Thursday, Oct 3rd 5:30pm-7:30pm
Groundswell Center Incubator Farm
101 Rachel Carson Way
Join Groundswell for their last farm tour and volunteer night of the season at the Incubator Farm. After a 30 min tour of the farm, they will lend a hand at Surik’s orchard, preparing it for the winter season!
Wood Pellet Boiler Home Tour by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County THIS WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY!
CCAA was formed to educate others and actively work towards reversing the anthropogenic climate change. The Founding Members of the CCAA came together as an organizing committee putting their minds together to host environmentally charged events in Syracuse, NY. They are also a 350.org local group! Thinking about an electric car? National Drive Electric Week is this week and CCAA is celebrating! Check out the event here.
Wellspring Forest Farm & School has a vision that humanity learns to see the forest as a valuable, productive space, forming relationships based on an intimate way of knowing and rooted in participatory action. Through mentoring students, they transform the eastern temperate forest into a productive and diverse ecosystem for generations to come. Take a class, order some mushrooms, or stay at their fun yurt Air BnB! For more info, visit their website.
Water Front is a blog by Peter Mantius, a journalist writing about the latest happenings in Environmental Politics in the Finger Lakes region. Check out one of his latest stories – a comprehensive look at the Harmful Algal Blooms in Cayuga Lake.
VINES is an organization that establishes community gardens, urban agriculture and community green spaces with a focus on empowering community members of all ages and abilities. Programs include:
– a community garden program
– the Binghamton Urban Farm (BUF)
– Grow Binghamton (a summer youth employment program)
– the Green Thumb Educational Workshop Series
– the Binghamton Farm Share program (Farm Share)
– a community garden program
– the Binghamton Urban Farm (BUF)
– Grow Binghamton (a summer youth employment program)
– the Green Thumb Educational Workshop Series
– the Binghamton Farm Share program (Farm Share)
Homes and properties in communities across New York are located on or near toxic sites that can cause health hazards or reduce investment value. Toxic Targeting obtains environmental data from local, state and federal government sources and updates our information on a continuing basis. They provide extensive archival data now withheld from public disclosure. If you are buying a specific home or property, you can order a Toxics Targeting Phase I Environmental Database Report. They will walk you through your detailed report and answer your questions! For more info, visit their website.
The Solar Home Factory builds pre-fab solar homes at their factory at 33 Forge Ave in beautiful Geneva, New York. Homes are designed for a low maintenance, low impact, and highly efficient lifestyle. Solar panels power heat pump systems that heat, cool, and insert fresh air. The steel siding, PVC trim, and membrane roofing make for an extremely low maintenance home. For more info, visit https://www.solarhomefactory.com/.
For more than a century the Smith Opera House has thrived as the center stage of the Finger Lakes, offering quality performing arts and cultural opportunities for area residents and regional visitors. Occupied approximately 250 nights per year with events open to the public, the theatre is an ongoing symbol of historic preservation, non-profit perseverance, and artistic excellence. For more info, visit their facebook page.
The Business Leaders of Colors (BLoC) is a member-based organization whose mission is to support business leaders and work towards equity in the arena of economic opportunity, integrity, and growth. The network was formed to level the playing field and create a cooperative space for commerce that will serve the under-served business community.
Affordable solar in New York State is here!!! SunCommon aims to tear down barriers to clean energy and use their business as a force for good. And, they are a Certified B Corporation and a Best For the World 2019 Honoree. With NO UPFRONT COST, why wait?
HeatSmart, a program of Solar Tompkins, is a nonprofit community-based organization focused on promoting the rapid adoption of renewable energy in Tompkins County, NY. They work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Tompkins County by facilitating the adoption of home insulation, sealing, and heat pump technologies for heating and cooling.
They provide residents with the information, confidence, and value they need to transition their homes toward zero net carbon emissions, strengthening local markets for renewable energy and energy efficiency. To learn more, and to access HeatSmart designers and installers, visit the NYSERDA website.
STEPS is a neighborhood health improvement project for southern Seneca County, New York, specifically Covert, Lodi, Ovid and Romulus, with a mission to strengthen families, address challenges that are part of rural life, grow a sustainable regional economy, cultivate leadership, encourage initiative, and foster respect for all. They offer cooking classes, herbalism classes, and all things of the sort! For more info, visit their website.
On Thursday, October 17, Wells College’s Wells Center for Sustainability and the Environment will be hosting a free, public talk by Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, Project Drawdown’s VP for Communications and Engagement, who was one of the principal authors of the book of the same name.
Schuyler County officials assure that test results received for Seneca Lake water are not necessarily reliable, and that the county will conduct their own tests in the near future. Mary Anne Kowalski, SLG’s research director, likened the tests to do-it-yourself home radon kits, and she acknowledged that the results are neither state-certified nor legally binding.