Active & Involved

Steve Krulick
27 Hickory Street
Ellenville NY 12428

phone & fax: 845-647-2868
e-mail: sk@krulick.com
web site home: http://krulick.com

LOCAL/GLOBAL COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

1973 - Citizens for a Better Environment: a national "environmental united fund," CBE helped local and regional groups with environmental lawsuits, educational programs, and research projects. I served as Director of Public Relations and Office Manager of the New York City branch. I researched, wrote, and designed brochures and other literature for CBE (including its New York newsletter), trained staff, and dealt with the media.

1974 - Citizens' Defense Fund: a CBE spin-off serving the Albany, New York area. I served as Office Manager and Director of Public Relations with the same responsibilities and tasks as at CBE.

1977 - Catskill Energy & Environment Fair: Co-organizer.

1979 - Empire State Solar Association: trade association of solar professionals in New York. A founder, director, and elected first secretary.

1979 - Delegate to First World Congress on Alternatives and Environment in Vienna, Austria.

1980 - Elected to International Trade Committee of the Solar Energy Industries Association, Washington, D.C.

1981 - Delegate to Solar Energy USA, a series of DOE/DOC-sponsored exhibits and lectures in Europe.

1981 - Appointed Village of Ellenville representative to Ulster County Environmental Management Council.

1981 - Charter member of Windpower Committee of the Mid-Hudson Renewable Energy Association

1981 - Appointed to Ellenville Historic Preservation & Restoration Committee.

1981 - Public Relations Director of Friends of the Ellenville Public Library.

1983 - Publicity director of Ellenville Art in the Square.

1984-1987 - The Gandhi Memorial International Foundation, USA. I served on the Board of Advisors and as Publications Director for the foundation, designing and writing copy for the foundation's fund-raising literature; this included editing, designing, and producing Gandhi Today, the quarterly magazine of the foundation.

1985 - Appointed to Ellenville Economic Advisory Committee.

1989 - Chairman of Ellenville Visual Arts Circle.

1994 - Joined Ellenville's Noonday Club.

1995 - Master of Ceremonies, Mahatma Gandhi World Peace Award Ceremonies, Bombay, India.

2000 - Co-Founder of Ulster Friends of Nader.

2000 - Elected Secretary of Ulster County Greens.

2000 - Co-Founder of Democracy101.

2000 - Founder of Wawarsing Greens.

2001 - Elected a State Committeeperson of The Green Party of New York State for Ulster County.

2001 - Candidate for new District 1 of Ulster County Legislature on Green, Democratic, and Independence lines, my first run for elective office, although I've asisted in election campaigns for several candidates.

2002 - Elected Secretary of Ellenville's Noonday Club.

2002 - Elected Secretary of Ulster County Committe of the Green Party.

2003-2005 - Editor of Wawarsing.Net for Ellenville-Wawarsing Chamber of Commerce.

2003 - Elected 2nd Vice President of Ellenville's Noonday Club.

2003 - Candidate for new District 1 of Ulster County Legislature on Democratic and Independence lines.

2004-2005 - Elected to Ellenville Village Board on Democratic and "Clean Sweep" lines.

2004 - Appointed to Ellenville Library & Museum's Museum Advisory Board.

2004 - Appointed to Ellenville Bicentennial Committee

2004-2006 - Elected a State Committeeperson of The Green Party of New York State for Ulster County for second time.

2004-2006 - Selected to be Catskill/Mid-Hudson Region Representative to The Green Party of New York State Executive Committee and to be Deputy Treasurer.

2005-2007 - Re-elected to Ellenville Village Board on Democratic and "Clean Sweep" lines. First Green in New York State to be RE-Elected to municipal office.

2005-2006 - Elected to Steering Committee of Sustainable Hudson Valley

2005 - Selected to be Catskill/Mid-Hudson Region Alternate Delegate to The Green Party of the United States National Committee.

2005-2006 - Became Catskill/Mid-Hudson Region Delegate to The Green Party of the United States National Committee.

2006 - Founded SWEET (Sustainable Wawarsing-Ellenville Emergency Transition).

2006 - Founded WERD (Wawarsing-Ellenville for Responsible Development).

2007 - Founded The SMART Party (SMART = Sustainably Managed Allocation of Resources and Tools).

Also, I've been involved in many ongoing local community activities through the years, including: Ellenville's Run Like the Wind; the Noonday Club's Halloween Mardi Gras and Senior Citizen Holiday Dinner; taping local historical events for library/museum archives; and moderating "Meet the Candidates" forums for school and town elective races.