Volunteer

Irvington Green is a Village initiative to build sustainability and resilience in Irvington, New York.

The Irvington Green Team is a volunteer group of passionate and concerned residents working to mitigate negative environmental impacts in the community and beyond. We educate, inspire and partner with Village staff, trustees, residents, businesses, contractors and visitors to make choices that create a more sustainable, regenerative and resilient community.

See current members here.

Join the Team

Are you passionate about creating a sustainable and resilient future for our community? Do you believe in the power of collective action to bring about positive change? We are re-organizing and we need YOU!

We are looking for people to sign up for a sub-committee or two, attend monthly mixer meetings and contribute to campaigns and policies that will have long lasting impacts on our village. Sub-committees will organize around topics of interest: Climate, Energy, Land and Waste. Explore IrvingtonGreen.org to get a sense of what falls under these pillars. And come on February 7th for an overview of tasks.

Volunteers may focus on:

Research: Dive into environmental issues affecting our community and help us formulate evidence-based policies and reports for Climate Smart and Clean Energy Community application tasks and grants.
Communication: Craft compelling messages to inspire and inform our community through village emails, social media, flyers and webinars.
Events: Organize engaging events that bring people together, fostering a sense of connection with each other and the environment. Events could include tabling at the farmers market, ecosystems management such as invasives removals and native plantings, Earth Day, vendor fairs, waste management at Rocktoberfest and EV Club social mixers.

Update: May 2026

Over the past year, the Irvington Green Team evolved from a traditional sustainability committee into a broader community resilience and civic engagement network. Formerly known as the Green Policy Task Force, the organization rebranded as “Irvington Green” to reflect a more expansive and community-centered mission focused on building “a more sustainable, regenerative and resilient community.” The group saw major growth in public engagement, with substantial increases in newsletter subscribers, social media reach, and community participation. Facebook engagement grew fivefold over the previous year, while Instagram impressions quadrupled, reflecting a rapidly expanding local audience for environmental and resilience programming.

Irvington Green’s work spanned land stewardship, biodiversity protection, waste reduction, climate adaptation, emergency preparedness, education, and regional collaboration. Stewardship initiatives included cleanup and restoration days at the Old Croton Aqueduct, Halsey Pond, and the Historical Society, the formation of Friends of Halsey Pond, invasive species removal, native planting efforts, sustainable landscaping consultations, and work with the Irvington Woods Committee. Waste reduction programming expanded through food scraps collection, Repair Cafes, recycling education games, school resource sorting campaigns, and community reuse initiatives like Bulldogs Bench the Bags. The group also deepened its climate resilience efforts through neighborhood preparedness programs, the “Irvington Zombies” resilience game, adaptation planning, emergency education, and efforts to strengthen neighborhood mutual aid networks.

This year also marked the launch of two major public-facing initiatives that broadened Irvington Green’s regional impact. The Rivertowns Earth Month Scavenger Hunt transformed sustainability engagement into a collaborative, inter-village experience across six Rivertown communities. Residents participated in hundreds of missions tied to stewardship, local business support, emergency preparedness, sustainable living, ecosystem exploration, and civic action. The scavenger hunt introduced a playful but measurable framework for community engagement, helping residents connect environmental action with local identity and collective participation. At the same time, Irvington Green launched Chaos & Catharsis, an ambitious new event series exploring climate disruption and societal instability and resilience through public dialogue, music, and embodied community experiences.

Together, these initiatives reflected an emerging model of environmental leadership rooted not only in emissions reductions and ecological stewardship, but in strengthening the social fabric and adaptive capacity of the community itself.

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