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News from NY DEC
Things We Like: An interesting blog post from Florida Light & Power provides an easy-to-follow breakdown of how holiday lights affect your energy cost. Using LED lights in your…
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Study: France Leads World in Ending Food Waste
This year, France once again topped the Food Sustainability Index, which annually compares 34 nations on measures including healthy eating habits, food waste policies, and food sustainability. “Sustainable food…
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Animal-feed crops for US meat habits are destroying planet
Intensive and industrial animal farming also results in less nutritious food, it reveals, highlighting that six intensively reared chickens today have the same amount of omega-3 as found in…
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Short Film: The Albatrosses of Midway
On Midway, one of the remotest islands on Earth, tens of thousands of albatross chicks lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic. Returning to the island…
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Hudson River Estuary Committee: Volunteer Opportunities Available
Did you know? -100s of types of fish, birds, and plants depend on habitats in the waters of the lower Hudson River Estuary? -As we speak, billionaire developers are urging public…
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Insectageddon: Mass Insect Extinction
Which of these would you name as the world’s most pressing environmental issue? Climate breakdown, air pollution, water loss, plastic waste or urban expansion? My answer is none of…
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Just Two Penguin Chicks Survive Devastating Antarctic Breeding Season
Thousands of Adélie penguin chicks in Terre Adélie, Antarctica died of starvation at the start of 2017 due to unusually thick sea ice that forced their parents to travel…
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DEC Announces Winners of 14th Annual Environmental Excellence Awards
State Recognizes New York Organizations and Municipalities as Innovation and Sustainability Leaders New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos recently recognized seven organizations for their state-of-the-art…
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Create a Regenerative Agriculture Movement
The most important, although as of yet little known, new paradigm shift and set of practices in the world today is regenerative agriculture, or rather regenerative food, farming and…
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Close to 400K Gallons of Oil Spill In Gulf of Mexico
Last week, a pipe owned by offshore oil and gas operator LLOG Exploration Company, LLC spilled up to 393,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, reminding many…
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