Projects

Please leave info in the comments below of your and your colleagues' current AR projects at Cornell and elsewhere.  Blog moderators will pull your text into the body of the page.  Please hyperlink your projects to appropriate web spaces or email addresses for easy navigation.

Building Bridges Initiative: A collaboration of organizations including the Dorothy Cotton Institute, Sustainable Tompkins, Natural Leaders Initiative,  CCE Environment Program, Whole Community Project, CCE’s Green Jobs Program, Ithaca College’s Commited-to-Change Program,Groundswell Center, Alternatives Federal Credit Union (AFCU) , the Multicultural Resource Center, Center for Transformative Action (CTA) and Dryden Solutions has launched the Building Bridges initiative for a socially just and sustainable local economy.  A news article from the Cornell Daily Sun can be found here.


Food Dignity began in April 2011 as an action research project engaging food insecure communities in building sustainable community food systems.  Within Tompkins County this USDA-AFRI grant works with Jemila Sequeira and the Whole Community Project.  If you would like to learn more about action research on the food system in Tompkins County feel free to contact cPARN member John Armstrong.

Rust to Green (R2G) New York State, founded in 2010 by five professors at Cornell University, is an emerging network and action research initiative. Academic, citizen and community partners are collaborating to explore and advance green futures for New York’s rust-belt cities. R2G is currently working in Utica & Binghamton to identify and design innovative ways to assist these cities in realizing their potential to become livable and resilient places. For more information visit www.rust2green.org or www.facebook.com/R2GUtica.