Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: Exciting and urgent VDER legislative update

[Regi Teasley]

OK. So I muddled through and called Senator O’Mara. Got through with no problem 
and spoke with staff.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.   Mother Jones


> On Jun 20, 2018, at 10:25 AM, Regi Teasley  wrote:
> 
> So I sound like I k ow something, what does VDER stand for?
> 
> Refi
> 
> Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.   Mother Jones
> 
> 
>> On Jun 20, 2018, at 5:59 AM, Irene Weiser  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> See below for FANTASTIC news and actions you can take to support solar in 
>> NYS.
>> Honestly - see below because it is probably the BEST action alert I have 
>> ever read.  
>> Amazing strategy and effort from all across the state has brought us to this 
>> point.
>> Please help bring it across the finish line on this, the last day of the 
>> legislative session.
>> 
>> Irene Weiser
>> irene32...@gmail.com
>> Brooktondale, NY
>> 607-539-6856
>> 
>> Joy to the world
>> All the boys and girls
>> Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
>> Joy to you and me. 
>> 
>> 
>> -- Forwarded message -
>> From: 
>> Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:17 PM
>> Subject: Exciting and urgent VDER legislative update
>> To: 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Tomorrow (or today by the time you might read this) is last day of the 
>> legislative session so this is an urgent update. I hope you will join me in 
>> taking ACTION to help us try to push our VDER moratorium bill through.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Here are the facts:
>> 
>> The bill passed the Assembly tonight! It passed tonight by a margin of 
>> 113-16. Congratulations to all of the many hands that made this possible.
>>  
>> 
>> In the Senate, the bill has just become unstuck It had been stuck for a 
>> few weeks, with Senator Griffo (Chair of the Energy Committee) as the main 
>> sponsor but not moving it to a committee vote. The opposition from the 
>> Business Council and the Utilities sort of put a damper on it in the Senate 
>> as did the general partisan weirdness with the Senate right now. BUT>>>>>>> 
>> This morning, we held a press conference in front of Griffo’s district 
>> office and now Griffo has moved the bill to the Rules Committee, which is 
>> the ONLY committee it must clear before getting to the floor to a vote.
>>  
>> 
>> I’m hearing things like “this has legs”…
>>  
>> 
>> Today, the solar industry compiled a list of cancelled projects due to VDER 
>> by Upstate Senate District. It’s amazing. In total, there are more than 
>> 1,000 jobs not created and over $800 million in lost investments into solar 
>> in the Upstate economy alone due to VDER. This has deprived tens of 
>> thousands of households of lower-cost renewable energy. (Yeah, I’m angry as 
>> you probably are since we saw this coming, but I’m putting that aside for a 
>> minute to try to focus on getting this bill passed.)
>>  
>> 
>> Here’s what we can do:
>> 
>> We have a few more hours to take this over the finish line. The strategy 
>> right now as best as I can understand from those working the halls of the 
>> legislature is this: We need Senator Flanagan (Temporary President and 
>> Majority Leader in the Senate) to make sure that this bill gets to a vote. 
>> To get Senator Flanagan to care, we need other Senators to call him and tell 
>> them they care and that they want him to make sure this bill goes through.
>>  
>> 
>> We have a list of priority Senators to reach out to to ask him to do this. 
>> They are the Senators whose districts have been most negatively impacted by 
>> VDER. The list is here and it will likely grow and/or change throughout the 
>> day so keep checking. The idea is that we should try to generate as many 
>> calls to these Senators as possible, letting them know that we know that 
>> they are losing out on these projects and we need them to act to stop the 
>> VDER disaster. Even better if these calls come from constituents. The 
>> spreadsheet includes the specific district impacts of VDER.
>>  
>> 
>> More very soon. Andra will be sending around tips for how to effectively 
>> generate calls to Senators. And Patrick will be following up with phone 
>> scripts, social media materials, and more.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> If you have questions or ideas, you can call me in the morning, preferably 
>> before 10:30am. You can also call Patrick or Andra. I’ll be keeping both of 
>> them

Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: Exciting and urgent VDER legislative update

[Regi Teasley]

So I sound like I k ow something, what does VDER stand for?

Refi

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.   Mother Jones


> On Jun 20, 2018, at 5:59 AM, Irene Weiser  wrote:
> 
> 
> See below for FANTASTIC news and actions you can take to support solar in NYS.
> Honestly - see below because it is probably the BEST action alert I have ever 
> read.  
> Amazing strategy and effort from all across the state has brought us to this 
> point.
> Please help bring it across the finish line on this, the last day of the 
> legislative session.
> 
> Irene Weiser
> irene32...@gmail.com
> Brooktondale, NY
> 607-539-6856
> 
> Joy to the world
> All the boys and girls
> Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
> Joy to you and me. 
> 
> 
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: 
> Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:17 PM
> Subject: Exciting and urgent VDER legislative update
> To: 
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
>  
> 
> Tomorrow (or today by the time you might read this) is last day of the 
> legislative session so this is an urgent update. I hope you will join me in 
> taking ACTION to help us try to push our VDER moratorium bill through.
> 
>  
> 
> Here are the facts:
> 
> The bill passed the Assembly tonight! It passed tonight by a margin of 
> 113-16. Congratulations to all of the many hands that made this possible.
>  
> 
> In the Senate, the bill has just become unstuck It had been stuck for a 
> few weeks, with Senator Griffo (Chair of the Energy Committee) as the main 
> sponsor but not moving it to a committee vote. The opposition from the 
> Business Council and the Utilities sort of put a damper on it in the Senate 
> as did the general partisan weirdness with the Senate right now. BUT>>> 
> This morning, we held a press conference in front of Griffo’s district office 
> and now Griffo has moved the bill to the Rules Committee, which is the ONLY 
> committee it must clear before getting to the floor to a vote.
>  
> 
> I’m hearing things like “this has legs”…
>  
> 
> Today, the solar industry compiled a list of cancelled projects due to VDER 
> by Upstate Senate District. It’s amazing. In total, there are more than 1,000 
> jobs not created and over $800 million in lost investments into solar in the 
> Upstate economy alone due to VDER. This has deprived tens of thousands of 
> households of lower-cost renewable energy. (Yeah, I’m angry as you probably 
> are since we saw this coming, but I’m putting that aside for a minute to try 
> to focus on getting this bill passed.)
>  
> 
> Here’s what we can do:
> 
> We have a few more hours to take this over the finish line. The strategy 
> right now as best as I can understand from those working the halls of the 
> legislature is this: We need Senator Flanagan (Temporary President and 
> Majority Leader in the Senate) to make sure that this bill gets to a vote. To 
> get Senator Flanagan to care, we need other Senators to call him and tell 
> them they care and that they want him to make sure this bill goes through.
>  
> 
> We have a list of priority Senators to reach out to to ask him to do this. 
> They are the Senators whose districts have been most negatively impacted by 
> VDER. The list is here and it will likely grow and/or change throughout the 
> day so keep checking. The idea is that we should try to generate as many 
> calls to these Senators as possible, letting them know that we know that they 
> are losing out on these projects and we need them to act to stop the VDER 
> disaster. Even better if these calls come from constituents. The spreadsheet 
> includes the specific district impacts of VDER.
>  
> 
> More very soon. Andra will be sending around tips for how to effectively 
> generate calls to Senators. And Patrick will be following up with phone 
> scripts, social media materials, and more.
> 
>  
> 
> If you have questions or ideas, you can call me in the morning, preferably 
> before 10:30am. You can also call Patrick or Andra. I’ll be keeping both of 
> them in the loop as best I can tomorrow.
> 
>  
> 
> Onward!
> 
> Jessica
> 
>  
> 
> ___
> 
> Jessica Azulay
> 
> Executive Director
> 
> Alliance for a Green Economy
> 
> 315.480.1515
> 
> jess...@allianceforagreeneconomy.org
> 
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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Unforgettable underwater photography

[Regi Teasley]

Wow!

Regi

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.  
Wm. Shakespeare


> On Apr 14, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Irene Weiser  wrote:
> 
> Amazing pics -had to share
> 
> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2018/apr/12/unforgettable-underwater-photography-in-pictures
> 
> Irene Weiser
> irene32...@gmail.com
> Brooktondale, NY
> 607-539-6856
> 
> Joy to the world
> All the boys and girls
> Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
> Joy to you and me. 

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Avoid Gulf stream disruption at all costs, scientists warn

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FYI
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/13/avoid-at-all-costs-gulf-streams-record-weakening-prompts-warnings-global-warming?CMP=share_btn_link

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Chevron, Oil Giants Lose Latest Fight Over Climate Jurisdiction - Bloomberg

[Regi Teasley]

FYI.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-17/chevron-oil-giants-lose-latest-fight-over-climate-jurisdiction

Regi
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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] [TCP] VOTE will take place tonight on several important environmental resolutions at the county legislature meeting

[Regi Teasley]

OK

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.  
Wm. Shakespeare


> On Mar 6, 2018, at 2:13 PM, Anna Kelles <annakel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Regi,
> 
> Thank you for asking!  It is always helpful for people to show there support 
> for initiatives that involve protection of the environment because the 
> arguments and resistance against them are always so strong. These meetings 
> are video recorded and mean something to the whole community watching. The 
> plastic bag resolution will be coming back too and any showing of support for 
> the initiative even if it doesn't get voted on tonight will make it that much 
> easier when we bring it back strong next month!
> 
> Thanks,
> Anna
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Regi Teasley <rltcay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sounds good.  Do you think they still need warm body comments on the other 
>> initiatives?
>> 
>> Regi
>> 
>> One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.  
>> Wm. Shakespeare
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 6, 2018, at 1:52 PM, Irene Weiser <irene32...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Awww, c'mon.  Anna for President!   Go Anna!
>>> 
>>> Irene Weiser
>>> irene32...@gmail.com
>>> Brooktondale, NY
>>> 607-539-6856
>>> 
>>> Joy to the world
>>> All the boys and girls
>>> Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
>>> Joy to you and me. 
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Anna Kelles <annakel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Ha, or more accurately precedent
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Anna Kelles <annakel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Thanks Irene for the added information!  It is indeed super exciting and 
>>>>> if all goes well we will set president for municipalities throughout the 
>>>>> state and country!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anna
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Irene Weiser <irene32...@gmail.com> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks, Anna for all this amazing work!  You ROCK!!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> One minor tweaky revision to your description of NYSEG RFP.  The entire 
>>>>>> town of Lansing has been under a gas moratorium since 2015 - no new 
>>>>>> construction requiring gas because there isn't enough supply to meet 
>>>>>> demand on peak days  (like the super cold days in early January) for any 
>>>>>> more buildings than currently use gas in that area.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> NYSEG's Non Pipe alternative is a really exciting  - first of its kind 
>>>>>> in the State (!)  - request for proposals that NYSEG issued and the 
>>>>>> State Public Service Commission approved for non-pipe alternatives such 
>>>>>> as heat pumps and building energy efficiency to meet thermal demand in 
>>>>>> the entire Town of Lansing - (not just the industrial park area).  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Irene Weiser
>>>>>> irene32...@gmail.com
>>>>>> Brooktondale, NY
>>>>>> 607-539-6856
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Joy to the world
>>>>>> All the boys and girls
>>>>>> Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
>>>>>> Joy to you and me. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Anna Kelles <annakel...@gmail.com> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As some of you may know I have been appointed this year as the chair of 
>>>>>>> the Planning Development and Environmental Quality (PDEQ) committee. 
>>>>>>> Last Monday three resolutions were voted out of the PDEQ committee that 
>>>>>>> will be discussed and in most cases voted on tonight by the full 
>>>>>>> legislature at our bimonthly meeting from starting at 5:30pm (the 
>>>>>>> meeting starts with privilege of the public to speak!) at 121 E. Court 
>>>>>>> St. in the Legislative Chambers on the second floor.  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The first is a resolution in opposition to the proposed large scale 
>>>>>>> incinerator in Romulus, Seneca County that is just North of the town of 
>>>>>>> Ulysses. I created an submitted this updated resolution fr

Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] [TCP] VOTE will take place tonight on several important environmental resolutions at the county legislature meeting

[Regi Teasley]

Sounds good.  Do you think they still need warm body comments on the other 
initiatives?

Regi

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.  
Wm. Shakespeare


> On Mar 6, 2018, at 1:52 PM, Irene Weiser  wrote:
> 
> Awww, c'mon.  Anna for President!   Go Anna!
> 
> Irene Weiser
> irene32...@gmail.com
> Brooktondale, NY
> 607-539-6856
> 
> Joy to the world
> All the boys and girls
> Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
> Joy to you and me. 
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Anna Kelles  wrote:
>> Ha, or more accurately precedent
>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Anna Kelles  wrote:
>>> Thanks Irene for the added information!  It is indeed super exciting and if 
>>> all goes well we will set president for municipalities throughout the state 
>>> and country!
>>> 
>>> Anna
>>> 
 On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Irene Weiser  wrote:
>>> 
 Thanks, Anna for all this amazing work!  You ROCK!!
 
 One minor tweaky revision to your description of NYSEG RFP.  The entire 
 town of Lansing has been under a gas moratorium since 2015 - no new 
 construction requiring gas because there isn't enough supply to meet 
 demand on peak days  (like the super cold days in early January) for any 
 more buildings than currently use gas in that area.
 
 NYSEG's Non Pipe alternative is a really exciting  - first of its kind in 
 the State (!)  - request for proposals that NYSEG issued and the State 
 Public Service Commission approved for non-pipe alternatives such as heat 
 pumps and building energy efficiency to meet thermal demand in the entire 
 Town of Lansing - (not just the industrial park area).  
 
 Irene Weiser
 irene32...@gmail.com
 Brooktondale, NY
 607-539-6856
 
 Joy to the world
 All the boys and girls
 Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
 Joy to you and me. 
 
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Anna Kelles  wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As some of you may know I have been appointed this year as the chair of 
> the Planning Development and Environmental Quality (PDEQ) committee. Last 
> Monday three resolutions were voted out of the PDEQ committee that will 
> be discussed and in most cases voted on tonight by the full legislature 
> at our bimonthly meeting from starting at 5:30pm (the meeting starts with 
> privilege of the public to speak!) at 121 E. Court St. in the Legislative 
> Chambers on the second floor.  
> 
> The first is a resolution in opposition to the proposed large scale 
> incinerator in Romulus, Seneca County that is just North of the town of 
> Ulysses. I created an submitted this updated resolution from a template 
> created by members of Gas Free Seneca. I'm happy to answer any questions 
> anyone has but in a nutshell the garbage would be shipped by hundreds of 
> trucks a day from downstate, burned creating significant air pollution 
> very near an elementary school and two correctional facilities as well as 
> nearby towns and wineries, created about 52 truckloads of toxic ash daily 
> that would need to be landfilled locally, and would withdraw 445,000 
> gallons daily from Seneca Lake.
> 
> A resolution urging the state to pass a plastic bag ban with an 
> additional 5 cent fee of paper bags passed. However, breaking news is 
> that a few days before the committee vote a bill in the senate and an 
> equivalent bill in the assembly were introduced that are more 
> comprehensive than our resolution (here is a link to the senate bill: 
> http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S7760). These bills, if 
> approved, would ban both plastic and paper (paper bag production and 
> transport have an equal to or even greater carbon footprint than 
> plastic). As a result I will be sending our resolution back to committee 
> tonight to align more closely with the proposed state bills. The next 
> PDEQ meeting will be March 26th at 3pm in the legislative chambers.
> 
> Lastly, recently NYSEG put out an request for proposals (RFP) as a result 
> of long talks local officials and experts have had with the state Public 
> Service Commission, requesting proposals in a designated area in and 
> around south Lansing (the Cornell business park area) for alternative 
> energy development and upgrades. The intention of the RFP is to reduce 
> demand on the existing natural gas infrastructure and to promote future 
> development with minimal natural gas needs. However, the current RFP says 
> that they will accept a proposal that can include the trucking in of 
> compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquified Natural Gas (LNG), if it is 
> acceptable to the community. The resolution we will be voting on tonight 
> 

Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] 2/6: Speaker: Cayuga Lake's Sturgeons, February 6, Lansing

[Regi Teasley]

As a lifelong fan of sturgeon (they live in the Snake River in Idaho where I 
grew up), I'd rather call them survivors, not relics.
The talk sounds interesting.

