The BCCE was packed this evening with eager supporters of Chris Hartman, both in his role as Director of Social and Environmental Sustainability at Harley, and in his role as President and Founder of Headwater Food Hub (parent company to the Good Food Collective). As the featured speaker in the...
On Earth Day, April 22, educators from around the Rochester region spent an afternoon together to discuss and share ideas for how to introduce their students to sustainability, and engage them (across content areas) in an active response to climate change. The RISK workshop (Rochester Introducing Sustainability to Kids) was...
Elizabeth Schirmer, founder and CEO of Untapped Shores International (USI), shared her global work in hydroponic farming and water sanitation as the seventh speaker in the Commons Speaker Series. USI uses entrepreneurship to address the following three needs of women and children worldwide: sanitation and hygiene; clean water; disaster relief....
We were honored to welcome Congresswoman Louise Slaughter to give the fourth presentation in the Commons Speaker Series this past Monday. She gladly gave up her time back in Rochester to come and speak at Harley, where her daughter attended back in then 1980s. Representing the 25th Congressional District of...
We were honored to have Brighton Town Supervisor Bill Moehle as our third presenter in our Commons Speaker Series. He was the first speaker to address topics relating to civic engagement, local government, advocacy and activism. The design behind the speaker series is to present a variety of local experts...
At long last, the much-anticipated reschedule of the Jammin’ at the Commons interactive community concert (which was originally planned for March, but was cancelled due to monster snow) happened in the Briggs Center for Civic Engagement on Sunday, May 18th. The musicians originally involved in the project came from Harley,...
On May 15th, the sixth grade students from Genessee Community Charter School visited Harley to check out the Commons and work with our sixth grade students on questions of sustainability. The students started the day with a tour of the Commons by Chris Hartman. Their year-long study and focus has...
The members of the Institute for Creative Music (http://www.ifcmusic.org/Institute_for_Creative_Music.html) were on campus this week to work with the music faculty and their students. Our own Mike Kaupa is a member of this exciting and innovative group of professionals. The other members are Nick Finzer, Matthew Golumbisky, Chris Teal and Chris...
Most of you have heard of the annual Greentopia Festival that is held in the High Falls district each September. This year, the festival featured several speakers, one of whom was a young man named Birke Baehr, who gained national recognition after he presented a talk entitled “What’s wrong with...
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