By: Robert DeAngelis Do you have a sunny roof? Would you like to get 8-15% average annual return on your investment? Would you like to help the environment? Would you like to be more independent? Would you like to lower your electric bill? How about eliminating utility rate escalation from the picture for the next 25 years? My guess is…
Climate Induced Migration Brings a Moral Call to Action
By: Patty L. Buchanan* Scientists are able to measure and quantify the perilous rise in global mean temperatures caused by greenhouse gases. Using climate models, they can predict risks to ecosystems, extreme weather events that bring severe heat, droughts, hurricanes, floods, and sea level rise connected to global warming. Global warming changes habitats, which in turn compels migration of innumerable…
Stepping towards a Better Environment – Converting to Clean Elect
By: Laura Kosbar While many of the changes you may need to make to reduce your carbon footprint – such as getting a more fuel efficient or electric vehicle, upgrading your heating/cooling systems, or upgrading appliances – may take some planning and/or initial cash outlay, converting your electricity to “clean” generation sources is easy, quick, can even save you money…
Croton100’s Growing Impact is Seeded in CURE100
By: Patty L. Buchanan Croton100 continues to grow in impact! In addition to galvanizing our community through education and advocacy around carbon cutting campaigns, Croton100’s model to pair community action with data about carbon emissions by zip code is bringing together communities who share our vision. From its inception, Croton100 envisioned the creation of a coalition of communities that would share use of…
Yorktown100 plans for a greener future
By: Katherine Borchert Yorktown100, a group of Yorktown residents, aims to reduce the town’s carbon emissions by 100 percent by 2040. “Green-house gas emissions have risen dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, causing a plethora of adverse effects” said member Cara Donohoe. “Gasses such as carbon dioxide are released as a by-product of fossil fuel combustion and trap heat in the…
Stepping Towards a Better Environment
By: Robert DeAngelis Let’s make the world a cleaner, safer and healthier place. Like Michael Jackson said many years ago, we need to look at the “man in the mirror.” Why blame someone else, or wait for others to drive change? If each of us steps up to our individual responsibility, we can collectively make a big difference, starting today….
Power to the People: Community Solar Comes to Croton!
By: Leo Wiegman* What is Community Solar? Solar for the rest of us. New York State is a leader in adopting clean energy policy innovations with the most aggressive climate change program in the nation. It plans to have 6,000 MW of solar power by the year 2025. One of the most promising ways to get there is a new…
B-20 Home Heating Oil Enters the Inflection Point Conversation
By: Sheryl Goldberg They say we’ve reached an inflection point in our society. But what does that mean? An inflection point is the point at which the data starts trending in the opposite direction. Inflection points aren’t magical; something has to happen in order to “bend the curve.” As we reach another July 4th milestone, I am so proud of…
