Ithaca Earth Day happenings

If you missed last weekend's Earth Day events, including the Ithaca Farmers Market celebration, Sustainable Tompkins' The Climate Smart & Climate Ready conference, and the Youth Summit at Ithaca College, there are still opportunities to enjoy this beautiful (Spring!) day while celebrating Earth Day:

• (from the Ithaca Times) - GreenStar Natural Foods Market is already in the midst of its 12 Days of Earth Day celebration, which will culminate on Earth Day itself, Monday, April 22. Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick will dedicate the second annual GIAC Urban Art Show on the entrance side of GreenStar’s West End store from 4-5 p.m. The urban art show this year is a collaboration between GIAC’s after school Urban Art Club at Ithaca High School and GreenStar. Educators Jay Stooks and Rahmel Mack have been running the club for four years and the students have worked on various community art projects. The mural that they are showing for this event is being created on recycled oak pews donated by Significant Elements.
• (from Cornell Sustainable Campus) - Friday, April 26 is the 2013 Earth Day 5K at the Cornell Plantations Arboretum. Animals from the Cayuga Nature Center will be present before the race! Registration info available through the Cornell Sustainable Campus link above.
• (from Ithaca College's Resource & Environmental Management Program student organization) - Today wraps up "The 12 Days of Earth Week" events with EARTH FEST from 10-3, a local foods event with free samples at the Food Lab, and a talk about value-added dairy production at the Sustainability Cafe.
• (from the Ithaca Journal) - Tonight, 5 pm at Cornell's Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall, Peter Kareiva, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy, will deliver the Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture. The lecture is titled “Overcoming Dogma and Prophecies of Doom to Save Nature.”

What are you doing for Earth Day? Here at Singlebrook, folks are planning to start some seeds for the upcoming growing season, getting bikes tuned up to hit the roads/trails, and getting outside and taking a walk.

Cascadilla Falls is just a couple blocks from our offices!