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From left, Rebecca Evans, acting director of sustainability for the City of Ithaca; Terry Carroll, chief sustainability officer of the Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability; and Nick Goldsmith, sustainability planner for the Town of Ithaca spoke at a panel titled “Demystifying Decarbonization.”

Campus community engages in Sustainability Week events

By Vivian Rose, Staff Writer • April 19, 2023
From April 17 to 22, Ithaca College’s Sustainability Week offered students opportunities to educate themselves about sustainability. 
The official name of the decarbonization plan is the Efficiency Retrofitting and Thermal Load Electrification Program and the plan is starting with the electrification of buildings, which means changing energy in homes that use fossil fuels to electric technologies. Nationally, residential and commercial buildings account for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions. 

City of Ithaca to become 100% decarbonized by 2030

By Caroline Grass, Staff Writer • November 18, 2021
The City of Ithaca found itself on the national stage Nov. 4 as the city announced the approval of a plan to decarbonize all of its buildings by 2030.
Four Ithaca College students are conducting a travel survey for employees at the college to evaluate how much carbon emissions are released for business travel.

Students conduct survey to record college employee travel emissions

By Madison Fernandez, Staff Writer • December 5, 2017
A group of Ithaca College graduate students is conducting a survey to gather data about staff and faculty travel habits on college-related business.
Some colleges and universities are covering all of their energy needs by renewable sources. Despite the progress made with Ithaca College's recent solar project, when comparing the college’s 10 percent to numerous other colleges' and universities', the college does not measure up.

Ithaca College still behind on renewable energy usage

By Sophie Johnson, Contributing Writer • March 22, 2016
Ithaca College is still behind on using renewable energy compared to other colleges and universities nationally, despite its recent adoption of solar energy to cover 10 percent of the college's energy needs.
Ithaca College's Climate Action Plan goals for 2015.

Ithaca College’s greenhouse gas emissions increase

By Faith Meckley, Staff Writer • March 18, 2015
Despite Ithaca College’s goal to decrease total emissions by 25 percent from 2007, records show emissions have actually increased.
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