, meeting, seminar or program that you want LI Green’s over 5000 environmental businesspeople, activists, educators email list to know about please fill out this web form or forward information to greensheets@ligreen.com.  Include  date, time, address, event description, web link and contact information.

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Green Drinks – Green Drinks are monthly networking events for environmental professionals, educators and others held throughout Long Island

• Green Drinks North Fork – Thursday July 16th 6 to 9 pm Castello Di Borghese Winergy Route 48 (Sound Ave) and Alvah’s Lane Cutchogue New York 11935.  Click here for directions More Info www.ligreen.com/greendrinks RSVP greendrinks@ligreen.com or 631-721-1908

• Coming Soon – Watch for the dates – Green Drinks Open House for Whole Foods Jericho and Greener Country Store,  Green Drinks Open House at the Wales Darby Energy Room,  Western Nassau County Green Drinks, Five Towns Green Drinks and the first annual Southampton Green Drinks “Beach Party”

Charitable Events

• Ellen’s Run – Family Event to Benefit Breast Cancer Patient Support Services.  5K race/walk.  Sun August 16th.  9 am sharp. New Location: Southampton Hospital

Live and Learn

• LONG ISLAND SOUND MEDITATION – All environmental issues are symptoms of a far deeper issue – human separation from the rest of nature.  Renew your spiritual relationship with LI Sound to find inner peace.  A shamanic-based meditation.  Older children welcome.  Peter Maniscalco guides.  Summer Sundays through Labor Day weekend.  Meet: 10:30 am, Shoreham Beach parking lot,  N. Country Rd., Shoreham.  Info: 631.874.4104.

• Sierra Club Long Island Water Sentinels Invites you to taste wine and meet LI artists Martha Clara Vineyards 6025 Sound Ave, Riverhead, NY 11901 Sunday, August 16  1:00pm – 5:00pm *Cost: $25.00 pay at door RSVP:  Linda Freilich, Coastal Waterways Chair, turton@optonline.net or Sally Anne Keller at sawatercolor@optonline.net *100% of funds go toward buying water test kits *20% of artists’ earnings pledged to the cause

• Renewable Energy Long Island (RELI) – Free public seminar on Renewable Energy, Southold Town Hall, Wed July 8th.  www.renewableenergylongisland.org for more info

• Green Living LI Meetup – at Bobbi-Que, 70 W Main St, Patchogue, NY 11772, 631-447-7744.  More details at
  http://www.meetup.com/Living- Green-Long-Island/calendar/ 10788718/

• Green Living Seminars – Starflower Experiences – Speakers on a variety of ‘green living’ topics at the Melville Library on the 2nd Thursday (except July & August) 7-9 pm 516-938-6152 Email:info@ starflowerexperiences.org www.starflowerexperiences.org

• Discovering a Sense of Place Discussion Course – Starflower Experiences 516-938-6152 :info@starflowerexperiences.org This 8 session course will meet Tuesday evenings at Manor Farm. The purpose of the Discovering a Sense of Place course is:  to understand the meaning of a bioregional perspective, and what it would mean to develop one, to consider the benefits of consciously developing an intimate relationship with your place, and to explore what it might mean to protect the place where you live. Starts October 6 Download a registration flyer at www.starflowerexperiences.org.  More info at www.nwei.org

• Permaculture Design Course – Starflower Experiences 516-938-6152 :info@starflowerexperiences.org This course will meet the 1st & 3rd Saturdays October through March at Manor Farm in Huntington. Permaculture design is a great companion to all the ‘green building’ things that are happening. It’s about designing low energy, permanently sustainable landscapes and living spaces. This is a certification course so that folks who complete it can teach and design. download registration form www.starflowerexperiences.org

• Stony Brook Advanced Energy Research Center Annual Conference – If you are in any way involved in the search for innovative solutions to the world’s energy needs, then Advanced Energy 2009 is the one conference you cannot afford to miss. On November 18 & 19 the energy world will be focused on the Hyatt Regency Long Island hotel in Hauppauge, New York. Mark the dates on your calendar today! For info or to register Kathleen Ferrell at kferrell@notes.cc.sunysb.edu,  or by telephone at  (631) 632-4625.
  

Long Island Environmental Groups

• Peconic Land Trust – Reception and talk about Plein Air Planting on Long Island’s East End.  Friday July 10th 5 pm to 7 pm at ArtHampton, located at the Bridgehampton Historical Society.  www.arthamptons.com for more info.

• Peconic Land Trust – Bridge Gardens – Join us for Friday Evening special events – www.peconic.landtrust.org

• Sag Harbor Energy Fair – Sag Harbor Whaling Museum – 631-725-0770 – www.sagharborwhalingmuseum.org – A free interactive public event featuring products and services to help us lessen our use of fossil fuels and turn to cleaner renewable sources of energy! Saturday July 11th 10 to 5

• Babylon Green Party – On Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party Gathering will feature a showing of Michael Moore’s film, “Sicko” The film uses humor to point out the sad state of medical coverage in the United States.  It outlines how much more successful a single-payer universal healthcare system has been in every other industrialized country. This showing is an extension of the Babylon Green Party’s 100 Days series which discusses issues that President Obama needed to address in his first 100 Days. http://www.BabylonGreens.org The event will be held at Pisces Café, 14A Railroad Avenue, Babylon, NY (631-321-1231) http://www.piscescafe.net.  For info call 631-422-4702 or email ian.wilder@yahoo.com Children are welcome. All gatherings are free of charge, and open to the public.

