Ash for Trash swap ignites incinerator debate across two counties
In addition to our continuous action on fracking, the Iroquois Group is focused on a local issue called Ash for Trash. It involves the legislature of our neighbors to the south, Cortland, and Onondaga County.
Sustainable farming must start with good seeds
Scott Chaskey, a Long Island farmer, has written a brilliant, highly important and beautiful book. Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics, and Promise of Seeds is about something humanity has been deeply involved in and dependent upon throughout our time on Earth: seeds.
Most people will not change the way they eat until they face a crisis of some sort (for example, deadly disease, weight gain, chronic headaches or arthritic pain).
Two recent studies have confirmed growing evidence that air pollution from natural gas development is associated with birth defects and sickly newborns.
In a study presented to the American Economic Association in Philadelphia, researchers from Princeton, Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (including chemist John Deutch, former director of the CIA) studied Pennsylvania birth records from 2004 to 2011 to assess the health of infants born within a 10-mile radius of natural gas development sites.
Elections are held each year for at-large delegates to the Atlantic Chapter Executive Committee (ExCom). There are nine such members. Five are elected in even years, four in odd years. This year there were nine candidates. Five were elected.
Kate Bartholomew 276
Jeff Bohner 258
Diane Buxbaum 253
Carl Arnold 243
Jim Lane 219
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Hal Bauer 199
Don Young 157
Thelma Fellows 164
Art Klein 138
In writing this column, I try to step back from all the daily hurly-burly of conservation crises and to think outside of the box, see the big picture and the critical but perhaps sometimes hidden challenges, as we look strategically into the future.
by Ilana Solomon
By Michelle Wolfe
Climate change. Those two words sum up the most troubling issue facing our planet today. The truth is that the science is replete with doom-and-gloom scenarios, and many people feel discouraged and apathetic. The Sierra Club has responded to this challenge, and is actively working to change the national dialogue.
Bloomberg’s Hidden Environmental legacy: Climate Change and the Future of New York City, by Katherine Bagley and Maria Galucci, 2014, e-book, $3, InsideClimateNews.org
by Moisha Blechman
One million more people will live in New York City by 2030.
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