UPCOMING EVENTS IN ROWLEY
Saturday, August 9, 2025: Community Green Fest
We are considering options for a family-friendly Community Green Fest in Rowley this summer. Our goal would be foster sustainability in our community by facilitating connections with local eco-friendly businesses, artisans, community leaders, and environmental groups through vendor booths, hands-on demonstrations, kid-friendly scavenger hunt and crafts, and engaging educational presentations. If you are a local vendor that wants to be involved, please contact us.
UPCOMING WEBINARS, PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES
Monday, May 12, 2025 @ 7:00 PM: Beyond Plastics: A Virtual Conversation About the Intersection of Art and Activism
We hope you will join Beyond Plastics for a virtual conversation about the intersection of art and activism. On May 12, from 7 to 8 p.m., three wonderful artists, advocates, and friends of Beyond Plastics — Anne-Katrin Spiess, Christy Rupp, and Tracy Penn — will share their thoughts about art as a powerful tool for change.
Thursday, May 15, 2025 @ 7:00 PM: Free Online Webinar: Microplastics’ Impact on the Brain & Heart
Recent studies have found small fragments of plastics known as microplastics in the human brain and heart arteries. These studies have also shown a link between the presence of microplastics and adverse health outcomes. How do these tiny bits of plastic enter our bodies and make their way into our brains and our hearts? And what happens when they lodge there? Join Beyond Plastics, Physicians for Social Responsibility – NYS, and Environmental Advocates of New York for a free educational webinar on these questions with Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan, a physician scientist whose work has helped transform global perceptions and understanding of the impact of environmental risk factors on cardiovascular disease and Marcus Garcia, PharmD, RPh, University of New Mexico Medical School, co-authors of two ground-breaking recent studies on the presence of microplastics in the human heart and brain.
Register now to join Beyond Plastics via Zoom on May 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM ET.
PAST EVENTS
Check out past events that have been supported or sponsored by Striving for Sustainability.
Striving for Sustainability partnered with the Rowley Public Library to host a Toy Swap on Saturday, March 29, 2025. The event gave families the opportunity to donate, swap, or take gently used toys. Swap items included baby toys, toy trucks, puzzles, games, art supplies, and more! It was great to see toys finding new homes instead of people buying new.
Striving for Sustainability hosted a Kids Upcycled Holiday Shop at the Rowley Public Library on Tuesday, December 17, 2024. The event allowed children to “shop” a selection of donated goods for everyone on their holiday shopping list! All shop items were donated or upcycled, and there was no cost for participation.
The event was well attended and we hope to do it again in 2025!
Click here to see the newspaper article from The Local News!
Striving for Sustainability hosted a free screening of the film “We’re All Plastic People Now,” followed by a discussion with Andrea LaCroix of Beyond Plastics.
