CNY ecoBlog

Here’s a find; a “down-to-earth” blog coming from a small sustainable farm in upstate NY: Rooster Hill Farm. Actually I didn’t find it; they dropped me a note and I’m more than happy to add them to the blog roll.

I wonder how many other NY “farm blogs” are out there? The web [...]

Waterways in both Oswego and Onondaga counties were targeted this past week for a sizable treatment program to reduce water chestnut plants.

John DeHollander, district manager of the Oswego County Soil and Water Conservation District, said the bulk of the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s treatment targeted 10 acres at Ox Creek and 10 acres on [...]

The pace of housing construction in greater Syracuse slowed during the first four months of this year compared with a year earlier, according to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The bureau estimates 264 building permits were granted January through April in Onondaga, Oswego and Madison counties, down 20 percent from 331 permits issued during the [...]

The state Department of Environmental Conservation plans to lease land this year at 16 state forests in the Finger Lakes region, including Bear Swamp in southeastern Cayuga County, to drilling companies looking for natural gas.

The leases are likely to earn millions in revenue for the state and might increase New York’s supply of natural gas, [...]

CLAY, NY – More than 100 single-family houses are planned for state Route 31 across from the town hall.

Town board members this past Monday approved final plans for the Orange Commons development, which is being built by Maldel LLC.

All totaled, the project includes 114 houses, according to Julian Clark, of Plumley Engineering, who has been [...]

Syracuse blogger Baloghblog asked me to pass this along. No problemo:

Challenge of the week – Buy a single fluorescent lightbulb and put in the light that you use the most or leave on the longest in your house.

CFL bulbs also provide a benefit to the environment based on their energy savings over a regular incandescent [...]

The Utica Observer-Dispatch spotlights the Sauquoit Creek in their most recent addition to a series called “Suburbs in Transition”.

I’m always eager to see reporting that connects watersheds and landscapes to community and economy – but in actuality this is just skimming the surface. How many other watercourses have stories to tell [...]

A White House official who once led the oil industry’s fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.

In handwritten notes on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, the official, Philip A. Cooney, [...]

LONDON — The U.S. National Academy of Sciences joined similar groups from other nations Tuesday in a call for prompt action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, warning that delays will be costly.

The statement was released as British Prime Minister Tony Blair was meeting with President Bush in Washington.

Blair has made action on climate change a [...]

Rochester’s resident billionaire and founder of Paychex Inc. is leading the charge against a state-backed plan to add hundreds, possibly thousands, of wind turbines in New York, including in the Finger Lakes region.

The turbines would be as tall as 400 feet – more than twice as high as the Little Joe Tower in Corning, which [...]