The company’s web-site encourages visitors to “green your routine.” Instead of sending organic waste to the landfill, where it rots and produces methane gas, which warms the planet, people can compost kitchen scraps.…
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Editorial of April 11, 2024 Dancing in the Dirt We are almost there. Winter is almost over and spring is truly arriving. The highly anticipated solar eclipse has set us on the right course. What we saw here was only a tiny bit partial and ever so slightly cloudy, but we didn’t have to struggle up to the Adirondacks to see this glorious phenomenon. And so, with spring arriving and summer on our doorstep, it’s time to think about getting…
Supporters, opponents weigh the costs and benefits of New York’s climate plan New York’s state Legislature and Governor Cuomo approved the sweeping ‘Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’ (CLCPA) in 2019, setting in motion an aggressive climate change agenda mandating 100 percent zero-emissions electricity by 2040 through a Climate Action Council charged with developing a ‘scoping plan’ of recommendations to meet those and other targets. Critics say that plan – up for public comment through June 10, 2022 – is…