Posted in Cornell, Events, Food on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
This Saturday 2/28 5pm
Try food cooked in ESW’s very own solar ovens!!!
Price: Sliding Scale $5-$10
Place: Thurston Winter Lab Classroom
INTERESTED??? Contact Carmen cni3@cornell.edu
Hope to see familiar and new faces there!!!
Posted in Cornell, Just Sustainability, Sustainability Hub on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Credit to Carlos Rymer and Mollie Futterman in the Cornell Daily Sun:
It is now approximately one year since President Skorton signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, setting Cornell on the path towards climate neutrality. KyotoNOW!’s Beyond Kyoto Campaign showed that there exists widespread support for such a target on campus. Since then, [...]
Posted in Community, Energy, Energy Independent Caroline on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Credit to Brian Karlovitz in the Cornell Daily Sun:
In the latest step toward achieving energy independence from traditional fuel sources, the nearby Town of Caroline will receive compact fluorescent lightbulbs as part of an initiative called Energy Independent Caroline. EIC participants are planning to distribute one bulb to each of the town’s approximately 1200 households [...]
Posted in Energy, Global Warming on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Credit to Justin Wheeler in the Cornell Daily Sun:
So we’re told that the average American puts 20 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. But talking’s not enough.
We’re told about how our thirst for oil is contributing to habitat and species elimination, placing, at times, entire ecosystems in jeopardy. Not even close.
We’re told [...]
Posted in Cornell, Global Warming, News on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Credit to Wendy Wang in the Cornell Daily Sun:
In 2000, when former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was running for our nation’s highest office, his position on global warming would not have garnered him a Nobel Peace Prize — he was virtually silent on the issue. In 2008, this trend continues, as current presidential candidates [...]
Posted in Community, Global Warming, The City of Ithaca on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Credit to Sylvester Johnson in The Ithaca Journal:
On the day that Ithaca’s Common Council passed the resolution in support of a federal carbon tax The Journal published the guest column “Ithaca Common Council’s support for Carbon Tax questioned” by Paul V. Sheridan that argued against passage on the basis of skepticism of the science of climate [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Community, Food, The City of Ithaca on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Credit to Tyson Buerkle in the Cornell Daily Sun:
If you haven’t heard of Greenstar Cooperative Market, you probably haven’t been in Ithaca all that long, but don’t worry, that’s okay – now you’ve heard of it, right? Greenstar started up in the early 1970s as a small purchasing co-op, and members would take turns [...]
Posted in Announcement, Events on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Friday, February 22 @ 7:00
Saturday, February 23 @ 5:00
Monday, February 25 @ 9:30
All screenings in the Willard Straight Theatre
“It’s a beautiful, soulful work about real estate development and sprawl, focused on Austin’s beloved Barton Springs, and if you think that’s impossible you haven’t seen it.
The Unforeseen is much more than a plucky local movie about [...]
Posted in Announcement, Community, Cornell, Ithaca College, News on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Credit to Tim Ashmore in The Ithaca Journal:
ITHACA — Six Tompkins County institutions and agencies have banded together to create New York’s first “green” consortium to help negotiate pricing for environmentally friendly products. Cornell, Ithaca College, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Tompkins County, the City of Ithaca, the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce and Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board [...]
Posted in Announcement, Community, Global Warming, News, Politics, The City of Ithaca on February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Credit to Krisy Gashler in the Ithaca Journal (also see Cornell Daily Sun):
ITHACA — Common Council voted Wednesday to support a federal carbon tax, to build a new dock at Stewart Park, to revise the city’s comprehensive plan and to exempt a proposed Lakeview Mental Health residence from property taxes for 16 years. Council passed a [...]
