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Green Your Holidays with Alternative Gifts
December 4, 2020 - 1:27 pm
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Season’s “Greenings” from Sustainable Tompkins! One lesson that we can take from 2020 is that a culture of resiliency and strong community is vital to overcoming the major issues we are facing: the pandemic, systemic racism, climate change, and a divided nation. Now, it’s time to use this lesson to help shape 2021 and the […]
Giving Tuesday is December 1!
November 30, 2020 - 8:30 pm
Tags: Giving Tuesday, Sustainability Bingo
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Join us on December 1 for the annual Giving Tuesday celebration of your favorite local nonprofits that protect our quality of life, our democracy, and our environment. We’ll be hosting a live Q&A session on our Instagram page at 1:00 pm EST (sustainable_tc) if you are curious about our programs and all the things our team is […]
Dozens Helped via Climate Fund and HeatSmart Partnership
November 28, 2020 - 9:41 pm
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Last fall, Sustainable Tompkins launched its partnership with HeatSmart Tompkins to combine grants from our Finger Lakes Climate Fund with new incentives for heat pumps to help lower-income families make the transition to high efficiency clean energy for heating and cooling their homes. Despite the pandemic and shutdown of many months, we’ve been steadily at […]
Local Business Leaders Step Up for Climate Action
November 24, 2020 - 8:14 pm
Tags: Climate Action, Finger Lakes Climate Fund
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The Heat! Is! On! Now, typically in our climate-change-fueled work, this would not be a great phrase to hear. However, for our 2020 Finger Lakes Enterprises for Climate Action campaign (FLECA), it’s music to our ears. This fall, we launched our very first local business-focused offsetting campaign for our Finger Lakes Climate Fund. Equipped with […]
Neighborhood Mini-Grants Support Outdoor Initiatives
November 23, 2020 - 1:16 pm
Tags: Ellis Hollow Nursery School, Groundswell Center, Khuba International, Neighborhood MiniGrants, Parents2Polls Tompkins, Village at Ithaca
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Through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, people continue to grow food, explore the outdoors, bring aid to their neighbors, and vote in elections. In October 2020, five Neighborhood Mini-Grants were awarded to Parents2Polls Tompkins, Ellis Hollow Nursery School, the Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming, The Village at Ithaca, and Khuba International. Parents2Polls Tompkins is […]
A Platform for our Regional Movement: Sustainable Finger Lakes
November 21, 2020 - 1:29 pm
Tags: Finger Lakes Climate Fund, Sustainable Finger Lakes, Sustainable Finger Lakes Map
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While Ithaca certainly has a reputation for being progressive and eco-conscious, there are exciting things happening on the sustainability front all over the Finger Lakes Region! Progressive-minded people continue to move into the region, working to overhaul our food system, promote democracy and justice, protect the air, land, and water, and build conscious communities. This […]
ST Expands Access to Information with Digital Solutions!
November 18, 2020 - 8:31 pm
Tags: digital business card, My Green FLX, Sustainflx.carrd.co
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On a mission to help more people understand our various programs (and how they can benefit from them!) we have unveiled two new online tools. As a portal to our programs and partnerships, we created sustainflx.carrd.co to provide digital entry into our sustainability realm. The portal leads users to our regional HeatSmart partners to learn about incentives for […]
We More Than Doubled our Goal for the Climate Fund!
May 26, 2020 - 1:10 pm
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Thank you to the 54 donors who helped us race past our goal of raising $2500 for the Finger Lakes Climate Fund in May in our ‘Climate Justice in the Time of Corona” campaign! Besides the $4,121 we raised on GiveGab, two other donors sent us $1,679 via our Climate Fund website, and checks totaling […]
Join Us at the Debate!
May 26, 2020 - 12:35 pm
Tags: 125th NYS Assembly District, new york league of conservation voters
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We are co-sponsoring the Assembly District 125 Environmental Candidate Forum with New York League of Conservation Voters on May 28th at 5:30 pm via Zoom! We’ve got a line-up of questions for them on the most pressing regional sustainability issues. Register today to reserve your spot and receive your Zoom credentials to get into the […]