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Getting Your Money’s Worth: Take It Or Leave It Shop

By Lucia Iandolo, Mei Dennison, Ava Suffredini, Sammie Macaranas, and Christian Gratto • March 22, 2024

Lucia Iandolo and Mei Dennison explore the Take It Or Leave It Shop, Ithaca College's On-Campus, Free Thrift Shop in the newest episode of Getting Your Money's Worth.

First-year student Payton Romance looks at clothing from the Take It Or Leave It pop-up shop during the Sustainability Fair in the Textor Hallway on April 21.

Taking fast fashion slow with Take It Or Leave It

By Jadyn Davis, Staff Writer • April 26, 2023
Eco-Reps participated in the Sustainability Fair on April 21 with a pop-up Take It Or Leave It thrift shop that was free for students to peruse.
In future events, Eco-Reps representatives will meet the volunteers at the dining hall doors to be let in and show the process of packaging meals. 

Eco-Reps repackages leftover food for donations to nonprofit

By Vivian Rose, Staff Writer • April 19, 2023
Students can now go to the back of the Campus Center Dining Hall kitchen every Friday to repackage leftover food to donate.
From left to right, David Harker, director of the Center for Civic Engagement, senior Kelly Warren and Scott Doyle, director for the Office of Energy Management and Sustainability, plan to increase Eco-Reps' involvement with the campus and broader Ithaca community in 2022.

Eco-Reps plan for major outreach after a year of struggles

By Noa Ran-Ressler, Staff Writer • August 31, 2022
In recent years, IC Eco-Reps was forced to scale back as reduced funding and staff cutbacks left the program without staff to advocate for the students.
Junior Petar Odazhiev quit his internship position at the Office of Energy Management and Sustainability after leadership staff either resigned or were fired.

Environmental sustainability suffers from loss of leadership

By Lorien Tyne, Assistant News Editor • February 16, 2022
Environmental efforts at IC are deteriorating, according to campus members who have experienced a lack of staffing support in sustainability efforts.
Editorial: Ithaca is actively trying to lift its carbon footprint

Editorial: Ithaca is actively trying to lift its carbon footprint

By The Ithacan • November 18, 2021
As the presidential search continues, the search committee needs to take the potential president’s stance on the Ithaca Green New Deal into consideration
All around the Ithaca College campus, disposable masks are flattened to the ground, soggy with rain; wrappers are tangled in bushes and plastic cups lay tipped on their sides, attracting insects.

Increase in litter on campus leads to concerns

By Jadyn Davis, Contributing Writer • September 29, 2021
As the fall semester at Ithaca College progresses, students, staff and faculty have expressed their concerns about the increased amount of trash across campus.
The culture of environmentalism has seeped into life at Ithaca College — from the clothes that students wear to the water bottles they use.

Culture around environmentalism increases at Ithaca College

By Allie Ritcher, Contributing Writer • September 29, 2021
The culture of environmentalism has seeped into life at Ithaca College — from the clothes that students wear to the water bottles they use.
The SGC passed three bills — one creating a new committee for the SGC and two focusing on requirements for student organizations at the college.

SGC passes sustainability and health safety bills

By Syd Pierre, Staff Writer • December 2, 2020
The SGC passed three bills — one creating a new committee for the SGC and two focusing on requirements for student organizations at the college.
Rebecca Evans, campus sustainability coordinator for the Office of Energy Management and Sustainability, and junior Lauren Miller, project coordinator for Eco Reps, met with the SGC and spoke about the importance of student involvement with sustainability at the college. 

SGC discusses sustainability at the college

By Syd Pierre, Staff Writer • November 4, 2020
The Ithaca College Student Governance Council discussed sustainability at the college at its Nov. 2 meeting. 
Chefs from Maines Paper and Food Service Inc. repurposed slightly damaged food to make new dishes at an event held Feb. 4 in Emerson Suites.

Food tasting event aims to prevent food wasting

By Lucy Calderon, Contributing Writer • February 5, 2020
Chefs from Ithaca College, Cornell University and Maines Paper and Food Service Inc. came together Feb. 4 in the Emerson Suites to show students that “ugly” food tastes a lot better than it looks.
Editorial: Climate justice movement needs student-led activism

Editorial: Climate justice movement needs student-led activism

September 25, 2019
On Sept. 20, masses of young people all across the world gathered to participate in the Global Climate Strike.
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