<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Sara Hess <<a href="mailto:sarahess630@gmail.com">sarahess630@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Save money with Energy-Efficient Home Heating Program</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">September 21, 2015 9:02:44 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu">tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu">tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Sara Hess <<a href="mailto:sarahess630@gmail.com">sarahess630@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">Help Spread the Word </span></b></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px"><br></span></b></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">An Energy-Efficient Home Heating Program to <u>Get Off Fossil Fuels</u>!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">Public information meetings for HeatSmart Tompkins are happening all around Tompkins County.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">Please Come! And tell All your Friends!</span></i></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px"><u>This week </u></span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px"><b>Tuesday, Sept 22 </b>7pm Varna Community Center, 943 DRyden Road</span></i></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><b>Wednesday, Sept 23, </b>7pm Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St., T'burg</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">Thursday Sept 24</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px"> 7pm Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga St., Ithaca</span></i></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">(See below for full schedule of 15 more meetings during the next 6 weeks, scroll down to the bottom of this message.)</span></i></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><b><u><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">HeatSmart Tompkins Program</span></u></b></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">Last year, Solar Tompkins gave residents a simple way to connect with solar panel installers. The result was more than 400 new photovoltaic systems, more than doubling the number in the county.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">This year, Solar Tompkins is promoting weatherproofing and super efficient heat pumps that run 67% on renewable energy. </span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">On average, 75 percent of the energy used by homes goes for heating and cooling.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">Heat pumps draw heat from the ground or the outside air and transfer it to the interior of the home. They run on electricity and can be used for heating in the winter and cooling in the summer. Both ground-source and air-source heat pumps are effective at the low temperatures typical of this region. </span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">Solar Tompkins recently selected three companies – Halco, NP Environmental, and Zerodraft – as its partners in the HeatSmart program. “These are fantastic businesses that offer top-notch services,” Johnston, (HeatSmart Director) said. </span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px"> At the information meetings, residents will have a chance to learn about the program, meet the installers, and sign up for a free home energy assessment.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">“Enrolling in HeatSmart Tompkins is a great next step for people looking for ways to shrink their carbon footprints. For many families, it will also make immediate economic sense.”</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; border-style: none none double; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 6.75pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; "><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px">HeatSmart Tompkins is a program of Solar Tompkins, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to advancing a renewable energy future while providing comfort, economic security, and ecological stability. Go to <a href="http://SolarTompkins.org">SolarTompkins.org</a> for more information.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(241,162,77)">Upcoming HeatSmart Community Meetings</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"><br><br>HeatSmart Tompkins is hosting 2 community meetings in each town in Tompkins County throughout September and October 2015. These educational events are being led by Solar Tompkins, and will focus on all-you-need-to-know-made-easy introductions to heat pump technology. These meetings will provide one of three ways to enroll in the program, introduce our 3 Installer Partners, and have dedicated time for attendees to meet, discuss and learn more about the products and services our different partners can provide.</span></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><tbody style="width:996px"><tr><td width="50%" style="width:463px;padding:0in 11.25pt"><div style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b>September 15, 2015 - Enfield Community Meeting</b><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span><u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Enfield Valley Grange (178 Enfield Main Road)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt">, 7 - 9pm<b><br><br>September 16, 2015 - Danby Community Meeting<br></b></span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/1830+Danby+Rd/@42.3539778,-76.4819969,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x89d07fc06121fb23:0x482da2568165e081" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Danby Town Hall (1820 Danby Rd)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt">, 7 - 9pm<b><br><br>September 17, 2015 - Caroline Community Meeting<br></b></span><u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Brooktondale Community Center (524 Valley Rd)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt">, 7 - 9pm<br><br><b>September 19, 2015 - City and Town of Ithaca Community Meeting</b><br></span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://goo.gl/maps/Xsnjs" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Lehman Alternative Community School (</span></a><a rel="nofollow" href="https://goo.gl/maps/Xsnjs" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">111 Chestnut St)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt">, 10am- Noon<br><br><b>September 22, 2015 - Dryden Community Meeting <br></b></span><u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Varna Community Center (943 Dryden Road</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt">), 7 - 9pm<br><br><b>September 23, 2015 - Ulysses Community Meeting<br></b></span><u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Ulysses Town Hall (10 Elm St, Trumansburg)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt">, 7 - 9pm<br><br><b>September 24, 2015 - City and Town of Ithaca Community Meeting</b><br></span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://goo.gl/maps/SppEq" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Ithaca Town Hall (</span></a><a rel="nofollow" href="https://goo.gl/maps/SppEq" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">215 North Tioga St)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt">, 7 - 9pm<br><br><b>September 29, 2015 - Caroline Community Meeting</b><br></span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://goo.gl/maps/2wERf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Caroline Center Church (719 Buffalo Road)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt">, 7 - 9pm<br><br><b>October 3, 2015 - Enfield Community Meeting</b><br></span><u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Enfield Valley Grange (178 Enfield Main Road)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt">, 10am - Noon <br><br></span></div></td><td width="50%" style="width:463px;padding:0in 11.25pt"><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(134,134,134)">October 6, 2015 - Ulysses Community Meeting<br></span></b><a rel="nofollow" href="https://goo.gl/maps/oTKEZ" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Franziska Racker Center (3226 Wilkins Road)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(134,134,134)">, 7 - 9pm<b><br> <br>October 7, 2015 - Dryden Community Meeting <br></b></span><u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Dryden Fire Hall (26 North St)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(134,134,134)">, 7 - 9pm<b><br><br>October 8, 2015 - Newfield Community Meeting<br></b></span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://goo.gl/maps/pZje4" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Newfield Fire Hall (77 Main St)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(134,134,134)">, 7 - 9pm<b><br><br>October 10, 2015 - Danby Community Meeting<br></b></span><u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">W Danby Fire Hall (47 Sylvan Lane Spencer)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(134,134,134)">, 10am - Noon <b><br><br>October 13, 2015 - Lansing Community Meeting <br></b></span><u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Lansing Town Hall (29 Auburn Road)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(134,134,134)">, 7 - 9pm<b><br><br>October 17, 2015 - Lansing Community Meeting<br></b></span><u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">YMCA (20 Graham Road)</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(134,134,134)">, 10 AM - Noon<br></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><br><b>October 20, 2015 - Groton Community Meeting<br></b></span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/204+E+Cortland+St/@42.590445,-76.365747,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x89da74003ada737d:0xb10f1fd1266efaff" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Groton Community UCC Church (204 E Cortland St)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt">, 7 - 9pm<b><br><br>October 24, 2015 - Newfield Community Meeting<br></b></span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://goo.gl/maps/pZje4" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Newfield Fire Hall (77 Main St)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt">, 10am - Noon<b><br><br>October 27, 2015 - Groton Community Meeting<br></b></span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/204+E+Cortland+St/@42.590445,-76.365747,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x89da74003ada737d:0xb10f1fd1266efaff" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212)"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue">Groton Community UCC Church (204 E Cortland St)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt">, 7 - 9pm<b><br></b><br><b>Date TBD, 2015 - Final Community Meeting </b><br>Location and Time, TBD</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><font color="#888888"><div style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px"> </span></div></font></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><i><b>"We must push off into the middle of the river and keep our heads above water." 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