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SUMMARY:Pruning & Grafting for Tree Lovers! 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join the tree lovers of the More Trees Arborist Collective for a workshop in the urban forest at Freedom Square! Learn to identify common opportunist species of urban trees\, discuss the different techniques and objectives of pruning\, when to remove trees\, when to plant trees\, and help the crew manage the Sanctuary’s fledgling reforestation projects! We’ll finish with a grafting demo in Collard City Growers! \n\n\n\n*This event is rain or shine! Participants are encouraged to bring their own pruning shears\, as we will have a limited number available. \n\n\n\n\nRegister
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/pruning-grafting-2026/
LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:“Here Comes the Sun” Book Talk with Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed environmentalist Bill McKibben will be at the Sanctuary to share his hope for our future in Here Comes the Sun\, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific\, economic\, and political future. Join us for this book talk\, Q&A\, and book signing with McKibben\, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis. McKibben will also be our special guest for a fundraiser dinner! This dinner will be an intimate gourmet vegan meal by extraordinary chef Intaba Liff-Anderson. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for Book Talk HERE\n\n\n\nRegister for Fundraiser Dinner & Book Talk HERE\n\n\n\n\nHere Comes the Sun is a book about a last chance for the climate and a fresh chance for civilization by Bill McKibben\, an author\, environmentalist\, and activist. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature\, the first book for a common audience about global warming. McKibben comes to the Sanctuary for a talk on his latest book\, followed by a Q&A and book sale. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur climate\, and our democracy\, are melting down. But Bill McKibben\, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis\, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in history—if we can keep accelerating the pace\, we have a chance. \n\n\n\nHere Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind—and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who installed solar panels equal to a third of Pakistan’s electric grid in a year to the world’s sixth-largest economy—California—nearly halving its use of natural gas in the last two years\, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful\, inexpensive solar energy. And he shows how solar power is more than just a path out of the climate crisis: it is a chance to reorder the world on saner and more humane grounds. You can’t hoard solar energy or hold it in reserves—it’s available to all. \n\n\n\nThere’s no guarantee we can make this change in time\, but there is a hope—in McKibben’s eyes\, our best hope for a new civilization: one that looks up to the sun\, every day\, as the star that fuels our world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBill McKibben is founder of Third Act\, which organizes people over the age of 60 for action on climate and justice. \n\n\n\nHis 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change\, and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s gone on to write 20 books\, and his work appears regularly in periodicals from the New Yorker to Rolling Stone. He serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College\, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and he has won the Gandhi Peace Prize as well as honorary degrees from 20 colleges and universities. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award\, sometimes called the alternative Nobel\, in the Swedish Parliament. Foreign Policy named him to its inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers. \n\n\n\nMcKibben helped found 350.org\, the first global grassroots climate campaign\, which has organized protests on every continent\, including Antarctica\, for climate action. He played a leading role in launching the opposition to big oil pipeline projects like Keystone XL\, and the fossil fuel divestment campaign\, which has become the biggest anti-corporate campaign in history\, with endowments worth more than $40 trillion stepping back from oil\, gas and coal. He stepped down as board chair of 350 in 2015\, and left the board and stepped down from his volunteer role as senior adviser in 2020\, accepting emeritus status. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife\, the writer Sue Halpern\, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. In 2014\, biologists credited his career by naming a new species of woodland gnat—Megophthalmidia mckibbeni–in his honor.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/bill-mckibben-here-comes-the-sun/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ear Seed Training
DESCRIPTION:in collaboration with Albany Community Acupuncture and Pachakuti Collective\n\n\n\nLearn how to treat yourself and your community with simple\, effective NADA protocol for: pain management\, digestive balance\, stress relief\, addiction recovery\, sleep support\, and more. $0-$40 suggested donation. The workshop includes: \n\n\n\n\nkit with 40 seeds\, applicator\, ear map\n\n\n\ninstruction on point location and seed application\n\n\n\nhistory of ear seeds/NADA in healing justice and community medicine\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSimple. Powerful. Balancing. Help anyone feel better right away. Accessible for everyone to learn and practice. Join us for 2 hours of historical and practical education on ear seeds and how you can heal yourself and others with this tiny seed\, the vacarria plant. It is so powerful at removing stagnation and relieving pain in any body system that in Pinyin it is called Wang Bu Liu Xing – “even the emperor cannot stop us.” Learn more below! \n\n\n\nAccess: The workshop will be held on the second floor of the NATURE Lab building\, which is currently only accessible by a flight of stairs. If stairs will present a barrier to attending the workshop please get in touch (info@mediasanctuary.org) in case we can accommodate your participation in another way. \n\n\n\n\n\nBackground information\n\n\n\nAuricular acupuncture and ear seeds stimulate the vagus nerve – our primary pathway to a parasympathetic “rest and digest” state. It is ideal for use in group settings and has been proven effective internationally for addiction\, withdrawal\, emotional regulation\, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). \n\n\n\nThis simple 5 needle protocol was developed first in the 1970s in Hong Kong\, then adopted in the Bronx by the Black Panthers and the Young Lords to treat addiction. In recent decades\, Acupuncturists Without Borders and many other on-the-ground justice medicine initiatives primarily employ this protocol for quick\, powerful and accessible community medicine. \n\n\n\nFacilitator Bios\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\njei laura is a Qariwarmi community herbalist\, Usui Reiki practitioner\, and story weaver of the Andean and Irish Diaspora oriented in healing and climate justice. They are a community steward of Pachakuti Collective\, an Indigenous/Queer/Trans/Gender Expansive collective dedicated to stewarding liberated and healing relations between humans and our other than human kin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlbany Community Acupuncture was founded by Gina Mauro L.Ac (pictured far left) after her time doing relief work through Acupuncturists Without Borders in Western North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in September 2024. \n\n\n\nBorn and raised in the Albany area\, Gina has always felt a strong call to serve the Capital Region community in a meaningful way. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTayna Rivera Gonzalez is queer and indigenous multidisciplinary artist and healing practitioner guided by ancestors\, healing justice lineages\, and the land. Their focus always comes back to embodiment\, grounding\, and how we can learn so much about healing from our human and non-human kin. They like to explore body movement through dance and somatic healing and offer reiki\, somatic meditations\, ear seeds\, and ear acupuncture in the tradition of the Young Lords and Black Panthers. They express deep gratitude and reverence to all of their past and future teachers and are a Co-Steward of Pachakuti Collective
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/ear-seed-training/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
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