Sustainable Ithaca

Hello, all.This past Monday, students from many different environmental groups met to discuss two things.First was the idea of a coordinated action week kicking off with “Campus Sustainability Day” on Oct 25, a week of “Focus the Nation” events and cumulating with a Nov 2 “International Day of Action on Climate Change”Secondly, we brainstormed for [...]

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Farm-to-Cornell and Ithaca College Present:Francis Moore LappéG10 Biotech BuildingWednesday September 20th; 6:00pmJoin us for an evening with the acclaimed author of Diet for a Small Planet; World Hunger: Twelve Myths; Hope¹s Edge; and Democracy¹s Edge. Francis Lappé has authored or co-authored 15 books, and her 1971 Diet for a Small Planet has sold over [...]

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The Focus the Nation initiative has been launched (read below). This is a major educational effort to focus colleges and universities on global warming and build national support to convince our government to take serious steps to fight global warming. Many high schools, colleges, and universities are now signing up their teams for conferences, and [...]

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Greening Cornell’s Fleet - use biodiesel, connect with Ithaca Biodiesel. Kenneth will look into this.
Bio-Energy Research Center - $ offered by National and State DOE, could Cornell get funding for a new research center? Kim will look into this.
Buses - Free Bus Passes were a great incentive. We currently subsidize parking spots, and we shouldn’t! [...]

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Institutional Support
VisionA Liberty Hyde Bailey Center for Sustainability is housed in a green building on the Cornell University campus. The Center houses several endowed chairships for faculty from multiple disciplines and is a vibrant center for interdisciplinary work. An academic field of sustainability puts Cornell on the cutting edge of sustainability teaching and research. This [...]

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Cornell Sustainability HubSustainable Foods GroupMeeting Minutes: September 6, 2006

Fall Harvest Festival

All food will be from NY state, and a lot of it will be local (within 50 miles).
Need pamphlets, posters, table stuff by 9/15 (That’s Friday!)
There should be information there about the Farmers’ Market
A Speaker for dinner would be awesome. How can we get ~ [...]

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1. Training PPC folks in Sustainable materials-Cast FE vs. PVC plumbing-Electrical Shop
2. Energy Audit of existing buildings.-Which ones are the energy hogs?-Prepare prioritized list of renovations/upgrades-This could be part of curricular activities in architecture and engineering.
3. Cornell as a center of innovation, should demand innovative buildings. Leed buildings should shoot for Gold or Platinum and [...]

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Hey everyone,Here are the ideas that were compiled from past Sustainability Summits, plus the general brainstorm ideas from the last meeting, broken down by category. Building on this, please post the notes and details from your individual group meetings. Once we get them all posted, we can work on compiling an initial plan [...]

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Ideas for Cornell posted by Ian Tse
Long term goals:- All (significant percentage) of energy used on campus be from renewable sources: Solar Decathalon team has done extensive research on the use of photo-voltaic for powering buildings and believes it is the way to go. They have calculated that for their 2000 sq ft [...]

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Hi eeeveryone,
If you thought you found the right blog, you did! Post your group’s discussion here!
This should include:-Goals for Cornell-Possible implementation methods-Your group’s contact information, and meeting times
Thanks so much for posting and for being an important part of this process. The compiled report will be posted here as well. Don’t forget to come back [...]

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