Regi

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.  
Wm. Shakespeare


> On Jan 31, 2018, at 9:33 AM, Sandra J. Repp  wrote:
> 
> Please join us (and share this invitation with others)...
>  
> Salt Point Speaker Series Presents
>  
> Relicts from the Dinosaur Age: Cayuga Lake's Sturgeons
>  
> PRESENTED BY:  Emily Zollweg-Horan, Aquatic Biologist, Division of Fish & 
> Wildlife Resources, New York DEC
> WHEN:   Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 7 p.m.
> WHERE: Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road, Lansing
>  
> 
> ​
> Enjoy an evening with Aquatic Biologist Emily Zollweg-Horan as you discover 
> the world of prehistoric relicts living in Cayuga Lake. Sturgeons have roamed 
> our waters since the Triassic Era. Learn more about the mysterious, 
> “primitive” fish that after 250 million years are now fighting for their 
> survival on Earth. 
>  
> Sponsored by the Friends of Salt Point, it is free and open to the public.
> --
> ALSO, just arrived in time for the rest of winter:  Salt Point Fleece-Lined 
> Beanie in a beautiful navy blue. Just $20 (makes a great gift). Pick one up 
> at Lansing Town Hall. Help support our work at Salt Point. 
>  
> Salt Point is managed by the all-volunteer Friends of Salt Point Ltd. in 
> cooperation with the Town of Lansing Parks and Recreation Department. For 
> more information, visitwww.saltpointlansing.org
>  
>  
>  
>  
> 
>  
> Hilary Lambert
> Steward/Executive Director
> Cayuga Lake Watershed Network
> POB 348 Aurora NY 13026
> 
> “It takes a Network to protect a watershed!”
> 
> stew...@cayugalake.org
> www.cayugalake.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> ___
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> c...@pas.rochester.edu
> 
> The Cayuga Lake Watershed Network's  mission is  to protect and improve the 
> ecological health, economic vitality and overall beauty of our watershed 
> through education, communication and leadership.

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Stark coral warning issued by scientists | Reuters.com

[Regi Teasley]

Why we must work harder to limit climate change

https://www.reuters.com/video/2018/01/25/stark-coral-warning-issued-by-scientists?videoId=388600476=118065=Moments+of+Innovation

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Ex-EPA chief: Agency will need '20 to 30' years to recover from Pruitt | TheHill

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FYI

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/369934-ex-epa-administrator-epa-will-need-20-to-30-years-to-recover-from

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: November 2017 was the third warmest November on record

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FYI

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2666/november-2017-was-the-third-warmest-november-on-record/

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] France bans fracking and oil extraction in all of its territories

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FYI

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/20/france-bans-fracking-and-oil-extraction-in-all-of-its-territories?CMP=share_btn_link

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] the complexity of cultural evolution

[Regi Teasley]

Amen to Melissa's points.  Think of Alta Mira, Lascaux, etc. and the quote 
attributed to Emma Goldman, "If I can't dance"

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Dec 8, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Melissa Tuckey <meltuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If I might add-- because it often is forgotten-- the arts are part of how we 
> create culture and culture is how we interact with the environment. Within 
> the arts-- language is how we know the world. We cannot have systemic and 
> sustainable change without the arts.  The arts create community and give us 
> new eyes to see the world.  They give us access to imagination and empathy.  
> Through the arts we are able to think beyond the confines of this moment.  At 
> a time when corporate propaganda is playing 24- 7 on our news, the arts offer 
> resistance, revitalized language and perspective, access to critical 
> thinking.
> 
> And yes, interdisciplinary work is necessary-- we no longer get to play the 
> game of one thing being more important than another. Every single thing 
> matters, all at once. It always did.  
> 
> 
> Melissa Tuckey
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Tony Del Plato <tonydelpl...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> It's all about ecology. The relationship between economics culture 
>> environment everything
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 8, 2017 11:21 AM, "Regi Teasley" <rltcay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Environmental Sociology and Cultural Geography should be part of the 
>>> conversation. Interdisciplinary work can be very fruitful.
>>> Perhaps, like massive stars, some species (ahem)  have dazzling, short 
>>> lives.
>>> 
>>> Regi
>>> 
>>> "Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love 
>>> everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 7, 2017, at 9:23 PM, Ben Haller <bhal...@mac.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>   That’s a neat question.  Nowadays there are some schools offering 
>>>> degrees in sustainability studies; I’m not sure what that actually 
>>>> constitutes, in terms of what you do academically.  In any case, back when 
>>>> I was 18 that didn’t exist.  :->  Back then – maybe economics?  That’s 
>>>> what it all really comes down to, in my opinion.  Economics encompasses 
>>>> all sorts of questions about what humans prefer and value, where those 
>>>> preferences come from and what influences them, how those preferences 
>>>> interact with politics, and how it ends up structuring society.  And 
>>>> that’s where the solutions likely reside, too, in my opinion, because in 
>>>> the end most people respond to incentives.  If the economic structure of 
>>>> society rewards them for selfishness, pollution, etc., then that is what 
>>>> most people will end up doing.  If it rewards them for sharing, recycling, 
>>>> etc., then that is what most people will end up doing.  So the things that 
>>>> I think are likely to provide real solutions will come from economics – 
>>>> things like a carbon tax, things that manipulate the incentives to which 
>>>> people respond.  But I agree that it would really have to end up being 
>>>> multi-discliplinary; maybe economics with minors in ecology, sociology, 
>>>> and political theory?  :->
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> -B.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 8, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Joe Nolan <jcn_ith...@twc.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Interesting. Speaks to a question I've long pondered, which is, if I 
>>>>> could go back to being 18 and wanted to study the overall human-planet 
>>>>> relationship and how to improve it, what academic field would I enter? It 
>>>>> seems the academic factions have been calcified for so long that there's 
>>>>> really nobody studying this most-important-of-all phenomena. A few 
>>>>> isolated philosophy or anthropology classes maybe? I suppose ecological 
>>>>> economics, as far as that goes - but as far as I'm aware it doesn't 
>>>>> address the cultural issues that Joe Brewer is talking about.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 12/6/2017 7:25 PM, Gay Nicholson wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> >I'd like to recommend an article on cultural evolution by Joe Brewer.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Coordinator, Eco-Justice Poetry Project
> Split This Rock

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] the complexity of cultural evolution

[Regi Teasley]

Environmental Sociology and Cultural Geography should be part of the 
conversation. Interdisciplinary work can be very fruitful.
Perhaps, like massive stars, some species (ahem)  have dazzling, short lives.

Regi

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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Dec 7, 2017, at 9:23 PM, Ben Haller  wrote:
> 
>   That’s a neat question.  Nowadays there are some schools offering degrees 
> in sustainability studies; I’m not sure what that actually constitutes, in 
> terms of what you do academically.  In any case, back when I was 18 that 
> didn’t exist.  :->  Back then – maybe economics?  That’s what it all really 
> comes down to, in my opinion.  Economics encompasses all sorts of questions 
> about what humans prefer and value, where those preferences come from and 
> what influences them, how those preferences interact with politics, and how 
> it ends up structuring society.  And that’s where the solutions likely 
> reside, too, in my opinion, because in the end most people respond to 
> incentives.  If the economic structure of society rewards them for 
> selfishness, pollution, etc., then that is what most people will end up 
> doing.  If it rewards them for sharing, recycling, etc., then that is what 
> most people will end up doing.  So the things that I think are likely to 
> provide real solutions will come from economics – things like a carbon tax, 
> things that manipulate the incentives to which people respond.  But I agree 
> that it would really have to end up being multi-discliplinary; maybe 
> economics with minors in ecology, sociology, and political theory?  :->
> 
> Cheers,
> -B.
> 
> 
>> On Dec 8, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Joe Nolan  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Interesting. Speaks to a question I've long pondered, which is, if I could 
>> go back to being 18 and wanted to study the overall human-planet 
>> relationship and how to improve it, what academic field would I enter? It 
>> seems the academic factions have been calcified for so long that there's 
>> really nobody studying this most-important-of-all phenomena. A few isolated 
>> philosophy or anthropology classes maybe? I suppose ecological economics, as 
>> far as that goes - but as far as I'm aware it doesn't address the cultural 
>> issues that Joe Brewer is talking about.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/6/2017 7:25 PM, Gay Nicholson wrote:
>> 
>> >I'd like to recommend an article on cultural evolution by Joe Brewer.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Why are America's farmers killing themselves in record numbers? | US news | The Guardian

[Regi Teasley]

Folks,
 Since we need our farmers, we need new models to allow them to live their 
lives
free of the burden of debt and the insecurity of the harvest.  CSAs are a good 
start.  Can we do better?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/06/why-are-americas-farmers-killing-themselves-in-record-numbers

Regi 

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] We are 'fringe activists' because we are willing to face climate reality

[Regi Teasley]

Thank you for this.  Very informative.

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Nov 30, 2017, at 10:00 PM, Gay Nicholson  wrote:
> 
> Recommended reading:
> 
> http://www.naturalgasintel.com/articles/112553-new-yorks-natgas-industry-still-on-defense-as-enviros-step-up-fight
> 
> Please get familiar with the industry reps' perspectives on us.  Love that 
> they think all of us changed our t-shirts when we stopped being Occupy Wall 
> Street activists!  Typical dismissive and self-congratulatory rhetoric in 
> this fossil media outlet.
> 
> --
> Gay Nicholson, Ph.D.
> President
> Sustainable Tompkins
> 309 N. Aurora St.
> Ithaca, NY 14850
> www.sustainabletompkins.org
> 607-533-7312 (home office)
> 607-220-8991 (cell)
> 607-272-1720 (ST office)
> 
> g...@sustainabletompkins.org

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Community Solar Heads for Rooftops of NYC’s Public Housing Projects | InsideClimate News

[Regi Teasley]

Could a similar arrangement work here?  We certainly have plenty of large 
rooftops.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22112017/community-solar-new-york-city-public-housing-projects-nycha-solstice?utm_source=InsideClimate+News_campaign=5eab681ed7-Weekly+Newsletter_medium=email_term=0_29c928ffb5-5eab681ed7-327821149

Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Climate Change Is Coming for Your Pumpkin Pie - Bloomberg

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-24/climate-change-is-coming-for-your-pumpkin-pie


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: Wind and Solar Power Advance, but Carbon Refuses to Retreat

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/business/climate-carbon-renewables.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

As the United Nations convenes a climate conference in Bonn, leaders might 
consider whether phasing out nuclear energy is doing more harm than good.



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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] CCE Tompkins’ Green Buildings Open House Sure to Inspire

[Regi Teasley]

Hi Folks,
Remember the part about how diversity is fundamental to the future we are 
trying to build?  I have been to the Green buildings Open House and it's great. 
 Let's get on track.

Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Sep 13, 2017, at 8:44 AM, Miranda Phillips  wrote:
> 
> It's fantastic that this tour is back.  Many thanks to all involved in making 
> it happen! 
> 
> A request for next year:
> 
> I would love to go this year but can't, since Sept. 30 is Yom Kippur.  I know 
> one has to juggle lots of factors, and too hard to make perfect for all who 
> want to come.  I'm just mentioning so that next year the Jewish holidays 
> might be considered, even if perhaps not possible to avoid.
> 
> All best,
> 
> Miranda
> 
>> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Sasha Paris  
>> wrote:
>> Article at 
>> https://sustainabletompkins.org/signs-of-sustainability/tompkins-weekly-column/cce-tompkins-green-buildings-open-house-sure-to-inspire/
>> 
>> CCE Tompkins’ Green Buildings Open House Sure to Inspire
>> 
>> Tompkins Weekly 9-11-17
>> By Guillermo Metz
>> 
>> It’s back! After taking a couple of years off to focus on other work, 
>> Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County is bringing back the Green 
>> Buildings Open House. For one day, Saturday, September 30, you can visit 
>> homes throughout Tompkins County that feature the latest and time-honored 
>> green building methods, materials and technologies.
>> 
>> The one-day format represents a departure, returning to the early years of 
>> the tour, which has been running locally for more than 15 years. During that 
>> time, many green building features that would have been really exceptional 
>> have become mainstream, like solar and above-code energy-efficient 
>> construction. That’s great news for our community!
>> 
>> 
>> While it’s become harder to really wow visitors, this tour has something 
>> exciting for everyone, showcasing a variety of strategies for building or 
>> renovating to create very energy-efficient, functional, comfortable homes 
>> that promote environmental sustainability and human health. Highlights of 
>> the showcase include super energy-efficient rehabs, tiny houses, a gorgeous 
>> timber-framed straw bale 5,000-square-foot zero-net-energy addition, the 
>> latest super-high-efficiency heat pump air and water heaters, Passive House 
>> construction, living roofs, a residential-scale wind turbine (with on-grid 
>> battery backup!), and creative reuse of salvaged materials – everyone is 
>> sure to come away awed and inspired. At many of the sites, homeowners will 
>> be joined by builders or system installers to help explain all the green 
>> features and answer all your questions.
>> 
>> Building green has a range of benefits both locally and globally, including 
>> environmental, social, and economic. Green buildings use fewer resources 
>> throughout their lifespans, particularly energy and water; they have 
>> improved indoor air quality compared to traditional buildings; they use 
>> local and reclaimed building materials; they are made and furnished with 
>> products that contain fewer toxic chemicals; they have reduced day-to-day 
>> costs year after year; and they are easier to keep cool in the summer, warm 
>> in the winter, and comfortable year-round.
>> 
>> Participants are welcome to visit homes at their leisure anytime between 10 
>> a.m. and 4 p.m., with a few exceptions (visit CCETompkins.org/gboh for full 
>> details). Descriptions of each home on the tour, as well as maps, are on our 
>> website. You can also pick up a free full-color fold-out brochure the week 
>> before the tour at locations throughout Tompkins County (check the web site 
>> for locations or call Cooperative Extension at (607) 272-2292, ext. 185).
>> 
>> The tour is free and everyone is welcome – but please consider supporting 
>> CCE’s green building program by donating through the donation boxes found at 
>> each site the day of the tour. Most of the homes featured in this year’s 
>> tour are all-new to the event, but we’ll also be revisiting a few perennial 
>> favorites. For more information, visit CCETompkins.org/gboh or our Facebook 
>> page. Invite all your friends, and please help spread the word!
>> 
>> And please share rides: Fill up your car, slash your carbon emissions, and 
>> make your green buildings tour more meaningful and social. Coordinate rides 
>> with friends, family and neighbors – and, if you’re able, please post on our 
>> Facebook event page to connect with a possible ride or riders.
>> 
>> Guillermo Metz is Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County’s Energy 
>> Team Leader, and has been coordinating the Open House since 2009.
>> 
>> Sasha Paris
>> Office Assistant
>> Sustainable Tompkins
>> 309 N. Aurora Street
>> Ithaca, 

[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S.

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

The report directly contradicts Trump administration claims about global 
warming and concludes that temperatures have risen rapidly since 1980.


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Industrial meat production is killing our seas. It's time to change our diets | Environment | The Guardian

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/04/meat-industry-gulf-mexico-dead-zones-pollution


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Wind, solar do not harm power grid reliability: draft U.S. study

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-energy-study-idUSKBN1A221U


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot For Humans?

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans-annotated.html


Regi
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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Fossil hunting?

[Regi Teasley]

Ask at the Museum of the Earth.

Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Jul 2, 2017, at 8:22 PM, Patricia Haines  wrote:
> 
> Where's a good place to find fossils near here? My daughter and her family 
> are coming to visit, and my son-in-law and grandchildren are keen to find 
> fossils.
> 
> Patricia Haines Gooding

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] 95-Degree Days: How Extreme Heat Could Spread Across the World - The New York Times

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

https://nyti.ms/2sT7Npp

Regi

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] The U.S. Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History. Will It Walk Away From the Paris Climate Deal? - The New York Times

[Regi Teasley]

Useful information.

https://nyti.ms/2spmOvO


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: BIG win in the Finger Lakes - Organizing Power of Mothers!!!

