Author: Michael Duttweiler

Important News About Local Community Choice Aggregation

Community Choice Aggregation Update: September 1, 2021 from Rod Howe (Town of Ithaca), Gay Nicholson (Sustainable Tompkins) and Luis Aguirre-Torres (City of Ithaca) The Park Foundation awarded the “Community Choice Aggregation in Tompkins County: Developing a Path Forward” proposal $50,000 (as opposed to the $72,000 request). This news along with the following additional inputs led to a series of summer...

Intensive Grazing For Carbon Capture

The following link is for a very interesting article from the NY Times on using intensive grazing in ways that build healthy soils while sequestering carbon.  A number of our local farmers are using this type of grazing and are very enthusiastic. This is part of the efforts being made on regenerative agriculture techniques. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/climate/regenerative-grazing-cattle-climate.html

New York State’s $226 Billion Pension Fund Moves to Divest from Riskiest Oil and Gas Companies

December 9, 2020 New York State’s $226 Billion Pension Fund Moves to Divest from Riskiest Oil and Gas CompaniesBig news today! New York State just became the largest pension fund in the world to take comprehensive climate action, including fossil fuel divestment. The $226 billion state pension fund will review and divest from the riskiest oil and gas companies within 4...