Ithaca Seeks a Sustainability Specialist to Work on Green New Deal

Dan Burgevin’s Mural, “Sunrise on the Green New Deal,” located on the corner of West Buffalo Street and North Fulton Street in downtown Ithaca, NY. (Ithaca Murals) ITHACA, NY — The City of Ithaca is seeking to hire a Sustainability Specialist to help implement the City’s Green New Deal. The ambitious plan, adopted in June…

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Ithaca’s Global Climate Strike [AUDIO]

September 20th, 2019 goes down in history — in protests across the globe, six million people showed their solidarity against the global climate crisis. The march was sparked by Greta Thunberg’s “Fridays for Future” walk-out protests, in her home country of Switzerland. Every day the headlines are sprinkled with news of climate change. On a…

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Facing Climate Change: Ithaca’s Extinction Rebellion [AUDIO]

Art Weaver delves into his talk titled “Heading For Extinction (And What To Do About It)​” which is taking place Thursday at 7:30pm in the Borg Warner Room of the Tompkins County Public Library. The talk is part of Ithaca’s newly formed “Extinction Rebellion” movement, also known as “XR”. This interview first aired on August…

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Georgia Lesh and Robert Ross on the Paris Climate Agreement [AUDIO]

06/09/27: Elena Piëch interviewed Georgia Lesh and Robert Ross from the Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth. They spoke about the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and what citizens can do to address climate change. [mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/wrficommunityradionews/060917-paleontological-research-institution-elena-pi%C3%ABch/ width=100% height=60 hide_cover=1 mini=1 light=1]

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