Irvington Green Team
NEWSLETTER

April 17, 2026

Dear Irvington, 

It is thrilling to see so much earth stewardship collaboration and activity in the region. New and creative thinking is lighting up the Rivertowns. 

It is not too late to join the Hunt

Register now at ResilientRivertowns.org and earn points at events this weekend.

An impressive 160 registered teams have completed 1,409 Earth Stewardship missions but only 13% of missions are complete, which means there are still an impressive number of ways you can earn points for Irvington! For example, you can high five one of our outstanding police officers.

This is a competition both for the best team ($500) and for the village with the most cumulative points ($3,000 towards a local pollinator garden). Currently Irvington is in 4th place for points and 3rd place for the number of teams registered, after Dobbs and Hastings, but we are rising in the ranks! 

GO BULLDOGS! 

Many teams are getting going now, including our own Board of Trustees:

Many teams completing just a few missions is as good as a few teams knocking it out of the park. But, please, feel free to do both! You may find you can earn points immediately:

Answer local ecology questions: 200 points
Cook a sustainable meal: 400 points
Bring food scraps to the farmers market or compost? 600 points
Have an emergency preparedness kit (or create one)? 800 points
Attend other Rivertowns Earth Month events? Thousands of points

Register now at ResilientRivertowns.org And play for Irvington!

Earn points at our Upcoming Events

4/17 Irvington Green’s new series Chaos and Catharsis launches with Collapse and Renewal: a gathering to make sense of this moment in history through conversation with leading thinkers Luke Kemp and Douglas Ruhskoff and build community connection with guidance from Samantha Sweetwater and our own Lisa Genn.

4/17 Stargazing at O’Hara. This event has reached capacity. 

4/18 Stewardship at O’Hara and the Irvington Woods. Register here. 

4/19 Community Planting & Painting. Come work with the Arts and Culture Committee and Irvington Green to plant pollinator gardens for Main St. and paint a butterfly mural. 10am - 12pm at the Irvington Farmers Market. 

4/19 Bulldogs Bagged the Bench ribbon cutting at the Farmers Market at noon. 

4/25 Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir “Earth Church” performance at the Irvington Theater. Unlike any other act: part gospel-infused chorus, part political spectacle, part communal call to conscience, they use song, humor and theatricality to challenge consumerism, ecological destruction, and the cultural forces that keep people disconnected. Their work is bold, funny, and deeply participatory and fun for the whole family. Buy tickets and reserve your seats.

5/2 Living Forest Speaker Series: Dr. Elijah Goodwin: Agriculture as Conservation

And there are many more wonderful events happening all up and down the rivertowns which you can earn game points for attending. We have created a Resilient Rivertowns Events Calendar and Sustainability Map both for game play and as on-going resources.

As always, you can find the latest on our environmentally related events at IrvingtonGreen.org/events

New Irvington Food Pantry

The Irvington Green Team has built a new free food pantry cabinet that will be located at the Presbyterian Church. Thank you John Cossins for the beautiful build and Blaine Crawford for hosting it. We are looking for a team of people to help manage it (checking stock and such). Please reach out to Charlottebinns@gmail.com (I have my volunteer hat on here). 

Yours in community care,

Charlotte Binns
Irvington Sustainability Director