De-carbonizing energy in our daily lives
Featuring fossil-fuel-free equipment, tools, & management strategies in NY!
November 20
10am-5pm
Entire Ag Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
(equipment, displays, methods, services: rain, snow, and shine)
+ Mann Library Foyer (featuring organizations with incentives, engagement activities, and green jobs)
free
Come learn about great innovations to de-carbonize our lives!
- See energy efficient technologies on display
- Find current state, federal, and utility incentives
- Identify technical support to help decarbonize homes, landscapes, farms, municipalities, and businesses in your community!
- Join us!
Types of Vendors – TRANSPORT
- EV: Trucks
- EV: Cars
- EV: Roadbikes
- EV: all-terrain recreation vehicles
Types of Vendors – HOMES
- PowerHouse Education Tool
- Weatherization Techniques
- Heat Pumps
- Electric Tools
- Insulation Materials (straw panels, compressed wood, etc)
- Home Battery BackUp (instead of fossil-generators)
- Rooftop Solar
- Advances in window technology
Types of Vendors – LANDSCAPING
(for homes, businesses, landscaping companies, municipalities)
- Electric mowers
- Electric blowers
- Electric mulchers/trimmers/hedgers/wackers
- Electric pole saw
- Electric chainsaws
- Portable Power Station and Inverters
- Electric snowblowers
- AI lawnmowers
Types of Vendors – AGRICULTURE/FORESTRY
- Energy Efficient Greenhouse Lighting Technology GLASE
- Precision Ag Drones
- Electric Mini-excavator
- Electric Skidsteers
- Reverse Osmosis for Maple Sugaring Operations
- Energy Audit (how to get one)
Tablers- OUTREACH
- 4H and Energy
- WindowDressers (Neighbors helping Neighbors retrofit leaky windows – a model to bring NY?)
- State and Local Community Organizations to help us all get there!
- EV-Make-Ready Program
- Citizens Climate Lobby
- Green Career Table
Types of Vendors – currently SEEKING
- Community Power
- Green Job Training
- EV-Bicycles and Human-powered bikes
- Internships to grow the next generation to de-carbonize
- Innovations in Windows and Doors
- Air Exchange Heat Recovery
- Battery Back-up Systems (instead of diesel generators for when the electricity goes out)
- Safety considerations (batteries, solar, HVAC gases)
- recycling EV batteries for grid storage
- an electric tractor (very illusive)
- green banks (loans for energy efficient retrofit)
- multi-story building plans to retrofit
- long-lived timber building materials (sequestering carbon in bridges, homes, skyscrapers)
- retrofitting your bike for battery (it can be dangerous – think brakes designed just for a you-powered-bike vs a battery-powered-bike)
- ESG for investing in de-carbonizing efforts
NEW– we are considering curating a few events – Let us know if you want to help out
- Landscaping equipment demo
- Career Service Events for undergraduates and graduates
- Celebratory Raffles (for Extension!)
- Don’t forget, anyone can stroll the campus naturalized landscapes which don’t use nearly as much energy!
ALSO,
on November 22, Energy Connection 2024 conference is being held at Cornell Tech in NYC (buses are $30 with registration, hosted by the Cornell Energy Club)
Hosted by a small working group of Cornell Cooperative Extension Agents and Mann Library and designed for the Cornell Cooperative Extension AgInservice.
Many thanks to the Cornell Facilities and Grounds Department for critical help supporting this event.
