Thank you to everyone who has participated in this discussion thus far!
We've had an on-demand water heater for twenty years, solar farm panels for
five, and an air-source heat pump ductless mini-split system (from Halco via
HeatSmart Tompkins) for one, but although that latter upgrade allowed us to
eliminate one of our two propane tanks, we do still need that remaining one
until we manage to replace the last couple of gas appliances, and we haven't
yet been able to switch to hybrid or electric vehicles . . . all of which to
say that I'm grateful for the constructive ideas and will be looking into the
heretofore-unknown-to-me Finger Lakes Climate Fund as at least a stopgap offset
while we work on further reduction.
Best to all,Allison Myers
On Monday, December 13, 2021, 12:01:12 AM EST, Upstate NY Birding digest
<cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote:
CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Monday, December 13, 2021.
1. Carbon offsets discussion followup
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Subject: Carbon offsets discussion followup
From: Hurf Sheldon <hurf...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 20:13:54 -0500
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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
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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
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