That means, show time! Let's get busy making money - I mean saving the planet!
The festivities get off to an exciting start with a buffet brunch at Windmill #6 catered by Moosewood. After lunch, we plan to form circles, sing a few songs, perform a Hopi Rain Dance to encourage those April showers as we organize a few photo opportunities for our ECV magazine, Riches of the Earth.
It's time to show off our green thumbs again. Eco-Cash Village is having its first annual Earth Day Organic Veggie Plant-Off today. Gather your seeds, tools: pop into your L.L. Bean designer coveralls and meet us in the fields next to the Palm Springs cooperative housing quad. We start at 2 pm so don't be late! Early to rise, early to bank!
ECV could use some new solar panels on our jacuzzi building. Let's do some fundraising! Cynthia Debodily has come up with an idea to bake some organic rhubarb pies and sell them at the Ithaca Farmer's Market for around $40 a pop. That should bring in some of the green stuff! Yummie.
Our Cornell-ECV internship program is getting off the ground. Don't forget to complete your work orders by April 30th! If you need the grass mowed, some leaves raked up or just about anything done around the condo, you can get a Cornell student to pitch in and do it for you. As long as it's designed to save the planet! And, let's face it, what isn't? (Just don't ask those kids to chauffeur you to the Farmer's Market! They're touchy about SUV's.)
The building fund for the new ECV neighborhood has gotten off to a fantastic start! We've already collected $7.56 million from earth-friendly corporations and donors. The Enron Recovery Corporation donated $2.4 mil! Imagine that! We're helping them to restore their good name and they're helping us to build condos! That's a dynamic partnership if there were was one!
Other Earth Day activities include a contra dance tonight at the Vanderbilt Pavilion. Starts at 8 pm after our Earth Day Rib Dinner.
This afternoon's guest speaker for the Mother Earth Lecture Series will be Lance Rotebager who will discuss cash crops in Costa Rica. Starts at 4pm.
So, it's shaping up to be a fantastic Earth Day. At Eco-Cash Village, we've come up with a winning formula to save the planet, live in communal luxury, play at being organic farmers and make some money all at the same time! It's important to reflect on a day like this how privileged we really are to be living in an oasis like Ithaca. Just keep it a secret from the folks in Newark, NJ! Comments invited at: ezrakidder@gmail.com - Peace, Ezra at 6:35 AM
