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Local Reuse Effort Gains Momentum
April 9, 2012 - 10:31 am
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Tompkins Weekly April 9, 2012 By Nina Piccoli Every spring in the Ithaca area, thousands of students graduate, move out of their apartments and set off for new lives and locales. The truckloads of reusable materials that are left behind in dumpsters or on porches, curbs and front yards often end up in a truck [...]
Ithaca Earth Day 2012
April 2, 2012 - 12:56 pm
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Sunday, April 22, Noon-5 pm, Ithaca Farmer’s Market We are proud to play a part in Earth Day Ithaca’s return to the Farmer’s Market. We would love to see you there as a participant or volunteer. This year’s theme is We All Stand Together on the Same Earth. Local food, activities and information from a variety [...]
Springing Into Sustainability…
April 1, 2012 - 1:14 pm
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Tompkins Weekly– April 2, 2012 by Marian Brown It’s mid-March and while many of us have seized this unseasonably early opportunity to get a jump on the spring planting, others may be immersed in the basketball championship season characterized as “March Madness”. Last December, Sustainable Tompkins again invited the public to join us in acknowledging [...]
Envisioning a Community-Driven, Equitable, and Sustainable Food System
March 26, 2012 - 12:47 pm
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Tompkins Weekly – March 26, 2012 by Rachel Firak When you envision a food system that works for everyone, what do you see? What kind of food do you see? Who produces that food? What kind of lives do those producers have? How and where is the food produced? How are the animals and plants [...]
Thank You! We Met the Park Foundation’s Challenge
March 22, 2012 - 12:20 pm
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The Park Foundation, Sustainable Tompkins largest benefactor, has recently notified us that they will continue their support for Sustainable Tompkins in 2012. We are so grateful to them for all that they do for Sustainability in Tompkins County as well as their continued support of Sustainable Tompkins. In their 2011 grant, they challenged us to [...]
Announcing: New Climate Fund Videos (featuring users)
March 21, 2012 - 9:50 am
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Why would somebody who sells ice cream be concerned about warm weather? Watch our new video of Bruce Lane, the owner of Purity Ice Cream, to find out why Bruce is a big fan of the Finger Lakes Climate Fund, and why he likes to use our local carbon fund to offset the emissions from [...]
Black Oak Wind Farm Rising
March 19, 2012 - 7:29 am
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Tompkins Weekly 03/19/12 by Gay Nicholson Community power. Literally. That’s the defining trait of the proposed Black Oak Wind Farm in the Town of Enfield. The project will place about 20 MW of wind turbines on the windiest hills in Tompkins County along Black Oak Road. That would be enough to power most of the [...]
Sharing the Land—Wood’s Earth Living Classroom
March 13, 2012 - 12:46 pm
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Tompkins Weekly–March 13, 2012 by Audrey Baker and Lance Ebel We all share the land. It may be parceled and purchased and taxed, but your yard is shaded by your neighbor’s trees, and your water runs from elsewhere. When people spray with chemicals or reuse organic matter for fertility, on two acres or five hundred, [...]
Black Oak Wind Farm Rising
February 28, 2012 - 3:09 pm
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by Gay Nicholson Community power. Literally. That’s the defining trait of the proposed Black Oak Wind Farm in the Town of Enfield. The project will place about 20 MW of wind turbines on the windiest hills in Tompkins County along Black Oak Road. That would be enough to power most of the county’s homes – [...]
Dick Franke helps League of Women Voters “Tread Lightly”
February 21, 2012 - 1:17 am
Tags: ecological footprint, Reuse, sustainable living
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ST Board member Dick Franke will be one of the featured speakers on “Treading Lightly On The Planet” at the Womens Community Building, Monday, February 27 from 7-9 pm. The event is being organized by the League of Women Voters of Tompkins County and cosponsored by Sustainable Tompkins and the Ithaca Journal. Dick has been [...]