Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Catholic Green Energy

[Christian Nielsen-Palacios]

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It serves all faith communities, to help them deal with global warming.

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On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Charles C. Geisler 
wrote:

> Friends,
>
>
>
> Encouraging news from the Catholic Diocese of Rochester. The DOR covers
> 350,000 Catholics across 12 counties in central NY State and has entered
> a 3-year contract for 100% Green Power for all its facilities (schools,
> churches, other buildings), beginning Sept. 1. The cost of electric energy
> for these DOR facilities will decrease approximately 30%. This comes about
> thanks to the joint efforts of
>
> Ithaca’s Catholic Charities Deputy Director, Laurie Konwinski, and
> Dennis Osika, a Lansing resident. They prevailed on local Catholic Churches
> in Ithaca, Groton, and Lansing to request the Green Power approach of
> Rochester’s Bishop Matano. He referred it to the DOR’s new Director of
> Building and Grounds in Rochester, Sean Moran, who was receptive to
> entering a group purchase agreement for fossil free electricity.  Thanks to
> all of the above.
>
>
>
> 
>
>
>
> Chuck G.
>

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Re:[sustainable_tompkins-l] Catholic Green Energy

[Jane-Marie Law]

Can anyone give us a direct e-mail where we can write to them and applaud this? 
 This is in keeping with Pope Francis's Laudato Si.


Jane-Marie Law
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Department of Asian Studies
Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
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607-255-5095/ 607-255-8332


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Subject: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Catholic Green Energy

Friends,

Encouraging news from the Catholic Diocese of Rochester. The DOR covers 350,000 
Catholics across 12 counties in central NY State and has entered a 3-year 
contract for 100% Green Power for all its facilities (schools, churches, other 
buildings), beginning Sept. 1. The cost of electric energy for these DOR 
facilities will decrease approximately 30%. This comes about thanks to the 
joint efforts of
Ithaca’s Catholic Charities Deputy Director, Laurie Konwinski, and Dennis 
Osika, a Lansing resident. They prevailed on local Catholic Churches in Ithaca, 
Groton, and Lansing to request the Green Power approach of Rochester’s Bishop 
Matano. He referred it to the DOR’s new Director of Building and Grounds in 
Rochester, Sean Moran, who was receptive to entering a group purchase agreement 
for fossil free electricity.  Thanks to all of the above.

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Chuck G.

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visit:  http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/
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Re: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Catholic Green Energy

[Patricia Haines]

Congratulations to all who had a hand in this!

On Aug 18, 2017 12:52 PM, "Charles C. Geisler"  wrote:

> Friends,
>
>
>
> Encouraging news from the Catholic Diocese of Rochester. The DOR covers
> 350,000 Catholics across 12 counties in central NY State and has entered
> a 3-year contract for 100% Green Power for all its facilities (schools,
> churches, other buildings), beginning Sept. 1. The cost of electric energy
> for these DOR facilities will decrease approximately 30%. This comes about
> thanks to the joint efforts of
>
> Ithaca’s Catholic Charities Deputy Director, Laurie Konwinski, and
> Dennis Osika, a Lansing resident. They prevailed on local Catholic Churches
> in Ithaca, Groton, and Lansing to request the Green Power approach of
> Rochester’s Bishop Matano. He referred it to the DOR’s new Director of
> Building and Grounds in Rochester, Sean Moran, who was receptive to
> entering a group purchase agreement for fossil free electricity.  Thanks to
> all of the above.
>
>
>
> 
>
>
>
> Chuck G.
>

For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please 
visit:  http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/
If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom 
Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.

