Ithaca Energy Code Supplement News Today

Initiatives of Ithaca's Sustainability and Climate Justice Comittee, Ithaca Green New Deal prompts $1.9 million for building decarbonization upgrades.

A community doesn’t have to be large to make a difference for the planet. Here are seven of the U.S.’s greenest small towns and cities.

ITHACA, NY -- Stupidly passionate and pathologically optimistic.

Only a small fraction of cities have taken advantage of federal emergency funding to house people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report on Grist.org. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been directed to reimburse cities for costs under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the report says. The reimbursement program is available through a 1988 law called the Stafford Act, with no cap on how much can be reimbursed. But to date...

ITHACA, NY -- As Incodema moves to a new facility in Dryden later this year, developer Linc Morse has ideas about what to make of its former building at 407 Cliff St. in Ithaca. His plans look at myriad possibilities, including units for short-term and long-term rentals, office space, meeting rooms, retail space, community meeting space, conference space and retail. The name proposed is the Cliff Street Retreat. However, because of the zoning in that area, the project was in front of the Planni...

ITHACA, NY -- The Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) heard feedback from the public at their Feb. 17 meeting about the Ithaca Energy Code Supplement, or the green building

The Planning and Economic Development Committee engaged in a lengthy discussion about the Ithaca Energy Code Supplement, the new building code designed to get Ithaca to its goal of carbon