[Regi Teasley]

Go MOF!!

Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Mothers Out Front - Finger Lakes, NY" 
> <lisa.marsh...@mothersoutfront.org>
> Date: May 25, 2017 at 8:02:07 PM EDT
> To: Regi Teasley Ph.D. <rltcay...@gmail.com>
> Subject: BIG win in the Finger Lakes - Organizing Power of Mothers!!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regi -- 
> 
> Big win today for Mothers Out Front - Finger Lakes
> Mothers Protect: Community - Children - Climate!
> 
> After six months of concerted organizing efforts, the Finger Lakes Community 
> Team had a HUGE win today in its efforts to block the Dominion New Market gas 
> expansion.
> 
> Just as Dominion Transmission was breaking ground to install new equipment at 
> the Borger Compressor in the Town of Dryden, Town Supervisor, Jason Leifer 
> and the Town of Dryden informed the Virginia-based gas giant that they were 
> revoking two local permits and requiring Dominion to apply for a Special Use 
> Permit in order to carry out expected modifications. This decision on the 
> part of the town throws a monkey wrench into Dominion's plans for expanding 
> the volume of gas flowing through this site by 100,000,000 cubic feet per day.
> 
> http://www.ithaca.com/news/dominion-pipeline-project-delayed-for-now/article_9654d592-4178-11e7-919a-cfc5ad497d57.html
> 
> Please sign this “Thank You” card to Supervisor Leifer and the Dryden Town 
> Board for having the moral courage to stand up to Dominion. The Town of 
> Dryden was “out front” on banning fracking and is now taking a stand on gas 
> expansion.
> 
> Mothers Out Front volunteers did research, met with allies, held community 
> meetings, tabled at events, canvassed door-to-door, met with elected 
> officials from Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton to members of the Tompkins County 
> Legislature to the Tompkins County Department of Health. Mothers showed up 
> and spoke at Town Board meetings and met individually with members of the 
> Dryden Town Board. We also launched a monitoring campaign in Ellis Hollow, 
> including air quality testing and a health study of local residents. We did 
> this out of concern for the health and safety of local residents and also out 
> of concern about the climate impact of further gas expansion in New York.
> 
> One week ago, Governor Cuomo released a 25-step methane reduction plan for 
> New York State as part of his commitment to reduce greenhouse gases by 40% by 
> 2030. Yet, in January, he approved the Dominion New Market gas expansion 
> which allows Dominion to emit hundreds of thousands of tons of additional 
> greenhouse gases each year, not counting the inevitable leaks. This makes no 
> sense!
> 
> CALL GOVERNOR CUOMO at: 1-518-474-8390
> 
> Tell the governor that a livable climate for all children should be his top 
> priority! 
> Ask that he rescind the flawed air quality permits for the Dominion New 
> Market gas expansion!
> Ask issue stop work orders for CPV and Cricket Valley, two brand new 
> gas-fired power plants now under construction in New York which will lock us 
> into increased gas transmissions along two major NY pipelines, Dominion and 
> Millennium for decades to come!
> 
> 
> House party on November 10, 2016
> 
> 
> Meeting with Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton in February
> 
> Team co-coordinators Katie and Lizzy accept the "Signs of Sustainability 
> Award" from Sustainable Tompkins on April 29, 2017 
> 
> 
> 
> Canvassing door-to-door with our informational brochure during the month of 
> March
> Mothers Out Front  would like to thank our allies and supporters both locally 
> and all along the pipeline who helped us to get this win including: Otsego 
> 2000, Toxics Targeting, Fossil Free Tompkins, Dryden Resource Awareness 
> Coalition (DRAC), Sustainable Tompkins, Cayuga Water Protectors, Sane Energy 
> Project, Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Madison County Preservation, and Mohawk 
> Valley Keeper.
> 
> If you live in Dryden or the surrounding area:
> 
> ATTEND COMMUNITY MEETING hosted by Mothers Out Front- Fingerlakes to plan 
> next steps related to Borger expansion on June 5th, 7:00-9:00pm at the Varna 
> Fire Hall in Varna, NY.
> 
> 
> Our Four-Pronged Strategy:
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-releases-plan-cut-methane-emissions
> 
> http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/money/companies/2017/03/15/cricket-valley-power-plant-dover-construction/98850210/
> 
> http://www.recordonline.com/news/20170308/cpv-plant-infrastructure-rising-up
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Moth

Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: NFA News #11 (WE WON!!!!)

[Regi Teasley]

Good news.  However, as I read the story, they still plan to transport and 
store propane.
Am I missing something?

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On May 10, 2017, at 10:06 PM, Maura Stephens  wrote:
> 
> Congratulations to everyone who’s worked so hard for so long to fight this 
> insane scheme. Now to stop ALL fossil fuel storage (and distribution, etc.) 
> in NYS. Still, great cause for celebration! You deserve it!
> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> From: Jeremy Alderson 
>> Subject: NFA News #11 (WE WON)
>> Date: May 10, 2017 at 4:44:13 PM EDT
>> To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
>> 
>> It's all over!  Crestwood has announced that they are withdrawing their 
>> permit application for expanded “natural” gas storage on Seneca Lake. ((LPG 
>> storage is still up in the air.) Yes, there could be a catch, but right now 
>> it looks like, well, we've won
>> 
>> I hope this fight will be an inspiration to others around the country.  No 
>> doubt, much will be written about it (one book is already in the works, I'm 
>> told).  And as always happens after a war, the generals will grumble over 
>> who did or didn't do what, but for now, let us just acknowledge our comrades 
>> in this fight, even if we would otherwise be at each other's throats.  There 
>> are too many people who deserve credit to name them all, but I will name a 
>> few.
>> 
>> Gas Free Seneca helped raise the alarm, lobbied Albany, got the legal team 
>> at Earthjustice involved and built up an anti-Crestwood consensus among
>> regional lawmakers.
>> 
>> Peter Mantius and Michael Fitzgerald were steadfast in reporting on this 
>> issue and bringing new facts to light.
>> 
>> The Seneca Pure Waters Association, with attorney Rachel Treicler, were also 
>> involved in the legal proceedings, keeping Crestwood's feet to the fire.
>> 
>> We Are Seneca Lake (WASL) orchestrated the arrests of over 600 people all of 
>> whom get credit for putting themselves on the line in defense of our 
>> beautiful area.  Their cases, ably defended by volunteer attorney Sujata 
>> Gibson, still haven't finished winding their way through the courts.
>> 
>> My now retired volunteer attorney, Jerry Kinchy, was the first lawyer to 
>> step forward and help us in court.  He is an unsung hero of this movement 
>> and deserves a lot more recognition than he has gotten.
>> 
>> The Finger Lakes Wineries, both individually and through their association, 
>> went way out further on a limb than businesses ordinarily go in order to 
>> back this movement.
>> 
>> Maura Stephens, Spike Jones, Jack Ossont and many others at the Coalition to 
>> Protect New York did valuable work (and the CPNY was an early supporter of 
>> the No Frack Almanac, the predecessor to this newsletter).
>> 
>> The Seneca Lake Twelve, kept the civil disobedience rolling before WASL.
>> 
>> And, of course, I couldn't conclude this message without giving a special 
>> shout-out to Susan Walker and Gary Judson for helping me start off the civil 
>> disobedience.  Susan should also be recognized as the first one to 
>> voluntarily go to jail as a way of pressing home the seriousness of our 
>> cause.
>> 
>> There might be another issue or two of this newsletter, because there may be 
>> a couple of details that still need to be wrapped up, but after that, I am 
>> looking forward to being a simple singer-songwriter who don't know nothin' 
>> 'bout nothin'.
>> 
>> That's all folks - or it will be if the gas industry gets it's way -- BUT 
>> NOT THIS TIME!
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Jeremy Weir Alderson
>> Editor & Publisher
>> NFA News
> 

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: [UAFF] Big news at Seneca Lake today!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Regi Teasley]

OK. So they gave up on storing natural gas but they still plan to transport and 
store propane.  A step in the right direction.

Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On May 10, 2017, at 6:46 PM, Irene Weiser  wrote:
> 
> CRESTWOOD DROPS PLANS FOR GAS STORAGE
> 
> WE ARE SENECA LAKE!!
> 
> 
> Irene Weiser
> irene32...@gmail.com
> Brooktondale, NY
> 607-539-6856
> 
> Joy to the world
> All the boys and girls
> Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
> Joy to you and me. 
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Lisa Marshall 
> Date: Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:42 PM
> Subject: [UAFF] Big news at Seneca Lake today!
> To: "" 
> 
> 
> http://www.stargazette.com/story/news/2017/05/10/crestwood-drops-seneca-lake-natural-gas-storage-plans/316228001/
> 
> 
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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Reed coming to W. NY for Saturday May 6th Town Halls

[Regi Teasley]

Hi Folks,
Please note, if you go to Reed's website, it appears there are no phone 
numbers listed.  
They have use virtually the same color for numbers as for background.  
Expand the text and look closely.  Apparently there is no trick he won't play 
on us.
   
Regi

"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On May 5, 2017, at 8:07 PM, Maura Stephens  wrote:
> 
>> See below from the guy who just voted for 24 million people to lose health 
>> care coverage. Ya think he’s been listening at these “town halls”? "Caring 
>> for our veterans" and "creating jobs," indeed! Please share with others in 
>> western NY, part of his ridiculous gerrymandered district, who might be able 
>> to show up and make him squirm. You don’t have to be an expert on all the 
>> issues. This one, which just happened yesterday, should be enough:
> 
>> Reed was one of the seven members of Congress in New York who pushed the 
>> vote in the wrong directions. The others, all also Republicans, who voted to 
>> repeal the Affordable Care Act and strip 24 million people of their health 
>> coverage: John Faso, Claudia Tenney, Elise Stefanik, Lee Zeldin, Pete King, 
>> and Chris Collins. Shame on them all.
> 
>> From: "Congressman Tom Reed" 
>> Subject: Update: May 6th Town Hall notification
>> Date: May 5, 2017 at 12:14:51 PM EDT
>> To: 
>> 
>> Click here to open this e-mail in its own browser window   Click here to 
>> open a plain text version of this email
>> News from Congressman Reed
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>  HomeBiography   Contact Serving You 23rd District   Media   
>> 115th Congress  
>> Reed to Host Three Town Hall Meetings Across District on May 6th
>> 
>> Dear Neighbor,
>> 
>> We are committed to fighting for the issues that matter to you. From 
>> creating jobs to caring for our veterans, I want to hear your thoughts on 
>> how we can solve the issues facing our region. Please share your ideas at 
>> one of our town halls. 
>> 
>> Town halls will be held Saturday, May 6 as follows:
>> 
>> 9:00 AM - 10: 00 AM, West Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Station 1, 4741 Willow Rd, 
>> Dunkirk, NY 14048
>> 
>> 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Busti Fire Department, 886 Mill Rd, Jamestown, NY 14701
>> 
>> 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Hinsdale Fire Department Hall, 3832 Main St, Hinsdale, NY 
>> 14743
>> 
>> If you are unable to attend, please stay in touch by calling any of our 
>> offices, visiting our website, posting on our Facebook page, and following 
>> us on Twitter or Instagram where we can continue our conversation
>> 
>> Have a wonderful week,
>> 
>>  
>> Congressman Tom Reed
>> NY-23
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  Washington, DC 
>> 2437 Rayburn HOB 
>> Washington
>> DC 20515
>> 202-225-3161  Corning, NY 
>> 89 W Market St
>> Corning
>> NY 14830
>> 607-654-7566  Olean, NY 
>> One Bluebird Square
>> Olean
>> NY 14760
>> 716-379-8434  Geneva, NY 
>> 433 Exchange St
>> Geneva
>> NY 14456
>> 315-759-5229 Jamestown, NY 
>> 2 East 2nd St
>> Suite 208
>> Jamestown
>> NY 14701 
>> 716-708-6369  Ithaca, NY 
>> 401 E State St
>> Suite 304-1
>> Ithaca, NY 14850 
>> 607-222-2027 
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> [$$$Survey.2100160$$$]
>> 
> 

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: Trump Is Expected to Sign Orders That Could Expand Access to Fossil Fuels

[Regi Teasley]

Ha ha.  To err is human.

As for the weekly vigil for human rights and the environment and against the 
abuse of power, it's each Sunday from 12:30 to 1:30 on the Commons by the Dr. 
Martin Luther King memorial.  That's near Cayuga Street.  It's open to anyone 
who is interested. 

My friend and former colleague, Eric Patterson and I find it is an opportunity 
to talk with people we might not otherwise meet.  We are retired professors who 
felt this action had value.   

We are planning to make a short list of organizations to help people get 
connected with activities in the area.  Suggestions are welcome.   I have 
recommended Sustainable Tompkins to several people already. 

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Apr 26, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Irene Weiser <irene32...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> well - obviously that was a mistake - 
> OTOH - anyone who wants to join for vigil or coffee is welcome!
> 
> Irene Weiser
> irene32...@gmail.com
> Brooktondale, NY
> 607-539-6856
> 
> Joy to the world
> All the boys and girls
> Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
> Joy to you and me. 
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Irene Weiser <irene32...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ugh.  thanks, regi... well, sorta :)
>> 
>> Say I totally dropped the ball on the vigil and  us getting together for 
>> coffee..  Remind me when do you hold vigil? 
>> 
>> Irene Weiser
>> irene32...@gmail.com
>> Brooktondale, NY
>> 607-539-6856
>> 
>> Joy to the world
>> All the boys and girls
>> Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
>> Joy to you and me. 
>> 
>>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Regi Teasley <rltcay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Trump's policies continue up to jeopardize our biosphere.  Local action is 
>>> more important than ever, imho.
>>> 
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/us/politics/national-monuments-energy-drilling.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share
>>> 
>>> The moves to expand offshore drilling and roll back conservation on public 
>>> lands would begin to fulfill a campaign promise to create thousands of jobs 
>>> in energy.
>>> 
>>> Regi
>>> 
>>> "Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love 
>>> everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> please visit:  http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/
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>>> Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.
>>> 
>> 
> 

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: Florida Earthship School Build 2017

[Regi Teasley]

Looking for a project?

Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Earthship 360 
> Date: April 8, 2017 at 3:09:33 PM EDT
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> Subject: Florida Earthship School Build 2017
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> 
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: Rewilding Siberia with Nikita Zimov and Restoring Ecology in The Eastern Mediterrenean Webinar Replay

[Regi Teasley]

Following up on a previous post about this project
See the other available webinars as well.

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Raleigh Latham" 
> Date: April 8, 2017 at 11:31:40 AM EDT
> To: rltcay...@gmail.com
> Subject: Rewilding Siberia with Nikita Zimov and Restoring Ecology in The 
> Eastern Mediterrenean Webinar Replay
> 
> 
>  
> Hey Everybody,
> Hope you all have a satisfying weekend planned.
> 
> We had a great webinar Thursday with Thomas Fernley-Pearson, who opened his 
> heart and shared his experience with restoring ecology in a dry-climate 
> conflict zone (Palestine).  Thomas endured alot of hardship and failures, but 
> his love of ecology and his love for the people he met allowed him to create 
> lasting permaculture projects which provide livelihoods for families and 
> communities.  For him, restoring Ecology is one of the first steps towards a 
> lasting piece. 
> 
> Along the same path, I'm insanely excited today, because I get to put on a 
> webinar with someone I respect the hell out of, Nikita Zimov...who is taking 
> on one of the worlds greatest existential crises by restoring the ancient 
> grasslands of the Siberian Tundra.
> 
> Nikita is not a rich man, he is not a celebrity, or a well connected person, 
> but his life is shaped by a deep purpose, which he shares with his father, 
> his wife, and his children.  Nikita has dedicated his life to bringing back 
> the lost mammals of the Siberian tundra, so that his grandchildren and ours 
> have a chance to make it into the next century.  
> 
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Sunshine state shuns solar as overcast New York basks in clean energy boom

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/27/solar-power-florida-new-york-renewable-energy-policies?CMP=share_btn_link


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] 'Extreme and unusual' climate trends continue after record 2016 - BBC News

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39329304


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: Spring Amphibians, on the Move, Could Use Some Crossing Guards

[Regi Teasley]

Let's cut them a break.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/science/frogs-salamanders-spring.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

Frogs and salamanders, wakened a bit sooner than usual this year, are walking 
to their mating areas. Volunteers help many make it past perilous traffic.


Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] New map reveals shattering effect of roads on nature | Environment | The Guardian

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/15/new-map-reveals-shattering-effect-of-roads-on-nature

Regi

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] It's time to come together and celebrate!

[Regi Teasley]

Many years ago a disability activist student of mine educated me.  She pointed 
out that the so-called "able-bodied" are actually TABS, temporarily able 
bodied, and the sooner we understood this, the better it would be for all if 
us.  

She was right.

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Dec 7, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Margaret McCasland  wrote:
> 
> I know all the people at the Common Spot think we DO count. It's just that 
> able-bodied people tend not to think about physical challenges that others 
> face. And many of us with mobility limitations do not use wheel chairs, so a 
> roundabout route to an elevator can be just as challenging as a set of stairs.
> 
> Margaret [who will not be attending because those stairs exhaust me, tho I 
> have learned the ones inside Petrune are easier to navigate].
> 
> 
>> On Dec 7, 2016, at 6:25 PM, senecaj...@aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> I've run into that situation too often. Kinda makes you think people with 
>> disabilities don't count
>>  
>> Jeanne
>>  
>> In a message dated 12/7/2016 1:35:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
>> mari...@blair-richards.com writes:
>> Gay 
>> 
>> Please note I will not be attending because the CommonSpot is not disability 
>> friendly. Would love to attend - but for me, it would have to be in a 
>> different location.
>> 
>> Best
>> Marissa
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Gay Nicholson [mailto:gaynichol...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 12:07 AM
>> To: 'ST list'
>> Subject: [sustainable_tompkins-l] It's time to come together and celebrate!
>> 
>> The Green Resource Hub is hosting a holiday party this Saturday evening for 
>> the sustainability-minded!  Register soon!
>> 
>> --
>> Gay Nicholson, Ph.D.
>> President
>> Sustainable Tompkins
>> 309 N. Aurora St.
>> Ithaca, NY 14850
>> www.sustainabletompkins.org
>> 607-533-7312 (home office)
>> 607-220-8991 (cell)
>> 607-272-1720 (ST office)
>> 
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] The Areas America Could Abandon First - Bloomberg View

[Regi Teasley]

FYI
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-29/the-areas-america-could-abandon-first


Regi
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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: In Light of the Election

[Regi Teasley]

Thanks for forwarding this.  
She may want to start by reaching out to Sustainable Tompkins.  
Of course, Sandra Steingraber, at IC, is a leader with local and national 
connections.  Barbara Lifton is also someone from whom she can learn a great 
deal.
Some of the faculty at ESF in Syracuse might be very good contacts.
There are many others in town who are knowledgeable and experienced but this is 
a start.

As labor activist Joe Hill was reported to have said, "Don't mourn. Organize!"

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Nov 12, 2016, at 3:17 PM, Anna Kelles  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I know you are all busy but could you please take a look at the email below 
> from a student at Cornell.  I would love to invite her to local initiatives 
> and I also want to provide her with state and national movements right now.  
> Any suggestions, thoughts, links would be helpful.  I want to get back to her 
> soon but I need all of your help because I have 36 hours to create an entire 
> lecture that I haven't been able to start yet as my heart and focus has been 
> on reacting to and recovering from Tuesday.  I have my own ideas to share but 
> would love all of yours too!!
> 
> With all my heart thank you!!
> 
> Anna
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Marina Vergara 
> Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 5:27 PM
> Subject: In Light of the Election
> To: ark...@cornell.edu
> 
> 
> Hi Professor Kelles,
> 
> My name is Marina Vergara, and I am a junior here at Cornell studying 
> Environmental and Sustainability Sciences.  I heard you speak yesterday at 
> the rally downtown, and some of the things you said inspired me to take 
> action.
> 
> Coming into Cornell, I was determined to work in policy, whether it be 
> directly through the government or through non-profit/grassroots 
> organizations.  I wanted to save the world, I wanted to find solutions.  I 
> still do, however, from then until now, I have become a little lost as to the 
> best way to do this.
> 
> After learning the results of this year's election, it was incredibly 
> difficult to hold on to hope.  In addition to the horrendous things Donald 
> Trump says and believes about the Muslim, LGBTQ and Latinx community, he is 
> also one of the very few people that I know who still believes climate change 
> is a hoax.  We are at a more pivotal time than ever before with our world's 
> climate, and if no action is taken or if steps are taken in the reverse 
> direction, we may not even have a world for our children to live in (at the 
> very least it will be drastically different than what we see today).
> 
> I am writing to you for guidance and opinions.  What have you found are the 
> most effective ways to get involved politically with regard to our 
> environment? Do you have any suggestions of strong organizations that I can 
> support and/or become a part of? What are some of your next steps?
> 
> I know these are loaded questions, and you are super busy, but any ideas at 
> all, if anything just a few quick words or links, would be incredibly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Thank you so much in advance!
> 
> Best,
> Marina Vergara
> 

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Oklahoma shaken by strong earthquake causing 'significant' damage

[Regi Teasley]

Earthquake at the "pipeline crossroad."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/07/strong-earthquake-central-oklahoma-damage?CMP=share_btn_link


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Getting to a Zero Carbon Future UCSD

[Regi Teasley]

Hi Folks,
  This was sent to me by my nephew, a UCSD alum.  FYI

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/getting_to_a_zero_carbon_future

Regi

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: We Don’t Need a ‘War’ on Climate Change, We Need a Revolution

[Regi Teasley]

Food for thought.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/opinion/we-dont-need-a-war-on-climate-change-we-need-a-revolution.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

The language of combat obscures the real enemy.


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Bolt cutters expose vulnerability of North America's oil pipeline grid | Reuters

[Regi Teasley]

Untended pipelines.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-canada-pipelines-vulnerabilities-idUSKCN12C0BK


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Hurricane Sandy-level flooding is rising so sharply that it could become normal

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/11/hurricane-flooding-us-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_link

Regi

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Environmental Anniversaries

[Regi Teasley]

Thanks for this.  I grew up in southern Idaho, b. 1952, and probably have 
Strontium 90 in my bones.  Crazy.

Regi 
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Sep 22, 2016, at 6:23 PM, Ryan Clover-Owens  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Nic Belott recently joined the Eco-Defense Radio team as a writer – taking on 
> the anniversaries column. We're so glad to have Nic on the team helping us 
> remember what should never be forgotten.
> First Nuclear Test in Nevada
> US GOV. Says Agent Orange “Safe”
> Occupy Wall Street Begins 
> If members of this list find these anniversaries valuable, I'm happy to 
> continue providing them ;-)
> 
> Oh, and we've got some more cool stuff happening at Eco-Defense Radio, like a 
> podcast we just launched in collaboration with Halt the Harm Network. 
> 
> Here's a link to our newsletter with more details. 
> 
> Take care,
> Ryan
> 

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Catastrophism is as much an obstacle to addressing climate change as denial | openDemocracy

[Regi Teasley]

Interesting piece.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/stephen-jackson/catastrophism-is-as-much-obstacle-to-addressing-climate-change-as-den?utm_source=Daily+Newsletter_campaign=7f9831652f-DAILY_NEWSLETTER_MAILCHIMP_medium=email_term=0_717bc5d86d-7f9831652f-407400235


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification - BBC News

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37265541


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: A Natural Cure for Lyme Disease

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/opinion/sunday/a-natural-cure-for-lyme-disease.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

Infections have surged, and an out-of-whack ecosystem may be to blame.


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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Ithaca Establishes First 2030 District in New York

[Regi Teasley]

This is great.  Very heartening news.

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Aug 15, 2016, at 7:44 PM, Sasha Paris  
> wrote:
> 
> Signs of Sustainability, Tompkins Weekly   8-15-16
> 
> By Peter Bardaglio
> 
> Earlier this summer, 17 local building owners, community partners, and 
> professional stakeholders came together to launch the Ithaca 2030 District. 
> In doing so, Ithaca joined the ranks of 12 other forward-thinking cities in 
> the United States and Canada that are working toward the goal of cleaner and 
> greener commercial buildings.
> 
> 2030 Districts, initiated by the non-profit research organization 
> Architecture 2030, are unique private and public partnerships bringing 
> together property owners and managers to meet the energy and resource 
> reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge for Planning. Through collaboration, 
> leveraged financing, and shared resources, they benchmark, develop and 
> implement creative strategies, and establish best practices and verification 
> methods for measuring progress towards a common goal.
> 
> Thanks to the outstanding work of Sustainable Tompkins, EcoVillage at Ithaca, 
> Local First Ithaca, our local governments, and many other organizations, 
> Ithaca and Tompkins County have long been leaders in sustainability and 
> climate action. The establishment of the Ithaca 2030 District, building on 
> these efforts, places our community in the vanguard of a movement of private 
> sector pioneers coming together to reduce energy use, water use, and 
> transportation emissions. Ithaca joins Albuquerque, Cleveland, Dallas, 
> Denver, Grand Rapids, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, San Francisco, 
> Seattle, Stamford, and Toronto as part of the 2030 Districts Network.
> 
> It is a well-known fact that the built environment – commercial and municipal 
> office buildings as well as multi-family housing – is a large consumer of 
> natural resources and generator of emissions. Indeed, 75 percent of all the 
> electricity produced in the United States is used just to operate buildings, 
> and the building sector is responsible for 45 percent of the nation’s CO2 
> emissions.
> 
> What are the goals of 2030?
> 
> The newly established Ithaca 2030 District will further strengthen our 
> commitment to combat the effects of climate change and, at the same time, 
> spur innovation in our downtown. The recently-implemented Energize NY Finance 
> program, which offers financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy 
> projects in commercially-owned buildings, will help facilitate the building 
> upgrades necessary to meet the goals of the 2030 District movement.
> These include the following:
> 
> Existing Buildings and Infrastructure Operations
> 
> 50% reductions in energy use, water consumption, and transportation emissions 
> by 2030.
> 
> Energy Use: A minimum 10% reduction below the national average by 2015, with 
> incremental targets reaching a 50% reduction by 2030.
> 
> Water Use: A minimum 10% reduction below the District average by 2015, with 
> incremental targets reaching a 50% reduction by 2030.
> 
> Transportation CO2 Emissions: A minimum 10% reduction below the District 
> average by 2015, with incremental targets reaching a 50% reduction by 2030.
> 
> New Buildings, Major Renovations and New Infrastructure
> 
> Immediate 50% reductions in water consumption and transportation emissions, 
> with energy use in the design year reaching carbon neutrality by 2030.
> 
> Energy Use: An immediate 70% reduction below the national average, with 
> incremental targets reaching carbon neutral by 2030.
> 
> Water Use: An immediate 50% reduction below the District average.
> 
> Transportation CO2 Emissions: An immediate 50% reduction below the District 
> average.
> 
> Property owners and managers are voluntarily committing their properties to 
> Ithaca 2030 District goals; they are not required to achieve the District 
> goals through legislative mandates or as individuals.
> 
> Why Ithaca?
> 
> The Ithaca 2030 District got its initial impetus from a 2013 visit by Ed 
> Mazria, the founder and CEO of Architecture 2030, which issued the 2030 
> Challenge. Mr. Mazria was the keynote speaker at HOLT’s 50th anniversary 
> celebration and he met with the members of the Tompkins County Climate 
> Protection Initiative (TCCPI) while he was in town. TCCPI and HOLT began soon 
> after to explore the potential of a 2030 District in Ithaca. With the support 
> of its coalition members, establishing a 2030 District in Ithaca became an 
> official project of TCCPI in 2014.
> 
> The Park Foundation and the New York State Energy Research and Development 
> Authority (NYSERDA), through the Cleaner, Greener Communities program, have 
> provided support to plan and begin building the Ithaca 2030 District. In 
> addition, 

[sustainable_tompkins-l] Environmental records shattered as climate change 'plays out before us' | Environment | The Guardian

[Regi Teasley]

Why we need planning and building for present and future climate change.  
Business as usual is courting disaster.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/02/environment-climate-change-records-broken-international-report?utm_source=esp_medium=Email_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+morning+briefing+2016_term=184502=18127965=ema_a-morning-briefing_b-morning-briefing_c-US_d-1


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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] hundreds of baby raccoons in an unassuming west hill home

[Regi Teasley]

Ha ha.  This happens to you too, eh?


"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Jul 8, 2016, at 12:48 PM, Thomas Shelley  wrote:
> 
> Sorry, folks!  This was a complete mistake.  What happens when you do stuff 
> late at night.  Tom
> 
>> On 7/6/2016 7:07 PM, Thomas Shelley wrote:
>> You have been unsubscribed from the ST list.  Thank your for your interest 
>> in our mailing list.  Tom
>> 
>>> On 7/6/2016 6:02 PM, Jonah Reynolds wrote:
>>> unsubscribe
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jonah Reynolds / jo...@earthship.com / 575-751-0462
>>> Earthship Biotecture / Radically Sustainable Buildings / 
>>> http://www.earthship.com 
>>> 
>>> ". . . the Earthship is the epitome of sustainable design and construction. 
>>> No part of sustainable living has been ignored in this ingenious building.”
>>> 
>>> Earthship Videos: http://earthship.com/videos 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
 On Jul 6, 2016, at 5:31 PM, Ryan Clover-Owens  
 wrote:
 
 Richard Wohlgemuth takes care of hundreds of wild animals, mostly baby 
 raccoons.
 
 Today I was talking to him on the phone and told me he was expecting a 
 knock at any minute to receive another "resident" – and that's because 
 Richard sees raccoons as "little people". 
 
 Listen to Richard's Story on this week's Eco-Defense Radio. Open the page, 
 and click play on the fancy new player.
 
 http://www.ecodefenseradio.org/2016/07/05/this-weeks-eco-defense-radio-news-8/
 
 If you love raccoons, you'll like this.
 
 Also, quick update: We're now featuring our "upcoming guests" on our 
 website, right on the home page! So check it out. We've got an awesome 
 show for you next week.
 
 Best wishes,
 
 Ryan, Shelly, and Kevin
 
 ps. You can actually subscribe to Eco-Defense Radio. Just visit 
 www.ecodefenseradio.org/join
 
 and please check out Richard's website www.wildlifewishingwell.org
> 

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] What about EcoModernism?

[Regi Teasley]

Folks,
   We are trying to find ways forward together.  As a sociologist who has 
pondered society and economy for a long time, I understand that some proposed 
futures are at odds with others.
However, having witnessed some of the fruitless internecine conflicts of 
the Left and the Women's Movement in the US, I learned a few lessons:

How we treat each other on the road we are making does matter.  Kindness and 
deep, 
  hard thinking/talking are natural allies.  
Naïveté in the face of daunting odds can be hard to shake but it offers no 
protection. We 
 must be brave enough to be clear-eyed.
We are a social species (re)creating our social world through our interactions 
and 
  beliefs/understandings/worldview.  
We are all we have to get this right and the clock is ticking.
Might I add, hearing others pontificate is tiring.  So, that's it for me.

