Harrisonburg Summits

The Harrisonburg Summit on Strengthening Local Business and Economy is an opportunity to network, share challenges, share your solutions, and learn the latest about economic trends facing the central Shenandoah Valley. Click Here for More Information Date & Location 10-4pm February 18, 2010 Showker Hall in First Presbyterian Church in downtown Harrisonburg - and then throughout the downtown restaurants! Purpose of ...

The Community Mediation Center is pleased to announce is own brand of locally roasted, certified organic, fairly traded coffee designed to perfectly accompany your next conversation! Grounds for Conversation Locally-Roasted Certified Organic, Fairly Traded Coffee We all know the best conversations can be over a cup of hot coffee. Since its beginning in the early 1980s, Harrisonburg's Community Mediation ...

You helped bring to Harrisonburg and Rockingham County an exciting, new community dialogue program in 2009: the Harrisonburg Summit Series!  The Summit Soiree is a time to celebrate and look forward to 2010 - and you have a personal invitation to attend. Click below to register!  There is a fee for entry that pays for a ...

Josh Gooden of 91studios attended the November 14th Sustainability Summit - and had his video camera with him.  The short video captures the topics and the Open Space process, and highlights the conversations had about community-driven news in an age where traditional forms of news are seeing challenges in remaining viable.  You'll see Brent Finnegan ...

Page Shields Mountaintop Removal/ What's so bad about Coal? Page Shields/Lara Mack H 3 PM Randy Seitz, Joe Sharrer, Erica Stoltzfus,Chris Geil, Mike Newcomb, Lynn Cameron, and Diana Woodall The damaging effects of coal mining, coal processing, and coal burning were discussed at length. The reasons why coal cannot be made clean at this point ...

The Sustainability Summit on November 14, 2009, occured from 12-5pm at Memorial Hall. Almost 100 people showed and created conversations about the following topics. SUBMIT A REPORT HERE BREAKOUT SESSION TOPICS AND REPORTS: Topic titles with links have an associated report.  These topics were discussed over three different session times. Climate Change 101 (For Beginners) Utilizing Federal and State ...

John B. Reeves Soil & Water Conservation/Organics Sally Newkirk Table F 13:00:00 Sally Newkirk, John Reeves, Joanna Gray, Harvey Yoder, Nathan Barge, Beth Schermerhorn, Laura Dent, Erich Knight Propose more local awareness/practice of local, intensive organic gardening. Beth described initiatives by "New Community Project"; the ongoing Permaculture classes she's helping 1/week, the larger Permaculture class ...

Tom Domonoske Utilizing Federal and State Rebates for Energy Production/Efficiency/Use Tom Domonoske J 15:00:00 Nathan Barge Patrick Nolan Amanda Herman Charles Hendricks Travis Layman Tip Parker David Castroline Tom Duval Benjamin Meredith Tom Domonoske Charles Churchman Pat Churchman Lynn Smith Diana Woodall The session accessing the federal and state rebates and credits for increasing energy efficiency of homes and also for solar and wind energy production. Both the state ...

Convener: MuAwia Da'mes   Scribe: Pat Churchman Table H 1st session Attendees: Many! The Harrisonburg Planning Commission wants input as it reviews its five year plan. Several features put into effect suggested by citizens have been bike lanes and sidewalks. Question: Is there an overall vision? Ans: Yes, the group plan. Question: Is there a broad goal? Ans: Yes, a ...

Convener:  David Kreider Scribe: Alan Finks Table E, 3 pm Attendees: Alan Finks, David Kreider, Kevin Lanoue, Sandra Price-Stroble, Hero Brzu, Aaron Hagmaier, Lorie Merrow Interfaith communication partnership, Crisis intervention and conflict intervention issues. EMU Center for Justice, Peace Building Outreach for Harrisonburg Community Diversity is both an asset and a problem in Harrisonburg. While we must acknowledge the diversity we ...

Convener: Cathy Stricker    Scribe: Diana Woodall Table I 1 pm Attendees: Bishop Dansby, Paul Longmaker, David Crider, Ben Wyse, Cathy Strickler, Diana Woodall, Jeff Tang, Josh The following is a compilation of ideas and comments from the group: The effort needed for institutional change is greater than the effort needed for individual change. Change needs to happen at ...

Convener/Scribe: Erich J. Knight Table I    2:00 Biochar Soils.....Husbandry of whole new orders & Kingdoms of life Biotic Carbon, the carbon transformed by life, should never be combusted, oxidized and destroyed. It deserves more respect, reverence even, and understanding to use it back to the soil where 2/3 of excess atmospheric carbon originally came from. We all know we ...