Sustainable Ithaca

Credit to Krisy Gashler in the Ithaca Journal:
ITHACA — The winds are changing in Tompkins County.
After some notable recent setbacks, wind energy proponents in the county have several projects to look forward to again.
Ithaca College recently received approval to set up a meteorological tower on part of its South Hill property to measure wind and [...]

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Credit to Aaron Munzer in the Ithaca Journal:
ITHACA — Cornell University President David Skorton spoke Tuesday night to an audience of almost 70 community members about how the university he heads is trying to be a good neighbor — and a good steward of the planet.
In an Earth Day speech in Ithaca High School’s [...]

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Credit to Michelle Sun in the Cornell Daily Sun:
As the earth warms up, the human race must also speed up its alternative energy technologies to increase its efficiency, at least according to Nobel Laureate Steven Chu.
“The fact that the earth is warming up is not a matter of debate,” Chu told a crowd last night [...]

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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 [...]

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Once again, someone reached out and asked a question that engaged my “start philosophical wax” cycle button. MMB
Question: How did this [campus sustainability] movement evolve [at Ithaca College]: was it, to your knowledge, student driven, staff driven? Has it turned over in almost an Al Gore minute? (I know for me, Al [...]

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Someone reached out to me this summer with an intriguing question, triggering a lengthy reply that I thought might prove instructive for others. Marian
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Question: I’m researching for an article [in which we will] detail some ways that our readers can use their clout as [...]

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I seem to be fielding “green purchasing” inquiries lately from a number of folks, partly because I run the “point” for our campus sustainability work, and partly because some folks know that I used to be Ithaca College’s purchasing director. Someone who asked me this question earlier this summer apparently hit me when I [...]

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The officers this year are Carlos Rymer (President; cmr55), Chelsea Clarke (Treasurer; cmc255), Ding Kong (Vice President; dk278), and Whitney Larsen (Outreach Coordinator; wbl5). Our advisor is Dean Koyanagi (drk5), who is also Cornell’s Sustainability Coordinator. More on Sustainable Campus at http://www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/. Our website can be found at www.rso.cornell.edu/sustainabilityhub. Also, the Cornell Activist Calendar can [...]

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Adopted from the Cornell Chronicle, dated August 6, 2007:
With the thin, dark coastlines of Maine and New Hampshire visible in the far distance across a shimmering Gulf of Maine, engineers use a backhoe to fit a 2,000-pound cylinder of galvanized steel onto a huge metal base.
The cylinder is part of the 80-foot-tall wind turbine about [...]

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Adopted from the Cornell Daily Sun, dated April 23:
As the remnants of last week’s nor’easter melted away, members of the Cornell community came out to Ho Plaza on Friday to celebrate Earth Day and enjoy the spring weather. The day’s festivities concluded Cornell’s First Annual Global Warming Awareness Initiative, a week of events promoting the [...]

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