Ladies Nights will be held on the fourth Wednesday of every month and are meant to facilitate a collaborative learning environment where female cyclists and others--looking for something a little different than the usual male-dominated vibe of the shop--can come to practice bicycle mechanics, share skills, volunteer, purchase used parts and refurbished bicycles, and discuss the awesomeness of all things bike related.

Open shop rules apply, therefore anyone wishing to work on a personal bicycle or project must be a Green Options Buffalo member or purchase a day pass.  Memberships start at just $25 dollars for the year and can be purchased at the shop or online.  As always learning through volunteering is encouraged and free.

Charles Birnbaum presents Beyond the Silos: Historic Preservation, Design and Cultural Landscape May 23 at 7 p.m. at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center.

Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, is the Founder and President of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) in Washington, DC.  He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the American Academy in Rome.  Prior to joining TCLF, Birnbaum spent 15 years as the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative (HLI) and a decade in private practice in New York City with a focus on landscape preservation and urban design.  He has written and edited numerous publications including Shaping the American Landscape (UVA Press, 2009), Design with Culture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage (UVA Press 2005), Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture (1999) and its follow-up publication, Making Post-War Landscapes Visible (2004, both for Spacemaker Press. He is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post.

The lecture series is presented with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and with the cooperation of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and the Buffalo Olmsted Parks.

Admission for each lecture will be $10; or $5 for Graycliff and/or Burchfield Penney Art Center members and volunteers.  No reservations are necessary.

Presented with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. Special thanks to the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy,the Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens, and Embassy Suites Hotel Buffalo.

Your invited to join us for an Open House to learn about Larkin Square Marketplace at 5:30 p.m. May 23.  Join the excitement in the emerging Larkin District.  The Marketplace will open for business June 25.   We are recruiting creative and energetic merchants to bring their business to a market stall at Larkin Square.

For more information visit http://www.growwny.org/issues/environmental-justice