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Jul 1, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Ben Haller  wrote:
> 
>   Hi Karl.  I am feeling rather attacked here, and I am under no obligation 
> to act as some sort of spokesman for eco-modernism – particularly under 
> attack.  You are putting words in my mouth, and you are adopting the tone of 
> an interrogation rather than a friendly conversation.  Is this how you talk 
> to everyone with whom you disagree?  Well, in any case, since I am far from 
> the only eco-modernist in the world, I have no doubt that you can find 
> discussion of all the points you raise online.  I have no interest in 
> engaging in an adversarial and unproductive argument with a partisan who has 
> a chip on his shoulder.  Good luck to you.
> 
> Cheers,
> -B.
> 
> 
>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Karl S North  wrote:
>> 
>> ​​
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Sustainability in Tompkins County digest 
>>  wrote:
>>> Subject: Re: Guess what, we can change our light bulbs again
>>> From: Ben Haller 
>>> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:41:41 -0400
>>> X-Message-Number: 3
>>> 
>>>   Hi Miranda!  This sentence jumped out at me:
>>> 
>>> "That's one reason I like a carbon tax: a financial nudge to everyone to 
>>> power down, whether they want to or not.”
>>> 
>>>   I was amused, because I tend to see a carbon tax through the opposite 
>>> lens: as a financial nudge to the system, to adjust itself in such a manner 
>>> that people don’t need to power down in order to achieve sustainability.  I 
>>> think I come from a much more “eco-modernist” 
>>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecomodernism) perspective than many on this 
>>> list.  But we are agreed that a carbon tax would be helpful, whichever kind 
>>> of nudge it provides (and really it probably provides both!).  :->
>> 
>> ​Ben, 
>> 
>> As you have been graciously transparent as to your "eco-modernist" 
>> perspective, it might be instructive to list readers if you would be willing 
>> to address some of the criticism of that viewpoint. According to the 
>> wikipedia link you provided, the view is that  judicious use of technology, 
>> its synthetic solutions to ecological services and fossil fuels to ramp up 
>> nuclear and other non-fossil alternative energy will permit the modern 
>> industrial economy to continue forever as the fossil energy era ends. Here 
>> are some of the main criticisms of that view. 
>> 
>> 1. The well-documented dangers of reliance on nuclear power despite the 
>> cover-up of disasters like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and now Fukushima.
>> 
>> 2. The fact that the fuel for nuclear energy is non-renewable and fast 
>> depleting, like fossil fuels. Use of breeder technologies to extend peak 
>> uranium historically have been rare because of the great expense and dangers 
>> involved. 
>> 
>> 3. Electricity from nuclear or other sources cannot economically power heavy 
>> use requirements in industry and transportation. 
>> 
>> 4. Technological solutions typically add immensely to energy consumption at 
>> a time when industrial societies already lack the energy even to maintain 
>> infrastructure (keep up with entropy) and are currently using increasing 
>> debt (theft from the future) as a prop. Nuclear power is an example. 
>> Currently nuclear power provides 6% of global energy consumption. Where is 
>> the immense cost of ramping up nuclear to replace the bulk of fossil energy 
>> going to come from?
>> 
>> ​5. Technological solutions typically breed more problems over time than 
>> they solve. The reason is that most of the science they rely on is the 
>> result of the reductive/laboratory method: looking at a small set of 
>> relations that deliberately ignores the ripple effects that are bound to 
>> happen once the technology is introduced in the real world. 
>> 
>> 6. Continued energy consumption at current levels perpetuates the rapid 
>> depletion of 

Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Guess what, we can change our light bulbs again

[Regi Teasley]

Maybe this would be the time to ask a question I have been pondering for some 
time.

When we talk about replacing fossil fuels with renewables, do we foresee 
renewable energy powering heavy equipment, railroad train engines, steel mills, 
airplanes, container ships, etc. ?  
Or do we assume that extraction, production and transportation will be very 
different, on a smaller scale and more regional or local?

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Jun 26, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Ben Haller  wrote:
> 
>   An interesting question to which I’m going to give an overkill answer, 
> since I was curious enough to do a bit of math and thinking on it.  Maybe 
> somebody will find this interesting, probably not.  :->
> 
>   I’ve never seen a proper lifetime analysis of different types of bulbs, but 
> it seems like a reasonable bet that the energy used over the usage lifetime 
> of the bulb greatly outweighs the energy and resources used in the bulb’s 
> manufacture.  One key quote in this article is thus:
> 
> "Usually traditional light bulbs are only about five per cent efficient, with 
> 95 per cent of the energy being lost to the atmosphere. In comparison LED or 
> florescent bulbs manage around 14 per cent efficiency. But the scientists 
> believe that the new bulb could reach efficiency levels of 40 per cent.”
> 
>   These figures would *seem* to indicate quite strongly that it is worth 
> switching from traditional incandescents to LED or fluorescent bulbs; you get 
> almost three times the light output for a given energy usage (because 14 is 
> almost 3 times 5).  And one could draw the same inference regarding switching 
> from LED to the new bulbs, since that is again about a threefold improvement 
> (because 40 is almost 3 times 14).
> 
>   But when you’ve already got a working bulb in hand, throwing it away to get 
> a new bulb is of course only worthwhile if the improvement is sufficiently 
> large; this is Tom’s point in his question.  If the new bulbs ever actually 
> materialize commercially and if they really do achieve 40 percent efficiency 
> (both big “if”s), it *might* again be worth it to switch from LED/fluorescent 
> to them; but is the improvement really sufficiently large to justify the 
> resource investment represented by the switch in bulbs?
> 
>   Looking at prices helps illuminate this, because prices are generally a 
> decent proxy for resource/energy usage.  (They are an underestimate, since 
> they don’t include the negative externality effects of CO2 emissions involved 
> in resource extraction and energy use, but that should affect all of the 
> prices here more or less proportionally, so it shouldn’t bias our analysis 
> much.)  The market price of a bulb is a decent proxy for the energy and 
> resources that went into manufacturing the bulb; more precisely, it provides 
> an upper bound, since if $5 of energy went into making a bulb the bulb will 
> presumably not then be priced at less than $5.  The prices quoted in the 
> article are thus helpful:
> 
> "The Energy Saving Trust calculates that typical living room usage of a 
> 60-watt incandescent lightbulb over a year would cost £7.64. Using an 
> equivalent energy efficient fluorescent or 'CFL' lightbulb would cost £1.53 
> per year, while an LED would cost just £1.27.  But if the new bulbs live up 
> to expectations they would cost under 50p a year to run.”
> 
>   So switching from old incandescent to LED saves you £7.64 - £1.27 = £6.37 
> per year, and the new bulb pays for itself in a year or so; a very big win, 
> as expected.  Switching from LED to the new bulb would save you £1.27 - £0.50 
> = £0.77, and it might take roughly ten years for the new bulb to pay for 
> itself (assuming it costs a similar amount to LED bulbs); a much less big 
> win, but since LED bulbs are supposed to last more than ten years on average, 
> probably still a win.  It’s clearly on the margin of being worthwhile, 
> though, so a proper lifetime analysis would be helpful; on the other hand, 
> since it is a “wobbler” it really probably doesn’t matter much one way or the 
> other.
> 
>   (If you wanted to go up a level of complexity in the analysis, we can 
> expect the negative externalities surrounding energy production to decrease 
> over time, since we are shifting away from fossil fuels toward renewables.  
> The energy used *now* to make a new bulb is thus more dirty than the energy 
> that would be used years from now to power the bulb, suggesting that 
> “wobblers” like this should be decided in favor of postponing our energy use 
> into the future – and thus we should not buy the new bulb.  Ignoring the 
> negative externalities associated with energy/resource production only really 
> works if those externalities are constant over time, which they are not.  But 
> doing the math to account for this is 

Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Building homes for the post-fossil fuel era

[Regi Teasley]

Thank you for these responses.  
Yes, "net-zero" should include the lifecycle energy requirements.  But then, 
our beef is probably not with Ecovillage which aims for energy conservation.  
Half a loaf...etc.   
 
Of course all these efforts are coming about forty years too late and, God 
bless him, Jimmy Carter was right.  Still, what are we to do?

I say we make every feasible effort to develop better ways of living on our 
beloved planet and learn as we go.  Our grandchildren deserve no less.  Nature 
will sort out what, if anything, works.

That's my two bits.

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Jun 23, 2016, at 11:42 AM, Thomas Shelley  wrote:
> 
> Hi, Karl.  This is a great response.  Even those promoting the 
> "net-zero-energy" concept are clueless re embodied energy in their fancy, 
> high-end homes and life-styles in general.We are going to hell in a hand 
> basket, as Dad used to say.  I hope all is well up North.  All is well here 
> and getting better.  My wife and I just sold our Collegetown rental property 
> which is a great relief as it was a real stone about the leg.  I now have a 
> lot more time for gardening and art work and things I have been putting off 
> for years.  I still have in mind to write a TCLocal-style article on embodied 
> energy.  Perhaps I will have time to do this now, as well.  Take care.   Tom
>> On 6/22/2016 1:31 PM,  S North wrote:
>> 
>> ​To describe houses like the Ecovillage one pictured in the article as 
>> "net-zero-energy" is a gross deception of the public because it does not 
>> begin to account for the full life cycle fossil energy costs involved, which 
>> are huge. ​I have designed and currently live in a house that incorporates 
>> most of the elements of the Ecovillage house, but I have studied the 
>> full-scale energy costs, not only to me but to society, so I have no 
>> illusions about such housing, unlike many who are being duped by people who 
>> claim such houses will help save the planet.

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: Obama Fracking Rule Is Struck Down by Court

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/us/politics/hydraulic-fracturing-interior-department-regulations.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

A federal judge in Wyoming said the Interior Department had overreached when it 
issued a regulation for hydraulic fracturing on government-owned lands.


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Renewable energy surges to record levels around the world - BBC News

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36420750


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] World's carbon dioxide concentration teetering on the point of no return

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://gu.com/p/4j4vk/sbl


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: Just How Much Power Do Your Electronics Use When They Are ‘Off’?

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/science/just-how-much-power-do-your-electronics-use-when-they-are-off.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

About a quarter of most people’s energy bills come from devices in idle mode. A 
reporter took a power meter around with her to locate the hidden power drains.

Regi

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] TTIP: we were right all along | openDemocracy

[Regi Teasley]

I thought this would be of interest.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/thomas-fazi/ttip-we-were-right-all-along?utm_source=Daily+Newsletter_campaign=fe7c48469f-DAILY_NEWSLETTER_MAILCHIMP_medium=email_term=0_717bc5d86d-fe7c48469f-407400235


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, operator says | Reuters

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclearpower-cyber-germany-idUSKCN0XN2OS


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Exxon Mobil Loses Top Credit Rating It Held Since Depression

[Regi Teasley]

Weakening Titans?

Exxon Mobil Loses Top Credit Rating It Held Since Depression
By Joe Carroll
http://bloom.bg/1YRVm3M
Bloomberg


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] The Great Grief: How To Cope with Losing Our World

[Regi Teasley]

This may be of interest.
Also, I read sometime back about a "grief cairn" being created stone by stone ( 
in The UK, I think) as people visited and revisited placing stones symbolizing 
their grief and the grave harm being done to the biosphere.  
Of course most of those people were also actively trying to make positive 
changes.  But as humans we probably need special places to share our personal 
and collective mourning.  
Any thoughts?

Link: 
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/14/great-grief-how-cope-losing-our-world?utm_campaign=shareaholic_medium=email_this_

Regi

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Con Ed & Crestwood Form Partnership

[Regi Teasley]

Thanks for posting this.  We knew it wouldn't be easy.
The old order goes out kicking and screaming, but go out it will if we continue 
the struggle.  And how can we not?

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Apr 22, 2016, at 8:34 PM, Tony Del Plato  wrote:
> 
> Looks like we'll have to take on one of the biggest utilities in the nation, 
> if not the world. We may need to start including actions to put heat to the 
> feet of ConEd as well as Crestwood.
> Tony Del Plato
> 
> http://reut.rs/1VmlpC3
> 
> -- 
> “What we have is a spiritual crisis. And our environment is tanking because 
> of the way we’re living and our relationship to the world that supports us. 
> It’s really about falling back in love with the earth.”
> Gordon Hempton

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: A New Dark Age Looms

[Regi Teasley]

Thanks Karl. Well said.

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Apr 21, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Karl S North  wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Sustainability in Tompkins County digest 
>>  wrote:
>> Re: NYTimes: A New Dark Age Looms
> 
> ​
> 
> ​It is good to see recognition of climate change in the NYT. However, the 
> article is typical of mainstream environmentalism's failure to see climate 
> disruption as part of a much larger disruption of the biospheric resource 
> base that supports the current global economy and its ravenous consumption. 
> The larger constellation of related trends includes raw materials​ depletion, 
> extinctions, loss of biodiversity and damage to essential ecosystem processes.
> 
>  
> 
> This larger constellation of damage to the planet is what natural resource 
> and ecosystem scientists refer to when they speak of overshoot of planetary 
> carrying capacity. Their message is not getting out to the public because 
> over-consumption is due to overpopulation and, in particular, per capita 
> consumption in the rich countries 5-6 times higher than generally in the 
> global south. Few are willing to acknowledge these causes
> 
> ​ of overconsumption​, so we focus narrowly on climate disruption.
>  
> 
> Also the trend to overshoot is a long term continuous process, which makes it 
> less dramatic and therefore less visible. The gradual decline in growth in 
> the global economy in the last four decades is a symptom. Declining growth 
> and purchasing power collides with increasing resource scarcity and cost, 
> setting up an oscillation in prices of basic commodities like fuel and 
> minerals that affects the whole industrial economy. Gasoline prices are an 
> example. Ever higher prices in the US led to demand destruction: it rendered 
> some fuel consumption unaffordable for the large wage-earning class whose 
> income is dropping anyway as the economy weakened. Lower consumption then 
> caused a glut of supply, lowering gas prices, but lower prices no longer 
> stimulate demand as much as they used to.
> 
>  
> 
> Depletion never sleeps, as the oil geologists say, so the roller coaster of 
> oscillation between permanently increasing raw materials costs and demand 
> destruction with its deflationary effect is likely to continue as long as 
> laissez-faire policies rule our economy. Over time, however, the ultimate 
> consequence of rising energy and other resource costs is decline of the 
> industrial economy, worldwide
> 
> ​, and a standard of living that falls until consumption is again within 
> carrying capacity. 
>  
> 
> Mainstream economists refuse to acknowledge the consequences of depletion and 
> other ecological damage, so their explanations of these phenomena are grossly 
> misleading the public. The public, for its part, prefers to remain willfully 
> ignorant, because an end to the industrial era is unacceptable: the American 
> way of life is non-negotiable, as our leaders assure us.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Karl North -  http://karlnorth.com/
> "Pueblo que canta no morira" - Cuban saying
> "They only call it class warfare when we fight back" - Anon.
> "My father rode a camel. I drive a car. My son flies a jet-plane. His son 
> will ride a camel."
>  —Saudi saying

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: A New Dark Age Looms

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/opinion/a-new-dark-age-looms.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

As Earth warms, nature’s reliable patterns will be disrupted, casting humanity 
into a new dark age.


Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Earth Day postering help wanted

[Regi Teasley]

Could you leave some at Greenstar?

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Apr 18, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Joey Gates  wrote:
> 
> Hello ST,
> 
> I have a stack of Earth Day posters and 1/4 cards for our event on Saturday. 
> If you would like to take some and hang up around your neck of the woods, 
> please PM me.  I also have JPEG of poster if you would like to print. I can 
> drop off downtown or you can pick up near the Commons.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Yours for the Earth,
> Joey 
> 

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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Albany Times Union OpEd- Cuomo's Gas infrastructure Builld-out

[Regi Teasley]

I'm convinced.  What is to be done?

Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Apr 12, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Irene Weiser  wrote:
> 
> Harness only wind, water and sun to energize New York
> By Pramilla Malick and James Cromwell, Commentary Published 4:24 pm, Monday, 
> April 11, 2016
> http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-opinion/article/Harness-only-wind-water-and-sun-to-energize-New-7241770.php
> 
> 
> Activists gathered in Albany last week to call on Governor Cuomo to Save New 
> York from FERC," the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. But the real 
> question is: Who will save New York from itself?
> Despite the ban on fracking, New York is now faced with an unprecedented 
> proliferation of gas infrastructure such as pipelines and compressor 
> stations, which also carry inherent health and safety risks. While activists 
> and impacted residents ask that Cuomo reject state permits to stop these 
> projects, so far they have channeled most of their fury against FERC, the 
> agency that grants the project's ultimate approval.
> More Information
> 
> Pramilla Malick is founder of Protect Orange County, a community organization 
> formed to protect the health and safety of citizens living in the lower 
> Hudson Valley. James Cromwell is an actor and activist.
> 
> Such approvals invoke justifiable outrage. A FERC permit allows for the use 
> of eminent domain and the seizing of private property for the profit of the 
> pipeline company. It is able to subvert local zoning laws, such as in the 
> case of Minisink, a protected agricultural district whose ordinance would 
> have otherwise prohibited a compressor station approved by FERC in 2012. 
> Moreover, FERC approvals are notorious for their disregard for public health 
> and safety, most egregious in the permit for the AIM pipeline sited 
> dangerously close to critical safety structures at Indian Point nuclear power 
> plant.
> Minisink was the first community in the country to confront the bias and due 
> process violations of FERC actions. It was the first community to travel to 
> FERC headquarters and substantially engage the FERC process. It was the first 
> community to protest FERC's disregard for the rights of impacted communities, 
> and the first to describe it as a rogue rubber-stamp machine.
> However, as Minisink residents followed the infrastructure trail, they found 
> that it actually leads to our own state capital in Albany, because although 
> these are federal projects, there is a critical requirement for their 
> approval called "need." And New York, like states around the country, has 
> enacted policies which have helped to greatly expand the "need" for gas.
> Indeed, New York has increased its gas consumption by 18 percent since 2009. 
> Moreover, last year, after the fracking ban announcement, it adopted an 
> energy plan largely predicated on more gas. NYSERDA incentives to convert to 
> gas boilers, the recently announced purchase of new CNG buses for the MTA, 
> and new gas-fired power plants — all are fabricating a vast new market for 
> fracked gas.
> The state now gets about 40 percent of its electricity from gas, up from 20 
> percent about a decade ago. And more gas-fired power plants are "in the 
> pipeline," such as the CPV Valley power plant, a 650-megawatt facility now 
> under construction in Orange County.
> It's important to note that gas power plants are entirely state-approved and 
> necessitate an extensive amount of gas infrastructure. After all, the gas 
> can't get there via Fedex. So it's no surprise that the approval of the CPV 
> Power plant now creates the need for yet another pipeline, the Valley 
> Lateral, currently before FERC, to take fracked gas from the Millennium 
> Pipeline in Minisink to the plant. Once approved, as with all FERC permits, 
> Millennium would then be able to seize property by eminent domain, preempt 
> local zoning laws and disregard public health and safety.
> But who's really to blame here?
> The fact is that FERC is facilitating a policy formulated by our elected 
> officials and implemented through state energy plans, like New York's, that 
> seek to increase our dependency on fracked gas. This policy is based on the 
> faulty premise that gas (methane) is cleaner, safer and better for public 
> health and the climate than other available energy sources. However, this is 
> simply not true, based on what we know today about the dangers of fracking. 
> Moreover, methane has 86 times the global warming potential of CO2. Finally, 
> fracked gas infrastructure leaks throughout its life cycle from wellhead to 
> consumption; not only accelerating climate change, but also exposing all 
> living beings in its path to health harms from toxic chemicals.
> It is simply incoherent, given the science on fracking and methane, to 
> approve new gas power plants 

[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: Will the Democrats Ever Face an African-American Revolt?

[Regi Teasley]

This well-written piece addresses inequality, specifically impoverished 
neighborhoods and the housing crisis.  There is much to think about here as we 
work to build a better community and society.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/opinion/campaign-stops/will-the-democrats-ever-face-an-african-american-revolt.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

The party hasn’t done much lately for its most loyal supporters.


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] BBC News: California methane leak 'largest in US history'

[Regi Teasley]

FYI
I saw this on the BBC News App 

California methane leak 'largest in US history'

A leaking natural gas well in southern California vented almost 100,000 tonnes 
of methane into the atmosphere before it was plugged.
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fossil fuel use must fall twice as fast as thought to contain global warming - study

[Regi Teasley]

A more inconvenient truth?

http://gu.com/p/4h3hb/sbl


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change - The New York Times

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://nyti.ms/1NBc6Lx


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] As U.S. shale sinks, pipeline fight sends woes downstream | Reuters

[Regi Teasley]

Very interesting.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-oil-lawsuits-idUSKCN0VV0DK


Regi
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Fwd: [sustainable_tompkins-l] NPR: Citrus In The Snow: Geothermal Greenhouses Grow Local Produce In Winter

[Regi Teasley]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Maureen Bolton 
> Date: February 17, 2016 at 10:02:35 AM EST
> To: Regi Teasley <rltcay...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] NPR: Citrus In The Snow: Geothermal 
> Greenhouses Grow Local Produce In Winter
> 
> Hi All,
> Let me chime insmall scale is great for those of us with the space, 
> financial ability and inclination. Having said that, the vast majority of us 
> live in urban settings where this idea could seriously help reduce carbon 
> footprint.  Citrus is intriguing because as stated, it does not require 
> constant high temps. Also, once established, perennial woody crop producers 
> are much less labor intensive. Tomatoes and cucurbits are more demanding.  If 
> we were utilizing methane for heat a small methane generator to supply 
> electricity to power LED bulbs could make up for our lack of sunny days. It 
> would be great to locate this close to the Farmers Market, however 
> consideration of the water table there would be critical.
> Maureen  
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Regi Teasley <rltcay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tom's second comment, responding to Karl
>> 
>> 
>> "Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
>> you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.
>> 
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>>> From: Thomas Shelley <t...@cornell.edu>
>>> Date: February 14, 2016 at 8:41:53 PM EST
>>> To: Sustainability in Tompkins County 
>>> <sustainable_tompkins-l@list.cornell.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] NPR: Citrus In The Snow: Geothermal 
>>> Greenhouses Grow Local Produce In Winter
>>> Reply-To: "Sustainability in Tompkins County" 
>>> <sustainable_tompkins-l@list.cornell.edu>
>>> 
>>> Thank you Karl for the excellent reply.  After my last post I paused to 
>>> consider the embodied energy in my proposed biogas heated greenhouses, 
>>> especially at the scale that would make it an effective component of the 
>>> local food production system.  There may be an efficiency achieved in a 
>>> small-scale, distributed, very localized green house system that would use 
>>> significantly less embodied energy than the large scale system proposed.  
>>> Small, widely distributed green houses heated with passive designs 
>>> (block/stone wall on the north side painted black; north wall of barrels of 
>>> water painted black, geothermal heating, generating heat from active 
>>> compost, including in-ground compost systems) would probably have, overall, 
>>> a smaller carbon footprint/use less embodied energy than conventional 
>>> greenhouses, especially since there is the option for a larger scale of 
>>> recuse and recycling in the distributed system.  It would probably take a 
>>> similar amount of human effort to organize such a large scale, widely 
>>> distributed system of greenhouses as it would build a consolidated, large 
>>> scale facility heated by biogas or geothemal sources.  There would need to 
>>> be significant alterations of local building codes and/or zoning for this 
>>> to take place as well.  There is probably more opportunity for resiliency 
>>> in the distributed system that the larger scale system, but organizing  
>>> food distribution to the population from the small scale distributed system 
>>> might be much more challenging than food distribution from a large scale 
>>> greenhouse production system with a built-in market and connections to 
>>> transportation in the county.  There are many aspects to consider here.  
>>> Tom  
>>> 
>>>> On 2/14/2016 1:21 PM, Karl S North wrote:
>>>> ​ While we wait for the slow pace of energy descent to force towns like 
>>>> Ithaca to take seriously Tom Shelley's excellent proposal to grow winter 
>>>> food ​with biogas from town sewage, right now Ithacans can grow some their 
>>>> own winter produce and partly solar heat their houses at the same time. 
>>>> You can tap the same geothermal heat source described in the article Regi 
>>>> Teasley provided. I did as much in my Central NY farmhouse for thirty 
>>>> years, as described in the TCLocal paper,
>>>>  Three Farmhouses: A Study in Passive Solar Design
>>>> 
>>>> Ithacans with a little space in front of the South wall of their house 
>>>> can, with relatively low investment compared to what they spend for winter 
>>>> produce and house

[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: E-Commerce: Convenience Built on a Mountain of Cardboard

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/science/recycling-cardboard-online-shopping-environment.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

Delivery services now come through in hours, not days. But the boxes after 
boxes generated create environmental concerns, and some guilt.


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: Rooftop Solar Providers Face a Cloudier Future

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/business/energy-environment/rooftop-solar-providers-face-a-cloudier-future.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

Losses at rooftop solar companies have mounted as some states have withdrawn 
their support, and cheap natural gas isn’t helping matters.


Regi 
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Welsh home installs UK's first Tesla Powerwall storage battery

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://gu.com/p/4gdkd/sbl


Regi
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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Davos Insight: Will the Fourth Industrial Revolution Drive Global Economies or Eliminate Millions of Jobs?

[Regi Teasley]

Yes, the logic of that perspective (good news for consumers) certainly doesn't 
work.  
I agree with your points. 

What I found useful was the issue of roboticization and AI further gutting the 
working and middle classes and the many ripples (undertows?) issuing from this 
(see VP Biden's plea to the Davos conference).

We may think of reorganization of the local and regional economy as driven 
largely by the move away from fossil fuels and  adaptation to climate change.   
However, this article reminds us that there are other dramatic changes underway 
as well.

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Jan 28, 2016, at 12:06 PM, Marie Terlizzi <m_b_terli...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am always flabbergasted by statements like these:
> 
> 
> "The big winners in all of this could be consumers. In terms of
> employment, technology mainly benefits relatively skilled workers and
> producers, but as consumers everyone benefits from declining prices and
> improved services that result from technology."
> 
> 
> As technology eliminates more and more jobs, where are these unemployed
> ³consumers" going to find the money to buy all the novel or
> now-produced-without-their-labor ³goods² and services. Ideally the 4th
> industrial revolution will collapse from its own blindness and stupidity.
> 
> But we need a fifth revolution in which we reject the role the rich have
> assigned to us of mindless consumers who get all giddy about the latest
> tech novelties and i-thingies, and in which we instead see ourselves as
> citizens and members of communities and learn to find the meaning of our
> lives somewhere other than consumption and endless novelty.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/28/16, 8:23 AM, "Regi Teasley"
> <bounce-120094098-22794...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of
> rltcay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> A further spur to building a regional economy?
>> 
>> http://www.bloomberg.com/sponsor/zurich/holistic-approach/?mvi=f0cdf599cbc
>> 6415e9cae0f2525155f47
>> 
>> Regi
>> 
>> "Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love
>> everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.
>> 
>> 
>> For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area,
>> please visit:  http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/
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>> Tom Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.
> 
> 
> 
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> Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.
> 

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: Tell Gov. Cuomo: Stop gas pipeline next to Indian Point

[Regi Teasley]

FYI
Regi

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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Nuclear Information and Resource Service 
> Date: January 25, 2016 at 3:39:28 PM EST
> To: rltcay...@gmail.com
> Subject: Tell Gov. Cuomo: Stop gas pipeline next to Indian Point
> Reply-To: nirs...@nirs.org
> 
> 
> 
> 6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912; 301-270-6477; 
> nirs...@nirs.org; www.nirs.org
> 
> New Yorkers: Tell Governor Cuomo: No Gas Pipeline at Indian Point!
> 
> 
> 
> January 25, 2016
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> Governor Cuomo is actively working to close down the troubled Indian Point 
> nuclear power facility (though he is far less critical about upstate 
> reactors--we'll be reporting to you on that soon). But the governor continues 
> to remain silent about the dangerous high pressure AIM gas pipeline under 
> construction only 105 feet from critical structures at Indian Point. This 
> pipeline would pose an unacceptable risk to millions of people even if the 
> reactors were closed. Safety experts urgently warn that a pipeline rupture at 
> Indian Point would pose a serious threat to more than 20 million residents 
> within a 50 mile radius in the NY tri-state region. 
> 
> It is essential to act now to stop this dangerous pipeline. Please CALL 
> Governor Cuomo's office at 518-474-8390 and urge him to stop the pipeline 
> now. Then, click here to send an e-mail to the governor urging the same 
> thing. It's important to take both actions.
> 
> When you call, tell the governor's office to use its power to STOP 
> construction of the dangerous Spectra AIM pipeline just as it is doing to 
> push to close Indian Point. With 40 years of radioactive irradiated fuel 
> remaining on site, the AIM pipeline would pose an unacceptable risk even if 
> Indian Point were closed. His primary responsibility is to protect more than 
> 20 million residents within a 50 mile radius in the New York tri-state region 
> from these multiple hazards. 
> 
> And urge the governor to commit New York to a rapid transition to 100% 
> renewable energy!
>  
> Background:
>  
> * Construction of Spectra Energy's dangerous, 42" diameter, high pressure AIM 
> gas pipeline is underway only 105 feet from critical structures at the Indian 
> Point nuclear power facility. The pipeline is next to two large earthquake 
> fault lines and would intersect high voltage electrical lines that issue 
> stray currents and can corrode the pipeline.  
>  
> * Spectra’s AIM pipeline would transport huge quantities of fracked methane 
> gas through our region and to New England and Canada for export.
>  
> * Nuclear power and pipeline safety experts warn that a pipeline rupture next 
> to Indian Point could cause a catastrophic scenario similar to the Fukushima 
> nuclear disaster where plant operators were unable to cool reactors and 
> highly radioactive spent fuel due to loss of power. It could result in more 
> than 20 million people who live and work within the 50 mile radius, as well 
> as the air, water and land to be exposed to radioactive fallout. Safety 
> experts, public officials and the public have insisted on a comprehensive and 
> independent risk assessment but it was never conducted.
>  
> * Natural gas is composed primarily of methane, an extremely flammable 
> greenhouse gas that is 86X more potent than carbon dioxide in a 20 year 
> period and also contains carcinogens such as benzene and other hazardous 
> pollutants linked to adverse health impacts.
> 
> 
> * Pipelines, compressor stations, storage facilities, power plants and other 
> gas infrastructure are subject to leaks, explosions and fires, which are 
> common occurrences. There were 119 gas pipeline accidents in 2014 alone. The 
> Aliso Canyon gas storage facility in Porter Ranch, California, another type 
> of fossil fuel infrastructure, has been uncontrollably leaking 50 tons/hour 
> of methane gas and other carcinogenic compounds since October, causing a 
> public health and climate crisis and requiring thousands to evacuate. 
> 
> In other words, we need a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system, not more 
> reliance on nuclear power and fossil fuels. While we applaud Gov. Cuomo for 
> his opposition to Indian Point, there is much more New York needs to do to 
> attain a sustainable energy future--starting with stopping this pipeline.
> 
> Call Governor Cuomo's office at 518-474-8390 and urge him to stop the 
> pipeline now. Then, click here to send an e-mail to the governor urging the 
> same thing. It's important to take both actions.
> 
> No Nukes!
> 
> Tim Judson
> Executive Director
> Nuclear Information and Resource Service
> t...@nirs.org
> 
> Stay Informed:
> 
> NIRS on the web: http://www.nirs.org
> 
> GreenWorld: (NIRS' blog chronicling nuclear issues and the transition to a 
> nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system) 

[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: China’s Hunger for Commodities Wanes, and Pain Spreads Among Producers

[Regi Teasley]

As we know, the market is a blunt instrument and old systems die hard.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/business/international/chinas-hunger-for-commodities-wanes-and-pain-spreads-among-producers.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

For years, China gobbled up metals, crops and fuels for its rapidly expanding 
economy, and producers aggressively broadened operations to satisfy China’s 
appetite. Now, all has changed.


Regi
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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Quick update and... Leslie Danks-Burke!!

