Last weekend, Big Red athletes had their first chance to play on Cornell's newest toxic playing field.

With this field Cornell is propping up the fossil fuel industry's latest death project: increasing plastics production. The "useful life" of this field will be 7-10 years; together with thousands of other plastic fields, its toxic legacy will last forever.

Read our blog at: https://www.cornellonfire.org/blog/newsletter-16-doggedly-sustaining-the-status-quo
Full story: https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/09/field-hockeys-new-marsha-dodson-field-is-complete-after-near-year-long-delay

#Cornell #Ithaca #plastic #pollution #university #sports

Newsletter #21 gives the scoop on what’s happened since our #Decarbonization Report provoked an op-ed from President Kotlikoff and a flurry of public presentations from #Cornell.

There are positive signs that #Ithaca will hold the line on their #fossil-fuel phaseout law by requiring Cornell's compliance — but Cornell won’t solve their gas problem without bottom-up pressure.

Read on to help us do so!

https://www.cornellonfire.org/blog/cornell-has-a-gas-problem

#climatechange #naturalgas #highered #universities #activism

Join us for a social experience: explore the “Double Reality” of performing normalcy in a climate emergency. —115 S Cayuga St, Ithaca, Fri Oct 3, 5-8pm (drop by anytime)

Thanks to Urban Core and @pressbayithaca for hosting this exhibit and leading local decarbonization efforts!
Double Reality: An Art-ivism Exhibit to End Climate Silence and Name Climate Criminals (a collaboration with XRIthaca and @SRTurtleIsland)

#climatechange #activism #art #cornell #ithaca #extinctionrebellion

Have you seen the Patagonia cracker box slogan "eating is activism?" Well, it is if you eat with activists.

CoF Faculty Fellow Marianne Krasny's latest Forbes piece indicates that coffee can be a force for good AND a force for revolutions.
Read it at https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariannekrasny/2025/09/16/can-coffee-be-a-force-for-good/

Have coffee + cookies with us at our monthly meeting this Sat 9/27 2pm at St Luke Lutheran Church in Collegetown!
CoFfeeeee! 🔥☕

#climate #coffee #activism #Cornell #ithaca #campus #highered #forbes

Imbibe coffee + break cookies with us at our monthly meeting this Saturday 9/27 from 2:00-3:30pm at St Luke Lutheran Church (thanks for having us) in Collegetown.

🔥☕ CoFfeeeee philosophy: We love coffee (and cookies) not the least because coffee houses have traditionally been hotbeds of free-thinking and revolution.

A special welcome to new members & coalition partners! Invite your friends and fellow activists.

#climatechange #activism #coffee #ithaca #cornell #students #highered #campus

Our Fall Kickoff Dinner welcomed new students to Cornell on Fire! 🔥 Student leaders introduced new members to our campaigns — including a fossil free degree, campus decarbonization, Student Assembly Resolution 20 for climate action, and free speech — and outlined ways to plug in.

Plus we enjoyed organic pizza from Adelina's🍕

Join us for Fridays on Fire next week, 9/26 from 12-2pm on Ho Plaza!

#Cornell #campus #students #climateaction #activism #climatechange #pizza #Ithaca #highered