By Patrick Clear, Executive Director, ECOS: The Environmental Clearinghouse On March 4, over 140 people took part in the third Sustainable Development in the Capital Region of New York Conference, held at Union College in Schenectady, New York. It was titled “Toward a Sustainable Future,” and aimed at educating those on the front lines of [...]
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Sustainable Development in New York’s Capital Region
June 6, 2011Thousand Islands Young Leaders Organization Celebrates with Cleanup and Greenfest
June 3, 2011By Alicia Dewey, Thousand Islands Young Leaders Organization The Thousand Islands Young Leaders Organization (TIYLO) celebrated the 41st anniversary of Earth Day with its annual Community Clean Up and “Green Fest” Saturday, April 30th at the Cerow Recreation Park in Clayton, NY. Similar to last year’s festivities, the focus was to offer a “green” forum [...]
Growing Environmental Literacy in Connecticut
June 3, 2011By Laurel Kohl, Energy Education Specialist, Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University Connecticut Outdoor and Environmental Educators (COEEA) received a $1200 grant from the Community Catalyst Fund in December 2010. That money has helped to present viewings of Mother Nature’s Child to more than 200 individuals to date, with 23 showings scheduled. [...]
Somers Energy Expo Brings the Community Together
May 6, 2011By Herb Oringel, Chair, Somers Energy Advisory Panel On February 5, 2011, the Town of Somers, NY held an ambitious Energy Expo program at Somers High School. (View the agenda by downloading our flyer.) This event was aimed at informing and educating the people of Somers, both young and old, about the need to be [...]
Kent CT Takes the Pledge
May 6, 2011By Karren Garrity, Kent Energy and Environmental Task Force With support from the Community Catalyst Fund, the Kent Energy and Environmental Task Force launched the Kent Carbon Challenge in September 2010. This is a one year energy reduction challenge. We have had almost 200 people sign up! Of these 200, 82 have signed up for [...]
Healthy Drinking Water for Berne Knox Westerlo Elementary Students
April 29, 2011By Lisa Chase, Go Green Committee Chair, BWK PTA, Environmental Community Activist How to teach the three “R”s and provide healthy drinking water to Berne Knox Westerlo Elementary School students? That was the question the BKW PTA Go Green Team contemplated after deciding that reducing the plastic waste stream at the elementary school should be on [...]
Community Catalyst Fund Supports “Kid Power”
April 29, 2011By Janine Novak, Park Lake School PTA On Friday, March 4, 2011, through a grant from the Community Catalyst Fund, the students and staff at Park Lake School in New Jersey were presented with an absolutely delightful performance, “Kid Power and the Planet Protectors.” We learned about effective ways to preserve our environment by recycling, [...]
Verizon earns nod for powering up green vehicles!
April 1, 2011Bob Sheppard Vice President of CA-CP’s Corporate Program If you think it hurts when you fill with $ 4 gallon gas at the pump imagine what it’s like for one of the nation’s largest vehicle fleets. President Obama met today in Maryland with executives from FedEx, UPS, AT&T, PepsiCo and Verizon who deal with that reality daily. These [...]
100 Pro-RGGI Businesses
March 28, 2011Roger Stephenson, APR Vice President for Programs The list of NH businesses supporting RGGI in New Hampshire is growing and this morning stands at 92. Not bad for hardly trying. Its common sense - ask a business owner if s/he’d like to pay for RGGI, only to see the [...]
The Aspen Institute weighs in on Arctic Nations’ “Shared Future”
March 23, 2011By Brooks Yeager, Executive Vice President for Policy, CA-CP The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Arctic Climate Change publicly launched its final report, “The Shared Future,” at a March 16 Washington, D.C. event headlined by the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Dr. Jane Lubchenco. The eight Arctic nations – Canada, Denmark [...]
