New York State


New York State community action

Sustainability initiatives

Local sustainability initiatives

Please see our Local communities in New York State pages, where of course you can share any more information you may have about local sustainability initiatives.

Biodiversity

Biodiversity, information from NYS Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation

Climate action

SeaChange: We All Live Downstream, collaborative art & activism project, navigating the Hudson River, climate change, and water as commons in the summer and fall of 2014.

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New York ranks 46th among the 50 states in the amount of greenhouse gases generated per person. This relative efficiency is primarily due to the state's higher rate of mass transit use. [1]

Coasts

Clean Ocean Action

Community energy

Community Environmental Center, not-for-profit provider of energy efficiency, green building and sustainability services

Wikipedia: Solar power in New York, Wind power in New York

Cycling activism

wikipedia:List of New York State Bicycle Routes

Education for sustainability

wikipedia:List of nature centers in New York

Environment quality

Riverkeeper, environmental non-profit membership organization dedicated to the protection of the Hudson River and its tributaries, as well as the watersheds that provide New York City with its drinking water. (Wikipedia), see also Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic

Food activism

Essex Farm Institute

Open spaces

Adirondack Trail Improvement Society - Genesee Valley Conservancy - New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse and Recycling, organization which seeks to promotes use of recycling throughout New York State. It promotes a wide variety of techniques for reuse of resources, and also assists local communities who wish to expand and develop their recycling activities. W

Sharing

University Heights Tool Library, Buffalo

Sustainable transport activism

Wikipedia: New York transportation proposals

Walking: Wikipedia: Hiking trails in New York (category)

Waterways: Early transportation in New York State was primarily by rivers and canals. Today, the canals are primarily used for recreation. Wikipedia: New York, Canals

Towards sustainable economies

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Resources

Citizens data initiative

Energy & Environmental Data for New York

Other resources

News and comment

2019

Good Work for Local Living Economies by @eldorn, Feb 18 [2]

2016

Dam destruction major victory for Mohawk tribe, Dec 12 [3]

How One Farm Is Reinventing Agriculture for Better Food and a Brighter Future, Nov 28 [4]

New York Assembly Approves Climate Bill That Would Cut Emissions to Zero, Jun 1 [5]

2015

The Wind and Sun Are Bringing the Shine Back to Buffalo, July 20 [6]

New York just showed every other state how to do solar right, March 6 [7]

2014

State's Top Court Says Towns Can Ban Fracking, June 30 [8]

Tenfold solar expansion approved for New York state, April 25 [9]

Local communities in New York State


Wikipedia: New York State


References

  1. ↑ wikipedia:New York#Climate
  2. ↑ medium.com
  3. ↑ @AJENews
  4. ↑ Shareable
  5. ↑ insideclimatenews.org
  6. ↑ The New York Times
  7. ↑ Mother Jones
  8. ↑ huffingtonpost.com
  9. ↑ The Ecologist
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