City
Ithaca Fixers Collective Rejects Landfills, Encourages Repair
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The Ithaca Fixer’s Collective is a coalition of individuals aiming to repair goods and prevent them from ending up in landfills.
compost
Cornell Dining Commits to Sustainability in Eateries Across Campus
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Cornell dining sustainability experts shed light on existing and underway measures aimed at making campus eateries greener.
Dining
Composting at Cornell: C+
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COVID-19 caused a massive shift towards single-use plastics as a safer way to distribute meals, but they are the least creative option available. An institution with as much means as Cornell Dining could, and slowly is finding new ways to integrate more effective composting and recycling strategies.
environmental sustainability
Inequitable Resource Distribution Poses Greater Threat to Planet Health Than Population Growth
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Currently, inequities surrounding access to resources are mainly the result of unequal distribution rather than global scarcity. While that may change as the population grows, these issues of distribution are already contributing to a climate refugee crisis, environmental degradation and food scarcity in some regions of the world.
Columns
SMITH | Majoring in the End of the World
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Floods, famine, power-hungry villains, war . . . all the makings of an apocalypse movie. Except, this isn’t fiction; it’s the narrative that environment and sustainability and other majors can begin to feel is unavoidable when faced with teachings about the dangers of climate change on a near daily basis.
Cornell Sustainability
Cornell Sustainability Programs in Line with Representative Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Proposal
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Cornell’s pledge to go carbon neutral by 2035 is part of a movement that has helped set the stage for the Green New Deal
CTB
Collegetown Bagels Joins the Movement To Eliminate Single-Use Straws
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Reusable straws have recently started gaining popularity as an environmentally-savvy alternative to their plastic counterparts. They come in different styles and colors and are often accompanied by thin brushes for cleaning, reusing and showing off environmental awareness.
cals
Cornellians Aim To Launch New Cross-College Environment and Sustainability Major
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“The cross-college major affords the opportunity to innovate beyond traditional disciplinary borders in order to address the pressing environmental issues of our time,” she said.
News
Cornell Student Assembly Discusses Sustainability, Course Enrollment and Online Forum
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The Student Assembly addressed environmental sustainability, the transparency of course enrollment and “Big Red Change” — an online forum for students to create petitions about different University initiatives — at its meeting Thursday. The S.A. passed a resolution to convert all lighting in Willard Straight Memorial Hall from incandescent to LED. This change is an easy step that will save the University both money and energy, according to Gabriel Kaufman ’18. “We are actually sitting under about 300 incandescent light bulbs. What that means is that we are wasting a lot of electricity,” Kaufman said.