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Dear friends, Last evening, I watched the election returns late into the night with a hundred Freiburg University students and fellow teaching staff, and felt the immensity of the results. Early this grey morning, I knelt down to Marelle, our beautiful three-month-old daughter. Holding my fingers with both hands, she looked up at me with […]

In this dispatch: Negotiations near close History in the making Change starts at home The new tide “The greatest climate crime of the century” Beyond Paris NEGOTIATIONS NEAR CLOSE Greetings from the Le Bourget convention site of the U.N. climate negotiations in Paris. As I write, participants are hurried finishing two weeks of intense high-profile […]

by Dominic Frongillo, Founding Member of the TCCPI Steering Committee As the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative (TCCPI) celebrates its fifth anniversary, it is an opportune moment to reflect on the progress made and challenges ahead. In the past five years, the county as a whole has moved forward in three major areas of climate […]

Dear friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues, After eight years of service to my hometown of Caroline, New York, this weekend I announced that I will step down from the Town Council in August to pursue a professional opportunity in Freiburg, Germany. Freiburg is a leading city in sustainability, and I will bring back what I learn […]

Frongillo on Fracking: Statement on Vote to Ban Gas Drilling September 11, 2012 I grew up here in Caroline. I’ve lived here all my life.  As child, I walked with my mother along our dirt roads picking up trash thrown from car windows. In summer, I caught grasshoppers in the fields near my house, and […]

Deputy Supervisor Frongillo leads statewide movement of elected officials to protect New Yorkers On Monday, June 4, more than 280 local elected officials from 34 counties across New York State called on Governor Cuomo to continue the fracking moratorium and to do additional study before a decision is made whether to allow fracking. Their request, which […]

Plenary Statement to ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability World Congress  Belo Horizonte, Brazil June 17, 2012 Distinguished colleagues,  my name is Dominic Frongillo, from Caroline, New York, in the United States. I am here representing the citizens of my town, who, like so many others, are pursuing a vision for sustainable future. We are the second […]