CNY ecoBlog

The Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council (SMTC) has been doing some nice work studying and surveying bicycle and pedestrian issues in Onondaga County and the City of Syracuse. The website for the Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan has a lot of worthwhile information and the final report is available for viewing. The Bicycle and Pedestrian [...]

“We are now reminded to be aware of our place upon this Earth.
And to fulfill our obligations to ourselves, our family, nation,
natural world and to the Creater.
The words say we are to awaken! Stand up! Be counted!
For you are being recognized in the spirit world.” – From Joanne Shenandoah’s
Prophecy Song.mp3

The city of Batavia will receive $108,000 to help clean up a former industrial site that local officials are hoping to redevelop. The money is part of a $1.2 million state grant for 10 sites in eight counties. The city of Batavia will receive $108,000 to help clean [...]

A large amount of phosphorus in Owasco Lake comes from agricultural runoff, excess fertilizer used on residential properties and residents disposing of yard waste in stormwater drains that lead to the lake.

With more nutrients like phosphorus in the lake, more aquatic weeds grow and their decay hurts the taste and smell of the water.

Excessive nutrients [...]

New York’s State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has proposed regulations that adopt California’s aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regulations. New York is the first state to follow California’s lead in this.

The California rules require cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases in cars and trucks by as much as 25 percent beginning [...]

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP: May 13, 2005) The discovery of a pernicious wasp in New York, the first time it’s been found in the wild in this country, has scientists worried about a scourge that has devastated pine forests in other parts of the world.

E. Richard Hoebeke, a Cornell University entomologist, collected the Old World woodwasp [...]

The first signs of spring are appearing earlier in the year, and a new study from Stanford University released Monday says man-made global warming is clearly to blame.

Mother Nature has rushed spring forward by nearly 10 days worldwide, on average, in just 30 years, the study shows.

What this means, biologists say, is that the [...]

ITHACA —While meeting clean-up requirements, the current remediation plan at Emerson Power Transmission is not the most effective at removing contamination, according to a letter from the company to state officials.

“The treatment system has not removed the mass of contamination as expected,” Emerson spokeswoman Emily Tzinger said Friday.

“We have provided a work plan to the [...]

The third and final part of Elizabeth Kolbert’s New Yorker piece on Global Warming: THE CLIMATE OF MAN—III.

A few years ago, Robert Socolow, a professor of engineering at Princeton, began to think about B.A.U. [“business as usual”] and what it implied for the fate of mankind. Socolow had recently become co-director of the Carbon Mitigation [...]

Local blogger Living in Dryden has captured some aerial photos of the south eastern shores of Cayuga Lake and surroundings. Fantastic!