[sustainable_tompkins-l] Catholic Green Energy

[Charles C. Geisler]

Friends,

Encouraging news from the Catholic Diocese of Rochester. The DOR covers 350,000 
Catholics across 12 counties in central NY State and has entered a 3-year 
contract for 100% Green Power for all its facilities (schools, churches, other 
buildings), beginning Sept. 1. The cost of electric energy for these DOR 
facilities will decrease approximately 30%. This comes about thanks to the 
joint efforts of
Ithaca’s Catholic Charities Deputy Director, Laurie Konwinski, and Dennis 
Osika, a Lansing resident. They prevailed on local Catholic Churches in Ithaca, 
Groton, and Lansing to request the Green Power approach of Rochester’s Bishop 
Matano. He referred it to the DOR’s new Director of Building and Grounds in 
Rochester, Sean Moran, who was receptive to entering a group purchase agreement 
for fossil free electricity.  Thanks to all of the above.

[cid:image001.png@01D3181F.8C535280]

Chuck G.

For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please 
visit:  http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/
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Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.

[sustainable_tompkins-l] Several articles of interest today.

[Irene Weiser]

BTW - This is a great free daily newsletter.
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From: "POLITICO New York" 
Date: Aug 18, 2017 10:07 AM
Subject: POLITICO New York Energy: L.I. dumping suit filed — Water woes
headed to court — More on Niagara sewage
To: 
Cc:

By Marie J. French and David Giambusso | 08/18/2017 10:00 AM EDT

*LONG ISLAND DUMPING LAWSUIT FILED — POLITICO New York's Marie J. French: *New
York state filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
over a newly designated dumping site for dredged material in the Long
Island Sound. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed the lawsuit on
Thursday, asking the court to block the establishment of the site because
the EPA's actions were "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or
otherwise not in accordance with law." The dredging site is the third
designated in the Long Island Sound and was moved by the EPA out of New
York's waters and wholly into Connecticut's after New York raised
objections. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued to oppose the dumping site
because of environmental concerns and announced the state would sue in
December. "We will continue to do everything in our power to protect New
York's environment, and with the EPA's unfathomable and destructive
decision to turn the eastern Long Island Sound into a dumping ground - now
is the time for action," Cuomo said in a statement. "We will establish that
this designation not only poses a major threat to a significant commercial
and recreational resource, but that it also undermines New York's
long-standing efforts to end dumping in our treasured waters." New York
will be harmed by the dumping because dredged material could contain
contaminants, the lawsuit argues. Read more here.


*— Newsday's Carl MacGowan:* "The federal plan, crafted with the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, calls for storing dredged material in existing sites
off Stamford and New Haven, and adding a new site off New London — all in
Connecticut waters. Connecticut officials have supported the EPA plan." Read
more here.


*WATER WOES HEADED TO COURT — Long Island Herald's Brian Stieglitz: *"In
the wake of the New York Public Service Commission's May 19 approval of New
York American Water's $3.63 million rate increase, an outpouring of
opposition has come from the utility's ratepayers. NYAW is a private
company, and must pay property taxes. But the company passes those taxes on
to its ratepayers. 'I, for one, am tired of being the cash cow for the town
and county and paying bills that are giving American Water record profits,'
said Susan Melnick, of Merrick, who attended an Aug. 2 meeting with the
activist group Long Island Clean Air Water and Soil, at which NYAW
customers discussed ways to fight back against its rising rates. Claudia
Borecky and Dave Denenberg, LICAWS' co-founders, announced at the meeting
that they would take legal action on the grounds that the approved rate
increases would pierce the state property tax cap. They also intend to file
a class action lawsuit against the Town of Hempstead on the grounds that it
is unconstitutional for many town residents who are served by NYAW to pay
property taxes while others, who are municipal customers, do not." Read
more here.


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*— The latest release of nearly 3 million gallons of sewage *into the
Niagara River

happened just days after the state directed the municipal authority to hire
an outside consultant to investigate the board's discharge of smelly black
water into the river below the American Falls.

*— The people of Medford are rejoicing today *as two sisters have been
given the go-ahead to fulfill their dream of opening a local Dairy Queen

and bringing great joy to the community.

*— PSEG Long Island is on track* to start work in less than a month