---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Gay Nicholson <gaynichol...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 3:56 PM
David, I am sorry to hear about the problems with your heat pump water heater that our Climate Fund grant supported. We've contacted the owner of Halco Energy and asked that he check in with you. All - I'm not sure what the original discussion was about, but if you were talking about taking responsibility for your carbon emissions related to your birding activities, I hope you will consider a direct action of offsetting your travel emissions with your local carbon offset fund - Finger Lakes Climate Fund <http://fingerlakesclimatefund.org> - where you will see your offset dollars put to work helping lower-income households pay for energy efficiency and renewable energy systems that will reduce their emissions and offset yours. Check out this short video of someone who works at the Lab of O <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97yatiY4lFc&list=PLGjmnJvhVAGLto1Jv6MEy2k_DbjDAdJIR&index=12&t=8s> who chose to offset her travel emissions with us. We'd love to feature the support of the local birding community in one of our Carbon Race Teams <https://www.fingerlakesclimatefund.org/pages/carbon-races> where you could band together and see yourselves making a difference as a group of climate aware bird protectors. Please get in touch if you have any questions about this and we can walk you through it. best wishes, Gay -------------------------------------- Gay Nicholson, Ph.D. President Sustainable Tompkins 309 N. Aurora St. <https://www.google.com/maps/search/309+N.+Aurora+St.+Ithaca,+NY+14850?entry=gmail&source=g> Ithaca, NY 14850 <https://www.google.com/maps/search/309+N.+Aurora+St.+Ithaca,+NY+14850?entry=gmail&source=g> https://sustainabletompkins.org/ https://fingerlakesclimatefund.org/ <https://www.fingerlakesclimatefund.org/> https://sustainablefingerlakes.org/ 607-533-7312 (home office) 607-220-8991 (cell) 607-272-1720 (ST office) g...@sustainabletompkins.org -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
