Posted in Cornell, Just Sustainability on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Adopted from the Cornell Daily Sun:
Not wanting to handcuff myself to the president’s toilet, I’ve decided to write a column for The Sun — a hygienic approach to advocacy.
My concern is for the environment, and specifically, Cornell’s impact on it. Lake Source Cooling, parking lots and carbon emissions are a few of the issues that [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Cornell, Just Sustainability on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Adopted from the Cornell Daily Sun:
In yet another step toward making the campus more sustainable, the University has begun examining ways to permanently reduce its ‘agricultural footprint,’ or the amount land necessary to support human diets.
Christian Peters, M.S. ’02, Ph.D. ’07, a Cornell postdoctoral associate in crop and soil sciences, is currently working on research [...]
Posted in Agriculture, News on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Adopted from the Cornell Daily Sun:
When eating in a dining hall, there is over a 20 percent probability that the food on the plate is locally produced. Last year, Cornell Dining purchased 23 percent of its foods locally and is looking to increase this percentage.
According to Anthony Kveragas, senior executive chef for retail operations, since [...]
Posted in Events, Global Warming, Ithaca College, Uncategorized, tagged Ithaca College, movement, Powershift 2007 on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
From TheIthacanOnline, Oct. 25th
Thousands of students, including 31 from Ithaca College, will rally on the steps of Capitol Hill next week to demand positive action for climate control at the Power Shift 2007 conference.The youth summit, sponsored by the Energy Action Coalition, will be held from Nov. 2 to 5 at the University [...]
Posted in Just Sustainability, News on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Adopted from the Yale Daily News:
Many students may think Yale is the only school in the country with a separate office devoted entirely to sustainability — but they are mistaken.
Harvard has had a program devoted to sustainability since 2001, and Stanford’s first executive director of sustainability and energy management will begin his job on Nov. [...]
Posted in Cornell, News, Research on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Adopted from the Cornell Daily Sun:
The Sustainable Endowments Institute released the 2008 College Sustainability Report Card on Wednesday, assessing the sustainability of 200 of the nation’s wealthiest universities. Cornell received an overall grade of a B, an improvement from the 2007 Report Card, which gave the University a B-.
The Report Card is considered to be [...]
Posted in Cornell, Events, News on October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Adopted from the Cornell Daily Sun:
Boasting numerous environmentally friendly eateries and even an organic clothing store, Ithaca remains an ecologically conscious community. It should come as no surprise then, that students, faculty and other members of the community have followed in this grain and are pursuing many environmentally conscious endeavors right here on Cornell’s campus. [...]
Posted in Just Sustainability on October 20, 2007 | No Comments »
By Elan Shapiro:
Justice and sustainability are one? It so often seems that people with a global warming and sustainability agenda and those focused on social and economic justice are operating in very separate worlds. They are often amazed and aghast that those in the other world don’t “get” the immediacy of their cause. In spite [...]
Posted in Connect Ithaca, Cornell, Transportation on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Adopted from the Cornell Daily Sun by Carlos Rymer and Gregory Falco:
Got wireless? Got iPod? Got JPods? You may be wondering, “What’s a JPod?” Well, in the age of information and the high-techs, most people feel like they’re fully connected to the world. Cellphones and the Internet have virtually “connected” you to the rest of [...]
Posted in Cornell, Energy, Events, Global Warming, Impacts, Just Sustainability on October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By Tim Krueger in the Cornell Daily Sun:
Today, I’m doing something that’s rare in the 21st century: I’m selling people. And despite whatever rumors you may have heard, I’m not involved in any sort of transpacific child trafficking. Rather, the Cornell Democrats are having a date auction to raise money for (and by “for” I [...]
