This past weekend Empire State Future teamed up with the Green Tech High Varsity Basketball Team and Youth-EdVenture Nature Network (YENN) to cut down invasive vines on the Corning Preserve bike trail in downtown Albany. We even had the Mayor of Albany, Kathy […]
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Syracuse’s downtown has seen an astonishing 47 percent increase in residential population in the last decade, including a 21 percent spike in just the last three years. Cynics will probably say the statistics are impressive only because the downtown population […]
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[Photo courtesy of Groundwork Hudson Valley] Trees are our greenest form of infrastructure. They provide shade, cooling, beauty, and oxygen. Trees support road and rail embankments by holding soil in place. They help drainage. They sequester CO2. They can also […]
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For over two decades Elise Johnson-Schmidt has focused her preservation architecture efforts on buildings in Corning–and has branched way beyond, dedicated to bringing new life to the upper floors of historic buildings in communities throughout the state. Her projects include […]
continue readingAcross the Hudson River from Albany is Rensselaer, known now as the location of the impressive new Albany train station. But Rensselaer is a city, too, and an ambitious plan is afoot to transform it. Read more in Albany Times […]
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I too was a drop in the river of 350,000 climate change marchers in Manhattan a few weeks ago. I was glad to be there amidst the largest climate change event ever. The buzz that day reminded me of the […]
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(Photo courtesy of Syracuse.com: Supporters of the plan to house immigrant children on the campus of the former Maria Regina College) If it were only a case of 50,000 destitute children interned for trying to enter the United States, we would […]
continue readingSolar City will open the Western Hemisphere’s largest solar panel manufacturing operation in South Buffalo on the site of a former steel plant, and is poised to bring with it more jobs (3,000 possible) than the steel plant ever had, […]
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photo Syracuse.com A prominent building in downtown Syracuse went dark in 2008 when major regional employer Excellus moved their people to the suburbs. Soon, the building will be 73 apartments, right in the heart of downtown. Read more at Syracuse.com […]
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Legoland is talking about building a theme park in Rockland County, and as you might expect, the idea has its vehement supporters and detractors. LoHud.com posits in a recent article that the tax base generated by the park could severely […]
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