[Regi Teasley]

You are among friends

Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Jan 5, 2016, at 8:00 PM, Anna Kelles  wrote:
> 
> I apologize everyone. This was meant for Tom personally. This is the problem 
> with emails. I apologize to Tom for the public response and I apologize to 
> Leslie for the now public exchange of her announcement. Hopefully this will 
> pass and we can all support her efforts moving forward.  I think there is a 
> set policy though on the Listserv about people not simply forwarding other 
> people's emails. I hope we can all continue to follow this. I for one will 
> try to maintain this policy. Again my apologies to Tom and Leslie for this 
> public discourse. 
> 
> In good health,
> Anna
> 
>> On Tuesday, January 5, 2016, Anna Kelles  wrote:
>> Oh my goodness Tom. Please don't do this again and forward my email directly 
>> to the public. I did not give permission to do this!!  I also very 
>> specifically said NOT to share this publically in the email that you now 
>> forwarded publically until after her formal kickoff next Tuesday!  She 
>> has not announced yet.  This is a huge faux pas!!! 
>> 
>> I will call her now but please please please be more careful in the future.  
>> I like to be able to send my messages directly to list serves and don't 
>> appreciate that being done for me and with words I might not share with the 
>> full public like the Fall Creek Listserv.  
>> 
>> Anna
>> 
>>> On Tuesday, January 5, 2016, Thomas Shelley  wrote:
>>> Dear List Mates--This is a really interesting development.  Tom O'Mara is a 
>>> classic example of a good ole' boy, down home Republican politician.  He is 
>>> also a real  at heart (you supply the expletive(s) of choice).   I 
>>> support Leslie Danks-Burke.  My apologies for duplicate posts.   Tom
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  Forwarded Message 
>>> Subject:Quick update and... Leslie Danks-Burke!!
>>> Date:   Tue, 5 Jan 2016 16:27:08 -0500
>>> From:   Anna Kelles 
>>> To: List surpressed
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Happy 2016 my dear friends!!!
>>> 
>>> I hope you have all had a peaceful gently transition into 2016.  
>>> 
>>> I am back in the swing of the legislature.  I'll find out what committee 
>>> assignments I have at the next general meeting (Jan 19th).  I have 
>>> requested Health and Human Services again as well as Planning, Energy and 
>>> Environmental Quality (PEEQ). I am hoping to work with Dan Rapaport in the 
>>> next month or so to get a simple website up for my first term. There are no 
>>> new big issues on the immediate horizon though Will Burbank will be 
>>> drafting a resolution to officially oppose the Transpacific Partnership 
>>> agreement (TPP).  I will of course be in huge support of this effort!!
>>> 
>>> On another note... Leslie Danks-Burke is officially announcing her run for 
>>> state senate against O'Mara this coming Tuesday the 12th  I have agreed 
>>> to help her with outreach and fundraising.  As you know she is progressive, 
>>> honorable, accessible, and very experienced both in the state and 
>>> federally.  Her team sent me a letter to share and encourage both support 
>>> and fundraising.  I have posted the letter they sent below.  I ask that you 
>>> keep this information among friends and family until next Wednesday (after 
>>> her Tuesday kickoff) but then please feel free to share the email below far 
>>> and wide to your networks if you are inspired!
>>> 
>>> In good health,
>>> 
>>> Anna
>>> 
>>> Letter for Leslie:
>>> For the first time in a while, we have someone strongly considering 
>>> unseating our Republican State Senator, Tom O'Mara (R-Elmira). The district 
>>> includes five counties: the majority of Tompkins, plus Chemung, Steuben, 
>>> Schuyler, and Yates. Tom O'Mara has been our Senator for 6 years, he was in 
>>> the Assembly for a decade before that, and it's unclear what he's done for 
>>> us during that time. The Southern Tier still lags behind most of New York 
>>> State in economic development and education funding. Plus, Senator O'Mara 
>>> is the chairman of the Senate Environmental Conservation committee, and 
>>> he's used that position to push against environmental initiatives like 
>>> getting microbeads out of our waterways, and keeping LPG out of Seneca 
>>> Lake's salt caverns. In contrast, Leslie is committed to helping our 
>>> community maintain clean water, and transition away from fossil fuels.
>>> 
>>> Many of you know Leslie. She has lived in Ithaca since 2004, she's been a 
>>> Democratic activist since long before that, and she is a dedicated member 
>>> of our community. She's a daughter of farmers, a lawyer, and a wife and 
>>> mother. She founded and ran the 14-county-wide organization that is now 
>>> getting many more women to run for local 

Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Invitation for sustainability research study participants - survey respondents sought

[Regi Teasley]

Yes. Seems the questions are "leading" and though I am very sympathetic, those 
taking the survey could see the tilt overall.  Also somewhat repetitive, e.g. 
part of natural world.

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Jan 4, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Marian Brown  wrote:
> 
> Hi Srijana. She is working to broadband her survey response… I simply thought 
> the ST list would gain her a good response showing, but yes, admittedly from 
> the “converted”.
> Marian
>  
> From: bounce-120025018-72701...@list.cornell.edu 
> [mailto:bounce-120025018-72701...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Patricia 
> Haines
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 10:36 AM
> To: Sustainability in Tompkins County
> Subject: Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Invitation for sustainability research 
> study participants - survey respondents sought
>  
> Marian:
> I hope this person is surveying more than Sustainable Tompkins members, who 
> are already predisposed to agree with the readily-apparent bias of his 
> questions. It seems to me NOT an appropriately-unbiased survey instrument, if 
> he really wants a cross-section of the population's views.
>  
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Marian Brown  wrote:
> (posted on behalf of Dr. Srijana Bajracharya from Ithaca College).
>  
> You have been selected as one of the survey participants for this important 
> study to gather your opinions regarding pro-environmental behaviors (PEB) 
> particularly related to reducing waste and values surrounding this issue. The 
> purpose of this survey is to find out how you feel about many environmental 
> issues especially solid waste related to single-use plastic bags.
>  
> This survey is anonymous; please read the cover letter attached to the survey 
> very carefully. It should only take approximately 8-10 minutes maximum to 
> complete the survey.
>  
> If you have any concerns or questions regarding this survey please contact 
> Dr. Srijana Bajracharya at: sbajracha...@ithaca.edu or call at: (607)274-3411.
>  
> Please complete this survey within two weeks after you receive this survey. 
> Thank you for your contribution to this important project.
>  
> Link to the survey:
> https://ithaca.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1MTfNRNkTXxtRNH
>  
>  

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Floods, climate, and neglect: a reflection | openDemocracy

[Regi Teasley]

I hope you find this opinion piece of interest.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-rogers/floods-climate-and-political-neglect-personal-reflection


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Shared from BBC News

[Regi Teasley]

The way to a viable future is together with the other creatures.  

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35153196


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: Call today on crude oil export ban

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Mark Schlosberg 
> Date: December 16, 2015 at 9:30:55 AM EST
> To: "poplaupda...@googlegroups.com" 
> Subject: Call today on crude oil export ban
> 
> Dear Friends,
>  
> Join us for an emergency call on “Lifting the Crude Export Ban:  The Climate 
> and Fracking Threat and What You Can do to Stop It” on Wednesday, December 
> 16, at 3 pm ET/2 pm Central/1 pm Mountain and 12 noon/Pacific. 
>  
> CALL-IN DETAILS: Number: (641) 715-3655; Code: 776632
> 
> LINK TO FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/473434119508455/
> 
> DISCUSSION DETAILS: ABOUT THE CRUDE OIL EXPORT BAN
> 
> This week, Congress will likely vote to end the 40-year old crude oil export 
> ban, a critical safeguard against fracking and climate damage. The move to 
> lift the crude oil export ban flies in the face of climate progress less than 
> a week after the United Nations Paris Agreement.
>  
> Lifting the ban would massively boost oil production at a time when the 
> science demands that we leave the majority of remaining fossil fuels in the 
> ground.  The combustion of the additional oil that would be produced is 
> estimated to generate more than 515 million metric tons of carbon pollution 
> per year--the equivalent annual greenhouse gas emissions of 135 coal-fired 
> power plants or more than 100 million passenger cars.  
>  
> Terminating the ban will also unleash fracking across America, exposing our 
> communities to increased air pollution, water contamination, risk of 
> explosions from crude-carrying trains, and surges in earthquakes like those 
> caused by the oil industry in Oklahoma.  
>  
> We are pleased to have Kassie Siegel, Director of the Climate Law Institute 
> at the Center for Biological Diversity, and Wenonah Hauter, Executive 
> Director of Food & Water Watch, to share information on this terrible 
> proposal and what you can do today to stop it.  
>  
> WHAT YOU CAN DO IMMEDIATELY:
> Urge your Senators to reject lifting the ban by calling, tweeting, and 
> sending them letters. More information here: 
> http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/o/2167/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17384.
>  
> Sign Food & Water Watch’s petition here: 
> https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display=UserAction=2435_src=fb_subsrc=121415
>  
> For tweeting, please use the following hashtags and tweet directly to your 
> Senator: #KeepTheBan #LetTheBanStand
> And please consider retweeting this to your 
> followers:https://twitter.com/CenterForBioDiv/status/676444105916981248
> 
>  
> ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS: 
> Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch 
> Wenonah Hauter is the founder and Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. 
> She has worked extensively on food, water, energy and environmental issues at 
> the national, state and local level. Her book Foodopoly: The Battle Over the 
> Future of Food and Farming in America examines the corporate consolidation 
> and control over our food system and what it means for farmers and consumers. 
> Experienced in developing policy positions and legislative strategies, she is 
> also a skilled and accomplished organizer, having lobbied and developed 
> grassroots field strategy and action plans. She is currently writing 
> Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment due for 
> publication in 2016.
>  
>  
> Kassie Siegel, Senior Counsel, Climate Law Institute Director
> Kassie Siegel is director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate 
> Law Institute. She develops and implements campaigns for the reduction of 
> greenhouse gas and other air pollution and has been a leader in the fight to 
> ban fracking and keep fossil fuels in the ground. She was named one of the 
> ten most influentialCalifornia lawyers of the decade by the Daily Journal in 
> 2010 for her work on global warming and environmental law.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Schlosberg
> Organizing Director
> Food & Water Watch
> Phone: 510-922-0072 
> 1814 Franklin Street, Suite 1100
> Oakland, CA 94612
> www.foodandwaterwatch.org
> Twitter: @mschlos
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] The boom, the bust, the darkness: suicide rate soars in wake of Canada's oil crisis

[Regi Teasley]

Another of the many costs of extractive industries.

http://gu.com/p/4f2mb/sbl

Regi

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] The U.S. Navy’s $500 million ship that’s ready for disaster in a warmer world

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/12/09/the-navys-500-million-ship-thats-ready-for-disaster-in-a-warmer-world/


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Saudi Arabia accused of trying to wreck Paris climate deal

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://gu.com/p/4eqet/sbl


Regi
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Visit this site http://ecowatch.com

[Regi Teasley]

Hi Folks,
FYI
this may be interesting you: "Portland Bans Fossil Fuel Export"! This is the 
link: 

http://ecowatch.com/2015/11/13/portland-bans-fossil-fuel-export/

Regi

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] California crews working to stop natural gas leak outside Los Angeles

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://gu.com/p/4e7qn/sbl


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: Write! Write! Write! Greenidge Comment Period Extended

[Regi Teasley]

Important

Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: We Are Seneca Lake <donotre...@wearesenecalake.com>
> Date: November 14, 2015 at 10:33:13 AM EST
> To: Regi Teasley <rltcay...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Write! Write! Write! Greenidge Comment Period Extended
> 
> 
> View this email in your browser
> 
> GREEN LIGHT!  PLEASE SHARE AND DISTRIBUTE THIS EMAIL WIDELY. 
> 
> Dear Friends of Seneca Lake,
> 
> Good news. The comment period for the Greenidge power plant on Seneca Lake 
> has been extended by at least a week.
> Sending in a comment is like voting: it shows our elected officials and our 
> public agencies what direction public opinion is trending. Those who seek to 
> refuel a decommissioned 1937 power plant with fracked gas and call it 
> "environmentally beneficial" need to know that great multitudes of citizens 
> oppose this idea and have a different energy future in mind for New York.
> To help you write a comment, here is a quick report on this week's Procedural 
> Conference in Albany:
> Six Seneca Lake Defenders were present in Albany on November 10th: Sandra 
> Steingraber, John Dennis, Bill Kitchen, Irene Weiser, Mary Beth Gamba, and 
> Debb Guard. They were joined by Lindsay Speer and Rachel Treichler, an 
> attorney with the Committee To Preserve The Finger Lakes.
> Some of their conference highlights: Judge Michelle L. Phillips made no 
> rulings and is taking everything under advisement. Comments from the public 
> are encouraged and can be submitted for at least another week.
> 
> Rachel Treichler, along with John Dennis and Irene Weiser, raised important 
> concerns and contested assertions by the applicant pertaining to public 
> necessity, threats to drinking water, and whether or not the Greenidge plant 
> is "mothballed" or "retired."
> 
> A key point on which this project should be challenged is whether this is an 
> existing power plant that is restarting, or a new source. Given that the 
> former owners told NYSEG and the Public Service Commission that they were 
> retiring the plant and planning on selling it for scrap, and the new owners 
> are repowering with natural gas rather than coal, Rachel Treichler made a 
> compelling argument that it should be treated as a new source. All evidence 
> of the intentions and realities of the closing of the plant are valuable 
> comments at this time.
> 
> Please submit individual written comments to the Public Service Commission. 
> The deadline for submitting comments has been extended. We need to take this 
> opportunity to express ourselves as a community and as a region. Feel free to 
> use WASL’s comments as a leaping off point for your own.
> 
> Here’s how:
> 
> Address your comments to: The Honorable Kathleen H. Burgess, Secretary Public 
> Service Commission Three Empire State Plaza Albany, New York 12223-1350
> In the first paragraph, refer to these petition numbers: Case 15-E-0516 - 
> Greenidge Generation, LLC; Case 15-G-0571 - Greenidge Pipeline, LLC and 
> Greenidge Pipeline Properties Corporation; Case 15-T-0586 - Greenidge 
> Pipeline, LLC, and Greenidge Pipeline Properties Corporation. All together, 
> these ask for for lightened regulation, pipeline construction, and an 
> expedited certificate of public convenience and necessity.
> If you believe, as we do, that further hearings are necessary—as evidenced by 
> the significant opposition to the public hearing in Dresden, which ran so 
> late that many people had to leave before their names were called to 
> speak—please say so.
> State your view about whether the Public Service Commission should approve or 
> deny the three petitions related to the repowering of the Greenidge plant and 
> the related building of the 4.5-mile pipeline.
> In your own words, explain why you feel that way. Again, talking points can 
> be found in the WASL comments at 
> http://www.wearesenecalake.com/comments-on-the-gre...:
> If you have any special expertise or background knowledge to offer, share it. 
> If you rely on Seneca Lake as your drinking water source or breathe the air 
> that blows over it, feel free to describe your relationship to the lake. If 
> you are working to keep fossil fuels in the ground and promote renewable 
> energy, talk about your efforts.
> As always, be respectful, plain-spoken, and to the point.
> Email your comment: secret...@dps.ny.gov
> abiding gratitude,
> 
> Sandra Steingraber, on behalf of We Are Seneca Lake
> 
> p.s. More background here:
> 
> In news from Albany on Friday, we found out that that the owners of the 
&

[sustainable_tompkins-l] Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away? | George Monbiot

[Regi Teasley]

Important

http://gu.com/p/4dmbb/sbl


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: Talking Points for Wednesday’s Hearing on Power Plant Near Crestwood—Please Come!