• Rangers of the Earth Program Day– Starflower Experiences 516-938-6152 info@starflowerexperiences.org – Rangers of the Earth helps upper elementary learners understand basic ecological processes, develop positive feelings about being in the natural world, and use their new understandings and feelings to change their own environmental habits.  This full-day session will provide an overview of the program, give you a chance to experience some of the activities (both indoor and outdoor), and help you find out how your group can participate in the program. This workshop is for classroom teachers, outdoor leaders, those who care for wild places, and others interested in seeing a model earth education program. November 15, 2009  8:30 am – 5:00 pm Sweet Hollow Hall, West Hills County Park. Download or request registration flyer www.starflowerexperiences.org

• Earth Education Workshop – Starflower Experiences:516-938-6152 info@starflowerexperiences.org Join us for a full day of stimulating sessions and demonstration activities introducing earth education. Earth education programs help learners understand basic ecological processes, develop positive feelings about the natural world, and use their new understandings and feelings to begin making change in their own environmental habits.November 14, 2009 8:30 – 5:00 at Sweet Hollow Hall, West Hills County Park, Melville.  Download or request registration flyer www.starflowerexperiences.org

• LI Naturally environmental fair – Starflower Experiences 516-938-6152 info@starflowerexperiences.org This is our annual environmental fair to be held at Manor Farm in Huntington.September 26, 2009 10 am – 4 pm Just come – no signup required. www.starflowerexperiences.org

Local Government

• More Planning for the Great Greening of Southampton – Thurs. July 16th 5:30 pm Rogers Memorial Library – Open meeting with the Town’s Sustainable Southampton Green Committee to learn about local initiatives. 283-0774 x 523 for reservations.

Schools

• DONATE USED BIKES NOVEMBER 7 & 8, 2009. 9:00 a.m. – 4:00p.m. at The Wheatley School 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury, NY.  Bikes will be shipped to Ghana, West Africa to be used as socially, economically, and environmentally appropriate and sustainable transportation technology, helping people break the poverty cycle, providing access to school, work, health care, and market places.  In collaboration with The Village Bike Project.org, we have already sent nearly 2000 bikes to Ghana!  Re-Cycle your cycles and help The Wheatley Afri-Bike Coalition change more lives in rural West Africa.  And please help us spread the word by posting this info at your local bike shop, house of worship, community center, etc. For more info and other drop off locations in Nassau and Western Suffolk, please contact Steve Finkeklstein at (H) 516-334-2375,  (W- school year) 516-333-7143 or earthfink@aol.com and check the school website this fall at ewsdonline.org.

Long Island Green Businesses

• Go Solar Saturday Solar Tour –  Educational seminar on solar energy.  See how solar electric and solar thermal work first hand in our SunShack.  August 15, 2009  10 a.m. – Noon  Signup at gosolar.com 631-727-2224.  Also Sept. 12th and 19th

• Greener Lifestyle Presentation Monday – July 13th at 7pm. You’re invited to a Greener Lifestyle Presentation on Solar Electricity and Solatube installations for home or business, in Jericho, LI, NY. Greener Country, 457 N. Broadway, Jericho, Exit 41 north off the LIE. 516-470-1881 info@greenercountry.com www.greenercountry.com

• East End GreenFest – Weekend of August 1st and 2nd. 2 day outdoor festival celebrating the latest green solutions in a fun and informative setting.  Festivities include live music from local musicians, healthy and organic foods and beverages, interactive displays, speakers, kids activities, speakers, hand on demonstrations, exhibits and shopping for natural and sustainable products.  Strawberry Fields Fairgrounds – Rt 48 in Mattituck.  For more info 631-470-3933 or www.eastendgreenfest.com

• Second Annual Solar Day – August 8th 12pm Eastern Energy Systems 631 779 1026. mfroehlich@e2sys.com –  Event will be held at our Renewable Energy Demo Home Facility (3305 Alrich Lane, Laurel).  Live Music, Food, Local Farm Products, Wine Tasting, Green Vendors. Renewable Energy Tours and Presentations will be given hourly promoting education, conservation and energy efficiency and production.

• HIA Environmental &  Energy Seminars & Expo Several “green” seminars & exhibition hall with several “green” technologies October 23, 2009  8 AM – 4 PM www.hia-li.org 631.543.5355

• Introduction to Photovoltaics – 8 hour seminar – Windsine, Inc. www.windsine.org 631-514-4166 Sat July 25th.  8:30 to 4:30.  Holiday Inn East End, Riverhead.  Understand PV before you talk to contractors or do it yourself
  

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