Cornell Botanic Gardens
Class of 1945 Lecture Covers Racial Equity in Environmentalism
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Dr. Carolyn Finney delivers the Cornell Botanic Gardens’ annual Class of 1945 speech, addressing racial justice in green spaces.
Cornell
Cornell Alum Creates Crowdfunding Platform for Environmentally Sustainable Businesses
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“With Greenfundr, I took that environmental sector, broke it up into a bunch of different categories, like sustainable fashion, clean energy and sustainable agriculture, and built a platform that’s completely dedicated to green projects.”
sustainability
Cornell Scores $10 Million For Poultry Research
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“The purpose is to try and make U.S. poultry production more sustainable and more profitable for the producers,” said Prof. Xingen Lei, animal science, one of the co-principal investigators on the project, explaining that the project stands to disrupt one of America’s largest and most ubiquitous consumer markets.
Green New Deal
A Planner, Policymaker and Activist Voice Their Visions for the Ithaca Green New Deal
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A miniature version of its national namesake, Ithaca’s plan aims to create 100% renewable electricity by 2025 and reduce emissions from the municipal vehicle fleet by 50% by 2025 with the ultimate goal of “achiev[ing] carbon-neutrality community-wide by 2030.”
Science
Invasive Plants out, Native Plants in: City of Ithaca Implements Biodiversity Revival Program
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The project was inspired by the desire of the Town of Ithaca “to help promote biodiversity, provide shelter and food (nectar, pollen, seeds, nuts, leaves, etc.) for wildlife, and support pollinators,” wrote Michael Smith, senior planner of the Town of Ithaca, in a press release.
Opinion
HUA | Plastic Straw Paranoia
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I collapsed into a chair in Libe with my third coffee of the day in hand. It was a typical college experience: running on little to no sleep for the third night in a row, desperately trying to cling on to every single neuron as I tried to finish everything before I lost another night of sleep. As I let out a long sigh, my friend shot daggers at me with her eyes. “What?” I asked, not entirely hiding my exasperation. “This is the second plastic straw you used today,” she replied, angry at my apparent lack of environmentalist fervor.
Gender and environmentalism
Professor Argues Increasing Focus on Environmentalism Has Negative Effect on Gender Roles
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This “back to the kitchen” approach to environmentalism, Prof. Jennifer Bernstein argued, ignores financial realities, setting an unrealistic expectation for females who have just recently began to achieve economic independence from the domestic sphere.