Tompkins Weekly Series

Our local sustainability movement is so vibrant and active that we've needed our own weekly newspaper column to share all the success stories about our initiatives! The "Signs of Sustainability" series in Tompkins Weekly started in 2007, and features a weekly essay by a local sustainability leader about upcoming events or emerging issues. If you are interested in submitting an essay, please contact tom (at) sustainabletompkins.org

May 20, 2013
Hydrilla Treatments Continue in 2013
May 13, 2013
The New Ithaca Health Fund: Still Grassroots Community Health Care!
May 6, 2013
Bike Not: Waste Energy, Money, and Have No Fun
April 29, 2013
Ithaca Children’s Garden integrates permaculture education into programs and site
April 22, 2013
Local Permaculture Organizations Team Up to Provide Scholarships
April 15, 2013
Earth Day Focus on Being Climate Smart and Climate Ready
April 8, 2013
You, Too, Can Be a Master Composter
April 1, 2013
A New Year, A New Signs of Sustainability Series
March 25, 2013
Food Security for the Whole Community
March 18, 2013
Bridging college and community life with Wood’s Earth Living Classroom
March 11, 2013
Get Your Gardening On
March 4, 2013
CDRC’s Conflict Mediation
February 25, 2013
TCAction Gets Your GreenBack
February 18, 2013
Empty Seats: An untapped resource
February 11, 2013
New Roots Class of 2013: This Is What An Education for Sustainability Looks Like
February 4, 2013
Message of ‘Silent Spring’ Still Resonates (Rachel Carson 1 of 2)
January 28, 2013
Resolve to Ride the Bus in 2013
January 21, 2013
The Myth of Energy Independence
January 14, 2013
Sustainable Community Still Growing
January 7, 2013
Green Resolutions for the New Year
December 31, 2012
Steps to Sustainability Part 11 of a Series: Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic
December 24, 2012
This Year Give the Gift of Sustainability
December 17, 2012
What We Can Learn from Muir, Pinchot
December 10, 2012
Have a Green Holiday
December 3, 2012
Get Your Green(s) Back this Winter
November 26, 2012
Neighborhood Mini-Grant Deadline is December 1st
November 19, 2012
Alternative Gift Fair: A Holiday Tradition
November 12, 2012
Make America Recycles Day Every Day
November 5, 2012
Envisioning What We Can Do, Doing What We Can
October 29, 2012
Signs of Sustainability
October 22, 2012
Community, Energy Efficiency and You
October 15, 2012
Cast Your Ballot for Biomass Solutions
October 8, 2012
Sustainability is a Society of Systems Thinkers
October 1, 2012
Explore the Latest in Local Green Building
September 24, 2012
Composting is Cosmic and Saves Green$Backs
September 17, 2012
Steps to Sustainability Part 9 of a Series: John Wesley Powell
September 10, 2012
EPA Climate Showcase Communities under Construction
September 3, 2012
Active Transportation Can Make You Feel Alive Again
August 27, 2012
Transportation Options Worth Consideration
August 20, 2012
Our Path to a Green Home
August 13, 2012
2nd Annual Food Justice Summit Celebrates Food, Culture and Sustainability with Community Partners
August 8, 2012
Fall Growing
July 30, 2012
Signs of Sustainability” Continue To Emerge
July 23, 2012
Healthy Food For All’s Harvest Dinners: Growing a Sustainable Food System through Culinary Celebrations
July 16, 2012
Cayuga Waterfront Trail: Connecting the Community to the Waterfront
July 9, 2012
Local Building Materials Initiative Builds on Benefits of Buying Local
July 7, 2012
A Web of Hope
July 2, 2012
A Web of Hope
June 25, 2012
Preserve Food? Yes You Can!
June 18, 2012
Steps to Sustainability Origins of Sustainability in the USA — Emerson and Thoreau
June 11, 2012
Mindfulness Practice and Sustainability
June 4, 2012
PERMACULTURE YOUR GARDEN THIS SUMMER
May 27, 2012
Celebrating 20 Years and a Bright Future for Ithaca Hours
May 19, 2012
Battle to Eradicate Hydrilla Continues
May 14, 2012
Creating a Peer-to-Peer Economy
May 7, 2012
Lessons to Be Learned from the Maya
April 30, 2012
The Collapse of Rome
April 23, 2012
Come to the Compost Fair
April 16, 2012
We All Stand Together on the Same Earth
April 9, 2012
Local Reuse Effort Gains Momentum
April 1, 2012
Springing Into Sustainability…
March 26, 2012
Envisioning a Community-Driven, Equitable, and Sustainable Food System
March 19, 2012
Black Oak Wind Farm Rising
March 13, 2012
Sharing the Land—Wood’s Earth Living Classroom
February 7, 2012
New Community Solar System Powers 30 Homes
February 2, 2012
New Roots Charter School’s First Graduates are College-Bound
January 16, 2012
Beyond Arguing About Fracking for Natural Gas: A Cleaner … and Cheaper… Sustainable Energy Future for New York State
January 9, 2012
Living Green Starts From the Ground Up
January 2, 2012
Steps to Sustainability- Part 4 of a Series: Unique Empires
December 27, 2011
McGraw House Recycles
December 19, 2011
Recognizing Signs of Sustainability
December 14, 2011
Limit Consumption this Holiday Season
December 3, 2011
