October 12, 2021 USDA Report on Agriculture Adaptation to Climate Change The USDA has released a report concerning plans for adaptation to climate change in the field of agriculture. https://www.sustainability.gov/pdfs/usda-2021-cap.pdf Categories Articles/Natural Resources News/Programs Comments: 0
September 27, 2021 Auction Cancelled for Largest Remaining Private Shoreline in Finger Lakes Thanks to the efforts of many residents, organizations, and our governor and representatives in NYS, the Bell Station land will not be auctioned. Instead it looks as if the Finger Lakes Land Trust, working with the DEC, will be able to save the land for public rather than private use. Categories Articles/Natural Resources News Comments: 0
September 5, 2021 Important News About Local Community Choice Aggregation Community Choice Aggregation Update: September 1, 2021 from Rod Howe (Town of Ithaca), Gay Nicholson (Sustainable Tompkins) and Luis Aguirre-Torres (City of Ithaca) The Park Foundation awarded the “Community Choice Aggregation in Tompkins County: Developing a Path Forward” proposal $50,000 (as opposed to the $72,000 request). This news along with the following additional inputs led to a series of summer... Categories Articles/Natural Resources News Comments: 0
April 28, 2021 Energy Costs of Processing Bitcoins An excellent article on the Greenidge plant (southeast of Rochester)and bitcoins. The processing of bitcoin transactions is very energy intensive and is done at this plant “behind the meter” to avoid the regulations that cover normal power plants. It is useful to read the whole article to get a feeling for how bad this is with regard to the use... Categories Articles/Natural Resources News Comments: 0
April 3, 2021 Economic Impact of Climate Change Janet Yellen has analyzed the economic impact that climate change will have and has called it and “existential threat” to financial markets. This may mean that more economists will face up to the need to take it seriously and not simply put it into the category of “externalities”. Here is her statement: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/31/yellen-climate-change-fsoc-478769 Categories Articles/Natural Resources News Comments: 0
March 24, 2021 Environmental Justice, Climate Change, and the Green New Deal Below is a link for a Utube video from Grandmothers 4 a Green New Deal.It is excellent and focuses on issues concerning environmental justice as well as a giving a general discussion of climate change and the Green New Deal.Grandmothers4AGreenNewDeal.org Categories Articles/Natural Resources News Comments: 0
February 24, 2021 Intensive Grazing For Carbon Capture The following link is for a very interesting article from the NY Times on using intensive grazing in ways that build healthy soils while sequestering carbon. A number of our local farmers are using this type of grazing and are very enthusiastic. This is part of the efforts being made on regenerative agriculture techniques. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/climate/regenerative-grazing-cattle-climate.html Categories Articles/Natural Resources News Comments: 0
December 16, 2020 Largest Wildlife Crossing in US December 16, 2020 Largest Wildlife Crossing in USAt the link below you will find a wonderful picture of and information on a land bridge, which connects San Antonio’s Phil Hardberger Park across a six-lane highway. It opened Friday afternoon for people and animals. The project took ten years and the bridge is now the largest completed wildlife crossing of its kind... Categories Articles/Natural Resources News Comments: 0
December 9, 2020 New York State’s $226 Billion Pension Fund Moves to Divest from Riskiest Oil and Gas Companies December 9, 2020 New York State’s $226 Billion Pension Fund Moves to Divest from Riskiest Oil and Gas CompaniesBig news today! New York State just became the largest pension fund in the world to take comprehensive climate action, including fossil fuel divestment. The $226 billion state pension fund will review and divest from the riskiest oil and gas companies within 4... Categories Articles/Natural Resources News Comments: 0
December 4, 2020 Reducing Road Salt December 4, 2020 Reducing Road SaltGov. Cuomo has signed a bill aimed at reducing road salt in NYS. Throughout the state there are serious problems concerning salt in our lakes and water supplies. This bill involves a study of alternatives, but one key alternative seems to be the use of brine instead of rock salt on the roads. The following article... Categories Natural Resources News Comments: 0