By Bob DeAngelis, Yorktown100 As the earth circles the sun, and a new year begins, it’s a great time for renewing our commitments towards something better. This year, how about committing to learning more about our impacts on the environment and taking action to reduce them? There are many areas that each one of our households impacts: water pollution, air…
By Susan Buck & Laura KosbarPublished in Yorktown News, February 2024 Has your child or a young friend asked why the skies were orange last June, why it doesn’t snow like it used to, or even queried “What is climate change?” Have you been able to answer their questions or have you found yourself just trying to allay their fears…
By: Susan Buck and Robert DeAngelis What does it take to run an effective decarbonization campaign? How can we find reasoned yet convincing opportunities to guide and impact both our municipalities and our neighbors? I think we are all grappling with these questions. Here are some things that we at Yorktown100 have done to increase our success over the last…
By Bob DeAngelis As the price of fossil fuels increases, the opportunities for savings do too. Each of the actions below can save money and help the environment. Here are some ideas that I recommend you consider: Home Heating Get a free home energy audit. The contractor will identify areas for improvement and investment. This provides the foundation for any…
By Mary Ann Kelly What happens to your recyclables after you put them in the bins for curbside collection? We have all heard the news that China stopped taking imported recyclables and most of our recyclables end up in landfills. But here in Westchester County, that is not the case. More than 90% of the County’s recyclables collected at the…
By Laura Kosbar Let’s start with some basics – like what is cryptocurrency and how does it differ from other currencies? Most currencies up until now were issued and backed by a specific nation. Cryptocurrency is an entirely digital currency that is not associated with or controlled by any nation, bank, or other financial institution. It is entirely virtual. The…
By Cyril Cabral, Jr. If someone had told you a few years ago that there would be a pandemic in the future that would kill between 5 to 11 million worldwide (depending how you count them) you would likely not have believed it. If you were then told it could be stopped by wearing a mask and keeping a distance…
Author: Robert De Angelis I have spent years studying many aspects of our environment and the impacts of humans. I am becoming more and more stressed out with the things I see regularly. I often wonder how everyone perceives the things in our everyday lives. How do we not see the obvious? To illustrate this, I put together a little…
Cyril Cabral, Jr. The Case for Man-Made Climate Change Have you ever walked up to your car on a pleasant afternoon and once inside realized it was a blast furnace? You start to overheat and do not want to touch your hot steering wheel; this is greenhouse warming. The brilliant sunshine through the windows warms everything in your car as…
You know the climate is warming and you may even know why [the Greenhouse Effect due to man-made emissions]. You know there’s an imbalance in nature because you’re experiencing wild extremes in weather and have watched at least several television specials about the extinction of plant and animal species. Perhaps you shrug – what can you do anyway? Well, there…
