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Young Farmers Find Huge Obstacles to Getting Started http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/us/young-farmers-face-huge-obstacles-to-getting-started.html?_r=1&ref=us By ISOLDE RAFTERY Published: November 12, 2011 Emily Oakley, who had worked on an organic farm in California, moved with her husband, Mike Appel, to Oaks, Okla., in pursuit of cheap farmland. But even though they had $25,000 saved, the couple could not get a bank [...]

Thank You, Rachel Carson By Richard W. Franke Professor Emeritus of Anthropology: Montclair State University, New Jersey Resident: Ecovillage at Ithaca; Board Member: Sustainable Tompkins October, 2012, will mark the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, just a year and a half before her untimely death from breast cancer and other [...]

I’ve been pondering my reticence to get more involved in political action in the face of our myriad challenges, from local fracking to global climate change. In part, I think it comes from a feeling of pessimism about many political efforts that inherently seek to educate the public or political leaders. It seems to me [...]

The Sustainable Tompkins Community Blog Sustainable Tompkins is pleased to announce the launching of our Sustainability Blog. A blog is a combination of the words web and log: therefore a web log. Our blog is open to all who wish to post and/or discuss issues broadly related to sustainability. You can find our blog at [...]