Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective At the Jacob Burns Film Center 364 Manville Road, Pleasantville Wed. Oct 14 at 7:30 pm “What if…instead of trying to be ‘less bad,’ we try to be ‘more good’?... A bold new solution.” (EcoWatch) We hear a lot about the need to leave no footprints, to minimize our impact on […]
SAVE THE DATE! 17TH ANNUAL HENRY SCHWARZSCHILD MEMORIAL LECTURE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15TH, 2015 AT 7PM REID CASTLE, MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE, PURCHASE, NY Hear: Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty She manages the operations of the NCADP and directs programs for its 100 affiliates seeking to change public policy on the death […]
“Growing Your Community Food System From the Ground Up" is an intensive, hands on, training workshop offering the opportunity to learn, plan, develop, operate, and sustain community food projects. Dukes Farms in NJ, is proud to partner with Will Allen, from Milwaukee, and Growing Power to bring the Urban Agriculture Regional Training Center to Duke Farms in Hillsborough, New […]
An Evening with Gideon Levy and Suhail Khalilieh
An Evening with Gideon Levy and Suheil Khalilieh How Can We Be Agents of Change to Secure Human Rights for Israel and the Palestinian Territories? On this panel, we will hear from Israeli and Palestinian voices of conscience who will help us understand that in the long struggle toward justice and peace in the […]
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL FORUM OCTOBER 19th, 7pm at the WHITE PLAINS PUBLIC LIBRARY 100 MARTINE AVENUE Speaker: Susan Fox, President and CEO Exceptional changes are underway at White Plains Hospital: A campus-wide transformation. Opening this Fall a new 6-story patient tower with private rooms, new operating rooms, new labor and delivery suites and later in […]
FORUM ON EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY Join Westchester for Change at our upcoming forum with featured speaker New York State Regent, Judith Johnson Date: October 20, 2015 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Place: The Ethical Culture Society of White Plains, 7 Saxon Woods Road, White Plains The greatest education reforms in our country have been born when […]
Energiewende Germany’s Transition to Renewable Energy Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Stony Point Center 7 Cricketown Road, Stony Point, NY Alexander Franke of the Heinrich Böll Institute, Berlin will talk about what is really happening in Germany and answer questions Why it is important? What does it means for the Hudson River Valley? Energy Transformation! That’s what the German policy of Energiewende is all about […]
What: A trilogy of mini-documentaries, followed by a panel discussion. When: October 22, 6-8 PM Where: Ossining Public Library, 53 Croton Avenue, Ossining, NY Bomb trains. Indian Point. Tappan Zee Bridge construction. Watch Jon Bowermaster’s powerful trilogy of short documentaries on these time-sensitive issues affecting the Hudson, collectively known as "The Hudson: A River at Risk" at the […]
Model Suburb or Dystopian Sprawl? The Past, Present and Future of Community Planning & Affordable Housing in Westchester. A Planners Network/WESPAC Foundation/CSEA Roundtable Saturday, October 24th, 12pm at the CSEA Local 860: 595 W. Hartsdale Avenue, White Plains NY, 10607. Accessible via I-287, the Bronx River Parkway and the #5 & #6 Bee Line bus […]