[Regi Teasley]

Important information

Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: We Are Seneca Lake <donotre...@wearesenecalake.com>
> Date: November 2, 2015 at 7:03:09 AM EST
> To: Regi Teasley <rltcay...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Talking Points for Wednesday’s Hearing on Power Plant Near 
> Crestwood—Please Come!
> 
> 
> View this email in your browser
> 
> GREEN LIGHT!  PLEASE SHARE AND DISTRIBUTE THIS EMAIL WIDELY. 
> 
> 
> Dear Defenders,
> 
> Halloween is over but the decommissioned power plant north of Crestwood on 
> Seneca Lake is still trying to rise from the dead, using natural gas rather 
> than coal. Calling all defenders to don their dress blues and attend a NY 
> Public Service Commission public hearing on Wednesday, November 4 at 6 pm in 
> Dresden, NY.
> 
> The old Greenidge (Dresden) Power Plant--located just 20 miles north of 
> Crestwood’s gates and shuttered for four long years—may be repowered with 
> natural gas. They have asked the Public Service Commission to approve a gas 
> pipeline to the plant from the Empire Connector pipeline - which is connected 
> to Crestwood's Seneca Lake Methane Storage Facility via the Millennium 
> Pipeline. If it is approved, it will create further demand in the region for 
> natural gas.
> 
> 
> 
> We want the Public Service Commission to deny the requests for lightened 
> regulation, expedited declaratory rulings, and certificates of public 
> convenience and necessity for the Greenidge power plant.
> 
> There is no need for this power plant.
> According to the NYISO’s 2015 report, the upstate region has a load of 10,000 
> megawatts and total capacity of 18,000 megawatts - nearly twice what is 
> needed.
> Even the petition of Greenidge Generation LLC for an Original Certificate of 
> Public Convenience and Necessity and Lightened Regulation provides   no 
> evidence of need for this power plant.
> We oppose the development of more natural gas power generation.
> Methane is 86x worse for the climate over a 20 year timeframe than CO2. More 
> methane infrastructure = more opportunity for leaks.
> We’ve banned fracking in NY because of public health concerns. It is immoral 
> to create further demand for gas which impacts communities outside of NY 
> State.
> NYISO's 2015 report raises concerns about the increasing dependence of NY's 
> power grid on natural gas, which makes power costs increasingly volatile and 
> dependent on availability of natural gas.
> We oppose the building of the pipeline from the Greenidge power plant to the 
> Empire Connector pipeline.
> It is a commitment of resources and sacrifice of the local environment that 
> is not needed.
> Deny the request for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public 
> Need for the new pipeline
> This power plant does not fit with the Public Service Commission’s Renewing 
> our Energy Vision (REV) process, which is trying to shift towards clean 
> distributed energy resources and energy efficiency to reduce peak demand, 
> rather than additional power plants.
> Please consider offering oral testimony. Or, just wear blue and show up. We 
> need a showing of concerned citizens opposed to the further build-out of 
> fracked-gas infrastructure in the Finger Lakes. If you plan to speak, please 
> let Lindsay Speer know, so we can make sure all the key points are covered.
> 
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015
> 
> Times:
> 
> 6:00 PM Informational Forum
> 
> 7:00 PM Public Statement
> 
> Hearing Location:
> 
> Dresden Fire House
> 
> 3 Firehouse Avenue
> 
> Dresden, New York 14441
> 
> Currently before the Public Service Commission are three petitions by the 
> power plant's owner. The relevant documents are linked to below for your own 
> research.
> 
> CASE 15-E-0516
> 
> Petition of Greenidge Generation LLC for an Original Certificate of Public 
> Convenience and Necessity and Lightened Regulation.
> 
> CASE 15-G-0571 - Petition of Greenidge Pipeline LLC and Greenidge Pipeline 
> Properties Corporation for an Expedited Original Certificate of Public 
> Convenience and Necessity and for Incidental or Lightened Regulation.
> 
> CASE 15-T-0586 - Application by Greenidge Pipeline LLC; Greenidge Pipeline 
> Properties Corporation to Construct a Fuel Gas Transmission Line, Containing 
> Approximately 24,318 Feet of 8” Steel Pipeline, Located in the Towns of Milo 
> and Torrey, Yates County.
> 
> Written comments will also be accepted if submitted by November 9.
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: Public Hearing Next Wednesday for Zombie Power Plant Near Crestwood

[Regi Teasley]

Hi Folks,
I hope this posting from We Are Seneca Lake is appropriate and of interest. 

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: We Are Seneca Lake <donotre...@wearesenecalake.com>
> Date: October 30, 2015 at 12:44:44 PM EDT
> To: Regi Teasley <rltcay...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Public Hearing Next Wednesday for Zombie Power Plant Near Crestwood
> 
> 
> View this email in your browser
> 
> GREEN LIGHT!  PLEASE SHARE AND DISTRIBUTE THIS EMAIL WIDELY. 
> Dear Defenders,
> 
> Just in time for Halloween, a decommissioned, coal-burning power plant north 
> of Crestwood on Seneca Lake is being brought back to life, and plans are 
> being laid to convert it to natural gas (methane). Calling all defenders to 
> don their dress blues and attend a public hearing next Wednesday!
> 
> The old Greenidge (Dresden) Power Plant--located just 20 miles north of 
> Crestwood’s gates and shuttered for four long years—may be repowered with 
> natural gas. And, yes, this plant is connected by a series of pipelines to 
> Crestwood's Seneca Lake Methane Storage Facility. At the very least, if it is 
> approved, it will create further demand in the region for natural gas.
> 
> The NY Public Service Commission will be holding an information session and 
> public hearing next Wednesday on the proposal to repower the Dresden power 
> plant on Seneca Lake.. We need all lovers of Seneca lake in attendance!
> 
> Please consider offering oral testimony. Or, just wear blue and show up. We 
> need a showing of concerned citizens opposed to the further build-out of 
> fracked-gas infrastructure in the Finger Lakes.
> 
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015
> 
> Times:
> 
> 6:00 PM Informational Forum
> 
> 7:00 PM Public Statement
> 
> Hearing Location:
> 
> Dresden Fire House
> 
> 3 Firehouse Avenue
> 
> Dresden, New York 14441
> 
> Lindsay Speer is working on creating talking points and will get them to 
> those planning to attend early next week. Please let her know if you plan to 
> speak by emailing her at lindsaysp...@gmail.com.
> 
> The proposal involves repowering the former coal power plant, which has been 
> shuttered for four years, with natural gas. A pipeline will be built to 
> connect the power plant to the Empire Connector pipeline, which in turn 
> connects with the Millennium Pipeline in Corning. Crestwood's methane storage 
> operation is also connected to the Millennium Pipeline. This section of the 
> Millennium and the Empire Connector pipelines can flow bi-directionally, 
> depending on where the demand for natural gas is the greatest, which means 
> that the power plant can create demand for gas stored at Seneca Lake.
> 
> We need to tell the Public Service Commission that fossil fuel power plants 
> are not the future we want in New York.
> 
> Currently before the Public Service Commission are three petitions by the 
> power plant's owner. The relevant documents are linked to below for your own 
> research.
> 
> CASE 15-E-0516
> 
> Petition of Greenidge Generation LLC for an Original Certificate of Public 
> Convenience and Necessity and Lightened Regulation.
> 
> CASE 15-G-0571 - Petition of Greenidge Pipeline LLC and Greenidge Pipeline 
> Properties Corporation for an Expedited Original Certificate of Public 
> Convenience and Necessity and for Incidental or Lightened Regulation.
> 
> CASE 15-T-0586 - Application by Greenidge Pipeline LLC; Greenidge Pipeline 
> Properties Corporation to Construct a Fuel Gas Transmission Line, Containing 
> Approximately 24,318 Feet of 8” Steel Pipeline, Located in the Towns of Milo 
> and Torrey, Yates County.
> 
> Written comments will also be accepted if submitted by November 9.
> 
> 
> 
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] NYTimes: Against Nature

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/opinion/against-nature.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share

Congress has allowed a fund that’s helped support places like the Appalachian 
Trail and the memorial where Flight 93 went down on 9/11 to die.


Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


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[sustainable_tompkins-l] September Was the Most Extreme Month in 136 Years of Heat Records - Bloomberg Business

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-10-21/september-was-the-most-extreme-month-in-136-years-of-heat-records


Regi
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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] FIVE GMO MYTHS DEBUNKED BY VANDANA SHIVA

[Regi Teasley]

Thanks, Ben.  
We need the best quality information we can get.  
The stakes are only getting higher and finding the right ways forward means 
telling the fullest and most accurate truths.
Thoughtful critiques are an important part of the process.

Regi


"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Sep 21, 2015, at 10:59 PM, Ben Haller  wrote:
> 
>>> 4. Re: FIVE GMO MYTHS DEBUNKED BY VANDANA SHIVA fwd
>>> 
>>> Ben,
>> I don't necessarily believe anything that's written, be it hard copy or the 
>> internet, so let's put that red herring aside. 
> 
>   That comment was not addressed only to you; I was urging everyone on the 
> list to take things with a grain of salt and not believe things just because 
> they want to believe them and would like them to be true.  There is far too 
> much of that in the world.
> 
>> I think you've taken Shiva Ayyadurai's work out of context and not reading 
>> all the details. He did create a patented electronic mail system for a NJ 
>> medical & dental school which he called EMAIL and apparently the American 
>> scientist of Indian descent was challenged over the years but the fact 
>> remains, he did create a program for internal communications. This became a 
>> controversy among tech sites and led to a lot of backlash, but Ayyadurai 
>> owns the copyright for EMAIL, A computer system for electronic email:  more 
>> here
>> http://www.inventorofemail.com/http://www.inventorofemail.com/
> 
>   You are being far too generous to him.  He is clearly a charlatan and a 
> snake-oil salesman.  There is a reason that so many major institutions, 
> including MIT, the Smithsonian, and the Washington Post have repudiated him.  
> He does not just claim to have invented something that happens to have had 
> the acronym EMAIL.  He claims to have "invented email", and he clearly did 
> not.  That claim is prominently on his own website, and the article you sent 
> repeats it entirely credulously: "an Indian scientist from MIT who invented 
> email”.  That is quite simply false and dishonest.  There is no other way to 
> read it.  The link that I sent before has extensive documentation and 
> evidence to support that conclusion.
> 
>> The Norwegian study you referred to is:
>> 
>> http://genok.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/010615_GENOK-HTIntactaBrazil-FINAL_web.pdf
>> 
>> You missed the fact the study was commissioned by the Norwegian Environment 
>> Agency. It's on the second title page. 
> 
>   I did not miss that fact.  Being commissioned by a government agency is an 
> entirely different thing from being produced by a government agency.  The 
> document you sent claimed that the "study is from the Norwegian Government”.  
> That is not correct, and seems to me to be a transparent attempt to give the 
> study more weight than it actually deserves (much like the claim to have 
> “invented email”).  As a scientist, that very much rubs me the wrong way.  To 
> me, it reeks of professional misconduct, in fact.  I have received funding 
> from the U.S. government for my scientific research in the past.  I would 
> never in a million years dream of claiming that my research was “from the 
> U.S. government”.  That is a fraudulent claim.  Again, there is no other way 
> to read it.
> 
>> According to Dave Murphy of Food Democracy Now: "Earlier this year Ayyadurai 
>> published a series of 4 peer reviewed papers that showed cellular disruption 
>> due to genetic engineering that found upregulation of formaldehyde
>> and depletion of glutathion. I'm not sure what this means but I got 
>> indigestion just reading it.
>> 
>> Here's a new article/ interview published in the Hindu Times with Shiva A, 
>> Michael Hansen and Ray Seidler - that explains Ayyandurai's recent research 
>> and how it pertains to current biotech policies.
>> 
>> http://m.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/safety-assessments-of-gmos-are-nonexistent/article7674558.ece
> 
>   Quite frankly, from what I have found so far in investigating this matter, 
> I would not trust anything that had the names of either of these individuals 
> on it.  I’m sure they have lots of publications.  That doesn’t mean their 
> publications are accurate or scientific.  Real scientists get their work 
> peer-reviewed and they publish it in reputable journals.  As I pointed out in 
> my previous email, the two papers that I investigated did not pass either of 
> those very basic hurdles.  They should therefore not be represented as 
> science, or research, or anything of that sort; at best they are opinion 
> pieces, at worst, propaganda.
> 
>> While I appreciate your concern for good sources, mine are from a variety of 
>> reputable & esteemed scientists, organizations & policymakers from Consumer 
>> Union, Center for Food Safety, Union of Concerned Scientists and others. 
>> These organizations & their scientists are not 

[sustainable_tompkins-l] Climate Change And Overfishing Are Driving The World's Oceans To The 'Brink Of Collapse' | ThinkProgress

[Regi Teasley]

FYI

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/18/3702590/ocean-collapsing-worse-thought/

Regi

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you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] If you shop online at Amazon, you can now support Sustainable Tompkins through your purchase!

[Regi Teasley]

Sustainable Tompkins is an organization I greatly value.
They do important work and have for a long time.
A faux pas now and then is only human.   
And, I suspect there are many people who do make some purchases at Amazon.   
Note, for example, that jazz CDs are not available at the bookstore.  Though 
your information about that business is useful and has me looking for 
alternatives.
I do like the idea of self-tithing on purchases.  One more good idea that helps 
us build a viable future.

Regi
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, 
you will perceive the divine mystery in things."  Dostoyevsky.


> On Sep 8, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Marie Terlizzi  wrote:
> 
> Amazon is one of the uglier businesses around, with a record of achieving 
> their low prices by abusing their employees. And of course they have driven 
> many local independent bookstores out of business. I cannot believe ST is 
> encouraging people to shop with Amazon. We have a local independent 
> bookstore, Buffalo Street Books, that deserves our support. S***w Amazon.
> 
> The measly 0.5% of every purchase  might better be donated directly to ST. So 
> if you buy $100 worth of books anywhere, send 50¢ to ST. That is what this 
> amounts to. 
> 
> I realize this is pouring cold water on a project that some may be enthused 
> about, but I find it very disturbing. It kills some of my desire to support 
> ST.
> 
> Marie
> ———
> On climate destabilization, "The honorable choice I see is to power-down; 
> stop taking airplane jaunts, repair old things, get out the clothespins, grow 
> food, walk.  And face the truth, that I am party to something so enormously 
> destructive I can hardly know its edges.  The conquering of any addiction 
> begins with these words: I am the guilty party.”  ~ Barbara Kingsolver
> 
> 
> From: Gay Nicholson 
> Reply-To: Sustainability in Tompkins County 
> 
> Date: Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 9:47 PM
> To: ST list 
> Subject: [sustainable_tompkins-l] If you shop online at Amazon, you can now 
> support Sustainable Tompkins through your purchase!
> 
> Hello Sustainability Friends,
> 
> One of our supporters recently let me know about a program called Amazon 
> Smile.  It's for anybody who uses Amazon.com to buy things.  You can go to 
> Amazon Smile to create your profile and login, and select the charity of your 
> choice.  Then every time you log onto Amazon, anything you buy from them will 
> generate a 0.5% donation to Sustainable Tompkins.  So, for every $10 you 
> spend via Amazon, 5 cents goes into our account with them.  I know it is a 
> tiny amount, but hopefully it will add up over time and help fund some of our 
> programs.
> 
> BUT, you won't find the name Sustainable Tompkins on the list of charities.  
> You have to type in "Social Ventures Inc"   They are our fiscal umbrella 
> until we get our own 501c3 status.  Pick Social Ventures, and the donations 
> will go into the Sustainable Tompkins bank account under Social Ventures.
> 
> I just bought a couple books online to test it out.  It's very simple, and 
> now every time I log onto Amazon it automatically brings up Amazon Smile and 
> notes that I am contributing to Social Ventures with my purchase.
> 
> Please take a moment to get this set up now so you don't forget to do it or 
> what nonprofit name to use!  Thanks, we so appreciate your support!
> 
> Read about it here:
> https://smile.amazon.com/about
> 
> thanks much,
> Gay
> --
> Gay Nicholson, Ph.D.
> President
> Sustainable Tompkins
> 309 N. Aurora St.
> Ithaca, NY 14850
> www.sustainabletompkins.org
> 607-533-7312 (home office)
> 607-220-8991 (cell)
> 607-272-1720 (ST office)
> 
> g...@sustainabletompkins.org

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