Get Your GreenBack Tompkins is a community-based campaign to inspire all 42,000 households and every business in Tompkins County
to take at least one step to save energy and money in the areas of
Food,
Waste,
Transportation,
and Heating and Lighting
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"Over 3,000 walkers, bikers, strollers, rollers, and dancers came out on beautiful 5/5 to enjoy a mile and a half of car-free streets! If 3,000 people drive a mile, that's $1,800 spent on cars and fuel... more
Streets Alive! - May 6, 2013
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"At the 2013 Community Supported Agriculture Fair, held March 2nd at Boynton Middle School, nearly 250 people had the opportunity to meet with 29 CSA Farmers and consider the many options available in ... more
Avi Miner - March 11, 2013
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"The Compost Education Program of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins played a huge role in many Public Events throughout Tompkins. Some of the public events that Master Composters and educat... more
Compost Education Program, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County - March 2, 2013
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"TCAT + Bike Rack = OPTIONS! If I 'need' to go to the mall, I like to bus there and bike back. It's such a nice ride!
Our bikes at Regal Cinemas to see a film in late December."
Daniel Keough - January 6, 2013
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"Tompkins Community Action is sealing up and insulating 50 units of senior housing in Willowbrook Manor. TCA has also installed energy efficient lighting, low-flow aerators and showerheads, and has rep... more
Tompkins Community Action - March 7, 2013
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"I make dolls and fabric furniture from recycled materials and sell them at the Farmers' Market."
Bonnie Dee - April 22, 2013
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May Step of the Month: Get Your Bike Back!
May is a great month to dust off your 10-speed, and use it to get to school, to get to work, to get to all the wonderful events around the County, and to Get Your GreenBack!
Come out Sunday, May 5th for Streets Alive! Walk, bike, roll, or dance down Cayuga Street in Ithaca from 1 to 4 pm, and enjoy the safety and freedom of streets that are closed to cars, and open to healthy, family Getting there
Join 100s of others for Bike to Work/School Day on Thursday, May 16th. Look for breakfast stations around the City of Ithaca.
Going to the International Youth Arts & Culture Festival, Spring Garden & Plant Sale, Ithaca Festival? Check out your transportation options to those festivals, and get your greenback by getting there!
For help getting to other events and other transportation questions, call 2-1-1 or Way2Go at 272-2292.
Register Your Step this month and win prizes from The Bike Rack, Cayuga Ski & Cyclery, and Swan Cycles!
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"As clouds gave way to sunshine on Sunday, 9/23, Cayuga street came alive as around 2,500 children and adults enjoyed a car-free opportunity to walk, bike, dance, hula-hoop and meet new people. Some c... more
Streets Alive! - September 25, 2012
Featured Resources
More →- The Bike Rack
- Cayuga Ski & Cyclery
- Finger Lakes Running & Triathlon Co.
- Swan Cycles
- Old Goat
- Outdoor Store
- Ithaca Antique Mall (used bikes)
Friends Bike Clinics are free weekly bike repair gatherings in Ithaca NY April to September on:
--Tuesdays 4pm to 6pm at Pressbay Alley (Green and Geneva in Downtown Ithaca)
--and Sundays 1pm to 3pm at the Quaker Meetinghouse ( Third and Madison in Northside Ithaca)
YOU bring your bicycle and a willingness to get your hands dirty. WE bring air pumps, chain oil, tools and expertise. See friendsbikeclinic.org for a calendar of events.
Recycle Ithaca’s Bicycles is an education and support program of the Southside Community Center. We are a community bicycle program that has operated in Ithaca for over 20 years. RIBs accepts donations of unwanted bicycles, effectively rerouting them from landfills. RIBs staff and RIBs members refurbish the bicycles to good working condition and redistribute them to community members. We do this by ‘gifting’ (donating) refurbished bicycles to local non-profit organizations and/or human service agencies that serve low to moderate income individuals in the City of Ithaca and/or Tompkins County. RIBs does not donate bicycles to individuals! RIBs provides City of Ithaca youth and adults alike with a safe, structured environment where people of all ages can learn about bicycle repair while working cooperatively and constructively with others.
The Fingerlakes Cycling Club hosts a slow ride each Thursday night spring through fall, with beginning cyclists in mind. The rides start at 5:30 pm, near the Cayuga Medical Center, and takes a tour around low traffic roads with gentle terrain, offering an opportunity for new riders to get comfortable riding their bikes. Cycling club members are there to answer questions and help new cyclist form safe riding habits. On Thursday, May 17, the ride will start with a short session on safe cycling on city streets. Contact Andrejs Ozolins for details. (andrejs@ozolins.com)
Bike Ithaca is an informal group of people interested in getting around by non-motorized means and committed to making Ithaca more hospitable to that kind of travel. Among us are recreational cyclists, bike commuters, car-less families, and lots of people who, while remaining members of a car-dominated society, are working toward a greener vision. And, of course, people whose way of decreasing dependence on motor vehicles is to walk or take the bus rather than drive.
How Do You Get YOUR GreenBack?
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Supporting the communities of Ithaca, Lansing, Dryden, Freeville, Groton, Trumansburg, Cayuga Heights, Caroline, Danby, Newfield, Enfield and Ulysses in taking energy-saving steps.