Finger Lakes Land Trust Energy Efficiency Open House, Friday, May 15, 2026 TIME 3:00-5:00 PM LOCATION Finger Lakes Land Trust Office202 E. Court St.Ithaca, NY 14850 DESCRIPTION Come to the Land Trust’s offices in downtown Ithaca for a tour of recently completed energy efficiency improvements in our Leopold Center, including the installation of heat pumps…
Reusing materials can be widely more effective than recycling in terms of reducing plastic production, keeping materials in circulation, and limiting microplastic contamination. Project officers from Cornell Sustainability Consultants considered where they could promote reuse among college students, and looked to reduce the plastic waste from six-pack can carriers, or the ring or lattice holders…
Robert Howarth, who is deeply involved in the environmental management and policy for communities at the state, national, and international levels, has called for a two-year moratorium on new nuclear power in New York State. He argues that the push for nuclear would go against the recommendations of the Climate Action Council and increase energy…
Bike Walk Tompkins recently purchased a heavy-duty bike stand, thanks to a grant awarded by Sustainable Finger Lakes through its Neighborhood Mini-Grant Program. The new equipment will support the organization’s growing efforts to expand access to bicycle and e-bike repair in the community. As more Ithacans turn to e-bikes as an alternative to cars for…
Sustainable Finger Lakes held a webinar on April 8, 2026, “Reducing Wildfire Risk in a Changing Climate”, in response to how wildfires are becoming an increasing threat to public health in the Finger Lakes region. Our panelists of experts shared their insights. The full webinar can be viewed here. For more resources, visit our event…
For most people in the Finger Lakes Region, the threat of wildfires has typically been something far away in the western states. But the infamous red dawn of June 7, 2023, caused by forest fires up in Quebec, had people scrambling to protect themselves from smoke inhalation – suddenly, we had to consider our growing…
Lodi Food 4 All received a mini-grant from us this past fall as part of our Neighborhood Mini-Grant Program pilot in Seneca, Yates, and Schuyler counties! They used the grant to purchase carts to allow their patrons to navigate the pantry more easily. Check it out here: Lodi Food 4 All received a mini-grant from…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: ITHACA, NY—March 19, 2026— Do you have an idea for a project to make your community more sustainable, resilient, or inclusive? Need a little help in covering the costs? Sustainable Finger Lakes is accepting applications for our Spring 2026 round of Neighborhood Mini-Grants in Tompkins County. An application deadline for Schuyler,…
Shira Evergreen created a documentary video for the Regional Assessment and Barriers Analysis report from CCE Smart Energy Choices – Southern Tier, aka our Regional Clean Energy Hub. Check out the documentary here.
Last week, we hosted a webinar, “Protecting Local Communities from AI Data Center Impacts,” featuring our Assemblywoman Anna Kelles, Eric Weltman of Food & Water Watch, and Allison DeSario of FLX Strong. We had 166 registrants and 25% of those were local elected officials and municipal staff from across the Cayuga watershed and Finger Lakes…
Sustainable Finger Lakes is a community-based organization whose mission is to promote the long-term well-being of our region by integrating social equity, economic vitality, ecological stewardship, and shared responsibility. Sustainable Finger Lakes is seeking its next leader for our 22 year-old nonprofit based in Ithaca, NY in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region. We are looking for…
The Seneca County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to join Tompkins County in asking the DEC to reject TeraWulf Inc.’s request to draw over a million gallons a day to cool its proposed AI data center facility. This would require the DEC to review the project plan and then reject or reprocess the permit as…
We need Hochul to stand up to Trump, greedy utilities, and big polluters by implementing NY’s 2019 Climate Law. But instead of following our Climate Law to fight climate change and invest in our communities, Gov. Hochul is taking us backwards. She’s threatening to rollback that important 2019 law. We can’t let that happen. That’s…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: ITHACA, NY—February 24, 2026— Across the country, local communities are organizing to protest plans for massive AI data centers in their neighborhoods that drive up electricity prices for everyone, threaten water supplies and disrupt lives. New York needs to get ahead of the problem by imposing a temporary moratorium on…
Join Cornell researchers and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability for an interactive discussion and showcase on sustainability within the fashion industry. Our speakers, Danielle Eiseman (Veterinary College / Public & Ecosystem Health), Denise Green (Human Ecology / Human Centered Design), Sarosh Kuruvilla (ILR School / Global Labor & Work), will explore and highlight key points from the film The True Cost (available through Cornell…