October Newsletter
SSBN's Green and Solar Tour
Saturday, October 4, 2008, 10am-3pm (NOTE: WE EXPANDED THE TIME!)
If you haven't already registered for the Tour, you still can! This free event, featuring homes/buildings in the greater Lancaster/York area, is part of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) National Solar Tour, www.nationalsolartour.org, the largest solar event in the world. Find out how your home or business can become more energy efficient, healthier and environmentally-friendly. Participants on this self-guided tour will visit homes, businesses and colleges with solar electric and solar hot water, advanced rainwater harvesting, living roofs, wind turbines, high-efficiency stoves, the latest green building technologies and low impact gardens.Home & business owners will demonstrate how their technologies & conservation techniques work, what they cost, and why they may be a good choice for you. To pre-register and get specific information on each tour, visit www.susquehannasbn.org/events. Feel free to bring a sack lunch.
For More Information Contact: Karen Sattler at 1.877.500.6552 or info@susquehannasbn.org
Mother Earth Harvest Fair: A Celebration of Sustainable Living at Spoutwood Farm this Sunday, October 5, 2008 www.spoutwood.com
Combining the charm of an old-fashioned country fair, timeless traditional arts and crafts, and cutting-edge advances in green building and renewable energy, the MEHF is a celebration and showcase of healthy, sustainable, and balanced living in the Chesapeake bioregion. Areas of focus will include:
Green Building, Alternative Energy, the Sustainable Household, Food and Farming, Nature and the Environment, Health and Healing, BALLEs, Sustainable Communities, Wisdom Traditions, and much more.
Farmers Market with produce and products from local farms.
A Children’s Village with crafts and fun for our younger guests.
Farm animals and wildlife
Food and drink vendors galore
Music, storytelling, and dramatic presentations.
This year we are especially pleased and honored to announce special concert appearances by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Adrienne Young and her band, Little Sadie http://www.adrienneyoung.com
We are also pleased and excited to welcome as Keynote Speaker organic entrepreneur Judy Wicks of the White Dog Café in Philadelphia, Founder of the Greater Philadelphia Sustainable Business Network and the Business Alliances for Local Living Economies (BALLE) concept.
Judy Wicks Lecture and Q&A "Local Living Economies: Green, Fair and Fun"
Thursday, October 9 at 8 PM
Location: Barshinger Life Sciences and Philosophy Building at Franklin and Marshall College
Judy Wicks is owner and founder of Philadelphia's 25-year-old White Dog Cafe and a national leader in the local living-economies movement. She is the founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and has won numerous awards for her social activism, including the James Beard Foundations Humanitarian of the year in 2005 and Oprah Magazine's 5 Amazingly Gifted and Giving Food Professionals. This event is co-sponsored by the Susquehanna Sustainable Business Network and Buy Fresh Buy Local and is free and open to the public.
Both an entrepreneur and activist, Judy Wicks will tell her story - from an early experience living with indigenous people, to starting the White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her house 25 years ago, to co-founding the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies in 2001. Her presentation, “Local Living Economies: Green, Fair and Fun” will encourage business owners, citizens and community leaders to work cooperatively in building self-reliant local economies, a vision made urgent in these uncertain times of climate change and peak oil.
How to be a Farmer Friendly Business"
SBN of Philadelphia is holding this event in the Café at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, Pughtown Road, Kimberton, PA 19442
Monday October 13th, 6-8pm
Do you want to learn more about sourcing local foods for your business? Join us for an informative discussion with a panel of local food;systems pioneers, including Ann Karlen from the Fair Food Project, Terry Brett of Kimberton Whole Foods, James DeMarsh of Common Market, and Lindsay Gilmour of Organic Planet Handcrafted Foods, as well as local farmers and chefs. Learn about the range of options you now have to source food locally for your restaurant, coffee shop, catering business, grocery store or institution, and best practices for integrating local food into your product line and marketing it to your customers. This event will include time for networking, and sampling delicious foods from some of the local producers in our region. Sponsored by Kimberton Whole Foods. If you are interested in attending and in sampling your products at this event please RSVP via e-mail to julie@sbnphiladelphia.org
Aaron’s Books Announces “Lititz Loves Reading Week”
October 20-26 in Partnership with Lititz Public Library
The first event of the week is a discussion at Aaron’s Books of the One Book One Community (www.oboc.org) selection, The Grace That Keeps This World by Tom Bailey, on Tuesday October 21 at 6:30pm.
