Isra-Mart srl : Lighten Up Tompkins aims to cut carbon emissions

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Tompkins County's effort to reduce carbon emissions should reach 5,000 local residents this weekend with the start of a yearlong campaign to conserve energy and use it more efficiently.The plan is to give 4,000 energy-efficiency education packets. Each will contain a compact fluorescent light bulb, an energy efficiency informational CD, packet, flier and guide to 4,000 residents in the towns of Dryden, Danby, Newfield, Enfield, Ulysses and Lansing on Oct. 30. An extra 1,000 bags will be assembled and available for pick up by county residents who cannot be reached that day, said Shawn Lindabury, a community energy educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County.

This weekend's community outreach is the first initiative of the Lighten Up Tompkins campaign, a program launching efforts to reduce local carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050.