Tompkins Weekly, 5-13-26, by Patrice Lockert Anthony Let’s start with something uncomfortable: sustainability doesn’t begin with government laws. Consent of the governed doesn’t begin at the ballot box. It begins with self-governance. One person. Then that person-in-community. Therein lies the dilemma. Until individuals—and the communities they build—actually behave as holders of power, politicians (whose moral…
The Ithaca Local Economy Lab Podcast is a conversation with local businesses and community programs that are doing things just a little bit differently. The old economy, based on the idea that more is better, isn’t working for us regular folks. But the New Economy is already here – it’s just camouflaged. Ithaca, NY is…
Sustainable Finger Lakes awarded the Task Force a Neighborhood Mini-Grant to fund plants and materials to create a native forest beside a section of the Dryden Rail Trail in Etna. The Dryden Rail Trail (DRT) Task Force is inviting volunteers for a second tiny forest planting day along the trail west of Pinckney Rd on…