Aaron’s Books will host local author Jill Althouse-Wood (Warwick, ‘87) on Thursday October 23 at 7pm. She will discuss her love of reading and her perspective on the writing process. Copies of her debut novel Summers at Blue Lake will be available for sale and signing.
On Saturday October 25 at 2pm, Mr. Bailey will speak and sign books at the Lititz Public Library. Aaron’s Books is selling copies of his book at the event with proceeds being donated to the library.
Throughout the week, visitors to Aaron’s Books can support the mission of Lititz Public Library in two ways. First, for any customer presenting a Lititz library card while shopping at Aaron’s Books, 10% of the purchase price will be donated to the library. Second, the library is supplying Aaron’s Books with a “wish list” of most wanted books, and supporters can buy a book for the library through Aaron’s Books at 25 percent below retail price.
The weeklong celebration of books and reading culminates in an all-night Read-a-Thon beginning on Saturday, October 25 at 5:00pm and ending at 9:00 Sunday morning. Customers are welcome to start their reading anytime during the day on Saturday and stay for a night of activities, or join the celebration throughout the evening.
A showing of the new documentary Paperback Dreams begins at 6:30pm. Paperback Dreams follows the struggles and triumphs of two landmark independent bookstores over the course of two tumultuous years in the book business. Paperback Dreams celebrates what these stores offer our local communities and mourns the cultural loss that comes when a good bookstore closes its doors. At 9pm, Aaron’s Books hosts its first “open mike” poetry slam. This evening is a celebration of the joy of books and a chance to read through the night with fellow book lovers. There will also be games and prize drawings, as well as pizza, snacks and lots of coffee and tea.
All the events at Aaron’s Books are free and open to the public, no reservations are necessary. For further updates, event listings and information or contact Todd or Sam at Aaron’s Books at 627-1990, sales@aaronsbookcorner.com, or through the website at www.aaronsbookcorner.com.
Composting Workshop LIVE Green is partnering with the local firm ComposTumbler to offer a composting workshop on Saturday October 4. (please the attached flier for all the details)
Kimberton Whole Foods Update
In October, Kimberton Whole Foods will begin opearations in their new warehouse located in Leola, Lancaster County, adjacent to the distribution center of Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative. The warehouse will function as a distribution center to improve service to their four store locations and to the customers and communities they currently serve. Kimberton Whole Foods plans to continue seeking pportunities to expand their service into the Lancaster county market as a focal point of their development plans.
Green Drinks International An organization that promotes getting together to talk environment over drinks once a month. Members may include anybody who wants to talk green. This creates opportunity - to meet new friends or professional contacts, generate ideas, perhaps find employment, or learn about something new and in the end, hopefully help the environment as well. Join us each month and bring along some friends!
Place: John J. Jeffries Bar @ The Lancaster Arts Hotel, 300 Harrisburg Ave, Lancaster, PA 17603. Parking available at the hotel or on the streets nearby. When you enter the bar - look for the greendrinks sign or ask the bartenders/host for our location!
Why John J. Jeffries, you ask? Think environmental...
It's a centralized location in Lancaster that many people can walk to.
They rehabilitated the existing building to create the business.
They make organic drinks.
They buy fresh, buy local (including beers), to minimize their environmental footprint.
Non-environmental, but still cool reasons:
Happy hour is from 5pm - 6pm. There's a wine and beer discount as well as a special bar menu
There are mighty fine drinks, food, music and a great atmosphere!
Date: 2nd Wednesday of each month
In 2008: Sept 10, Oct 8, Nov 12 & Dec 10
Time: 5pm - 7pm; arrive late, leave early, or stay longer - just stop by!
Contact: lancasterpagreendrinks@yahoo.com (note change from previous gmail account) no RSVP necessary, but if you have questions, feel free to ask
Website: http://www.greendrinks.org
Join our online forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lancasterpagreendrinks/
Employment Opportunities Looking for the right person to join Team Cafe Chocolate. Must love people, love organic healthy food and love to learn. Cafe Chocolate ensures that team members have fun, keep learning and make money - every day!!! www.chocolatelititz.org or 717-626-0123
Thank You... to Fritz and Schroeder Gardens for making the ssbn members picnic so much fun, and also thanks to Karen Sattler for all her hard work in pulling this solar tour together!
