Around 20 advocates from Zero Waste Ithaca and partner organizations gathered outside the City of Ithaca’s Planning Board meeting on Tuesday to protest Cornell’s plan to build a new athletic facility with…
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Miss NY USA Semifinalist Catherine Ching ’26 Uses Pageants to Promote Disability Equality, Environmental Responsibility
When Catherine Ching ’26 saw Pia Wurtzbach make history as the third Filipina woman to win Miss Universe in 2015, Ching felt inspired that she, too, could join the pageant world. “As…
Common Council to Vote Wednesday on Justice 50 Environmental Proposal
Ithaca’s Common Council is set to vote on a resolution to adopt the Justice 50 framework — a budgeting proposal setting the standards for funding disadvantaged communities in future environmental and capital…
Balancing Act: Ithaca Juggles Environmental Progress, Citizen Needs
Lisa Burger had a problem. In the spring of 2023, three out of the four fossil-fuel-based heating units that sat atop the roof at Lifelong Community Center stopped functioning. However, the process…