SEEN Event to Explore Community in an Equitable Economy
November 21, 2011
The Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair
November 7, 2011
New City Comprehensive Plan Embraces Sustainability
October 31, 2011
Opposing Fracking and Embracing Clean Energy
October 17, 2011
Historic Buildings Go Green in Tompkins County
October 12, 2011
Cultivating Place Here in the Finger Lakes
October 3, 2011
Worker Cooperatives Can Revitalize Our Economy
September 29, 2011
Ithaca-Area Green Buildings Open House Marks Ten Years of Inspiring, Educating and Entertaining
September 19, 2011
Learn to Burn
September 12, 2011
Ithaca Carshare Hosts Upstate Transportation Forum and Livable Streets Free Film Festival
September 6, 2011
Planning for Sustainable Regional Economic Development
August 29, 2011
Ithaca Mayoral Candidates Speak Up On Sustainability
August 24, 2011
Signs of Sustainability–Independence for Elderly Means Preventing Falls
July 27, 2011
Eco Design Training Empowers Finger Lakes Residents
July 13, 2011
Sharing and Self-Reliance in a Sustainable Economy
July 12, 2011
Members of Sustainable Tompkins Leading the Way
July 5, 2011
Making Movies to Make a Difference
Finger Lakes Bioneers Celebrates Region’s Cultural Ingenuity
June 14, 2011
Local Carbon Fund Supported by Cornell Conference
June 1, 2011
Building a Resilient, Fair, and Responsible Economy
May 24, 2011
Everyone Can Be A Green Consumer
May 16, 2011
Building Works! Tackles Small Jobs
April 25, 2011
Gardens 4 Humanity
April 21, 2011
Consumers Need Better Product Labels
April 4, 2011
Energy Security is a Community Project
March 28, 2011
Signs of Sustainability: Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland Counties
March 21, 2011
Growing Deep Green, Affordable Neighborhoods
March 14, 2011
Local Food Fortifies a Sustainable Economy
March 7, 2011
Rebooting the American Dream in Tompkins County
February 28, 2011
Signs of Sustainability: Moving Towards a Low Carbon Future
February 21, 2011
Neighborhood Mini-Grants Program: Sowing the Seeds of Sustainability
February 14, 2011
Less Car, More Life!
February 7, 2011
Building Sustainable Communities the INHS Way
January 31, 2011
Join the Movement! Reduce Waste, Save Money, & Teach Others
January 24, 2011
Climate Fund Grants Help Local Families
January 17, 2011
“What’s New at New Roots Charter School?”
January 10, 2011
Join the MLK Read
January 3, 2011
My Sustainability Calendar
December 20, 2010
Contrasting Futures
December 13, 2010
Choices Now Can Reduce Climate Disruption
November 23, 2010
Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair – December 4
November 16, 2010
Community Building Works!
November 9, 2010
How Healthy Is Your Home?
October 25, 2010
Yard Waste Collection and Composting
October 18, 2010
My Sustainability Makeover
October 11, 2010
Bright Green Building: Learning from Europe
September 30, 2010
Bioneers Part II
Bioneers Part I
September 15, 2010
Earthships, Zero Net Energy, LEED & Energy Star, Oh My!
Community Conflict Around Marcellus Gas Drilling
For Barter or Worse: Share Tompkins Facilitates Mutual-Aid in Our Region
Finger Lakes Bioneers return October 22-24
August 17, 2010
Rebuy Goes Back-To-School Shopping
July 31, 2010
The SEEN Helps Build Local Connections
July 12, 2010
Cayuga Sustainability Council Provides Outreach
Green Initiatives at Alternatives Federal Credit Union
Wild Activities Lead Kids to Environmental Stewardship
June 17, 2010
Online farmers market to debut in Tompkins County
Compost Tips for Great Gardening
June 8, 2010
Body Care Aware Project – Cancer Resource Center
May 17, 2010
Close the Loop for a More Sustainable Future
May 14, 2010
Green Jobs May Not All be Good Jobs
May 13, 2010
Climate Fund Launched
April 27, 2010
Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming
April 21, 2010
Clean New York
April 14, 2010
The Ithaca Health Fund: A Unique Bargain
March 26, 2010
Bringing the Global Home: “A Billion Acts of Green”
Smart Growth
March 17, 2010
Garden is a True Community Asset
Look Beyond the Joy of the Transaction
March 2, 2010
New Home a Model of Energy Efficiency
February 23, 2010
2010 Green Building Seminar Series
February 13, 2010
Take charge of your transportation
Ithaca’s Designing with Native Plants Symposium
Tighter Standards and Smaller Homes: A Prescription for Real Progress
January 28, 2010
Signs of Sustainability Series: It’s Warm at the Cayuga Nature Center!
At New Roots, Learning By Doing
“Signs of Sustainability” 2009 Awards – Part V
“Signs of Sustainability” 2009 Awards – Part IV
December 28, 2009
Sustainability Efforts Earn Recognition
Signs of Sustainability 2009, Part II
Many New Signs of Sustainability
December 7, 2009
More “Signs of Sustainability” in our community than ever before!
October 13, 2009
Civil Rights Movement Remains Relevant
October 5, 2009
Solving Today’s Problems With the Future in Mind
May 10, 2009
Green Jobs Represent a Good Investment