<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Always great to hear from you - Level Green is thriving, now working with the Town of Ithaca to create the retreat/learning center for sustainable living that I've dreamed about for years - young people starting to move here to work with us -giving a paper at a S.African conference in March about Arts at the Heart of a Sustainable World, the project that grew out of that wonderful Open Space in raleigh -<div><br></div><div>seeds take their own time to grow<br><br>LEVEL GREEN - fostering sustainable community through collaborative initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old democratic  spirit of the Danish Folk School. 1519 Slaterville Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 339-9472<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 9/22/09, Steve Cochran <i><scochran@sustainabilitystrategies.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16,
 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Steve Cochran <scochran@sustainabilitystrategies.com><br>Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Give peace a dance! global time-synchronized prayer & dancing for world peace Sat Sept 26<br>To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7:05 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1888094727"><div>Hi Patricia - Why am I not surprised to see this from you?  Hope all is well and thanks you for your continuing leadership and love - </div>
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<div>Steve Cochran</div>
<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sustainabilitystrategies.com/">Sustainability Strategies LLC</a></div>
<div>(US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development)<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Patricia Haines <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:levelgreeninstitute@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=levelgreeninstitute@yahoo.com">levelgreeninstitute@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;MARGIN:0px;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;DISPLAY:block;PADDING-TOP:0px;">By yourself, with friends, in your backyard, in the town square, wherever you live ...</p>

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<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;MARGIN:0px;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;DISPLAY:block;PADDING-TOP:0px;"> Join hundreds of thousands around the globe at<i style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"> 7 pm this coming Saturday</i> who - all at the exact same time - will share a prayer for <span style="BORDER-BOTTOM:rgb(0,102,204) 1px dashed;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">world peace</span> (see below) - reinforced by the universal harmonics of music and dance.</p>

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<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;MARGIN:0px;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;DISPLAY:block;PADDING-TOP:0px;">EARTHDANCE began in 1997 as one person gathering his neighbors. Last year over 350 groups in 60 countries joined the dance <<a rel="nofollow" style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;COLOR:rgb(0,51,153);TEXT-DECORATION:underline;" target="_blank" href="http://earthdance.org/"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">earthdance.org</span></a>>.  <span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">John Lennon</span></span>’s legacy coming true:  “Imagine all the people...”!</p>

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<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;MARGIN:0px;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;DISPLAY:block;PADDING-TOP:0px;"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM:rgb(0,102,204) 1px dashed;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">Ithaca</span></span>’s first community EARTHDANCE will be at the Level Green Farm (1519 Slaterville Rd, on the valley side just past where Pine Tree enters Rt 79E) from 6-11ish on <span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">Saturday night</span></span>. Two live bands, DJ Gourd, drum circle - all ages welcome.</p>

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<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;MARGIN:0px;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;DISPLAY:block;PADDING-TOP:0px;">We do, however, invite <i style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">free-will donations</i> to support the <span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">Community Foundation</span></span>’s <span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">Social Justice Fund</span></span>, <span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">Earth Day</span></span> 2010 (<<a rel="nofollow" style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;COLOR:rgb(0,51,153);TEXT-DECORATION:underline;" target="_blank" href="http://ces-ithaca.org/"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">ces-ithaca.org</span></a>>), the upcoming <span
 style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">Finger Lakes</span>Bioneers Conference (Oct 16-18 <<a rel="nofollow" style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;COLOR:rgb(0,51,153);TEXT-DECORATION:underline;" target="_blank" href="http://wemakeourfuture.org/"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">wemakeourfuture.org</span></a>>), or your favorite justice and peace organization.</p>

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<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;MARGIN:0px;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;DISPLAY:block;PADDING-TOP:0px;">If you can’t join us in person but would like to support these local forces for local and global peace, donations may be sent to the Community Foundation of <span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">Tompkins County</span> (309 N.Aurora St) or the Center for <span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE:none;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">Environmental Sustainability</span></span> (CES), c/o Level Green, <span style="BORDER-BOTTOM:rgb(0,102,204) 1px dashed;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM:rgb(0,102,204) 1px dashed;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">1519 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca, 14850</span></span></p>

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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;MARGIN:0px;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;DISPLAY:block;PADDING-TOP:0px;">EARTHDANCE PRAYER FOR WORLD PEACE</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;MARGIN:0px;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;DISPLAY:block;PADDING-TOP:0px;">"We are one global family<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">
</span>All colors, All races<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"></span>One world united.<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">
</span>We dance for peace and the healing of our <span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">planet Earth<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">
</span>Peace</span></span> for all nations.<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"></span>Peace for our communities.<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">
</span>And peace within ourselves.<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"></span>As we join all <span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">dance floors</span></span> across the world,<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">
</span>let us connect heart to heart.<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"></span>Through our diversity we recognize Unity.<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">
</span>Through our compassion we recognize Peace.<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"></span>Our love is the power to transform our world.<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;">
</span>Let us send it out<span style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"><br style="LINE-HEIGHT:1.2em;OUTLINE-STYLE:none;"></span>NOW...”</p></span><br>LEVEL GREEN - fostering sustainable community through collaborative initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old democratic spirit of the Danish Folk School. 1519 Slaterville Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 339-9472</td>
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