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Hello Friends,

As the Coordinator for the Green Jobs and Entrepreneurial Opportunities Fair portion of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s 2009 Green Ventures Conference, I’m writing to invite you to participate in the Fair, to held on Thursday, May 21, from 4 to 8 p.m.  The Fair is part of the Conference, entitled “Jumpstarting the New Green Economy ,” running from May 19-21 at FDU’s College at Florham in Madison, NJ.

We are inviting businesses, business associations, government agencies, nonprofits, and recruiters to participate. In addition to the more than 400 conference attendees, admission to the Fair will be free to the public, and we are expecting a large number of people. This is an excellent opportunity to connect with people who want to shift their careers in this new, challenging, and exciting direction, and to establish your company or organization as a leader in the new economy.

For exhibitors in the Jobs Fair, there is a $125 suggested donation to help defray costs, which will include a table, exposition space, and refreshments.

Of course, you are also welcome to register for the full three-day conference - either as an exhibitor at our Green Expo or as an attendee. Please act now, because our Early Bird rate will be ending soon.

Note: Any organizations that sign up for the full Conference or Expo ($225 Early Bird rate) are invited to stay for the Jobs and Opportunities Fair, and attend any conference sessions they wish.

For more information and to register, please visit http://GreenVenturesConference.org.

To just participate in the Green Jobs and Entrepreneurial Opportunities Fair, please contact me directly: robbkushner@gmail.com or 973-763-8844.

Thanks,

Robb Kushner

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robbkushner@gmail.com
973-763-8844

From: Joann Held <joannheld@comcast.net>
Hopewell Valley Green Net Coordinator

Hopewell Valley Green Market
April 17th and 18th
at the Masonic Hall and the Hopewell Train Station

The second Hopewell Valley Green Market opens with a family-friendly evening, April 17, 2009, at the Masonic Hall, 88 East Broad Street, Hopewell, NJ. Come at 7 PM to hear an educational talk from NJ State Beekeeper Bob Hughes and enjoy honey ice cream from The Bent Spoon, followed by a screening of Seinfeld’s hilarious but poignant Bee Movie. The film, talk, and ice cream will cost you nothing. If the weather proves unseasonably warm, the event will take place on the grass outside the Historic Train Station, 1 Railroad Place, Hopewell, NJ.

Events the next day (Saturday, April 18, 2009) run from 10 AM-3 PM. Earth Day occurs four days later, and Arbor Day two days after that, but this event will celebrate simply Emersonian self-reliance. There will be an emphasis on living frugally and sustainably through home-made, hand-made items. Famed traditions expert Meg Cox will join the Pennington Quilt Works in a How To Quilt exhibit and demonstration. Christine Toto from Around the Table will show how to make salad dressing. Internet sensation Leila Darabi from Everydaytrash.com will be present to help us rethink waste. There will be displays by some of the area’s most highly-regarded artisans and crafters, as well as demonstrations by local merchants of wool spinning, drum carding, pot throwing, and how-to-build-a-birdhouse, how-to-make-bird-seed (both dry and suet), how-to-make-pet-food, how-to-grow-a-biodynamic-garden, how-to-make-soup, how-to-can/preserve, how-to-needlefelt, how-to-make-an-awesome totebag-with-only-plastic-grocery-bags-and-an-iron-and-possibly-a-sewing-machine. There will be alpacas to pet and chickens to hold and fresh eggs to inspect. Sterling Planet will be there to sign up residents for clean power. Terracycle will demonstrate their best-selling creations built from recycled drink pouches, yogurt cups, and granola wrappers. Photo Haven will take your picture with the Lorax and Horton the Elephant. All of this, plus much more, including live music, games, and possibly a glimpse into the future of electric cars, will be free of charge.

In addition, there will be hot meals for sale (made by many of Hopewell’s finest restaurants) as well as seedlings, trees, cut flowers, vegetables, green products, and instant garden kits.

We’ll be posting a schedule of events soon. Please use the contact form if you’re curious about participating or if you want to volunteer.

See you there!
Tom Adelman
Chairman, Hopewell Valley Green Market

From Sustainable Lawrence:

If You Think of Yourself…

…as a sustainability activist at all, you will want to make sure you save the dates for an amazing event to take place June 5-6 on the campus of Rider University in Lawrence Township.

Entitled “Stoking Our Sustainability Fire”, this event seeks to build, strengthen and expand the growing sense of community those concerned with this challenge, Nonprofit leaders, business people, municipal officials, religious leaders, farmers, teachers — it won’t matter what you do.  If you’re serious about moving your community, organization or neighborhood deep into the 21st century as a truly sustainable place to be — you want to be with us.

Spend this time coming together, delving into the diversity that is the sustainability community, and learning more about how to live the practice, extend the message, and make real the powerful, positive vision of sustainable life in which you have come to believe so strongly.

Sponsored by a large number of organizations in education, faith, business, and community activism, folks from Sustainable Lawrence will be there in numbers.   Executive Director Ralph Copleman will be leading an all-day track on leadership for sustainability.  SL Board Chair David Prescott will convene the event.  SL founder Pam Mount will also lead a session.

It’s workshops.  It’s community-building.  It could be life-changing.  It’s a celebration, too.

You’ll start seeing full details soon.  In the meantime, mark down the information you see here, and contact us with any questions.

P.S. Forward this e-mail to anyone you think may be interested.  Thank you.

“Stoking the Sustainability Fire” Key Info…  http://www.sustainablelawrence.org/

The students enrolled in Politics of Community Change at TCNJ (taught by Dr. William Ball) are partnering with the Ewing Township Environmental Commission to explore certification for Ewing by Sustainable Jersey (www.sustainablejersey.com). The Green31.net website will be devoted to supporting this effort starting on March 20, 2009 until further notice.

NATIONAL TEACH-IN ON GLOBAL WARMING at TCNJ
2/5/2009

TCNJ will be hosting a wide variety of activities on campus as part of the National Teach-in on Global Warming on Thursday, February 5, 2009. The schedule of events for the day follows.

All members of the TCNJ community and the public are invited. More details will be posted to http://www.tcnj.edu/climate/nationalteach.html as they are available. The National Teach-In website is: http://www.nationalteachin.org/.

Times, Activities, and Locations

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. National Teach-In Day Video. ½ hour video shown in multiple venues around campus:  School of Business monitors, Brower Student Center lobbies and residence hall lounges.  Also on TCNJ Cable channel #20

11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. “Green Fair” in Brower Student Center atrium : green careers, compact fluorescent light bulb distribution, greening IT, recycling at TCNJ, Environmental Studies Concentration, President’s Climate Commitment Committee, Poster sessions and others.

11:30 a.m.– 1:30 p.m. Plate Scrape in Eickhoff , Eickhoff Dining Hall

11:30 a.m. – 12 noon. Plenary Speaker: NJ DEP Commissioner Mark Mauriello, Brower Student Center 202E

12:15 – 2 p.m. Faculty Panel: “Climate Change : Where do we go from here?” Mort Winston (Philosophy), Nate Magee (Physics), Marty Bierbaum (MLUC), Matt Bender (History), Brower Student Center BSC 202E.

12:15 -1 p.m. “Introducing Sustainable Jersey: A Better Tomorrow, One Community at a Time,” Donna Drewes, MLUC, Brower Student Center 210

2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Demonstration test drives in Smart ForTwo Cars, Brower Student Center parking lot 2A

7 p.m. – 9 p.m. TRashion Show: Teams of students will make outfits from trash and compete to win prizes, Forcina Hall 134