CNY ecoBlog

Local food purchases enhance the regional economy, capturing dollars that would otherwise flow out of the Central New York. So buy local food; that is the appeal of Lael Gerhart of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County in the Ithaca Journal – New year good time to pick local food:

Most of our New [...]

This site is currently the target of the latest round of holiday, comment spam attacks. Luckily WordPress has dealt with the onslaught admirably (so far). Nonetheless receiving hundreds of emails notifying me of the need to “moderate” comments has become tedious; so a number of words have been “blacklisted” from the comments. [...]

With fuel prices high this year, farmers are some of the hardest hit. New York farmers are paying up to 107 percent more for fuel to operate their farms compared with 2002. Early in the month Senator Schumer proposed tightening the 2002 Farm Bill, which is set to make its way through Congress and includes [...]

After more than a year, Monday night, the Syracuse Planning Commission unanimously approved the proposed building plan for the new Walgreens in Eastwood.

Courtesy of Rural Life 2.0, here’s a great report from NPR, “Endangered List Created for Native Foods.”

Globalization of food can be positive. It brought coffee and olive oil to the United States. But protecting species where they originate preserves genetic diversity; every region has particular foods that grow best in that climate. It also preserves [...]

This year has been one of the hottest on record, scientists in the United States and Britain reported yesterday, a finding that puts eight of the past 10 years at the top of the charts in terms of high temperatures.

Three studies released yesterday differ slightly, but they all indicate the Earth is rapidly warming. NASA’s [...]

There has been widespread reporting on the AP report on industrial air pollution in local neighborhoods across the country (for example the Post-Standard: CNY defies national trend.)

To see how your neighborhood stacks up, you can go to http://pollution.ap.org.

The Associated Press obtained a federal environmental health database under the Freedom of Information Act and, with [...]

A Buffalo development company that tried to build a Target last spring will try again. At issue is the 42-acre site, south of Stevens Drive, zoned for commercial buildings only up to 100,000 square feet.

To build the standard-sized 127,000-square-foot Target store would require a zone change approved by the town board.

However, after [...]

Revitalizing the stagnant Upstate New York economy may depend on policies that can cope with a “seismic shift” in labor markets as the baby boom generation begins to retire in substantial numbers. Posted by CoolTown Studios, that is the message of a new report, “The Young and the Restless In A Knowledge Economy” [...]

Paul Krugman takes exception to Wal-Mart’s claim that the company “creates 100,000 jobs a year”:

Adding 100,000 people to Wal-Mart’s work force doesn’t mean adding 100,000 jobs to the economy. On the contrary, there’s every reason to believe that as Wal-Mart expands, it destroys at least as many jobs as it creates, and drives down workers’ [...]