By Kate Duch in the Cornell Daily Sun:
Last month, the Board of Trustees’ Committee on Governmental Relations welcomed the Executive Director of the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York to present on “Green Campuses in New York State.” The director discussed how campuses across the state can become more environmentally-friendly and how his [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Painting Our Campus Green
Posted in Cornell, Just Sustainability on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
IC Forum: Conference on “green” future draws around 200 residents
Posted in Community, Energy, Events, Global Warming, Ithaca College on November 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Credited to Aaron Munzer from the Ithaca Journal:
ITHACA — It’s an unavoidable fact of life that old furnaces in old farmhouses will eventually need replacing. But when Ulysses town board member Lucia Tyler’s tired furnace is finally put to rest, she won’t just be replacing it: she’s hoping to turn it into an opportunity to [...]
New York Student Sustainability Coalition Launched!
Posted in Activism, Events, Global Warming on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From November 16-18, students from across the state of New York gathered at Cornell to launch the NY Student Sustainability Coalition (NYSSC, pronounced NISC). The New York Climate Summit ended with a structured coalition of campus student groups that will work from now on with the goal of getting climate legislation passed in Albany in [...]
COLA Pressures Cornell To Change Coffee Provider
Posted in Activism, Cornell on November 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Credited to the Cornell Daily Sun:
As Cornell decides whether or not to renew its contract with Starbucks, the Cornell Organization for Labor Action is putting student pressure on the administration to find an alternative coffee supplier, due to the accusations of Starbucks’s questionable labor practices.
In many cafés on campus, Cornell students drink Seattle’s Best Coffee, [...]
CU students push for greener NY
Posted in Activism, Cornell, Events, Global Warming, News on November 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Credited to Tim Ashmore from the Ithaca Journal: ITHACA — After two days of discussion and planning, Carlos Rymer and a group of Cornell students created a coalition of students from throughout the state that hope to push New York into becoming a leader on climate change.
The Student Sustainability Coalition drew students from the University of [...]
Youth and the climate movement
Posted in Activism, Cornell, Global Warming, Just Sustainability on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lobby Day at Powershift 2007!
Posted in Activism, Events, Global Warming, Politics on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Composting 101
Posted in Agriculture, Cornell on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Adopted from the Cornell Daily Sun:
The thought has crossed all our minds at one point or another, whether while chowing down on a Trillium cheeseburger or grabbing chopsticks for our sushi in the Ivy Room. “Who’s that weirdo standing next to the garbage can?” Well that kid’s not a weirdo. It’s me. And that’s no [...]
N.Y. students to converge on Ithaca to plan action on warming
Posted in Events, Global Warming, Kyoto Now, News on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the Ithaca Journal:
More than 100 students from nearly a dozen colleges and universities around New York state, along with community residents, are registered for a summit in Ithaca this weekend to plan statewide action on global warming. The New York Climate Summit will also train youth and community residents to go back to home [...]
Cornell Should Work Harder to be “Green”
Posted in Cornell on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Adopted from the Cornell Daily Sun:
To the Editor:
Friday’s Sun includes an article, “Cornell CIO Charts Growth of the University Endowment,” that states “several students groups urged investment in sustainable businesses” in response to Cornell’s poor endowment-related grades in the 2008 College Sustainability Report Card. The group mentioned is the Sustainable Investments Coalition, a coalition [...]
