Cornell on Fire Weekly 7/5: On regeneration
Child at Reclaim Earth Day Ithaca 2024. Image by Sara Tro Photography
Dear Cornell on Fire,
Cornell on Fire will take a regenerative break in July to slow up and dig deeper.
Some of us will remain active in two working groups: one focused on Cornell’s relationship to the Ithaca Green Building Code/Ithaca Energy Code Supplement, and one focused on Cornell’s proposal for artificial turf fields at the Meinig Fieldhouse and beyond. If you want to share insights or support these working groups, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us (contact info below).
CoF Weeklies and Newsletters will pause during July, although we might share a few local calls to action. We’ll still be available by email (connect@cornellonfire.org). Feel free to get in touch anytime.
As we take a regenerative pause, we are grateful that earth has never taken a moment’s pause from supporting our lives. This month, we invite each one of you to actively contemplate what it will take to create the world we wish to live in. What would the university that upholds climate justice look like?
We look forward to resuming our movement communications in August, at which point we will also celebrate our one-year anniversary! We hope you’ll celebrate with us.
In the meantime, we wish you a safe and restorative July.
To reconnecting soon,
Cornell on Fire
If you’d like to get in touch with one of our July Working Groups, we’d love to hear from you:
Ithaca Energy Code Supplement Working Group:
Write to Dan (solardan26@gmail.com) and CoF (connect@cornellonfire.org)
Artificial Turf & Meinig Fieldhouse Group:
Write to bethany (bethany.o.mays@gmail.com) and Zero Waste Ithaca (info@zerowasteithaca.org)
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Plurivocality: CoF Weeklies are written by a revolving team of writers. Our movement is diverse, so are our thoughts, and so will be our Weeklies. If you receive a CoF Weekly that you think is wrong headed, can we still walk together? (We, like you, sometimes write things we later laugh at!)
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