Thanks to Rich Heffron and the Ithaca Times for their 10/18/16 coverage of our Finger Lakes Climate Fund:

From Oct. 1 through Nov. 30, the Finger Lakes Climate Fund is running its second annual Seal the Cracks event, a fundraising campaign of a unique and different sort: the fundraising takes the form of individuals, businesses, and organizations purchasing carbon offsets to cancel out their greenhouse gas emissions from their travel or home energy use.

For $25, donors can offset one ton of their CO2 emissions through the Climate Fund, which uses the donations to reduce an equal amount of CO2 emissions by helping to fund local energy efficiency projects. (read more)