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May Community Building at Bklyn Ethical
Dear Friends – With all that is happening in the world, there is a little space that I am creating to build a community for ethical culture. Please feel free to join me.
Sunday, May 3 @ 12:30 PM
Following the North Star – Songs of Freedom and Protest
With Dr. Carolyn Sebron
Kim D. Brandon
https://bsec.org/events/following-the-north-star-songs-of-freedom-and-protest/
Sunday, May 12 @ 12:30 PM
Women You Need to Know –
With Muriel Tillinghas
https://bsec.org/events/women-you-need-to-know-pt2/
Sunday, May 24 @ 12:30 PM
Que pasa, Cuba?!? Chaos, or Opportunity?
With Mitty Owens
This will be a personal account, from an African-American who revels in Cuba’s Black culture and pride, and whose writings can be found on Substack. Accompanied by vibrant photos, the presentation offers a story of complexity, hardship, and resilience; and it will invite discussion regarding the Cuban experiment persevering as a global beacon of hope and sustainable development.
Mitty Owens has witnessed life in much of the Global South, including a brief period living in Zimbabwe in 1990. He first traveled to Cuba in 1997 (with Global Exchange), brought his daughter there twice under Obama, and for the past 5 years, has returned 2-3 times a year, loving the annual jazz fest and facilitating some support for local artists. With a 35 year background in community development and a social justice spectrum via jobs and boards spanning the Ford Foundation, NYC government, racial and economic justice nonprofits, NYU and the New School, Owens’ current analysis transcends “isms” of economic systems, seeking instead solid evidence of quality of life and people power for the global majority.
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Vandra Thorburn, Founder
VOKASHI – kitchen waste solution
2023 Community Impact Award – NYWIB PitchTank
2021 Citizen's Committee Grantee
2010 2nd Place PowerUp Competition
vokashi.com
718 623 1911
Vokashi
For easy composting at home
The goal Vokashi set out to achieve is to decrease the amount of food that ends up in landfills. Most of us don't think about where our food is going when we throw it in the trash, but food waste makes up about 1/3 of the waste in landfills in the US. That's a lot! Vokashi aims to change that by following a Japanese method of fermenting food waste. Vokashi takes your food waste and uses it in a composting system. There are many benefits to composting, but one of the biggest ones is lowering your carbon footprint by decreasing the amount of food waste in landfills, which reduces methane emissions. If you want to learn more about the process or how to get involved with this company, visit Vokashi.com.
