Nancy N. Doniger and The Little Village that Could: Montour Falls Answers the Climate Action Call As a certified Climate Steward and lover of the outdoors, Nancy N. Doniger uses her skills to add capacity to the Village of Montour Falls Sustainability Committee. Montour Falls, with a population of just 1,604, was the first ...
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Managing Wetlands for People and Beavers Erin Moran has been working on implementing a water leveler AKA “Beaver Deceiver” in Yankeetown Pond since she acquired rights to the wetland in 2018. Yankeetown Pond is a circumneutral bog lake in Woodstock, NY part of the Ashokan Watershed. Residents utilize the wetlands for recreational activities, even ...
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Smart Fertilizer Management Practices Lead to Smarter Agriculture Dr. Nancy Jacobson taught biology and a course on global warming for over 20 years at Ithaca College. She retired several years ago in order to spend more time as a volunteer at Citizens’ Climate Lobby including as the lead of their Agriculture Action Team. She has worked ...
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Climate Action in the Historic Village of Clinton Jack Persely has always loved the outdoors, especially backpacking and camping. From a young age, he was always concerned about climate change and the future. In 2011, Hurricane Irene left many streets of Clinton flooded and impassable, adding to the climate anxiety that had been slowly ...
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Planting Seeds of Change: How Joseph’s Volunteering Efforts are Inspiring a Greener Future Joseph Londa, a New Paltz Climate Smart Community Volunteer, is a true inspiration for those looking to make a difference in the fight against climate change. Through his volunteer work with the Climate Smart Communities program, he has been able to ...
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Cornell Climate Steward and Climate Action Innovator Lynne Bailey, from the Town of Hurley in Ulster County, is a leader in climate proactivity. For Ms. Bailey, education is an essential element of fostering climate action. Through her work as a Cornell Climate Steward and member of a Climate Smart Communities Task Force, she developed projects to foster climate awareness among residents of all ages. Focusing ...
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Cooking Up Change: The Inspiring Movement Towards Plant-Based Diets and Sustainable Agriculture Meg Jastran, a registered dietitian who loves to cook and a passionate advocate for climate change, has been volunteering her time to promote plant-based diets and reduce the consumption of animal products in her community. Meg is motivated by her belief that shifting towards plant-based diets is more beneficial for mitigating climate change and protecting people’s health because ...
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Developing Pollinator Pathways at Beacon Schools Holly O’Grady has been involved with a partnership project with Beacon’s Conservation Advisory Committee and the Beacon City School District as a Cornell Climate Steward (CCS) volunteer since 2022. The project focuses on creating pollinator pathways at the elementary schools. She had just recently moved to Beacon from ...
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Art as a Catalyst for Climate Action: The Impact of Youth Engagement Patricia Haines Gooding has been passionate about the arts and their power to inspire creativity and critical thinking for years. Her volunteer efforts focus on the relationship between the arts and climate change, particularly in engaging young people to become stewards of the environment through artistic expression. Patricia has led various projects, including organizing ...
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In June, CCE coordinators and training staff wrapped up the Spring 2023 session for the Cornell Climate Stewards program. Over the course of twelve weeks, volunteers across New York State received comprehensive training on climate change science, while also learning about how to plan and implement solutions for NY communities, in preparation for spearheading climate ...
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Making a Difference, Locally, One Step at a Time Valerie Percy is a speech pathologist in an elementary school in Kingston, New York and a community leader in Cornell University’s Climate Stewards (CCS) program. Her motivation to join the program began with a desire to combat feelings of powerlessness amidst a changing climate. She has now channeled her concern into ...
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On August 22nd and 23rd of 2022 the Cornell Climate Stewards team led by Allison Chatrchyan, Sr. Research Associate at Cornell University, and Katherine Bunting-Howarth, Associate Director for the New York Sea Grant and the Cooperative Extension, hosted a training event for current and new counties to participate in training this year’s cohort of ...
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March 31, 2022 | By Chris Gonzales Specialists at Cornell University and New York Sea Grant (NYSG) have established a program of stewards who are being trained to help their communities mitigate the causes of, and adapt to become more resilient to climate change. https://cals.cornell.edu/news/2022/03/ny-stewards-trained-work-local-climate-change-projects “Climate change is a monumental global challenge that won’t ...
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This September, the Cornell Climate Stewards training program will launch across six counties in New York. The program will equip residents of Tompkins, Dutchess, Ulster, Monroe, and Seneca counties, as well as residents of New York City, to take action to address climate change in their communities through educational outreach and community climate action ...
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Students in the Cornell Climate Smart Communities capstone class (ENVS4444) presented their final group projects in a “Local Climate Smart Communities Symposium” to provide an overview of local climate action through the NYS Climate Smart Communities program, introduce the new Cornell Climate Stewards Volunteer Program, and present the work of Cornell student teams’ final ...
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By delving into scientific, technological, environmental and economic data, Cornell Engineering researchers have examined whether New York could achieve a statewide carbon-free economy by 2050. Their finding: Yes, New York can reach this goal – and do it with five years to spare. Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in ...
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Drawing on Cornell’s expertise in climate change science and education, the Cornell Climate Smart Solutions Program is delivering a comprehensive training program for the New York Power Authority’s (NYPA) nearly 2,400 employees in New York. Cornell researchers, along with researchers from Clarkson University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, ...
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The Teacher-Friendly Guide™ to Climate Change is the newest addition to the Teacher-Friendly series from the Museum of the Earth. This book includes both the basics of climate change science and perspectives on teaching a subject that has become socially and politically polarized. The focus audience is high school Earth science and environmental science ...
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Benjamin Z. Houlton, director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment and professor of global environmental studies at the University of California, Davis, has been named the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Cornell Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff announced today. An accomplished environmental scientist, Houlton is ...
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William S. Nye ’77, better known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is set to speak at Senior Convocation on Saturday, May 25, at 12:30 p.m. on Schoellkopf Field, during Cornell’s 2019 Graduation Weekend. This event is open to the public. More information can be found here: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/04/bill-nye-77-speak-senior-convocation-2019 The popular science educator, engineer, comedian, ...
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