Ithaca’s second annual Earth Day Festival promoted action against climate change on Saturday.
Many Cornell students tabled at the event — including Nicole Collins ’25, an intern for Sustainable Finger Lakes and former weather editor for The Sun. Collins discussed the organization’s climate action initiatives, like funding grants to place environmentally-friendly energy solutions into homes and their Finger Lakes Climate Fund.
“If someone, say, goes on vacation and travels in an airplane, they can give a carbon offset to our organization,” Collins said. “This is really unique because it’s local, and you can see the impacts, and put your carbon offsets into your own community.”
Collins spoke about additional initiatives that Sustainable Finger Lakes runs, including grants to provide and implement heat pumps and other environmentally-friendly energy solutions into peoples’ homes, and specifically helping low income tenants.
Story and Photo by Xavier Rolston / Cornell Sun
