[sustainable_tompkins-l] Scott Pruitt approves dangerous pesticide

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt just overruled the recommendation of EPA scientists, rejecting a petition to ban the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos.1 EPA studies show that this pesticide affects fetal brain growth during pregnancy and causes neurological disorders.

[sustainable_tompkins-l] Energy Smart Community Meetings

Energy Smart Community Public Meetings May 2 - 24, times vary @ Locations around Tompkins County In June, NYSEG's Energy Smart Community program will begin installing 12,400 smart meters in Tompkins County. Smart meters eliminate estimated meter readings and enable a more timely response

[sustainable_tompkins-l] 4/26: "Indigenous Cropping Systems" with Jane Mt. Pleasant @ CCE-Tompkins

Indigenous American Cropping Systems Wednesday, April 26, 6:30-8:30pm @ CCE-Tompkins, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca The Three Sisters - winter squash, maize and climbing beans - are the main agricultural crops of various Native American groups, particularly the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the

[sustainable_tompkins-l] The Community Science Institute's First 4-H2O Event of the Year is Coming Up!

The sun is shining and things are heating up, both outside and at CSI. Join us for our first 4-H2O event of 2017: *Water and the Physics and Chemistry of Life on Earth*. Seventy percent of Earth’s surface is water, and wherever you can find water, you can find life. That’s why NASA’s motto in the

[sustainable_tompkins-l] Greenstar Enviro Movie Night!! Apr 30@ The Space

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Shira Evergreen 607-319-0461 shiraevergr...@gmail.com *Five Year Anniversary Screening and Panel Discussion featuring* *“Empowered: Power from the People” and “Frac Attack: Dawn of the Watershed”* ITHACA, N.Y. – ​On Sunday, April 30th, 2017 at 6:30pm, The

[sustainable_tompkins-l] Urgently need a full-body mannequin

Can anyone lend us a full-body mannequin through Monday? Any sex will do. The Ithaca Fringe Festival’s has gone AWOL. Thank you! Maura Stephens Ithaca Fringe Festival volunteer maurastephe...@gmail.com 607-589-7302 office/voice 607-351-3766 mobile/text For