Events

The 9th Annual

was held on February 26, 2007.

The Trade Show, features vendors of 100% natural horticulture products, and workshops on organic care of lawns, athletic fields, and even non-toxic indoor pest control. This year was the most successful Organic Turf Trade Show ever

Click here for more information.

Organic Lawn Educational Forums

If your organization would like to co-host an Organic Lawn educational forum contact the Neighborhood Network at 631-963-5454.

The Organic Lawn Educational Forums are sponsored by the Suffolk County Water Authority.

Global Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Presentations

Neighborhood Network is available to make educational presentations on the threat of Global Climate Change, and steps we can take to avoid it.

This is a concise, compelling talk and PowerPoint show given by Neighborhood Network's Energy Program Coordinator on this important topic that affects us all. Walk away well-informed and encouraged about what we can do in our own homes and towns!

If your organization would like to host a presentation, contact the Neighborhood Network at 631-963-5454.

Thank you to everyone who joined the Neighborhood Network to see and discuss

Leonardo DiCaprio's new film
"The 11th hour"

At the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington.
Two Nights:

• Friday, August 31, 7:00 pm
  (Omar Freilla, Gordian Raacke, and Neighborhood Network Staff)
• Saturday, September 1, 7:00 pm
  (Neal Lewis)

The Neighborhood Network worked in cooperation with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and the Cinema Arts Centre to present discussion sessions following the showings with environmental activists including:

• Omar Freilla, one of environmental leaders featured in the film, Director of Green Worker Cooperatives (GWC), an organization dedicated to the creation of worker-owned and environmentally friendly businesses;
• Neal Lewis, Executive Director of the Neighborhood Network;
• Gordian Raake, Executive Director of Renewable Energy Long Island, a membership-based, not-for-profit organization promoting clean, sustainable energy use and generation for Long Island.

The film is rated PG and is recommended for audiences of High School age and older.

For information about other showings of the film, contact the Cinema Arts Centre. Or visit 11thhouraction.com online, to find a theater where it is playing near you.

Leonardo DiCaprio's “The 11th Hour” is a feature length documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and their impact on the planet. "The 11th Hour" documents the cumulative impact of these actions upon the planet's life systems and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity. With the help of over fifty of the world's most prominent thinkers and activists, including reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, “The 11th Hour" documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed, and their causes rooted in human activity. The combination of these crises call into question the very future not of the planet, but of humanity.

However, the most powerful element of “The 11th Hour” is not a portrait of a planet in crisis, but the offering of hope and solutions. Scientists and environmental advocates such as David Orr and Omar Freilla paint a portrait for a radically new and exciting future in which humanity seeks not to dominate the earth's life systems, but to mimic them and coexist. “The 11th Hour" calls for a future now within our grasp that is both sustainable and healthier.