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Finger Lakes Climate Fund

By WRFI News Staff

Gay Nicholson, executive director of Sustainable Tompkins, explains how the Finger Lakes Climate Fund works. Use a calculator to estimate your carbon footprint when you fly across the country, drive downtown, or generate carbon another way. Then purchase an offset based on the carbon your activity emits. Funds raised by Sustainable Tompkins are funding energy…

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Women’s March on Washington- Part Two- January 24th, 2017

By WRFI News Staff

This is part two of Esther Racoosin’s feature about the Women’s March on Washington.  In this segment, she speaks with additional marchers who talk about their reasons for attending the march, why they are worried about the Trump administration, and how they will be taking action in the future. This feature aired on the January…

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Women’s March on Washington-Part One- January 23rd, 2017

By WRFI News Staff

Esther Racoosin of the WRFI News team went to Washington DC on Saturday, January 21st, along with about 410 people in a group organized by RiseUp Ithaca.  She spoke with a number of people attending the march about their reasons for going to the rally and protest, their thoughts about the election, and the future.…

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Making Ithaca a Safe Harbor for Undocumented Immigrants

By WRFI News Staff

Ithaca Alderperson Cynthia Brock speaks on the Common Council’s plans to make Ithaca a safe place for undocumented immigrants. This interview with WRFI’s Lori Sonken aired on January 16, 2017.

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