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SewGreen Founder Wendy Skinner Wins Community Service Award
February 2, 2012 - 7:57 pm
Tags: recycle, reskilling, Reuse, sustainable fashion
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Wendy Skinner is the recipient of this year’s Debra S. Newman ’02 Community Recognition Award, presented by The Cornell Tradition. The award honors individuals in the local community who have demonstrated a strong commitment to public service and leadership. Skinner is one of the early co-founders of Sustainable Tompkins and served as our first chair [...]
Beyond Arguing About Fracking for Natural Gas: A Cleaner … and Cheaper… Sustainable Energy Future for New York State
January 16, 2012 - 2:48 pm
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Tompkins Weekly 1/16/2012 By Helen Slottje The ongoing debate about fracking has people asking many questions among them: What can be done to move America toward cleaner and more sustainable energy solutions? Is there a plan out there that does not suffer from the flawed assumption that natural gas is clean? Are we really going [...]
Living Green Starts From the Ground Up
January 9, 2012 - 3:13 pm
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Tompkins Weekly 1/9/2012 By Carole Fisher Is a green home necessarily a healthy home? Recently, the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) looked at some of the national green building and indoor air quality guidelines to see how they compared against the NCHH healthy housing principles. Their report states that “while all the programs have [...]
Steps to Sustainability- Part 4 of a Series: Unique Empires
January 2, 2012 - 2:44 pm
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Tompkins Weekly 1/2/2012 By Richard W. Franke The modern concept of sustainability was launched in 1987 with the publication of Our Common Future, the report of the United Nations sponsored “World Commission on Environment and Development.” Sustainable practices, however, existed from ancient times in many traditional societies. We saw in the previous two installments that [...]
McGraw House Recycles
December 27, 2011 - 3:34 pm
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Tompkins Weekly 12/27/2011 by Carol Mallison McGraw House, which opened in 1971, is a private non-profit organization with 105 studio and one-bedroom apartments for low and moderate income Seniors 62 years of age or older. We are a HUD facility, governed by NYS’s Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) and managed by a volunteer Board of [...]
Shared Vision of Sustainable Future Emerges from Building Bridges Workshop
December 21, 2011 - 11:04 pm
Tags: resiliency, social justice, sustainable economy, sustainable living
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New Vision Statement for a Socially Just and Ecologically Sound Local Economy in the Tompkins County Region This vision was first created in images by over 100 local residents at the Building Bridges workshop on November 15-16, 2011. The pictures showed people of all ages, in the city and in rural areas, celebrating life, experiencing [...]
Building Bridges Initiative Aims for Just and Sustainable Economy
December 21, 2011 - 10:16 pm
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A major new collaborative initiative on a sustainable economy was launched last month by Sustainable Tompkins, Dorothy Cotton Institute, Ithaca College’s Committed-to-Change Program, Groundswell Center, Alternatives Federal Credit Union, Multicultural Resource Center, Center for Transformative Action, Dryden Solutions, and CCE-Tompkins’ Environment Program, Natural Leaders Initiative, Whole Community Project, and Green Jobs Program. On Nov. 15-16, [...]
Recognizing Signs of Sustainability
December 19, 2011 - 12:50 pm
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Tompkins Weekly 12/19/2011 by Marian Brown Sustainable Tompkins continually watches for the newest “Signs of Sustainability” in our community. For the past five years, we have turned the spotlight on individuals and organizations doing their part to help advance community sustainability. We highlight these efforts in order to demonstrate what is possible and to help [...]
Celebrating Sustainably
by Alex Colket I promise I am not a Scrooge. I like the spirit of giving that this holiday season embodies, and I can appreciate the beauty of all the colors, lights and other decorations that are synonymous with the season. Certainly, I enjoy the music, the family, the celebrating, and the food. However, I [...]
Limit Consumption this Holiday Season
December 14, 2011 - 2:03 pm
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Tompkins Weekly Dec 12 by Karen Jewett If you are like me you are looking for meaningful ways to celebrate the holidays while continuing to live lightly. Using recycled materials to wrap gifts, decorating with nature, and whenever possible using low energy lights will go along way to reducing the waste and debris that often [...]