Sustainable Hastings
an effort of citizens for citizens for our home, our town, our planet
Events 2009
Every Saturday, 8:30am-2pm
June 6 thru Nov. 21
Farmers Market
Hastings Farmer's Market - Spread the Word!
Buy local produce and stop by our tent to talk about the issues and ways to reduce your carbon footprint.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Quadricentennial Celebration at the Hastings Waterfront
Saturday, June 6, 2-4 PM
MacEachron Waterfront Park
Come see the Historic River Day Flotilla Parade passing Hastings-on-Hudson
Music, Skits & Crafts for Kids
with Food by
Antoinette’s
Spicy Food Catering Co.
Slices Pizzeria
Amazing Live Music by
The Holmes Brothers
Kemp Harris
The Blues Mothers
The Hudson River Ramblers
June 14, Sunday
Spring Thing
Hastings Festival
Downtown Hastings,
Warburton Ave.
Sustainable Hastings is greening-up the "Thing" this year, and it will be replete with every facet of Hastings' civic life. On the green front, folks will be tabling from The Lenoir Preserve, Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct, Groundwork Yonkers, God of Insects, Hillside Nature Guides, NYSERDA and NYPA, and some others not yet confirmed. Plus, Sustainable Hastings will be constructing an educational installation on Warburton and will provide environmentally-themed games and activities for kids in the Chase parking lot.
Tuesday, June 16
Tour of the Peekskill Incinerator
(Run by Wheelabrator Technologies)
Peekskill, Carpooling from Hastings
All our refuse that is not recycled nor composted is trucked to Peekskill and incinerated. The ash is dumped not far away in Cortlandt Manor. The energy produced by our garbage is converted into electricity. Come see how it all happens!
Please rsvp to Haven Colgate: hcolgate@yahoo.com.
Carpooling will be arranged- meet up in Hastings.
Tuesday, June 23, 6:30-8:30pm
Energy Audits - NYSERDA Workshop
Greenburgh Public Library
300 Tarrytown Rd, Elmsford, NY 10523
Register with Deann Cartwright at (914) 993-1649 or conservationoutreach@greenburghny.com
Learn about Home Performance with ENERGY STAR, sponsored by NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority), and the specific skills you will acquire as a Home Performance Contractor certified by the Building Performance Institute (BPI).
You will build your business through new customer referrals and through NYSERDA, by providing customers with access to low cost financing and rebates up to 25%.
Find out how to adapt your business to tap the growing market for energy-efficiency services and significantly reduce your customers’ energy costs.
Presentation followed by Q&A session with:
Matt Slattery, Home Performance with ENERGY STAR contractor (BPI - accredited)
Elyssa Rothe, NYSERDA Outreach Coordinator
Mark Wyman, Association for Energy Affordability (BPI Affiliated, Energy Management Training Center)
Quadricentennial Celebration at the Hastings Waterfront
Saturday, June 6, 2-4 PM
MacEachron Waterfront Park
Come see the Historic River Day Flotilla Parade passing Hastings-on-Hudson
Music, Skits & Crafts for Kids
with Food by
Antoinette’s
Spicy Food Catering Co.
Slices Pizzeria
Amazing Live Music by
The Holmes Brothers
Kemp Harris
The Blues Mothers
The Hudson River Ramblers
June 14, Sunday
Spring Thing
Hastings Festival
Downtown Hastings,
Warburton Ave.
Sustainable Hastings is greening-up the "Thing" this year, and it will be replete with every facet of Hastings' civic life. On the green front, folks will be tabling from The Lenoir Preserve, Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct, Groundwork Yonkers, God of Insects, Hillside Nature Guides, NYSERDA and NYPA, and some others not yet confirmed. Plus, Sustainable Hastings will be constructing an educational installation on Warburton and will provide environmentally-themed games and activities for kids in the Chase parking lot.
Tuesday, June 16
Tour of the Peekskill Incinerator
(Run by Wheelabrator Technologies)
Peekskill, Carpooling from Hastings
All our refuse that is not recycled nor composted is trucked to Peekskill and incinerated. The ash is dumped not far away in Cortlandt Manor. The energy produced by our garbage is converted into electricity. Come see how it all happens!
Please rsvp to Haven Colgate: hcolgate@yahoo.com.
Carpooling will be arranged- meet up in Hastings.
Tuesday, June 23, 6:30-8:30pm
Energy Audits - NYSERDA Workshop
Greenburgh Public Library
300 Tarrytown Rd, Elmsford, NY 10523
Register with Deann Cartwright at (914) 993-1649 or conservationoutreach@greenburghny.com
Learn about Home Performance with ENERGY STAR, sponsored by NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority), and the specific skills you will acquire as a Home Performance Contractor certified by the Building Performance Institute (BPI).
You will build your business through new customer referrals and through NYSERDA, by providing customers with access to low cost financing and rebates up to 25%.
Find out how to adapt your business to tap the growing market for energy-efficiency services and significantly reduce your customers’ energy costs.
Presentation followed by Q&A session with:
Matt Slattery, Home Performance with ENERGY STAR contractor (BPI - accredited)
Elyssa Rothe, NYSERDA Outreach Coordinator
Mark Wyman, Association for Energy Affordability (BPI Affiliated, Energy Management Training Center)