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Are you concerned about your carbon footprint? Well, what if you could make up for some of the emissions you generate through travel or heating your home or a business practice that burns fossil fuels. That’s where carbon offsets come...
(The Ithacan, 04-27-25, by Sadie Evans) Ithaca College hosted Sustainability Week 2025 from April 16-26. Throughout the week, there were different events including a sustainability fair, a talk with a local climate leader, a student-led colloquium, pancakes in the IC Natural Lands and clothing sales....
Xavier Rolston, The Cornell Daily Sun, Apr 21, 2025 Read the full article here. One of the interns for Sustainable Finger Lakes, Nicole Collins, Cornell ’25, tabled at the Ithaca Earth Day Event. Nicole discussed the organization’s initiatives, such as...
A new Ithaca pilot program is helping mobile home residents reduce energy bills, improve home comfort, and transition to clean heating with high-efficiency heat pumps. Mobile homes typically use more energy than site-built housing and often rely on costly fuels...
(Tompkins Weekly, 11-6-24, by Kevin L. Smith) James Dannic has lived in the town of Newfield his entire life. Dannic has lived in a mobile home with his son for the past three years. The home, however, gets too cold...
On September 20, 2024, New York State’s Department of Public Service (DPS), as part of the NYSERDA Clean Energy Events, hosted a conference in Albany to discuss the electrification of homes and buildings in the low-to-moderate income (LMI) market segment. ...
(Tompkins Weekly, 9-11-24, by Jaime Cone Hughes) In 2022, when Florencia Ardon purchased the northeast Ithaca duplex on Briarwood Drive that she had called home as a renter for 10 years, she received some disheartening news from the home inspector:...
Original article by Siri Chilukuri, Grist We like to denigrate manufactured housing, but new units are better for the environment. About 22 million Americans live in mobile homes or manufactured housing, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and as the housing...
A great big thank you to Greenstar Food Co+Op for their generous donation to the Finger Lakes Climate Fund and Sustainable Finger Lakes and to all the co-op members for your climate caring and votes.
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