Posted in Cornell, Energy, Research on December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Credit to Jasmine Marcus in the Cornell Daily Sun:
On Dec. 4, U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-22nd District) announced that Cornell will be one of five universities joining New York State’s Solar Energy Consortium, which he helped create.
The consortium, according to a press release, is “a not-for-profit solar consortium driven by industry, in collaboration with public, [...]
Posted in Activism, Energy, Global Warming, Impacts on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
At the close of the Bali climate change negotiations, we are left again with the disappointment of the Bush administration and all the other climate criminals in Washington. These fossil-fuel-phillic people have slowed down negotiations, stripped key renewable energy provisions in the US energy bill, and pretty much told the rest of the world that they [...]
Posted in Cornell, Global Warming, Impacts, News, Research on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Credit to Susan Lang from the Cornell Chronicle:
If world leaders do not immediately engage in a race against time to save the Earth’s coral reefs, these vital ecosystems will not survive the global warming and acidification predicted for later this century. That is the conclusion of a group of marine scientists from around the world [...]
Posted in Connect Ithaca, Transportation on December 8, 2007 | No Comments »
By Tim Ashmore from the Ithaca Journal:
ITHACA — Imagine it: Ithaca with less traffic congestion, less road construction and a new-age monorail zipping people around some 15 feet above ground. The concept may sound strange, but after a conference in Uppsala, Sweden in October Connect Ithaca, an organization dedicated to building a more sustainable infrastructure, [...]
